Lazarus Archive · LZ-31156

Heron Word 5.8

Demir Interactive, 1990. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A word processor for MS-DOS, sold to schools by Demir Interactive.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Alderby Falls. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0e0147b3c29a8368c80dbecafb70330f4849880dce4ea6871af0c56f33cec5e7
Last verified
Oct 19, 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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: Demir Interactive, Heron Word 5.8 (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31156.

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