The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

Before laser-printers, high quality print-outs were the domain of typesetters, expensive and tightly controlled. In 1979 a Bell Labs team reverse engineered one in their summer vacation. Professor Brailsford has the details. EXTRA BITS - More on Printing and Typesetting History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdModNEK_1U Mainframes and the Unix Revolution: http://youtu.be/-rPPqm44xLs To find out how the 1980 Bell Labs `vacation memo' was completely rebuilt, in 2013, visit: http://www.eprg.org/papers/202paper.pdf If you want to see the `vacation memo' itself -- in its original scanned-in form and after being rebuilt -- then visit: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202 The memorandum gives an outline of how the `reverse engineering' of the 202 was accomplished. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels