Lazarus Archive · LZ-13129

StrataCAD 3.0

Clara Vega, 1984. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

An architectural drawing program for IBM mainframes, published by Clara Vega in 1984.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Port Whitebrook and passed to Lazarus. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
259a85cb8c065e5e8331c25612d11032690375855c513e241f7f3ee6f948b399
Last verified
Sep 17, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MVS-3 · lz-s370 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MVS-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on IBM mainframes.

Cite as: Clara Vega, StrataCAD 3.0 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13129.

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