Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Silverfield Springs by its sysop, Chidi Holm, with message bases, a file library and 457 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
37342d8a784d28d9f604fb149a9a62c07d147d023c7b5ac8da3031f90b24df0e- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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: Chidi Holm, The Midnight Ascent BBS (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03873.