home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.ascii-art      Infamous alt.ascii-art forum      9,209 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 8,903 of 9,209   
   Eli the Bearded to shortridge.evan@gmail.com   
   Re: Typewriter   
   20 Feb 19 00:59:45   
   
   From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In alt.ascii-art, Evan Shortridge   wrote:   
   >                              /`*_   
   >                             /    `-_   
   >                  _.,  _.   /        `-_   
   >              _,-` __`-_ `-/            `-_   
   >           ,-  .,~`  /  `-/               .`   
   >          :_ -`     "    /`-@             /   
   >                   /`\  ;    `-_         /   
   >                |-`.. `-\  |    `-_     / `-_   
   >             _-`  `_.`\  `-_ |;\   @-_ / `-_/   
   >            -  .__.,,;___o  `-_|      /`-__-_   
   >           - 2`-_ .~--` _~` o   `-_   ;   `   -   
   >         .`Q W 3 `-_ `,`. /- - o   `-_\  `     `   
   >        - A S  E  4 `-_  . / .|   _ ..`-_;     :   
   >     _-` Z X  D F R T 5`-_  ;  ;   `_ `_-`.-_,`   
   >  .-`--_     C   G   Y  6 `-_ i    _-`    ;   
   > :  `-_//`-_   V  H J U I 7 8`-_.-`       *   
   > -_    `-_  `-_    B N K L O 9 -          :   
   >   `-_    `-_  `-_    M . : P .`      es  ;   
   >      `-_    `-_  `-_     ,  -           _`   
   >         `-_    `-_ /     -`         _-`   
   >            `-_    `-_/-_`        _-`   
   >               `-_    `-.      _-`   
   >                  `-_   .   .-`   
   >                     `-_:_-`    2.18.19   
   >                        `   
      
   Nice. I tweaked the keys a bit (and a bit more to reduce the gap to the   
   space bar might be nice). Older typewriter keyboards don't have 1 or 0,   
   you use lowercase-l or capital-O as double duty. Since you didn't have   
   space for all ten digits, it seemed appropriate. And on such keyboards,   
   you'd use comma-backspace-colon to make a semicolon, so I swapped the   
   semicolon for a colon. (! would be typed with period-backspace-single   
   quote, and various other punctuation removed or subtituted.)   
      
   Elijah   
   ------   
   it shouldn't be hard to imagine the typewriter tricks possible   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca