From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: milov@cs.uwlax.edu (=?utf-8?Q?Milo_Velimirovi=C4=87?=) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:10:41 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] First Unix that could run on a PDP-11 with QBUS In-Reply-To: References: <20140728132717.73DD218C0B2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Jul 28, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Dave Horsfall 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