Lazarus Archive · LZ-13214

Basalt BBS

Aaliyah Saleh, 1999. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Northcrest Falls by its sysop, Aaliyah Saleh, with message bases, a file library and 314 members.

Provenance

Deposited by North Brookcombe Community Archive, which had held it unread for years. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f0f9b5dc5ad32fda76a051577a50d90b4b49f80d7ac3eb7a6b748cc26834ae7c
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: Aaliyah Saleh, Basalt BBS (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13214.

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