Lazarus Archive · LZ-38542

VectorTune 4.0

Arjun Lowe, 1976. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

A music sequencer for the PDP-11, published by Arjun Lowe in 1976.

Provenance

Deposited by Port Larkstead Radio Amateurs’ Society. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
96a27cd4ad455b749c8fa66c85e944b341bcfbb1043d3bfd951203bd3c69dd56
Last verified
Oct 5, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Arjun Lowe, VectorTune 4.0 (1976). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38542.

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