5 Dec
2023
5 Dec
'23
3:12 a.m.
Something seems to have slipped through my recordkeeping, someone on list had spoken up
with an interest in a free set of vintage V7 manual binders I got in a set of stuff from
MIT Lincoln Labs. If you originally spoke up I'm sorry I've misplaced the email
in which you sent me your shipping address. I've still got the binders and am finally
in a place I can focus on putting my next post-office trip together. I'm a
non-vehiculite so I tend to hold until I've got a few things to mail before packing a
bag to carry down to the post-office.
I do intend to make good on sending this to the first person that had spoken up last time
(and I think you're the only person that bit) but if it gets to be several weeks out
and I haven't heard from you (but have heard from anyone else) it may find a
different destination. I'll give a few weeks though, not trying to rescind this and
hand it to someone else instead.
By the by just a reminder that this isn't a completely stock V7 manual, the Volume 1
manpages have a few additions such as the RAND editor and some other odds and ends. IIRC
the only base page that has been replaced (as opposed to added pages) should be od(1).
- Matt G.
P.S. Just to raise the awareness for the more collector-y types, it looks like there is a
relatively thorough SVR4 (blue books) manual set bumping around on eBay right now. The
catch, it's going for $1,500, which as an owner of a comparable subset and some
they're missing, I feel that is overkill and then some...but I don't understand
nor want to understand the collector market. Anywho, if this is something your library is
burning to include and you're looking to make a donation to that person's
retirement fund...then they're up and ripe for the taking. In any case, this set is
not complete, not that they're implying that, but I could only really see selling a
truly, verifiably complete collection for that sort of asking price. These are a mismash
of 3B and 386 versions and the set is missing some odds and ends like the master index,
SVID, and any ABI documents.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204564417674