[TUHS] Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday,  6 June 2025 at 18:09:57 +0000, The UNIX Heritage Society wrote:

> What do folks have around that you're particularly thrilled to have
> among your UNIX-y possessions?

It's interesting to read the other replies.  Let's see:

- UNIX registration plate.  Yes, one of the very last, with COMPAQ
  written on it.  I picked it up at the USENIX ATC in Boston, 2001.

- Lions Commentary.  Yes, I got a copy of it some time round 1990, and
  sadly lost it again.  But then Warren Toomey posted the TeX sources
  of a scanned version on alt.foklore.computers in May 1994, and I
  formatted them put them up on the web at
  http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/, where they're still
  accessible.

- Lots of other books.  Where do I start?  I have two bookshelves full
  of books, but none that I'd consider "most prized".  I have two
  copies of "The Magic Garden Explained" by Berny Goodheart (who
  didn't sign his copy) and James Cox (who did).  This book is
  interesting because it grew out of the environment in which I had
  worked at Tandem Computers.

- What I *do* have and "prize" is mainly hardware.  To the right of my
  desktop I have, in increasing order of rarity, a microVAX that I
  think runs some version of Unix, a Control Data Cyber 910 that ran
  Irix 5.2 and a Tandem LXN (based on a Motorola 68020) that ran
  System V.2.  I think the LXN might be the only one that still
  exists.  Its name was solo (only 1 CPU) in contrast with our "real"
  Unix box, a Tandem Integrity S2 which had 3 lock-step processors and
  was thus called trio.  The Magic Garden contains a reference
  *somewhere* to a machine called quattro, for reason that evade me,
  but were clearly intended to fit into this naming scheme.

Greg
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