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Nice exploration, bit of quirky fun.
But, I guess, "resulation" may be a bit blotchy for a sign of humbleness. :-)
(You're welcome anyway. And yes, I think, it's the sort of quirky article, an LLM can't come up with.)
> Interestingly the creator himself does not seem to know why the (IMO rather unfitting) name Westminster was chosen
Although it does say maybe it was named for Westminster bank? But yes nothing definite. (Unless it's a joke I don't understand.)
You... what?
Why would you ever solder a chip into a socket, rather than just insert?
(they clipped the original chip, instead of desoldering it. The socket is then inserted into another socket on the board. Workable trick but... why, just why.)
My first association fired up the many letter makers that existed at the time.
Future Project build some great makers. They were common around 1986-87.
They featured a whole bunch of character fonts along with highly popular sounds from Rob Hubbard on their disk, usually 10 to 15.
I used the fonts and muziks as as starting point for my first endeavors into C64 assembly programming.
Thank you author for the font and the lovely dive into computing and type history!
