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: gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_E…
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
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Jessamyn
in reply to Rob Ricci • • •Rob Ricci
in reply to Jessamyn • • •Evan Prodromou
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in reply to Rob Ricci • • •We have some more information on this! One of @regehr's grad students
did some excellent sleuthing and figured out that this was received by Martin Newell : archive.org/details/unix_news_…If that name sounds familiar to you, it's probably because his teapot is ubiquitous in computer graphics: graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
cv.thalia.dev/UNIX News July 30 1975 : USENIX Association : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet ArchiveRob Ricci
in reply to Rob Ricci • • •Great talk on how recovering an old tape like this is done:
youtube.com/watch?v=7YoolSAHR5…
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www.youtube.comRob Ricci
in reply to Rob Ricci • • •Some local stories about this tape:
attheu.utah.edu/science-techno…
ksltv.com/science-technology/u…
We're going to try to get it read in a couple of weeks
University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
Shelby Lofton (KSLTV.com)