Lazarus Archive · LZ-32729

Osprey Shell

Bluebell Software, 1988. Application software for the Macintosh.

Description

A file manager for the Macintosh, written by Bluebell Software for office workers.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Sandbridge Springs and passed to Lazarus. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9e993fbbe3c773b43a29be71023262fa42c54f4b2e7fdaabdfc3195a85dd0052
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k 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 under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.

Cite as: Bluebell Software, Osprey Shell (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32729.

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