Lazarus Archive · LZ-26159

PylonTypist 1.4

Yara Byrne, 1982. Application software for the ZX Spectrum.

Description

A typing tutor for the ZX Spectrum, sold to home users by Yara Byrne.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The label reads ‘Disk 1 of 2’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b3293b59f370d6b2a17dd676f2477ff9680a1acc1b7aa069b1609e609478d3ec
Last verified
Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ZXS-6 · lz-z80 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-ZXS-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the ZX Spectrum.

Cite as: Yara Byrne, PylonTypist 1.4 (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26159.

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