I'd love to see a video about the history of Tex and LaTex, since I'm currently learning it for my Bachelor thesis. And I started to love it, after seeing some fellows failing hard at msOffice.
@CharlesVanNoland
7 жыл бұрын
What I gather from all of the videos I've watched is that Professor Brailsford is not only a super special kinda guy but also a goldmine of history and know-how. He's one in a million! The greatest thing about him, which I noticed a few months ago, and pointed out to a friend of mine, is that he can maintain on a long monologue without requiring a bunch of quick edits to filter out superfluous thoughts. He's concise and thorough, going indepth, and following a coherent train of thought at a healthy pace. EDIT: All of his videos are a real treat!
@LuckyMarketGameplay
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your web pointer, I shall process it through the series of tubes as soon as I disembark from my automobile excursion.
@aleewade4162
9 жыл бұрын
In 1982 I was an engineering grad student when we took delivery of a 300DPI Xerox laser printer. It was promptly connected to a VAX-11/780 running VMS and TeX 1.0 (aka TeX82). Ease of publishing increased by an order of magnitude almost over night.
@Superphilipp
10 жыл бұрын
This man has the greatest voice I have ever heard. Seriously, has he ever done any acting or voice work?
@PixelOutlaw
10 жыл бұрын
He is a very good narrator, even better that he talks about historical problems and solutions. Computer history is very entertaining for me.
@OsaSoft
10 жыл бұрын
as a student of software engineering i find this channel absolutely fantastic... the people involved all seem to be not only great scientists in their relevant fields, but also great teachers... i also really like these history videos... being in my 20s now i never really experienced this kind of thing and the early years of computing and this is just so fascinating and something you dont really get in school thank you so much :)
@WouterDHaeseleer
10 жыл бұрын
what a great story again! i believe i can listen a whole day to this guy. he can tell it with real passion, something which i admire
@Desmaad
10 жыл бұрын
I noticed that whoever wrote the brochure typed in Zolig instead of Zilog in the processor list; whee, typos.
@SharpblueCreative
9 жыл бұрын
I was a typesetter in the 1980s - Compugrapgic MCS Powerview 5
@nomeanlol
10 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating. You don't appreciate how amazing it is to be able to click print and have a reasonable copy pop out of a machine without the history behind it.
@MedEighty
10 жыл бұрын
06:20 Oops! They misspelt Zilog in their manual.
@romulus2225
10 жыл бұрын
I'm a physical chemist, but I'm addicted to Computerphile now! I always watched Periodic and Numberphile, but I love these videos!
@3ventic
10 жыл бұрын
Happy new year to you too!
@amak1131
10 жыл бұрын
I love this man... reminds me of my grandpa telling stories of coding in Basic.
@666Tomato666
10 жыл бұрын
and to think that I was able to write similar quality notes during my university coursework using LaTeX system just few years ago...
@thats2kewl
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent video...love the poster. I would love to buy a Computerphile T-shirt with that on the back!!
@ilikewebm
10 жыл бұрын
Bell Labs and Unix changed everything... But really good printing quality for this time... 700 dpi are very impresive.
@1804180469
10 жыл бұрын
Are we going to get a video on TeX and LaTeX at some point?
@jdgrahamo
10 жыл бұрын
The advent of computer printing more or less sounded the death knell for letter spacing, which nobody seems to bother with any more. A great retrograde step in design, I fear.
@Falcrist
10 жыл бұрын
I absolutely can't believe i got into the sub-301 club. That email notification must have been really quick!
@Komodojou
10 жыл бұрын
Funny that this video comes up today, as I've been playing Type:Rider.
@TheKuleluke
10 жыл бұрын
*Computerphile* _is_ *awesome*
@symbolxchannel
10 жыл бұрын
var *Computerphile* = "awesome!"; alert(*Computerphile*);
It's funny when you think about the human life and context. I find this gentleman fascinating and would buy him a beverage every day to hear him talk about this (or his other experiences). His wife, as is usually the case, must be sick of hearing about it. :)
@MRayner59
10 жыл бұрын
This may be the nerdiest video... ever! Quite delightful.
@zwz.zdenek
9 жыл бұрын
I wonder how did the big printing houses produce the math handbooks I had always known about. Why didn't you use whatever proven workflow they had developed? Even if that meant lead types.
@kuglepen64
10 жыл бұрын
This is lovely stuff! Keep it coming!
@Khaltazar
10 жыл бұрын
How in the world do you use that Mac keyboard? It's terrible.
@MooImABunny
9 жыл бұрын
why in the hell would god write down electrodynamics in spherical coordinates?? more importatnly, why would he not use 4-vector / tensors spacetime notations...
