Lazarus Archive · LZ-14523

The Lunar Reactor BBS

Astrid Campbell, 1992. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Bardale by its sysop, Astrid Campbell, with message bases, a file library and 291 members.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
e3be2c5b67b298b9e9046f11eefb994707806076c5bffd41abd134e44cd99206
Last verified
Oct 16, 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: Astrid Campbell, The Lunar Reactor BBS (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14523.

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