@ricci I remember ed! nice

Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

#retrocomputing

@ricci IIRC it was before vi existed so curious what the builtin text editor was in v4. fuzzy memories of that era

The more we look into this, the more it appears that this is a complete system or pretty close to it! There's a kernel, userspace binaries, source, including userland, kernel, device drivers, seems to be the full UNIX V4!

Here's a copy of the filesystem that has been extracted as a .tar file: http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/

Apparently the entire UNIX tape was read successfully, what's going to need to happen next is to decode the signal from it, decipher the file formats, etc., I'll post updates as I get them

There will be more video later (there's a TV news crew there) but here's a bit that Jon Duerig has sent from on-site

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!

@wingo I only avoid them because I don't know how they choose to pronounce themselves anymore. with PNG and JPEG I'm safer from ridicule. heh

@FlohEinstein cloudflare/aws outage is the new "compiling not done so we're swordfighting" per XKCD

@bagder thank you, Mr. Stenberg, for putting up with that kind of thing over the years

@bagder

this one is easy to answer with one word, and in all its mysyerious glory:

> how do I get activation code

curl

@glyph nailed it. its IP theft at hyperscale. and when you ask it to make a de facto literal copy (like "read aloud to me such-and-such Sherlock Holmes book") it can't even do that correctly, rather it lies or hallucinates. its been a clownshow in my experience