| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 105.1 | | STAR::CALLAS | | Thu Oct 17 1985 16:32 | 1 |
| NON, OHO, NOON, pod, dop
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| 105.2 | | PENNSY::CANTOR | | Sat Oct 19 1985 21:30 | 3 |
| O I
Dave C.
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| 105.3 | | SUMMIT::NOBLE | | Wed Oct 23 1985 14:44 | 1 |
| SOS SIS
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| 105.4 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Thu Oct 24 1985 12:53 | 11 |
|
plow/mold
swop/doms
/Eric
By the way, an upside down "n" is "u", which might be useful. Also, an
upside down "h" is "y" (pretty much).
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| 105.5 | | MILES::CHABOT | | Wed Nov 20 1985 16:13 | 1 |
| nu
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| 105.6 | | AJAX::TOPAZ | | Wed Nov 20 1985 23:39 | 7 |
| re .5:
I thought 'nu' was spelled 'nu?', unless you mean the Greek
letter, in which case you are no longer speaking of my all-time
favorite word.
--Don
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| 105.7 | | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | | Thu Nov 21 1985 13:26 | 35 |
| 105.8 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Thu Nov 21 1985 20:16 | 4 |
| On my terminal, the h's all showed up with no ascenders. Is this a screwup
of my terminal, or your font ?
/Eric
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| 105.9 | | BABEL::SAVAGE | | Fri Nov 22 1985 12:26 | 7 |
| Re: .8: Must be your terminal. I have a VT240 and the characters all look
emaciated but otherwise perfect.
Care to share how it's done?
NS
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| 105.10 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Fri Nov 22 1985 14:00 | 15 |
| More specifically, my terminal says "VT240" on the front, but it's a color
terminal, so it's actually a VT241. When I hit "Set-up", the menu says I've
got version "VT240 V1.3".
On this terminal, as I mentioned, all the upside-down h's look like
upside-down n's instead. I'd still like to know if my terminal bust,
so if any of you have the same configuration, please report what .7 looks
like to you.
BTW, to whomever asked "Care to share how it's done", extract .7 into
a file, sit down at an editor with vt240 programmer's pocket guide,
and look up the escape sequences. I believe you'll quickly see that the
note actually defines an entire font for your terminal.
/Eric
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| 105.11 | | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | | Fri Nov 22 1985 15:31 | 15 |
| Eric - my brand spanking new VT241 arrived yesterday (goody goody!! play
with DECslide all day) ... My version is V2.1, which may make a difference.
As to the characters being emaciated - yes, I noticed that on the 240.
However on my VT220 (now in the recycling bin :-) ) the font looks just
the same, but the other way up (i.e. just as fat).
I confess all - I did not design the font. It came with some joke mail
about terminals for the Australian market being shipped with the wrong ROMs.
I just changed the text at the end - this note was begging for it!!
Now you all can extract that font, and send your own joke messages to your
friends...
Jeff.
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| 105.12 | | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | | Fri Nov 22 1985 15:42 | 8 |
| I could add that the soft font is designated into G1 { <esc>) @ }
(the {} are parentheses here - not part of the sequence [wow this could
get complicated])
So once the font is loaded, it can be invoked into GL with SO (CTRL/N),
and right-way up ASCII with SI (CTRL/O)
Jeff_no_funny_fonts_in_this_response
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| 105.13 | | VIA::LASHER | | Mon Nov 25 1985 23:02 | 3 |
| Re: .6
"Nu?" derived from Russian "Hy?" (Cyrillic)
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| 105.14 | | SPRITE::OSMAN | | Tue Nov 26 1985 12:49 | 3 |
| How wonderful, because "hy" is invertible too !!
/Eric
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| 105.15 | UP/DOWN/FRONT/BACK/LEFT/RIGHT | HARDY::KENAH | Hammer, Tongue, Nail, Door | Mon May 19 1986 14:29 | 11 |
| There's a brand of instant soup made in England that glories in
the name:
OXO
No matter how you manipulate this particular string (backwards,
forwards, upside-down, downside-up, mirror images -- or any
combination of the preceding) it still reads OXO.
