Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Crowbury Springs by its sysop, Yusuf Watanabe, with message bases, a file library and 479 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Friends of North Pinemore History in 2014. Four disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
de6f7c874ececc1f09b5d30798823a8e72c887b288696beb48d0b7a24238f710- Last verified
- Oct 13, 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.
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: Yusuf Watanabe, The Cosmic Arena BBS (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20726.