Description
A point-of-sale system for the Macintosh, written by Beaconsoft for market traders.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Read in four drives; every sector was recovered by at least one. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
33b32f82366ee8f84e919c2057f592180a2d301e56f656ebf41caefab6744ae7- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k 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-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.
Cite as: Beaconsoft, OnyxTill (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18712.