Early UNIX history

A project to transcribe and organize documents relating to early UNIX history, focusing on the first users before V7, from 1969 to around 1976.

• UNIX News and ;login: (1975–2020): the USENIX newsletter/magazine, the first newsletter for UNIX
• Australian UNIX Users Group Newsletter (1978–2004): the first Australian newsletter for UNIX
• Many documents relating to early UNIX users
• UNIX license agreements
• UNIX manuals: currently only a manual before V1, re-transcribed with the original whitespace and formatting

Other documents to do:

• The Bell System Technical Journal
• "UNIX Time-Sharing System: A Retrospective". Dennis Ritchie. Tenth Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences, Honolulu, January 1977
• $ echo newsletter, published by AT&T Software Sales and Licensing for licensees of System V

Many thanks to Jonathan Gray for his assistance tracking down sources on early UNIX users. This project inspired his unix-licensees project and his, in turn, has broadened my search.

License

Commentary is copyright Thalia Archibald and released under a BSD-3-Clause license. The sources transcribed and excerpted are copyright their authors. Snippets of UNIX source code are released under a BSD-4-Clause license.