Lazarus Archive · LZ-17039

Basalt Pen

Lowe Interactive, 1986. Application software for CP/M.

Description

A word processor for CP/M, sold to small businesses by Lowe Interactive.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
343fdd1cc7071bdfdcce151ede70e92fb6c77c3a2bf38b9dd46f764cd92b5ef9
Last verified
Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPM-4 · lz-z80 core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-CPM-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on CP/M.

Cite as: Lowe Interactive, Basalt Pen (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17039.

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