29 Jun
2025
29 Jun
'25
3:36 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 9:30 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg(a)jsg.id.au> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Tom Lyon
wrote:
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
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>