Lazarus Archive · LZ-19678

Ibis BBS

Arjun Eklund, 1995. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Barmore by its sysop, Arjun Eklund, with message bases, a file library and 243 members.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1d289bf069d98ef74a2f6c567bb3b7077939e68d74b1b95f9e65640397d889d6
Last verified
Oct 28, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

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: Arjun Eklund, Ibis BBS (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-19678.

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