Description
A terminal program for Windows, written by Darius Mercier for universities.
Provenance
Donated by the creator in 2001. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2157eb66e0d4fc208c097c778706a490591bb8a6b858899fc2741b3626ce2770- Last verified
- Oct 17, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WINNT-7 · 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-WINNT-7, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows.
Cite as: Darius Mercier, Whimbrel Dial 5.1 (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03498.