Lazarus Archive · LZ-40886

MarlinComm

Pioneer Software, 1997. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A terminal program for Unix workstations, sold to universities by Pioneer Software.

Provenance

Deposited by Eastharrow Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8ad65f21954ff409a1bd2e733bf80436a8340c2ace58b00ea2e013a6494d69ee
Last verified
Oct 16, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-UNIX-5 · lz-risc 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-UNIX-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Unix workstations.

Cite as: Pioneer Software, MarlinComm (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40886.

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