Lazarus Archive · LZ-19014

The Little Derby BBS

Mads Keller, 1993. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from East Hartbridge by its sysop, Mads Keller, with message bases, a file library and 354 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The label reads ‘For the archive’. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
8f687300ce7823254c9dd424c478a7d7f9b06b01c44632298cd4774f1e45c23c
Last verified
Oct 9, 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: Mads Keller, The Little Derby BBS (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19014.

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