Great story Nick and Tom!

I've been back to printing some overstrike-art on my Model 33, and attached here a few pictures that I hope may be of interest.

ASCII files attached in a zip -- these are in the ready-to-print format, i.e. CR for return-only and then CRLF to advance to the next line.   The large art prints take a very long time, of course.  Even at 110 baud on the model 33 they are sloooow.  The emoji are much more approachable.

- Some of my favorite emoji:  "wave", "fish", "shark", "shell", "duck"
- artwork by Katherine Nash (1968) "Spheroids"
- artwork by Frederick Hammersley (1968-1970) "Tiddly Winks", "A Good Line", "Jelly Centers"

"A Good Line" includes asterisk, which is in ITA2 but not Baudot, so I don't know how that one will translate to ITTY.  (The Nash/Hammersley originals were developed in Fortran on an EBCDIC mainframe and IBM lineprinter, although these versions are my own recreations to fit a 72-character line).  The others should all be Baudot-safe.

If anyone prints them successfully I'd love to know!

Hugh



On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 8:54 AM R Russell Miller via GreenKeys <greenkeys@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
Hi All. 

I've digitized my former paper tape library of RTTY Art pictures and have over one hundred examples here that include the one pictured on the Teletype machine in the photo on the right. 

Many date from as early as the 1950s and 1960s. 

Here is one of my sources for RTTY Art:


http://www.textfiles.com/art/RTTY/

73

Russ WA3FRP



On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 7:37 PM David V. Corbin via GreenKeys <greenkeys@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
Not recommending this product specifically, but there are many out there that you may want to check into 


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From: greenkeys-bounces@mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces@mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Joe Clanin via GreenKeys <greenkeys@mailman.qth.net>
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] The Teletype Machine That Could Draw
 
>I suspect that it would be faster to try hand transcription, as awful as that job sounds.

Luckily, there's still quite a bit of time before Christmas.

-Joe

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 6:07 PM Jones, Douglas W via GreenKeys <greenkeys@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
From: Chuck Rehor -- Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2026 5:52 PM
> Can we get the two JPG's as text files so we can send to our TTY's?

I wonder if any of today's generally good OCR tools could successfully don this conversion.  I suspect that it would be faster to try hand transcription, as awful as that job sounds.  Someone did it 50 years ago to make the originals.

When I saw the title, however, my mind flashed back not to ASCII (or BAUDOT) art, but to the fax machine I remember seeing as a child when I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  They had two machines next to each other in what I recall looked like identical housings.  I'm pretty sure one was a Model 32 RO machine printing wire service text.  The other was a fax receiver printing weather maps.  Looking through the window on top, you could see a helical bar that was turning one turn per scan line behind the page while the paper advanced one scan line per turn of the helix.  The cloth ribbon ran full width between the page and bar that hammered the ribbon against the page and helix for each black pixel.

I stared at that machine for several minutes trying to figure out how it works.  The above description is from my memory so may be wrong.

In any case, that was definitely a TTY that could draw!

            Doug Jones
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