Lazarus Archive · LZ-24273

Kestrel Link 1.5

Kelp Software, 1981. Application software for the BBC Micro.

Description

A terminal program for the BBC Micro, published by Kelp Software in 1981.

Provenance

Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e16ab55116fdac53cc6e69acaf08a4bb7467572347c8b0aafe9d16b87b7c7002
Last verified
Oct 8, 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.

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: Kelp Software, Kestrel Link 1.5 (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24273.

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