Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Fairville by its sysop, Gabriel Ferreira, with message bases, a file library and 356 members.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. All files were recovered; 41 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6b95741c852ab54cc73450928848710674d4161fdb87ececb854d16bb44efd0b- Last verified
- Oct 22, 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: Gabriel Ferreira, The Starlit Raid BBS (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-36191.