Lazarus Archive · LZ-37466

BrambleDrafter 1.4

Daniel Ruiz, 1985. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

An architectural drawing program for the PDP-11, written by Daniel Ruiz for engineers.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The label reads ‘For the archive’. About 66 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fc47df70b4ade4142f17379da933f6b4aa6ea53adc89c46ef9291ebf2934652e
Last verified
Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp 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-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.

Cite as: Daniel Ruiz, BrambleDrafter 1.4 (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37466.

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