[kragen]

i certainly agree that now uncompressed images are little used, but at the time i was talking about, when cpu load of still image encodings was a major concern, compressed image file formats basically did not exist

naplps is 01983, gif 01987, prodigy half a million users more or less, many fewer than fidonet, usenet, or university internet accounts at the same time

you may be interested to know that i reverse engineered a vector font from an imlac vector terminal from 01973 a couple months ago http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/imlacparse.py

will have to answer more at length with a better keyboard. i appreciate your comments