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From: Tim Pierce <twpierce+usenet@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu>
Subject: "Lambda Papers" in electronic format?
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I'm interested in reading more documentation about the genesis of
Scheme, particularly Steele and Sussman's early AI Memos (the
`lambda papers').  Most of these can be found on
publications.ai.mit.edu, but only in TIFF-to-PostScript scanned
versions, which are not very convenient for searching, indexing or
reformatting.  I'd love to have access to these documents in a
more convenient electronic format.  Surely someone still has the
original sources (runoff?  scribe?) around somewhere?  I've
searched several MIT sites and the Internet Scheme Repository,
without luck.  Any pointers would be appreciated.

