Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Redhurst by its sysop, Mads Romero, with message bases, a file library and 785 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 5 weeks before the service closed. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
621d8a352bc857411e7b315432dfb387bfa68535292efe8c810e745d92623ee5- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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: Mads Romero, The Paper Labyrinth BBS (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28500.