09-11-2025 19:04 via tech.slashdot.org

Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973

"A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years," reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape "has a pretty good chance of being recoverable."Long-time Slashdot reader bobdevine says the tape will be analyzed at the Computer History Museum. More from The Register:The news was posted to Mastodon by Professor Robert Ricci of the Unive
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