[nycbug-talk] [OT] Does anyone have any pictures or physical copies of dead tree unix manuals?

Thomas Kula kula at tproa.net
Wed Dec 19 12:10:15 EST 2012


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:48:47AM -0500, Justin Dearing wrote:
> 
>    Hey all,
> 
>    Today  I  realized  there  are  no  pictures  of  unix  manuals on the
>    wikipedia man entry ([1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page). Google
>    images doesn't have much either.
> 
>    Twice  in my life have I seen real unix manuals. One was for some AT&T
>    flavor  and  one  was for AUX. In both cases they were in binders that
>    were  of executive paper size or smaller. I believe the AT&T ones were
>    grey with blue writing and the A/UX ones were red with black or gold.
> 
>    If anyone has actual dead tree copies can they take pictues and uplaod
>    them to wikimedia, or flickr-CC before these peices of history all get
>    thrown away?

I just looked in our catalog, and I think we've got some in
the Columbia libraries. I'll wander over to the Engineering
Library this afternoon and snap some pictures.


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