This article is sort of not finished. Several years ago, I found some .fon files with the classix "xterm" fonts. I mean the public domain bitmap fonts used with XWindows. They were great for programming, because the punctuation was distinct, but didn't look garish.

When I figure out how to do this again, with W2k or whatever, I'll post here.

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/xsoftware.html - a page with links to many X Windows font resources.

ftp://ftp.hcl.com/pub/bbs/util/upcpx.exe - uncompresses the following...

ftp://ftp.hcl.com/pub/bbs/fontkbd/75dpi.cpx - a compressed file of .wff files. Not sure what use these are.

ftp://ftp.hcl.com/pub/bbs/fontkbd/6x13.fon - the 6x13 monospace font.

And another link to the popular 6x13 font - http://www.place.org/~nop/6x13.fon

http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/lfp - linux font project

http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/lfp/links.html - there's a link here to bdftofon, which supposedly converts BDF files to FON files. BDF is an old font format for X Windows.

http://www.fontlab.com/html/utilities.html - more links to tools

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=font - specs for font file formats.

This is a somewhat unrelated resource ; http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/ - an OS X terminal program that uses the XWindows BDF fonts.