@Congochicken
9 жыл бұрын
Did that video that says coming soon at the end ever come out?
@alsifjlasieflooo
10 жыл бұрын
And today you just press Ctrl + P...
@photosinensis
10 жыл бұрын
It's not quite the same. There's still a power to typesetters that hitting Ctrl+P doesn't come close to. Those things can crank out a large volume of printed material very quickly--enough for a newspaper print run, for example.
@ch0rd2
10 жыл бұрын
Ab-so-lute-ly love this stuff. Many thx.
@J2897Tutorials
10 жыл бұрын
Did that letter mention a fee for the UNIX OS? I couldn't see all of it. Or was that before companies began hiding source code?
@tobortine
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent, thank you.
@ejetzer
10 жыл бұрын
You could ask the same question about regular text.
@patrick1020000
10 жыл бұрын
Great video again!
@jdrejert
10 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure I saw that t-shirt in a Modern Family episode (worn by Alex).
@jdrejert
10 жыл бұрын
(Although with curl and grad notation.)
@DarkosLab
10 жыл бұрын
Do you think we could get Maxwell's equations on Numberphile?
@d3line
10 жыл бұрын
I want to buy that poster!!!
@crumplezone1
10 жыл бұрын
Dont pick ur nose prof ! @ 10.00, LOL Another fantastic vid sir
@_wouter52
10 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Thnx!
@Nordath1
10 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@daedra40
10 жыл бұрын
Just at the start, i want to say that it's pretty difficult to not like whatever the prof has to say. Simply.
@OmegaCraftable
10 жыл бұрын
The link to the poster doesn't work. :(
@angeldude101
10 жыл бұрын
You mean the pointer?
@yetanothertubeuser
10 жыл бұрын
Remove the %C2%AD bit. KZitem put a tag there for some reason. Edit: Or do you actually mean the poster? Because that one works.
@TheChipmunk2008
10 жыл бұрын
Works fine here, it's just not hyperlinked is all
@sooskca
10 жыл бұрын
most dramatic hacking tales on the internet
@linkVIII
10 жыл бұрын
cool stuff
@boogiman007
10 жыл бұрын
so HD has been around since the 80s. huh!
@DAR00ST3R
10 жыл бұрын
Sadly, all I get is grey screens of nothing when trying to access the eprg(dot)org links. Great video nonetheless though :-)
@unvergebeneid
10 жыл бұрын
Wasn't TeX already developed in the late 1970s? How then isn't it even mentioned in a video on typesetting in the 1980s?
@frustbox
10 жыл бұрын
Donald E. Knuth started TeX in 1978 but it wasn't finished until 1986. I'm looking forward to a follow up to this video, moving on to "modern" typesetting using TeX, LaTeX and maybe even further.
@666Tomato666
10 жыл бұрын
frustbox the only thing that's further than LaTeX is XeTeX or LuaTeX.
@unvergebeneid
10 жыл бұрын
666Tomato666 While I agree purely regarding typography, TeX isn't for everyone and TeX surely isn't perfect (tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27440/what-cant-tex-do).
@joshcryer
10 жыл бұрын
It's briefly mentioned in the 202 hacking video, which, btw, is a lot more comprehensive.
@unvergebeneid
10 жыл бұрын
joshcryer Oh ok. I had seen that video but obviously I've already forgotten.
@Urf93
10 жыл бұрын
Awesome :D
@pepper669
7 жыл бұрын
Are there any surviving 202s?
@ArnimSommer
10 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Professor Brailsford ever met Don Knuth...
@jamez6398
10 жыл бұрын
What!? Why on earth would you go to all of that effort to get the printer to work!? Come on, now. Those are only a list of mathematical equations; they weren't graphs or artistic styluses; why on earth would you need to use a printer to get these images when they are only a list of mathematical equations? If they're only printed-out mathematical equations, then surely being hand-written is good enough??
@TMTVL
10 жыл бұрын
So, is this the video uploaded in Ubuntu?
@serhiyint
10 жыл бұрын
Apple product placement?
@Nilguiri
10 жыл бұрын
Interesting.
@TheRealFlenuan
10 жыл бұрын
It's "80s". Apostrophes are not used for pluralization.
@Sammysapphira
10 жыл бұрын
Its been 5 minutes how are there no comments.
@Patman128
10 жыл бұрын
Says "Zolig Z80" at 6:30 lol.
@sadade32
10 жыл бұрын
Mai god, one of the early commenters!
@alexanderwesterstahl
10 жыл бұрын
Haha, "Zolig Z80" xD
@ElectricEvan
10 жыл бұрын
This is the problem with making things for other people.
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