Lazarus Archive · LZ-40177

The Glass Heist BBS

Mads Ricci, 1985. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Wolfbury Bay by its sysop, Mads Ricci, with message bases, a file library and 141 members.

Provenance

Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Independent reads agree bit for bit.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
02db965511ffa395b88b96ea432dd3678d1a44590cd259b494043017974003cd
Last verified
Oct 23, 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: Mads Ricci, The Glass Heist BBS (1985). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40177.

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