Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Brookvale by its sysop, Mei Ito, with message bases, a file library and 383 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f885f3203c023f07cd53d3a50d8846a03c6502c25604e4becd750b2a3c9cfdf8- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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: Mei Ito, Sorrel BBS (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07716.