Lazarus Archive · LZ-33482

Beacon Plan

Kavya Duarte, 1989. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

An architectural drawing program for Unix workstations, sold to engineers by Kavya Duarte.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
bdec0a5a8f7959c0c30bd89f2006978f5aaeb772f064b7cc32e8746ddb65b10c
Last verified
Oct 28, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-UNIX-5 · lz-risc 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-UNIX-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Unix workstations.

Cite as: Kavya Duarte, Beacon Plan (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33482.

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