Lazarus Archive · LZ-10336

Whimbrel BBS

Adebayo Greco, 1982. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Greenmore Falls by its sysop, Adebayo Greco, with message bases, a file library and 884 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5a25c10ae1498c1e877845305ffcc1de32266e654c44a94fe73dd5b6484d4c43
Last verified
Oct 21, 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: Adebayo Greco, Whimbrel BBS (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10336.

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