18 Nov
1997
18 Nov
'97
1:11 p.m.
In another area of the JCM, I've begun to collect
ancient ASCII art
from the 60s and 70s: Einstein, Spock, Snoopy, etc. I've written a
program that converts teletype-style overstrike art into Adobe Illustrator
documents, which are easy to re-size and print on today's laser printers.
I have dozens of pictures from DECUS tapes, but I'm always looking for
more, and I'd like to record personal anecdotes about the creation
of these old artworks. I'd also like to get an actual print sample
of the entire printable font from an ASR-33 teletype, in order to
scan and convert it into an authentic Postscript bitmap font.
I think there still are a few RTTY nuts out there that trade ASCII
(Baudot?) art over the air. This was quite a big thing in ham radio quite
a few years back.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net