Description
A word program for ages 8 to 12, made for classroom use on MS-DOS.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 33 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
832cb6b4ac544b5bd68f355b8267355fafe1a6552f324ca9ee6a13aaae9801f9- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Eastern Shore Schools Software Unit, Word Garden (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29376.