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BBS Documentary Interview: John Sheetz

by: Jason Scott Sadofsky

Publication date: 2005

Usage: Attribution-ShareAlike

Topics: bbs, documentary, sheetz

Publisher: Bovine Ignition Systems

Interview with John Sheetz for BBS: The Documentary. Conducted on March 22nd, 2003 in New Providence, New Jersey. Discussions center around teletype art and the use of Ham Radio to transfer text-based images. Techniques in creating RTTY art, the process of transferring artwork over Ham Radio, and some occasional copyright issues are all covered. Speculations on the future of the art, as well as what other skills Mr. Sheetz picked up in the medium. Sadly, Mr. Sheetz passed away in January of 2005, and was not able to see the final product or this interview; this work is dedicated to his memory.

Contact Information: jason@textfiles.com

Addeddate: 2005-08-10 17:57:16

Ccnum: asr

Closed captioning: no

Color: color

Director: Jason Scott Sadofsky

Identifier: 20030322-bbs-sheetz

Run time: 0:36:55

Sound: mono

Type: MovingImage

Whisper_asr_module_version: 20230805.01

Year: 2005

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Reviewer: unc0nn3ct3d - - September 4, 2022
Subject: Wonderful conversation about things that would otherwise have been lost

Something that was a fun past time for thousands of people would have been lost otherwise without conversations like this. And so many ways the ham radio scene was the precursor to BBS's and a lot of what created the foundation for how BBS communities were run and formed stemmed from those days of ham radio, and likewise today is modern internet community age was built on the foundations of the BPS scene so we can trace everything from today all the way back to then and it's great to have this interview as a piece of that puzzle in the grand scheme of things.

One of the best photo series for this interview, can be found here: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/photos/099sheetz/index.html

Reviewer: hnbbs - - July 26, 2021
Subject: Great video and great interview

Great to hear and see John Sheetz. I am also a ham and great to hear and see a fellow ham talking about this subject.
I am n0uwy. But I never got into sending images via a teletype machine. Never interested in it because of all the work it took.
It's sad that John never got to see his interview.
Jim

Reviewer: mholmansr - - January 1, 2020
Subject: Absolutely Awesome

Absolutely Awesome!

Mike Holman
http://holman-family.info/newhwinfo

Reviewer: thingfish - - August 25, 2005
Subject: Very Interesting

I really enjoyed this. I think anyone who has spent alot of time being fascinated by technology will appreciate Mr. Sheetz's insights into the world before information was so easily converted and sent around the world. I found this page with a good history of baudot art: http://www.acid.org/info/mirror/jgs/history.html
There are links to pages with Don Royer art and other interesting stuff.

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