Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Barmore by its sysop, Daniel Berg, with message bases, a file library and 326 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 6 weeks before the service closed. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d514c654856c0294aed910f01b3577717901e6ed3b1919e3e601b913a1dbc0bb- 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: Daniel Berg, Ardent BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25583.