Lazarus Archive · LZ-17642

Aster BBS

Saanvi Rossi, 1985. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Wellsworth Falls by its sysop, Saanvi Rossi, with message bases, a file library and 354 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Port Wrenmont Community Archive, from its own collections. Five disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
ff7b2dfd5d566c366bf4eaf915a84fade0f56fb18fea61ccf8df6e165d8dd3dd
Last verified
Oct 28, 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: Saanvi Rossi, Aster BBS (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17642.

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