letraset drawing by kelly mark
From the hebrew version of the book Computers and How They Work (1967). This page explains the IBM punch card, it seems. Sent to us by Alma Alloro, thanks!
It’s unclear why it says ‘hormo lotion’ on the master item card. (edit) As every burger points out every time, it says ESTROgen HORMOne LOTION.
Clint Eastwood print on an old printer hacked by Arduino.
Picture is converted in ASCII and sent via USB to the Arduino board. The board control the two stepper motor of the old printer. A pen (Pentel) draw on paper…
The Hellschreiber teleprinter, used by the German military for telecommunications in the 1930s. Due to its pixel-based font, it performed better than the typewriter-based technologies at the time.
The strange machine photo is a receiver. You can see the “mechanical font memory” in action here. Also, listen to the transmission sounds here.
This system is still being used by some radio amateurs.
This book is called 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press) and the whole book revolves around this C64 BASIC program. It outputs / and \ randomly, to form a maze. Read the book online as a free PDF or buy it and support good ol’ Playpower.
Picture copied from Creative Applications. Too lazy to photo the one lying here on the table.
‘Fax & Frankering for Folket’ performance.
Original by raquel meyers.
Teleprinted portrait of Dag Hammarskjöld from 1962. Photo by Jonn Leffmann.
The Linotype (1886) was one of the main printing techniques of the 20th century. With this machine, it was possible to produce metal lines to print, instead of doing it letter-by-letter. It didn’t use a qwerty keyboard, and there was no shift key. The keyboard was organized according to the popularity of the characters.
There is a movie about this machine, and there’s some clips from it here.
