Description
A database for VAX/VMS, written by Pike Interactive for doctors’ surgeries.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Birchwater Harbour. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
8da393f8c3009a4ac097db0f410c6b42d57d52d644f9436b35ecb6a3bb1bc503- Last verified
- Sep 30, 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.
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: Pike Interactive, Kelp Index 4.7 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19155.