Lazarus Archive · LZ-31092

The Glass Lighthouse BBS

Greta Abernathy, 1990. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Riverbrook by its sysop, Greta Abernathy, with message bases, a file library and 637 members.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 3 weeks before the service closed. The label reads ‘DO NOT ERASE’. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
846e22f372f2f4db64702cce86e4823ebc95c988028f194a8671162bba589cff
Last verified
Sep 23, 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: Greta Abernathy, The Glass Lighthouse BBS (1990). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31092.

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