Re: unix tex tape from 1980s?

Hi Karl,

I bet barbara beeton would know.

Tom

> On May 8, 2026, at 18:21, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFJust wondering ... if anyone happens to have the contents of a Un=
ix TeX
> tape (probably not the actual tape :) from the 1980s, could you let me
> know? Or any of the other distribution tapes from that era, e.g., those
> sent out by Maria Code from Stanford.
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> Although saildart.org contains a lot of development files, and
> tug.org/historic (systems/unix) contains many older individual released
> files, like tex.web and mf.web, I haven't found any general
> distributions from earlier than about 1989.
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> ftp://labrea.stanford.edu is apparently unreachable now, but I don't
> remember there being 1980s-vintage stuff there either.
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> Thanks,
> Karl