Lazarus Archive · LZ-13421

Nimbus Dial 2.4

Nova Computing, 1984. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A terminal program for Unix workstations, published by Nova Computing in 1984.

Provenance

Deposited by Greenbelt Retro Computing Society in 2010. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c737491ddbdc514f1b5555ee1c6a47452f9f87c7b541dcbfae08f07a65b37914
Last verified
Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-UNIX-5 · lz-risc 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-UNIX-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Unix workstations.

Cite as: Nova Computing, Nimbus Dial 2.4 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13421.

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