CSRG CDs now available

From: Warren Toomey < wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199809102354.JAA02038@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: CSRG CDs now available
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:54:51 +1000 (EST)
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All,
	Kirk McKusick is back from his 3-week trip and is now shipping
the 4CD set of BSD releases from the Computer Systems Research group.
It covers all BSD versions from 1BSD to 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite2 (but not
2.11BSD, unfortunately). As well, the last disk holds the final sources
plus the SCCS files.

Details at http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/

Cheers,
	Warren

From: Warren Toomey < wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199809191112.VAA01633@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Help Save 4BSD Boot Tapes!
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:12:17 +1000 (EST)
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Many kudos to Kirk McKusick for making the entire BSD releases from the
Computer Systems Research Group available on CD. However, many people are
going to buy the CD set so they can install 4.3BSD on their personal Vax.

Unfortunately, the 4CD set from Kirk does not contain any tape images
(bootable or otherwise) which would allow any of the 4BSDs to be installed.
Therefore, I'm asking anybody who might have old 4BSD tapes lying in a
corner, or knows someone who might have old 4BSD tapes (or has heard a
rumor about old 4BSD tapes etc.) to e-mail me with the details.

If we can unearth any old 4BSD tapes, then I am sure there will be
volunteers around who will be very happy to read the tapes, and I will
make space for them alongside the other files and tape images in the
PUPS archive.

While I'm here, I might as well say that I'm still looking for any old
PDP-11 versions of UNIX, or any applications written for early versions
of UNIX, or anything machine-readable which is generally related to
early versions of UNIX. Debbie Scherrer has just donated the Software Tools,
and both Dennis Ritchie and Norman Wilson are slowly scanning in their
paper copies of man pages for UNIX Editions 1 to 5.

Many thanks in advance for your help in preserving the history of Unix.

	Warren

From: Warren Toomey < wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199810072255.IAA22782@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:55:04 +1000 (EST)
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----- Forwarded message from Kirk McKusick -----

To: "J.S. Havard", Warren Toomey
Subject: Found at Last

My excavations on campus turned up six boxes of 9-track tapes
containing most of the BSD distributions. In particular, I have
found one labelled "4.3BSD Revision 2, Domestic Master" 6250bpi
3/4/87. There is also a similar tape (presumably revision 1) from
about six months earlier. I do not have access to a 9-track tape
drive, so I have no idea if the tape is even readable, but I am
willing to mail it to someone who does have a 6250bpi drive that
wants to take a crack at it.

	~Kirk

----- End of forwarded message from Kirk McKusick -----

Would anybody near Kirk be prepared to read these tapes, gzip the
tape records, type in any tape labels glued to the reels, and send
the whole lot in to the PUPS archive?!

Many thanks in advance for the help.

Cheers,
	Warren

Message-Id: <3.0.32.19981008074651.008fe690@pop.calweb.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 07:46:54 -0700
To: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
From: Rick Copeland < rickgc@calweb.com>
Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last
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Where is Kirk located?  If it is near California, I can do the work.

Rick Copeland
Information Systems Manager
InterMag, Inc.


At 08:55 AM 10/8/98 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
>----- Forwarded message from Kirk McKusick -----
>
>To: "J.S. Havard", Warren Toomey
>Subject: Found at Last
>
>My excavations on campus turned up six boxes of 9-track tapes
>containing most of the BSD distributions. In particular, I have
>found one labelled "4.3BSD Revision 2, Domestic Master" 6250bpi
>3/4/87. There is also a similar tape (presumably revision 1) from
>about six months earlier. I do not have access to a 9-track tape
>drive, so I have no idea if the tape is even readable, but I am
>willing to mail it to someone who does have a 6250bpi drive that
>wants to take a crack at it.
>
>	~Kirk
>
>----- End of forwarded message from Kirk McKusick -----
>
>Would anybody near Kirk be prepared to read these tapes, gzip the
>tape records, type in any tape labels glued to the reels, and send
>the whole lot in to the PUPS archive?!
>
>Many thanks in advance for the help.
>
>Cheers,
>	Warren
>
>

Message-Id: <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700
To: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
From: Rick Copeland < rickgc@calweb.com>
Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last
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Warren,

Apparently Kirk is only 60 to 70 miles away from me, so shipping or pickup
on the week end is not a problem.  Please contact Kirk and have him contact
me.

Rick Copeland
Information Systems Manager
InterMag, Inc.
(916) 568-6744 x36

Message-Id: <199810081634.JAA09797@flamingo.McKusick.COM>
To: Rick Copeland < rickgc@calweb.com>
Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last 
cc: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 PDT."
             <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com> 
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:34:48 -0700
From: Kirk McKusick < mckusick@mckusick.com>
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	Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700
	To: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au, pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
	From: Rick Copeland < rickgc@calweb.com>
	Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last
	Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au

	Warren,

	Apparently Kirk is only 60 to 70 miles away from me, so
	shipping or pickup on the week end is not a problem.  Please
	contact Kirk and have him contact me.

	Rick Copeland
	Information Systems Manager
	InterMag, Inc.
	(916) 568-6744 x36

Hi,

I am located at:

	Kirk McKusick
	1614 Oxford Street
	Berkeley, CA 94709-1608

I could mail you the tape, but I would prefer to find a way to get it
to you that would minimize its being bounced around. Any ideas?

	Kirk McKusick

From: Warren Toomey < wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199810082242.IAA24785@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: 4BSD tapes to be read
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:42:46 +1000 (EST)
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All,
	Rick Copeland has arranged to pick the 4BSD tapes up from Kirk
and read them this or next week. Thanks to all the people who volunteered,
and hopefully copies of the tapes will be in the archive soon.

Cheers,
	Warren

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:55:23 -0500
From: mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu (Michael Sokolov)
Message-Id: <199811120455.XAA09098@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu>
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
Subject: 4.3BSD-Tahoe and 4.3BSD-Reno
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Dear PUPS/TUHS members,

I have converted the 4.3BSD-Tahoe and 4.3BSD-Reno tape images Rick has recently
uploaded into a more convenient format. I haven't changed anything in the
images themselves, I have simply repacked them from a single .zip into a
collection of .gz's, one per tape file. I have also prepared a listing for
every tarball. This stuff is in:

/usr/home/msokolov/43tahoe.cci (4.3BSD-Tahoe with CCI binaries)
/usr/home/msokolov/43reno.vax (4.3BSD-Reno with VAX binaries)

That's on minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au. The permissions are set up so that pupsarc
group members (UNIX source license holders) can read them, but no one else can.
With Warren's permission, I would like to keep this stuff there until I set up
my own FTP site, at which time I'll announce its location.

The Reno images are perfect, but for Tahoe usr.tar.gz and src.tar.gz are bad
(everything else is fine). Apparently Rick wasn't able to read past a tape
defect (we are handling this in private E-mail).

Have fun with this stuff!

Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
Phone: 440-449-0299 (Home) 216-217-2579 (Cellular)
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu

From: Warren Toomey < wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199811120451.PAA05125@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: 4.3BSD-Tahoe and 4.3BSD-Reno
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:51:32 +1100 (EST)
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
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In article by Michael Sokolov:
>I have converted the 4.3BSD-Tahoe and 4.3BSD-Reno tape images Rick has recently
> uploaded into a more convenient format. I haven't changed anything in the
> images themselves, I have simply repacked them from a single .zip into a
> collection of .gz's, one per tape file. I have also prepared a listing for
> every tarball. This stuff is in:
> 
> /usr/home/msokolov/43tahoe.cci (4.3BSD-Tahoe with CCI binaries)
> /usr/home/msokolov/43reno.vax (4.3BSD-Reno with VAX binaries)

I'll move copies of Michael's 43tahoe.cci and 43reno.vax directories
into the main PUPS archive area, in the Distributions/4bsd area.

	Warren

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From: mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu (Michael Sokolov)
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   Dear PUPS/TUHS members,
   
   I have just uploaded the images from the 4.3BSD tapes I had read on
CWRU's MVS mainframe back in June. They are perfect (the 1600 BPI tapes
were read without any errors and the format is absolutely correct). Note,
though, that this is the June 1986 4.3BSD release, and I remember Kirk
saying that among the tapes Rick is reading there is one with 4.3BSD
revision 2, which is presumably 4.3BSD with some bugs fixed.
   
   I have also put an honest effort into reconstructing the 4.2BSD tape
images from the files in Distributions/4bsd/Per_Andersson_4.2. The latter
have the boot/standalone system file (1st on the tape) broken, the tarball
with /usr/src also broken, and the tarball with /usr/lib/vfont simply
missing. I have manually repaired the boot/standalone system file (using my
brain and a hex editor), but unfortunately /usr/src is broken beyond repair
(so I didn't include it in my repackaging). I see no reason for the
Varian/Versatec fonts to change between BSD releases, so /usr/lib/vfont
from 4.3BSD will probably do fine. It would still be nice if Rick could
read Kirk's 4.2BSD tapes, though. For practical use 4.3BSD completely
supersedes it, but for historical purposes we should preserve 4.2BSD as
well.
   
   This stuff is in:
   
/usr/home/msokolov/42.vax (4.2BSD)
/usr/home/msokolov/43.vax (4.3BSD)
   
   on minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au. (Warren, if you want to put this in the main
PUPS archive, go ahead and do it for 43.vax, as it should be ready to be
frozen, but I would hold on with 42.vax. Hopefully Rick will have some luck
reading Kirk's tapes, and then I'll update the 42.vax directory by filling
the missing pieces.)
   
   Sincerely,
   Michael Sokolov
   Phone: 440-449-0299 (Home) 216-217-2579 (Cellular)
   ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46@k2.scl.cwru.edu