22 May
2000
22 May
'00
9:48 a.m.
Punch card trivia
Any character in column 6 made this card a continuation of the previous
card. This only applies to Fortran program source cards not data cards. Also
don't triple punch any columns, the card reader with usually produce a check
error I don't remember the drum card programming codes, you could skip
columns, force numeric, automatically insert zeros and periods.
Line printer trivia
Many printer control codes were very useful when trying to print pictures on
the back side of green-bar.
Output on line printers
+ in column 1 don't start a new line
0 in column 1 double space
1 in column 1 form feed
We used to turn over the paper and attempt to print "pictures" after hours.
Somewhere I still have a 9-track tape from 1975 that has a "beautiful" woman
on it. I heard that IBM sequentially printed Christmas banners at a trade
show by using 3 printers each with a different color ribbon, Red, Green,
Black, and feeding the paper continuously through each printer in turn.
Nostalgia or is it Altzhimers
Mike
22 May
22 May
11:03 a.m.
We used to turn over the paper and attempt to print
"pictures" after hours.
Somewhere I still have a 9-track tape from 1975 that has a "beautiful" woman
on it. I heard that IBM sequentially printed Christmas banners at a trade
show by using 3 printers each with a different color ribbon, Red, Green,
Black, and feeding the paper continuously through each printer in turn.
The last time I put those ASCII pictures up on a FTP site, our security
guy made me take em down or edit out the nude ones from the RTTY
days... Apparently someone found em, and started spreading the word, and the
activity popped up on his security monitoring software, so he checked why
so many downloads were occuring from my Staff FTP account ;) ;)
-Lawrence LeMay
10:56 a.m.
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
The last time I put those ASCII pictures up on a FTP
site, our security
guy made me take em down or edit out the nude ones from the RTTY
days... Apparently someone found em, and started spreading the word, and the
activity popped up on his security monitoring software, so he checked why
so many downloads were occuring from my Staff FTP account ;) ;)
Here's a great site entitled "The History of ASCII (Text) Art"
http://cgi1.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/history.htm
Lawrence, if you still have your archive of ASCII art online I'd like to
know about it. Also, if there are any other archives on the web that
anyone knows about please post the URLs.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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Looking for a six in a pile of nines...
Coming soon: VCF 4.0!
VCF East: Planning in Progress
See http://www.vintage.org for details!
1:41 p.m.
Lawrence, if you still have your archive of ASCII art online I'd like to
know about it. Also, if there are any other archives on the web that
anyone knows about please post the URLs.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
I have it online, but not currently available. if you have someplace that
we can make this stuff available, then that would be great.
Working at a University, I have to be extremely concerned about political
correctness... We cant have our public dollars spent to let little johnnie
print out ASCII pictures of girls, now can we?
The main files, which are huge multi-overstrike, and often multi columns of
wide fanfold paper in size (ie, for pictures like Mr Spock, or the
Golden Gate bridge), originally came from an old Magtape. Lately I
keep them in unix compress form, and they fit on 2 high density floppies
along with IBM dos binaries of a uncompress program.
I could make a single Tar file out of em, and put it on a web site for a
day or so for you to grab it... or maybe mail you some floppy disks.
Now if I could just get a hold of a wide carriage printer that can do
overstrikes and uses 11x17, or 11x14 or whatever the correct size is...
of course, a DecWriter III is perfect for printing these... Too bad I
dont have the space for one.
-Lawrence LeMay
5:54 p.m.
New subject: OT: Show how old you are with printer/punch card control codes.
At 05:41 PM 5/22/00 -0500, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
I could make a single Tar file out of em, and put it on
a web site for a
day or so for you to grab it... or maybe mail you some floppy disks.
Now if I could just get a hold of a wide carriage printer that can do
overstrikes and uses 11x17, or 11x14 or whatever the correct size is...
of course, a DecWriter III is perfect for printing these... Too bad I
dont have the space for one.
I'm slowed by sloth, too. I've been meaning to get around to putting
up all the ASCII files to match the images I have on my site, and to
generate images for the entire collection, but it's time-consuming
and hand-laborious. As explained on my page, I've made a simple C tool
that translates at least one variety of overstrike ASCII into an
Adobe Illustrator file, which easily imports into PhotoShop, thereby
rasterizing into a web-friendly bitmap. Of course, Illustrator will
also do a nice job of printing the art on any laser printer, including
the tricky job of tiling the pieces.
I still harbor the fantasy that I could make a zillion dollars
by firing up the ASR-33 in the basement to crank out RARE ORIGINAL
ASCII art posters that could be sold on eBay.
- John
6:12 p.m.
New subject: OT: Show how old you are with printer/punch card control
I still harbor the fantasy that I could make a zillion
dollars
by firing up the ASR-33 in the basement to crank out RARE ORIGINAL
ASCII art posters that could be sold on eBay.
- John
Forget eBay, find a Art Gallery. Get the right Gallery in the right area
and you could probably make even more than on eBay. Good Grief, this is a
scary though!
Zane
23 May
23 May
5:16 a.m.
Hello -
I would be interested in the tar file also. Please post the web site
when it's available.
Thanks.
john
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:41:52PM -0500, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
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Lawrence, if you still have your archive of ASCII art online I'd like to
know about it. Also, if there are any other archives on the web that
anyone knows about please post the URLs.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
I have it online, but not currently available. if you have someplace that
we can make this stuff available, then that would be great.
Working at a University, I have to be extremely concerned about political
correctness... We cant have our public dollars spent to let little johnnie
print out ASCII pictures of girls, now can we?
The main files, which are huge multi-overstrike, and often multi columns of
wide fanfold paper in size (ie, for pictures like Mr Spock, or the
Golden Gate bridge), originally came from an old Magtape. Lately I
keep them in unix compress form, and they fit on 2 high density floppies
along with IBM dos binaries of a uncompress program.
I could make a single Tar file out of em, and put it on a web site for a
day or so for you to grab it... or maybe mail you some floppy disks.
Now if I could just get a hold of a wide carriage printer that can do
overstrikes and uses 11x17, or 11x14 or whatever the correct size is...
of course, a DecWriter III is perfect for printing these... Too bad I
dont have the space for one.
-Lawrence LeMay
22 May
22 May
11:25 a.m.
New subject: OT: Show how old you are with printer/punch card control codes.
At 01:48 PM 5/22/00 -0500, McFadden, Mike wrote:
We used to turn over the paper and attempt to print
"pictures" after hours.
Somewhere I still have a 9-track tape from 1975 that has a "beautiful" woman
on it. I heard that IBM sequentially printed Christmas banners at a trade
show by using 3 printers each with a different color ribbon, Red, Green,
Black, and feeding the paper continuously through each printer in turn.
See http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html .
- John
12:34 p.m.
New subject: OT: Show how old you are with printer/punch card control codes.
At 01:48 PM 5/22/00 -0500, McFadden, Mike wrote:
Yes, but you dont have the actual ASCII text files available for download
We used to turn over the paper and attempt to
print "pictures" after hours.
Somewhere I still have a 9-track tape from 1975 that has a "beautiful" woman
on it. I heard that IBM sequentially printed Christmas banners at a trade
show by using 3 printers each with a different color ribbon, Red, Green,
Black, and feeding the paper continuously through each printer in turn.
See http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html .
- John
from your web pages...
-Lawrence LeMay
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