The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

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Computerphile with Professor David Brailsford on how a 1970s Bell Labs memo was recovered from a Linotron 202 phototypesetter. The story involves reverse engineering the machine's typesetting codes and files.

HN people offer it as an excellent side trip whenever phototypesetters, early Unix or Bell Labs documents come up.

“Here is Brailsford’s Computerphile video describing how the memo was reconstructed”

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@jgalt2122019 · in “The Birth of Standard Error (2013)”
Somewhat related, and an excellent view: The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile ▶ this video
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@watson2014 · in “Reverse engineering the Linotron 202 typography [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@throwaway20482013 · in “The great Linotype 202 typesetter jailbreak [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@jgalt2122024 · in “The Birth of Standard Error (2013)”
> 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.
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@leoc2020 · in “The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan”
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).
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@nyankosensei2018 · in “Revisiting a Summer Vacation: Digital Restoration, Typesetter Forensics (2013) [pdf]”
Here is Brailsford’s Computerphile video describing how the memo was reconstructed: ▶ this video
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@speps2015 · in “Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter (1980) [pdf]”
Related video : ▶ this video