Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Pineworth by its sysop, Bronwen Ong, with message bases, a file library and 745 members.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
863b528d4eb60616521514d052c9b8f18f1f283801e941575c7a7c1c83a41bae- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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: Bronwen Ong, The Iron Express BBS (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02585.