Analogue-sequencer

> <cough> beautiful <cough> SF printing?

I don't think this font is actually SF but MICR.

Early number recognition machines in large banks in the late 1950s
worked by detecting magnetic ink printed on the cheques that were being
read. A new font was made to carry this magnetic ink in a way that the
machines could read. They only actually read the thick bits of each
character, and the thin bits were to make a six actually look like a
normal 6.

By all accounts these machines weren't always 100% correct, but they
were still faster than humans. I don't know whether the numbers on UK
cheques still have the magnetic properties, or whether they just keep
them in that font for posterity.

More information:

http://www.xyntax.com/manuals7_0/MICR.html

Regards,

Tony Allgood                         www.oakleysound.co.uk

Oakley Modular Synthesisers      Penrith, Cumbria, England