Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Linridge by its sysop, Nuno Hughes, with message bases, a file library and 310 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All files were recovered; 39 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1258eae9ba43a3fc86b83650810e6f2b75c21f233e83fc1d5b49bedbe7bc2c33- Last verified
- Sep 16, 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: Nuno Hughes, The Broken Odyssey BBS (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27801.