Lazarus Archive · LZ-39434

OrchidForth

Mosaicsoft, 1985. Application software for the Macintosh.

Description

A programming language for the Macintosh, written by Mosaicsoft for schools.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Five disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
040068269275a6c8701731460f18cd0680163b4d19738957acddf057f55a572d
Last verified
Oct 8, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MACOS-8 · lz-m68k 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-MACOS-8, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the Macintosh.

Cite as: Mosaicsoft, OrchidForth (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39434.

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