[TUHS] Old Unix tapes from University of Nottingham

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS]

On Monday, 20 April 2026 at 16:24:11 -0400, The UNIX Heritage Society wrote:
> There's a tape of the BSD/386 alpha release from December 1991
> that appears significant as the earlist known state of development
> right after Jolitz formally left:
>
> BSD/386 Alpha 0.2.1                  Eur 1
> 1 / (root    2 /usr    3 /usr/src    bs=126b
> TRH 29 Dec 91 (c) 1991 BSD
>
> https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/bagley-nottingham-tapes/blob/master/photos/20260415_101850.jpg
>
> I'm guessing this is a binary only release, but it is still interesting
> because all other known releases were after 386BSD 0.0 in March
> and BSD/386 0.3 in April 1992.

I have a tape of BSD/386 from early March 1992.  I would need to find
it, though it's probably no longer readable.  It would have been about
Beta 0.3.2.

Greg
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