I found something else in my archives that will interest you. I 
have an old Unix User Group tape (tp format). [Now ug091377-ar.tar.gz
which has the original ar files and ug091377.tar.gz which has the
ar files exploded. This dates from Sep 14 1977 -- Warren]

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Jay R. Jaeger                                   The Computer Collection
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