Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Pinefield by its sysop, Aurelio Nakamura, with message bases, a file library and 445 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Eastworth Bay Demoscene Archive, which had held it unread for years. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
961a1c75e3e588aa29c240db43e476e6184ad3eaaa5681e9a259b474644e3a49- Last verified
- Sep 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Aurelio Nakamura, The Broken Orbit BBS (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16424.