Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Herongate Springs by its sysop, Hannah Castellanos, with message bases, a file library and 851 members.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
33b56d8f79f8aeb442453d44bc2b8264723bb61c2776e25aad48d142c2d99a25- Last verified
- Oct 10, 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: Hannah Castellanos, The Molten Engine BBS (1995). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28039.