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This Notebook describes pretty much all I know about Dr. Hershey and his typography. It isn't much. I would like greatly to learn more about Dr. Hershey and his other accomplishments as a mathematician, programmer, typographer, cartographer, and individual.

I also think that it would be a great shame and a serious loss to the history of computing and typography if the literal contributions of Dr. Hershey in the form of the various personal distributions of his glyphs, made over a period of 35 years or more, were lost. That the glyph data themselves survive in common packages such as the GNU® Plotutils is admirable and necessary, but not sufficient for the preservation of Dr. Hershey's legacy. His distributions should be preserved, transcribed into modern media, and saved for the future by the best means now possible - widespread copying via the Internet. With this intent, I would be interested in obtaining copies of any of Dr. Hershey's actual personal distributions, including (but by no means limited to):

I don't know what tape technology NORC or STRETCH used, which is why I assumed above that such a tape might no longer be readable and that an existing transcription might be necessary. I do have the ability to have a System/370 mainframe tape read (either 9-track 3420 series round tape or 3480/90/90E square tape).

Finally, I would like to track down more of Dr. Hershey's sources. Specifically, I would like to find the Le Roy lettering set for Old English that he used for the typeface I term Blackletter, and more information on the "Varityper Headliner Typemaster" (I'm not sure if this was a machine, a font for a machine, or something else).

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