[AUUG-Talk]: Issues of AUUGN from Vol 1 No 1 onwards available

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Fri Sep 29 01:58:07 EST 2006


On 2006-09-28, Steve Landers wrote:
> On 28/09/2006, at 7:32 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 
>> Whilst looking for a recent AUUGN (see thread about
>> membership renewal if you're terminally curious/bored) mine
>> eyes espied a pile of old AUUGNs, from Vol 1 No 1 (October
>> 1978) to Vol 3 No 6 (Aug/Sep 1981).  And I know I have the
>> rest of them somewhere, but they're probably packed away.
>> 
>> It contains the famous Thrust Meter, a few papers by Yours
>> Truly, and I think it has the short assembly program that
>> would bring a PDP-11/70 to its knees (the infamous "SPL"
>> firmware bug).
>> 
>> Free to an *organisation* that can use them, on condition
>> they never get chucked out and are available for viewing
>> (even if as a PDF).  I'll make this offer to the TUHS/PUPS
>> people as well.
> 
> Doesn't have to be either/or - if we can find volunteers to do the  
> scanning then our interest would be primarily PDF with a view to  
> making them available via the new website.  Having the originals with  
> TUHS makes sense as well.

Oh dear, does this mean that we don't have them in electronic
form any longer?

Cheers, Greg




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