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[72.197.247.231]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k128sm13631267pfd.137.2021.02.13.16.27.31 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:27:31 -0800 (PST) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <202102130900.11D903MT021054@cuzuco.com> <22d1ac5d-caaa-5dd1-0a30-263b041b3a08@gmail.com> <4b5f0feb-c473-4087-7b0b-9706bced886f@gmail.com> From: Mary Ann Horton Message-ID: <08771638-9900-aea8-0015-93e2fcf25932@mhorton.net> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:27:30 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4b5f0feb-c473-4087-7b0b-9706bced886f@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] banner (was troff was not so widely usable) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Picture tapes. I had a collection of 20 or so. A few of them were girly pictures, but there were several excellent ones. Nemoy as Spock holding a model of the Enterprise. Neil Armstrong on the moon. My favorite was the PSA grinning bird over the San Francisco Bay - it was 8 strips wide. FORTRAN carriage control to cause overstriking. I recently got my collection read off the magtape. My understanding was the a photo was scanned at 256 grayscale levels, and the program let you tune the contrast with 16 gray levels of different overstrikes, ranging from 4 blanks to M, W, X, @ overstruck. There's a tool called asa2pdf that can turn the carriage control files into PDF, but printing on a laser printer leads to a chore with an office paper cutter and lots of staples and scotch tape. I put one together of SAN FRAN as a parting gift to a coworker at my retirement luncheon.     Mary Ann On 2/13/21 2:21 PM, Mike Markowski wrote: > On 2/13/21 3:09 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: >> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Warner Losh wrote: >> >>> I wrote one in 83. And several of my fellow students at college did >>> this as well. It seemed to be a common thing back in the day. >> >> I've used lots of different banner programs on various systems; I >> think even OS/360 had one (well, ours did anyway). >> >> -- Dave > > As an undergrad in the early 1980s, posters made from line printer > strips were popular.  Character overstrikes were used as pixels and > could be discerned as photos from a few feet away.  These filled a > wall in our student office / study area.  Given the times & 100% male > occupancy, let's just say the posters wouldn't fly today...  Each > poster was multiple strips wide.  Does such a program ring a bell?  > Ascii art was popular, but I don't recall details on making them. > > Mike Markowski >