Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from East Cedarstead by its sysop, Caleb Delacroix, with message bases, a file library and 124 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4cf58ea494663a576c7c1637baefa6d60cd4a91a1fb9638b64364ef9151e6e03- Last verified
- Oct 22, 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: Caleb Delacroix, The Little Signal BBS (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20411.