Lazarus Archive · LZ-05738

Calder Typist 1.9

Peretz & Delacroix, 2001. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A typing tutor for IBM mainframes, sold to home users by Peretz & Delacroix.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ce193dae883e22a7cd357787403594ee71ce99346608add951379e91bec89830
Last verified
Sep 26, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MVS-3 · lz-s370 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-MVS-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on IBM mainframes.

Cite as: Peretz & Delacroix, Calder Typist 1.9 (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05738.

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