Lazarus Archive · LZ-20769

IbisWrite

Brennan Interactive, 1989. Application software for the TRS-80.

Description

A word processor for the TRS-80, sold to schools by Brennan Interactive.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Pineport Harbour. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a8161eab414cb31e46f7f88940feeab3a31250cc084b18b6dbe7cfe79f1a9374
Last verified
Oct 20, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-TRS80-3 · lz-z80 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-TRS80-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the TRS-80.

Cite as: Brennan Interactive, IbisWrite (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20769.

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