Lazarus Archive · LZ-24484

StrataTypist 5.5

Mads Ruiz, 1992. Application software for Windows 3.x.

Description

A typing tutor for Windows 3.x, written by Mads Ruiz for office workers.

Provenance

Deposited by Westholm Polytechnic Library, which had held it unread for years. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c3c02f92a64dafc205f428ed3bb4d11189fdc190ca115e6eb5235bda14aa4421
Last verified
Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN3-6 · lz-x86 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-WIN3-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 3.x.

Cite as: Mads Ruiz, StrataTypist 5.5 (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24484.

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