Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from East Redleigh by its sysop, Aaliyah Shaw, with message bases, a file library and 347 members.
Provenance
Deposited by Larkcombe Computer Club, from its own collections. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
bb6e5b7b63561cd228ad649a19cbd71cb77b16cadb6ee9b86f3750b36f4b1a04- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Aaliyah Shaw, The Phantom Comet BBS (1988). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35508.