In atricle by Neil Johnson: THat was my impression too, Neil. I was being hopeful (as always). We do need to talk with SCO (via Bob Supnik?) to ensure we have SCO's permission first. Thanks! Warren Received: from si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de (root(a)si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de [141.99.128.16]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.13/8.3) with SMTP id LAA07808; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:49:53 +1059 Received: from vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; by si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de with SMTP (5.67b/UniSiegen 1.1) id AA01756; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:49:52 +0100 Received: (from engel@localhost) by vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de (Mailhost) id BAA21049; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:49:21 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Engel &lt;engel(a)unix-ag.uni-siegen.de&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199701230049.BAA21049(a)vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de&gt; Subject: Re: 7th Edition on a real PDP-11/23+ (fwd) To: wkt(a)csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:49:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au In-Reply-To: <9701222201.AA22095@dolphin> from "Warren Toomey" at Jan 23, 97 09:01:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Great ! Finally gotta dig out that old RL02 drive ... How did you manage to get the image onto the RL02 ? Some time ago, the 7th Edition man pages were available on http://plan9.att.com. This machine currently seems to be down, so I can't verify if the man pages are still there. regards, Michael Engel (engel(a)unix-ag.uni-siegen.de) Received: from wetware.wetware.com (root(a)wetware.wetware.com [207.20.11.1]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.13/8.3) with SMTP id QAA08114; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:37:05 +1100 Received: from poco-adagio by wetware.wetware.com via rmail with uucp id &lt;m0vnHqJ-000NO4C(a)wetware.wetware.com&gt; for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:55 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #5 built 1996-Dec-14) Received: by poco-adagio.santa-clara.ca.us (DECUS UUCP /2.0/2.0/2.0/); Wed, 22 Jan 97 21:20:45 PST Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 21:20:45 PST Message-Id: &lt;009AEC32982F5600.00000130(a)poco-adagio.santa-clara.ca.us&gt; From: "Bob Armstrong" &lt;bob(a)poco-adagio.santa-clara.ca.us&gt; Subject: RE: 7th Edition on a real PDP-11/23+ To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au X-VMS-Mail-To: uucp%&quot;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&quot; It was actually quite simple. Bob Supnik's RL02 file is simply a byte for byte dump of a pack. That is, it's just sector 0, head 0, cylinder 0 followed by sector 1, head 0, cylinder 0, ... then all the sectors of head 1, cylinder 0, then cylinder 1, etc. There are no overhead bytes in the file an no interleaving is used. RL02s have 40 sectors of 256 bytes each per track, two heads, and 512 cylinders for a total 10240K bytes per disk (which happens to be exactly the size of Bob's RL02 file :-) You want to be careful about bad sectors, since RL02s do bad block replacement at the device driver level. If your pack has any bad sectors that aren't at exactly the same spot as bad sectors on Bob's original pack (not very likely!), then this isn't going to work. Fortunately error free RL02 packs are relatively easy to come by. Anyway, since the only other RL02 that I have access to is on a VMS system, I had to write a little program for VMS to load the disk using physical I/O. I'd be happy to make this program available if anyone wants it. Once you have the pack loaded, you can just mount it on a 11/23 and use the RL02 hardware boostrap. The Unix boot will start and print a "@" for a prompt. Reply by entering "unix" and carriage return, and you'll see "mem=205376" followed by "SINGLE USER LOGIN:". Enter ^Z and Unix will start timesharing, then you can login in using root with the password "pdp". I had two problems in this process. First, I didn't know about the Unix bootstrap program (I'm afraid I've never used Bob's emulator!), and when I saw the "@" I just blindly assumed I'd been dumped back into ODT. Fortunately Jim Carpenter was kind enough to educate me about this. Second, Unix would hang up as soon as I started timesharing. This turned out to be because my LTC in the 11/23 wasn't working, which doesn't bother RT11 at all but it does hang Unix. After I repaired the hardware everything ran fine. If someone has a PDP-11 with a RL02 drive and no way to load V7 on a pack, I am willing to do it if you send me a blank RL02. I believe the SCO license allows this so long as: 1) I don't charge for the service 2) You certify that it is for non-commerical use 3) I include a printed copy of SCO's license Note that this kernel supports only RL02 drives, so unless your -11 has a RL02 drive this system won't work. RD5x and RA8x drives won't do. A similar procedure would probably work with the RK05 images, but I don't have the hardware to try. I have a 11/23, DLV11J (4 lines), RL02/RLV11, TU58 (on one of the DLV11 ports), RX02/RXV21, and a TSV05 9-track tape. The TSV05 is TS11 compatible, and I'd especially like to have support for it. Bob's kernel supports MASSBUS tapes, but not a TS11. SCO's license seems to cover all PDP-11 binaries for 7th Edition Unix, and it doesn't seem to say anything about their origin. Of course, I'm not a lawyer either. Bob Received: from csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.20.6]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.6.13/8.3) with ESMTP id QAA13586; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:39:17 +1100 Received: (from wkt@localhost) by csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA08050; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:38:53 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:38:53 +1100 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199702110538.QAA08050(a)csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; To: moffen(a)ix.netcom.com