Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Weststead by its sysop, Nikhil Tran, with message bases, a file library and 232 members.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
05993feffb256c227d516b4c91df27da89b9cad319416d506ab476bea03bf79e- Last verified
- Sep 21, 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: Nikhil Tran, Mosaic BBS (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06855.