Lazarus Archive · LZ-35559

Quarry BBS

Keanu Quist, 1989. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Rivermore Harbour by its sysop, Keanu Quist, with message bases, a file library and 240 members.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
bfd064d83b4346c1b037e67e5fe9e8604eab00075235b792dc41339b0a2d4a6b
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: Keanu Quist, Quarry BBS (1989). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35559.

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