Lazarus Archive · LZ-18840

AsterBrush 5.9

Gyre Software, 1986. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

A paint program for the PDP-11, published by Gyre Software in 1986.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Rebuilt from 5 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a700175ab493d7a9fa30d38142a039bb68f81e75d454a720135ce5dc77379d8d
Last verified
Oct 22, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp 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-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.

Cite as: Gyre Software, AsterBrush 5.9 (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18840.

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