Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Birchridge by its sysop, Luis Peeters, with message bases, a file library and 644 members.
Provenance
Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
ed40b51e2c8759820fc92240699c049393b8add08559c05d00af06a764990033- Last verified
- Oct 28, 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: Luis Peeters, The Cosmic Outpost BBS (1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-38312.