[TUHS] UNIX Reference Card

Warren Toomey via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Wed Jan 7 13:10:55 AEST 2026


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.

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 02:39:54AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> This is now scanned, albeit from a photocopy unknown generations removed
> and without covers or title page.  It ain't great but should be good
> enough until a real one gets scanned without generational fuzz.
> 
> https://archive.org/details/unix-reference-card-first-edition
> 
> The references in the end date this to the Sixth Edition.  There is a
> blacked-out bit in the TROFF User's Manual reference, I can't quite make
> it out, it was in previous generations of whatever scan this came from
> but I can make out a 127 and a 4 I believe, it's probably a crossed out
> memorandum number.

I've just added it to the Archive here:

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Cards/

Thanks! Warren


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