LOUIS ROSENBLUM COLLECTION, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Likewise, he had to program the Chinese word processor itself, a job he worked on tirelessly for months. He had to program an operating system from scratch, since Apple II’s DOS 3.3 simply wouldn’t allow the inputting and outputting of Chinese-character texts. So to make a “Chinese” PC, Rosenblum’s team was reprogramming an Apple II to operate in Chinese.
He was developing the font for an experimental machine called the Sinotype III, which was among the first personal computers to handle Chinese-language input and output.Īt the time, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were no personal computers being built in China. This was “Gridmaster,” a program Bruce had cooked up in the programming language BASIC to build one of the world’s first Chinese digital fonts. A green grid appeared, 16 units wide and 16 units tall. After a string of thock thock keystrokes, the 12-inch Sanyo monitor began to phosphoresce. Bruce Rosenblum switched on his Apple II, which rang out a high F note followed by the clatter of the floppy drive.
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