Author: scruss

ephemera: Government of Canada “Action Request” – phone memo slip

Government of Canada - Action Request slip paper, yellow, 100 × 133 mm (form refs: GC 12E, 7540-21-868-3907) c. 1990
Government of Canada – Action Request slip
paper, yellow, 100 × 133 mm
(form refs: GC 12E, 7540-21-868-3907)
c. 1990 (est)

found inside a copy of the “Commodore 64 User’s Guide” bought from JPPBM at World of Commodore 2018.

TABBY.PRN

TABBY.PRN

TABBY.PRN

From Nick Higham’s note on Typewriter Art, referring to Bob Neill’s Book of Typewriter Art (with special computer program). Nick wrote the special program back in the early 1980s. What I did to get this output:

  • open Nick’s program in GW BASIC under Dosbox;
  • modify the program so it wrote the Epson FX printer codes to a file;
  • convert those codes to PostScript using epsonps;
  • convert it to PDF with ps2pdf.

Bob Neill’s art relies on being able to set a typewriter’s vertical advance to the same value as its horizontal one, and also being able to overprint lines to get darker results. The results are pretty good: tabby.pdf

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An egg. Because _egg_

An egg. Because _egg_

An egg. Because _egg_

3d files here — egg.zip — or get them on Thingiverse: Egg by scruss – Thingiverse

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