Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Port Hartton by its sysop, Abel Laurent, with message bases, a file library and 694 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. The label reads ‘Thesis data’. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
4572c90daaba1b7749e1ce5457af7d94ac9c4126e8fff17e2b8984dad1eb3a84- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Abel Laurent, Willow BBS (1991). Lazarus Archive, LZ-35984.