This tape was provided to me (Rick Copeland) for transcription by Mr. Kirk McKusick. The tape is of the 1/2", 9 track magentic media type. The following labels and nomenclature appear on the physical tape reel: Back of tape: DIST 4.3BSD-tahoe 25 July 88 6250 bpi Front of tape: (No nomenclature) There was no file listings on the physical reel of this tape. I have made no attempt to ascertain the file names from reading the tape other than what has been provided below. The following list did not appear on the tape and is a record of what I observed as I copied it to disk. 1) boot bs=1024 750 records 768,000 bytes 2) miniroot bs=10240 204 records 2,088,960 bytes 3) rootfs bs=10240 577 records 5,908,480 bytes 4) unknown1 bs=20480 1488 records 30,474,240 bytes 5) unknown2 bs=20480 7 records 143,360 bytes 6) unknown3 bs=20480 405 records 8,294,400 bytes 7) unknown4 bs=20480 1577 records 32,296,960 bytes File 3 is a dump of the root file system, files 4, 5, 6, and 7 are tar archives.