How a university research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software

Aleks Maricq, a research associate at the University of Utah, holds the 9-track magnetic tape marked as containing a copy of UNIX Version 4, a foundational computer operating system, that he found in a storage room.

How a university research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software

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