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Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape that was found and recovered at University of Utah around last week? You ...

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Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

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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