Tape containing UNIX v4 found – OSnews

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  hopefully the tape is still good. You want to know what is the coolest thing about those old tapes, they are just a TAR

  so the challenges are

  finding a working tape reader

  hopefully the tape is readable

  time

  that shits gonna take forever

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  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    wouldn’t the hardest part be figuring out what tar command to run?

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    • who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      tar x is pretty easy, isn’t it? Or tar xf if they need to specify the input file/device.

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  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I suppose tar stands for tape archive. It hadn’t occured to me.

    Just like t hadn’t occurred to me that x86’s popcnt instruction stands for “population count” :)

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