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by Greg Lehey

Does anybody here have an idea what this could be? Greg ----- Forwarded message from Chris Baird <cjb(a)brushtail.apana.org.au> ----- > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:52:28 +1000 (EST) > To: netbsd-users(a)netbsd.org > Reply-to: abuse(a)brushtail.apana.org.au > Precedence: list > Delivered-To: netbsd-users(a)netbsd.org > > While looking over userland source, calendar(1)'s calendar.computer > mentions: > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 > > Could someone please explain the joke. :) > > -- > Chris Baird,, <cjb(a)brushtail.apana.org.au> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog(a)lemis.com for PGP public key Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA24693 for pups-liszt; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:22:43 +1000 (EST) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Fri Aug 6 13:20:44 1999 Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24689 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:22:27 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA04460; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:20:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199908060320.NAA04460(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: "Unix-based mallet" ??? In-Reply-To: <19990806123334.K5126(a)freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 6, 1999 12:33:34 pm" To: grog(a)lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:20:44 +1000 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Greg Lehey: > Does anybody here have an idea what this could be? > > Greg > > ----- Forwarded message from Chris Baird <cjb(a)brushtail.apana.org.au> ----- > > While looking over userland source, calendar(1)'s calendar.computer > > mentions: > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 > > Could someone please explain the joke. :) I can't find it in V6/V7/2.11, which version of Unix and calendar(1)? Cheers, Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA24768 for pups-liszt; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:34:59 +1000 (EST) >From "Joerg B. Micheel" <joerg(a)begemot.org> Fri Aug 6 13:34:43 1999 Received: from begemot.org (negara.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.112]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24764 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:34:51 +1000 (EST) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by begemot.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA63389; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:34:43 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from joerg) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:34:43 +1200 From: "Joerg B. Micheel" <joerg(a)begemot.org> To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au Cc: Greg Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>, Unix Heritage Society <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: "Unix-based mallet" ??? Message-ID: <19990806153443.A63379(a)begemot.org> References: <19990806123334.K5126(a)freebie.lemis.com> <199908060320.NAA04460(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199908060320.NAA04460(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>; from Warren Toomey on Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 01:20:44PM +1000 Organization: Begemot Computer Associates Operating-System: ... powered by FreeBSD Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 01:20:44PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > In article by Greg Lehey: > > Does anybody here have an idea what this could be? > > > > Greg > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Chris Baird <cjb(a)brushtail.apana.org.au> ----- > > > While looking over userland source, calendar(1)'s calendar.computer > > > mentions: > > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 > > > Could someone please explain the joke. :) > > I can't find it in V6/V7/2.11, which version of Unix and calendar(1)? At least on FreeBSD it is in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer. Cannot check other versions at the moment. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg(a)begemot.org> Begemot Computer Associates Phone: +64 7 8562148 6 Kakanui Avenue, Hillcrest Fax: +64 7 8562148 Hamilton, New Zealand Pager: +64 868 38222 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA24816 for pups-liszt; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:38:36 +1000 (EST) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Fri Aug 6 13:38:22 1999 Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24809 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:38:30 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA04506; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:38:22 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199908060338.NAA04506(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: "Unix-based mallet" ??? In-Reply-To: <19990806153443.A63379(a)begemot.org> from "Joerg B. Micheel" at "Aug 6, 1999 3:34:43 pm" To: joerg(a)begemot.org (Joerg B. Micheel) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:38:22 +1000 (EST) Cc: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au, grog(a)lemis.com, pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Joerg B. Micheel: > > > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 > > I can't find it in V6/V7/2.11, which version of Unix and calendar(1)? > At least on FreeBSD it is in /usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer. > Cannot check other versions at the moment. > Joerg It's also in 4.4-Lite, Iguess we'll have to backtrack to find when it was added. Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA24962 for pups-liszt; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:51:38 +1000 (EST) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Fri Aug 6 13:51:30 1999 Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24955 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:51:31 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA04564 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:51:30 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199908060351.NAA04564(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Unix mallet .... To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:51:30 +1000 (EST) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk According to the SCCS records on Kirk McKusick's 4th CD, /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer was: date and time created 89/11/27 14:10:01 by bostic Mind you, this was obviously the first time it was checked into SCCS. I'll keep looking. We could ask Keith what he know about it. Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA25320 for pups-liszt; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:00:57 +1000 (EST) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Fri Aug 6 15:00:46 1999 Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25316 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:00:50 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) id PAA40293; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:00:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199908060500.PAA40293(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Unix mallet .... In-Reply-To: <19990806134045.O5126(a)freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 6, 1999 1:40:45 pm" To: grog(a)lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:00:46 +1000 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Friday, 6 August 1999 at 13:51:30 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > According to the SCCS records on Kirk McKusick's 4th CD, > /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer was: > date and time created 89/11/27 14:10:01 by bostic > Mind you, this was obviously the first time it was checked into SCCS. > I'll keep looking. We could ask Keith what he knows about it. Well, the earliest calendar.computer files I can find, apart from the SCCS record, are: Distributions/4bsd/43reno.vax/src.tar, calendar.computer dated 1989/11/28 Distributions/4bsd/net2/net2.tar, calendar.computer dated 1989/11/28 Distributions/4bsd/43reno.vax/usr.tar, calendar.computer dated 1990/07/29 [from the PUPS Archive] so the finger of suspicion does point at Keith Bostic. In article by Greg Lehey: > Sounds reasonable. You want to [ask Keith]? Yep, I'll fire off some email now. Cheers all, Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA25515 for pups-liszt; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:48:34 +1000 (EST) >From Peter Chubb <peterc(a)aurema.com> Fri Aug 6 15:48:25 1999 Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (firewall-user(a)smtp.sw.oz.au [203.31.96.1]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25511 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:48:27 +1000 (EST) Received: (from peterc@localhost) by smtp.sw.oz.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id PAA16635; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:48:25 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:48:25 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199908060548.PAA16635(a)smtp.sw.oz.au> From: Peter Chubb <peterc(a)aurema.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: grog(a)lemis.com.au Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Subject: Re: Unix mallet .... In-Reply-To: <199908060351.NAA04564(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> References: <199908060351.NAA04564(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under 20.2 XEmacs Lucid Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.023. Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Warren" == Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> writes: Warren> According to the SCCS records on Kirk McKusick's 4th CD, Warren> /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.computer was: Warren> date and time created 89/11/27 14:10:01 by bostic A Mallet is an articulated steam locomotive (named after Anatole Mallet, a Frenchman). 1954 would have been in the midst of their heydays. Often used for hauling logs. Now, how did UNIX get involved???? 1954 predates UNIX as we know it, so it's probably something else or a spoof.... Peter C

