Rare computer relic found at University of Utah confirmed to ...
4 days ago · A University of Utah research team's rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery after experts at the Computer History Museum verified …
Precious Computer Age relic turns up in U storage room
Dec 1, 2025 · A storage room at the University of Utah’s Merrill Engineering Building has yielded a priceless piece of computing history from more than half a century ago: a nine-track magnetic …
University of Utah finds tape with only known copy of UNIX V4 ...
4 days ago · It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones.
That Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974: From a Closet to ...
1 day ago · Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with …
Rare computer software language found hidden in University of ...
4 days ago · What began as a forgotten tape in a storage room at the University of Utah has now become a restored piece of digital history.Experts at the Computer History Mu
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 …
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a ...
A Berlin-based retrocomputing enthusiast has created a page with the contents of the tape ready for bootstrapping, "including a tar file of the filesystem," and instructions on dumping an RK05 …