Lazarus Archive · LZ-00282

Whimbrel Plan 1.6

Whimbrel Computing, 1989. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A spreadsheet for the BBC Micro, written by Whimbrel Computing for engineers.

Provenance

Deposited by Harbour Region Arcade Preservation Society in 1993. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3d36d5302b731b26df68387fbc04e0dd877cdf4c2169088ad40ca6d5a7227527
Last verified
Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-BBC-5 · lz-6502 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-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.

Cite as: Whimbrel Computing, Whimbrel Plan 1.6 (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00282.

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