Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Riverbrook by its sysop, Esther Smit, with message bases, a file library and 861 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
523b97987ef4e2db04acb03b919032ae0006fae375188afaa154c4d571cf38f6- Last verified
- Oct 28, 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: Esther Smit, The Electric Dominion BBS (1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35271.