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As a bit of history: Don told me at one point that he did chose Wells Fargo Bank for this because they had such nice checks at the time (with a carriage drawn by four horses - see picture) and that he therefore hoped most people would put the checks on the wall rather than cashing them: These days I think they are no longer that beautiful, but I haven't ...

Screen? Previews? They didn't exist at the beginning. edit: it has been asked how knuth viewed his "first page". it was definitely not on screen. it was most likely printed out on the xerox xgp which was installed at the stanford ai (artificial intelligence) lab (sail). in the book "companion to the papers of donald knuth", don says (pp.58-59) that he'd ...

Awesome contents that worth reading: Thoughts on TUG 2010 by Barbara Beeton, regarding the environments in 80's for TeX; The Design of TeX and METAFONT: A Retrospective by Nelson H.F. Beebe, and TeX82, Version 1.0 for Berkeley Unix, 4.1 and 4.2 bsd, an email from Richard Furuta to announce the availability of TeX82, Version 1.0, for Berkeley Unix, version ...

The TeX error log lists the people who have reported bugs that resulted in changes to TeX the program. I assume they all have cheques generic/knuth/errata/errorlog.pdf or just use the command texdoc errorlog in TeX Live at least.

Note that the very first version of TeX - TeX78 - was written to allow for better typesetting of Knuths books - especially the math heavy bits - not as such for general consumption. The rewrite into TeX82 (along with MetaFont) was as literate programs (where you write an essay on your program containing snippets of actual code which was then assembled into ...

From Wikipedia: According to an article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review, these rewards have been described as "among computerdom's most prized trophies". As of October 2001, Knuth reports having written more than 2,000 checks, with an average value exceeding $8 per check. As of March 2005, the total value of the ...

OK. I was officially the first TeX user in Imperial College, London, using it to write my PhD thesis. Malcolm Clark was the one person in Computer Centre who supported TeX. I bought Knuth's "TeX and Metafont" in 1983, and used a buggy implementation on the College mainframe. There was no preview, and there were no laser printers. I wrote the files at home ...