Description
A word processor for NeXTSTEP, sold to home users by Aster Software.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b164b70324f4face14d3a0af714769398ecc1eb266d426533f7a496ee8b848bc- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-NEXT-3 · lz-m68k 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.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-NEXT-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on NeXTSTEP.
Cite as: Aster Software, DriftWrite (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10145.