Lazarus Archive · LZ-09714

The Hollow Pursuit BBS

Dalia Lau, 1999. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Coldwick by its sysop, Dalia Lau, with message bases, a file library and 66 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Westholm Municipal Archives in 2008. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c5dc28ed4ed9fb61c10ee8b1b819df9f5b6364d316d13bc9293e1e08eea85133
Last verified
Oct 7, 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: Dalia Lau, The Hollow Pursuit BBS (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09714.

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