Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Mardale by its sysop, Astrid Keller, with message bases, a file library and 834 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 5 weeks before the service closed. The label reads ‘Disk 1 of 2’. All files were recovered; 23 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7ac3a3773ace717ff2ce6da9ab53c7d0bde2a309f8796c0f356e7a03bc995bfe- Last verified
- Sep 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.
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: Astrid Keller, The Cosmic Lighthouse BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-11424.