23 May
2000
23 May
'00
7:22 p.m.
On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Foust wrote:
At 10:53 AM 5/23/00 -0700, Vintage Computer GAWD!
wrote:
I was mostly referring to the ones done in the days before high-powered
workstations like SGI systems, where a feat such as scanning in a nekkid
lady would actually have been pushing the technological boundaries, not
just mocking them :)
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I am making the assumption that most of these
ASCII art files were scanned
from actual pictures and then rendered by some software?
If so, is this software still around??? And what hardware was used to
scan them?
There is/was an SGI tool to convert bitmap animations to ASCII.
Back in 1998, you were a participant in the CCC thread on
this topic which said: