Lazarus Archive · LZ-22901

Sable Copy

Silva & Virtanen, 1987. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A disk utility for MS-DOS, sold to office workers by Silva & Virtanen.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2017. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1488a43fe689495955cc1d4b37404fddad0c5f20409f5e4ce0781e09a48a3ba6
Last verified
Sep 27, 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: Silva & Virtanen, Sable Copy (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22901.

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