Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Fernstead by its sysop, Abel Mensah, with message bases, a file library and 452 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Friends of Greenwater Bay History, from its own collections. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
5fc40226845468e5e7fb04c3287ed8e3b6ad48173481955f335325370b598859- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Abel Mensah, The Secret Moonbase BBS (1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34694.