Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from Ironfield by its sysop, Beatriz Weatherall, with message bases, a file library and 892 members.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
21c3675efdc474b87f71072abef289843dd4f5c45cfcce7e55426f7636086901- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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: Beatriz Weatherall, Northwind BBS (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40078.