Lazarus Archive · LZ-18290

WillowFix 4.4

Pebble Software, 1973. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A disk utility for IBM mainframes, written by Pebble Software for home users.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2014. The label reads ‘Backup — final’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9e923c77f8646b2b5115cfb34def63ef80394d1d8ab2065c0b84fd45b38a7ef0
Last verified
Oct 12, 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.

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: Pebble Software, WillowFix 4.4 (1973). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18290.

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