Re: st: Statistical Classics Archive: Stata 1.0 Manual

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Very cool!

Any chance of re-releasing a version we could run in a DOS window?  (I 
recall coming across the original Visi-Calc on the web page of its creator; 
a real trip down memory lane...)

--NIck Winter

At 03:47 PM 4/11/2006, you wrote:

> Greetings
>   The first version of Stata was released in January of 1985. Have you
> ever wished to see what that reference manual looked like? Well, thanks
> to the kind folks at StataCorp, they have scanned the reference manual
> and kindly given us permission to post it on our web site so you can
> take a visit to the past and see the original Stata 1.0 manual. It is
> amazing to see the seeds of the current version of Stata that were
> planted in that manual. You can see a picture of the original Stata 1.0
> manual and view a scanned .pdf version of the documentation by visiting
>
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sca/
>
>   We thank the kind people of StataCorp for scanning this and giving us
> permission to share it with you from our web site. For more about the
> history of Stata, we recommend seeing
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/history.html .
>
> I hope you enjoy this visit to the past!
>
> Michael Mitchell
> UCLA ATS Statistical Consulting Group
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/
>
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