Lazarus Archive · LZ-26818

Cobalt Script 1.1

Gyresoft, 1982. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A word processor for IBM mainframes, written by Gyresoft for small businesses.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The tape had torn in two places and was repaired before scanning. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4b8e5fd7e77b2009081b08fc0bb68dbafbf2063a77e386e254b86e5f92adaa6a
Last verified
Sep 14, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

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: Gyresoft, Cobalt Script 1.1 (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26818.

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