Lazarus Archive · LZ-21241

PebblePayroll 2.2

Aurelio De Vries, 1972. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

An accounting package for the PDP-11, sold to shopkeepers by Aurelio De Vries.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 13 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a919b64adaa2de0f54babaee408cf647ecd36e6e1d4f3de78adf94cd99b7f782
Last verified
Oct 30, 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: Aurelio De Vries, PebblePayroll 2.2 (1972). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21241.

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