The Great 202 Jailbreak: reverse-engineering a phototypesetter

Recommended alongside the original paper and Unix history threads as an engaging account of the typesetter hack.

Computerphile with Professor Brailsford on how a 1979 Bell Labs team reverse engineered a Linotron 202 phototypesetter over a summer to get high-quality print output. It covers typesetting history and the later 2013 rebuild of the famous vacation memo.