[TUHS] Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?

[Brantley Coile]

My tattered, original, blue BSTJ from 1978, the first UNIX issue would me my prized UNIX artifact.

I got it in 1980. The day after it arrived my wife and father-in-law went to some fancy shopping places in Atlanta as a treat, but I sat in the car reading the issue. 

I remember reading Ken's paper on how Unix worked internally and not understanding a thing. A few years later, after things like our Kernel Club, a meeting every Wednesday night of a few friends where we would read and discuss sections of the Seventh Edition source, I re-read the article and thought ti was clarity itself. Something the text doesn't change but we do.

I read it so much it fell apart. It now lives in a ring binder, its pages have been punched. I've not stopped using

Brantley Coile

> On Jun 6, 2025, at 2:09 PM, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> As someone who has been quite attentive to the documentation situation with UNIX, I've managed to build out a pretty appreciable library of historic works.  Among my most treasured bits are my 3B20S Release 4.1 manual and Bell Labs copies of the Lions's Commentary.
> 
> What do folks have around that you're particularly thrilled to have among your UNIX-y possessions?
> 
> - Matt G.