Subject: Re: Wollongong V7 Unix From: Richard Miller Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:13:45 0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SpamBouncer: 1.4 (10/07/01) X-SBClass: OK X-Folder: Bulk Status: RO I've had a quick look at www.spies.com/aek/WollongongV7_Tape1.tap - it seems to be intact except for one bad record in the root filesystem dump. Contents are: (file no,record length,number of records,contents) 0 80 138 bootstrap 1 256 45 another bootstrap 2 512 36 standalone mkfs 3 512 38 standalone restor 4 512 33 standalone fsck 5 512 89 standalone adb 6 10240 331/332 dump of root filesystem 7 10240 444 dump of usr filesystem The root dump was made on Wed Sep 24 17:00:53 GMT 1980. Probably by me. What does the paper label on the tape say? I must resist the temptation to start extracting the contents of the dump files until I have more officially free time. I nearly bought an 8/32 myself when the Oxford University Programming Research Group decommissioned theirs - but I discovered at the last moment I would have had to rewire my house to provide enough current to run it. Looking at my collection of tapes again, I think it's pretty unlikely that Edition VII is there. So I'm glad to see that one has turned up elsewhere. -- Richard To: aek@spies.com Subject: Re: Wollongong V7 Unix From: Richard Miller Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:39:15 0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SpamBouncer: 1.4 (10/07/01) X-SBClass: OK X-Folder: Bulk Status: RO I've extracted the contents of the v7 filesystem dumps from your tape image. It appears the 1 byte record was spurious, and no data has been lost. For your interest, the reconstructed root and usr file systems are in w7.tgz In making the tar file, a couple of hard links were broken, and special files in /dev were turned into empty regular files; but otherwise I think everything's in its original form. Your first message to me said: > I have been able to read the first of the two tape distribution, and am > working on trying to restore the second. Actually I don't think the two tapes belong together. The one with the filesystem dumps is definitely an original distribution which I made, with kernels configured for various Interdata x/32 and Perkin-Elmer 32x0 machines at Melbourne and Yale Universities, and "Santa Clara" (University of California? I can't recall now). It has binaries and kernel source, but unfortunately no command source. The other tape containing (some?) command and kernel source, dates from several years later, after I had returned from Wollongong University to Canada, and represents a later version of the system. It may well have been an update destined for the Wollongong Group in California. If you ever have occasion to try to install the first tape on a real machine, I'd be pleased to help out. -- Happy new year, Richard Miller