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Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983

47 points by fuzzix 14y ago

gjm11 14y ago
There was some previous discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802293 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802293 -- when, however, the URLs were quite different -- including links to a few articles HN readers found particularly interesting. Here are the corresponding URLs in the new archive: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-issue06.html http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-iss... (issue about Unix) http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-3-379.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj2... (Shannon invents information theory, part 1) and http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/bstj-vol27-issue04.html http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/bstj-vol27-iss... (part 2); also http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol28-1949/articles/bstj28-1-59.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol28-1949/articles/bstj2... (another article by Shannon, on "two-terminal switching circuits"; quite a lot of combinatorics). http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol39-1960/articles/bstj39-1-235.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol39-1960/articles/bstj3... (about how two-tone dialling works; useful for making "blue boxes" to hack the phone system) and an earlier one http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol33-1954/articles/bstj33-6-1309.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol33-1954/articles/bstj3... about DTMF. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol43-1964/bstj-vol43-issue05.html http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol43-1964/bstj-vol43-iss... (special edition about 1ESS electronic switch).
xradionut 14y ago
Some of the articles on long haul digital services are semi-interesting from a radio geek's viewpoint: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol62-1983/articles/bstj62-5-1209.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol62-1983/articles/bstj6...
acuozzo 14y ago
A true classic: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-1991.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj5... Edit: Take advantage and search for some classic UNIX material. Reply with hyperlinks, if possible. Thanks!
mjn 14y ago
Excellent resource, thanks! Sadly there actually aren't as many of these kinds of digital archives in tech publishing as you might think (even including paywalled ones), partly because research is so driven by recent results. Any philosophy student can get online copies of 100-year-old philosophy articles from JSTOR, but as an AI researcher with an interest in the history of my field, I find myself having to request physical copies of paper journals. Large amounts of pre-1980s stuff has just never been digitized, so it languishes on paper, in archival storage at university libraries.

47 points by fuzzix 14y ago

gjm11 14y ago

There was some previous discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802293 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802293 -- when, however, the URLs were quite different -- including links to a few articles HN readers found particularly interesting. Here are the corresponding URLs in the new archive: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-issue06.html http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-iss... (issue about Unix) http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-3-379.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj2... (Shannon invents information theory, part 1) and http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/bstj-vol27-issue04.html http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/bstj-vol27-iss... (part 2); also http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol28-1949/articles/bstj28-1-59.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol28-1949/articles/bstj2... (another article by Shannon, on "two-terminal switching circuits"; quite a lot of combinatorics). http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol39-1960/articles/bstj39-1-235.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol39-1960/articles/bstj3... (about how two-tone dialling works; useful for making "blue boxes" to hack the phone system) and an earlier one http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol33-1954/articles/bstj33-6-1309.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol33-1954/articles/bstj3... about DTMF. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol43-1964/bstj-vol43-issue05.html http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol43-1964/bstj-vol43-iss... (special edition about 1ESS electronic switch).

xradionut 14y ago

Some of the articles on long haul digital services are semi-interesting from a radio geek's viewpoint: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol62-1983/articles/bstj62-5-1209.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol62-1983/articles/bstj6...

acuozzo 14y ago

A true classic: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj57-6-1991.pdf http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj5... Edit: Take advantage and search for some classic UNIX material. Reply with hyperlinks, if possible. Thanks!

mjn 14y ago

Excellent resource, thanks! Sadly there actually aren't as many of these kinds of digital archives in tech publishing as you might think (even including paywalled ones), partly because research is so driven by recent results. Any philosophy student can get online copies of 100-year-old philosophy articles from JSTOR, but as an AI researcher with an interest in the history of my field, I find myself having to request physical copies of paper journals. Large amounts of pre-1980s stuff has just never been digitized, so it languishes on paper, in archival storage at university libraries.