Lazarus Archive · LZ-15216

KarstPen 1.3

Northmarsh Software, 1990. Application software for Windows 3.x.

Description

A word processor for Windows 3.x, written by Northmarsh Software for schools.

Provenance

Deposited by Eastcrest College Library, from its own collections. The dye layer had begun to fail at the outer edge; the last sectors came from a second read in a different drive. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1372a9353682e8fb2aa1f75bba9fa59456d85cc1b96eba9ad359e98425790bfa
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN3-6 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WIN3-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 3.x.

Cite as: Northmarsh Software, KarstPen 1.3 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15216.

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