[TUHS] UNIX Reference Card (Was: Vi Quick Reference card for 4.4 BSD)

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 at 20:42, Jonathan Gray via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 10:32:25AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> 
> > Also, while looking for the vi cards, I turned up two wonderful artifacts
> > that I'll try to get scanned and added to TUHS at some point. When you
> > purchased V7 from AT&T, you got one copy of the printed docs and a small
> > "purple/red" 9"x3.5" flip-binding reference card that Lorinda Cherry
> > compiled. Also, when DEC released V7M-11, they printed a small flip-binding
> > 8"x4" reference called the "programmers guide" [AA-X7978-1C]—which is
> > similar but different.
> 
> 
> Was the first edition also distributed to V6 licensees?
> 
> --
> 
> UNIX Reference Card - First Edition
> L. L. Cherry
> September, 1975
> A handy guide to UNIX commands and syntax.
> 
> mentioned in:
> tuhs Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v10/v10src.tar.bz2
> v10/doc/bibliog.a unpm-docs
> 
> --
> 
> UNIX Reference Card
> distributed by
> Computing Information Service
> BELL LABORATORIES
> Murray Hill, N. J. 07974
> compiled by Lorinda Cherry
> Second Edition, March 1979
> 
> incomplete scan, some pages missing:
> http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/idus/idus00.pdf
> via http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/notes/unix_notes_1_19.htm
> 
> CHM has a copy, not currently scanned
> https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102632799/
> 
> spiral bound
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/n1kdo/53136436051
> comb bound
> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/bell-laboratories-unix-memorabilia-3759802979

Ah shoot, I actually have an unknown-generations-removed photocopy of this V6 flipbook, I should scan that.

For the record, among the Release 4.0 documents I scanned for Arnold Robbins is that release's issue of this flipbook (I think they're genetically linked anyway): https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/Unix_4.0/UNIX_Reference_Guide.pdf

- Matt G.