Talk: Storing ASCII art

<YOU...@usc.edu> wrote:
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>bob...@wwa.com (Bob Allison) wrote:
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>>    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 :-).


   One thing about tape, it isn't the most reliable medium.  The 
dimensional integrity of tope leaves something to be desired.  A CD-ROM 
is preferable.

   Who knows, maybe a few years from now I'll get a CD-ROM cut of 
everything I've collected.  Or maybe we can all get together and make a 
complete collection, and put it on a short run of CD-ROMs.

   Cost?  It's hard to guess, but maybe a thousand dollars, maybe less.


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