25 years, 6 months

PUPS mail list: still alive!

by Warren Toomey

Hi all, I thought I'd better send in a message to the PUPS list just to shake out the cobwebs, and to welcome on the newest half-dozen subscribers. I've added some more disk space, memory and a new OS to the PUPS Archive machine, minnie. About 100 people now have access to the archive, and SCO has sold 166 Ancient UNIX licenses. Peter Chubb recently mentioned that Dennis Ritchie has unearthed some old C compilers (see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html) I'll add them into the Archive soon, and perhaps even try to compile them with the 5th Edition compiler. As always, if you have any questions etc. about old Unixes, please drop them into this mailing list. Cheers, Warren

25 years, 6 months

Old ATT 3b2 Documentation. (fwd)

by Warren Toomey

----- Forwarded message from Riggi, Mike ----- >From MRIGGI(a)EMPIRE.STATE.NY.US Fri Jul 2 22:51:01 1999 Message-ID: <904E343860E9D211ADD80008C7CF70FD1C2F65@ALBINET> From: "Riggi, Mike" <MRIGGI(a)EMPIRE.STATE.NY.US> To: "'wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au'" <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Old ATT 3b2 Documentation. Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:48:32 -0400 Return-Receipt-To: "Riggi, Mike" <MRIGGI(a)EMPIRE.STATE.NY.US> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) I have complete sys documentation that came with ATT 3b2 400 machine in early 1980s. Includes all 20+ red 3-ring binders (includes all diskettes), also sets of ATT videos on SVR3.2. Also some software for the 3b2 such as 20/20 spreadsheet and WordPerfect. Can you think of anyone who would like this for free? Michael Riggi (518) 473-7649 or 439-3207. ----- End of forwarded message from Riggi, Mike -----

25 years, 7 months

Unix 6 & the E11 Emulator

by Erin Corliss

How do you boot Unix 6 on an Ersatz-11 emulator? Here is the e11.ini I have: set cpu 40 mount dm0: ..\rk6.dsk assign tt1: f2 assign tt2: f3 boot dm0: The emulator currently displays the copyright, followed by a new line and an "@" symbol. At this point if you type "rkunix" or "unix" it has an exception...

