Description
A typing tutor for the PDP-11, sold to schools by Vantage Computing.
Provenance
Deposited by Fernport Springs Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9afd5eede84e7eb149cc8e7f54de520815d767ee48513dfdbd1795cdefb22949- Last verified
- Oct 29, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp 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-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.
Cite as: Vantage Computing, ArdentTypist 1.2 (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06391.