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52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history

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128 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 08 Nov 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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gxd ◴[08 Nov 25 17:07 UTC] No.45858194[source]▶
This is an incredible find. It would be amazingly cool if we could create an emulated environment for compiling and running Unix v4 from these sources.
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notorandit ◴[08 Nov 25 17:40 UTC] No.45858444[source]▶
For doing what?
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iefbr14 ◴[08 Nov 25 18:26 UTC] No.45858773[source]▶
For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.
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1. amelius ◴[08 Nov 25 19:27 UTC] No.45859223[source]▶
> a huge shortage in memory and storage

Maybe this explains why we have to call "creat" to "create" a file.