25 years, 7 months

Re: Free to a good home... (fwd)

by Warren Toomey

In article by David C. Jenner: > 1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders! (Or is it 152?) Whups, typo :-) > Wow, that's $150,000 to SCO for supporting the effort. > That should probably be enough to pay all the lawyers, etc. > (Even if it's only $15,000.) I hope Warren got a cut, too. :) No, no cut for me, just happiness that people can use the archive. We're currently just back up from a campus-wide power failure. I knew it was coming. Every time minnie get over 100 days uptime, we have a power failure. Cheers all, Warren

25 years, 8 months

Free to a good home... (fwd)

by Warren Toomey

All, Just a message to say that the PUPS mailing list DOES exist :-) It's just very quiet, so please feel free to wake it up. I should send in a list of new things in the PUPS Archive. We now have: 152 people subscribed to the mailing list 100 people with access to the PUPS archive 1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders. Finally, John Dodson in Australia (who is not on the list), asked me to forward this message to you all. Cheers, Warren ----- Forwarded message from John Dodson ----- From: John Dodson <johnd(a)physiol.usyd.edu.au> Subject: Free to a good home... Free to a good home... Complete set of RSX11-M manuals. (Yes it ran on a PDP11 ;-) Complete set of Ultrix manuals. (Oh Ok so it ran on Vaxes ;-) One or 2 PDP-11/23's + some i/o cards (I'm not making a list, YOU must look, decide & negotiate with me to let them go...) A volunteer prepared to make a list would be OK. Contact: John Dodson, Dept of Physiology, (F13) johnd(a)physiol.usyd.edu.au & Faculty of Medicine, http://www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/johnd University of Sydney, Phone +61 2 9351 3277 NSW 2006 Fax +61 2 9351 2058 Australia. Bring a strong friend when you pick it up. You have a week before the docs are trashed. The machines & cards I'll keep for a while till they find a good home. Sorry I cannot (will not) deliver. ----- End of forwarded message from John Dodson ----- Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA26777 for pups-liszt; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:13:38 +1000 (EST) >From Wim Fournier <wim(a)usn.nl> Tue Jun 1 16:59:52 1999 Received: from superluminal.usn.nl (wim(a)superluminal.usn.nl [194.183.103.23]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA26771 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:13:27 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wim@localhost) by superluminal.usn.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA30249 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:59:52 +0200 From: Wim Fournier <wim(a)usn.nl> Message-Id: <199906010659.IAA30249(a)superluminal.usn.nl> Subject: Introduction To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:59:52 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Well as the list does live (a bit) let me introduce myself, maybe I can get out some discussion. My name is Wim Fournier (for known people and friends (not that I have any) it's Wimpie). I'm a student of 19 years old and currently doing Technical Informatics... That is something like system engineer with much knowledge. I'm higly interrested in electronics; High Frequency radio; computers; computer hardware; Old stuf (audio/compu/etc);unix/Linux I own a PDP11/94 with modem-lines / dr11c / tu80 / etc I have not got it working yet (hacking!!!) It's from the dutch telecom company KPN who has used it for semaphone (beepers and stuff) It came with a 19" rack (all black + heavy) and a switch box for American plugs. When I put the box and the PDP on power and switch on the switch and set it to local on or power on, only the switch goes on... the PDP does not react.. I have got one suspect: the wire between the switch and the PDP (3-wire in the back)... it was broken and I re-wire it 1 on 1 but do not know if this is OK. Further more I haven't got a disk yet. I'm searching for an old apple disk (scsi-1) as someone told me it should work. If someone has got an answer to my frustrating problems.. I'm listening.. 8*} Well... that will be the end of this shout for help plus introduction.. Greetings, Wim Fournier Unix Support Netherlands (practice training company for my study) PS: sorry for the bad English if any.. My keyboard doesn't type English that good... 8*)) Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA27048 for pups-liszt; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:21:15 +1000 (EST) >From Wim Fournier <wim(a)usn.nl> Tue Jun 1 19:07:16 1999 Received: from superluminal.usn.nl (wim(a)superluminal.usn.nl [194.183.103.23]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA27043 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:21:05 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wim@localhost) by superluminal.usn.