Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Blackfield Bay by its sysop, Malik Tran, with message bases, a file library and 615 members.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2d98b50d2149179f1fb2361d046eb20eebcdb0e1f5e2699c6c3b0ee2b0514ff7- Last verified
- Sep 18, 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: Malik Tran, The Iron Arena BBS (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03738.