Lazarus Archive · LZ-34412

Corvid BBS

Yusuf Demir, 1985. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Marcombe by its sysop, Yusuf Demir, with message bases, a file library and 839 members.

Provenance

Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c19bbb962d35c33711eca49f38221f472e2a7d887e2b14fc0cb963f1d3033ee0
Last verified
Oct 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: Yusuf Demir, Corvid BBS (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34412.

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