[TUHS] V4 in tv news

[Thalia Archibald via TUHS]

Hi Ron,

I’m a PhD student at the University of Utah and have been researching the
history of our V4 tape ever since the news broke. Incidentally, I made an
extensive list of 36 news stories on the tape just today[0].

That same repo has all the sources I’ve been collecting, except for some I don’t
have scans for yet. I found that it was delivered the Martin Newell[1], famously
known for the Utah Teapot model, and a letter from Ken to Martin[2] was later
found that places our delivery around June 1974. I’m still looking for our
license agreement. If any of you know of good early UNIX sources, particularly
around 1973–1974, please let me know!

Thalia

[0]: https://github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-history/blob/main/users/utah/v4.md#News
[1]: https://archive.org/details/unix_news_july-30-1975/page/n9/mode/1up
[2]: https://github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-history/blob/8f887ce324bc7dc7fc6de5eca09d4d028fe8f554/users/utah/1974-05-31_ken_letter.jpg

> On Dec 6, 2025, at 13:16, ron minnich via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> https://youtu.be/IR-f07LN0-Y?si=vU3P5MLwIsMC84jV