SALT LAKE CITY — 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.
Jon Duerig, one of the university engineering research associates, carefully packed up a copy of a significant early computer operating system tape and drove it to the museum in Mountain View, CA. That’s where his team learned that what they discovered was the real deal.
Experts at the museum found the tape was indeed a copy of the UNIX Version 4 operating system, which paved the way for operating systems like macOS…