16 Jan
1999
16 Jan
'99
9:22 a.m.
I have one I got at the 1983 Unicom (Usenix/Uniform) meeting.
Armando Stetner of DEC was giving them out to celebrate DECs
decision to support their version of Unix (became Ultrix).
The one I have says "Trademark of Bell Labs". I've seen later
ones with later TM holders credited.
Just to be complete, here's the full content of the plate:
LIVE FREE OR DIE
UNIX*
TRADEMARK OF BELL LABS*
I'd be happy to sell this, but only for a big price. It'll make a
great decoration for my PDP-11/73 running 2.11BSD.
I got several other "curios" at the 1983 Unicom meeting:
- A large round button from Sun that says "The Joy of Unix"
- A sponge (from Perkin-Elmer, I think) that says: "Unix Software"
- other stuff I don't remember now under piles
The Unicom meeting was immediately after the CP/M '83 meeting,
which marked the pinnacle of CP/M. It went down hill pretty fast
after that.
Dave
Chuck McManis wrote:
At 06:36 AM 1/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
ObCC: Around 1980 or so, I knew somebody with a
license plate that said
"Unix: Live Free or Die". Was this issued by Bell Labs? And who has one
they'd like to sell?
The New Hampshire vanity plate (state motto "Live Free or Die") UNIX was
registered to Bill Shannon who worked at Sun (still does actually). Some
vendor did some fake plates for one of the Uniforum conferences but I don't
know if Bill got any royalties :-)
--Chuck