OT: Show how old you are with printer/punch card control codes.

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Mon May 22 17:41:52 2000

>
> 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
Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 17:41:52 BST