Lazarus Archive · LZ-29993

Gyre Typist 2.8

Nadia Quist, 1998. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A typing tutor for MS-DOS, sold to home users by Nadia Quist.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8b62786fde60397f376d25ed696e23e1aef9893b9513ad69f9c50b34288a6e52
Last verified
Oct 4, 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: Nadia Quist, Gyre Typist 2.8 (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29993.

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