Re: Release timestamps for archaic tarballs

[Pieter-Tjerk de B. <p.t...@ut...>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:55:08AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> BTW, I now have no fewer than 6 early releases in the repository tail:
> 1.10A, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.5.  If any of you can turn up more
> ancient versions, now would be a good time for it.

Well, as Ethan pointed out, the version I have at
  http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/tmp/gnuplot-2.0.tar.gz
seems to be 1.1.0 from January 26, 1987, predating the others, so I guess
including it would make sense.

In the meantime I found out where I got it from, back in 1999:
  ftp://ftp.bu.edu/pub/mirrors/umich.edu/Public/html/apollo/gnuplot-2.0.tar.gz
But that file is no longer there.

B.t.w., with only a few trivial changes, this version still compiles on
a modern Linux system, with working postscript and tek40xx output.
Fun to see both how much and how little has changed in 30 years...

Regards,
  Pieter-Tjerk