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ASCII Art has been around nearly as long as digital computers have been in existence.
It was the only type of "graphics" available to most users before other than text
displays were commonplace. Universities, corporations, and government research facilities
had crude forms of graphical displays, but it was not until the 16-color, 640x200-pixel
CGA (Color Graphics
Adapter) monitors began shipping with IBM PCs that most people had access to
"real" graphics. To compensate, some pretty clever souls came up with what has become
known as "ASCII Art." ASCII (American
Standard Code for Information Interchange), for those of you too young to remember
when that was part of common computer parlance, is the basic set of numbers, letters,
and special characters that all computers are capable of rendering based on unique
codes assigned to them. For instance, ASCII character 48D (30H) is the number "0,"
65D (41H) is upper case "A," 122D (7AH) is lower case "z." The quotation mark (")
used here is 34D (22H). Over time, the set of ASCII characters has grown significantly
to include many languages and "emoji"
type symbols. Even as pixel resolutions and color depths increased, ASCII Art remained
popular. Today, you will find ASCII Art at the bottom of e-mails, in online forum
posts, and other places as a way to include a picture without embedding a graphic
image.
nnD is a decimal number and nnH is a hexadecimal number.
Here is a collection of electronics-themed ASCII Art pictures I found around
the Internet. Almost by default, these are in the public domain, but attributions
(without verification) are included when available. In order for these to display
properly, a fixed-width font needs to be used. A good way to assure proper display
on a web page is to surround the HTML with the
<pre> ... </pre>
tags, where "pre" stands for "preformatted text."
| ________ |
||12345678||
|""""""""""|
|[M|#|C][-]|
|[7|8|9][+]|
|[4|5|6][x]|
|[1|2|3][%]|
|[.|O|:][=]|
"----------"
Calculator - HJW
_____________________
| _________________ |
| | JO 0. | |
| |_________________| |
| ___ ___ ___ ___ |
| | 7 | 8 | 9 | | + | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | 4 | 5 | 6 | | - | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | | x | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | . | 0 | = | | / | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
|_____________________|
Calculator - JJO
_____________________
/ ,-----------------. \
| | 1.05459 e -34| |
| `-----------------' |
| [@ ] On/Off ###### |
| ###### |
| [7] [8] [9] [C] [AC]|
| |
| [4] [5] [6] [X] [%] |
| |
| [1] [2] [3] [+] [-] |
| |
| [0] [.] [EXP] [=] |
\_____________________/
Calculator - Blade Runner
_____________________
| _________________ |
| | JO 3.141592654 | |
| |_________________| |
| __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| ___ ___ ___ ___ |
| | 7 | 8 | 9 | | + | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | 4 | 5 | 6 | | - | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | | x | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | . | 0 | = | | / | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
|_____________________|
Calculator - JJO
.-----------------------------.
| # Texax Instruments TI-82 |
| .-------------------------. |
| | ./ | |
| | + | |
| |. . . . . ./. . . . . . .| |
| | / . | |
| | X=5.2 / . Y=0 | |
| '-------------------------' |
| [Y=][WIN][ZOOM][TRACE][GRH] |
| _ [ ^ ] _ |
| [2nd][MODE][DEL]|_| |_| |
| [ALP][XTO][STAT] [ V ] |
| [MATH][MAT][PGM][VARS][CLR] |
| [x-1] [SIN] [COS] [TAN] [^] |
| [x2][ , ][ ( ][ ) ][ / ] |
| [LOG][ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ] [ X ] |
| [LN ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] [ - ] |
| [STO]][ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ + ] |
| [ON][ 0 ][ . ][ (-) ][ENTR] |
| ---- |
'-----------------------------'
Calculator
_____________________
| _________________ |
| | / | |
| | /\ / | |
| | /\ / \ / | |
| | / \/ \/ | |
| |/ JO | |
| |_________________| |
| __ __ __ __ __ __ |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| |__|__|__|__|__|__| |
| ___ ___ ___ ___ |
| | 7 | 8 | 9 | | + | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | 4 | 5 | 6 | | - | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | | x | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
| | . | 0 | = | | / | |
| |___|___|___| |___| |
|_____________________|
Calculator - JJO
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Tuned Circuit
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/ /\ \
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\ () /
'.____.'
{_.="}
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Light bulb - GJS
_.-"```"-._
.' '.
