Co-authors for Unix history paper?

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Header:	From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199901190208.NAA02324@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Co-authors for Unix history paper? To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Unix Heritage Society) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:08:22 +1100 (EST) Reply-To: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk
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Body:	Hi all, I recently approached the IEEE Annals of Computing History journal to see if they would be interested in a paper on our efforts to find and preserve the old versions of Unix. They said yes, so I was wondering if anybody might want to be co-author. This is what I suggested: > I'd like to write an article which describes the efforts to find and > preserve historical material which is related to UNIX. This includes > finding tapes, reading them, decoding their formats etc. > > The article would also discuss the mechanisms available for running > these old UNIX systems: by using old hardware (and the difficulties > of maintaining such equipment), by using software emulators (and > possibly a discussion of what they provide). > > In other words, the actual history of UNIX and its influence would not > be covered, but the `archaeology' and preservation of artifacts from > the early days of UNIX would be. Given that there are people on the list who deal with old hardware, reading ancient tapes, etc., I thought they might like to add some input to the paper. I think the paper size is limited to around 25-30 pages, and has be formal in tone. If anybody has any suggestions as to what should go in (or even wants to write a section), then I would welcome some email! Cheers all, Warren P.S I'm giving a similar, but much more informal, paper at a local conference next month. The paper is at: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Seminars/Saving_Unix/