Lazarus Archive · LZ-11737

Nova Word 4.2

Marridge Software, 1977. Application software for the PDP-11.

Description

A word processor for the PDP-11, sold to writers by Marridge Software.

Provenance

Donated with the machine it was used on. Mould on three disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
adb6f3909d936a0c9ad9fdbbb05e7df19f69e8e81cb06827dc137a0cae3f0628
Last verified
Sep 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.

Cite as: Marridge Software, Nova Word 4.2 (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11737.

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