Lazarus Archive · LZ-29147

The Shadow Galleon BBS

Dmitri Wagner, 1989. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Alderby Falls by its sysop, Dmitri Wagner, with message bases, a file library and 825 members.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The label reads ‘Copy 2’. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
f6e1855ca8b65d52c13f13282e4f1ffb957ea3f4010edb45b215ad9ae8d787d3
Last verified
Oct 26, 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: Dmitri Wagner, The Shadow Galleon BBS (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29147.

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