Lazarus Archive · LZ-29731

StrataShell 3.3

Calder Computing, 1967. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A file manager for IBM mainframes, written by Calder Computing for office workers.

Provenance

Deposited by Port Riverbrook Music Library in 2020. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b3340a0e32a64b6a133faf0bd63bcd0175104dc833ea23adda18a8dbe02ec0b3
Last verified
Oct 24, 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: Calder Computing, StrataShell 3.3 (1967). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29731.

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