Description
A terminal program for MS-DOS, sold to home users by Duarte & Marsh.
Provenance
Deposited by Longhaven Bay Demoscene Archive, from its own collections. The dye layer had begun to fail at the outer edge; the last sectors came from a second read in a different drive. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
55768fcde3d730219a0f18b8e31c7560e2a1d86e03f2644c7011fad7c4d9ec77- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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: Duarte & Marsh, Whimbrel Dial 5.2 (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28872.