Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Ironcrest Bay by its sysop, Gabriel Banerjee, with message bases, a file library and 844 members.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c738382e2e5f6fa0944a00d425c6db09a677f7a8d24fbf257a9c7b8878a25373- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Gabriel Banerjee, Verity BBS (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28502.