Lazarus Archive · LZ-27838

AsterPlan 4.7

Meridian Computing, 1981. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

An architectural drawing program for the PDP-11, sold to architects by Meridian Computing.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ba7758d85d1d1cad58a20ebda48f9cfa424d38b153e9a46250dec0bd4513f616
Last verified
Oct 15, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.

Cite as: Meridian Computing, AsterPlan 4.7 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27838.

Also by Meridian Computing

Nearby in Minicomputers and Mainframes

The whole collection →