Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software
It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones.
(Dan Hixson | University of Utah) Aleks Maricq, a research associate at the University of Utah, holds the 9-track magnetic tape marked as containing a copy of UNIX Version 4, a foundational computer operating system, that he found in a storage room. It's an incredibly rare find.