4 days ago · Storage room 3495 at his University of Utah computing lab had gotten so packed full of cardboard boxes, Aleks Maricq jokes it had become hard to even see the floor.

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 …

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 …

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.… UNIX V4, the first ...

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

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 …

Archivists rediscovered and successfully dumped a 1974 Bell Labs Unix tape into a modern tarball, preserving early source code, compilers, and the first C-based kernel.