24 Nov
2015
24 Nov
'15
8:12 p.m.
On Nov 23, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Doug McIlroy
<doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
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
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).