Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Saltgate Harbour by its sysop, Rosa Ellis, with message bases, a file library and 856 members.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Four disks; three read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All files were recovered; 54 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6a2477d65751deda861a43eea673c5ce6220dee061c849d6ff3fa4daf97db96a- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Rosa Ellis, Nimbus BBS (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07349.