outsdr | Would Doctor Who use a Commodore 64? Hell yeah!

Here's the first of my finds from the old homestead. This was created
probably in 1985 on a Commodore 64, then printed on a dot-matrix
printer. If I remember correctly, it was done in Print Shop, where I
would have picked the border, and then put in the text, and created the
artwork either using the keyboard or joystick to move the cursor and
turn the block in the bitmap on or off. It was painstaking work, and
I'm sure this took me a few hours to make! Somewhere, I probably still
have the original file saved on a 5 1/4" floppy disk.

After printing this, I taped it to my bedroom wall with scotch tape,
where it remained until I just rescued it, almost 23 years later! The
tape was still holding so well, that the wallpaper pulled away from
the wall, instead of the tape!

At that time, I also created a Dalek, and K-9. The Dalek won a blue
ribbon at the county fair. I don't believe there are any printouts
existing any more of those two images, but again, somewhere the
digital files should exist. While I still have the old Commodore 64 in
storage at my parents' (and as far as I know, it still runs!) I'm not
sure where I'd find a compatible printer these days. Someday, I'll
hook it all back up and see what I can do. I'd love to rescue all that
old software and files and somehow transfer them onto a machine that
can emulate the C-64.

I have other official Doctor Who items to share, but I wanted to share
this little bit of my personal history first.

Here is the untouched scan: