[TUHS] VAX System V

[John D. Bruner via TUHS]

George Goble at Purdue (who, sadly, recently passed away) had an Indiana UNIX license plate. I don't recall when he got it, but I believe it was the late 70's or early 80's.

--John

On Friday, June 12th, 2026 at 07:16, Tom Lyon via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> Bill Shannon had the real New Hampshire UNIX plates at the time of moving
> to California/Sun in 1982.  He upgraded to VMUNIX in California.
> Photo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QSGYnuxhfvBk1ZUc9
> 
> But maybe after Armando.  Or did Armando have the Massachusett plate?
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 7:02 AM Ron Natalie via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> > To my knowledge, there were only two issues of licenses.   The original
> > Armando ones that say UNIX with Live Free or Die and Unix is a
> > Trademark,
> > and the later ULTRIX ones (I have them both).   If there were others, I
> > somehow missed them.
> >
> > Armando related a story that he had the actual NH UNIX vanity plate on
> > the rear of his car and a DEC one on the front (complete with the
> > license expiration tabs).
> > The front one went missing for a while, and when he inquired, many
> > people wrote to him saying they hadn’t seen it in various parts of the
> > country remote from NH.
> > I think he eventually got it back.     Isn’t Armando kicking around
> > here?
> >
> >
>