Today I was looking around for more v7 stuff of interest that I might
find on the web and came across a tape image in the ATT bits directory:
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/ATT/ labeled X7252.2015_UNIX_V7.tap and an
image of the reel with original and added markings. I downloaded it and
sure enough, it's a bootable v7. I then compared it with my recreated
tape image from the files in the Keith Bostic folder on tuhs. The 11.7MB
tapes are nearly identical, with only a handful of bytes that differ at
the very end of the tape:
ATT tape:
54532000 000000 000000 024000 000000 000000 000000 000077 000000
54532020 052135 014020 010000 034113 056720 023524 072143 122062
54532040 141401 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
54532060 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
54532100 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 037400
54532120 000000 000000
54532123
Bostic recreated tape:
54532000 000000 000000 024000 000000 000000 000000 177777 177777
54532020
I'm wondering - 1) Does anyone know the provenance of the
X7252.2015_UNIX_V7.tap 2) Do the bytes at the end of the tapes look
familiar or particularly meaningful? My knowledge of 40+ y.o. tape
formats is woefully lacking, but I'm curious.
Will