Lazarus Archive · LZ-33886

DriftBooks

Southstead Software, 1990. Application software for Windows 3.x.

Description

An accounting package for Windows 3.x, sold to shopkeepers by Southstead Software.

Provenance

Deposited by Greenwater Bay Computer Heritage Centre. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 16 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fa5d0a46a644992315424a803443746926cb8422691af0ef64239288727471cc
Last verified
Oct 25, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN3-6 · lz-x86 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-WIN3-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 3.x.

Cite as: Southstead Software, DriftBooks (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33886.

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