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Novi Sad@feddit.org to unix like operating system lovers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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Tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973) found in a storage room at the University of Utah – potentially the only complete copy

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Tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973) found in a storage room at the University of Utah – potentially the only complete copy

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Novi Sad@feddit.org to unix like operating system lovers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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Attached: 1 image While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing
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    22 hours ago

    No they do not. Where did you get that piece of crap info from?

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      Most likely they’re thinking of VHS and audio tapes.

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        Where do people store these things? In a swamp?

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      20 hours ago

      From my box of floppy disks that where sitting in shelf since ~2000.

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        Were they sitting next to a bookshelf speaker?

        Almost all my mid eighties floppies still work…

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        Good for you, I can find 40 year old disks that read fine.

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