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Digital typesetter

Recorded year1965

Rudolf Hell's Digiset draws letters on a cathode-ray tube from stored digital outlines, the first typesetter to keep its fonts as numbers.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.