HP 1200C (was Re: [SunRescue] What Gem did I find?)

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patrick at www.zill.net writes:

>(Just think, you could program the matrices needed for the hot lead in
>MetaFONT, then control a CNC machine to produce what you needed, if
>you wanted a different font.  Computer Modern with the depth of hot
>lead...wonderful! )

I've actually thought about that while staring at the CNC machine at 
work.

Postscript to lead cast type. Ahhhhhh....

But the CNC machine I have access to can't cut steel, so I'd have to
cut a graphite electrode and have someone EDM the steel for me.

-- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --