4 days ago · A University of Utah research team's rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery after experts at the Computer History Museum verified its contents.

Dec 23, 2025 · Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.

Nov 10, 2025 · A storage room at the University of Utah’s John and Marcia Price College of Engineering has yielded a discovery from more than a half-century ago: a nine-track magnetic tape that could …

4 days ago · Storage room 3495 at his University of Utah computing lab had gotten so packed full of cardboard boxes, Aleks Maricq jokes it had become hard to even see the floor. It rivaled a game of …

1 day ago · Remember that re-discovered computer tape with one of the earliest versions of Unix from the early 1970s? This week several local news outlets in Utah reported on the find, with KSL creating …

4 days ago · What began as a forgotten tape in a storage room at the University of Utah has now become a restored piece of digital history.Experts at the Computer History Mu

1 day ago · A 52-year-old tape just revealed a buffer overflow that looks exactly like the bugs we’re still finding today. 😏 In July 2025, someone found a magnetic tape from 1973 in a storage room at the …