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From: milov@cs.uwlax.edu (Milo Velimirovic)
Subject: [TUHS] typesetting history
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 06:52:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9D67C5EA-3395-47FB-BB7E-05C471FD1B2F@cs.uwlax.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201506170531.t5H5VOUY004316@skeeve.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-17  5:31 Aharon Robbins
2015-06-17 11:52 ` Milo Velimirovic [this message]
2015-06-17 14:49   ` Gregg Levine
2015-06-17 17:09     ` cowan
2015-06-17 18:47       ` Gregg Levine

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