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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976))
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:36:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210211003640.GW13701@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em3e463dd7-fcad-4f96-842a-683d12f2216c@r1.local>

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:27:17AM +0000, Ron Natalie wrote:
> George Toth went down to the NRL which had a real CAT and printed out the
> fonts in large point size on film.    In the basement of the biophysics
> bulding was a scanning transmission electron microscope which used a
> PDP-11/20 as its controller and an older (512x512 or so) framebuffer.
> George took the scanning wires off the microsope nad hooked them up to the X
> and Y of a tektronics oscilliscope.    Then he put a photomutlipler tube in
> a scope camera housing and hoked the sense wire from the microscope to that.
> 
> He now had the worlds most expensive flying spot scanner.   He???d tape one
> letter at a time to the scope and then bring up the microscope sofware
> (DOS/BATCH I think) and tell it to run the microscope.    Then without
> powering down the memory in the framebuffer, he???d boot up miniunix and
> copy the stuff from the framebuffer to an RX05 pack.
> After months of laboriously scanning he was able to write the CAT emulator.

That's dedication, what else did George do?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-11  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30  3:10 [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) Joachim via TUHS
2020-11-30  8:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-11-30 13:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-11-30 15:12   ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-11-30 15:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 16:25   ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:38     ` Warner Losh
2020-11-30 16:41       ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:37   ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-30 16:54     ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 18:13       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-11-30 18:25       ` John Cowan
2020-11-30 18:37         ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 20:11           ` arnold
2020-11-30 21:49             ` Will Senn
2020-12-01  2:55             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-30 18:46         ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-10 20:48       ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976)) Greg A. Woods
2021-02-10 21:44         ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 22:05         ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 21:58           ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-12  5:22             ` George Michaelson
2021-02-12 22:13             ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-12 22:18               ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-10 22:36         ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 23:05           ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11  0:27             ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11  0:36               ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-02-11  1:53               ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11  1:59                 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11  2:04                   ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11  2:44                     ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11  3:02                       ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-11  4:07                         ` Toby Thain
2021-02-11 16:55                       ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 20:27                         ` John Cowan
2021-02-11  2:30                 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-11  2:52                   ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11  6:42                     ` Andrew Hume
2021-02-11  7:12                       ` Rob Pike
2021-02-11 13:06                         ` John Gilmore
2021-02-11 17:34                           ` Jon Forrest
2021-02-11 18:09                             ` John Cowan
2021-02-11 18:43                               ` Rich Morin
2020-12-01  3:59 ` [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) jason-tuhs
2020-12-01  4:03   ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-01  9:27   ` Steve Nickolas
2020-12-01 15:09   ` Jim Capp
2020-12-01 15:35     ` Toby Thain
2020-12-01 15:38     ` arnold
2020-12-01 16:24       ` Warner Losh
2020-12-01 16:39         ` arnold
2020-12-01 20:13           ` Rob Pike
2020-12-02  7:08             ` arnold
2020-12-02  7:29               ` Rob Pike
2020-12-01 20:20           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-01 20:39             ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-01 21:24               ` Dan Cross
2020-12-01 23:44                 ` John Cowan
2020-12-12 19:50           ` scj
2020-12-01 16:47         ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 20:13     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 20:49       ` John Cowan
2020-12-01 16:04 ` Tyler Adams

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