<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 9:30 PM Jonathan Gray <<a href="mailto:jsg@jsg.id.au">jsg@jsg.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:<br>
> Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters? I find they make for<br>
> fascinating reading.<br>
> I haven't found any online archives.<br>
> If you have a pile, I can scan them.<br>
> <br>
> I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group newsletter,<br>
> and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor" - all from<br>
> 1983/4.<br>
<br>
Great, thank you.<br>
<br>
Also looking for USG newsletters, and UKUUG newsletters from the 1970s<br>
and 1980s.<br>
<br>
"The first issue of the monthly UNIX Newsletter was published in<br>
January 1974 and was edited by Joe Maranzano.<br>
...<br>
the newsletter's name was changed to Minisystems Newsletter but was<br>
still published by USG."<br>
Pirzada<br>
A Statistical Examination of The Evolution of the UNIX System<br>
p 36-37<br>
<br>
"agenda of the UNIX/MERT Users Meeting held February 24, 1977, printed<br>
in the January 1977 issue of the Mini-System Newsletter, circulated<br>
within Bell Laboratories"<br>
UUCP history described by Brian Redman in<br>
Kochan & Wood - UNIX Networking, p 6-7<br>
<br>
"In December 1976, the first UK UNIVERSITIES UNIX NEWSLETTER appeared.<br>
...<br>
In the UK, Alistair Kilgour of Glasgow, circulated a letter in<br>
March 1977, suggesting the formation of a UK Unix Users Group as a DECUS<br>
UK SIG. There was a Unix colloquium in Glasgow on 27 May 1977,<br>
"attended by about 40 people," and the first few issues of the Unix<br>
Newsletter were duplicated and mailed by DECUS UK."<br>
Peter H. Salus - The Importance of the Users in UNIX/Linux History<br>
AUUG 2001 Conference Proceedings<br>
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA7" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA</a></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think you'll find many of the earliest newsletters just photocopied other interesting newsletters for some of ther editions... and then a few isdues later, the editors have discovered copyright law and issue mea culpas...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Having said that, i hope many of the lost newsletters being sought are found since it wasn't all like that.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner</div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div>