Spotted this this morning:
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/186172178090](https://www.ebay.com/itm/18617217809…
After the link is a "Western Electric 3B2 Model 300 C Programming Language
Manual". The manual is from Februrary of 1984 and is of the same visual motif as the
System V manuals for the 3B5 as well as DWB documentation released at the time, this motif
being a small grey binder with a large orange square in the middle (as opposed to small
grey binders with the AT&T death star motif that were contemporary to this time as
well.) After these two cover styles, which follow the grid patterns System V original
documentation, ATTIS then switches to the red covers that are seen throughout the rest of
the 80s until the blue SVR4 books and the kinda criss-crossy grid pattern found on their
late 80s stuff (not just UNIX, I've seen a similar motif on documentation shipped
with AT&T telephones of the period, but in grey)
Interestingly, despite the date, it is still labeled Western Electric, which is strange
because the 3B5 manual I have is from 1983 I'm fairly certain but doesn't have
"Western Electric" on the cover. Maybe there were mixed stocks of the
professionally printed binder covers from the 1982-1984 timeframe with and without WECo
branding at the same time.
In any case, this one is still in the plastic and even has the 5 1/2 floppies with the SGS
and other C support bits (and AT&T death star logos.) I don't plan on getting
this as it's just a pinch later than where my focus is right now, but figured
I'd mention it on list in case someone is looking for something like this. I got
everything I needed from the pictures.
- Matt G.