I'd volunteer to proofread- those were great articles!  I also have
quite a few articles from the literature that over time ought to be
made more visible to newcomers.  Perhaps a Swiki page could be
set up on the topic of Smalltalk evolution, so that folks could at
least be made aware of the earlier papers, even though for a while
they might not be obtainable online?  My own server is available if
you would want to use that to dedicate a whole Wiki to the topic,
or minnow would be fine too.

-les


Dwight Hughes wrote:
> 
> Chris Macie wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Thanks to Eliot (and ObjectShare), the permission is no longer necessary,
> > although I think it would be appropriate to always give credit to Robert
> > Tinney. Given present day sophistication of photo/digital services, a
> > blow-up of the hi-res image should be readily possible and inexpensive.
> > Many on this discussion board no doubt still have copies of the print, in
> > case an even higher resolution copy would make a better enlargement.
> >
> > I also have a copy or two of the original BYTE issue... If not already
> > done, someone should digitize the ST articles and post them www-wise. I
> > find of lot of them by no means out-of-date, especially in early phases of
> > learning Smalltalk --  for instance Adele Goldberg's introduction, the
> > "Design Principles" one, and the one on control structures by Peter Deutsch.
> 
> I have Dan's "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" up on my site -
> http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/ . I would like to get several more
> articles up. I have "Object-Oriented Software Systems", "The
> Smalltalk-80 System", "The Smalltalk-80 Virtual Machine", "The Smalltalk
> Environment", "The Smalltalk Graphics Kernel", "User-Oriented
> Descriptions of Smalltalk Systems", and "Virtual Memory for an
> Object-Oriented Language" all scanned in, OCRed, and converted to nice
> fairly HTML (a bit of treaking and proofreading should finish) -- I
> "only" need to scan and process (or recreate) the figures for these
> articles and link them in. For most of these I have the author's
> permission already, but getting full permission has proven
> "interesting".
> 
> -- Dwight