X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110f55,654ef5bde9346bd1 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,499b2aaf68a7a4e9 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,654ef5bde9346bd1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-12 20:50:47 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: YOUR-USERNAME@usc.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: Electronic Storage of ASCII.art Date: 12 Aug 1994 21:44:55 -0500 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 49 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <32hc37$i24@gagme.wwa.com> References: <31jj7v$pll@gagme.wwa.com> <324afv$n2r@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: bga.com rec.arts.ascii:1233 alt.ascii-art:11169 alt.binaries.pictures.ascii:967 In article <324afv$n2r@gagme.wwa.com>, boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) wrote: > Broddi Reyr Hansen wrote: > > >I was wondering about it....hmmm... I like this art, just downloaded some > >stuff and I liked it :) Its fun making this little pics and viewing them, > >but as we all have limited hard disk space I thought if somebody put out > >a hole cd-rom disk only with ascii pics. We have disks with gif pictures, > >pcx, tiff...et cetera... why not ascii??? > > It's an interesting idea ... a CD-ROM full of ASCII art. It could > have all known ASCII art, all the sigs people are using, tons of sig > blanks, pre-made birthday greetings, all the chatter about ASCII art on all > the groups, and anything else you could think of to fill 600 megs > uncompressed. > > The problem is that there's no money in it. It would have to be done > by somebody who's into the art, not the money. It's now possible to have > single copies of CD-ROMs made. And even short runs are cheaper than they > once were. > > Until then, if somebody actually wanted some ASCII art on disc, I > imagine a few megs could be compressed onto an HD floppy. ASCII art > compresses fairly well (about 3:1). > > -- ```````````````````````````````````` What I did with my ascii.art collection is put it on DAT Tape [Digital Audio Tape]. DAT tapes can be purchased for approximately $8.00 at any Tower Records in California [major record store here; check the section next to blank casette tapes]. A DAT tape holds approximately 2 Gigabytes of info. and is smaller than a casette tape. Unfortunately, DAT is for archivival storage purposes only. But, I do feel secure that all my disks of valuable ascii art and scanned images are backed up on such a small & convenient format. Trying running out of your apartment at 4:30 a.m. during a 7.1 Earthquake with 2000 Double Density Disks :-). Des c/o DesLaw Report 1157 1/2 West 30th St. Los Angeles, CA 90007 crwill@mizar.usc.edu P.S. - Sorry, forgot to be bring the file with my sig to school today.