Lazarus Archive · LZ-13049

Onyx BBS

Ingrid Tran, 1988. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Millleigh Falls by its sysop, Ingrid Tran, with message bases, a file library and 595 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
77201a6024c717bdd193114213a1f6f54ece068fa218dbb030c10070bbf69ad9
Last verified
Sep 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: Ingrid Tran, Onyx BBS (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13049.

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