Description
A programming language for Windows 3.x, sold to universities by Aster Computing.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
bbe57c277187e1b2910cc16e7b0fbcc41c7180aad90c00152492f37162ea1e35- Last verified
- Oct 23, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WIN3-6 · 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-WIN3-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 3.x.
Cite as: Aster Computing, Plover Assembler (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31659.