ASCII Art: Abe Lincoln, Mona Lisa, Mickey Mouse, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Brummet

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Remembering mainframe ASCII printouts (with images of Lincoln, Marilyn, Mickey Mouse, Mona Lisa, Jack B)

By Jack Brummet, Technology Ed.

I took a tour of some large company with a main frame computer sometime in the mid- to late-60's.  We saw the tapes and punchcards, cooling systems, reports, etc.  What really stuck in my mind--and they knew this was a hit with visitors--were the ASCII images they generated programmatically and then printed out on their chain/line printers.  I remember seeing a Marilyn and an Abe Lincoln, among other images.

You don't see these much anymore, now than we can print high definition images.  But, like all good retro technologies, there are people out there keeping it alive.  You can create your own ASCII images using one of several on line image generators.  I created the one of myself on the Ascii art Generator website at http://asciiart.ca/.

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ASCII Marilyn Monroe

[creator unknown; if it's you, let us know!]

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A Marilyn Monroe Poem

By Jack Brummet, Poetry Ed.


From Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (First Edition October 12, 2010, ISBN-10: 0374158355)

Only parts of us will ever
touch only parts of others –
one’s own truth is just that really — one’s own truth.
We can only share the part that is understood by within another’s knowing acceptable to
the other — therefore so one
is for most part alone.
As it is meant to be in
evidently in nature — at best though perhaps it could make
our understanding seekanother’s loneliness out. 

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Two Marilyn Monroe Statues

By Jack Brummet 

The first Marilyn Monroe statue is from Palm Springs, California.  The second one is from 1,400 miles south, in Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico.  It stands outside Billy's Gym, where I go to cycle when I am there...

click to enlarge/right click to download 

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Painting: Marilyn Monroe

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