28 Sep
2000
28 Sep
'00
6:16 p.m.
I closely examined one of these systems at a mall,
In Beaverton Or, No less, about 1984. It contained a
PDP-11/03 ( no front panel ) and a centronix high
speed printer ( multiple print heads ). Can't tell
you much more than that.
John Foust wrote:
My "Ancient Alphabetic Art" web page
(at http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/) generated an inquiry
from a visitor. He wrote:
I recently found a photo of me & my mom taken
arounf 1976. It was taken
at the Del Mar Fair in San Diego and it was a booth that took your photo
with a computer and then printed it out on an old dot matrix printer and
the photo was made up of letters - there was no variation in density so
the type of letter is what made the difference. You could get it
printed on a paper or a t-shirt. (thank god we got the paper because
there is no way we'd still have the t-shirt) I can't believe we still
had the paper. I am going to take the image to work tomorrow and scan it
and e-mail it to you. I am dying for any information about how this
picture was made and on what system with what program and if these even
still exsist.
...
Like i said in 1975 at a town fair me & my mom
sat in
front of a computer and it printed out this photo on a
dot matrix printer.
He sent along a scan of an old image he had. You can see it at
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/erik.html if you like.
I remember systems like this, too. Who made them? What were
their specs (which printer, what sort of video digitizer, etc.)?
I would suspect they were a franchise of some sort.
- John