Description
A route planner for the Macintosh, sold to haulage firms by Helix Computing.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
64b52a5b92d3b34e5bfdea5ce0679f581c97c14c0746c27c6d2ad7a813be24ac- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.
Cite as: Helix Computing, Granite Route 5.2 (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07791.