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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
#retrocomputing
Magnetic storage is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to massive amounts of long term offline data. Sure, it doesn’t last forever, but proper quality tape lasts for many decades.
Source: I work with tape drives, and the amount of data I’ve written to tape and sent off for long term storage is measured in petabytes.
Magnetic storage is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to massive amounts of long term offline data. Sure, it doesn’t last forever, but proper quality tape lasts for many decades.
Source: I work with tape drives, and the amount of data I’ve written to tape and sent off for long term storage is measured in petabytes.
I have a box of 5-1/4" floppies from mid eighties. Over 95% still worked fine a couple years ago.