Lazarus Archive · LZ-20750

WhimbrelDrafter 5.0

Nimbussoft, 1995. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

An architectural drawing program for MS-DOS, written by Nimbussoft for engineers.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The label reads ‘Keep!!’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f85cbfece3c7aca794b58c5c9b28d22d6d1faca11cedbe129e9a4dd9e0f6ff77
Last verified
Oct 10, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Nimbussoft, WhimbrelDrafter 5.0 (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20750.

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