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Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)

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On 2014-03-31, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-03-31, Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> wrote:
>> In article <bpsnmiF5fkqU2@mid.individual.net>,
>> Huge  <usenet@huge.org.uk> wrote:
>>>When I started, screens were not an issue - you just had to be able to read
>>>a punch card, and then ASR33 printout ("How do you make the font larger on
>>>this thing?")
>>
>> L      i  k                  t     h      i           ???
>> L         k                  t     h                 ?   ?
>> L      i  k   k   eee       tttt   hhhh   i   ssss       ?
>> L      i  k  k   e   e       t     h   h  i  s         ??
>> L      i  kkk    eeeee       t     h   h  i   sss      ?
>> L      i  k  k   e           t     h   h  i      s   
>> LLLLL  i  k   k   eee         ttt  h   h  i  ssss      ?

*applause*

http://www.figlet.org/

>> Speed would've been better measured in seconds per character than characters
>> per second with this approach, though. :-)
>
> I had some rather good examples of ASCII art pinned to my office wall back
> in the 1980s.  I don't know who created them but they used backspace in
> a creative fashion to produce darker areas by overprinting.
>
> You could tie up a 300 line per minute printer for a lengthy period
> to get one or two pages of printout.

I still have a box (somewhere) of paper tapes of assorted ASCII art
with a trivial coding scheme I devised. Given that I no longer have a
paper tape reader, a line printer or the FORTRAN program that decoded
them, I'm not sure why I'm keeping them.


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Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-30 14:33 +0000
  Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-30 22:39 +0000
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-03-30 18:01 -0500
      Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-30 23:13 +0000
      Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 08:35 +0000
        Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-03-31 19:49 +1100
        Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-03-31 17:34 +0000
          Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-31 20:49 +0200
            Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 19:50 +0000
  Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-01 21:07 +0000
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) "John" <j@j.j> - 2014-04-01 16:17 -0700
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-02 08:59 +0000
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-04-02 19:43 +0100
      Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-02 19:03 +0000
        Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-04-02 15:18 -0400
  Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-04-02 13:36 -0600

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