Fonts on the Fly by LaserTools

Object/Artifact

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Australian Computer Museum Society (ACMS)

Name/Title

Fonts on the Fly by LaserTools

Entry/Object ID

2023.3.317

Description

Fonts on the Fly by LaserTools

Collection

PC DOS & early Windows (Platform)

Category

3.8.12 Utility Software, 3.8.13.1 Fonts
3.8.0 Software, 3.0 Data Processing Media & Software, 3.8.13 Word Processing Software

Acquisition

Accession

2023.3

Acquisition Method

Found

Made/Created

Date made

1991

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General Notes

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System Requirements

Note

- An IBM PC, XT, AT, 386, PS/2 or 100-percent compatible. - MS-DOS or PC-DOS version 3.0 or above. - WordPerfect version 5.0 or 5.1, LetterPerfect 1.0 or later, or PlanPerfect 5.0 or 5.1. They should be installed on your hard disk before installing Fonts-on-the-Fly. - About 3MB (megabytes) of hard disk space for Fonts-on-the-Fly and the 19 scalable typefaces. An additional 1.5MB of free hard disk space is required for dot matrix and inkjet print jobs - 640K of DOS memory. - EMS memory, if available on your system, will be used instead of DOS memory for most font management and font caching purposes. - All HP DeskJet family printers are supported - HP LaserJet Plus, II, IIP, IID, III, IIID, IIIP, or 100% compatibles are supported (no additional printer memory is required, but the more the merrier). - Most popular dot matrix and inkjet printers are supported.