Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Highstead by its sysop, Oscar Wagner, with message bases, a file library and 765 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The label reads ‘Ask before using’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
799a672d9d1c3903d4a25b9f93839dd867d9f64e784c1efe75b7937a7aa1e16f- 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: Oscar Wagner, The Broken Circuit BBS (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-36609.