Lazarus Archive · LZ-25428

Ibis Word

Felix Osei, 1986. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A word processor for MS-DOS, written by Felix Osei for home users.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in Greenport Bay and passed to Lazarus. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8c6288f89a6fcd5a780c77001ad07be4f099f37e3c12a77252ff36b285d74a66
Last verified
Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Felix Osei, Ibis Word (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25428.

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