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The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile
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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.
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Recommended alongside the original paper and Unix history threads as an engaging account of the typesetter hack.
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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]
Read original comment ↗> 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.
Read original comment ↗0:16:40 For those who haven't seen it before, there's a Computerphile video [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).
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