On Fri, Jun 6, 2025, 12:10 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote: My AIX yoyo. And a bootleg copy of lions. Warner

I don't know if it counts but my ninth printing of the first edition of 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘕𝘐𝘟 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 - 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘐𝘐 - 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱, 𝘮𝘷, 𝘮𝘴 & 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘧 is a favorite as it makes me remember being young and wanting to learn more about computers and is still useful today. It's a hardback copy with a very slightly damaged spine but that aside, looks almost new. As an art & design guy, I love the AT&T logo of the time which appears twice in the first few printed pages. It still has a McGraw Hill bookstore price sticker for $31.95 on the back cover. I love it anyway! Cameron Tyre -------- Original Message -------- On 06/06/2025 19:10, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:

It appears that segaloco via TUHS <segaloco(a)protonmail.com> said: The license plate A photo of a UNIX brand fire extinguisher. A first edition of "UNIX for Dummies" (no surprise there) R's, John

Most prized would definitely be what I *think* are "original" copies of the Lions books. I say "think" because they were given to me by John Bruno, who I know did time at Murray Hill before he came to UCSB. (Any OGs on this list remember him?) The source code has a pink cover and the notes has a gold one. Provenance aside, they're special to me since that's the first deep dive I ever took into an operating system. Something like 90% of the lines in the source volume have my handwritten notes, documenting a herculean attempt to Think Like Ken™ Many of my second-tier U-keepsakes got fobbed off on you lot* when I cleared out my office a few years back. Still have the license plate and the RTFM wooden coin... Cheers, /Frew *Apologies to those of you who gave me non-US addresses: shipping stuff internationally was just too painful and $$$. On 2025-06-06 11:09 AM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:

For me the two-volume book "UNIX System Readings and Applications", published by Prentice Hall in 1987 and 1988, which are reprints of the two Unix special issues of the The Bell System Technical Journal: - Vol. 57, No. 6, July-August 1978 (ISBN 0-13-939845-7), - Vol. 63, No. 8, October 1984 (ISBN 0-13-939845-7). They contain seminal papers describing Unix and its tools. Diomidis - https://www.spinellis.gr/ On 06-Jun-25 21:09, segaloco via TUHS wrote: situation with UNIX, I've managed to build out a pretty appreciable library of historic works. Among my most treasured bits are my 3B20S Release 4.1 manual and Bell Labs copies of the Lions's Commentary. among your UNIX-y possessions?

My tattered, original, blue BSTJ from 1978, the first UNIX issue would me my prized UNIX artifact. I got it in 1980. The day after it arrived my wife and father-in-law went to some fancy shopping places in Atlanta as a treat, but I sat in the car reading the issue. I remember reading Ken's paper on how Unix worked internally and not understanding a thing. A few years later, after things like our Kernel Club, a meeting every Wednesday night of a few friends where we would read and discuss sections of the Seventh Edition source, I re-read the article and thought ti was clarity itself. Something the text doesn't change but we do. I read it so much it fell apart. It now lives in a ring binder, its pages have been punched. I've not stopped using Brantley Coile

Despite many rounds of cleanup, and one pretty big fire, I still have and cherish [at least one of] my “Mentally Contaminated” pins. I may have some books that were elsewhere at the time of the fire, but it’s down to the pin. Of the stuff I lost, I’m missing the two NeXT Cubes the most. :( -=erik. On 6 Jun 2025, at 11:09, segaloco via TUHS wrote:

Segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote: Gosh, where to start? Both Unix issues of the Bell System Technical Journal, in pretty good shape. Real Bell Labs V8 and V9 manuals, and the published V10 manuals. A first generation photocopy of the USG UNIX 4.0 documents (which Segaloco scanned a while back) with a UNIX 3.0 reference manual. The published version (manuals, CD, floppy) of Plan 9, 3rd edition. First edition awk book signed by all three authors. Both editions of the C book, signed by both authors. All other books by BWK autographed by him. Jon Bentley's books, autographed by him. Rob Pike's signature on one or both of the books he coauthored with BWK. The Design of 4.3 BSD book signed by the authors. A "Sex, Drugs, and UNIX" button, but not the very first one, I think. The PDP-11 with the daemons on it T-shirt, from I think the USENIX 25th anniversary conference. I sent BWK the "UNIX" pens some years go which show up in his memoir about Unix. I didn't keep any for myself. Oh well. That's from memory, I'd have to go browsing the bookshelves in my basement and my closet for more... :-) Arnold

On Friday, 6 June 2025 at 18:09:57 +0000, The UNIX Heritage Society wrote: It's interesting to read the other replies. Let's see: - UNIX registration plate. Yes, one of the very last, with COMPAQ written on it. I picked it up at the USENIX ATC in Boston, 2001. - Lions Commentary. Yes, I got a copy of it some time round 1990, and sadly lost it again. But then Warren Toomey posted the TeX sources of a scanned version on alt.foklore.computers in May 1994, and I formatted them put them up on the web at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/, where they're still accessible. - Lots of other books. Where do I start? I have two bookshelves full of books, but none that I'd consider "most prized". I have two copies of "The Magic Garden Explained" by Berny Goodheart (who didn't sign his copy) and James Cox (who did). This book is interesting because it grew out of the environment in which I had worked at Tandem Computers. - What I *do* have and "prize" is mainly hardware. To the right of my desktop I have, in increasing order of rarity, a microVAX that I think runs some version of Unix, a Control Data Cyber 910 that ran Irix 5.2 and a Tandem LXN (based on a Motorola 68020) that ran System V.2. I think the LXN might be the only one that still exists. Its name was solo (only 1 CPU) in contrast with our "real" Unix box, a Tandem Integrity S2 which had 3 lock-step processors and was thus called trio. The Magic Garden contains a reference *somewhere* to a machine called quattro, for reason that evade me, but were clearly intended to fit into this naming scheme. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog(a)lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php

I still have deep regrets about giving my IBM 6152 "crossbow" microchannel card away when I handed off the rest of my IBM RT gear; it was going to an exhibit of other RT hardware with Pick OS in Ohio which I understand to have subsequently been disbanded; I didn't have space for the 6150 towers or the 6151 slabs, but the 6152 was a card I could have kept for future times (despite never having had the right PS/2 to put it in) if I had known it wasn't going to be displayed. The goal has been to acquire a second and then go through the pain of setting up two of them in a PS/2, running AOS4 as I assume the 4.4BSD-almost port probably wasn't going to work. On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote: -- Daria Phoebe Brashear AuriStor, Inc dariaphoebe.com