Recreation of the dot matrix font used for some MS-DOS and Windows disks from 1983-1989 (or at least to my knowledge). Though, the only one with this form from Windows 1.0x is the BYTE demo, every build's label (out of the ones with photos available) seem to have a different font. Not completed, but this has everything I found so far.
As of last edit, this has the set of characters from the photos of the MS-DOS 3.00 Beta 3, Multitasking MS-DOS 4.00 Internal Work 2.06, Windows 1.01 BYTE demo (somewhat), Windows 2.02 Beta 3 and 4 (somewhat), Windows 3.0 build 14, Microsoft Excel Version N(?) Beta 2 (just for uppercase X), and PCjs's one MS-DOS 2.00 set (just for #)'s labels.
The height of the middle part of W and the position of comma are guesses somewhat, because it was hard to tell (they're from the Internal Work 2.06 labels, though the W is also on the Windows 1.01 BYTE demo label, and it seems to be right).
I'm also unsure about lowercase d (from Windows 1.01 BYTE demo and Windows 2.02 Beta 3 and 4 labels). It's hard to tell on all of them. *Edit: Windows 3.0 build 14 label is a really really high quality photo, but I'm still kinda guessing.
The wide ones were added under fullwidth Latin. They appear on MS-DOS 3.00 Beta 3 and Multitasking MS-DOS 4.00 Internal Work 2.06's labels. (And maybe more MS-DOS betas, but I have not seen it appear on any Windows 1.x-2.x disks yet.)
It's not hard to turn a regular into a wide one and vice versa, I'm just sticking to the ones that appeared on labels, at least for now.
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@Qreed2008 - Thank you for rescuing these. It's always nice to see examples of dot matrix print-outs reproduced here on FontStruct!
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