Mémoire d'un typographe

[farvardin]

farvardin

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Il y a quelques années je m’étais intéressé au site d’un typographe « retraité », qui continue à créer des polices vectorielles pour ses loisirs. Je viens d’y retourner, et je vois qu’il y utilisé un Amiga, il en parle de belle façon ici, c’est pour cette raison que je vous partage la page :

http://www.1001fonts.com/users/steffmann/

« in 1986 I bought a Commodore Amiga 2000 with 6 MB of RAM, a 50MB SCSI hard drive and a multi-tasking operating system. That might seem like a « toy computer » from today’s perspective, but back then an MS-DOS computer had a maximum of 640KB of RAM and a 20MB hard drive; No multitasking, no sound, no 4096 colors. The operating system of the Amiga fit on 4 disks – and the very detailed manual contained about 500 pages in a slipcase.

The Amiga had a graphical user interface (« Workbench ») with mouse control, and to that day PC users had to enter commands with the keyboard and their monitor could merely displayed up to 16 colors. by the way, the disks for the Amiga were already in 3.5-inch format. In 1987 a very professional desktop publishing program from St. Louis called « Page Stream » came to life, which was already capable of WYSIWYG: Price $130. The Amiga operating system already made use of vector fonts from Agfa (« intelli ») and it also worked with Adobe PostScript fonts. A diskette with 4 fonts cost about $100 and if at all was only available in big city department stores. /…/

Around 1993/94 Commodore was history and I had to « downgrade » to a Windows machine.  »

 

 

 

Ma musique chiptune : https://soundcloud.com/garvalf