Lazarus Archive · LZ-18751

Granite BBS

Folasade Marsh, 1991. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Brookmore Falls by its sysop, Folasade Marsh, with message bases, a file library and 538 members.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
45d140978ed37d6957d853bbd9adc4c5c4ac33057d73471da07f3d4160f5242d
Last verified
Oct 8, 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: Folasade Marsh, Granite BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-18751.

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