Lazarus Archive · LZ-35899

Plover Typist 3.9

Vector Computing, 1977. Application software for CP/M.

Description

A typing tutor for CP/M, sold to schools by Vector Computing.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2023. 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)
ac44649017c3e54edfdbee7329da95c1fd40b56251fa532f120da587695261ee
Last verified
Oct 27, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-CPM-4 · lz-z80 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-CPM-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on CP/M.

Cite as: Vector Computing, Plover Typist 3.9 (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35899.

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