Novi Sad@feddit.org to unix like operating system lovers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 19 days ago

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 · 19 days ago

Rob Ricci (@ricci@discuss.systems)

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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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You could erase that tape and it’d still be better than Window 11

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