h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

<- by me on @theregister

When the King demands they build him a big, Big, BIG ship: "An archaeologist who has studied the remains of the ship in great detail thinks it sank because the gun deck was far too heavy–the result of its having been designed and built by someone with no experience building such a well-armed ship, Chatterjee writes. It didn’t help that the king rushed the building process." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/