Description
A word processor for Windows 3.x, sold to small businesses by Sorrel Computing.
Provenance
Deposited by Museum of Northshore Industry, which had held it unread for years. The disc was scratched but readable after cleaning. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b38195e4a358811d08fec6b5db2216ea89360c5c67d9be538fd6993312fd0f9b- Last verified
- Sep 20, 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.
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: Sorrel Computing, Whimbrel Write 1.0 (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31778.