RTTY Art Viewer

RTTY Art Historical Archives
presented by
Bill Bytheway K7TTY

Intro to RTTY Art

The Teletype Artwork on these pages is the product of many different authors and artists over the years. Recent efforts on the part of Bob Roehrig, John Foust, Tom Jennings, and John Sheetz have sparked new interest in this art form.

We have adopted a minor modification in the file extensions used to identify the pieces. A .PIX file indicates a one-pass print mode. A .POX file identifies an overstrike ormultiple pass type of picture.

Additional art was provided by Ron Boltz, K3TZJ in 2009. He was heavily into RTTY back in the 70’s and 80’s and used most every type of mechanical machine over the years. He converted all of his RTTY art tape to a PC using Black Box Company Baudot to ASCII converter.

Museum

John Foust, of The Jefferson Computer Museum, has also assembled an excellent dissertation on, and examples of, Teletype and ASCII Art. He has included a number of thumbnails of examples of some highly detailed pieces of this art form. Please visit his exhibit at:

[ The Jefferson Computer Museum ]

Software

RTTYArt
Terminal Program and Editor
written by
Bill Bytheway K7TTY

The application runs on a Window95 or later OS and uses standard RS-232 ports. It will capture BAUDOT or ASCII and save it to a file, as well as display the picture or text on the screen with overstrike capability. It will send an ASCII file to the teletype machine with the appropriate ASCII to BAUDOT conversion at most common Baud rates. It also can function as a standard terminal.

Instructions- [PDF] [HTML].

Pictures of Graphical Interfaces - [rttyart-main window] [rttyart-about] [rttyart-capturedata] [rttyart-jennings] [rttyart-sendfile] [rttyart-settings]

Internet Links

A visit to George Hutchison (W7TTY) RTTY Web site is well worth the time..

[ RTTY.COM ] [RTTY_Art]

Picture Files

If you use the right Mouse button to do a "Save Target As...", then you can save the raw picture to your disk. If you import the picture to Notepad or another editor, you may loose the overstrike feature (i.e. carriage return without a line feed).

RTTY Art Viewer JAVA Applet

Requires Java to properly function, deprecated since Windows XP. I run Windows XP under VmWare in order to view these pictures properly