Lazarus Archive · LZ-11711

Nimbus Typist 3.0

Brennan Interactive, 1981. Application software for CP/M.

Description

A typing tutor for CP/M, sold to office workers by Brennan Interactive.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Eastworth Bay. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
babfce892b60314a6b66582f9c9d32a6ae5ffba1d8ce5810d6bced3f51ee5701
Last verified
Oct 16, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPM-4 · lz-z80 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-CPM-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on CP/M.

Cite as: Brennan Interactive, Nimbus Typist 3.0 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11711.

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