Subject: Pdp8-lovers archived into 1991

From: [email-masked] (Charles Lasner)
Date: 29 Mar 1994 00:47:07 GMT

The archiving of the Pdp8-lovers list is going smoothly.  Thanks to the
combined archives of several different people, we now have a fairly
accurate copy of all of the early posts of the list for all of 1989 and
1990.  Newer posts will be added as time permits, etc.

It would appear that the mailing list has occasionally had propagation
problems, since the private archives didn't overlap 100% as would be
expected.  Some of the "outages" are coincident with certain posts
complaining about lack of activity, etc. which clearly indicate the
complaining party isn't getting what fortunately someone else *did* get!

So, if anyone wants to catch up on their reading, these early posts are
just what you need!

As usual, the files are available on sunsite.unc.edu via anonymous ftp in
the directory /pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/pdp8-lovers in
the form of monthly files from 8902.lov for February, 1989 through
9012.lov for December, 1990.  Of note is that 9003.lov is zero length, as
apparently there was no activity that month as the list was being
dismantled (the hardware it was running on was dismantled!) and it then
was reformed on another machine, etc.

cjl