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00196; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:07:16 +0200 From: Wim Fournier <wim(a)usn.nl> Message-Id: <199906010907.LAA00196(a)superluminal.usn.nl> Subject: Re: Introduction To: A.F.R.Bain(a)dpmms.cam.ac.uk (Alan F R Bain) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:07:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au In-Reply-To: <E10ok9a-0006Jy-00(a)moose.dpmms.cam.ac.uk> from "Alan F R Bain" at Jun 1, 99 09:44:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk > > Wim Fournier wrote: > >Well as the list does live (a bit) let me introduce myself, maybe I can get > >out some discussion. > > > >I own a PDP11/94 with modem-lines / dr11c / tu80 / etc > >When I put the box and the PDP on power and switch on the switch and set it to > >local on or power on, only the switch goes on... the PDP does not react.. I > >have got one suspect: the wire between the switch and the PDP (3-wire in the > >back)... it was broken and I re-wire it 1 on 1 but do not know if this is OK. > > Why not try powering up the PDP independantly of the power controller? > You can make an american socket -> dutch plug lead, or just swap the plug. > There's also most probably a circuit breaker on the back of the PDP. > Check that this hasn't tripped (or been damaged in transit!). That's a good one.. I saw the breaker.. it's holding the floor of the pdp.. But what I'm wordering is what the power consumption is (at 220V) in ampere, because I will be feeding it from an normal home-socket (line/null/mass) at +/- 230Volt 10 Ampere. > > The H??? power controller is just a box with a big relay for switching > everything on at once. There came with it two little short ciruit > plugs for testing (there is a power on line and and power off due to > overheating line). I you do need a new three wire power controller > cable, I have a box of hundreds of them, email me and I'm sure I can > send you one. Well.. I didn't get the test plugs.. but that's OK.. I'll nuke them myself 8*) And as of the power controller cables.. How much does it cost to send from your house (where do you live anyway?) to The Netherlands (I live near Utrecht (about the center of NL)) > > >Further more I haven't got a disk yet. I'm searching for an old apple disk > >(scsi-1) as someone told me it should work. > > This depends upon the controller cards installed in the PDP. > I'll send you a list tommorow.. > Alan > Thanks Wim Fournier Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA27545 for pups-liszt; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:02:12 +1000 (EST) >From "David C. Jenner" <djenner(a)halcyon.com> Tue Jun 1 22:47:30 1999 Received: from smtp04.nwnexus.com (smtp04.nwnexus.com [206.63.63.52]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA27540 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:02:02 +1000 (EST) Received: from halcyon.com (jenner.net [206.63.251.66]) by smtp04.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA00390; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 05:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3753D662.9913E45C(a)halcyon.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 05:47:30 -0700 From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner(a)halcyon.com> Organization: Northwest Nexus Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au CC: Unix Heritage Society <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Free to a good home... (fwd) References: <199906010555.PAA07705(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk 1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders! (Or is it 152?) Wow, that's $150,000 to SCO for supporting the effort. That should probably be enough to pay all the lawyers, etc. (Even if it's only $15,000.) I hope Warren got a cut, too. :) Dave Warren Toomey wrote: > > All, > Just a message to say that the PUPS mailing list DOES exist :-) > It's just very quiet, so please feel free to wake it up. I should > send in a list of new things in the PUPS Archive. > > We now have: > 152 people subscribed to the mailing list > 100 people with access to the PUPS archive > 1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders. > > Finally, John Dodson in Australia (who is not on the list), asked > me to forward this message to you all. > > Cheers, > Warren > > ----- Forwarded message from John Dodson ----- > From: John Dodson <johnd(a)physiol.usyd.edu.au> > Subject: Free to a good home... > > Free to a good home... > > Complete set of RSX11-M manuals. (Yes it ran on a PDP11 ;-) > > Complete set of Ultrix manuals. (Oh Ok so it ran on Vaxes ;-) > > One or 2 PDP-11/23's + some i/o cards (I'm not making a list, YOU must > look, decide & negotiate with me to let them go...) > A volunteer prepared to make a list would be OK. > > Contact: > > John Dodson, Dept of Physiology, (F13) > johnd(a)physiol.usyd.edu.au & Faculty of Medicine, > http://www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/johnd University of Sydney, > Phone +61 2 9351 3277 NSW 2006 > Fax +61 2 9351 2058 Australia. > > Bring a strong friend when you pick it up. You have a week before the docs are > trashed. The machines & cards I'll keep for a while till they find a good home. > Sorry I cannot (will not) deliver. > ----- End of forwarded message from John Dodson -----

