Lazarus Archive · LZ-15895

Karst Brush 1.7

Tessel Software, 1989. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A paint program for VAX/VMS, written by Tessel Software for schools.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Pineport Harbour. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. About 58 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4d746e7c5bbe01c6c1fa54a269f0220e1b506b0ac7a05cdfceb8cbffe8b3797d
Last verified
Sep 28, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-VAX-4 · lz-vax 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-VAX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on VAX/VMS.

Cite as: Tessel Software, Karst Brush 1.7 (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15895.

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