Description
A disk utility for MS-DOS, sold to repair shops by Alcove Computing.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The label reads ‘Thesis data’. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9dbdaa3675b8839179b23d1a7c4eb78711507ee789397ea7c8a1b95da31b7d34- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.
Cite as: Alcove Computing, Linden Fix 1.8 (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14443.