[GreenKeys] RTTY picture tapes

Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:20:57 -0500

If those 8" disks are standard CP/M single sided disks, I can read them.

PDW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Foust" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] RTTY picture tapes

> At 11:08 AM 1/15/2002 -0500, jsheetz <[email protected]> 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.
> 
> > 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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