ASCII Art – 1948 (Oct, 1948)
Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Oct, 1948
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KEYBOARD ART
By Paul Hadley
WHILE purely entertaining, doodling with a typewriter gives vent to the imagination and originality of both the experienced and the hunt-and-peck typist. Fill-in pictures are the easiest to “draw” with a typewriter. An example is shown in the flower which is made with the letter X alone. Such pictures, whether a flower or a portrait, are made by using an outline of the subject as a typing guide. This is done by tracing the outline lightly on paper and backing it with carbon paper to type the picture. Caricature or cartoon “drawing” combines letters with symbols as shown in the examples below. Here, half-spacing of the typewriter is required, as in the case of the owl’s beak and feet. The log cabin shows what can be done in drawing a picture in perspective.
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Comment by createmo — November 2, 2008 @ 1:50 am
I am looking for instructions to create pictures using the keyboard. Anyone know where I can find any?
Comment by Dawn — December 3, 2008 @ 10:47 am
Nothing new. We older ham radio operators using keyborad Radio Teletype (and many of the commercial RTTY operators) would send and receive RTTY art using only the limited, all caps X & O of the BAUDOT keyboard. The best one was the train with the engine, cars and smoke. Others, around Christmas would send the art along with a tune played on the return bell of the system. These would be “saved” to the very early memory system – paper tape – and replayed. A lost art although there are some websites dedicated to this.
http://www.rtty.com/gallery/gallery.htm
http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/history.htm
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Interesting. I’ve seen the motion picture of a running man written purly in ascii.
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