Lazarus Archive · LZ-07962

Kelp BBS

Zoe O’Neill, 1980. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Kingsville Falls by its sysop, Zoe O’Neill, with message bases, a file library and 825 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Harbour Region Archives Service in 2006. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4cde9838842444fa72e2a054a78eb5c475adabe4d374f001cd5705a4cfb3381a
Last verified
Oct 23, 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: Zoe O’Neill, Kelp BBS (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-07962.

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