Lazarus Archive · LZ-21510

The Shadow Dominion BBS

Ingrid Rhys, 1999. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Westbrook Bay by its sysop, Ingrid Rhys, with message bases, a file library and 356 members.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 3 weeks before the service closed. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
cb9833e0dc64e86d759b3533ec6bf8d4bf7a2814c1eb8af8a308a652c2acffd8
Last verified
Oct 25, 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: Ingrid Rhys, The Shadow Dominion BBS (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-21510.

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