Lazarus Archive · LZ-37947

Helix Tools 1.1

Folasade Becker, 1966. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A file manager for IBM mainframes, published by Folasade Becker in 1966.

Provenance

Deposited by Bellbury Polytechnic Library, from its own collections. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. About 79 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e077364dbb12428b39dac456dfea987b5fb4b50da935dbb24cd957972929cc08
Last verified
Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MVS-3 · lz-s370 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-MVS-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on IBM mainframes.

Cite as: Folasade Becker, Helix Tools 1.1 (1966). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37947.

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