Lazarus Archive · LZ-28566

CobaltTypist 1.6

Camille Mercier, 1984. Application software for MSX computers.

Description

A typing tutor for MSX computers, sold to office workers by Camille Mercier.

Provenance

Donated by the creator’s family in 2020. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
d4209478985300ccb030cb1af379d23cf27d1628d30330a2d437053576012700
Last verified
Sep 9, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MSX-4 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.

Cite as: Camille Mercier, CobaltTypist 1.6 (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28566.

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