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The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile19:55

The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

532K views • 12 years ago
Computerphile
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.
VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan1:03:51

VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan

417K views • 7 years ago
Vintage Computer Federation
Brian Kernighan interviews Unix co-creator Ken Thompson at VCF East 2019. Thompson recounts how he was hired at Bell Labs, writing the Unix kernel in about three weeks, the origins of B and TMG, pipes, and other anecdotes.
Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup2:00:10

Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup

75K views • 11 years ago
Computer History Museum
A two-hour Computer History Museum oral history interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, conducted by Paul McJones in 2015. It covers his youth, education at Aarhus and Cambridge, his career at Bell Labs and elsewhere, and the design and evolution of C++.
3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell2:35:32

3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell

51K views • 12 years ago
Computer History Museum
A Computer History Museum oral history panel with four 3dfx founders on the company's rise with Voodoo Graphics and Glide, and its fall into bankruptcy. It runs about two and a half hours.