Lazarus Archive · LZ-39358

Beacon Pascal 1.6

Sato Interactive, 1989. Application software for MS-DOS.

Description

A programming language for MS-DOS, sold to hobbyists by Sato Interactive.

Provenance

Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
40159cf0f9551828304783ba92dd7411330f9ca3040ce54233877049c1255a27
Last verified
Oct 22, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-DOS-12 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-DOS-12, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MS-DOS.

Cite as: Sato Interactive, Beacon Pascal 1.6 (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39358.

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