Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Aldermore Falls by its sysop, Liam Holm, with message bases, a file library and 553 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
414c2d5b4db579dc3bda8e90d1a683d79aa7d5804344888dbc193d9a7e59b0d0- Last verified
- Oct 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
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: Liam Holm, The Emerald Pursuit BBS (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02314.