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2025-11-10 04:00:10


Have They Found a Complete UNIX V4?


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Have They Found A Complete UNIX V4?

If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement of discovering, in a dusty University of Utah storeroom, a …
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Rob Ricci

2025-11-06 20:49:19


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

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UNIX Fourth Edition - Computer History Wiki

gunkies.org

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