Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Thornford by its sysop, Abel Cohen, with message bases, a file library and 215 members.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The label reads ‘Copy 2’. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c739b81e942d43a5f29bb81201387ec2b037db18f17423edafe1e787f2162267- Last verified
- Oct 21, 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: Abel Cohen, The Lunar Frontier BBS (1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29657.