Lazarus Archive · LZ-34846

The Little Monolith BBS

Jun Petrov, 1996. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Rivermore Harbour by its sysop, Jun Petrov, with message bases, a file library and 889 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. 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)
7ee8726128a55ab1af636cd4cae8874768551e4a533520f64f9de418d819c485
Last verified
Oct 30, 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: Jun Petrov, The Little Monolith BBS (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-34846.

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