Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Dunby Harbour by its sysop, Sofia Kato, with message bases, a file library and 48 members.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Three disks; one read cleanly on the first pass and the rest after repeated flux-level reads. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
41436430a45308a5e955fed430963f214746b050afa9787531f5de0098b6ffc5- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Sofia Kato, The Shadow Reactor BBS (1984). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39237.