Description
A typing tutor for Windows, sold to home users by Beacon Software.
Provenance
Deposited by Marcombe Computer Heritage Centre, from its own collections. The label, written in marker, reads ‘Backup — final’. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
22cce754d5cfb95ea4eb1c1ea2d0e511c12f20043e13c8e6174d7f758d130b25- Last verified
- Sep 22, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WINNT-7 · lz-x86 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-WINNT-7, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows.
Cite as: Beacon Software, AsterKeys (2005). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07133.