Lazarus Archive · LZ-35124

SablePaint

Paloma Laurent, 1992. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A paint program for VAX/VMS, sold to schools by Paloma Laurent.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Wolfmore Bay and passed to Lazarus. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
814103ad147de61fe13df57560db76ac35babd1a7f3527a39248a689db3105c3
Last verified
Oct 13, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-VAX-4 · lz-vax core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-VAX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on VAX/VMS.

Cite as: Paloma Laurent, SablePaint (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35124.

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