Lazarus Archive · LZ-07194

The Arctic Circuit BBS

Eamon Achterberg, 1994. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Pineharrow by its sysop, Eamon Achterberg, with message bases, a file library and 547 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Port Larkstead Radio Amateurs’ Society. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 20 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
057ea076a575f3408bafef34f496b4c58440e8af9a38f0b30e0ba3bfee1405dc
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: Eamon Achterberg, The Arctic Circuit BBS (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07194.

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