
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
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tar (computing) - Wikipedia
A tarball contains metadata for the contained files including the name, ownership, timestamps, permissions and directory organization. As a file containing other files with associated …
Bell Labs ‘Unix’ Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
13 hours ago · A Berlin-based retrocomputing enthusiast has created a page with the contents of the tape ready for bootstrapping, “including a tar file of the filesystem,” and instructions on …
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on …
Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball
13 hours ago · " the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by …
Understanding Tarballs and the tar Command in Linux
Feb 10, 2025 · This utility was originally designed to write data to magnetic tape storage devices, but its use has expanded to include other storage media, making it an essential tool for Linux …