Lazarus Archive · LZ-23630

Science Rescue 3

Northshore Schools Software Unit, 1981. Educational software for the BBC Micro.

Description

Classroom software for the BBC Micro, written by Northshore Schools Software Unit for ages 7 to 11.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The label reads ‘For the archive’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
49b204ae385f20fb40e1512aa2ca2d3b357e451da30b231f39d83eef19d16968
Last verified
Oct 22, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-BBC-5 · lz-6502 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-BBC-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the BBC Micro.

Cite as: Northshore Schools Software Unit, Science Rescue 3 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23630.

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