Lazarus Archive · LZ-32319

The Quiet Garden BBS

Alejandro Wong, 1981. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Wolfby by its sysop, Alejandro Wong, with message bases, a file library and 583 members.

Provenance

Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
4341b11c11541c0b17ef86e0d6254b4180c9943861040bbaceb8ecf47dec952f
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: Alejandro Wong, The Quiet Garden BBS (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-32319.

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