Lazarus Archive · LZ-31959

Beacon Keys 3.2

Arjun Saleh, 1989. Application software for Atari 8-bit computers.

Description

A typing tutor for Atari 8-bit computers, published by Arjun Saleh in 1989.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2021. 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)
6dd088f539f586f342cb784c3241f951b7db93aa625cb3ca12188cf5650066bc
Last verified
Oct 11, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ATARI8-5 · lz-6502 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-ATARI8-5, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Atari 8-bit computers.

Cite as: Arjun Saleh, Beacon Keys 3.2 (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31959.

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