On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Foust wrote:
> At 10:53 AM 5/23/00 -0700, Vintage Computer GAWD! wrote:
> >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?
>
> There is/was an SGI tool to convert bitmap animations to ASCII.
> Back in 1998, you were a participant in the CCC thread on
> this topic which said:
I was mostly referring to the ones done in the days before high-powered
workstations like SGI systems, where a feat such as scanning in a nekkid
lady would actually have been pushing the technological boundaries, not
just mocking them :)
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Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 19:22:52 BST