Lazarus Archive · LZ-29765

AlcoveTypist 5.5

Tandem Software, 1997. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A typing tutor for MS-DOS, published by Tandem Software in 1997.

Provenance

Deposited by Verity Heritage Collection. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
a726b4286ce07c5bdf7095ec3f8bd352ed1437b5b3199884e6e72a210ba0dad3
Last verified
Oct 30, 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.

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: Tandem Software, AlcoveTypist 5.5 (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29765.

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