ASCII Art (was Re: how to connect a DECprinter I (LA180) ?)

Last time I searched for "ASCII Art" on the net I
found a couple of pictures of naked women amongst those of
Spock and Kirk. I didn't see any of Snoopy though :(

I rarely see ASCII art these days. There was a retro ASCII
Art newsletter that was published every few months which had
some ASCII art in it, but sadly the people behind it have
decided to stop making it. Only 5 issues exist, and at
present I only have issue 5.


Happy Holidays,
Andrew B
aliensrcoolukyahoo.co.uk


Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicksusap.gov> wrote:
I have a dim memory that someone who is now, or was once, a
member of this list had some ASCII art on a PDP-8 page.

It might also be on some RX01 images of PDP-8 software out
there.

If nothing else, googling for "ASCII art" will
probably
reveal a huge repository of pictures of Mr. Spock and
Snoopy.  I can't think of a computer room prior to 1985
that didn't have one or more items hanging on the walls.
Some of it was quite simplistic (just asterisks), but ones
like the cat were amazing.

At 07:52 PM 12/28/2007, Andrew Burton wrote:
>Last time I searched for "ASCII Art" on the
net I found a couple of pictures of naked women amongst
those of Spock and Kirk. I didn't see any of Snoopy though
:(
>I rarely see ASCII art these days. There was a retro
ASCII Art newsletter that was published every few months
which had some ASCII art in it, but sadly the people behind
it have decided to stop making it. Only 5 issues exist, and
at present I only have issue 5.

There's a collection of links and picture files at:

http://207-207-72-42.ip.theriver.com/gallery/index.html

My site is the "museum", second one down.

As you can see, the radio teletype crowd was doing this long
before
there were "computers", long before I was born.

At another end of the spectrum are ASCII / ANSI artists who
flourished
during the BBS scene in the 80s.

- John