Video digitizing in ~1976? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Sep 2000

...
  My "Ancient Alphabetic Art" web page
 (at http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/) generated an inquiry
 from a visitor.  He wrote: 
[..snip..]

...
  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. 
God, wasn't that yet another end-of-life application for the
IBM 1130? I remember them being used for automated horoscopes
and other stuff, set up at the damned mall. Two booths down
was the splatter-art booth (non-computerized, what *did* they
call that???).

-dq