Ancient SunOS 1.1 tapes --- how to restore?

[James E. Carpenter]

> > I just took a quick look at my SunOS 3.2 tapes. The copyright file says:
> > 
> >    Copyright (c) 1986 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> > 
> > Most of the files seem to be dated September 1986. Many others are dated 
> > July 1986. 
> 
> Speaking of old SunOS tapes..... I have a friend that dug out a pair
> of SunOS 1.1 tapes that he has had for years.  Alas, they are unreadable.
> Is there any way to rewrite those tapes from anyones archival materials?
> Sun has graciously allowed pre-sparc materials to be available on-line
> in the German Sun3 archives.  All they have seems to be SunOS-4.1.1,
> though. 

I could donate SunOS 3.2, SunOS 4.0 (MC68010), and the 4.0.3 upgrade to the
archive, assuming they want Sun2 material. I also have the SunOS 4.0.3 
_upgrade_ for the 68020. All the tape files are tarred and gziped on a CDROM
I burned not too long ago.

> I am wondering if there is any interest in some of the early
> Sun tapes?  

Well I'd sure love to see SunOS 1.x running on my 2/120. :-)

> Are the 1.1 tapes basically a 4.2BSD port?  Are they in
> QIC-11 or QIC-24 format?

It would be 4-track QIC-11. SunOS 3.2 also came on four QIC-11 tapes. But
SunOS 4.x _probably_ only came on two QIC-24 tapes. (I say "probably" 
because my SunOS 4.x tapes are in 9-track QIC-11 format. I _assume_ this was 
done by somebody other than Sun so that it could be installed on a Sun2 with 
older ROMs.)

- Jim
 

-- 
James E. Carpenter                               E-Mail: jimc at zach1.tiac.net
6 Munroe Drive
Plainville, MA  02762-1108                     ICBM: 42 00' 15"N 71 20' 00"W
PGP: 7ADE9D99  Fingerprint: 8D AF 63 EC D3 51 14 3E  F1 59 8A 68 32 63 3F 8E

Received: (from major at localhost)
	by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA16037
	for pups-liszt; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:08:18 +1100 (EST)