Lazarus Archive · LZ-36016

VerityBasic 5.5

Karin Mehta, 1977. Application software for the Apple II.

Description

A programming language for the Apple II, written by Karin Mehta for schools.

Provenance

Found during a house clearance in East Cedarstead and passed to Lazarus. 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)
a74196008b23909fea47adbe2715e7699265f57924eaf1f8d6e9c3e552d9e183
Last verified
Oct 28, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-APPLE2-6 · 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 under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-APPLE2-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Apple II.

Cite as: Karin Mehta, VerityBasic 5.5 (1977). Lazarus Archive, LZ-36016.

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