Lazarus Archive · LZ-04153

KelpDial

Orchid Software, 1984. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A terminal program for MS-DOS, sold to universities by Orchid Software.

Provenance

Deposited by Westholm Polytechnic Library in 2003. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All files were recovered; 37 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
7b87fcb4b232f2a5c8b8a319a33e21986189da470ce545a2d2f81f13251d0ad1
Last verified
Oct 2, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

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: Orchid Software, KelpDial (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04153.

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