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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
#retrocomputing
Magnetic tape can be pretty good. This specific tape I don’t know, but there’s a reason enterprises to this day STILL widely use magnetic tape to store archives.
Though, that may be because a single tape cassette can hold way more than a hard drive, and is cheaper. But I imagine they’d need to have longevity too.
Magnetic tape can be pretty good. This specific tape I don’t know, but there’s a reason enterprises to this day STILL widely use magnetic tape to store archives.
Though, that may be because a single tape cassette can hold way more than a hard drive, and is cheaper. But I imagine they’d need to have longevity too.