Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Southville by its sysop, Jamal Kaur, with message bases, a file library and 865 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Fernport Springs Demoscene Archive, from its own collections. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. All files were recovered; 5 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ece1d6d7d00fa0b0f5427a1b9bad61e773559e51283c31b8f590cc3b9173c290- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Jamal Kaur, The Hidden Ascent BBS (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26861.