[TUHS] First Unix that could run on a PDP-11 with QBUS
Milo Velimirović
milov at cs.uwlax.edu
Tue Jul 29 23:10:41 AEST 2014
On Jul 28, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
[snip]
> There was a project a few years ago to scan all issues of AUUGN
> (Australian Unix Users Group Newsletter); the last I heard was that all
> issues had been obtained, and handed over to some Google mob for
> archiving. Apparently the scanning process is destructive but makes for
> an ideal copy for as many as you like. The originals, being up to 40
> years or so old, would have been in bad shape anyway.
Sounds like what Vernor Vinge was describing in 'Rainbows End' -- a cautionary tale for librarians about destructive digitization/digitisation, among other themes.
- Milo
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