Archivists Rediscover 1974 Bell Labs Unix Tape, Preserving OS ...
Dec 22, 2025 · Archivists rediscovered and successfully dumped a 1974 Bell Labs Unix tape into a modern tarball, preserving early source code, compilers, and the first C-based kernel.
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a ...
Dec 20, 2025 · "UNIX wasn't versioned as we know it today," explains University of Utah PhD student Thalia Archibald, who researched early Unix history (including the tape) and also worked on its upload.
1974 Unix Tape Restored: Bell Labs History in a Modern Tarball
Dec 21, 2025 · Have you ever wondered where the operating system that powers much of the modern world began? In a remarkable feat of digital archaeology, a team of researchers has successfully …
Bell Labs Unix Tape Dumped to Tarball: A Historic Archive
Dec 22, 2025 · Researchers at the University of Utah’s School of Computing have successfully read data from a decades-old magnetic tape, revealing a remarkably preserved version of the Unix …
52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from ...
Dec 24, 2025 · Operating Systems Linux 52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core …
Slashdot - "A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may ...
"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...
Bell Labs ‘Unix’ Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Dec 21, 2025 · “UNIX wasn’t versioned as we know it today,” explains University of Utah PhD student Thalia Archibald, who researched early Unix history (including the tape) and also worked on its upload.