Lazarus Archive · LZ-32714

Onyx Commander 5.4

Elif Nguyen, 1980. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

A file manager for the PDP-11, sold to office workers by Elif Nguyen.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Only fragments could be read. They are kept because nothing else of the work survives.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a3f89e8cf5052d0f58a849a5a29f67d5addaeb85de2182aebf5ecd3805c5c85a
Last verified
Oct 18, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away.

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: Elif Nguyen, Onyx Commander 5.4 (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32714.

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