Lazarus Archive
Collections
The archive is arranged in 15 collections, each with its own curators, partners and history. Between them they hold 41,206 restored titles, 9,324 of them in the online catalog so far.
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The Floppy Rescue
The disks the first Lazarus volunteers rescued between 1994 and 1999.
184 records online
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Home Computing
Software for the eight- and sixteen-bit computers that first put a computer in the house.
643 records online
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Games
Commercial, shareware and homemade games for every platform the archive can run.
3,045 records online
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Classroom Software
The programs generations of children learned to spell, count and type with.
641 records online
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The Demoscene
Real-time audiovisual art made to push machines past what their makers thought possible.
364 records online
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The Desktop
Applications for PCs and Macs, from the first spreadsheets to the last boxed software.
677 records online
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Minicomputers and Mainframes
Software and records from the machines that ran universities, governments and industry.
237 records online
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Bulletin Boards and Early Networks
The dial-up communities that came before the web.
160 records online
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Shuttered Services
Websites and online services captured before, or after, they closed.
516 records online
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Digital Lives
The email, photographs, messages and papers of individual people.
705 records online
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Civic and Organizational Records
The files of councils, clubs, cooperatives, firms and institutions.
623 records online
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Scientific Data Rescue
Observations and measurements that cannot be taken again.
438 records online
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Sound and Broadcast
Music, radio and television recorded on digital formats that are already failing.
468 records online
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Machine Firmware
The software inside appliances, instruments, robots and companion animals.
335 records online
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Pocket and Mobile
Software for organizers, phones and the other computers people carried.
288 records online