Lazarus Archive · LZ-40184

Vector BBS

Elena Lim, 1999. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from East Glenleigh by its sysop, Elena Lim, with message bases, a file library and 287 members.

Provenance

Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
5e626fc75b218f0acbe5848cedbad6cf0d6b541d6bbdecb5662345d1dcb60ec9
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: Elena Lim, Vector BBS (1999). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40184.

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