Lazarus Archive · LZ-22319

Osprey BBS

Elias Lee, 1981. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Hartton by its sysop, Elias Lee, with message bases, a file library and 54 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Harthaven Municipal Archives, which had held it unread for years. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
81fa89688a356e5401955c2afbd151904e75c3c141bf76677b91f8da5d6dab4f
Last verified
Sep 21, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Elias Lee, Osprey BBS (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22319.

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