I've posted a bunch, 125 or so, of additional TTY ART MP3 files on

https://5bits.net

Now just 170 shift, but will add 850 shift in next few days. I've rendered the ART in GIF format so you can get an idea of what you might be printing. I'll make up a fancier web display later.

I plan to collect a number of Christmas pics and add them as they become available.

I'm seekingr some files/ tapes that may exist that are from WX reports that used the weather service fonts. I'd like to create a couple of MP3 files so we can museum demo. An M15 with the fonts would be a nice find, too.

73, John W1AN

On 23-Apr-26 23:35, Joe Clanin via GreenKeys wrote:

 >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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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