Sundray@lemmus.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 1 month agoTape containing UNIX v4 found – OSnewswww.osnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
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minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·1 month agohopefully 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
minus-squareJumuta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agowouldn’t the hardest part be figuring out what tar command to run?
minus-squarevext01@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoI 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” :)
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
wouldn’t the hardest part be figuring out what tar command to run?
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” :)