There’s probably more than a handful of Unix lovers among the TH audience, and today’s tale is a Christmas gift that should warm many a cold sysadmin’s heart. The University of Utah’s School of Computing found and recovered a magnetic tape with the only known copy of Unix v4, the first version of the operating system with both its kernel and core utilities written in that shiny newfangled language known as C.
The recovery process was carefully executed, but the results were “easy” as these things go….
