<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 5:08 AM Bernhard Treutwein <<a href="mailto:bernhard@wildwein.de">bernhard@wildwein.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">the usenet archive <a href="https://www.usenetarchives.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.usenetarchives.com/</a> apparently has the <br>
complete postings to comp.lang.oberon available for digging into <br>
Oberon's history:<br>
<a href="https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.lang.oberon" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.lang.oberon</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Brilliant - thank you VERY much Bernhard!</div><div><br></div><div>I was initially puzzled why the earliest post was dated 13 Apr 1993 then I remembered that the earliest Usenet Oberon discussions were held on comp.lang.modula2. Fortunately, that is also archived:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.lang.modula2">https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.lang.modula2</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The first Oberon-related post I could find there appeared five years earlier. It is titled From Modula-2 to Oberon by Lawrence Crowl and is dated 26 Feb 1988. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Chris Burrows</div><div>CFB Software</div><div><a href="https://www.astrobe.com">https://www.astrobe.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div>