10 Oct
2005
10 Oct
'05
10:17 a.m.
All:
There's a listing on eBay for ASCII art TTY printouts (#8707360741)
and it raised an interesting question. I remember as a kid going to my
father's office (he worked for New York Telephone in New York City) at
Christmas and they had various computer systems that they let the kids play
on. One of them (I don't remember which) had a program to print calendars.
In the eBay listing, there's a Snoopy Red Barron calendar, which I
distinctly remember printing out.
What program would have made this calendar and is one still
available, somewhere, that I could run on Windows or through something like
SIMH?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
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10 Oct
10 Oct
10:25 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Richard A. Cini wrote:
In the eBay listing, there's a Snoopy Red Barron
calendar, which I
distinctly remember printing out.
What program would have made this calendar and is one still
available, somewhere, that I could run on Windows or through something like
SIMH?
I used to have a FORTRAN program to make Snoopy calendars on a 360.
I'll have to dig around and see if I still have the listing. This one had
a picture of Snoopy on top of his doghouse.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
2:11 p.m.
At 1:25 PM -0400 10/10/05, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Richard A. Cini wrote:
I still have a the card deck I used to create this at the time. I
haven't read the cards (don't have a card reader) but you can see the
deck:
<http://dundas-mac.caltech.edu/~dundas/retro/cards.html>
It is, obviously, the deck labeled "Hang on Snoopy 1974".
John
In the eBay listing, there's a Snoopy Red
Barron calendar, which I
distinctly remember printing out.
What program would have made this calendar and is one still
available, somewhere, that I could run on Windows or through something like
SIMH?
I used to have a FORTRAN program to make Snoopy calendars on a
360. I'll have to dig around and see if I still have the listing.
This one had a picture of Snoopy on top of his doghouse. 
10:33 a.m.
Richard A. Cini wrote:
All:
There's a listing on eBay for ASCII art TTY printouts (#8707360741)
and it raised an interesting question. I remember as a kid going to my
father's office (he worked for New York Telephone in New York City) at
Christmas and they had various computer systems that they let the kids play
on. One of them (I don't remember which) had a program to print calendars.
In the eBay listing, there's a Snoopy Red Barron calendar, which I
distinctly remember printing out.
What program would have made this calendar and is one still
available, somewhere, that I could run on Windows or through something like
SIMH?
The programs are still out there, but in FORTRAN IV. The biggest
problem is you
don't have the line printers around to give you the OVER STRIKE
graphics. Look
for ASCII ART on the web, I belive somebody may have solved that problem.
If you can get the IBM-1130 working under SIMH I think you will have the
best
chance of getting it to work. Remember the graphics deck is needed as
well as the
program deck of cards.
Ben alias woodelf
PS ... I want the NUDE pin-up calendar now that I'm older ... :)
Note OFF-TOPIC good pin-up calendars from JAPAN run $45 to $75
US each ...
11:04 a.m.
On 10/10/2005 at 11:33 AM woodelf wrote:
PS ... I want the NUDE pin-up calendar now that I'm
older ... :)
The first example of this I can remember was a good-sized deck of cards that could be run
through an IBM 407 as an 80-80 listing. It seems to me that some of this art was later
incorporated into programs that printed calendars.
I think I remember a version of the Snoopy calendar was available in the CP/M world--no
overstrike printing, but not bad-looking. Maybe a search of the old archives would turn
it up...
--Chuck
11:19 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote
I always saw the Snoopy Calendars too. I think the pin up I just saw as
a graphic pin-up.
PS ... I want
the NUDE pin-up calendar now that I'm older ... :)
The first example of this I can remember was a
good-sized deck of cards that could be run through an IBM 407 as an 80-80 listing. It
seems to me that some of this art was later incorporated into programs that printed
calendars.
I think I remember a version of the Snoopy calendar was available in the CP/M world--no
overstrike printing, but not bad-looking. Maybe a search of the old archives would turn
it up...
I think the Snoopy Calendar was also in a BASIC program too.
--Chuck
11 Oct
11 Oct
2:20 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, woodelf wrote:
The programs are still out there, but in FORTRAN IV.
The biggest problem is
you
don't have the line printers around to give you the OVER STRIKE graphics.
Where do you find Fortran programs on the web that do ASCII art? We do
have a working IBM 1130 with line printer here, and also have some
programs that do EBCDIC art (Snoopy, Sean Connery, Asterix, Wum and
Wendelin), and would like to have more. I would even sit at the 029 punch
and punch the program and data decks from listings.
Christian
PS:
We also have the 565 Calcomp plotter for the 1130, so "plotter art" is
welcome, too.
10:40 a.m.
Christian Corti wrote:
Where do you find Fortran programs on the web that do
ASCII art? We do
have a working IBM 1130 with line printer here, and also have some
programs that do EBCDIC art (Snoopy, Sean Connery, Asterix, Wum and
Wendelin), and would like to have more. I would even sit at the 029
punch and punch the program and data decks from listings.
I think you may have to get the FORTRAN programs from other FORTRAN
versions than the IBM 1130.
THE JEFFERSON COMPUTER MUSEUM ( http://www.threedee.com/jcm/index.html )
was looking
for the full character set of the ASR-33 for scanning to create a PS
font. I think the same idea would be good
for the IBM line printer fonts. Note they still want the ASR-33
character set too.
Christian
PS:
We also have the 565 Calcomp plotter for the 1130, so "plotter art" is
welcome, too.
It is good to see a WORKING IBM-1130 since they are very rare compared
to how many were made,
That last one I've seen was in 1981. In 1982 it was replaced with a VAX,
and scrapped for gold.
