Lazarus Archive · LZ-41191

Sorrel Pen 5.9

Visser Interactive, 1991. Application software for NeXTSTEP.

Description

A word processor for NeXTSTEP, sold to schools by Visser Interactive.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
dab742d45917d015e78f2f6e1a9e4a5ee15cf9d5d18cafe615c6da465098b06e
Last verified
Oct 24, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-NEXT-3 · 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. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-NEXT-3, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on NeXTSTEP.

Cite as: Visser Interactive, Sorrel Pen 5.9 (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41191.

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