Description
A typing tutor for the PDP-11, written by Nettle Software for schools.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. About 88 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5b918ea57e1fbd9ca30b9ade5b2f60ee5ee61d68e03e1ab24459575d5e9e6516- Last verified
- Oct 8, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-PDP11-3 · lz-pdp 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-PDP11-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the PDP-11.
Cite as: Nettle Software, Verity Typist 5.5 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19309.