Flutterby™! : Finding History

A synopsis of Dan Weinreb's undergrad thesis: A Real-Time Display-oriented Editor for the LISP Machine. As interesting as the synopsis is what he went through to get the copy:

Eventually I broke down resolved to order it from the British Library. Before I did, I contacted MIT again. I had hoped that perhaps I could convince them to borrow it from the British Library, make a copy for their own records, then make it available on DSpace. I was willing to pay for it. We exchanged a few emails along these lines, culminating in one where they informed me that they did have the document. Someone found it, uncatalogued, in an offsite roll of microfilm. They were working out how to go about making it available, which I gathered was a complicated process (almost 40 year old thesis, author deceased, multiple departments involved in the process, etc). I was told that the process was normally 3-6 months for a new thesis, who knows how long for this one.