Lazarus Archive · LZ-23347

BluebellPage

Port Amberstead Software, 1996. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A desktop publishing program for IBM mainframes, published by Port Amberstead Software in 1996.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
22756f39d95153a2d72f163f25dfa999042d514d5a5a1b5a285aa2e1b181f57a
Last verified
Sep 28, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MVS-3 · lz-s370 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-MVS-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on IBM mainframes.

Cite as: Port Amberstead Software, BluebellPage (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23347.

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