From: milov@cs.uwlax.edu (Milo Velimirović)
Subject: [TUHS] First Unix that could run on a PDP-11 with QBUS
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:10:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B2DAE1EB-1D3C-4141-B9EF-0B8216171EA6@cs.uwlax.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1407290723040.4064@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Jul 28, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
[snip]
> There was a project a few years ago to scan all issues of AUUGN
> (Australian Unix Users Group Newsletter); the last I heard was that all
> issues had been obtained, and handed over to some Google mob for
> archiving. Apparently the scanning process is destructive but makes for
> an ideal copy for as many as you like. The originals, being up to 40
> years or so old, would have been in bad shape anyway.
Sounds like what Vernor Vinge was describing in 'Rainbows End' -- a cautionary tale for librarians about destructive digitization/digitisation, among other themes.
- Milo
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 13:27 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-28 22:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-29 9:46 ` Warren Toomey
2014-07-29 9:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-29 14:33 ` Clem Cole
2014-07-29 13:10 ` Milo Velimirović [this message]
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2014-07-27 5:39 Norman Wilson
2014-07-27 6:02 ` John Cowan
2014-07-27 14:10 ` Bill Pechter
2014-07-27 17:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-27 3:26 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-27 5:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-28 22:04 ` Warren Toomey
2014-07-28 22:38 ` Warner Losh
2014-07-29 9:06 ` SPC
2014-07-29 13:28 ` Clem Cole
2014-07-27 2:37 Mark Longridge
2014-07-28 15:57 ` Ron Natalie
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