Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Greenwater Bay by its sysop, Wei Watanabe, with message bases, a file library and 78 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Tri-County Libraries, which had held it unread for years. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
3861ecca4c8d026b7c1a074f905b1aecf7d44f380ca01156cb35a75a8eb430df- Last verified
- Oct 10, 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: Wei Watanabe, Swift BBS (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20166.