Before optical maser - printers were even dreamt of , great companies had to usetypesettersto render text if it were to look any good — but they were expensive and tightly controlled . Then , in the summer of 1979 , locomotive engineer at Bell Labs change all that .
Over their summer holiday , a team of research worker decided to reverse organize the technology behind the Linotron 202 — then one of the most forward-looking objet d’art of digital typeset hardware available . In doing so they democratized typesetting , and overturn the way that digital texts were converted to tough copy .
This fascinating video recording name how and why they did it . If that ’s not enough , you may alsoread a full news report of how it was done here . [ Computerphile ]
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