[TUHS] Old Unix tapes from University of Nottingham

[Clem Cole via TUHS]

I agree with Matt WRT to the two V8 tapes.   Turning them into *TAP format
would be useful.  Much of the other is likely repeats of things already in
one archive or another and given most are QIC format, unless we identify
something we don't already have, I suspect it too much trouble to try to
read them.  I'll review the Sun tapes. Other than possibly the two front
tapes and SUNSRC 3.2, I believe we already have much of what is there.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 7:23 AM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, April 16th, 2026 at 01:18, Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS <
> tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> > 23 magtapes found at University of Notthingham, spanning roughly
> > 1985-1993.  Is there anything of interest?
> >
> > https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/bagley-nottingham-tapes
> >
>
> I'd certainly be interested in the V8 tapes being archived.  I understand
> the current archives we have are original snapshots from a BTL server in
> the Plan9 days, but it'd be cool to have proper images of the distro tapes,
> for instance, for SimH.  Other than that, lots of font and Sun stuff there,
> can't speak to the value or how much has already been preserved anywhere.
>
> - Matt G.
>