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
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
There will be more video later (there's a TV news crew there) but here's a bit that Jon Duerig has sent from on-site
I'm told "there is data" but I honestly don't know what that means yet
Apparently the entire UNIX v4 tape was read successfully, what's going to need to happen next is to decode the signal from it, decipher the file formats, etc., I'll post updates as I get them
Y'all are huge nerds. I love every one of you.
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