Comment by pvg

There's a funny bit in that vein in Cringley's Accidental Empires:

“The first volume of Knuth's series (dedicated to the IBM 650 computer, "in remembrance of many pleasant evenings") was printed in the late 1960s using old-fashioned but beautiful hot-type printing technology, complete with Linotype machines and the sharp smell of molten lead. Volume 2, which appeared a few years later, used photo-offset printing to save money for the publisher (the publisher of this book, in fact). Knuth didn't like the change from hot type to cold, from Lino to photo, and so he took a few months off from his other work, rolled up his sleeves, and set to work computerizing the business of setting type and designing type fonts. Nine years later, he was done.”