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Hacker: I made 160,000 printers spew out ASCII art around the world

Peter Gathercole Silver badge

Re: Bah!

I remember seeing an astounding piece of ASCII art in the early 1980s. It was a picture of a mountain climber hanging off a cliff, printed on several lengths of 132 column line printer paper. The whole picture was hung on a wall, occupying something like a 6x4 foot space on the wall (I may have the dimensions over-blown due to poor memory, but it definitely filled a large part of the wall).

I believe that it was printed from a card-deck, with just enough JCL to directly print from the deck to the line-printer.

Apparently, printing it on the University's central line printer was banned, and several people got into real trouble, and had their copy of the card deck confiscated when trying to print it.

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