{"id":2182,"date":"2025-12-25T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:09:15","slug":"this-is-pretty-cool-unix-v4-tape-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/this-is-pretty-cool-unix-v4-tape-found\/","title":{"rendered":"This is pretty cool &#8211; UNIX V4 tape found"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2182\" class=\"elementor elementor-2182\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-350a8542 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"350a8542\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35085642\" data-id=\"35085642\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e5ff575 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e5ff575\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Saw this recently in the ether: <a href=\"https:\/\/attheu.utah.edu\/science-technology\/precious-computer-age-relic-turns-up-in-u-storage-room\/\">Precious Computer Age relic turns up in U storage room \u2013 @theU<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0I used to be a UNIX sysadmin at AT&amp;T and at one time was part of a team that repaired (chip-level repair) PDP 11 and VAX minicomputer systems.\u00a0 Damn!\u00a0 I wish I had lept that 9-track tape of PWB SystemV UNIX!\u00a0 (PWB = Programmers WorkBench.)\u00a0 This article reminded me that I had an old copy of &#8220;The Bell System Technical Journal&#8221; dated July-August 1978.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few pics of it:<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2186\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5124-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5124-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5124-230x307.jpg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5124-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5124-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2188\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5126-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5126-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5126-230x307.jpg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5126-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5126-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2189\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5127-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5127-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5127-230x307.jpg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5127-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_5127-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p><p>More info to follow.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this recently in the ether: Precious Computer Age relic turns up in U storage room \u2013 @theU\u00a0 \u00a0I used to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin","category-unix-and-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}