Lazarus Archive · LZ-00089

EmberPen 2.4

Whitehurst Bay Software, 1990. Application software for VAX/VMS.

Description

A word processor for VAX/VMS, sold to home users by Whitehurst Bay Software.

Provenance

Donated with the machine it was used on. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
de5d6a845810658a8bfa1c5f7a36f8c2e047dab382b20b69090c73f85efdb274
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-VAX-4 · lz-vax 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-VAX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on VAX/VMS.

Cite as: Whitehurst Bay Software, EmberPen 2.4 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00089.

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