Lazarus Archive · LZ-26646

Reading Rescue

Wellsby Educational Software, 1996. Educational software for MS-DOS.

Description

Educational software for ages 8 to 12, published by Wellsby Educational Software in 1996.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2019. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. About 60 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
bc348252bbbee6f975fa6133fbad7ad8c7401b52d79d9ef9dcc1c88943ceda0c
Last verified
Oct 22, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Wellsby Educational Software, Reading Rescue (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26646.

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