Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Larkstead by its sysop, Cormac Tan, with message bases, a file library and 142 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 3 weeks before the service closed. Mould on one disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4dd6449ed02ac8d0483c0517bd40ecd45e81d4205f04729d4deea6ae6b7261b5- Last verified
- Oct 10, 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: Cormac Tan, Bluebell BBS (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-33967.