25 years, 8 months

Removing VAXBI and XMI boards

by Michael Sokolov

Hello everyone, As I'm trying to determine the exact configuration of the VAX 6000 I have just acquired, I have the following very stupid question: how in the world do you pull a VAXBI or XMI board out of the backplane? It's definitely nothing like any UNIBUS or Q-bus stuff I have worked with so far. UNIBUS and Q-bus both use Mxxxx series modules, but VAXBI and XMI use Txxxx series ones, which look quite different mechanically. There is a long black bar hanging over each slot, including empty ones, but no fiddling with it makes the board come out. Could someone please explain to me how to pull VAXBI and XMI boards out and put them back in? TIA. Special Agent Michael Sokolov Harhan Computer Operation Facility International Free Computing Task Force Phone: +1-216-761-3656 ARPA Internet SMTP mail: msokolov(a)harrier.Uznet.NET

25 years, 8 months

Re: TOC of Sun3 SunOS 4.1.1 tapes (what about sunos 4.1???)

by rdkeys＠unity.ncsu.edu

> While rummaging I found this. Thought some one might find it useful. Yes indeedy.... I had a paper copy of that, but it is nice to get an electronic copy. > SunOS 4.1.1 700-2719-10 of Sun Oct 14 16:11:25 PDT 1990 from Sun Release Engineering > ARCH sun3 > VOLUME 1 > Vol File Name Size Type > 1 0 boot 32768 image > 1 1 XDRTOC 4096 toc > 1 2 munix 729600 image > 1 3 munixfs.tape 1638400 image Speaking of 4.1.1 bits, I have a 4.1 tape for the early sun4 machines that has bad spots in the usr file system and beyond on Tape 1 of 2. Up to that point (the first 6 files) tape 1 is fine, and tape 2 is fine. Anyone have the usr tarballs and later from a sun4 sunos 4.1 tape 1 that I could use to rewrite my tape? Right now I a using bits from the 4.1.1 CD, but it would be nice to have the original 4.1 files so that I could fully rewrite the tape with the correct bits. What I would like to do is pull the reels out of a good fresh tape, and put them into the Sun badged cartridge, and rewrite it. My 4/260 box would be much appreciative, for the long haul. Any suggestions or leads to the mystical files are appreciated. Is there a tally of how many of us are doing the old vme sun bit? I run 3 12-slot boxes and 1 3-slot box, with 3/110, 3/160, 3/200, 4/110, 4/260 configurations, depending upon how the boards are swapped on any given day. Yeah, I know, it ain't one of our treasured PDP-11 toyz, but it a lot easier to find in the dustbins here and there.....(:+}}... Bob Keys

