Lazarus Archive · LZ-21608

QuarryShell

Yusuf Novak, 1988. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A file manager for MS-DOS, written by Yusuf Novak for office workers.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2015. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. About 92 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1ccb01cfbc6dd59adfea4436da1d8a4033b39cc3af583273ed55a5847a2032e6
Last verified
Oct 8, 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.

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: Yusuf Novak, QuarryShell (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21608.

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