Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known ...

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...
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UNIX V4 is back: I booted into the 1973 OS and it made me weirdly happy

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...
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Unix v4 clawed back from a 1970s tape

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer ...
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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...