The little editor that could

Kay Lack explores the history of TECO, one of the earliest interactive text editors, and its influence on modern editors like Emacs.

This video has a page on 0DE5 with exercises and resources 0de5.net/stimuli/the-little-editor-that-could Ed60 - Story mode: toys.0de5.net/ed60/cyo/ - Creative mode: toys.0de5.net/ed60/ Archive Footage * 1944, Technique of Hand Sending - archive.org/details/youtube-pFgs7Idgdgs * 1946, Telephone and Telegraph - archive.org/details/Telephon1946 * 1956, Telegram for America - archive.org/details/Telegram1956 * Tornado - archive.org/details/tornado * 1956, UNIVAC TV Commercial - archive.org/details/Univac_Commercial_Classic_Old_Vintage * 1962, Computer and the Mind of Man - archive.org/details/ComputerAndTheMindOfManP3TheUniversalMac… * 1965, Graphic 1, a 1960s stylus-based graphical display system - youtube.com/watch?v=llnzK2H_HZo * 1966, Erkki Kurenniemi's Computer Music - archive.org/details/computer-music-1966-dir.-erkki-kurenniem… * 1967, BBC Tomorrow's World: Home Computer Terminal - youtube.com/watch?v=aJ6SbvrjxZA * 1968, The Computer - youtube.com/watch?v=qmJx1j4QgB0 * 1970s, Datamagic Bowling Data Commercial - youtube.com/watch?v=fqUuljoCmLY * 1972, gdavisloop's Time Sharing Demonstration ASR33 Teletype - youtube.com/watch?v=W4gwJAO2EWg * 1982, UNIX: Making Computers Easier to Use - youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw * 2023, Introducing Apple Vision Pro - youtube.com/watch?v=TX9qSaGXFyg * 2024, Dynamicland Intro - youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9r-AEzRMA Papers * 1979, Dennis Ritchie's The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System - archive.org/details/evolution-of-unix-tss/page/n1/mode/2up?v… Images * 1970s, photo of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in front of PDP-11 - computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102685442 Chapters 00:00 - Intro 05:30 - A tour of Ed 15:20 - The teletype 19:23 - Ed revisited 21:03 - Space 29:53 - Epilogue