Lazarus Archive · LZ-10883

NovaKeys 2.4

Dimitrov Interactive, 1968. Application software for IBM mainframes.

Description

A typing tutor for IBM mainframes, written by Dimitrov Interactive for office workers.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 13 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
888e0e4215125a95f1e236c10b56f70496489dc2a69fffe9b462521e4f811daa
Last verified
Sep 25, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MVS-3 · lz-s370 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-MVS-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on IBM mainframes.

Cite as: Dimitrov Interactive, NovaKeys 2.4 (1968). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10883.

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