I have a tape with the label
"UNIX USERS GRUOP NEW RELEASE TAPE"
"091377"
(That last part is almost certainly the date).
The tape is in tp format. I don't see anything that looks to match in
the bitsavers archive.
Al, shall I upload the image for you to snag?
JRJ
On 3/7/2019 12:08 PM, Al
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
I'm sure there are.
Usenix threw out the copies of their tapes that were given back to them to
preserve.
Oof, that reads like a punch to the gut.
--Jason
On 3/7/19 7:28 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
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>
> Makes me wonder if there are other must have tapes from back in the day that
> we may or may
> not have copies of...
>
I'm sure there are.
Usenix threw out the copies of their tapes that were given back to them to
preserve.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 12:25 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
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> On 3/6/19 10:14 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk wrote:
> > Brent Hilpert writes:
> >
> >> On 2019-Mar-05, at 10:07 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> >
> >>> TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe
>
> sigh.. before this goes
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:50 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
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> I guess there aren't enough Unix greybeards around here any more.
> The UBC tape, like Usenix tapes, Yale E editor, and the RAND editor tapes
> were just things you knew about.
I got into UNIX in 1984/85 on VAXen and I know all about
Al Kossow via cctalk writes:
> On 3/6/19 10:14 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk wrote:
> sigh.. before this goes farther into the weeds, the tape
> came from the University of British Columbia's Biosciences Data Center
>
> there is a short bio of Bill Webb at
>
On 3/6/19 10:14 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk wrote:
> Brent Hilpert writes:
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>> On 2019-Mar-05, at 10:07 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
>
>>> TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe
sigh.. before this goes farther into the weeds, the tape
came from the University of British
Brent Hilpert writes:
> On 2019-Mar-05, at 10:07 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
>> TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe, that's not
>> where you anticipate UNIX showing up.
>> But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX?
> Well, I don't know for certain, I was just
On 3/6/19 1:07 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
>
>> TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe, that's not
>> where you anticipate UNIX showing up.
>
> But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX?
>
>
On 2019-Mar-05, at 10:07 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
>
>> TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe, that's not where you
>> anticipate UNIX showing up.
>
> But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX?
>
>
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe, that's not where
you anticipate UNIX showing up.
But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX?
Between 1985 and 1990 I became aquainted with a guy named Jim Stewart
On 2019-Mar-05, at 8:36 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 5:17 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
> wrote:
>> On 3/5/19 5:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>>> Today's tape recovery gem. UBC's PDP-11 UNIX tools distribution ca. 1983
>>
>> oh.. and Bill Webb's name is all over this
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 5:17 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
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> On 3/5/19 5:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> > Today's tape recovery gem. UBC's PDP-11 UNIX tools distribution ca. 1983
>
> oh.. and Bill Webb's name is all over this stuff
>
> Bill went to IBM, and worked on AOS for the PC-RT
On 3/5/19 5:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Today's tape recovery gem. UBC's PDP-11 UNIX tools distribution ca. 1983
oh.. and Bill Webb's name is all over this stuff
Bill went to IBM, and worked on AOS for the PC-RT
Today's tape recovery gem. UBC's PDP-11 UNIX tools distribution ca. 1983 which
includes UBC BASIC and their RT-11
emulation. It has a couple of bad blocks, but I couldn't find another copy of
this anywhere.
http://bitsavers.org/bits/UBC/
If anyone has a complete copy, it would be good to
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