Lazarus Archive · LZ-02617

Nova BBS

Emeka Chen, 1983. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Brookmont by its sysop, Emeka Chen, with message bases, a file library and 749 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Northwest Archives Service. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
81d6f88ab14617a67aabbdfa7f0d66d41d1f43eb2e8074be930fa9237143a262
Last verified
Oct 29, 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: Emeka Chen, Nova BBS (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02617.

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