Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Rockport Springs by its sysop, Nikhil Abernathy, with message bases, a file library and 634 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 5 weeks before the service closed. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All files were recovered; 59 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fcd1f30c22c2bfe5e34bb5a383b042fff791352d295835f4f943badd42dc3aac- Last verified
- Oct 22, 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: Nikhil Abernathy, The Distant Derby BBS (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11341.