Lazarus Archive · LZ-10503

Silva Instruments: files, 1995–2009

Silva Instruments, 1995–2009. Organizational records for Unix workstations.

Description

Project files, drawings, estimates and correspondence of a maker of scientific instruments in Elmhaven.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. About 59 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d5f101a9b9f36a0dbd923720f8471c421dc357b0b79befad22bc227ea0c734dc
Last verified
Sep 18, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
PDF/A-2b, with the original files kept
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.

Reading-room copies are migrated to PDF/A-2b, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Silva Instruments, Silva Instruments: files, 1995–2009 (1995–2009). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10503.

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