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.
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!
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
why in the hell would god write down electrodynamics in spherical coordinates?? more importatnly, why would he not use 4-vector / tensors spacetime notations...
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.
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. :)
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.
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 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).
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??
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.
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!
Thank you for your web pointer, I shall process it through the series of tubes as soon as I disembark from my automobile excursion.
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.
This man has the greatest voice I have ever heard.
Seriously, has he ever done any acting or voice work?
He is a very good narrator, even better that he talks about historical problems and solutions. Computer history is very entertaining for me.
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 :)
I noticed that whoever wrote the brochure typed in Zolig instead of Zilog in the processor list; whee, typos.
06:20 Oops! They misspelt Zilog in their manual.
I was a typesetter in the 1980s - Compugrapgic MCS Powerview 5
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
Happy new year to you too!
Are we going to get a video on TeX and LaTeX at some point?
and to think that I was able to write similar quality notes during my university coursework using LaTeX system just few years ago...
I'm a physical chemist, but I'm addicted to Computerphile now! I always watched Periodic and Numberphile, but I love these videos!
I love this man... reminds me of my grandpa telling stories of coding in Basic.
Bell Labs and Unix changed everything...
But really good printing quality for this time...
700 dpi are very impresive.
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.
Excellent video...love the poster. I would love to buy a Computerphile T-shirt with that on the back!!
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.
How in the world do you use that Mac keyboard? It's terrible.
*Computerphile* _is_ *awesome*
var *Computerphile* = "awesome!";
alert(*Computerphile*);
SymbolX Too much JavaScript.
SymbolX
at least use let ;-)
Derek Leung [self setComputerphile:@"awesome"];
NSLog(@"%@",_computerphile);
I absolutely can't believe i got into the sub-301 club. That email notification must have been really quick!
Funny that this video comes up today, as I've been playing Type:Rider.
Did that video that says coming soon at the end ever come out?
why in the hell would god write down electrodynamics in spherical coordinates??
more importatnly, why would he not use 4-vector / tensors spacetime notations...
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.
This may be the nerdiest video... ever! Quite delightful.
This is lovely stuff! Keep it coming!
Do you think we could get Maxwell's equations on Numberphile?
Ab-so-lute-ly love this stuff. Many thx.
Excellent, thank you.
You could ask the same question about regular text.
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?
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. :)
I want to buy that poster!!!
Great video again!
The link to the poster doesn't work. :(
You mean the pointer?
Remove the %C2%AD bit. TH-cam put a tag there for some reason.
Edit: Or do you actually mean the poster? Because that one works.
Works fine here, it's just not hyperlinked is all
Dont pick ur nose prof ! @ 10.00, LOL
Another fantastic vid sir
Very interesting! Thnx!
Awesome!
I'm pretty sure I saw that t-shirt in a Modern Family episode (worn by Alex).
(Although with curl and grad notation.)
And today you just press Ctrl + P...
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.
cool stuff
Are there any surviving 202s?
Sadly, all I get is grey screens of nothing when trying to access the eprg(dot)org links. Great video nonetheless though :-)
So, is this the video uploaded in Ubuntu?
Wasn't TeX already developed in the late 1970s? How then isn't it even mentioned in a video on typesetting in the 1980s?
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.
frustbox the only thing that's further than LaTeX is XeTeX or LuaTeX.
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).
It's briefly mentioned in the 202 hacking video, which, btw, is a lot more comprehensive.
joshcryer Oh ok. I had seen that video but obviously I've already forgotten.
so HD has been around since the 80s. huh!
Awesome :D
most dramatic hacking tales on the internet
Interesting.
Apple product placement?
Just at the start, i want to say that it's pretty difficult to not like whatever the prof has to say. Simply.
I wonder if Professor Brailsford ever met Don Knuth...
Says "Zolig Z80" at 6:30 lol.
It's "80s". Apostrophes are not used for pluralization.
Mai god, one of the early commenters!
Its been 5 minutes how are there no comments.
Haha, "Zolig Z80" xD
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??
Gaussian units... ARGH...
This is the problem with making things for other people.