Lazarus Archive · LZ-19002

Kelp Write

Shaw & Campbell, 1993. Application software for Windows 3.x.

Description

A word processor for Windows 3.x, published by Shaw & Campbell in 1993.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The dye layer had begun to fail at the outer edge; the last sectors came from a second read in a different drive. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f253ab7a72cbf9d16caa04a9f8525ff9aa490bb673b48c2c043ff91916311a3d
Last verified
Sep 18, 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: Shaw & Campbell, Kelp Write (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19002.

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