From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: New York's best BBS. Free downloads for new users. More than 14 gig of shareware and freeware. Internet, Usenet, e-mail. Large adult files area. MC Visa Amex. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: New York City, NY since 03/84. Sysop: Michael Sussell. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 48 lines on MS-DOS/NOVELL-3.11 with 99999 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $15 Monthly fee. New York's best BBS! Free down-loads for new users. More than 14 gig of share-ware and freeware. Internet/Usenet E-mail. Large adult files area. Master/Visa/Amex.
"I ran Normandeau Newswire as a SIG there. Favorite amongst readers was "Filthy Food for Thought" which were highlights of FDA recalls which at that time I had to get via dial-up from FDA. I published the list of "Allowable Filth Limits in Food". When it went down, there were OVER 100 phone lines. In last few years there came about an FCC MONTHLY surcharge of a few dollars on each phone line. BSS was in its hayday during DOS. Mew computers came with Windows and preloaded with AOL or other on-line GUI software so people didn't go hunting for BBSs to call. Declining revenue VS escalating cost brought it down." - Ray
46 Lines - 100 Directories - Full Usenet Feed - 8.2GB
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212-304-0072
NYCZ 3, NY |
The CyberChurch BBS
(1989-1990) |
Larry Rice | |
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212-304-8553
NYCZ 3, NY |
NoVaSys
(1986) |
John Cottrell | |
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212-333-3285
NYCZ 1, NY |
BillBoard
(1986-1988) |
Bill Bertholf, Bill Board | |
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212-334-9171
NYCZ 1, NY |
PAL Software
(1989-1991) |
Robert Tolz | |
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212-340-9666
NYCZ 1, NY |
The Machine, The Machine
(1985-1994) |
Rudy Gordon | PCBoard |
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212-341-3533
NYCZ 1, NY |
TRIBECA ISC BBS
(1987-1988) |
Rich Mazzara | |
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212-348-2049
NYCZ 2, NY |
PC-Serve
(1985) |
Hugh Hamilton | |
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212-348-5714
New York City, NY |
Laserboard, RRHost
(1986-1992) |
Stuart Gitlow | Red Ryder Host |
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"The BBS was for Mac users only and was the first BBS of any kind in NYC to have 9600 bps access. I started and ran the Board until 1988, when Adam Wildavsky took over in NY and I moved the primary system to Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh system closed shortly afterward." - Stuart Gitlow
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212-357-4112
NYCZ 1, NY |
AT,INN lIP-7P
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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212-362-1040
NYCZ 2, NY |
TCBBS B.A.M.S. New York
(1982-1983) |
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212-365-8510
NYCZ 1, NY |
Micro Vision BBS, MicroVis
(1989-1990) |
O. Quincoces | Wildcat |
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212-366-9720
NYCZ 1, NY |
MASTERS CSTL
(1985) |
| Forem ST |
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212-371-5462
New York, NY |
Granny's BBS, Granny's RBBS
(1988-1996) |
Patrick Wolfert, Pat Wolfert | RBBS |
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212-380-3864
NEW YORK CITY Z, NY |
Atari BBS
(1988-1991) |
K2BSM | |
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212-385-2034
NYCZ 1, NY |
Occupational Health/Safety, OSHA BBS
(1987-1995) |
| PCBOARD |
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212-391-6440
NYCZ 1, NY |
NEP Productions
(1988) |
Bill Hurlock | |
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212-397-0729
NYCZ 1, NY |
LaserBoard New York
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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212-397-1576
NYCZ 1, NY |
The Beginner's BBS
(1989-1995) |
Richard Kirschner | |
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212-406-3318
New York, NY |
ZyBrex Realm
(1989-1993) |
Zephyr / Damon | Renegade, Telegard then switched to Renegade |
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"Err ... I still have the BBS backed up on them old 5.25 disks." - Zephyr / Damon
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212-406-9108
Manhattan, NY |
Tentra Red Flag BBS, TentraRedFlag
(1988-1996) |
Andi Anderson | TBBS
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212-409-4194
NYCZ 1, NY |
Softlaw Legal BBS
(1987-1991) |
| PCBoard |
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212-410-0949
Brooklyn, NY |
NET-WORKS Brooklyn, NET-WORKS New York, NEW YORK
(1982-1985) |
| NET-WORKS |
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212-427-1805
NYCZ 2, NY |
Danny Soft, DannySoft,pgm'g
(1987-1994) |
Daniel Doman | dBBS
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212-431-1194
New York, NY |
Kantor, Frederick W., The Invention Factory, The Invention Factory BBS
(1985-1994) |
Michael Sussell, Mike Sussell | PCBoard |
