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Kana keyboard for the Commodore PET, from Wikipedia.

PETSCII-version of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures cover art. Made by @vectorpoem in his own program EDSCII (aka Playscii), which supports ASCII, ANSI, PETSCII, ATASCII and more.

The 1800s Jacquard looms and its punched cards. Images from around the interwebz.

Monodraw – an ASCII-editor for the Mac under development. It’s presented primarily as a way to model ideas and structures, rather than making art.

Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art – like diagrams, layouts, flow charts and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. 

sourceh/t: prostheticknowledge. (and yes, technically it’s Unicode and not ASCII)

Mastervideo MCT 3201 video titler aka character generator. source

Videonics Titlemaker, 1992.

VTG-01 – a low-budget kit to overlay text on video. Just plug in an IBM keyboard and you were good to go in 1999.

Made by David L. Jones.

Telecartes – phone cards for Minitel.

via Minitel Research Lab

Elektronika MK-85 and its character set. It was the first Soviet calculator with BASIC, and almost an exact copy of the Casio FX-700P.

Eye by cmang. Made in DurDraw, his own Unix/Linux/OSX-software for ANSI/ASCII animations.