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.
Why HN recommends it: 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.” Read on HN ↗