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Another fine example of typewriter art was posted on USENET a few years back. A reader found an article in an unnamed magazine (1960) about a man named Guillermo Mendana Olivera. The article states that Mr. Olivera was a stenographer by day in Leon, Spain, and a keyboard artist by night. He used small o's and x's and ... |
=> ./ascii_history_jgs/asciibg.gif ascii_bg.gif |
(The .gif of the magazine article is posted on the internet at: http://mypage.direct.ca/r/rcrawfor/ascii_bg.gif but I flagrantly copied it. With web sites coming and going, I wanted to make sure that I had this wonderful part of text art history. Good thing too, if you go to that URL, you'll find a big 404 error.) |
There are very few books about ASCII art. Most computer art text books deal with modern graphics and programming. Eventually I'd love to put together a publication of my ASCII art creations, information on the history of text art, and the "how-to create" guidelines for ASCII art. (Are there any publishers out there ... |
At right, you'll find a listing of typewriter art books that I've been able to identify. |
* "Typewriter Art" by Dan Carlinsky (1978, Price Sloan Publishers) ISBN 0843104333 |
* "Typewriter Art" edited by Alan Riddell (1975, London Magazine Editions) ISBN 0-900626-99-2 (Thank you Andrew Belsey for finding this book and forwarding it to me!) |
* "Art Typing" by Nathan Krevolin (1962, Fearon Pittman/MacMillan Publishers) ISBN 0028306104 |
* "Typewriter Art" by Bob Neill |
* "Second Book on Typewriter Art" by Bob Neill (1984, The Weavers Press) |
The book, "Art Typing", written by Nathan Krevolin, describes creating images-- mostly text and borders-- with typewriter characters. Many of the pictures are made entirely out of "X"s... For example: |
``` |
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX |
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX |
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXX |
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXXX |
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXX |
X X X XXXXX |
X XX XX X XXX X X |
X XX XX X XXX X X |
X X XXX X X |
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X |
``` |
This is a house and a tree as illustrated in the 1962 book, "Art Typing" |
There is a section on how to make type-written reports, price lists, and menus, as well as how to make a card. (Perhaps a precursor to 'Print Shop'?) Some mention is made of half-spaces and tilting type paper to get a unique look-- neither of which apply to ASCII art. One page identifies 'cartooning' with keyboard char... |
``` |
* |
/ |
HH |
SSSSSS |
SSSSSSSS |
S )))) S |
SS - - SS |
SSS o o SSS |
SSSS 6 SSSS |
SSS __ SSS |
SSS SSS |
W W |
WW WWW |
WWWW WWWW |
WWWWWWWWWW |
XXXXXXXXX |
XXXXXXXXXXXXX |
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX |
(__________)XXXXXX |
( ___ ___ XXXXXX |
o/ o XXXXX |
( / XXXXX |
/___) XXXXX |
( XXXX |
( ____ ) XXX |
( XX |
( ) X |
( ) * |
( ) *** |
* |
http://www.dataweb.net/~mic/typewriterart/cat.htm |
Typewriter Art by Bob Neill - Persian Cat |
``` |
Two cartoon characters from the 1962 book, "Art Typing". |
## TEXT AS PICTURES -- TELETYPE (RTTY) |
Similar text images were broadcast via Radio Teletype (RTTY). RTTY is a machine-to-machine method of communication which takes place over radio or telephone lines. Its purpose is not for text art transmissions, but for text communication between operators. The teletypewriter (or teleprinter) was invented in the earl... |
RTTY operators (ham operators) have used various codes to transmit messages. These codes include BCD, EBCDIC, Morgan code, and Baudot code. However RTTY transmissions typically used the five-bit, 32 character Baudot code. Initially, RTTY did not use seven-bit ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange... |
There are, of course, other differences between the two codes. For a more technical explanation, visit George W. Henry Jr.'s web site. George Henry (K9GWT) has put together a paper which describes the differences between the two codes. It provides some definitions for RTTY terms and examines the various interfacing ... |
Several RTTY enthusiasts have started to translate Baudot code to ASCII. If you have some paper tapes of Baudot/ RTTY art which need to be converted, you can find a program to transform them at: http://fido.wps.com/Baudot/index.html |
The text art images sent in the ham radio community consist of capital letters and are sent on long paper tapes. RTTY is slow. Transmissions are sent at 45 baud -- 50 baud is standard in New Zealand. Compare that to the 53,000 baud modem connections that we're using with our computers today! A large RTTY art image ... |
RTTY Home page and History |
http://www.rtty.com |
RTTY Information |
http://www.teleport.com/~nb6z/rtty.htm |
Teleprinter Museum |
http://www.peine.net/telex/index.htm |
=> https://web.archive.org/web/20091028050914/http://www.rtty.com/history/index.htm History of RTTY and Major Contributors - When and where and how it started, and how it advanced and changed over the years. Stories and short biographies of those individuals whose efforts advanced the hobby and made it better for other... |
According to a chapter in the "RTTY Handbook", text images have been sent via teletypewriter as early as 1923. However, I have not discovered any of this "old" RTTY art. From what I have found, the text images appeared frequently on radio teletype in the 1960s and the 1970s. They were sent from ham operator to ham ... |
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