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From: Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: Esix SVR4
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:29:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <efe937d5-9459-6888-8bc1-428c9ac18362@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9CAA682C-1E4A-48C2-9689-385EC9224D1E@corcoran.life>

There was a Consensys SVR4.2 as well, which I have a copy of. It 
involved a pile of 3.5" disks, and hopefully an Adaptec 1520 ISA SCSI 
adapter. Or a WD compatible MFM/RLL controller.

I had it running on VirtualBox once, but no network.

Back in the day, I ran Consensys SVR4.2 for a three-line UUNET node. 
kilowatt

This reminds me, I have the base install floppies, but not the entire 
suite. Time to get on that.

ak

On 6/26/2023 6:37 PM, William Corcoran wrote:
> Hi Emanuel,
>
> I believe I may have the install disks for ESIX, SVR4.  It actually was distributed in this beautiful box with over 100 5.25” floppy disks.
>
> As things progressed, ESIX was distributed on a streaming tape cartridge.  That was so much faster than swapping floppy disks for the install.
>
> The nice thing about the ESIX SVR4 was the documentation.  It was essentially the AT&T SVR4 books with a white ESIX cover slapped on it.
>
> If you want to copy the disks and make them accessible to our UNIX community, let me know. Since it’s part of my collection I would ask that you return them to me.  Send me an email directly if you’re interested and I will see if I can locate them for you.
>
> Bill Corcoran
>
>> On Jun 11, 2023, at 8:47 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu@e-bbes.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> anybody still has the install media for that?
>> We used it in the office long ago, but I lost the install disk in my last moving :(
>>
>> THANKS!


  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-29 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-26 22:37 William Corcoran
2023-06-29 21:29 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2023-06-29 22:48   ` [COFF] Re: [JUNK] " Arthur Krewat
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-06-11 12:46 [COFF] " emanuel stiebler
2023-06-11 14:42 ` [COFF] " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-06-12  9:07   ` emanuel stiebler

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