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Frequently Requested MS-DOS fonts

Many fonts are available at various archives. The biggest font archive for MS-DOS format fonts is ftp.cica.indiana.edu. Note: you can use any Mac format Type1 font on your PC by converting it to PC format with the free/shareware as described below.

The following fonts are in Type 1 format for MS-DOS. Some are also available in TrueType format.

Hebrew
ShalomScript, ShalomOldStyle, ShalomStick
Japanese
Shorai
Star Trek
Crillee, TNG monitors
IBM OEM Line Drawing Characters
Try Adobe PrestigeElite or Adobe LetterGothic. They have all the characters you want, but the `line draw' characters are unencoded --- you will need tools to reencode the outline font itself and make a new PFM metric files.
Or try IBMExtended from Impramatur Systems in Cambridge, Mass. It already is encoded using IBM OEM encoding (some DOS code page).
The IBM version of Courier distributed freely under the X11 Consortium also contains the appropriate characters. Again, the font will have to be reencoded for Windows. Appropriate AFM files for this font can be obtained from: jasper.ora.com:/pub/norm/comp.fonts. The file is called IBM-Courier-PC8-SymbolSet-AFMs.zip.
Lee Cambell suggests the following alternative:
Line Drawing characters are also available on ftp sites as gc0651.exe which is a self-expanding archive. It is on cica (and mirrors thereof). From the text file that comes with it, it looked like it was distributed by Microsoft. I printed some text in the normal A-z range and it looked identical to the truetype Courier font distributed with Windows. Perhaps it is an upgrade to that font. I didn't try the linedraw glyphs, so I can't say how they look.