Lazarus Archive · LZ-24657

Helix Pen 4.9

Barmore Software, 2004. Application software for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

A word processor for Windows 95 and 98, written by Barmore Software for small businesses.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
96e5892d68808f10e42006cf2cef8743d50b1c71d2984a62843a3878e6e892f2
Last verified
Sep 14, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN9X-9 · lz-x86 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-WIN9X-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 95 and 98.

Cite as: Barmore Software, Helix Pen 4.9 (2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-24657.

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