Lazarus Archive · LZ-04673

BeaconScript

Foxglove Software, 2000. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A word processor for Unix workstations, published by Foxglove Software in 2000.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3af3ab55b4db6fc128f1c623db26d25ac572d4344da6ba8d2e6dab94abf44c31
Last verified
Aug 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-UNIX-5 · lz-risc 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-UNIX-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Unix workstations.

Cite as: Foxglove Software, BeaconScript (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04673.

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