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

[Dave Manley]

On 1/9/2012 5:31 PM, Dan Snazelle wrote:
> Thanks a lot guys!!!!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 8:23 PM, "Ben Lincoln"<blincoln at eventualdecline.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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

Ah, the golden age of the internet.  Download 5 separate files using uucp,
cobble them together, uudecoded them.  A half hour wasted - all to look at some
low res po^H^Hpicture.  :-)

-Dave