Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Saltholt by its sysop, Alejandro Silva, with message bases, a file library and 97 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Brookmore Falls University Library in 2003. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5ca42ccaa1906cc184914e5e17b8b0265f227aa2c93fdd88f34f170f0108bb0d- Last verified
- Oct 5, 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: Alejandro Silva, The Electric Mines BBS (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06783.