Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Goldwater Falls by its sysop, Aaliyah Takahashi, with message bases, a file library and 679 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The label reads ‘Letters’. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
aeac0b0fedb2fa1bad335be3ded9f128038174eaf0a7ce32d44597e42e82c5ac- Last verified
- Sep 9, 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: Aaliyah Takahashi, The Golden Quest BBS (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37524.