Rare computer relic found by University of Utah is confirmed to be major discovery.

[AllaN01Bear]

[Marthe48]

1. Cool

[Raven123]

2. Somehow the phrase "computer relic" makes me feel old

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Was Thinking The Same Thing

If it had been an intact Babbage machine I probably wouldn't have felt old. Babbage started building his machines 130+ years before I was born. That just makes the find "history".
But, the fact that I wax probably out of college when that tape was recorded, and it's a relic, makes me feel like a relic.

[lpbk2713]

5. Did they carbon date it?

? ?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I've got a couple IBM 3420 tapes yet. Think they're backups from an university. I can't look because they're stored

back in the US in my son's garage. I mounted a ton of those tapes back in the 70s.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. i mounted and un mounted tapes for a old bank that no longer exists .

id get ready tapes to be sent off to archives and re bring back in tapes that came back from archives . got cloobbered by one that fell off a rack and hit me on the head..

[LudwigPastorius]

6. I've still got some 8-inch floppy disks that have my final project for the Synclavier lab at college.

They're over 40 years old at this point, and are probably trashed, but I just can't toss them yet.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. indeed.