Fwd: Line Printer Art

Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:47:48 -0500 From: Douglas Harms <dharms(a)DEPAUW.EDU> Subject: Line Printer Art To: jfoust(a)threedee.com John: Hi! I'm on the faculty at DePauw University in Greencastle Indiana. One of the projects two of my students and I are currently working on is a video of an old PDP-11/10 I have. In the video several people go back in time to the 1970's to see the PDP-11 in action. (I know, it's pretty corny, but what can I say?) I'd like to create a 1970's era computer center environment for this portion of the video. One of the things I remember from my college days (in the 70's) is line printer art; I came upon your page at the Jefferson Computer Museum during my search and was quite impressed with the number of images you have in your collection. I'd like to print some images on our line printer and was wondering if any of your files are available for download. Any help or suggestions you could give me would be appreicated. Thanks! --Doug p.s. I actually have a mag tape I made 22 years ago on a PDP-11/45 running RSTS that contains 10 overstrike pictures. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to read this tape anymore :-( Most of these pictures are probably duplicates of yours (playboy-type pictures, if I recall correctly), but one is a large image of American Gothic, which I didn't see in your list. If I am ever successful at reading these files I'd be happy to send them to you if you'd like. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas Harms, Associate Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Science DePauw University Greencastle, IN 46135 --------------------------------------- | Hofstadter's Law: email: dharms(a)depauw.edu | Everything takes longer than voice: 765.658.4727 | expected, even when Hofstadter's fax: 765.658.4732 | Law is taken into account. ----------------------------------------------------------------------