Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Linridge Harbour by its sysop, Isaac Campbell, with message bases, a file library and 471 members.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. 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)
09cdf7e84933a2ded65fe2a2749c9c1f7b2533e13b53e78a48c2d6724337d341- Last verified
- Oct 30, 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: Isaac Campbell, The Velvet Dominion BBS (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-20775.