[TUHS] Help Preserving 8in LSX Floppies?

[Jacob Ritorto via TUHS]

Hey Matt.
  I have a working RX02 on my 11/34 (and I have the means to connect it to the ‘83, which is on the internet for transferring).  It’s been running reliably for quite some years, now, and hasn’t marred any floppies that I know of.  Gets cleaned when it needs it and gets used a few times a year to keep it spry.  I’d be happy to give imaging your diskettes a go (after head cleaning and testing some scratch floppies, of course), but only choose me after giving first dibs to the professionals here who have serious pro archiving kit.  My collection is only “best effort” hobby systems that I’ve scraped together for love, though I’m overeager to make honest use of them in times like these. 

Cheers
Jake

> On Jul 10, 2026, at 20:12, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> 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.
> 
> I currently have no means to extract 8" floppies, so wanted to ask if anyone on list is able to?  I can't speak to the FS details although I imagine something like a V6-ish filesystem is involved.  Raw dumps of the disks should allow decoding the FS at a later date.  There are other floppies too, among them some snapshots of UNIX game source code as well as a smattering of RSX-11 and/or RT-11 stuff.
> 
> Anywho, if anyone has the machinery, I'll happily pay for the shipping and your time.  In the meantime I'll keep these safely tucked away.  I'm primarily focused on the LSX stuff but maybe the other bits could be interesting too.
> 
> - Matt G.