Cc: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: PDP-11 [Mike is taking over a sysadmin job for a UNIX PDP-11. He hasn't seen one before. Can someone help!] Ok, I'd try to chat with the person before they leave! At least to get the root password. I am cc'ing this email to a group of PDP-11 Unix users who may be able to help you out. I'd guess it's a 6th or 7th Edition UNIX, or a 2BSD system. What you really need to know is: + how to get a root login on the system + how to change the root password + how to reboot the system properly If the person leaves root logged in on the console, at least you can type passwd and change the root password. If they haven't, then there is no easy way of getting a root login to change the password, except for rebooting the system. Rebooting depends on what PDP-11 you've got there. If you can find out, someone here should be able to explain how to boot into single-user mode, where you have a root prompt and can change the root password and then go to multi-user mode. I'll try to get the basic maintenance manuals for these old UNIX systems put into ASCII and email them to you. Cheers, Warren Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11464 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:11:11 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA10537 for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:11:10 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199704290511.PAA10537(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: PUPS Mailing list To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:11:09 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, this is just a mailout to the PDP-11 Unix Preservation Society mailing list, as I've just added half a dozen addresses & I thought it would be a good idea to check that all the old & new addresses are valid. If you want off, please email me back! Looks like Bob Supnik's emulators have sparked a bit of interest in these old systems. Welcome to the new users of PDP-11 Unix! Cheers, Warren wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18807 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:33:20 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA00384 for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:33:19 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199706040133.LAA00384(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: CSR/vector calculator for the archives (fwd) To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 11:33:19 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Forwarded message from Tom I Helbekkmo ----- To: wkt(a)csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) From: Tom I Helbekkmo &lt;tih(a)nhh.no&gt; Subject: CSR/vector calculator for the archives Hi, Warren! I've written a CSR and vector calculator, based on VMS documentation and comparison tested against VMS SYSGEN. For want of a better name, I'm simply calling the program 'sysgen' -- this shows its heritage, at least... :-) This should be useful to PDP (and VAX) users who don't have a VMS system handy, and would like to configure their systems according to DEC standard. Would you add it to the PUPS archives and send out an announcement to the mailing list, please? Thanks! -tih ----- End of forwarded message from Tom I Helbekkmo ----- I assume this runs on any box with a C compiler. I've stashed it in the archive in the Progams section. If you don't have a Unix license, let me know & I'll email it to you. Warren Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28238 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:54:10 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA04546 for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:54:27 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199706252354.JAA04546(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: No progress on PDP-11 Unix source licenses, ideas? To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:54:27 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear PDP-11 Unix people, I'm emailing you because I haven't done much in the last few months about encouraging SCO to sell source licenses for PDP-11 UNIX, and I think it's time we try a new tack. The person I've been negotiating with a SCO is Dion Johnson, dionj(a)sco.com. I pestered him a lot last year and so perhaps I've worn out my welcome with him. So I'd like to suggest another approach or two. Perhaps another person interested in PDP-11 UNIX source licenses can try talking with Dion or other people at SCO? Any volunteers? Steven Schultz? Bob Supnik? Alternatively, if nobody comes forward, we could all email Dion expressing our desires for sources licenses for these old UNIX versions. Looking at the survey I've been conducting at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/, at least 130 people are interested in source licenses, and the general consensus is: No resale of license is acceptable No source redistribution is acceptable 50/50 split on single-user-only licenses No commercial usage is acceptable Full source code is preferable Main UNIXes to be covered are 5th,6th,7th Edition and 2BSD. Cost of license no more than US$200, max. After reviewing the email from Dion, I'd add another condition which would make SCO happy: Source license adequately protects SCO's intellectual property, in their view. Anyway, please email your suggestions on what we should do to the PUPS mailing list (oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) or to me. I think the single person approach is better than flooding Dion with email. Maybe we can sign an email petition and deliver that to a number of people at SCO? Thanks in advance for your input! Warren wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA29897 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:23:50 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA06719 for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:24:14 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199706270124.LAA06719(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: Petition to SCO for licenses To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:24:14 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear PDP-11 UNIX people, The small