[TUHS] Old Unix tapes from University of Nottingham

[Dan Plassche via TUHS]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 10:24 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
Would be interested to know if it was a single qic or exabyte tape
and included any source.  The product was already advertised as
source available, but I think multiple 150 MB qic tapes would be
required.  Maybe the BSD/386 X11 Nottingham tapes include
system sources as well, or not all of world was distributed and
building for early users on alpha and beta.

The earliest copy of BSD/386 I have is a 1.1 cd with sources, which is
about 600 MB of actual content.

If I remember correctly, full install took about 200 MB plus another
200 for system and 100 for X11 sources.

I'll check when back home from a short work trip on Friday.

- Dan