Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Thornworth by its sysop, Lena Karimi, with message bases, a file library and 593 members.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. All files were recovered; 37 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c4b8eb69b2ab08edfba08d6adc86260646716fc130c0748a417caa92d967a863- Last verified
- Sep 27, 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: Lena Karimi, The Iron Odyssey BBS (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35741.