Lazarus Archive · LZ-18189

Science Quest

Drift Learning, 1996. Educational software for MS-DOS.

Description

A science program for secondary pupils, made for classroom use on MS-DOS.

Provenance

Deposited by Herongate Springs Library and Archives, which had held it unread for years. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
181b8029540a1558f83faecaebe23513fa74bd0f7669830cae75ce9c1f72ce85
Last verified
Oct 22, 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: Drift Learning, Science Quest (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18189.

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