Lazarus Archive · LZ-16274

Wren Typist

Driftsoft, 1992. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A typing tutor for MS-DOS, written by Driftsoft for office workers.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. About 55 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
cc92354952148108999ebd22cadd7982305d38c654e2153fcedbb1bb9a6b41be
Last verified
Sep 21, 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.

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: Driftsoft, Wren Typist (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16274.

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