This is pretty cool – UNIX V4 tape found

Saw this recently in the ether: Precious Computer Age relic turns up in U storage room – @theU   I used to be a UNIX sysadmin at AT&T and at one time was part of a team that repaired (chip-level repair) PDP 11 and VAX minicomputer systems.  Damn!  I wish I had lept that 9-track tape of PWB SystemV UNIX!  (PWB = Programmers WorkBench.)  This article reminded me that I had an old copy of “The Bell System Technical Journal” dated July-August 1978.  Here’s a few pics of it:

More info to follow.

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