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I have a number of old Unix™ ½ inch reel to reel tapes. I would dearly love to transfer the contents, if readable, to a more modern medium. If anyone has the facility to do this please contact me. I'm located in the United Kingdom. They are 800 or 1600 BPI, 9 track and, I suspect, NRZI encoded. They should be compatible with DEC reel-to-reel drives, probably most others.
They contain various PDP/LSI-11 versions of AT&T Bell Research Laboratories UNIX™ Edition 6 and 7. The Bell tapes (1, 2 and 3) are for PDP-11/45 with other drivers. The EUUG (European Unix Users Group) tape has kernels for various LSI-11 models including LSI-11/23. It also contains a large number of contributed utilities.
The EUUG 7th. Edition was the first Unix I ever ran. It was also the first operating system that I ever compiled every part of from source. That was no mean feat on a rather small LSI 11/23 with an RL02 disk.
Below is a picture of each tape with facsimilies of the labels.
10.5" 2400 ft. Graham Magnetics Epoch 480
BELL LABORATORIES, INC
UNIX* OPERATING SYSTEM 6TH EDITION
1 FILE 9 TRACK 1600 BPI DATE: 11/10/81
*UNIX IS A TRADEMARK OF THE BELL LABORATORIES
RESTRICTED RIGHTS
USE, DUPLICATION OR DISCLOSURE IS
SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS STATED IN YOUR
CONTRACT WITH WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
10.5" 2400 ft. Graham Magnetics Epoch 480
BELL LABORATORIES, INC
UNIX* - SEVENTH EDITION
9 TRACK 800 BPI 7 FILES
*UNIX IS A TRADEMARK OF BELL LABORATORIES
FILE 1 16 512 BYTE RECORDS
FILE 2 14 512 BYTE RECORDS
FILE 3 1 512 BYTE RECORDS
FILE 4 22 512 BYTE RECORDS
FILE 5 22 512 BYTE RECORDS
FILE 6 202 10,240 BYTE RECORDS
FILE 7 937 10,240 BYTE RECORDS
RESTRICTED RIGHTS
USE, DUPLICATION OR DISCLOSURE IS
SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS STATED IN YOUR
CONTRACT WITH AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
7" 600 ft. Graham Magnetics Epoch 480
BELL LABORATORIES, INC
UNIX* SEVENTH EDITION, ADDENDUM
9 TRACK 800 BPI TAR FORMAT
*TRADEMARK OF BELL LABORATORIES
RESTRICTED RIGHTS
USE, DUPLICATION OR DISCLOSURE
IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS
STATED IN YOUR CONTRACT WITH
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRA
PH
10.5" 2400 ft. Memorex Cubic HD
EUUG distr 1 release 6
UNIX V7 - small machine
subject to Bell license
800 BPI tape nr.322..
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