Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Northcrest Falls by its sysop, Imani Ferreira, with message bases, a file library and 463 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The label reads ‘Version that works’. About 59 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
9867324e52c3359fda59a75eaca21cb85996064c6b8a4787154b1be36ec30891- Last verified
- Oct 13, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Imani Ferreira, Bramble BBS (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01696.