Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Willowridge by its sysop, Anders Hughes, with message bases, a file library and 871 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e585cd19a7c999d3f24591075e5fa87ec888ffe7e3eaf48541fb1d87ca1dfe11- 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: Anders Hughes, The Thunder Gambit BBS (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06042.