response to my suggestions about lobbying SCO for source licenses brought some volunteers for the cause, and a preference for a single petition to SCO rather than mail-bombing :-) If you didn't respond, please let me know what you think & if you're willing to help out. I've written a draft petition, which is attached below, and is also available (with some hyperlinks) at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/petition.html Is there anything in the draft you disagree with, or wish to change? Please let me know!! Warren The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Dear Sirs/Madams, We, the undersigned, are a group of people who are interested in obtaining source code and binary copies of the versions of UNIX that ran on the PDP-11 range of computers from Digital Equipment Corporation. We would like to have copies of these versions of UNIX because: + they are of great historical importance, and/or + we personally own PDP-11 computers on which these systems will run. The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. owns the copyright to these very old versions of UNIX. We understand and appreciate that SCO wishes to protect their intellectual property within, and ownership of, these versions of UNIX. Therefore, we wish to petition SCO to make available source code and binary licenses of these versions of UNIX so that: + we can legally own source code and binaries for PDP-11 UNIXes, and + SCO's copyright and intellectual property is protected. We would be happy to purchase and be legally bound by a source code and binary license for PDP-11 UNIXes that meets SCO's requirements, as long as: + the license covers the entire distributions (source code, binaries and documentation) of the following versions of UNIX: - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Edition UNIX - 32V UNIX - PWB/UNIX - those portions of all 2BSD releases which are derived from UNIX source code + we have the right to make changes to the source code of the above versions of UNIX + we have the right to distribute our changes to other people who have signed and agreed to the source code and binary license for PDP-11 UNIXes + we have the right to install UNIX binaries on PDP-11 hardware and PDP-11 emulating software + we have the right to allow other people to use the UNIX binaries on such an installation Note that the latter is already permitted, given SCO's binary license agreement for 5th, 6th and 7th Edition UNIX. We would also be happy with the following conditions imposed in the source code and binary license for PDP-11 UNIXes: + no resale of the license is permitted + source code covered by the license cannot be distributed or disclosed to people not covered by the license + no commercial usage of the source code or binaries is permitted + SCO is not required to include copies of any source code, binaries or documentation with the source code and binary license for PDP-11 UNIXes On a recent survey of people interested in such a license (see http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/) over 120 people responded. Most of the respondents would agree to a license with the conditions and limitations outlined above, if the cost of such a license was less than US$200. We urge you to consider + the historical significance of the UNIX operating system, + that the PDP-11 versions of UNIX are essentially obsolete, + that superior UNIX-like operating systems, libraries and applications are freely available in source code form, + that the source code to 6th Edition UNIX is publically available in printed form (Lion's Commentary on 6th Edition UNIX, Peer to Peer Communications, Inc.) and make personal-use non-disclosure source code and binaries licenses for PDP-11 UNIXes available at a price which we can afford as individuals. The UNIX community has played an extremely important role in the development and success of the UNIX operating system. The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., as owners of the UNIX operating system source, would be repaying the UNIX community in some measure by providing source licenses for these old versions of UNIX. Although you would not profit greatly from the licenses, you would earn the respect and appreciation from many people who helped make UNIX what it is today. Thank you for your time. Your response to our petition will be appreciated, and can be sent via Internet e-mail to Warren Toomey wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au. Sincerely yours, The undersigned Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA09864 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:20:22 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16859; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:21:15 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199707020021.KAA16859(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: Re: PDP11 To: crr(a)gil.com.au Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:21:15 +1000 (EST) Cc: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) In-Reply-To: &lt;199707020013.KAA08108(a)iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au&gt; from &quot;crr(a)gil.com.au&quot; at "Jul 2, 97 10:13:49 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In atricle by crr(a)gil.com.au: Hi Colin, I saw you sign the petition, thanks. The problem is how to load the software onto the box! There are RK05 disk images of UNIX (v6 and v7) at ftp://minnie.adfa.oz.au/pub/PDP-11-sims/Supnik_2.2d/ But how do we get them into the box? Do you have any boot disks for any OS (RSX, RT-11)? What about tape drives? I'll pass this onto our mailing list, maybe some more knowledgeable readers will be able to answer you. Alternatively, posting this to vmsnet.pdp-11 should get you an answers. Ciao, Warren Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA10094 for &lt;unixarc(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:59:08 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17575 for unixarc(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:00:05 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:00:05 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199707020200.MAA17575(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; To: unixarc(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Petition SCO for PDP-11 UNIX Source Licenses Hello, You may have received email from me last week asking for ideas about lobbying SCO to make source licenses for PDP-11 UNIXes available. The feedback from the email was in favour of creating a petition which we would present to SCO. I mailed a draft petition to many of you and again got a favourable response. Therefore, I've set up a WWW petition for PDP-11 UNIX source licenses at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/petition.html. