Lazarus Archive · LZ-19213

Cinder Keys

Ferro Software, 1990. Application software for Windows 3.x.

Description

A typing tutor for Windows 3.x, written by Ferro Software for home users.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. All files were recovered; 6 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
954bc1e2db7902ed92670d839887961af6eba41c009422454152576ceff2111b
Last verified
Oct 29, 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: Ferro Software, Cinder Keys (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19213.

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