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Corona PPC-400 - what were the fonts like?

MrImprovement

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Reading about the Corona PPC-400 it is said that the fonts were 16x16 and very very sharp. Does anyone have a literal "screenshot" showing these different fonts in terms of how they looked on screen?
 
^ Yeah, that's the one... although of course that's an idealized (pixel-to-outline) rendering, sharper than a CRT.

When I did that I had a nice hi-res screen photo as a reference; I can't seem to find it anymore, but this video has some pretty clear footage:
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Even on a CRT, that's extremely sharp for the time.
 
A pretty good condition PPC400 recently showed up for sale on a local marketplace, and the seller included several very nice photos of the machine in action. The display sure looks good!
 

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