Lazarus Archive · LZ-04507

History Island

Tamm Educational, 1987. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A history program for ages 7 to 11, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Three disks; two read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1a3f510098b1aad1fc5f78bf57b07709b11f2a2d911b0b67f1d2e3700d13d1aa
Last verified
Oct 21, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Tamm Educational, History Island (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04507.

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