Lazarus Archive · LZ-04917

The Super Frontier BBS

Rafael Janssen, 1984. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Amberby by its sysop, Rafael Janssen, with message bases, a file library and 61 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The label reads ‘Good copy’. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0da2a3bd98d349e345f654161a0baea27bb3399cbd88dd1cbac0fe6cd4a259d3
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: Rafael Janssen, The Super Frontier BBS (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04917.

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