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Pete Orrall
@peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Just wild. While cleaning out a university basement, staff found a tape of what's believed to be the only remaining copy of Bell Labs #Unix v4 from 1973.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

#history #belllabs #computing #tech

52 year old data tape could contain Unix history

: It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
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