Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from East Rushfield by its sysop, Valentina Ndiaye, with message bases, a file library and 449 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 5 weeks before the service closed. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
adda0597708b463b9ef3fee4d2db1e97d739f40ce030af2d421ff3b118ad7aa4- Last verified
- Oct 16, 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: Valentina Ndiaye, The Frozen Descent BBS (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04167.