See more from the AT&T Archives at http://techchannel.att.com/archivesThe year was 1973, and the computer operating system UNIX, invented at Bell Labs by Ken...

Gotta love that prominent pin-up girl pasted to the front of the terminal in the training video. Sideburns knows his priorities!

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watching that dude pull out the plastic cylinder with that spindle of platters that probably had a storage capacity of maybe 30MB while the narrator brags about the transfer speed of a blazing 1.5MB/s… awww…

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Where can I get the soundtrack?

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I live near the former Holmdel Bell Labs complex. It’s an amazing building. It was sadly left in disrepair for decades until a developer bought it a few years back and turned it into a corporate office space with a mall at the ground floor. I got my Covid shots there.

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