Press service greeting cards

In article <199...@ng-fz1.aol.com>,
reg...@aol.comnojunk (Ron Gillilan) wrote:
> 
> Back in the dark old days before ASCII and computers there was ASCII art. On
> slow news days such as Christmas press service teletypists sent each other
> elaborate typewritten art.  Does anyone have or know of any examples of these
> teletype greetings?

You might find what you're looking for by going to Joan Stark's page
entitled 
"The History of ASCII (Text) Art"
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/history.htm


obascii:

             XXXXXXXXXXXXXX          XXXXX 
            XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX       XXXXXXXXX 
           XXXXXXXXXXXXXX  XX     XXXXXXXXXXX
          XXXXXXXXXXXXXX    XX    XXXXXXXXXXX 
         XXXXXXXXXXXXXX      XX    XXXXXXXXX  
          X          X       X       XXXXX
          X  XX  XX  X  XXX  X         X
          X  XX  XX  X  XXX  X         X
          X          X  XXX  X         X
          XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX         X

 This is a house 
 and a tree as 
 illustrated in the 
 1962 book,  
 "Art Typing"



NOTE: I rarely pick up my mail from the idirect address. If you
are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent";
its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
--
llizard aka ejm
cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca                                  ,^
ASCII-ar+ and ASCII-anima+ions               ===%^^7^^^^7^^^^
http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/

Back in the dark old days before ASCII and computers there was ASCII art. On
slow news days such as Christmas press service teletypists sent each other
elaborate typewritten art.  Does anyone have or know of any examples of these
teletype greetings?

Ron
"Even a blind pig sometimes finds an acorn"

                                Anonymous