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On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> I came across a site with archived debian packages for old debian
> releases, and there seem to be example files of a suitable vintage in
> the sarge distro archive:

Thank you, this proved to be the second best hit so far, files from the 
mid 90s!

Meanwhile I found the tarball for an even earlier release, v1.3. I may 
even try to compile it today, just for fun.

> From a data preservation perspective/industrial archaeology
> perspective, perhaps the gEDA project should consider collecting the
> older tar.gz releases and preserving them on a central repository for
> future reference.

I've made a small collection at

svn ls svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd/work/ancient

web version:

http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/minisvn.cgi?cmd=browse&repo=pcb-rnd&path=work/ancient

INDEX lists all files and their dates.

Thanks everyone who sent me files or links. To further extend the above 
collection, we still need files from:

- before 1995; probably by PCB version 1.2 or earlier
- between 1998 and 2000 (generated with pcb bin version 1.6.3 .. 1.7.0)
- between 2002 and 2005 (generated with pcb bin 1.7.2 .. 2005*)

TIA,

Igor2