Lazarus Archive · LZ-19375

Beacon File 2.8

Wolfbury Bay Software, 1984. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

A database for the PDP-11, sold to charities by Wolfbury Bay Software.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Several cards were missing and were reconstructed from a printed listing kept with the deck. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ce7d7de354d2a8cd4aff905b5d5b86a41aeb91d3bf27035565bbd463eb934f13
Last verified
Oct 19, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Wolfbury Bay Software, Beacon File 2.8 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19375.

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