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212-431-1273
NYCZ 1, NY |
InventionFact'y, InventionFactory
(1984-1996) |
Michael Sussell | PCBoard
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212-431-1944
NYCZ 1, NY |
DorsaiEmb.1
(1988) |
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212-431-1948
NYCZ 1, NY |
DorsaiEmb.2
(1988) |
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212-432-1992
NYCZ 1, NY |
Zooman's Zoo BBS
(1989-1994) |
Douglas Kent | PCBoard |
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212-432-7288
NYCZ 1, NY |
MANHATTAN SOUTH
(1985-1987) |
Peter Morant | |
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212-441-3755
Woodhaven, NY |
CONNECTION-80 Woodhaven
(1982-1985) |
| CONNECTION-80 |
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212-442-3874
NYCZ 1, NY |
SISTER Staten Island
(1982-1984) |
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212-448-6576
New York, NY |
Long Island ABBS
(1980) |
| ABBS |
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Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
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212-449-2274
NYCZ 1, NY |
AE LINE: 1-800
(1984) |
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212-456-2528
NYCZ 2, NY |
MATCHMAKER #7
(1982) |
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212-457-3304
NEW YORK, NY |
GREYHAWK'S
(1985) |
| Forem ST |
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212-464-3434
NYCZ 1, NY |
CRYPT
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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212-488-1684
NYCZ 1, NY |
Secure Mail
(1988) |
Gene Coppola | |
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212-489-7370
New York City, NY |
FOG#15 NYOUG RCP/M, FOG-15
(1986-1991) |
L. Hinckley, Livingston Hunkley | |
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New York Osborne Users' Group (FOG AMO #135) New York Osborne Users' Group (FOG AMO #135)
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212-490-1146
New York City, NY |
Mike's IBM-PC Bulletin Board
(1982-1985) |
Mike Stone | RBBS |
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212-496-0391
NYCZ 2, NY |
New York Management Services MBBS/RCPM
(1985) |
John Hoffman | |
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212-496-7946
NYCZ 2, NY |
Alex's DragonDom, Data Com Software, DataCom Software, FIDO #205 Alex's DragonDom
(1984-1994) |
Alexander Morris | FidoNet, PCBoard |
| Click Here to Browse Artifacts for 212-496-7946 | |
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212-512-2000
NYCZ 1, NY |
PMS - McGraw-Hill Books
(1984-1985) |
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212-519-1791
NEW YORK CITY, NY |
Running Board NODE 2, The Running Board
(1988-1996) |
Howard Belasco | PCBoard
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212-528-0122
NYCZ 1, NY |
TRIBECA ISC BBS
(1988-1989) |
Rich Mazzara | |
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212-529-0498
NYCZ 1, NY |
PCSI
(1986-1990) |
Daniel Doman | |
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212-529-6032
NYCZ 1, NY |
Enchanted Isle, Times Square BBS
(1989-1991) |
Arnold Arce | |
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212-532-2278
NYCZ 1, NY |
HumanTech CUSSNET
(1986) |
Gerry Hoffman | |
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212-534-2858
NYCZ 2, NY |
BMBBS Avenger's Mansion
(1984-1985) |
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212-534-3149
New York, NY |
VTUG-BBS
(1982-1985) |
Adam Jacobs | RAVICS |
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"Noticed that my BBS wasn't in your list! I think its story is mildly interesting, so... here's a brief summary. I ran VTUG-BBS for somewhere between 2 and 3 years, starting in the fall of 1982, first on a VIC-20 and then on a C-64. I wrote the software, RAVICS, which was -- I believe -- the first BBS available for these machines. VTUG stood for VIC Technical Users' Group, although I never really got a user's group off the ground - the BBS was all there was to it. The BBS was initially fairly simple - a single message base and "chat with the sysop" - but rapidly developed into a reasonably interesting system with multiple message bases, private mail, tree-structured conferencing, and uploads/downloads (which were, however, a relatively unimportant part of the BBS's culture - this was long before the warez days). I think the user base was a couple hundred and the system was off-hook pretty much 24 hours a day at the peak. I wrote the software on a VIC-20 shortly after obtaining the VICmodem (for my 13th birthday - I'd received the VIC for Christmas a few months before!) and hacking up a simple autoanswer device for it. I'm sure it was the first, and possibly the only BBS on a VIC-20. Without really setting out to do so, I sold a few copies of it and I bought the C-64 with the proceeds shortly after its release. Of course I promptly "ported" the BBS to the 64, so RAVICS was probably the first BBS software available for the C-64 as well - this was at a time when virtually all BBSs, at least in 212, ran on Apple IIs, TRS-80s, etc. In the next couple of years I ran VTUG and sold a