![]() ![]() This often required several ‘Mod Kits” added to existing machines to provide this function. I’d like to offer a correction: There were VERY FEW actual Baudot/Murray Teletype machines that had a ‘backspace’ capability. Remember the Hackaday video about the KIM UNO clock? See below (to right) to see how VLC converted it into some ASCII art. Impressive, although if you use VLC’s ASCII output codec to get a similar effect. If you’ve seen that one a few too many times, have a look at the video below for a more original take. If you feel that way, perhaps you’d be more impressed by ASCII animation. Then again, since it is so easy to create them, a static picture isn’t as exciting as it used to be. If you want to draw something from scratch, I wrote something back in 2002 you might enjoy called ASCIICad (see below, to left). You can find many collections on the web (including some with tutorials), of course. For example, the Hackaday logo turns into an ASCII image nicely (see left). There are web sites that will easily convert images to ASCII. Most of us know simple ones, but if you look around you can find an airplane: ‛¯¯٭٭¯¯(▫▫)¯¯٭٭¯¯’ If you think about it, the text-based emoticons (like :-), for example) are one line ASCII art. You can be discussing your radio for example, and then show the other ham a photo of the radio. ![]() Some of the newer digital modes even have the ability to send pictures. Of course, today, people aren’t keen on storing roll after roll of paper tape (or even owning a tape reader) so there have been several projects to capture this art in a more modern format.Īlthough there is still some RTTY art activity, picture sending has been mostly replaced by slow scan TV (SSTV) which sends actual still images or other modes like FAX. You often hear this described as ASCII art, today, although hams usually use 5-bit BAUDOT code, so that’s a misnomer for those images, at least. Simple pictures would use single characters, but sophisticated ones would use the backspace character to overprint multiple characters. ![]() For example, Richard Nixon was decidedly “G” rated (see right). Given that most hams in the 1950s and 1960s were men and the times were different, a lot of them were more or less “R” rated. Ham radio operators who use teletypes (RTTY, in ham parlance) often had vast collections of punched tape that held artwork. Calendars with some artwork were also popular (see left, and find out about the FORTRAN that created it, if you like). One of the earliest forms of computer-generated graphics used text characters to draw on printers.Įarly computer rooms were likely to have a Snoopy character on green and white fan-fold paper. However, it hasn’t always been like this. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. ![]()
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