Some, the original ones that were printed and bound have not been scanned. The directory: Publications is where to start. Some of the paper are online after scanning on a case by case basis. Talk to Casey if there is a specific request, although since the Berkeley office is going to close in about 2 weeks, I don't expect they can do much for a bit. FYI: The last printed edition of *;login* went to bed last week and I believe mailed shortly thereafter. It will be electronic from now on. Clem On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:15 PM Mary Ann Horton wrote: > John, > > Does Usenix have online proceedings of the technical conferences from > the 1980s? I can't find them. > > Thanks, > > Mary Ann > > On 11/19/20 2:54 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > > While cleaning up a few shelves of old USENIX proceedings, I found a > > mysterious manila envelope full of xeroxed copies of all the original > > UNIX NEWS newsletters from 1975 thru 1977. It was renamed to ;login: > > in 1977 and has continued publication to this day. The envelope also > > contained ;login: issues v2n6 thru v3n8 (1977-1978). > > > > I scanned those all in today and put them up on my website, here: > > > > http://www.toad.com/early-usenix-newsletters/ > > > > These have not been OCR'd, and many of the pages were rotated by 90 > > degrees in the original publication, to fit two pages of typewritten > > correspondence (or recipient address lists) into one page of newsletter. > > Still, in a quick web search I was unable to find copies of these > > anywhere else, so I invested a few hours to scan them in and post them > > for historical interest. As an example, Sixth Edition (v6) UNIX was > > announced in issue number 1. > > > > These are all free to publish nowadays. USENIX was one of the first > > technical organizations to establish an Open Access policy for its > > publications, a step which distinguishes them from ACM and many academic > > publishers who favor revenue for themselves over the progress of > > science. (I voted for this policy decades ago when I was a USENIX board > > member.) This page, for example, says: > > > > > https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/schwarz > > > > "USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our > > events. Papers and proceedings are freely available to everyone once > > the event begins. Any video, audio, and/or slides that are posted > > after the event are also free and open to everyone." > > > > The ;login: archives at USENIX.org are complete from October 1997 to > today: > > > > https://www.usenix.org/publications/login > > > > Also, most but not all issues of ;login: from 1983 to 1997 have been > > scanned by USENIX and uploaded to the Internet Archive here: > > > > https://archive.org/details/usenix-login?&sort=date > > > > The USENIX Association apparently has paper copies of the stuff I > > scanned in today, but they are still trying to locate ;login: issues > > from 1979 and parts of 1980 and 1981. In addition, they are backlogged > > on scanning in their old materials (including copies of ;login: between > > 1978/09 and 1983/02). If you have old copies of ;login: that you don't > > see visible in these places, please scan them, or offer them to USENIX. > > > > Also, if you have old proceedings of USENIX conferences, there are still > > three that the USENIX staff do not have any copy of: > > > > XFree86 Technical Conference > > > https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/xfree86/ > > 2001-11-08 > > > > 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference > > > https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/als01/tech.html > > 2001-11-08 > > > > WORLDS '04 > > https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/worlds04/tech/ > > 2004-12-05 > > > > If you have any of these three, please let know. They > > also lack about twenty more for which they have posted the academic > > papers, but don't have the covers or front-matter, so if you have other > > proceedings from between 1989 and 2004 that you'd be willing to part > > with or scan, also let them know. Thanks! > > > > John > > >