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