Lazarus Archive · LZ-10215

FerroShell

Brookbrook Software, 1998. Application software for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

A file manager for Windows 95 and 98, written by Brookbrook Software for office workers.

Provenance

Deposited by Fernholm Municipal Archives, which had held it unread for years. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
72400b503351966f7c9002a5d2bfeab48d029251f907903d482b2e63376b4ba8
Last verified
Oct 8, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN9X-9 · lz-x86 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-WIN9X-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 95 and 98.

Cite as: Brookbrook Software, FerroShell (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10215.

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