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After asking the question, "what kind of font does the SM-13's terminal UI utilize?" Our friend over at @fontseeker gave us an answer, and with it, an even greater discovery!

It's the bios font from the Acer 710 computer from 1987. You can download it as part of The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack.

Because of course they'd use a real BIOS font! Why would they not? These guys are detail junkies!

Unfortunately for them, so am I.

While I have an entirely different reblog thread about the font, a detail snagged my attention. It's a BIOS font. For the Acer 710.

Indeed, the ACER 710 is truly a computer you can count on. - Acer Technologies Targets Comdex (1987) [ PDF ]

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Some facts I've learned about this computer:

Its original retail price was $995.

It was one of the fastest 8088-based PCs available at the time.

It was part of the very first line of computers released after the company officially rebranded from Multitech Electronics to Acer Technologies Corp. in June 1987.

Acer actually went through the trouble of modifying IBM's standard system font glyphs for its BIOS text display.

It originally shipped with the Acer KB-102A mechanical keyboard. It has Alps SKCM Blue clicky switches.

The system’s dedicated 14-inch dual-frequency monochrome monitor (the MM-14) won the Die gute Industrieform award in Germany.

It was marketed as a "small footprint" system, designed to reclaim huge amounts of desk space compared to the monster IBM computers of the mid-1980s. It was specifically designed to be compact.

Unlike many computers of its day that required separate expansion cards for freakin' everything, the 710 had its graphics (supporting MDA, CGA, and Hercules monochrome) built directly into the motherboard. This computer was a one-stop shop!

Did the C.O.I. snag a 383-year-old motherboard for the SM-13? Not likely. We can truly, finally, place this movie's setting in a Cassette Futurism genre outside of the Iron Lung.

These guys were using operable 1980s technology in the year 2370 AD. What an absolutely insanely niche way to nod at the outside world! We can assume that this is a hunk of junk and not worth missing by their standards, as it was built into a burner sub, so we can then assume that the technology of Iron Lung is a little ahead of this. Possibly 90s to early 2000s if we really want to push it.

All I’ve really gathered so far is that the POI coordinates I’ve compared are different from the game, but not by much. Like the Light is just a bit off, not on the other side of the map or anything. The map isn’t the same anyway so makes sense. But the “teleports” are very different! I was hoping they’d be similar, but makes sense for the story XD

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

Iron Lung? Low squiggability. VERY cool world, but limited known lore and the premise was pretty tight. There are places to build, but it can be quite an undertaking with the little info we have of canon.

Project Hail Mary? Medium to low squiggabiltity. Lots of BANGER concepts happening, but it had a solid ending and themes that tied up, yk? Also science can be scary.

Of course there’s still a lotta fic to be made for these, but as a writer, the ideas that really eat at me are limited since they told their respective stories so well.

But bloodymary? Ohhh boy, now there’s something else happening. New variables with infinite possibilities. High squiggability.