532K views · Dec 12, 2013 · 19:55 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2015–2024
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 Hacker News points people here: Recommended alongside the original paper and Unix history threads as an engaging account of the typesetter hack.
“explained the brilliant and exiting history of this paper and its recreation, as well as the history of Phototypesetters.”HN comment, 2015
“Computerphile interviewed one of the writers of this paper in a series of videos”
Interview about the paper's history and recreation
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. this video 2. link 3. link
“staring the inimitable Professor Brailsford”
Computerphile video on the 202 typesetter jailbreak with Professor Brailsford.
> As one might expect, Bell Labs didn't use the paper tape input tangentially related. The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile this video staring the inimitable Professor Brailsford.
“about the hacking of the typesetting machine, a Mergenthaler Linotron 202”
Computerphile explains the hacking of the Linotron 202 typesetter at Bell Labs.
0:16:40 For those who haven't seen it before, there's a Computerphile video this video (related video: link ) about the hacking of the typesetting machine, a Mergenthaler Linotron 202. 0:24:31 The photo must be the one at link (probably the webpage, on Dennis Ritchie's old website, that made it famous recently).
