Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Thornford by its sysop, Marta Girard, with message bases, a file library and 696 members.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 5 weeks before the service closed. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b2e4d26bdcde600809242f0e07447adc8747dc8e648466b60fe4b9d352220d9e- Last verified
- Sep 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: Marta Girard, The Clockwork Gambit BBS (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39909.