Lazarus Archive · LZ-19196

The Tiny Reactor BBS

Anika Papadopoulos, 1987. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Dunbury by its sysop, Anika Papadopoulos, with message bases, a file library and 446 members.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 3 weeks before the service closed. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
321a8b987a75f0b95a00c05427f4e9f6207e7573b94ad14cf1149a5395be30bd
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 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: Anika Papadopoulos, The Tiny Reactor BBS (1987). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19196.

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