Lazarus Archive · LZ-41182

DriftPress

Marsh & Lowe, 2002. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A desktop publishing program for Unix workstations, written by Marsh & Lowe for small businesses.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Port Hollywick. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
97fb5b8cfbb2a82611c0429d4c6f33690d2c5350d0371d744c5a228fc5230a91
Last verified
Oct 28, 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 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-UNIX-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Unix workstations.

Cite as: Marsh & Lowe, DriftPress (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41182.

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