On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:10:43PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote: Taken from http://www.darwinsys.com/history/hist.html: The early evolution of the C language has been described elsewhere ... It is May, 1975, and the new improved Sixth Edition is about to be released... There follows a succession of releases of the C compiler. The PWB 1.0 release of UNIX, the first outside the labs of a non-Research from Bell, goes out in 1977. And a special release tape known only as ``Phototypesetter Version 7'' includes a new release of troff as well as the C compiler, assembler, loader, archiver and bits of the C library. Cheers, Warren

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