Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Barridge by its sysop, Sara Fraser, with message bases, a file library and 761 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 30 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
e668bcfb1235e634abbcc63ec3a513e555fbe9ce4c63749f2435faa0d911f287- Last verified
- Oct 22, 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: Sara Fraser, The Molten Arena BBS (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-16697.