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Re: [REQ]: Scan of Silentype character set

Subject: Re: [REQ]: Scan of Silentype character set
From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
Date: 06 Sep 2003 09:31:56 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Sean McNamara wrote:

>In pursuit of my totally useless goal of recreating a school assignment 
>I did 20 years ago on (and about) the Apple ][+...

Cool!

<snip>

>From what I've read in Apple in Depth and on the 'net, I am conjecturing 
>the character shapes were generated by the Silentype interface card, 
>rather than being built-in to the printer.

This is correct.  The entire font is therefore in the controller ROM.
Maybe someone could send you a dump of the ROM.  ;-)

-michael

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References:
- [REQ]: Scan of Silentype character set
  - From: Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au>

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