Lazarus Archive · LZ-37776

The Sunken Reactor BBS

Tobias Singh, 1993. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Fairville by its sysop, Tobias Singh, with message bases, a file library and 832 members.

Provenance

Deposited by Pinewood Software Preservation Group in 2024. The drive had seized. Its platters were moved to a donor drive on a clean bench and imaged there. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
c5383b5dff59fa6536c5de6cead53a141269c3cc7bcfbc88ca7485d47004b266
Last verified
Oct 25, 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: Tobias Singh, The Sunken Reactor BBS (1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37776.

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