#linotron202#belllabs#typesetting
2.6M subscribers • 70 videos on Hallway
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
531K views12 years ago2 recommendations
History and cultureSystems programmingHistory of computingReverse engineering
Professor David Brailsford explains how a Bell Labs team reverse engineered a Linotron 202 phototypesetter over a summer in 1979.
Before laser-printers, high quality print-outs were the domain of typesetters, expensive and tightly controlled. In 1979 a Bell Labs team reverse engineered one in their summer vacation. Professor Brailsford has the details. EXTRA BITS - More on Printing and Typesetting History: youtube.com/watch?v=HdModNEK_1U Mainframes and the Unix Revolution: youtu.be/-rPPqm44xLs To find out how the 1980 Bell Labs `vacation memo' was completely rebuilt, in 2013, visit: eprg.org/papers/202paper.pdf If you want to see the `vacation memo' itself -- in its original scanned-in form and after being rebuilt -- then visit: cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202 The memorandum gives an outline of how the `reverse engineering' of the 202 was accomplished. facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: bit.ly/bradychannelsWhat people say. Recommended as a fascinating look into the history of typesetting and early Bell Labs hacking.
ATschon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter (1980) [pdf]”
jgalt212on Hacker News • Recommends
On “The Birth of Standard Error (2013)”
leocon Hacker News • Mentions
On “The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan”