From bdc at world.std.com Sat Oct 3 04:14:22 1998 From: bdc at world.std.com (Brian D Chase) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:14:22 -0700 (PST) Subject: CSRG CDs now available In-Reply-To: <199809102354.JAA02038@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Message-ID: On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Warren Toomey wrote: > 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/ FYI, these are a *really* nice set of CDs. I was completely amazed at how professionally they'd been put together. Any progress on the BSD binary images for VAX? -brian. --- Brian "JARAI" Chase | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ | VAXZilla LIVES!!! Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26021 for pups-liszt; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:54:33 +1000 (EST) From wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au Thu Oct 8 08:55:04 1998 From: wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:55:04 +1000 (EST) Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last Message-ID: <199810072255.IAA22782@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> ----- 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 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03040 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:37:56 +1000 (EST) From rickgc at calweb.com Fri Oct 9 00:46:54 1998 From: rickgc at calweb.com (Rick Copeland) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 07:46:54 -0700 Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last Message-ID: <3.0.32.19981008074651.008fe690@pop.calweb.com> 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 > > Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03308 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 01:54:18 +1000 (EST) From rickgc at calweb.com Fri Oct 9 02:03:21 1998 From: rickgc at calweb.com (Rick Copeland) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700 Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last Message-ID: <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com> 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 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 > > Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03360 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:15:10 +1000 (EST) From jkatz at cpio.net Fri Oct 9 02:21:56 1998 From: jkatz at cpio.net (J. Joseph Max Katz) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com> Message-ID: We may have some equipment at my workplace we can use. We're in San Jose, he's in Berkeley, 50-70 miles in the other direction. I need to get clearence from the boss, first, though. -Jon Jonathan Katz, CEO CPIO Networks, Inc. (408) 569-7092 [ ] jkatz at cpio.net http://www.cpio.net [ ] "offering OpenBSD technical support, on-site Unix and network security services and training." On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Rick Copeland wrote: :Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700 :From: Rick Copeland :To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au, PDP Unix Preservation :Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last : :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 : : :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 :> :> : Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03449 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:50:07 +1000 (EST) From mckusick at mckusick.com Fri Oct 9 02:34:48 1998 From: mckusick at mckusick.com (Kirk McKusick) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:34:48 -0700 Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 PDT." <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com> Message-ID: <199810081634.JAA09797@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700 To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au, pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) From: Rick Copeland Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last Sender: owner-pups at 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 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04624 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:42:10 +1000 (EST) From wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au Fri Oct 9 08:42:46 1998 From: wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:42:46 +1000 (EST) Subject: 4BSD tapes to be read Message-ID: <199810082242.IAA24785@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> 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 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA00493 for pups-liszt; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:51:20 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au: major set sender to owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f From bdc at world.std.com Sat Oct 3 04:14:22 1998 From: bdc at world.std.com (Brian D Chase) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:14:22 -0700 (PST) Subject: CSRG CDs now available In-Reply-To: <199809102354.JAA02038@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Message-ID: On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Warren Toomey wrote: > 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/ FYI, these are a *really* nice set of CDs. I was completely amazed at how professionally they'd been put together. Any progress on the BSD binary images for VAX? -brian. --- Brian "JARAI" Chase | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ | VAXZilla LIVES!!! Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26021 for pups-liszt; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:54:33 +1000 (EST) From wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au Thu Oct 8 08:55:04 1998 From: wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:55:04 +1000 (EST) Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last Message-ID: <199810072255.IAA22782@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> ----- 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 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03040 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:37:56 +1000 (EST) From rickgc at calweb.com Fri Oct 9 00:46:54 1998 From: rickgc at calweb.com (Rick Copeland) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 07:46:54 -0700 Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last Message-ID: <3.0.32.19981008074651.008fe690@pop.calweb.com> 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 > > Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03308 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 01:54:18 +1000 (EST) From rickgc at calweb.com Fri Oct 9 02:03:21 1998 From: rickgc at calweb.com (Rick Copeland) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700 Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last Message-ID: <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com> 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 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 > > Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03360 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:15:10 +1000 (EST) From jkatz at cpio.net Fri Oct 9 02:21:56 1998 From: jkatz at cpio.net (J. Joseph Max Katz) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com> Message-ID: We may have some equipment at my workplace we can use. We're in San Jose, he's in Berkeley, 50-70 miles in the other direction. I need to get clearence from the boss, first, though. -Jon Jonathan Katz, CEO CPIO Networks, Inc. (408) 569-7092 [ ] jkatz at cpio.net http://www.cpio.net [ ] "offering OpenBSD technical support, on-site Unix and network security services and training." On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Rick Copeland wrote: :Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700 :From: Rick Copeland :To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au, PDP Unix Preservation :Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last : :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 : : :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 :> :> : Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03449 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:50:07 +1000 (EST) From mckusick at mckusick.com Fri Oct 9 02:34:48 1998 From: mckusick at mckusick.com (Kirk McKusick) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:34:48 -0700 Subject: Found 4BSD tapes at last In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 PDT." <3.0.32.19981008090318.0090f520@pop.calweb.com> Message-ID: <199810081634.JAA09797@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:03:21 -0700 To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au, pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) From: Rick Copeland Subject: Re: Found 4BSD tapes at last Sender: owner-pups at 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 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04624 for pups-liszt; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:42:10 +1000 (EST) From wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au Fri Oct 9 08:42:46 1998 From: wkt at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:42:46 +1000 (EST) Subject: 4BSD tapes to be read Message-ID: <199810082242.IAA24785@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> 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 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA00493 for pups-liszt; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:51:20 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au: major set sender to owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f