Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Southcombe by its sysop, Luis Dubois, with message bases, a file library and 58 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6f8fea9a523de3b32893274809586dda1b7d4692f3c5b8686d8a3fc63ef322c1- Last verified
- Oct 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: Luis Dubois, The Wild Express BBS (1992). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25884.