A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.
See also
https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw
TAR file
the pdf only works on chrome 🤢 and the pregnancy test is kind of cheating, because the dude hollowed it out and replaced the hardware in it with more powerful stuff.