Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Linridge Harbour by its sysop, Clara Yilmaz, with message bases, a file library and 336 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
12982e778936ecee582cf8d229f6baf04cad2e2a8bd34ad50d88273aee37de88- Last verified
- Oct 14, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Clara Yilmaz, The Neon Caverns BBS (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22832.