Lazarus Archive · LZ-40936

Rowan CAD

Fischer & Takahashi, 1987. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

An architectural drawing program for MS-DOS, sold to engineers by Fischer & Takahashi.

Provenance

Deposited by Museum of Lowland Industry, from its own collections. The label reads ‘Ask before using’. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b4d69c6199d2752b089e2e2b781ee918d55d1176b39d9f27ff2aaef5618d1b61
Last verified
Oct 28, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Fischer & Takahashi, Rowan CAD (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40936.

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