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UNIX V4 is back: I booted into the 1973 OS and it made me weirdly happy
This digital fossil took me back in time when computers played Tic-Tac-Toe on paper.
Researchers found the only known surviving copy of Unix Version 4 on magnetic tape, a key milestone in the evolution of modern operating systems.
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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.… UNIX V4, the first ever ...
In 1997 a set of DEC tapes were provided by Dennis Ritchie, as historical artifacts for those interested in the gestation of the UNIX operating system. The resulting archive files have recently been ...
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