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION!!! if you agree with the petition. PLEASE GET OTHER PEOPLE TO SIGN TOO!!! We need as many signatures as we can get. Pass the word around to other interested people you know of. If you filled in the PDP-11 UNIX source code survey on the same WWW server, your name has been automatically put on the petition, unless you disagreed with the petition's contents. Please email me if you want your name removed. You can re-sign the petition to add your Full Name; I'll tidy it up later. I'd like to get well over 100 names on the petition before I pass it to SCO. If you have contacts at SCO who we could send the petition, please email me! If you'd like to be put on a mailing list to be kept informed of the petition's progress, also email me. Hopefully, we will get a result from SCO. Thanks again, Warren Toomey wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10113 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:04:26 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17606 for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:05:23 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199707020205.MAA17606(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: PDP UNIX Src License Petition To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:05:23 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Apologies if you've already got word of this; I've lost track of who I have & haven't emailed. There is a petition to sign to convince SCO to make Unix source licenses available at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/petition.html 160 signatures so far, about 120 culled from the survey I was running and 40 in the past 48 hours. Please sign if you want SCO to make licenses available! Informal feedback from SCO is good; Dion Johnson there thinks it looks reasonable & he will be our advocate at SCO. Thanks, Warren Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18522 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:38:55 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01410 for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:39:00 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199707152339.JAA01410(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: Another Old PDP-11 UNIX Tape To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:38:59 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I've just tracked down another old tape with PDP-11 Unix stuff on it. It's in the UK. Anybody there care to chat with George & extract the bits from the tape so we can put it in the archive? ----- Forwarded message from George Coulouris ----- To: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; From: George Coulouris &lt;George.Coulouris(a)dcs.qmw.ac.uk&gt; Subject: Re: PDP-11 UNIX Warren, I've had a 9-track tape reel in my bottom drawer for about 15 years. I no longer remember what is on it! It may contain the source of 'em' and a few other utilities that I wrote in the '70s. Unfortunately I have no convenient way to read it. If you are interested, I could try to find someone with a 9-track reel drive, or if you have one I could just send the tape to you. I'd be happy to liase with anyone who is willing to have a go at reading the tape. George ----- End of forwarded message from George Coulouris ----- Also, the source code petition has now got 290 signatures. I haven't heard anything from SCO since I passed it to them formally, except that they had received it and it was being passed to `the right people'. I'll keep updating the status page, hyperlinked to the petition itself, as things happen. The petition's at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/petition.html. Quite a number of well-known people have signed. Both Andy Tan(n)enbaums, Steven Schultz, Richard Tobin, Bill Joy, Henry Spencer, Neil Groundwater, Dave Presotto, Andrew Hume, Peter Collinson, Greg Rose, Brian Redman, Peter Honeyman, Megan Gentry, Jim McKie, Margo Seltzer, John Mashey, Peter Salus, Ozalp Babaoglu, Keith Bostic, George Coulouris etc. Plus all the other individuals who have shown support. Cheers, Warren Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA02515 for &lt;oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt;; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:36:07 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA01232 for oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:36:12 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey &lt;wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Message-Id: &lt;199707230336.NAA01232(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au&gt; Subject: New PDP-11 UNIX Archive Additions To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:36:12 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All, I've just received a couple of _huge_ tarballs from Keith Bostic with the following PDP-11 UNIX stuff: 1BSD 2.10BSD 2.79BSD 2.8BSD 2.9BSD 2BSD First 2BSD tape. 3BSD First 3BSD tape. pascal.2.0 Pascal distribution pascal.2.10 Pascal distribution 32V Documentors WorkBench. pdp.archive ??? pwb 3 slightly different & incomplete versions v6 6th Edition v6.compat ??? v7 7th Edition v7add The "40 changes" tape. v7m Follow-on release to V7 Due to space considerations (& a lack of time), I haven't been able to extract anything into the licensed UNIX archive that I run on henry. I'd also like to try and remove duplicates where possible. If you're interested in a particular thing from the tarballs, please email me and I'll extract the relevant sections. Also: 300+ signatures on the PDP-11 UNIX src license petition. I just sent a reminder email to SCO to see what they're doing with it. Cheers, Warren