I closely examined one of these systems at a mall,
In Beaverton Or, No less, about 1984. It contained a
PDP-11/03 ( no front panel ) and a centronix high
speed printer ( multiple print heads ). Can't tell
you much more than that.
John Foust wrote:
>
> 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 - 18:16:41 BST