[GreenKeys] RTTY picture tapes

[Roy Morgan]

At 04:53 PM 1/24/02 -0600, you wrote:
>At 11:08 AM 1/15/2002 -0500, jsheetz <jsheetz@comcast.net> wrote:
> > We also produced a catalog listing of all
> >of our tapes both in numerical order and also grouped
> >into categories by "subject." I now have only a printed
> >copy of the catalog since the original files were on 8-inch
> >floppy disks on our old computers.
>
>Which type of computer, and which program, produced
>that data?  If you still have the disks, the files
>could be rescued by the right person.


YES! I am not the right person, but would be happy to help find him/her.

I have cataloged the 150 or so tapes I have here from an estate sale.  I 
hope to share them with folks interested.  The non-typing reperf is now 
equipped with the right gears, so its a matter of lashing it all up and 
spending the time...

Roy



> > Cataloging (spelling?)
> >is really the initial problem. The only possibly practical
> >method we had come up with in the past would be to
> >produce a "picture" catalog with a postage stamp sized
> >image of each picture.
>
>As described on my web page at
>http://www.threedee.com/jcm/aaa/index.html ,
>I have written a program that converts ASCII art
>to Adobe Illustrator files.  These can be loaded into
>Adobe PhotoShop and rasterized (converted to bitmaps.)
>
>This gives a pretty good realization of optical density
>in the resulting bitmaps.  It handles overstrike images,
>too.  Does some RTTY art do that, or was that only
>the computer versions of similar art?
>
>It's a tedious process.  I'd like to automate it someday.
>
>- John
>
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