Lazarus Archive · LZ-08569

OrchidBase 5.3

Corvidsoft, 1976. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

A database for the PDP-11, written by Corvidsoft for libraries.

Provenance

Deposited by Marridge Heritage Trust. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
71871bce245a8cb6a846802169d110ac9ba58e4f719bf7af2e5058e16f7af382
Last verified
Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp 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-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.

Cite as: Corvidsoft, OrchidBase 5.3 (1976). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08569.

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