Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Marcombe by its sysop, Samir Moreau, with message bases, a file library and 685 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a45498d55293bdc0428bf2454a7967388ff5c7533f8d19b8ae441d9109e35f36- Last verified
- Oct 2, 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: Samir Moreau, The Lost Signal BBS (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27921.