Ben alias Woodelf
10:50 a.m.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, woodelf wrote:
THE JEFFERSON COMPUTER MUSEUM (
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/index.html )
was looking for the full character set of the ASR-33 for scanning to
create a PS font.
This font has been available for some time:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/archive/zip/teleb.zip
There's a bold "italic" version that has offset print:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/archive/zip/telebi.zip
...and a less bold version:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/archive/zip/telei.zip
It's a pretty good rendition.
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11:04 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, woodelf wrote:
Umm where are the @ "#$[]<>= and back-arrow up-arrow characters?
THE JEFFERSON COMPUTER MUSEUM (
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/index.html )
was looking for the full character set of the ASR-33 for scanning to
create a PS font.
This font has been available for some time:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/archive/zip/teleb.zip
8:19 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, woodelf wrote:
Oh, well, you need to press the FIGS key to get those.
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This font has
been available for some time:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/archive/zip/teleb.zip
Umm where are the @ "#$[]<>= and back-arrow up-arrow characters?
2:54 p.m.
At 12:50 PM 10/11/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, woodelf wrote:
> THE JEFFERSON COMPUTER MUSEUM ( http://www.threedee.com/jcm/index.html )
> was looking for the full character set of the ASR-33 for scanning to
> create a PS font.
My page also points to a reasonably good teleprinter font
but I see the link is broken (and it was discussed on this
list six years ago.) I see the font's artist has his own page now:
http://www.zanzig.com/download/
http://www.zanzig.com/download/fonts03.gif
This font has been available for some time:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/archive/zip/teleb.zip
It's a pretty good rendition.
And here's a link where you can see it:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/font-search.php?q=teleprinter
Are they the same?
- John
3:13 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/font-search.php?q=teleprinter
Are they the same?
They look to be the same.
- John
9:21 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, John Foust wrote:
My page also points to a reasonably good teleprinter
font
but I see the link is broken (and it was discussed on this
list six years ago.) I see the font's artist has his own page now:
http://www.zanzig.com/download/
http://www.zanzig.com/download/fonts03.gif
It looks like it to me.
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This font has been available for some time:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/archive/zip/teleb.zip
It's a pretty good rendition.
And here's a link where you can see it:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/font-search.php?q=teleprinter
Are they the same? 
10 Oct
10 Oct
10:52 a.m.
Hi,
Richard A. Cini said:
All:
There's a listing on eBay for ASCII art TTY printouts (#8707360741)
and it raised an interesting question. I remember as a kid going to my
father's office (he worked for New York Telephone in New York City) at
Christmas and they had various computer systems that they let the kids play
on. One of them (I don't remember which) had a program to print calendars.
In the eBay listing, there's a Snoopy Red Barron calendar, which I
distinctly remember printing out.
What program would have made this calendar and is one still
available, somewhere, that I could run on Windows or through something like
SIMH?
I have a few ASCII art pics as BASIC listings, and as plain text files,
including Snoopy and Spock (both on the wall behind me, on green lined
paper naturally...). Adding the calender part could be done in unix with
cal, of course.
I could easily email 'em to you. There's a website somewhere with a whole
load of them, but I forget the url.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
11:34 a.m.
At 12:52 PM 10/10/2005, Stan Barr wrote:
I could easily email 'em to you. There's a
website somewhere with a whole
load of them, but I forget the url.
I have one among many others:
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html
- John
12:17 p.m.
My Litton 1251 came with a snoopy ASCII art calendar dated 1976 when I got
it in 1982. It was on punched tape for that machine. Unfortunitely destroyed
in a house fire in 1989.
--
Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA
12:52 p.m.
Google for 'RTTY art' - this stuff has been around since waay before
ASCII and computers. It started back in the early days of 5 unit code
punched tape equipment in telegraph offices etc all round the world.
More recently, radio hams into RTTY have long had a fascinatioin with
it and there are many web sites out there now with info, support
software and stacks of sample files.
The arrival of ASCII code and wide carriage printers allowed bigger
and better detail/pictures but the five unit code based art is often
very good.
DaveB, NZ
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I could easily email 'em to you. There's
a website somewhere with a
whole
load of them, but I forget the url.
I have one among many others:
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html
- John
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1:47 p.m.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Richard A. Cini wrote:
There's a listing on eBay for ASCII art TTY
printouts (#8707360741)
and it raised an interesting question. I remember as a kid going to my
father's office (he worked for New York Telephone in New York City) at
Christmas and they had various computer systems that they let the kids play
on. One of them (I don't remember which) had a program to print calendars.
In the eBay listing, there's a Snoopy Red Barron calendar, which I
distinctly remember printing out.
What program would have made this calendar and is one still
available, somewhere, that I could run on Windows or through something like
SIMH?
All(?) these and many(!) more can be had for the price of a free download:
http://www.siconic.com/crap/ascii.tar
You'll need to untar it, then each file is compressed, so a knowledge of
Unix tools is a requirement. But once you have that figured out, you can
print out ASCII art to your typographically rendered heart's delight.
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20 Oct
20 Oct
11:01 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Richard A. Cini wrote:
What program would have made this calendar and is one
still
available, somewhere, that I could run on Windows or through something like
SIMH?
If you haven't already found it, here's some FORTRAN code for the
PDP-11 for making Snoopy calendars:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsts/de…
The other required files are in the parent directory.
The same basic code in a VMS share file is at:
http://ftp.se.kde.org/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.games/vmsnet.sourc…
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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