[TUHS] Old UNIX newsletters?

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 9:30 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> > Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters?  I find they make for
> > fascinating reading.
> > I haven't found any online archives.
> > If you have a pile, I can scan them.
> >
> > I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group
> newsletter,
> > and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor" - all from
> > 1983/4.
>
> Great, thank you.
>
> Also looking for USG newsletters, and UKUUG newsletters from the 1970s
> and 1980s.
>
> "The first issue of the monthly UNIX Newsletter was published in
> January 1974 and was edited by Joe Maranzano.
> ...
> the newsletter's name was changed to Minisystems Newsletter but was
> still published by USG."
> Pirzada
> A Statistical Examination of The Evolution of the UNIX System
> p 36-37
>
> "agenda of the UNIX/MERT Users Meeting held February 24, 1977, printed
> in the January 1977 issue of the Mini-System Newsletter, circulated
> within Bell Laboratories"
> UUCP history described by Brian Redman in
> Kochan & Wood - UNIX Networking, p 6-7
>
> "In December 1976, the first UK UNIVERSITIES UNIX NEWSLETTER appeared.
> ...
> In the UK, Alistair Kilgour of Glasgow, circulated a letter in
> March 1977, suggesting the formation of a UK Unix Users Group as a DECUS
> UK SIG.  There was a Unix colloquium in Glasgow on 27 May 1977,
> "attended by about 40 people," and the first few issues of the Unix
> Newsletter were duplicated and mailed by DECUS UK."
> Peter H. Salus - The Importance of the Users in UNIX/Linux History
> AUUG 2001 Conference Proceedings
> https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA7>


I think you'll find many of the earliest newsletters just photocopied other
interesting newsletters for some of ther editions... and then a few isdues
later, the editors have discovered copyright law and issue mea culpas...

Having said that, i hope many of the lost newsletters being sought are
found since it wasn't all like that.

Warner

>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20250628/565ed855/attachment.htm>