My "Ancient Alphabetic Art" web page
(at
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/) generated an inquiry
from a visitor. He wrote:
>I recently found a photo of me & my mom taken arounf 1976. It was taken
>at the Del Mar Fair in San Diego and it was a booth that took your photo
>with a computer and then printed it out on an old dot matrix printer and
>the photo was made up of letters - there was no variation in density so
>the type of letter is what made the difference. You could get it
>printed on a paper or a t-shirt. (thank god we got the paper because
>there is no way we'd still have the t-shirt) I can't believe we still
>had the paper. I am going to take the image to work tomorrow and scan it
>and e-mail it to you. I am dying for any information about how this
>picture was made and on what system with what program and if these even
>still exsist.
...
>Like i said in 1975 at a town fair me & my mom sat in
>front of a computer and it printed out this photo on a
>dot matrix printer.
He sent along a scan of an old image he had. You can see it at
http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/erik.html if you like.
I remember systems like this, too. Who made them? What were
their specs (which printer, what sort of video digitizer, etc.)?
I would suspect they were a franchise of some sort.
- John
Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 15:50:43 BST