[TUHS] Fwd: DKUUG, EUUG and 586 issues (3700+ pages) of Unigram-X 1988…1996

[Warren Toomey via TUHS]

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   Subject: DKUUG, EUUG and 586 issues (3700+ pages) of Unigram-X 1988…1996

(Please forward to the main TUHS list if you think it is warranted)

A brief intro:  Datamuseum.dk is a volunteer-run effort to collect,
preserve and present "The Danish IT-history".

UNIX is part of that history, but our interest is seen through the
dual prisms of "Danish IT-History" and the computers in our collection.

My own personal UNIX interest is of course much deeper and broader,
which is why I'm sending this email.

Recently we helped clean out the basement under the Danish Unix
User's Group (DKUUG) which is winding down, and we hauled of a lot
of stuff, which includes much EUUG - (European Unix Users Group)
material.

As I feed it through the scanner, the EUUG-newsletters will appear here:

	https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:Keyword/PERIODICALS/EUUG-NEWSLETTER

And proceedings from EUUG conferences (etc.) will appear here:

	https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:Keyword/DKUUG/EUUG


I also found four boxes full of "Unigram-X" newsletters.

Unigram-X was a newsletter, published weekly out of London.  A
typical issue was two yellow A3 sheets folded, or if if news was
slight, a folded A3 with an A4 insert.

… and that is just about all I know about it.

But whoever wrote it, they clearly had an amazing Rolodex.

In total there a tad more than 3700 pages of real-time news and
gossip about the UNIX world from 1986 to 1996.

It's not exactly core material for datamuseum.dk, but it is a
goldmine for UNIX history, so I have spent two full days day scanning
and getting all the pages, sorted, flipped and split into
one-year-per-pdf files.

I should warn that neither the raw material nor the scan is perfect,
but this is it, unless somebody else feels like going through it again.
(The paper stays in our collection, no rush.)

I need to go through and check for pages being upside down or out
of order, before I ingest the PDFSs into the Datamuseum.dk bitarchive,
but here is a preview:

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1986_0034_0058.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1987_0059_0108.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1988_0109_0159.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1989_0160_0211.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1990_0212_0262.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1991_0263_0313.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1992_0314_0365.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1993_0366_0416.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1994_0417_0467.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1995_0468_0518.pdf

	https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/unigram_x_1996_0519_0616.pdf

My ulterior motives for this preview are several:

If you find any out-of-order or rotated pages, please let me know.

It's not a complete collection, the following issues are missing:

	1…33 35 39…49 86…87 105 138 229 321 400 405…406 496 498
	507 520 523…524 527…528 548 613 615 617…

It would be nice to fill the holes.

As a matter of principle, we do not store OCR'ed PDF's in the
datamuseum.dk bitarchive[1], and what with me still suffering from
a job etc, I do not have the time to OCR 3700+ pages under any
circumstances.

But even the most crude and buggy OCR reading would be a great
resource to grep(1), so I'm hoping somebody else might find
the time and inclination ?

And a "best-of-unigram-x" page on the TUHS wiki may be warranted,
because there are some seriously great nuggets in there :-)

Enjoy,

Poul-Henning

[1] I'm not entertaining any arguments about this:  We're trying
    to align with best practice in historical collection world.
    The argument goes:  Unless the OCR is perfect, people will do
    a text-search, not find stuff, and conclude it is not there.
    Such interpretations of artifacts belong in peer-reviewed papers,
    so there is a name of who to blame or praise, and so that they
    can be debated & revised etc.

[2] The PDF's are archive-quality, you can extract the raw images
    from them, for instance with XPDF's "pdfimages" program.

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