Re: [TUHS] UNIX NEWS and ; login: archives, particularly from 1975-1978

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.h… 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 <info(a)usenix.org> 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