[TUHS] Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?

[ron minnich]

I was admiring this list of cool artifacts, thinking I had none, then
remembered in the corner I have a 64K PDP11 core plane, which, when it
failed, had a V6 kernel image in it.

Now, that was 50 years ago, so magnetic donuts or no, that image is long
gone, but it's still fun to think about.

Also, I have a DECTape from the late Jim McKie, somewhere, but I forget
what was on it.

I still have my "documents for use with ..." book, and the BSTJ, but so do
many of you ;-)

Finally, somewhere, I also have a budget page from a document I found in a
dumpster at Murray Hill. This would have been 2007, or so, when lots of
people were leaving and lots of offices were being "dumpster lobotomized";
I saw the doc in a dumpster and ripped out that page. It seemed of interest.


On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 18:35 Greg A. Woods <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:
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>> At Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:10:28 +1000, Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Subject: [TUHS] Re: Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?
>> >
>> > An original, hand-wire-wrapped Jerq board, later renamed Blit because of
>> > marketing. Also the original mouse, made by Prof Nicoud's lab and
>> signed by
>> > him on the bottom.
>>
>> The mice that came with the DMD-5620s, the Dépraz Mouse, "Made in
>> Switzerland" (one of mine says "Type D 85 / P") looks very similar.  I
>> have one in an original AT&T package too.
>>
>
> Ah yes. Mice. I still have two new-in-their-boxes DEC Hawley puck mice.
> VSXXX-AA, with two rollers.
>
> They kept tracking reliably whereas the ball variant always got gunked up
> and skipped, but our DEC mice tended to succumb to Nettrek disease, where
> the left button would get clicked to death, and the replacements were
> inevitably the ball version.
>
> I never managed to source a wheel version at the time to just carry with
> me. Got two years later, planning to give one to a friend a few months
> older than me for his collection. Cancer intervened and he is several years
> gone now, alas.
>
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