Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Coldport by its sysop, Gabriel Iyer, with message bases, a file library and 218 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 2 weeks before the service closed. The label reads ‘Work’. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fb18c6235bc33a95a9986408ac181572eaf1c5df33a99ee7a86a6ac7ea167585- Last verified
- Sep 23, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-BBS-4 · 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-BBS-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on bulletin boards.
Cite as: Gabriel Iyer, Rowan BBS (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00041.