Lazarus Archive · LZ-10976

NimbusTypist

Willow Computing, 1988. Application software for the Apple II.

Description

A typing tutor for the Apple II, sold to schools by Willow Computing.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Birchford Harbour and passed to Lazarus. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1e05e3de12a385247fb2badfe3ebaf23ed733459980617fa59695a7896c67db5
Last verified
Sep 13, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-APPLE2-6 · lz-6502 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.

Cite as: Willow Computing, NimbusTypist (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10976.

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