Lazarus Archive · LZ-32838

Northwind Keys 4.0

Quist Interactive, 1986. Application software for Atari 8-bit computers.

Description

A typing tutor for Atari 8-bit computers, sold to schools by Quist Interactive.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2020. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
59f55c23bbeecfdfb17bf390dabead41f341c23168c1fec3e8b58ebc3a39fbd8
Last verified
Oct 28, 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. Copies may be taken away.

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: Quist Interactive, Northwind Keys 4.0 (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32838.

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