Lazarus Archive · LZ-24310

Kelp Basic

Nils Hoffmann, 2003. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A programming language for Unix workstations, sold to universities by Nils Hoffmann.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4b881855c11f3019aa1cdd5842f0e5407d80c7c483fa0c7b4c1ef48004837511
Last verified
Sep 18, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-UNIX-5 · lz-risc core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-UNIX-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Unix workstations.

Cite as: Nils Hoffmann, Kelp Basic (2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24310.

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