Lazarus Archive · LZ-07054

PloverLink 5.8

Sable Software, 1996. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A terminal program for Unix workstations, written by Sable Software for home users.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Cedarwick Falls and passed to Lazarus. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
085e475aac579438250e4290b396700c2a6f7ecd4fd3b02e0af0ad2ce5f4fa27
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-UNIX-5 · lz-risc core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-UNIX-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Unix workstations.

Cite as: Sable Software, PloverLink 5.8 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07054.

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