Lazarus Archive · LZ-36613

The Broken Labyrinth BBS

Malik Ortega, 2001. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Fernport Springs by its sysop, Malik Ortega, with message bases, a file library and 588 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Inland Sound Archive in 2024. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3362c86351597ec1b7856c8c66f26ef7789cb1dea9f5e856ea7b4291670024d8
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 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: Malik Ortega, The Broken Labyrinth BBS (2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-36613.

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