Lazarus Archive · LZ-11879

VectorDesk

Nimbus Software, 1996. Application software for the Macintosh.

Description

A desktop publishing program for the Macintosh, written by Nimbus Software for printers and typesetters.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in East Wrenbridge. The disc was scratched but readable after cleaning. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
516307cdaa395ce90e0242fcfeb30dd2821df6960cf54f7a9c09a86f8a974905
Last verified
Oct 20, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Nimbus Software, VectorDesk (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11879.

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