Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Coldport by its sysop, Lars Demir, with message bases, a file library and 758 members.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
611be46b85ee9761ce7b8d22b63e757589e7b545680e8e7f34d420cb11e4057e- Last verified
- Oct 2, 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.
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: Lars Demir, The Broken Signal BBS (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05983.