Lazarus Archive · LZ-37904

Gannet File

Moorholm Software, 1980. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A database for VAX/VMS, sold to small businesses by Moorholm Software.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Silverholt. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 14 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9ccaded13aaa42c4a53cf388d1c1b341023328954438ffa194a22522eaa8cbb9
Last verified
Oct 19, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.

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: Moorholm Software, Gannet File (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37904.

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