Historical List of BBSes in the 570 Area Code --------------------------------------------- Created by TEXTFILES.COM From Many Sources 570-343-7604 | The Heart of Hell BBS, The Hearts of Hell BBS | Scranton, PA (1993-1998) SYSOP | Hades, Sean Connolly SOFTWARE | WWIV COMMENTS | "The Heart of Hell was a WWIV based BBS and ran in the | town of Scranton for years while I grew up. The BBS has | been semi-resurrected in the State College (Penn State!) | area. It is currently not setup for dialing in. (there | appears to be no demand for dialup BBSes, but if it | occurs, I will make dial in lines available) ... you can | reach it by telneting to nl.neplug.org" - Hades --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-344-6095 | The Devil’s Den BBS | Scranton. PA (1992-1996) SYSOP | Demon Master SOFTWARE | C-Net Amiga COMMENTS | Board ran on an Amiga 1000 for the first 2 years and on | an Amiga 4000 for the last 2 years. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-346-3034 | The Gutter | SCRANTON, PA (1995-1999) SYSOP | Bill Deitrick SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-347-2581 | Darkside | SCRANTON, PA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-383-0182 | Acropolis | OLYPHANT, PA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-387-4899 | Sonic Boom BBS, Sonic-Boom BBS | BLOOMSBURG, PA (1993-2001) SYSOP | Jim Coyle --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-408-0882 | Dragon's Lair BBS, VooDoo, Wilkes-Barre Area HUB | WILKES-BARRE, PA (1998) SYSOP | Jeffrey Stoodley, James Freeman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-408-0884 | VooDoo BBS | WILKES-BARRE, PA (1999) SYSOP | James Freeman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-476-3115 | Prophecy BBS | East Stroudsburg, PA (1996-2001) SYSOP | East Stroudsburg PA, Bill Wehrkamp SOFTWARE | VBBS (Virtual BBS) COMMENTS | "I moved a few times while running this BBS; started in | 1996 in East Stroudsburg PA, then spent a year in | Swiftwater PA, then the rest of its life in Effort PA | from 1998 through mid-2000. The phone company was always | kind enough to forward calls from the old number to the | new one, at least for a few months. At its peak in 1998, | had three incoming phone lines, hitting over 70 calls a | day. Not bad for my area at the time. Thanks for | maintaining this information." - Bill Wehrkamp --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-489-5819 | Valley View BBS | Jessup, PA (1983-1992) SYSOP | Tom Clark --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-489-8001 | The Budland Express | Throop, PA (1983-1993) SYSOP | Richard Jones, RIchard Jones SOFTWARE | EBBS128 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-563-6272 | StarBase 18414 | DALTON, PA (1994-2001) SYSOP | Mark Brelish SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-624-1071 | AXIS, AXIS | POTTSVILLE, PA (2002) SYSOP | Jon Spatz --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-639-2474 | Stephanies House | HARVEYS LAKE, PA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Stan Amster --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-654-7060 | The Laboratory | PITTSTON, PA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-655-0469 | BOIX-PROY DATA, Boix-Proy Data BBS | PITTSTON, PA (1994-1998) SYSOP | Dick Kovaleski SOFTWARE | MajorBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-673-8444 | Cantro Connection PA | CANTON, PA (1996-1998) SYSOP | N.J. Owen --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-689-3760 | Planet Earth BBS | Sterling, PA (1995-1998) SYSOP | MrWizzard SOFTWARE | Renegade COMMENTS | "Ran the board on 486DX/33 with 4mb ram($2100) at the | time and 2 lines with the CyberSpace | Transporter,...Goodtimes...Hades, I remember your board!" | - MrWizzard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-693-0704 | Band on the Run, The Backdraft BBS | Wyoming, PA (1992-1998) SYSOP | Joseph Hetro, Heats SOFTWARE | WWIV --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-748-1834 | Woody's NutHouse | LOCK HAVEN, PA (1995-2001) SYSOP | Jim Woodward --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-753-8120 | NET268 Net Echomail Coordinator, Pocono Net, The StarPort | JERSEY SHORE, PA (1995-2001) SYSOP | Jeffrey J Counsil --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-753-8366 | The Data Express | Jersey Shore, PA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Joshua Barnes --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-819-7721 | UltraSonic | Edison, NJ (1990-1993) SYSOP | Kyle DeFina SOFTWARE | Tag --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-822-2017 | Phoenix Rising BBS | WILKES-BARRE, PA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Marie Weidemann --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-822-5567 | Dragon's Lair BBS, Wilkes-Barre Area HUB | WILKES-BARRE, PA (2000) SYSOP | Jeffrey Stoodley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-829-0626 | Forbidden Planet | WILKES-BARRE, PA (1997-1998) SYSOP | Steve Warnick --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-836-8017 | AYAK Online | Tunkhannock, PA (1994-1998) SYSOP | Tim Robinson SOFTWARE | WWIV COMMENTS | "The weird name was a name based of a baseball card | business I ran as a kid called "Any Year, Any Kind" | A.Y.A.K. and it just kind of stuck. I had one phone line | and then added a second for dial-up. Then I started the | BBS and ended up adding another line. At its peak I had 2 | phone lines, at least 5-10 full time paid monthly users | and 2-3 CD drives that contained "shareware" CD's that I | would rotate out. This was all run out of my bedroom! | Most people would post to the boards, some would login at | the same time to chat, I'd then login locally so 3 people | could chat at once! WOW! Most would play the WWIV games, | often at all hours of the day!" - Tim Robinson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-868-3766 | 911 | Mountaintop, PA (1996-2000) SYSOP | Phoman SOFTWARE | Iniquity and Renegade COMMENTS | "The best art board to have existed in the 570 area | code." - Phoman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-876-0152 | NE File Bank, NE FileBank, Northeast File Bank, The | Northeast File Bank | Jermyn, PA (1990-1997) SYSOP | Stuart Wilson SOFTWARE | QuickBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 570-876-5731 | Archbald Pothole | Archbald, PA (1985-1989) SYSOP | Jennifer Hutchey SOFTWARE | HBBS COMMENTS | "My brother John got me started with BBSs several years | before I had one of my own (he ran N.E.P.A.T.S. and wrote | an Atari BBS program called HutchBBS or HBBS). His first | Atari modem was one of those acoustical models that | couldn't answer the phone, so he built a ring detector. | ;> My BBS had a few names over the years as it evolved, | but the Archbald Pothole was its final incarnation.

| When I was in junior and senior high school, the BBSs | were something of a social connection. I made a lot of | friends online, and we ended up forming a county computer | club where all of us traded software. Usually the | sessions involved computer wars where everyone would tout | why it was better to have an Atari, Apple, Commodore, | etc.

At its height, my BBS setup was running off an | Atari 800XL with 2 Indus GT disk drives, an Atari 810 | drive, a Hayes 2400 baud modem, and a stable of printers | which I always seemed to wear out. I can still remember | the screeching of the modem and the tat-tat-tat of the | printer whenever someone logged on in the middle of the | night.

I never quite got the BBS bug out of my system, | and have been the webmaster of archaeologyfieldwork.com | for 10 years. I still have the Atari and hook it up to | the TV every so often for old times sake..." - Jennifer | Hutchey Palmer --------------+-----------------------------------------------------------