It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer ...

Meet Abteen Vaziri, Iranian refugee and EB-5 expert running in the competitive 2026 Republican primary for Texas' 32nd ...

Akira Urushibata recently wrote to libreplanet-discuss, which hadn't been active for 2 months ( he was the last person to write to it back in November ). His latest message is a bit like an article ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

Governor Patrick Morrisey announced new appointments to the West Virginia Veterans Council and the Board of Pharmacy.  • West Virginia Veterans Council — Sheriff Bobby Eggleton Sheriff Bobby Eggleton ...

Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...

Barry S. Honig  The bulk materials industry is undergoing a significant technological transformation. Organizations across ...

Phil Duff retired from Syspro in September 2024, leaving behind a legacy of 46 years of successful business growth.