[TUHS] Photo of old Unix manuals

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Sunday, December 28th, 2025 at 13:44, Brian "Beej" Hall via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I'm looking for an impressive photograph of a bookshelf containing the
> Unix man page books. (I remember when I had an AT&T Unix PC it had a
> bunch of them. Not sure which weighed more--the PC or the books. Sadly I
> no longer possess it.)
> 
> In the first week of the OS class I'm teaching, I talk about the
> different sections of the Unix manual and I thought it would be fun to
> show the students what it was like when you had to read "books". :)
> 
> My searching is turning up nothing. Does anyone have one they wouldn't
> mind me sharing?
> 
> -Beej
> 
> --
> Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall
> beej at beej.us https://beej.us/

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but here are some of my UNIX shelves: https://imgur.com/a/0XawAnx

First image is V6 (+BTL Lions Commentary), V7, 3.0, 4.1, 5.0 (BTL), and early standards (/usr/group, SVID 1, X/Open, POSIX draft) and SVID 2-based User's Manual.

Second image is 5.0 (WECo), SVR1 (+WWB), 4.2BSD, 4.3BSD, and SVR4.

If you are looking for a particular staging I can set up specific entries for a "group photo", I've also got 4.1 and 4.4BSD sets as well as a smattering of SVR2 stuff, other X/Open, POSIX, and SVID issues, etc.

- Matt G.