BB@SU-AI.ARPA (Barbara Beeton) (12/30/85)
i'm not familiar with these particular fonts, but they do sound suspiciously like the fonts (200dpi) that were available on the xgp printer at stanford. if that is true, i believe they were originally constructed by hand, and several variant formats were generated to permit their use on some other output devices, as well as to make them accessible to tex80 (they were originally used with the document compilers "pub" and "pox", according to the document i'm looking at -- "find a font", by les earnest, dated may 1976). there's some more technical detail available, but it's probably now interesting only as ancient history. the information relevant to the question of origin is: the fonts are all identified as originating at these organizations: stanford (sail), cmu (ai group), mit (ai group), usc (information sciences institute), the shy corporation.