I'm talking back in the day when we'd punch programs on cards, compile them and then put them through a card reader. If you were lucky and the gods smiled, after a few hours wait you'd get a printout of a nekkid woman done in ASCII. It would be a couple of pages you'd hang on a wall, then move back a few feet and squint to see it.
Those gals got lots of us geeks through lonely nights back in 1968-69!
Of course we were >supposed< to be making pictures of Snoopy or other cartoon characters, but we saw the possibilities right away.
And of course it spawned a race to see who could make the best picture! In the 70's I was printing them out with my Tandy COCO through a 3" wide 4 color inkpen printer. Color brought a whole new dimension to the ...uhhh..art.
Wish I could find some of those old programs now...sigh. Maybe I'll try to ressurect the COCO and dig through the files.
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