Lazarus Archive · LZ-14784

Kestrel BBS

Imani Sorensen, 1982. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Rushbrook by its sysop, Imani Sorensen, with message bases, a file library and 148 members.

Provenance

Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8fa6df63572dca6e2ca7c7a8f56efc397166271517e76e5ff5bec667cc45d660
Last verified
Oct 13, 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: Imani Sorensen, Kestrel BBS (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14784.

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