Lazarus Archive · LZ-26101

Tern Payroll 4.5

Karin Ortega, 1980. Application software for the Apple II.

Description

An accounting package for the Apple II, sold to small businesses by Karin Ortega.

Provenance

Donated with the machine it was used on. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
7a1fa1eb5395930876224a9ab55e44d984b4c0222af71b0e6f6a130adf6452e3
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-APPLE2-6 · lz-6502 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-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.

Cite as: Karin Ortega, Tern Payroll 4.5 (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26101.

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