Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Coldridge by its sysop, Ruth Rasmussen, with message bases, a file library and 867 members.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1a6f47387f7e8ba43d9b8c7f9ed1d3cdd0cb13faa6be15199d274e36eea1a91c- Last verified
- Sep 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 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: Ruth Rasmussen, Orchid BBS (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03249.