[TUHS] Possible way to get more old unix source

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Aug 10 05:42:09 AEST 2014


On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, John Cowan wrote:

> In my (non-Bell-Labs) experience, most of that paper went straight into 
> a large trash can standing next to the terminal, unless there was some 
> reason to save a particular stretch of it.  (TTY paper was unpaginated 
> rolls of yellow paper, but later devices like the DECwriter used 
> fan-folded line printer paper.)

And of course the silverfish were very happy.  Does microfiche have a 
lifetime?

> Barry thirteen gules and argent on a canton azure fifty mullets of five
> points of the second,  six, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, and six.
>         --blazoning the U.S. flag

Love it!  One of my interests is blazoning.

-- Dave



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