Pins, ink soaked ribbons & Telidon
When man and dinosaurs coexisted, computers (we used to call them electrocomputronoids) could communicate with humans using flattened tree mush and dot matrix impact printers. Usually, a print head traveled back and forth on a rail, banging out letters on tractor-feed paper thru an ink soaked ribbon. Unlike modern printers which employ magic and unicorn farts, the dot matrix print head was a simple column of pins with tiny electromagnets. Simple, indestructible and still used today. A few years ago, I created a font family called Telidon along with its filthy brother, Telidon Ink. It's not really that difficult to make a dot matrix font. Step 1: make an array of dots. Step 2: copy that character a whole bunch of times. Step 3: delete unwanted dots. Do that to over 13000 characters and you're done.
