Bill Joy mailed every 2BSD tape by hand

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

After the first BSD release, Bill Joy improved the Pascal system and bundled it with vi, the C shell, and other tools into 2BSD, shipping nearly seventy-five tapes in a year — copying each one and mailing it himself. Then in 1978 a VAX arrived at Berkeley, and since 32/V ignored the machine's virtual memory, Richard Fateman's Macsyma work pushed the team to fix that over the holidays.