Lazarus Archive · LZ-20558

Onyx Manager

Simone Wong, 1979. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

A file manager for the PDP-11, written by Simone Wong for home users.

Provenance

Deposited by Port Riverbrook University Library, which had held it unread for years. The label reads ‘Old stuff’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0804388d0d37daadfb5afdbd6897eaafd2f87f2db739f2aae3afd2aff4f6c539
Last verified
Oct 21, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Simone Wong, Onyx Manager (1979). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20558.

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