25 years, 9 months

Re: UNIX Heritage Society Digest V1 #78

by Robert Harker, 408-295-9432

The standard SunOS comand to move the tape is mt -f /dev/nrst0 rew mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1 You need to use the non-rewinding device, /dev/nrst0, not /dev/rst0 which rewinds the tape automatically. Then you might try either tar tvfb /dev/nrst0 20b or dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=dd.out.file bs=20b Trying to recall what the format of the files on the sun tape were. Humm.... Wonder if I still have my copy tape script.... Rummage around with find... found it. It is attached at the end. A pretty stupid script now that I look at it. But it did the trick to copy tapes from disk dd images. I leave it as an excersize to write the script to copy the tape to disk. BTW, the tapes were only 20 Mb in those days. Hope this helps RLH Proud owner of a Sun 100U > Generate sendmail.cf files using the web. Check out our web based < > sendmail.cf file generator: http://www.harker.com/gen.sendmail.cf < > For info about our "Managing Internet Mail, Setting Up and Trouble < > Shooting sendmail and DNS" and a schedule of dates and locations, < > please send email to info(a)harker.com, or visit www.harker.com < Robert Harker Harker Systems Sendmail and TCP/IP Network Training 1180 Hester Ave Sendmail, Network, and Sysadmin Consulting San Jose, CA 95126 harker(a)harker.com 408-295-6239 #! /bin/sh mt -f /dev/rst8 ret dd if=/dev/rst8 of=tape1.file0 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 1 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file1 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 2 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file2 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 3 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file3 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 4 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file4 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 5 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file5 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 6 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file6 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 7 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file7 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 8 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file8 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 9 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file9 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 10 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file10 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 11 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file11 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 12 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file12 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 13 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file13 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 14 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file14 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 15 dd if=/dev/nrst8 of=tape1.file15 bs=126b mt -f /dev/rst8 rew Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA21117 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:00:40 +1000 (EST) >From "Robert Harker, 408-295-9432" <harker(a)harker.com> Thu May 6 08:56:32 1999 Received: from harker.harker.com (harker.harker.com [192.102.231.1]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA21112 for <pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:00:28 +1000 (EST) Received: (from harker@localhost) by harker.harker.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA23418 for pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Wed, 5 May 1999 15:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:56:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert Harker, 408-295-9432" <harker(a)harker.com> Message-Id: <199905052256.PAA23418(a)harker.harker.com> To: pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: TOC of Sun3 SunOS 4.1.1 tapes Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk While rummaging I found this. Thought some one might find it useful. Hope this helps RLH > Generate sendmail.cf files using the web. Check out our web based < > sendmail.cf file generator: http://www.harker.com/gen.sendmail.cf < > For info about our "Managing Internet Mail, Setting Up and Trouble < > Shooting sendmail and DNS" and a schedule of dates and locations, < > please send email to info(a)harker.com, or visit www.harker.com < Robert Harker Harker Systems Sendmail and TCP/IP Network Training 1180 Hester Ave Sendmail, Network, and Sysadmin Consulting San Jose, CA 95126 harker(a)harker.com 408-295-6239 SunOS 4.1.1 700-2719-10 of Sun Oct 14 16:11:25 PDT 1990 from Sun Release Engineering ARCH sun3 VOLUME 1 Vol File Name Size Type 1 0 boot 32768 image 1 1 XDRTOC 4096 toc 1 2 munix 729600 image 1 3 munixfs.tape 1638400 image 1 4 mini-root 7168000 image 1 5 root 74309 tarZ 1 6 usr 11609002 tarZ 1 7 Kvm 2042991 tarZ 1 8 Install 375409 tarZ 1 9 Networking 368239 tarZ 1 10 System_V 1624303 tarZ 1 11 Sys 1824146 tarZ 1 12 