Lazarus Archive · LZ-14391

Cobalt BBS

Karin Vogel, 2000. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Pineford Falls by its sysop, Karin Vogel, with message bases, a file library and 394 members.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
9b29d0ab433431faad939eb2f8c7c72bf59a68aa08984d12d83336945f0fd1f5
Last verified
Oct 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 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: Karin Vogel, Cobalt BBS (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14391.

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