Lazarus Archive · LZ-27135

The Hidden Garden BBS

Orla Moreau, 1991. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Sunfield Falls by its sysop, Orla Moreau, with message bases, a file library and 271 members.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Three disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
2858f4fedae9399b16f3c55c24c8c762ed6d9b3a480a18d347040c4c1e9d975b
Last verified
Oct 28, 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: Orla Moreau, The Hidden Garden BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27135.

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