[TUHS] V9 Bits (was On computerese)

[Steve Nickolas]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> V9 you say...does your setup happen to have the on-line manpages by
>> any chance?  I don't think a surviving copy is in the TUHS archive.
>> V9 is a tad bit fragmentary in the archive at present from what I can
>> tell, it may be worth seeing if anything you have fills in blanks.
>
> I have real Bell Labs V8 and V9 manuals. The former is comb-bound like
> the System III manual, and was a gift obtained via BWK. I paid $50
> for the latter; I remember exhchanging email with Doug about getting
> it. He said something like "I have to check if we can sell one to you." :-)
> This was circa 1993, I don't remember exactly.
>
> The V9 manual is perfect bound.  I'd offer it for scanning, except
> that that would mean destroying the binding, which I'm very loath
> to do.
>
> Arnold

A big reason why I hate perfect-bound books.

Most of the books, though, I have that _aren't_ perfect-bound are 
religious in nature.

-uso.