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Alien by Ridley Scott

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Could somebody help me idetifying the typeface used during the conversations with Mother (their computer) during the first Alien film by Ridley Scott? I have to do a presentation about it and the closed I got was City BQ by Berthold horizontally distorted.

thx

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