Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Kingston by its sysop, Hamid Vogel, with message bases, a file library and 228 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0e4964df29e5e8fdcd6a904483c4b1015ee5d30e151716e60941f58d483e506e- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Hamid Vogel, The Hidden Monolith BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03422.