Lazarus Archive · LZ-14271

Pylon Typist 1.8

Tandem Software, 1990. Application software for the Commodore 64.

Description

A typing tutor for the Commodore 64, written by Tandem Software for schools.

Provenance

Deposited by Riverstead Games Museum, which had held it unread for years. Mould on one disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Rebuilt from 2 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b8aae88c77d477cae2609863ae18bf59325dd24e6e297132d3f3811716f5be40
Last verified
Oct 4, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-C64-9 · lz-6510 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-C64-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Commodore 64.

Cite as: Tandem Software, Pylon Typist 1.8 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14271.

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