Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball

Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball - Slashdot

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Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a modified tape reader and analyzed with Len Shustek's readtape tool." A Berlin-based...

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bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
4 months
They also used the classic they knew what they were doing shortcut.

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