Description
Classroom software for the BBC Micro, written by Fairgate Educational Software for ages 8 to 12.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in East Redville and passed to Lazarus. The label reads ‘Disk 1 of 2’. About 73 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
256a02608d910ac7e07e2503fa4bc8297ec1da979488002ffe6fbcee8148fa18- Last verified
- Sep 28, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-BBC-5 · 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 under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.
Cite as: Fairgate Educational Software, Number Explorer 2 (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11108.