Lazarus Archive · LZ-41059

The Golden Heist BBS

Marta Herrera, 1994. Website or online service for bulletin boards.

Description

A dial-up bulletin board run from Redcombe Bay by its sysop, Marta Herrera, with message bases, a file library and 157 members.

Provenance

Rebuilt from a server image provided by the site’s former administrator. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
3f0e5fb86ec1c0646368a65b8d019880b3bd3b41020a1d89311708d454eed7fc
Last verified
Oct 20, 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 Herrera, The Golden Heist BBS (1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41059.

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