[TUHS] Old Unix tapes from University of Nottingham

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS]

On Wednesday, 22 April 2026 at 19:20:23 -0400, Dan Plassche wrote:
> 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.

It was a QIC-150, and it included source.  That was one of the reasons
I bought it.  Quite possibly there were multiple tapes.

> The product was already advertised as source available, but I think
> multiple 150 MB qic tapes would be required.

At the time, I think, it was available *only* with source.

> 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.

That depends on the size of your world, of course.  I don't think it's
worth looking for my tapes; even if I find them, they're unlikely to
be readable.

Greg
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