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Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile
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Professor Brailsford of the University of Nottingham describes how the university set out to print its own mathematics exam papers in the 1980s. The story centers on getting a Mergenthaler Linotron 202 typesetter to work with their own software.
HN commenters point to it as the history of phototypesetters and a story about the freedom to control your own hardware.
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