29 Jun
2025
29 Jun
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12:26 a.m.
Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters? I find they make for
fascinating reading.
I haven't found any online archives.
If you have a pile, I can scan them.
I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group newsletter,
and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor" - all from
1983/4.
Warren can hopefully find a home for these.
29 Jun
29 Jun
3:30 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters? I
find they make for
fascinating reading.
I haven't found any online archives.
If you have a pile, I can scan them.
I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group newsletter,
and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor" - all from
1983/4.
Great, thank you.
Also looking for USG newsletters, and UKUUG newsletters from the 1970s
and 1980s.
"The first issue of the monthly UNIX Newsletter was published in
January 1974 and was edited by Joe Maranzano.
...
the newsletter's name was changed to Minisystems Newsletter but was
still published by USG."
Pirzada
A Statistical Examination of The Evolution of the UNIX System
p 36-37
"agenda of the UNIX/MERT Users Meeting held February 24, 1977, printed
in the January 1977 issue of the Mini-System Newsletter, circulated
within Bell Laboratories"
UUCP history described by Brian Redman in
Kochan & Wood - UNIX Networking, p 6-7
"In December 1976, the first UK UNIVERSITIES UNIX NEWSLETTER appeared.
...
In the UK, Alistair Kilgour of Glasgow, circulated a letter in
March 1977, suggesting the formation of a UK Unix Users Group as a DECUS
UK SIG. There was a Unix colloquium in Glasgow on 27 May 1977,
"attended by about 40 people," and the first few issues of the Unix
Newsletter were duplicated and mailed by DECUS UK."
Peter H. Salus - The Importance of the Users in UNIX/Linux History
AUUG 2001 Conference Proceedings
https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA7
3:36 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 9:30 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg(a)jsg.id.au> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon
wrote:
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...
Having said that, i hope many of the lost newsletters being sought are
found since it wasn't all like that.
Warner
Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters?
I find they make for
fascinating reading.
I haven't found any online archives.
If you have a pile, I can scan them.
I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group
newsletter,
and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent
UNIX and C Advisor" - all from
1983/4.
Great, thank you.
Also looking for USG newsletters, and UKUUG newsletters from the 1970s
and 1980s.
"The first issue of the monthly UNIX Newsletter was published in
January 1974 and was edited by Joe Maranzano.
...
the newsletter's name was changed to Minisystems Newsletter but was
still published by USG."
Pirzada
A Statistical Examination of The Evolution of the UNIX System
p 36-37
"agenda of the UNIX/MERT Users Meeting held February 24, 1977, printed
in the January 1977 issue of the Mini-System Newsletter, circulated
within Bell Laboratories"
UUCP history described by Brian Redman in
Kochan & Wood - UNIX Networking, p 6-7
"In December 1976, the first UK UNIVERSITIES UNIX NEWSLETTER appeared.
...
In the UK, Alistair Kilgour of Glasgow, circulated a letter in
March 1977, suggesting the formation of a UK Unix Users Group as a DECUS
UK SIG. There was a Unix colloquium in Glasgow on 27 May 1977,
"attended by about 40 people," and the first few issues of the Unix
Newsletter were duplicated and mailed by DECUS UK."
Peter H. Salus - The Importance of the Users in UNIX/Linux History
AUUG 2001 Conference Proceedings
https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA
<https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA7>
2:04 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 01:30:12PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon
wrote:
as ukuug.org now links to casinos...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220331114723/https://www.ukuug.org/about/time…
mentions some of the newsletters:
1976 December
UK Universities UNIX Newsletter Vol 1, No 1
Editor Peter Gray
partly? reprinted in Unix News, Vol 2, No 1
tuhs Documentation/Usenix/Early_Newsletters/197612-unix-news-v2n1.pdf p 5-6
1977 July
UKUUG Newsletter Vol 1, No 2
Editor Peter Gray
1978 January
UKUUG Newsletter Vol 1, No 3
Editor Peter Gray
1979 August
UKUUG (Decus SIG) Newsletter Vol 1, No 5
Editor Bruce Anderson
1980 February
UKUUG (Decus SIG) Newsletter No 6
Editor Bruce Anderson
1980 July
UKUUG (Decus SIG) Newsletter No 7
Editor Bruce Anderson
UKUUG newsletters replaced by EUUG newsletters in 1980 or 1981?
1981 February
EUUG (Decus SIG) Newsletter No 8
Editor Bruce Anderson
1981 May
EUUG (Decus SIG) Newsletter No 9
Editor Bruce Anderson
1981 August
EUUG (Decus SIG) Newsletter No 10
Editor Bruce Anderson
1982 January
EUUG Newsletter Vol 2, No 1
Editor Jim McKie
1982 April
EUUG Newsletter Vol 2, No 2
Editor Jim McKie
EUUG Newsletter Vol 2, No 4 onwards scans at
https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:Keyword/PERIODICALS/EUUG-NEWSLETTER
Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters?
I find they make for
fascinating reading.
I haven't found any online archives.
If you have a pile, I can scan them.
I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group newsletter,
and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor" - all from
1983/4.
Great, thank you.
Also looking for USG newsletters, and UKUUG newsletters from the 1970s
and 1980s. 
9:56 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters? I
find they make for
fascinating reading.
I haven't found any online archives.
If you have a pile, I can scan them.
I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group
newsletter, and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C
Advisor" - all from 1983/4.
Warren can hopefully find a home for these.
I scanned all the AUUGNs in; they are here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/
I'm happy to take other scanned newsletters and put them in Documentation/
Thanks! Warren
30 Jun
30 Jun
8:23 p.m.
At Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:26:21 -0700, Tom Lyon <pugs78(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Old UNIX newsletters?
Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters? I find they make for
fascinating reading.
I haven't found any online archives.
Hmmm.... I've still got the troff sources for the UniForum Canada (nee
/usr/group/cdn) newsletters ("README") I produced when I was the editor.
These span July 1990 through February 1993. They were distributed to
members in print form. There were some issues before my time, but I
don't think I managed to even keep the printed copies of those.
I suppose I could/should just wrap them in a tar and put it on my web
server.... I'll have to sort out including the wrapper tmac file I used
-- the primary macros were MM, but I adapted them for the newsletter with
some additions and replacements. I though I had lost it, but it seems I
did manage to keep everything, even including the SCCS files.
--
Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org>
Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods(a)robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods(a)planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods(a)avoncote.ca>
10:47 p.m.
As promised, my scanned newsletters are here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1su6vVa5vXe5FpI-4WB5AQyex_jS_t2XI?us…
Warren, please fetch them.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM Tom Lyon <pugs78(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters? I
find they make for
fascinating reading.
I haven't found any online archives.
If you have a pile, I can scan them.
I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group
newsletter, and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor"
- all from 1983/4.
Warren can hopefully find a home for these.
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