/ .-. \
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; \_/ ;
\ (_) /
'. .'
`;_______;`
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Light bulb - JGS
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.' .-. '.
/ (/^\) \
/ # (\ /) \
| # .-'-. |
| /(_I_)\ |
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Light bulb - JGS
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: .. | :
'-._+ | .-'
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Monitor / TV - FSC
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Monitor / TV
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/\|/\ |||_______|||
/ | \ || o o o ||
/\/\|/\/\ || .-"-. ||
/ | \ ||_( )_||
- - -
TV Tower - JF
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(.---.)-._.-.
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'-----'
Phone - SJW
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Phone - JGS
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Phone - HJW
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Phone - JGS
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JGS
Here are some very extensive sources of ASCII Art:
Christopher
Johnson ASCII Art
ASCII Art Archive
Electronic ASCII Art
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| .---------------------------------------. |
| | _~_ | |
| | \/ Texas Instruments T I - 8 6 | |
| | .-----------------------------------, | |
| | | | | |
| | | 1 + 1 | | |
| | | | | |
| | | 2 | | |
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| | | 6 * 8 | | |
| | | 14 | | |
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| | `-----------------------------------' | |
| | | |
| `---------------------------------------' |
| M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| | F1 | | F2 | | F3 | | F4 | | F5 | |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
|-------.________ ________,--------|
| `--------' |
| |
| QUIT MODE _,-._ |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, /\ \_^_/ /\ |
| | 2nd | | EXIT| | MORE| / / | \ \ |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' |<| O |>| |
| alpha LINK x INS \ \ _|_ / / |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, \/ / v \ \/ |
| |ALPHA| |x-VAR| | DEL | -._,- |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' |
| SOLVER SIMULT POLY CATLG-VARS |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| |GRAPH| |TABLE| | PRGM| |CUSTM| |CLEAR| |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
| 10x A SIN-1 B COS-1 C TAN-1 D pi E |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| | LOG | | SIN | | COS | | TAN | | ^ | |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
| ex F x-1 G [ H ] I CALC J |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| | LN | | EE | | ( | | ) | | | |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
| ./~ K MATRX L VECTR M CPLX N MATH O |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| | X2 | | 7 | | 8 | | 9 | | x | |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
| /_ P CONS Q CONV R STRNG S LIST T |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| | , | | 4 | | 5 | | 6 | | - | |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
| RCL = BASE U TEST V MEM W STAT X |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| | STO]| | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | | + | |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
| OFF CHAR Y : z ANS _ ENTRY |
| .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, .-----, |
| | ON | | 0 | | . | | (-) | |ENTER| |
| `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' `-----' |
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| `.= ..,_'\..\..L__// | | |
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| |./| |./ \ ,-.' | |
'./ './ '...-' |_._|
TV
=======
===== symbolic antenna
===
=
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| micro henry
| coil w/tuning lug
| .----. (not shown)
| (.-') |
| (.-') |
| (.-') | pico farad cap
| (.-' | ___ (trimmable)
| | | |___|
PC -> .----'-----'---'---'
Board `-------------------
ground plane (foil)
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|__________|
<__________>
<__________>
<__________>
\/
Light bulb - BB
____________________________
/ /\
/ _/ /\
/ / \/
/ /\
/___________________________/ /
\___________________________\/
\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
Integrated circuit - AAK .
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Phone - JGS
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| ___ |
| (_M_) M O T O R A L A |
| .---------------------. |
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| ________ .-~~__~~-. |
| |___C___/ / .' `. \ |
| ______ ; : OK : ; |
| |__A___| | _`.__.'_ | |
| _______ ; \< | | >/ ; |
| [_=<D)__\ \ \_| |_/ / |
| `-..__..-' |
| _____ _____ _____ |
| [ 1 ] [ 2abc] [ 3def] |
| _____ _____ _____ |
| [ 4ghi] [ 5jkl] [ 6mno] |
| _____ _____ _____ |
| [7pqrs] [ 8tuv] [9wxyz] |
| _____ _____ _____ |
| [_*___] [_0_+_] [__#__] |
| _ _....---...._ |
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DP
JJO = Jeremy J. Olson
AAK = Argiris A. Kranidiotis
BB = Boba
JGS = Joan
G. Stoke
JF = James Fox
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Posted November 26, 2021
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