- Zach Pfeffer
The C Programming Language Preface and Chapter 0 Read Aloud

This post links to a read aloud of the preface and chapter 0 of the first version of The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie [Amazon]. It also contains links to more info about the people, programming languages and machines referenced.
Preface
Chapter 0
Authors
Brian W. Kernighan [link]
Dennis M Ritchie [link]
Reviewers
Mike Bianchi
Jim Blue
Stu Feldman
Doug McIlroy [link]
Bill Roome
Bob Rosin
Larry Rosler
Commentators
Al Aho [link]
Steve Bourne
Dan Dvorak
Chuck Haley
Debbie Haley
Marion Harris
Rick Holt
Steve Johnson
John Mashey
Bob Mitze
Ralph Muha
Peter Nelson
Elliot Pinson
Bill Plauger
Jerry Spivack
Ken Thompson
Peter Weinberger
Mike Lesk
Joe Ossanna
References
BCPL creator Martin Richards [link]
B created by Ken Thompson [link]
OS
UNIX [link]
Machines
PDP-7 [link]
PDP-11 [link]
IBM System/370 [link]
Honeywell 6000 [link]
Interdata 8/32 [link]
Languages
PL/I [link]
Algol 68 [link]
BCPL [link]
B [link]
ANSI Fortran [link]
Pascal [link]
Tools
lint [link]
Other Resources
An Oral History of Unix at [link]
Bell Labs Life in the Crown Jewel at [link]
A History of Modern Computing at [link]