Lazarus Archive · LZ-08021

CobaltTypist 5.1

Bluebellsoft, 1994. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A typing tutor for MS-DOS, written by Bluebellsoft for office workers.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
062862f9f02dc29e1497a79169f8a46597a45fad57fc09244a1ad27bbb63b0b4
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Bluebellsoft, CobaltTypist 5.1 (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-08021.

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