In reply to Am I worthy of More Work:
BTW, Richard Southall's fabulous "Printer's type in the twentieth century" includes a couple of passages about Bell Centennial. Kent is right about the Linotron 606, and the fact that the data was not binary bitmap data but raster line start/stop instructions. The only twist is that those raster lines were actually vertical; that might have actually been for reasons of economy, since [Latin] letterforms have more/thicker vertical stems than horizontal bars - you end up needing fewer start/stop instructions.
Southall also mentions a 1982 monograph by the Cooper Union titled "Matthew Carter: Bell Centennial".
Margaret Re's "The Art of Matthew Carter", and her recent Baseline magazine articles probably shed more light on this.
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