Andrew
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| 105.16 | why not upside down too? | ROXIE::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Tue May 20 1986 15:12 | 8 |
| Speaking of mirror images, someone please explain the following:
Why is it that a mirror makes words look BACKWARDS from left to right,
but not also UPSIDE down ? Why should one dimension appear inverted
and not the other ? Certainly there's no horizontal bias in a mirror,
is there ?
/Eric
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| 105.17 | Not the mirror's fault | WAGON::BRACK | | Tue May 20 1986 15:22 | 14 |
| RE: .16
> Speaking of mirror images, someone please explain the following:
> Why is it that a mirror makes words look BACKWARDS from left to right,
> but not also UPSIDE down ? Why should one dimension appear inverted
> and not the other ? Certainly there's no horizontal bias in a mirror,
> is there ?
The mirror does not have a horizontal bias, but we do. The mirror is usually
to the side of what we are looking at. If it is above, then it is upside
down.
- - - Karl
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| 105.18 | Right-side left or downside-up? | TOPDOC::SLOANE | | Tue May 20 1986 15:39 | 3 |
| Stand sideways, so your eyes are one above the other, and things
will certainly look inverted.
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| 105.19 | | BEING::POSTPISCHIL | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Tue May 20 1986 16:39 | 21 |
| I like to put it this way: A mirror reverses neither left-right
nor up-down. It reverses front-back. To see this, imagine holding
your hand up in front of a mirror. If you move your hand left or
right, the mirror image moves left or right. The same is true for
up and down. But if you move your hand away from you, forward,
the mirror image moves toward you, backward.
The reason people think of the image as left-right reversed comes from
the way they think of three-dimensional space. Because people have
approximate bilateral symmetry about the vertical axis, the closest way
to move yourself "normally" (viz., by moving and turning and not by
reflecting) into the space apparently occupied by the image is by
moving toward the mirror and turning around. Note that turning around
leaves the up-down axis unchanged but reverses BOTH the left-right axis
and the front-back axis, so when a person thinks of themselves as being
the person in the mirror, they have mentally reversed the front-back
axis (undoing the mirror's own change) and also reversed the left-right
axis.
-- edp
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| 105.20 | Mirror, Mirror | SUPER::KENAH | Hammer, Tongue, Nail, Door | Tue May 20 1986 16:46 | 7 |
| For more on mirror images, see Martin Gardner's
"The Ambidextrous Universe"
He also states that mirrors reverse front-back.
Andrew
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| 105.21 | spunow | SIERRA::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Tue May 20 1986 20:23 | 8 |
| Another upside down word. This one is the name of a candy bar:
spunow
/Eric
p.s. I read this in net.puzzle.
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| 105.22 | | KBOV07::TINIUS | Kaufbeuren, Germany | Fri May 30 1986 20:21 | 5 |
| Re .20:
I'd give my left arm to be - ambidextrous.
Stephen
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| 105.23 | Upside down plates | SUPER::KENAH | On a Blue Jaunte | Tue Jun 17 1986 21:25 | 13 |
| Driving home last evening, I pulled up behind two cars waiting side
by side at a traffic light. Each had a NH vanity plate. The plates
read:
+-----------+ +-----------+
| +XOX+ | | OXO |
+-----------+ +-----------+
Do you think they knew each other?
andrew
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| 105.24 | | APTECH::RSTONE | | Wed Jun 18 1986 14:32 | 4 |
| Re: .23
Maybe it was a _complementary_ arrangement :^}
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| 105.25 | ambi-what | DAMSEL::MOHN | space for rent | Wed Jul 02 1986 20:55 | 5 |
| Re: .22
He's ambidextrous----can't write with either hand!
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| 105.26 | | MARVIN::HARPER | | Thu Jul 03 1986 13:01 | 4 |
| Surely that would be "ambisinistrous"?
John
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| 105.27 | A new snack | JELLO::MCDONOUGH | | Fri Jul 18 1986 19:59 | 4 |
| Once upon a time I bought a box of the snack know as "doo dads".
It got knocked over on the counter so it was on its side. I
noticed my husband staring at the box from across the room and
looking puzzled. Finally he said: What are "spap oops"?.
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