"While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973.
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist.
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum."
-@ricci@discuss.systems
After a mostly effortless data retrieval from a borderline abused 3.5” floppy (27 years old), I just found out that I can fit about half an hour of opus encoded audio on a disk. That is amazing!
After years of seeing people achieve success with “witching sticks” (I’m still a skeptic), I’m having one of my employees do some actual science. He is surveying some 40ish locations where “hits” happen and they are going to dig, expose a pipe, and measure their accuracy.