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@npub1xfhc...awf9 we would have loved to have imaged this for tuhs and others

@npub1xfhc...awf9 I hope the physical tape is not stuck together.

@npub1xfhc...awf9 So cool, I hope it’s readable! I arrived at Bell Labs Piscataway, into Rudd Canaday’s PWB/UNIX department October 1973, same week our PDP-11/45 got installed, 2nd one in BTL after ken+dmr’s. We ran UNIX V4 of course, first one whose kernel was in C. We even got documentation besides man pages: the CACM article & ~20-page C reference, which i still have. My car celebrates UNIX every day:

We have some more information on this! One of @npub1f3nl...e887's grad students[*] did some excellent sleuthing and figured out that this was received by Martin Newell :

Internet Archive

UNIX News July 30 1975 : USENIX Association : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

UNIX NewsVolume 1 Number 1, July 30, 1975

If that name sounds familiar to you, it's probably because his teapot is ubiquitous in computer graphics:

Utah Graphics Lab

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Thalia Archibald

Thalia Archibald — CV

The academic CV of Thalia Archibald, with work in compiler infrastructure and formal verification.

@npub1xfhc...awf9 ugh. how could you? it was written by CIS WHITE MALES and should be immediately destroyed.

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!