There are a few papers circa 1980 that cite an AI Lab memo with this title and give a date of 1979 [1], so there must indeed have been a version circulated earlier than the 1981 "A" version. Have you tried contacting the CSAIL archivist to see if they'd be interested in putting up a non-A version of 519?
Whoa, funny. I read half of this conversation last night, and the second half today, and mistakenly thought you were still looking for that document having forgotten what I read last night. I will leave my embarrassingly ridiculous comment above for posterity.