8 Apr
2017
8 Apr
'17
3:46 p.m.
On 7 Apr 2017, at 03:00, tuhs-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org
wrote:
That's a good point Josh. I've been trying to find copies of UKUUG and
EUUG newsletters to add to the archive, along with the AUUG newsletters.
So if you're on this list and outside of the US, now is the time to
speak up with anecotes etc. Oh, and if you have anything worth adding
to the Unix Archive, please let me know
Sheesh! Where to begin....
When I lived in Aus my wife and I were very close friends with John and Marrion. When he
passed away, Marrion asked me to clean up his office at UNSW and collect anything of
importance. Suffice to say I collected an awful lot of extremely important Unix
memorabilia including copies of his books and his first original copy with hand written
editing and signed by both Ken and Dennis. There's also the original Unix licenses
signed off by BWK. There is so much stuff I can't list it all here but it's
boxes (emphasing plural). When I left Aus I brought all this stuff for safe keeping back
to the UK. That was 1996. Some time ago, I think at leat 15 years past I was in contact
with someone from AUUG (grog may recall) hoping that they would send to collect it all but
nothing happened. I also spoke to Armando about all this stuff he suggested a few things
but even USENIX group weren't interested. So here I am with all this important
stuff.....I would dearly love to hand it off. However I want some sort of guarantee that
it would be housed somewhere safe for prosperity and not eventually ending up on eBay...if
you know what I mean.
As to AUUGN...well one of the boxes contains just about every copy of the newsletter that
was published since issue 1 through to the 1996 editions.
Warren please email me if you want to discuss further.
Cheers
Berny
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