Lazarus Archive · LZ-22167

Cobalt Shell

Dunlin Software, 1988. Application software for the Macintosh.

Description

A file manager for the Macintosh, written by Dunlin Software for home users.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2017. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 16 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4e58b339f99b5670033631b32884248a3cb2b1f30f816ec01e99755634376118
Last verified
Sep 5, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k 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-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.

Cite as: Dunlin Software, Cobalt Shell (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22167.

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