Question about ASCII art

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Wed May 24 07:23:07 2000

At 05:22 PM 23-05-00 -0700, Vintage Computer GAWD! wrote:

>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 :)


Well the last time I did this on a "classic computer" using appropriate
technology was in about 1974. I had access to a PDP-9 with various analog
input devices and a modified X-Y plotter which was driven by analog outputs
and had some sort of photodetector (I didn't do the hardware). It was a
simple case of putting the photo in the X-Y plotter, running the scanning
program and then the "convert to printer character" program.

If I recall correctly (:-) the scanning program was written in house, but
the convert program was a DECUS submission....
Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 07:23:07 BST