SunView_Users 978709 tarZ 1 13 SunView_Demo 196393 tarZ 1 14 Text 286755 tarZ 1 15 Demo 2132420 tarZ 1 16 OpenWindows_Users 10627838 tarZ 1 17 OpenWindows_Demo 2235385 tarZ 1 18 OpenWindows_Fonts 7180441 tarZ 1 19 User_Diag 1362467 tarZ 1 20 Manual 2653437 tarZ 1 21 TLI 18976 tarZ 1 22 RFS 338005 tarZ 1 23 Debugging 1141193 tarZ 1 24 SunView_Programmers 696087 tarZ 1 25 Shlib_Custom 748155 tarZ 1 26 Graphics 1219433 tarZ 1 27 uucp 226513 tarZ 1 28 Copyright 1536 image 2 0 XDRTOC 4096 toc 2 1 XDRTOC 4096 toc 2 2 Games 1558603 tarZ 2 3 Versatec 2383297 tarZ 2 4 Security 203109 tarZ 2 5 OpenWindows_Programmers 3916907 tarZ 2 6 Patch_IPC 139264 tarZ 2 7 Patch_C++_2.0 2953216 tarZ 2 8 Patch_TAAC 20480 tarZ 2 9 Copyright 1536 image Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA21141 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:03:09 +1000 (EST) >From "Robert Harker, 408-295-9432" <harker(a)harker.com> Thu May 6 08:59:03 1999 Received: from harker.harker.com (harker.harker.com [192.102.231.1]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA21136 for <pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:02:59 +1000 (EST) Received: (from harker@localhost) by harker.harker.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA23434 for pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Wed, 5 May 1999 15:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:59:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert Harker, 408-295-9432" <harker(a)harker.com> Message-Id: <199905052259.PAA23434(a)harker.harker.com> To: pups-digest(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Looking for Sun2 Multibus SCSI board Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk I am looking for a Sun2 Mutlibus SCSI board, no cables. Will give it a good home, pay money (some), or trade for other Sun2 Mutlibus stuff. If you need Sun2 Mutlibus boards I have some spares. Drop a request. Thanks in advance RLH > Generate sendmail.cf files using the web. Check out our web based < > sendmail.cf file generator: http://www.harker.com/gen.sendmail.cf < > For info about our "Managing Internet Mail, Setting Up and Trouble < > Shooting sendmail and DNS" and a schedule of dates and locations, < > please send email to info(a)harker.com, or visit www.harker.com < Robert Harker Harker Systems Sendmail and TCP/IP Network Training 1180 Hester Ave Sendmail, Network, and Sysadmin Consulting San Jose, CA 95126 harker(a)harker.com 408-295-6239 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA22062 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:13:25 +1000 (EST) >From Joerg Micheel <joerg(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Thu May 6 15:09:17 1999 Received: from xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.20]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA22057 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:13:16 +1000 (EST) Received: from lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (joerg(a)lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.12]) by xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22179 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 17:09:18 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id RAA01649 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Thu, 6 May 1999 17:09:17 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 17:09:17 +1200 From: Joerg Micheel <joerg(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Interview with Ken Thompson in COMPUTER Message-ID: <19990506170917.A1630(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: SCMS, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Project: WAND - Waikato Applied Network Dynamics, DAG Operating-System: ... drained by Solaris 7 SPARC Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Hi there, I found this one quite interesting reading: http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: <joerg(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, SCMS Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA22082 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:16:50 +1000 (EST) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Thu May 6 15:12:40 1999 Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA22077 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:16:41 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) id PAA10788; Thu, 6 May 1999 15:12:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199905060512.PAA10788(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Interview with Ken Thompson in COMPUTER In-Reply-To: <19990506170917.A1630(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> from Joerg Micheel at "May 6, 1999 5: 9:17 pm" To: joerg(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz (Joerg Micheel) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 15:12:40 +1000 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Joerg Micheel: > Hi there, > > I found this one quite interesting reading: > > http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm >Joerg Yes, I should link it on the PUPS/TUHS pages. Thanks Joerg. Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA22960 for pups-liszt; Thu, 6 May 1999 23:31:54 +1000 (EST)

