Lazarus Archive · LZ-02294

Gannet BBS

Hana Korhonen, 1998. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Hollyvale Bay by its sysop, Hana Korhonen, with message bases, a file library and 603 members.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. All files were recovered; 17 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
2ae107f5c862da5f640005903c6c3e533b06b544411673082d56f26f70dd11ef
Last verified
Oct 16, 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: Hana Korhonen, Gannet BBS (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02294.

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