Lazarus Archive · LZ-31520

The Electric Heist BBS

Naomi Jung, 1980. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Amberhurst by its sysop, Naomi Jung, with message bases, a file library and 298 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. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
825de1626e53e75924243a3b64b56f809e31d58818a081292dcedb8e4196db96
Last verified
Oct 18, 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: Naomi Jung, The Electric Heist BBS (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-31520.

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