I received this piece of fan mail from someone who had
visited my Ancient Alphabetic Art page at
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/ .
It sounds like he's making an interesting video.
I'm sure he'd appreciate any insights from list members.
I haven't checked my archives to see if I have this
American Gothic image. If I don't, I might beg someone
to help him recover the files from his tape...
- John
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.
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Department of Computer Science
DePauw University
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