Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Redworth by its sysop, Marta Lund, with message bases, a file library and 841 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 4 weeks before the service closed. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ce5fca30727565c5571232b6d7bc14d4bdff2c66f5dfd5d870576ce929ab47d0- Last verified
- Sep 2, 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. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
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: Marta Lund, The Iron Citadels BBS (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-36983.