Rob RicciNov 6

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

Show threadclewNov 6

“See manual for format”!

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Show threadadbNov 6
@clew @ricci Unix was the peak of the lost culture in which you got manuals with stuff.
Show threadclewNov 6

I was around for the switch from print to CD documentation

I think I remember a… 1990s mainframe? that came with a bookcase to hold the manuals. Same paint as on the mainframe.

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Show threadGarrett Wollman
@clew @adb @ricci DEC machines of the late 1980s, and probably other vendors' big iron as well, came on two pallets, one or more for the chassis and a whole separate pallet of documentation. Along with the classic empty filler boxes to adjust the weight distribution.
Nov 7 at 12:28amTusky
Show threadRob HooftNov 7
@wollman @clew @adb @ricci “The orange wall”, with some version upgrade (was it VMS5 ) became a “grey wall”. I can still feel the binders in my hands…