Lazarus Archive · LZ-02491

Nettle BBS

Kavya Banerjee, 1980. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Highfold by its sysop, Kavya Banerjee, with message bases, a file library and 137 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
81e19566f67dd929370a5217a16016f3da6d64142c817368449d665a6ca061ba
Last verified
Sep 18, 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: Kavya Banerjee, Nettle BBS (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02491.

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