[TUHS] typesetting history

Milo Velimirovic milov at cs.uwlax.edu
Wed Jun 17 21:52:38 AEST 2015


Oh my! This brings back memories from the 1980s. I worked at a publishing company and had many dealings with a 202. I suspect that our travails were increased by the equipment we used to drive our 202, a DG Eclipse S/130 and a serial connection that used the paper tape reader interface.

 - Milo

> On Jun 17, 2015, at 12:31 AM, Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> 
> I recently came across this:
> 
> 	http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202
> 
> It's been there for a while but I hadn't noticed it. It describes the
> trials and tribulations of getting the Mergenthaler 202 up and running
> at Bell Labs and is very interesting reading.
> 
> I have already requested that they archive their work with TUHS and
> gotten a positve response about this from David Brailsford. In the
> meantime, it's fun reading!
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Arnold
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