Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Riverford Bay by its sysop, Kavya Hosseini, with message bases, a file library and 255 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Rockport Springs Radio Amateurs’ Society, from its own collections. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2ef817c4b55bf7b143e43e430369485b54dbad872e2f4951aa53bebff8e53d3d- 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: Kavya Hosseini, The Arctic Quest BBS (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20624.