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

From: John Ott <jott_at_saturn.ee.nd.edu>
Date: Tue May 23 09:16:42 2000

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:
> >
> > 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

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