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The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile
Computerphile with Professor Brailsford on how a 1979 Bell Labs team reverse engineered a Linotron 202 phototypesetter over a summer to get high-quality print output. It covers typesetting history and the later 2013 rebuild of the famous vacation memo.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended alongside the original paper and Unix history threads as an engaging account of the typesetter hack.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Computerphile
- Topic
- bell labs typesetter hack
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
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Computerphile interviewed one of the writers of this paper in a series of videos, who explained the brilliant and exiting history of this paper and its recreation, as well as the history of Phototypesetters. 1. [VIDEO] 2. [LINK] 3. [LINK]
ATsch on Hacker News · 2015-11
In Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter (1980) [pdf]> As one might expect, Bell Labs didn't use the paper tape input tangentially related. The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile [VIDEO] staring the inimitable Professor Brailsford.
jgalt212 on Hacker News · 2024-07
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