Talk: Electronic Storage of ASCII.art

In article <324afv$n2...@gagme.wwa.com>, bob...@wwa.com (Bob Allison) wrote:

> Broddi Reyr Hansen <br...@rhi.hi.is> 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).
> 
> --


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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
crw...@mizar.usc.edu

P.S. - Sorry, forgot to be bring the file with my sig to school today.

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