Question about ASCII art

From: Vintage Computer GAWD! <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue May 23 12:53:42 2000

I am making the assumption that most of these ASCII art files were scanned
from actual pictures and then rendered by some software?

If so, is this software still around??? And what hardware was used to
scan them?

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