Description
A fractions program for ages 6 to 9, made for classroom use on the BBC Micro.
Provenance
Deposited by East Cedarstead Central Library. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
dcf2737ba91c64fb2399e0dc04a55e97bbed37cd4ccc73736aae55a22b5261b0- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Midland Schools Software Unit, Fractions Detective (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05993.