On 05/08/2018 12:23 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s, > and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code > for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source code > for old news *readers*. > > I'm looking especially for nn, which was my go-to at the time. The oldest > version I've found so far is nn 6.4, which is too big to compile on a > 3B2/400. If I could get my hands on 6.1 or earlier, I think I'd have a good > chance. > > I also found that trn 3.6 from 1994 works well enough, though it is fairly > bloated. Earlier versions of that might be better. > > Does anyone have better Google-fu than I do? Or perhaps you've got earlier > sources squirreled away? > > As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you > using? > >
Have you tried looking at the archives of things like comp.sources.unix or the other comp.sources groups? First news server I used was on a 3B2 back in the early 80's. bill
