If you looked at the Univac YouTube video, at one point a woman (didn’t look like Grace Hopper) pulls off a weather map printout from the 600 line per minute printer. If you looked at that printout, you would see it was actually made of printed letters and numbers, not dots. This crude form of picture drawing would be called ASCII Art eventually, but ASCII didn’t exist yet (the first version was defined in 1963)
IBM has just released a movie done in atom art – the images were created by precisely positioning individual atoms and then taking their picture and making a movie
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/worlds-smallest-movie-ibm-uses-individual-atoms-to-make-recordbreaking-short-film-of-boy-kicking-football-8599132.html
They have nothing on Hanna-Barbera 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10zuGk3y850
Opps – its better with modern music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYCvC7koBg
In the game Runescape, one of the metals you used to make things was adamant. I liked spreading the rumor that it was named after Adam Ant (Runescape’s company is located near London)
I like spreading that Bow Wow Wow was derived from Ants… and in the theme of obsolete technology, I present this dated classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYCvC7koBg