Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983

There was some previous discussion at 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-iss... (issue about Unix)

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-iss... (part 2); also 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/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/bstj3... about DTMF.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol43-1964/bstj-vol43-iss... (special edition about 1ESS electronic switch).

A true classic: 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!

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/bstj6...

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.