Lazarus Archive · LZ-33530

FerroComm

Jana Shaw, 1990. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A terminal program for Unix workstations, sold to home users by Jana Shaw.

Provenance

Deposited by Wellsby University Library in 2020. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ea3f5ab20282b952792921ee94b448ed80e92a139b0c137ebb4ae930e1741172
Last verified
Oct 1, 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 under the work’s license.

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: Jana Shaw, FerroComm (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33530.

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