From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 10:54:24 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Possible way to get more old unix source In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140809145424.GB13364@mercury.ccil.org> 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.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Barry thirteen gules and argent on a canton azure fifty mullets of five points of the second, six, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, and six. --blazoning the U.S. flag