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

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Sunday, January 4th, 2026 at 00:29, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> 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.

Found it, my copy appears to be the first issue (V6 era rather than V7), predating the scan above.  Two standard punch holes are visible in the top edge of the printout, presumably the original was bound with a couple of brads in a flipbook.

I'll plan on scanning this in the coming weeks.  Unfortunately the cover and title page aren't in this copy, but I think everything else is there, the page numbers are sequential except one that coincides with what was probably a blank page in the original.

More to come.

- Matt G.