Lazarus Archive · LZ-25998

Kestrel Type 2.5

Clara Marsh, 1990. Application software for Unix workstations.

Description

A word processor for Unix workstations, sold to schools by Clara Marsh.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f5c74ebd176a78fd37f865af9088d5541de1e9ddcc0c30ffd7a7065a7d7ace00
Last verified
Sep 21, 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: Clara Marsh, Kestrel Type 2.5 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25998.

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