[sdiy] converting old SDIY "gifs" back to images

[Ben Lincoln]

On Mon, January 9, 2012 5:17 pm, dan snazelle wrote:
> In the old days of SDIY, a lot of people used to post their schematics as
> text...
>
> it would look like this
>
> S)LZ?/GT"#"AU*$P#1HTA=&DW*M.G1I0.A"C0*E6I!J?^P6IU*4.K6
> MJ`:Q<AWK-&O9LV at SBDW+MJW;MR?7PIW+5B[=NW at A:C7;-6%5L&3[`N8[>/!?
> MP7L#H[3[D''>QT(=0YX,>>]6KP`R+]6<>2IFS84%]^6\.>SHT!PE1[2KFK+K
> MFZTI?[T,]G#HKXI?Z\8IMC3AAE9][^YI^?1HSE$[=U7.,_;PY]`?]^[H//K+
> MX%S_>BW,/++U@[-Q
>

Hi Dan.

They're probably UUencoded. I believe there were a couple of schemes back
in the olden days, but I seem to remember UUencoding being the most
common. If you find a UUdecoder, it should give you back the binary
version.

- Ben