Lazarus Archive · LZ-01869

The Burning Mines BBS

Henrik Girard, 1986. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Wolfdale by its sysop, Henrik Girard, with message bases, a file library and 165 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Claystead Springs Library and Archives in 1998. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1917bfea88c79b9b9d86fbd656d174c4974e4c2bd4504a80b3d23b97b983a4e3
Last verified
Oct 20, 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: Henrik Girard, The Burning Mines BBS (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-01869.

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