[TUHS] Re: Old UNIX newsletters?

[TUHS] Re: Old UNIX newsletters?

[Warner Losh]

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 9:30 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> > Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters?  I find they make for
> > fascinating reading.
> > I haven't found any online archives.
> > If you have a pile, I can scan them.
> >
> > I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group
> newsletter,
> > and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor" - all from
> > 1983/4.
>
> Great, thank you.
>
> Also looking for USG newsletters, and UKUUG newsletters from the 1970s
> and 1980s.
>
> "The first issue of the monthly UNIX Newsletter was published in
> January 1974 and was edited by Joe Maranzano.
> ...
> the newsletter's name was changed to Minisystems Newsletter but was
> still published by USG."
> Pirzada
> A Statistical Examination of The Evolution of the UNIX System
> p 36-37
>
> "agenda of the UNIX/MERT Users Meeting held February 24, 1977, printed
> in the January 1977 issue of the Mini-System Newsletter, circulated
> within Bell Laboratories"
> UUCP history described by Brian Redman in
> Kochan & Wood - UNIX Networking, p 6-7
>
> "In December 1976, the first UK UNIVERSITIES UNIX NEWSLETTER appeared.
> ...
> In the UK, Alistair Kilgour of Glasgow, circulated a letter in
> March 1977, suggesting the formation of a UK Unix Users Group as a DECUS
> UK SIG.  There was a Unix colloquium in Glasgow on 27 May 1977,
> "attended by about 40 people," and the first few issues of the Unix
> Newsletter were duplicated and mailed by DECUS UK."
> Peter H. Salus - The Importance of the Users in UNIX/Linux History
> AUUG 2001 Conference Proceedings
> https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=xPe8dPxcU98C&pg=PA7>


I think you'll find many of the earliest newsletters just photocopied other
interesting newsletters for some of ther editions... and then a few isdues
later, the editors have discovered copyright law and issue mea culpas...

Having said that, i hope many of the lost newsletters being sought are
found since it wasn't all like that.

Warner

>

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[TUHS] Re: Old UNIX newsletters?

[Warren Toomey via TUHS]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
>    Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters?  I find they make for
>    fascinating reading.
>    I haven't found any online archives.
>    If you have a pile, I can scan them.
>    I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group
>    newsletter, and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C
>    Advisor" - all from 1983/4.
>    Warren can hopefully find a home for these.

I scanned all the AUUGNs in; they are here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/

I'm happy to take other scanned newsletters and put them in Documentation/

Thanks! Warren

[TUHS] Re: Old UNIX newsletters?

[Tom Lyon]

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As promised, my scanned newsletters are here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1su6vVa5vXe5FpI-4WB5AQyex_jS_t2XI?usp=sharing

Warren, please fetch them.

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM Tom Lyon <pugs78@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone sitting on piles of old UNIX newsletters?  I find they make for
> fascinating reading.
> I haven't found any online archives.
> If you have a pile, I can scan them.
>
> I'm going to scan my 3 copies of commUNIXations, the /usr/group
> newsletter, and 4 copies of "UNIQUE - Your independent UNIX and C Advisor"
> - all from 1983/4.
>
> Warren can hopefully find a home for these.
>
>

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[TUHS] Re: Old UNIX newsletters?

[arnold]

Johan Helsingius via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

> and /proc, , as well as meeting Eric Allman, Kirk McKusick, Andy Hume,
> Jim McKie, Jaap Akkerhuis, Brian Redman, David Tilbrook, Andrew Hume,

So which one of Andrew Hume and Andy Hume is the evil twin?  :-)

[TUHS] Re: Old UNIX newsletters?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:

> > Jim McKie, Jaap Akkerhuis, Brian Redman, David Tilbrook, Andrew Hume,
> 
> So which one of Andrew Hume and Andy Hume is the evil twin?  :-)

I knew Andrew, but never heard him called Andy...

-- Dave