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. > >The news was posted to Mastodon by Professor Robert Ricci of the University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing. > >>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