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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:06:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, julian@whistle.com, root@triton.press.southern.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting older versions of FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199902041906.UAA02466@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902031642130.359-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Feb 3, 99 05:17:30 pm"

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As Chuck Robey wrote...
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 
> > On Wed 1999-02-03 (14:41), Drew Baxter wrote:
> > > What's really sad is I still have a January 1994 2.0 CD around here..
> > 
> > We have a 1.0 CD, which is rumoured to have been mastered on a previous 
> > incarnation of the machine I'm on.  Have looked around on the filesystem, 
> > but haven't quite got up the courage to try install it.  (Besides, I'm not
> > sure the hardware I have around would be supported.)
> 
> You want to be a little careful here.  Some folks who were around then
> may recall that 1.1 (as it was labelled) had to be released twice,
> because the first issue had a screwup, and although all the files showed
> up, the data on the disk for about half of them was garbage.

Labeled 1.1? Mine definitely says 1.0 on the paper and on the CD itself.
And december 1993.

> Both cdroms (the good one and the bad one) came in identical cases, and
> were silkscreened the same, but one was labbelled "1.1", the other "6/94
> Beta" in the nearly invisible labelling near the center ring.  There was

Mine says "Mastered by Nimbus" and "FreeBSD CDROM" in the center.

Wilko
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