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From: milov@cs.uwlax.edu (Milo Velimirović)
Subject: [TUHS] 101 fixes for unix V6?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:12:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2807955C-14EA-4C76-BEE1-2DCA1993E166@cs.uwlax.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201511240210.tAO2AhxJ017230@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

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> On Nov 23, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
>> The phototypesetter version of Unix was V7.
> 
> I'm not sure of what's being said here. Manuals from
> the 4th edition on were phototypeaet, first on a
> CAT and later a Linotron (if I remember the name right).

Mergenthaler(-Linotype) Linotron 202

I used one of these beasts, a CRT based phototypesetter, in the late 1980s - 8” floppy disks, serial communication that pretended to be a paper tape reader. One of those times we really needed a Users' Group and there wasn’t one.

See also the memo, recently publicized here, ‘Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter, or, How We Spent Our Summer Vacation’ https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/summer.scanned.pdf

I wish I had had access to the schematics at the end of the memo. That would have saved days of work!
 

 - MIlo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24  2:10 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-24  2:19 ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-24  2:22   ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-24 14:12 ` Milo Velimirović [this message]
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2015-11-22 19:32 Warren Toomey
2015-11-22 19:33 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-11-22 20:59 ` Will Senn
2015-11-22 21:59   ` Warner Losh

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