[mythtv-users] OT B'cast nostalgia, was: Hauppauge in ...

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 9, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Meatwad wrote:

>
> I figured as much. About as progressive as they got was Simon and
> Garfunkel from the Phillips underdash cassette in the Vista Cruiser,
> wood-grain on blue. Clark Griswold all the way.

My folks had a Dodge Monaco Wagon, another Suburban Tank.

I, OTOH, had a Triumph Herald.


> So you didn't have to worry about getting your tie sucked into the
> chains on those old 1403 line printers, eh?

Nope.

>
> The unix hacks in college would digitize photos and art and use a line
> printer to print them out, selective overstriking the same areas until
> the proper pixel patterns would emerge. Brilliant form of early  
> hackery.


Yeah, ASCII art and its derivatives was fun. I recall one recreated  
from a Playboy pic, which just happened to be my HS math teacher. She  
got an awful lot of pubescent buys interested in math.

I still keep in touch with her, though she is a grandmother now.

beww