18 Jun
2015
18 Jun
'15
10:30 a.m.
It?s Droste Week on RetroBattlestations! Inspired by a couple of different posts, I
thought it would be fun to do a challenge where people don?t just post a picture of their
computer, but they display the picture of their computer *on* their computer and post
that! It?s going quite well and I really enjoy reading about the hoops people are having
to jump through to get pictures converted and transferred and displayed.
There have been photos of monochrome computers with high resolution, low resolution block
graphics, ASCII art on CP/M computers, and even a mechanical typewriter! What can you come
up with?
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18 Jun
18 Jun
12:41 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
It?s Droste Week on RetroBattlestations! Inspired by a
couple of different posts, I thought it would be fun to do a challenge where people don?t
just post a picture of their computer, but they display the picture of their computer *on*
their computer and post that! It?s going quite well and I really enjoy reading about the
hoops people are having to jump through to get pictures converted and transferred and
displayed.
There have been photos of monochrome computers with high resolution, low resolution block
graphics, ASCII art on CP/M computers, and even a mechanical typewriter! What can you come
up with?
The best one by far (so far) is the VT240 that's displaying the picture by
using a redefined character set.
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2:25 p.m.
On 2015-06-18 18:41, geneb wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
That seems silly. If it is a VT240, it can do graphics...
The character set trick is what you would have to go to if you have a
VT220 though.
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It?s Droste Week on RetroBattlestations! Inspired
by a couple of
different posts, I thought it would be fun to do a challenge where
people don?t just post a picture of their computer, but they display
the picture of their computer *on* their computer and post that! It?s
going quite well and I really enjoy reading about the hoops people are
having to jump through to get pictures converted and transferred and
displayed.
There have been photos of monochrome computers with high resolution,
low resolution block graphics, ASCII art on CP/M computers, and even a
mechanical typewriter! What can you come up with?
The best one by far (so far) is the VT240 that's displaying the picture
by using a redefined character set. 
2:32 p.m.
I went to the website, but still can't figure out what this has to do
with chocolate...
--Chuck
2:39 p.m.
On Jun 18, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
I went to the website, but still can't figure out what this has to do with chocolate?
Here?s the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
It?s a bit obscure unless you are Dutch and over 45 or so years old.
paul
7:01 p.m.
Chris Osborn wrote:
[...] I thought it would be fun to do a challenge where
people don't just
post a picture of their computer, but they display the picture of their
computer *on* their computer and post that!
Not quite within these rules, but here are two cases of old computers
showing drawings of themselves back when they were new:
Alan Kay's PhD thesis was about the FLEX Machine he developed with Ed
Cheadle. These "screen captures" include a drawing of the the machine
itself from around 1968 or 1969:
http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/wp-content/uploads/6.jpg
Here is my own Merlin 2, a 68000 based Smalltalk computer, with a
drawing of itself in 1987:
http://smalltalk.org.br/fotos/inova11.jpg
Drawing with a keyboard was awkward enough that I didn't bother making
the chip layout very accurate, not the drawn keyboard either. The colors
are wrong because I was playing the the color pallet after the drawing
was finished (http://smalltalk.org.br/fotos/inova12.jpg shows a
different setting) and I don't have a picture of the setting where the
boards are green and the keyboard white, unfortunately. The drawing also
shows the original Ethernet based configuration instead of the one with
the adapted PC bus on which the drawing is being shown.
-- Jecel
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