Lazarus Archive · LZ-09940

FathomTools 5.9

Wanjiru Iyer, 1989. Application software for NeXTSTEP.

Description

A file manager for NeXTSTEP, sold to home users by Wanjiru Iyer.

Provenance

Deposited by Museum of Southeast Industry, which had held it unread for years. Read in four drives; every sector was recovered by at least one. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
43a06456e660174339a51c8ca20afba66821bc3ae6985634b837b1db22364d66
Last verified
Oct 15, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-NEXT-3 · lz-m68k 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-NEXT-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on NeXTSTEP.

Cite as: Wanjiru Iyer, FathomTools 5.9 (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09940.

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