[TUHS] Help Preserving 8in LSX Floppies?

[Warren Toomey via TUHS]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 12:12:41AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> Hello, exciting news, I've just received a whole bunch of 8" floppies, among them are two labeled:
> 
> UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM LSX
> SYSTEM MASTER (10-29-77)
> 
> There are two disks, the second of which additionally bears:
> 
> /USR FILE SYSTEM
> 
> so presumably the root and usr disks for LSX.  Both are typed labels.  Along with these are 6 with printed listings and hand-written labels indicating snapshots of the /usr directory from one or multiple LSX systems (some are labeled "original", some "development").  Two of the disks are source dumps of a kernel, with one looking like the file listing of a typical V6-ish kernel and the other having some extra LSX-ish bits, but its just path names so couldn't say what is contained therein.

Matt, while you continue on with this journey, you might want to check here
first: https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/LSX/

as someone else has trodden this path before and they might have some
clues and tips for you :-)

Cheers, Warren