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[72.197.247.231]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w124sm12767590pfw.176.2021.02.13.09.13.06 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:13:06 -0800 (PST) To: Brian Walden , tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <202102130900.11D903MT021054@cuzuco.com> From: Mary Ann Horton Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:13:05 -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: <202102130900.11D903MT021054@cuzuco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" Thank you for the kind words, and the inspiring story of your port to FORTRAN! I was surprised to find there is a Wikipedia page for the banner program. This brings back earlier memories for me. In High School in 1972, our school had an ASR33 and dial-up access to an HP BASIC system. We were also lucky enough to be part of a scouting program that gave us access to a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe at nearby Gulf General Atomic, where we could keypunch and run FORTRAN programs and print onto a fast line printer. One of my programs was a simpler banner program, printing large sideways banners with the 5x7 dot matrix I'd seen on Decwriters and CRT terminals. I drew and typed in the data by hand, a far simpler job since it was only 5x7, and the output was blocky. I supported upper and lower case, but like the terminals, there was no room below the baseline for descenders, and characters like "g" wound up elevated. I printed our high school catch phrase, "Debug Off Line!", and posted above the ASR33 at school. I got lots of crap about how the g looked like a 9. One friend signed my senior high school yearbook with the tag line "Debu9 Off Line!" On 2/13/21 1:00 AM, Brian Walden wrote: > Thank you for banner! I used the data, abliet modified, 40 years ago > in 1981, for a banner program as well, on an IBM 1130 (manufactured 1972) > so it could print on an 1132 line printer. The floor would vibrate > when it printed those banners. I used "X" as the printed char as the > 1132 did not have the # char. But those banners looked great! > I wrote it in FORTRAN IV. On punched cards. I did this because > from 1980-1982 I only had access to UNIX on Monday evenings from > 7PM-9PM, using a DEC LA120 terminal, it was slow and never had > enough ink on the ribbon. >