Sat Apr 18 17:02:30 CEST 2015
If he only had known...
Back in the 90s I had a gray-scale printout of a PostScript picture hanging in my office which was slightly doctored. (The picture, not the office. Nor me.)
When I left academia, I took that picture with me, eventually framed it, and it still decorates my desk at home.
However, I never had the PostScript file, and for the last twenty years, I have been looking through various old disks / systems and googling the Intarwebs for it. No dice.
But this morning, after an entire night of wading through files
and directories, I finally found it. On the old DECsystem
ips I had saved from being scrapped in 2007, in a sub
sub sub directory of Bernd Witte, the UNIX admin who tought me
a lot when I was just a user, there it was:
/usr/users/infbsps0/witte.old/dsm/qms/psexec18/nurse.ps.
This was a sample file coming with a QMS laser printer we had in the basement (you guessed it: gray-scale only), and is the untampered version, still advertising "The Adobe Illustrator might have saved him".
I installed the ghostview suite on my ARM board
alexis, and with a little bit help from
sed(1), we are back to the not-so-original version. So
without further ado, here is a low-quality jpeg rendering:
(This is the first time I see this in color.)
I blatantly removed the Adobe copyright notice, too. Hey, I DON'T CARE! I'D RATHER SINK -- THAN CALL ADOBE FOR PERMISSION!.