Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Wellsworth Falls by its sysop, Mina Smit, with message bases, a file library and 722 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
cbd608093db1285c02de774b62df21c35614bcddb81f7cb4d36f00c0becc8090- Last verified
- Oct 23, 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: Mina Smit, Relay BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12282.