Perhaps Alcatel-Lucent isn't pure evil after all. They've published the archives of the Bell System Technical Journal from 1922 to 1983 online, freely accessible.
http://bstj.bell-labs.com/ Bell Labs practically invented much of our recently civilization (communications theory, transistor, laser, microchip, Unix, the list goes on). The public switched telephone network, before the Internet came along, was probably the most complicated system in human existence. They documented a lot of it in these journals. Making them available like this is a huge boon to technology historians. Some choice pickings: "A mathematical theory of communication" (1948) This defined the field of information theory -- telecom, DSP, encryption, compression, etc., all work in this space http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1948/BSTJ.1948.2703.html http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1948/BSTJ.1948.2704.html "In-Band Single-Frequency Signaling" (1954) This was the paper that enabled the infamous "blue boxes" http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1954/BSTJ.1954.3306.html "Number One Electronic Switching System" (1964) The first stored-program telephone switch, a technological marvel of its day http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1964/BSTJ.1964.4305.html "The Unix-Time Sharing System" (1978) The original paper describing the Unix OS http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1978/BSTJ.1978.5706-2.html -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
