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From: spunk1111@aol.com (Spunk1111)
Subject: Re: History
Date: 1997/07/21
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>I hope this is not seen as a bad post but I have about 200MB of old ASCII
>pictures
>from back in the 60's and early '70's. I used to keep my collection on
paper
>tape but 
>in '73 I translated it to an '029 card deck, then in '80 collected all I
>could find
> from everyone I knew and put it on an IBM mag tape. I have kept this
tape
>for all 
>these years hoping I'd find someone that might want it for historical
reasons
>of the 
>computing stuff of that age. Maybe this group is the right one? The only
>problem I have 
>now is how to find a 9 track drive to read it? It was written at 6250bpi
and
>3383 
>bytes/record.
>
>

WOW!  I hope there is someone around who can read it!!  Perhaps even
put up a web page of "classic" ASCII art!!!  How exciting!
-joan
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      my ascii art gallery:  http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/