Description
A word processor for OS/2, written by Karst Computing for home users.
Provenance
Found during a house clearance in Port Alderfield and passed to Lazarus. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a171a7d155711423d96d2b893c5ecd37e5673de25c3714ba9e4a5d8e5ce8c30c- Last verified
- Oct 25, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-OS2-3 · 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-OS2-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on OS/2.
Cite as: Karst Computing, Northwind Write 3.3 (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19119.