Lazarus Archive · LZ-39615

ArdentCalc 1.5

Meridian Computing, 1998. Application software for Windows 95 and 98.

Description

A spreadsheet for Windows 95 and 98, written by Meridian Computing for home users.

Provenance

Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The dye layer had begun to fail at the outer edge; the last sectors came from a second read in a different drive. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
2fa8eb6ec336110922f4dfbe43ebbc5d85668e3eb86b7131221299bbe24388c6
Last verified
Oct 17, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WIN9X-9 · 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.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WIN9X-9, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on Windows 95 and 98.

Cite as: Meridian Computing, ArdentCalc 1.5 (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39615.

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