Lazarus Archive · LZ-20581

The Copper Ascent BBS

Seo-yeon Haddad, 1998. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Cedarwater Bay by its sysop, Seo-yeon Haddad, with message bases, a file library and 724 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. Two disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
1eda41dc5e387a007148dc282003b866d6271312a29954253ea3d61d8321f680
Last verified
Sep 29, 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: Seo-yeon Haddad, The Copper Ascent BBS (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20581.

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