From an internal $WORK chat: The ACM Digital Library now offers access to ~50 years of papers/records without paywall or registration: https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-… This includes Dennis Ritchie & Ken Thompson's seminal 1974 "The UNIX Time-Sharing System" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357980.358014) an interview with one Steve Jobs from 1989 ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/63334.63336) where he discusses basing NeXTSTEP on "Berkeley UNIX" (aka BSD) + Mach and how the (previous year's) Morris Worm "isn't a really serious problem", and goes all the way back to 1951's paper on the UNIVAC ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1434770.1434772)