Lazarus Archive · LZ-23981

BasaltCopy 3.0

Pavel Ito, 1985. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A disk utility for MS-DOS, sold to office workers by Pavel Ito.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
36008de79b2367bf67b0d1ded45bdcc8f0a9d6358e6aed33306ca67679dc9328
Last verified
Oct 26, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Pavel Ito, BasaltCopy 3.0 (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23981.

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