Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Fernwick by its sysop, Omar Banerjee, with message bases, a file library and 277 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. All files were recovered; 29 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
55547997243ae79829eafdb52230ca40945db322540dd69373fbf89f1da450c3- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Omar Banerjee, The Silent Circuit BBS (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28886.