Lazarus Archive · LZ-04988

FerroBooks 1.5

Karst Software, 1986. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

An accounting package for the BBC Micro, published by Karst Software in 1986.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Stonestead. The label reads ‘Ask before using’. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9fd83b03b09215df71762ea0ded20b5ea62ce6f6c061620f41fb58d667371a40
Last verified
Oct 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Karst Software, FerroBooks 1.5 (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04988.

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