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

[John Foust]

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