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		amelius on Feb 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack What is the font of the original windows blue-screen?

rspeer on Feb 3, 2016 [–]

It would drop to 80-column text mode, so it depends what font your VGA chipset used there. But the most common one was probably IBM VGA9.

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