Lazarus Archive · LZ-00615

Grammar Island

Plover Learning, 1981. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

Classroom software for the BBC Micro, written by Plover Learning for ages 6 to 9.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. All files were recovered; 55 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
379525cd9848e6a559fd2c5fa7c0a8bcc537295a0d9875ba7a8dd164e8b12a9b
Last verified
Oct 18, 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 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-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.

Cite as: Plover Learning, Grammar Island (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00615.

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