25 years, 9 months

Usenix archives?

by Tim Shoppa

A rescue yesterday yielded several 9-tracks claiming to be Usenix collections from the late 70's and early 80's. Are there any Usenix collections online that might be interested in copies? If not, would this material be appropriate for the PUPS archive, possibly in a trimmed or edited form? -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA07967 for pups-liszt; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:05:27 +1000 (EST) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Mon May 3 09:03:24 1999 Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA07962 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:05:19 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA41888; Mon, 3 May 1999 09:03:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <199905022303.JAA41888(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Usenix archives? In-Reply-To: <990502174247.20c01252(a)trailing-edge.com> from Tim Shoppa at "May 2, 1999 5:42:47 pm" To: SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 09:03:24 +1000 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Tim Shoppa: > A rescue yesterday yielded several 9-tracks claiming to be Usenix > collections from the late 70's and early 80's. Are there any Usenix > collections online that might be interested in copies? If not, would > this material be appropriate for the PUPS archive, possibly in a trimmed > or edited form? Hi Tim, yes I think those tapes would be excellent material for the PUPS Archive. We already have some Usenix tapes in the archive: 2616 Applications/Usenix_77/ug091377-ar.tar.gz 10208 Applications/Spencer_Tapes/del.tar.gz 2688 Applications/Spencer_Tapes/tor79.tar.gz but of course more would be welcome. I'd be happy to take them untrimmed :-) Thanks! Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA10986 for pups-liszt; Tue, 4 May 1999 01:43:39 +1000 (EST) >From Eric Fischer <eric(a)fudge.uchicago.edu> Tue May 4 01:41:11 1999 Received: from fudge.uchicago.edu (IDENT:eric@fudge.uchicago.edu [128.135.136.68]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA10981 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Tue, 4 May 1999 01:43:28 +1000 (EST) Received: (from eric@localhost) by fudge.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA10922; Mon, 3 May 1999 10:41:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:41:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Eric Fischer <eric(a)fudge.uchicago.edu> Message-Id: <199905031541.KAA10922(a)fudge.uchicago.edu> To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: SunOS 0.4 tape Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk When sorting through old things in the machine room here recently, Job Bogan came across an early QIC tape of SunOS. The label reads: Sun UNIX 4.2* Software Release 0.4 (*Berkeley Beta Release) 1/4" Boot Tape 1 of 2 700-0585-01 copyright (c) 1983 Sun Microsystems Unfortunately, when I attempted to read the tape, all I got was a tar file of a Fortran program dating from 1989. It didn't get very far into the tape, though, so parts of the original software may still be present -- but I don't know how to get past the end-of-tape mark to get at them. Any ideas? By the way, the Sun 1 that this tape goes with still exists, elsewhere on campus, but hasn't been in usable condition in years. eric Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA11134 for pups-liszt; Tue, 4 May 1999 02:31:47 +1000 (EST) >From Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com> Tue May 4 02:29:16 1999 Received: from timaxp.trailing-edge.com (trailing-edge.wdn.com [198.232.144.27]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id CAA11129 for <PUPS(a)MINNIE.cs.adfa.EDU.AU>; Tue, 4 May 1999 02:31:36 +1000 (EST) Received: by timaxp.trailing-edge.com for PUPS(a)MINNIE.cs.adfa.EDU.AU; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:29:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:29:16 -0400 From: Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com> To: PUPS(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Message-Id: <990503122916.20c010f3(a)trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: SunOS 0.4 tape Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk >When sorting through old things in the machine room here recently, >Job Bogan came across an early QIC tape of SunOS. The label reads: > > Sun UNIX 4.2* Software Release 0.4 > (*Berkeley Beta Release) > 1/4" Boot Tape 1 of 2 700-0585-01 > copyright (c) 1983 Sun Microsystems > >Unfortunately, when I attempted to read the tape, all I got was a >tar file of a Fortran program dating from 1989. So presumably someone decided to re-use this tape - and we hope they didn't reformat the tape first. > It didn't get very >far into the tape, though, so parts of the original software may >still be present -- but I don't know how to get past the end-of-tape >mark to get at them. Any ideas? QIC tape formats have physical sectors that the controller (in your case, most likely the SCSI controller that interfaces the drive to your SCSI bus) presents to the rest of the system as a series of logical tape records and tape marks. You can't get past the logical end-of-tape because the SCSI controller (not host adapter!) "knows" there's nothing past the logical end-of-tape. If you bypass this by going straight to the physical sectors, you can read the data following logical end-of-tape, assuming that the cartridge was never reformatted. Most SCSI QIC tape controllers will let you get at the physical sectors, but this is rarely supported by the OS and isn't always consistent from model to model and manufacturer to manufacturer. QIC tape standards are pretty well documented at http://www.qic.org/. For details on how your SCSI QIC drive can be forced to access physical sectors, it's best to go straight to the drive manufacturer's technical manuals. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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