Description
A demo for MS-DOS by Echo Lights, first shown at Riverbridge Springs Assembly Hall party in 1982.
Provenance
Deposited by Highland Retro Computing Society, which had held it unread for years. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
022cdcead89f3b5624f70281ba3835e7cc21b7cf09172b3e080e8ea4a41bdb44- Last verified
- Sep 15, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Echo Lights, Moiré Postcard (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27759.