Lazarus Archive · LZ-27696

Quill Fix

Calder Computing, 1986. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A disk utility for VAX/VMS, sold to office workers by Calder Computing.

Provenance

Deposited by East Clayby Games Museum, which had held it unread for years. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
30c78d71868f9436b4a2f0fb5862550f967d4abcbbe1c2dc8c51e4a7788fd2fd
Last verified
Sep 17, 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. The license does not permit copies to 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: Calder Computing, Quill Fix (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27696.

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