Description
A database for MS-DOS, sold to libraries by Mina Virtanen.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2018. About 61 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
dbd5d7c7593d729ce85e9cdd4c3e647d720ee9b4a9b8fe2a81b7594ff27a1285- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Mina Virtanen, Ferro Record (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27078.