unix level 6 - 11/40

[iainmaoileoin]

OK, I cant do the 11/40 (yet), but I am looking for advice on the licence for level6/level 7 "bell" unix.

In 74 I got a tape from bell - through my employers at that time. Went up to Glasgow uni, who had a much bigger system with a wider range of peripherals. If memory serves me correctly the Polish "systems admin" Strav Pedolsi(sp) took the 9 track and wrote it onto our disk pack. From there we had great fun.

I have a few project froms forty year ago I want to finish ;-) There were some device drivers that I never got to work correctly. I may have the skills now.

Is there any way to - legitimately - get hands on sources/binaries from those eras?

I did find a few links a year or two ago "?Caldera?" granting licence under some conditions, but these links dont work any more. Emails to the web-contact are not getting me anywhere?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[jwrogers]

Yes, Caldera released the historic versions of Unix for enthusiasts use in 2002. The easiest place to pick up sources and images is at the PDP Unix Preservation Societies website at http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/index.html . The source code is also available for browsing at http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl . Too bad they don't have versions earlier than version 1 for PDP-11...