Lazarus Archive · LZ-06722

WrenPage 5.5

Cobalt Software, 1981. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A desktop publishing program for VAX/VMS, sold to small businesses by Cobalt Software.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Rebuilt from 5 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d78abf09a08e86ad0f17fb3dc3b41e4e7f268a1ac8450f5c005a8b29c47804f5
Last verified
Oct 15, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Cobalt Software, WrenPage 5.5 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06722.

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