Lazarus Archive · LZ-24092

PloverShell

Saanvi Rossi, 1979. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A file manager for VAX/VMS, published by Saanvi Rossi in 1979.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2018. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4ef308fa2cca19753e5770716e14bc7878b1bdccf3a41eea3c6bce911ea48f8c
Last verified
Oct 23, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-VAX-4 · lz-vax 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. Copies may be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-VAX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on VAX/VMS.

Cite as: Saanvi Rossi, PloverShell (1979). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24092.

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