Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Oakcrest Harbour by its sysop, Yara Nasser, with message bases, a file library and 412 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The label reads ‘Keep!!’. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f4662ba5f8315d15282ce611dd64322ebf67555bc93c87fc326597c23ed0de0f- Last verified
- Oct 10, 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: Yara Nasser, The Turbo Monolith BBS (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09536.