Lazarus Archive · LZ-18061

The Clockwork Garden BBS

Aurelio Georgiou, 1986. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from North Claymont by its sysop, Aurelio Georgiou, with message bases, a file library and 355 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Salthaven Community Archive, which had held it unread for years. The label reads ‘For the archive’. All files were recovered; 34 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
2acb6f6d55cff78e4cb4aaf47f6fa45be4586fec5559af7c207ea44df10ee628
Last verified
Oct 11, 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: Aurelio Georgiou, The Clockwork Garden BBS (1986). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18061.

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