Lazarus Archive · LZ-13375

The Distant Citadels BBS

Simone Tamm, 1989. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Rockport Springs by its sysop, Simone Tamm, with message bases, a file library and 258 members.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e79b01d8c84993ff2c96ac9ba175bca7c233b2063e9e9c2f00205a8085f08240
Last verified
Oct 26, 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: Simone Tamm, The Distant Citadels BBS (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13375.

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