Lazarus Archive · LZ-04060

NovaSketch 5.1

Crowbridge Harbour Software, 1981. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A paint program for VAX/VMS, published by Crowbridge Harbour Software in 1981.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2002. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f5cd597189c4a8427b992487b0f186682ed1b18ec75f9293099ef12aa3d1a5fd
Last verified
Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-VAX-4 · lz-vax core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-VAX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on VAX/VMS.

Cite as: Crowbridge Harbour Software, NovaSketch 5.1 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04060.

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