I still have one of those ASCII posters. My office is a mess, and the poster is so old that I had to dig deep to find it, like in archeological digs where the deeper you dig, the older stuff is. I couldn't remember which poster it was, and was surprised to find that it's American Gothic, probably printed circa 1979. It's not in pristine condition, but it's all there... a bit faded but no silverfish! It's about one square meter.
Free to the first person on this list to send me a private email with their snail mail address. Sorry it's not one of the pinups, but I traded those for necessities during the few months I was a freshman dorm resident. My favorite was the Apollo lunar landing poster. I had a large collection of these posters that I transferred to tape before I left the university, but I haven't seen that tape in decades and wouldn't know how to transfer it to a USB flash drive even if I could find it. I saw a modern version of the code that converts pixels to ASCII not too long ago, although printing sheets on a laser printer just wouldn't be the same as fan folded 132 character line printing. Certainly the old data is available to recreate this classic waste of mainframe time. Python code to make ASCII art: http://stevendkay.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/generating-ascii-art-from-photographs-in-python Someone should write the LinuxCNC version, where a CNC router is loaded with a large panel of MDF and a V bit is plunged to a depth determined by each pixel's darkness. Paint it all black and sand the top to reveal the MDF background color. That'd make an interesting wall hanging. Thanks for the memories. So, who remembers ADVENT (the Colossal Cave Adventure), HAUNT, or DECWARS? It's a wonder I eventually graduated from college. Bruce On 07/22/2013 09:15 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 22.07.13 13:47, Marcus Bowman wrote: >> Anyone know of a source of similar pictures? I lost the books years ago. > Nope, but somewhere I still have printouts of Obelix, a naked girl on a > stool, and maybe one other - if the silverfish haven't eaten them, given > they're forty years old. We can pretty much guarantee that the shoeboxes > of Hollerith cards from which they were printed are no longer extant - > they belonged to the uni computer centre staff. Another student > and I printed them out one evening when the staff had gone home, and we > had the mainframe to ourselves until we also decided to call it a day. > The variable density overprinting used to bring up the picture quality > of the girl made the drum printer sing a bit. Running over several > pages, the picture was about half a metre high, or more. > > Erik > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
