From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF0F215DF for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:23:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C37042A42; Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:23:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-pl1-x632.google.com (mail-pl1-x632.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::632]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75C84428CB for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:23:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pl1-x632.google.com with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-20b90984971so1608785ad.3 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:23:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20230601; t=1727659393; x=1728264193; darn=tuhs.org; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=n78MWmtglkCsbvy9bYPqv4LfMkjGgT+IRfAbVGa3fMw=; b=HtahC7+rYriFmJyO5wHcgZlWxVh21TVW/AF8MbJGJNBquqETefj0AJKr8Cv4uCgAbu I51plO/wV6Eog+KANVW/NiP6lhn46QC/q8nng6yCU+5TTSs7LDk2RRng0SFGj+MVBfOT jHIZPJ4wZZDU2B+eYaNF6jCWoe5avDLx8cOPCVLEvapFdxpr2Kkrj35JVkOCPO74J4dh WWjCSlhu9MGHdhR7UFIJNAsV9CPVwfzb+pFZpj1Qn3BkwT08JpjHq421mtSRQoCEJli8 qakPjTGuXEIeBVuy2gR/kO/AudczHlu7aeisbv1vN2IxRl0otFe4MpT7IHrFP40a9ipZ noxw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1727659393; x=1728264193; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=n78MWmtglkCsbvy9bYPqv4LfMkjGgT+IRfAbVGa3fMw=; b=q5c0WcsVQ0GX2ZyhPJ2Hdj2xpJQPOM/Kmcig/SFCh1oe/vY30Rt2auKUcOLpK2EeEJ XSecJZHUCCnHgRhaTYJL+8cwp38+Idov+bJ5oq1mqmOZjcH1+S1w4dXa0eZGwUISIDOB QCO5Q9xdFSmap09fJa7aSneoSqra/pTQTZ3nrx/sH+TfZI6d2xdkwdVSOMKCfaMdap5g 2Ion7rnOvTIDBO3PpTIrQKOhS5+Fj/oHIaiyw2jxzKSH9LNIzjsA/uIbfmMiybyPEuPg WRUtvyoeVnWZZHoxM20zBW3TyhyWMc3YLsxhHqA/HY6Yh4WLLrT93V5nTCHqYNGnF9v3 rGhg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yw8ay3Rk1h4OEGk9g1iG9fVPy82MJD5m7prdF2IEWN8/gbt+FpT xpsZz0mOHCxemD0TCM2diEHNGdcOCdWPlhpU1x7oMKIQ1k/GXiQMWnykNuMJkJWJACyFYsOIF9G O8A8yeCAu45A1FQ5zn1rXygR9hgepKA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IEf+Zq3I9LkBEsI8DBiXw8aRQumfwCQNesLlRa88y8mMv1jl4EIb+9DMo0tUJJemZnVjSpOOXOztff8PXZTfLs= X-Received: by 2002:a17:903:1c4:b0:20b:9698:a234 with SMTP id d9443c01a7336-20b9698a5a1mr1089545ad.8.1727659392899; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:23:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Ed Bradford Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:22:36 -0500 Message-ID: To: Douglas McIlroy Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000068252406234c0c3f" Message-ID-Hash: 63B6JBYSTXCLR7KF5KODNEXWF4HEGQ4P X-Message-ID-Hash: 63B6JBYSTXCLR7KF5KODNEXWF4HEGQ4P X-MailFrom: egbegb2@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: TUHS main list X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fwd: Trove of CSTR's List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --00000000000068252406234c0c3f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Who is/was the professional archivist and where is/was the collection last seen? Do you have any ideas? Ed On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 9:12=E2=80=AFAM Douglas McIlroy < douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote: > > I wonder what happened to the amazing library at Murray Hill. > > Last I knew, the Bell Labs archives were intact under supervision of a > professional archivist. Formally speaking, the archives and the library > were distinct entities. The library, which was open to self service 24 > hours a day, declined rapidly after the bean counters decreed that it > should henceforth support itself on rental fees. Departments immediately > turned to buying books rather than borrowing them. It's very likely that > this was bad for the Labs' bottom line, but the cost (both monetary and > intellectual) was not visible as a budgetary line item. > > The 24-hour library contributed to one of Ken's programming feats. Spurre= d > by a lunchtime remark that it would be nice to have a unit-conversion > program, Ken announced units(1) the next morning. Right from the start, t= he > program knew more than 200 units, thanks to a book Ken grabbed from the > library in the middle of the night. > > Doug > --=20 Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. Cicero --00000000000068252406234c0c3f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Who is/was the professional archivist and where is/was the col= lection last seen?
Do you have any ideas?

Ed


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On Sun, Sep= 29, 2024 at 9:12=E2=80=AFAM Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> I wonder what happened to the amazing libr= ary at Murray Hill.

Last I knew, the B= ell Labs archives were intact under supervision of a professional archivist= . Formally speaking, the archives and the library were distinct entities. T= he library, which was open to self service 24 hours a day, declined rapidly= after the bean counters decreed that it should henceforth support itself o= n rental fees. Departments immediately turned to buying books rather than b= orrowing them. It's very likely that this was bad for the Labs' bot= tom line, but the cost (both monetary and intellectual) was not visible as = a budgetary line item.

The 24-hour library contrib= uted to one of Ken's programming feats. Spurred by a lunchtime remark t= hat it would be nice to have a unit-conversion program, Ken announced units= (1) the next morning. Right from the start, the program knew more than 200 = units, thanks to a book Ken grabbed from the library in the middle of the n= ight.

Doug


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