Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Brookvale by its sysop, Esther Rhys, with message bases, a file library and 40 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e32401edcc25359bd2e868c2c09d22ce4052e83646fd88718792242e0be59dfa- 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: Esther Rhys, The Brave Tower BBS (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03377.