Lazarus Archive · LZ-26478

Pylon BBS

Caleb Castellanos, 1995. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Brookmore Falls by its sysop, Caleb Castellanos, with message bases, a file library and 514 members.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5eebd038e6552f7b21fb929816152e519230c2642af6c26b9336ce6bf23ade89
Last verified
Oct 8, 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: Caleb Castellanos, Pylon BBS (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26478.

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