Lazarus Archive · LZ-12369

Pebble Typist

Kestrel Software, 1981. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A typing tutor for MS-DOS, sold to office workers by Kestrel Software.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2009. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f050ccaee6e09d139893512dea74a6ab3d41c4e723aeb672727111826a62c698
Last verified
Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · lz-x86 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-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Kestrel Software, Pebble Typist (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12369.

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