Description
A dial-up bulletin board run from North Claymont by its sysop, Ingrid Ruiz, with message bases, a file library and 604 members.
Provenance
Deposited by North Mardale Library and Archives in 2025. The label reads ‘Backup — final’. A handful of files survive, from a much larger whole.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1fa3e7aafe279637d371117a8a2875be2ffb31d989b4a3ef72829d8567ea7df5- Last verified
- Oct 21, 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: Ingrid Ruiz, The Lost Odyssey BBS (1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40364.