Lazarus Archive · LZ-01165

QuillWord

North Sandmere Software, 1985. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A word processor for MS-DOS, published by North Sandmere Software in 1985.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in East Rockhaven. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8f3d046e044c08635117aae3e845a588e75587164f80cb8df6cd97dce9f87c6f
Last verified
Sep 22, 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.

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: North Sandmere Software, QuillWord (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01165.

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