Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Eastcrest by its sysop, Vikram Ellis, with message bases, a file library and 157 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Red River Libraries. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
99fe8ef38527d26518aee175be3686dab2bbb8c6109f92d0e09e8aff3815f52f- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Vikram Ellis, The Thunder Heist BBS (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-10866.