Description
127 thousand messages sent and received by a radio engineer in Birchwater Harbour.
Provenance
Deposited by the creator in 2013. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c7b775dccdcd1696d2a7d3aa6847b2cbd00bbb0b115e2b2f0f297044b6b2e3b3- Last verified
- Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- EML and PDF/A-2b, with the original mailboxes kept
- 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.
Reading-room copies are migrated to EML and PDF/A-2b, with the original mailboxes kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Ivo Girard, Correspondence of Ivo Girard, 1988–1994 (1988–1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19443.