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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 May 1998.
Re: The earliest ascci-art......

Re: The earliest ascci-art......

sgt pinback wrote in message ...
>possibly vaugely related i've seen files w/ bells, characters and spaces
>in them so that when you sent them to a (dot matrix) printer would go 'zit
>zit bing, zit zit bing, zit zit bing bing bing' etc and play 'music'. or at
>least a semi-recognizable rhythm. ascii music? kick out the jams brothers
>and sisters!
>
>(oh no. have i just given the dread* pete casso another ascii extension
>idea? have i just made the ascci gangstein list by saying this?)

It wouldn't be an extension.. ASCII character 7 (bell) is usually
represented by a sound (ding!)

Of course, Not Many programs do that nowadays.  And ASCII 7 is verboten by
the FAQs.  Just another of our local ascii convention/extension.

>>BKNambo
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Subject: Re: The earliest ascci-art......
Date: 1998/05/01
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