Lazarus Archive · LZ-22517

The Secret Mines BBS

Oscar Wong, 2000. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Wolfharrow by its sysop, Oscar Wong, with message bases, a file library and 372 members.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
0aaf346f1a2cb8a2a94b7cf96761400eb99fd1bd5d18be889bf1a4215d281c82
Last verified
Sep 10, 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: Oscar Wong, The Secret Mines BBS (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22517.

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