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A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.

See also

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

TAR file

http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feels like we're getting ever closer to uncovering the secrets of January 1, 1970.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heavily redacted, probably.

[–] MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

What is this referring to?

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank God, I can finally play my old ~~video~~ games again.