old snoopy printout? (not a mac topic, but someone might know...)

Try searching for "snoopy ASCII art".

Regards.

He might have run that program himself if it was a fairly large sheet or two of fanfold paper.

Way back when I learned programming in the days of keypunch cards we did stuff like that on IBM mainframes. It took a couple of hundred cards to make such an image if it's what I think you are talking about. This was way before the internet so you couldn't just trade your programs unless you shipped off a bunch of cards to the person looking for the program.

It's possible that some of this was in some magazine but all the one's I remember doing were all coded by me or friends.

We coded the cards to print a character at a specified position on the page and once all laid out you had art!

This link might shed some light on what I'm thinking of.

http://www.geocities.com/joan_stark/textasciihistory.txt

Kevin

PenelopeO,

The year was 1968. Fall. Washington State University. Punch cards were still about 3.5"x8" or maybe 9" long. Fortran was in vogue. Time on a main frame was at a premium. Computer art was in it's heyday.

Yes, Snoopy was on his dog house Sopwith Camel biplane in search of the Red Baron. Or maybe the Red Baron was in the Sopwith. That image was our boy scout patrol patch. We copied the image directly from a Charles Shultz greeting card.

Usually, the image was at the top of a calendar. That should give you some new search terms. Good luck.

Jim

http://www.wolfmanjack.com/images/images/royalsnoopypres.jpg

still looking for the computer art.

Check these sites out as well:

http://www.runme.org/project/+matrixprinters/

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2008/june/ok-computer-scanner-ink-jet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKeXOa2sYSw

enjoy a new frontier.