From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Possible way to get more old unix source
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 10:54:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140809145424.GB13364@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N4wZqC06Atki0qPTHYGdZJRoMwqAuw+8cV7rzKP6YuT6w@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Longridge scripsit:
> Ok, I was just thinking that we have a lack of Unix version 5 (and
> older) source code but since the Unix v5 era was the era of
> teletypewriters perhaps there could be a stockpile of old teletype
> printouts somewhere. Assuming they didn't run out of paper all the
> time there would have been an automatic record generated of everything
> Thompson and Ritchie did. Some of those printouts must have been kept
> somewhere.
In my (non-Bell-Labs) experience, most of that paper went straight into
a large trash can standing next to the terminal, unless there was some
reason to save a particular stretch of it. (TTY paper was unpaginated
rolls of yellow paper, but later devices like the DECwriter used
fan-folded line printer paper.)
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2014-08-09 14:43 Mark Longridge
2014-08-09 14:54 ` John Cowan [this message]
2014-08-09 19:42 ` Dave Horsfall
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