Lazarus Archive · LZ-02256

KelpFix

Silva & Mori, 1984. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A disk utility for the BBC Micro, written by Silva & Mori for repair shops.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in East Duncrest and passed to Lazarus. The label reads ‘Ask before using’. About 86 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
2548efb414d6e79addc9ad6c67b99cb4f79706ae3313b182ba392af98119027d
Last verified
Sep 30, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

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: Silva & Mori, KelpFix (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02256.

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