reasonable number of copies of RAVICS to sysops around the country (despite having no advertising other than the BBS itself). "In 1984 I sold the C-64, sold the rights to RAVICs, and bought an IBM PC XT. I made some half-hearted attempts to write a BBS for the PC, and ran some third-party software for a while at 534-3149, but I was in high school by then and I was spending too much time thinking about girls and mathematics. I relinquished the title of sysop and became instead a user: a denizen of the legendary Ailanthus Tree. Thanks for a site that brings back some memories from nearly 20 years ago - although my BBS is far from the only interesting one from those days that is missing from your 212 list! Let me know if you're interested in any of the others I remember... BTW I posted a message to Usenet in 2002 requesting info about the later life of RAVICS (after I sold it) - archived at http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/COMMODORE/VIC-20/RAVICS/adam.txt and http://mail.textfiles.com/pipermail/cosysops/2003-February/000046.html, but note that the email address I gave in the message is no longer active. That message gives a few more details about VTUG/RAVICS. I never received any replies, unfortunately, so I still don't know what happened to RAVICS later on, though I know that there were BBSs running RAVICS for at least a few years more...." - Adam Jacobs
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212-534-3716
NYCZ 2, NY |
NYMUG
(1985) |
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212-534-8557
NYCZ 2, NY |
FIDO #204 Noble-House, Noble House
(1984-1985) |
Jonathan Youngwood | FidoNet |
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212-535-8924
NYCZ 2, NY |
DEC-WARE, DEC-WARE (Fido 79), FIDO #79 DEC-WARE
(1984-1985) |
Matt Kanter, Matthew Kanter | FidoNet |
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212-541-5975
NYCZ 1, NY |
MMMMMM#2
(1983-1984) |
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212-542-3859
NEW YORK CITY, NY |
Forem ST
(1989-1991) |
Carmelo Marrero | |
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212-543-6470
NYCZ 3, NY |
Forgotten Machine
(1988-1989) |
Manny Gonzalez | |
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212-545-7956
NYCZ 1, NY |
Anescomp Medical BBS
(1989-1991) |
Jim Mihalcik MD | |
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212-547-4210
NEW YORK CITY, NY |
After Hours BBS
(1987-1994) |
Ed Kitty
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212-562-5161
Bronx, NY |
Fever, Fever BBS
(1987-1992) |
Victor M. Alvarado | |
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It's been a very long time since I seen the name of my BBS on the monitor. I was the Sysop of Fever BBS. The system was running on an Atari Computer serving the City of NY user groups MANIA and AFUG. The BBS started out back in 1987 and pulled its plug 5 years later." - Victor M. Alvarado
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212-579-2869
Bronx, NY |
Fordham Jesuit
, Fordham Jesuit BBS, Fordman Jesuit
(1987-1996) |
Fr Nick Lombardi, Fr Lombardi | TBBS
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212-591-4487
New York, NY |
Demon, FIDO #8 Demon
(1984) |
Danny Feinsmith | FidoNet |
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212-597-9083
NYCZ 1, NY |
Metro Area M.U.G. BBS, Metro Area Macintosh Users Group
(1988-1994) |
Frank Ventura | Red Ryder Host |
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212-619-9423
NYCZ 1, NY |
AMuse/newcli
(1987-1989) |
Dave Lipshutz | |
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212-625-5931
NYCZ 1, NY |
C U R A RCP/M, RCP/M CURA
(1983-1985) |
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212-626-0375
NYCZ 1, NY |
Nybbles-80 NY
(1982-1983) |
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212-627-2673
NYCZ 1, NY |
Main-Frame Conn FIDO, MainFrame Connect
(1986-1989) |
Don Sanderson | |
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212-628-4817
NYCZ 2, NY |
The High Times
(1988) |
DHC Rules | GBBS Pro |
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212-645-2176
NYCZ 1, NY |
City-Lights BBS, Metro CPU BBS, Metro CPU Studio/Act
(1987-1991) |
Michael Ehrmann | |
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212-662-7171
NYCZ 2, NY |
American Psych Exchange, American Psychology Exchange, AMPIE
(1989-1995) |
Marc Martin | TBBS |
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212-662-8597
NYCZ 2, NY |
Doctor'sOff, The Doctor's Office BBS
(1987-1991) |
Neil Leder | PCBoard |
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212-677-3460
NYCZ 1, NY |
GramercyPark
(1989-1991) |
Eran Newman | |
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212-686-5248
NYCZ 1, NY |
Nightline, Utopian Niteline, Utopian Quest (107/169), Utopian Quest NYC
(1987-1992) |
Gerrie Blum, Gillian Boardman | |
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212-686-9243
NYCZ 1, NY |
IntraTech OnLine
(1989) |
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212-696-0360
New York, NY |
PC Mag I.R.S., PC Mag IRS
(1985-1996) |
Chris Parker, Chris Barr, PC Magazine | |
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212-696-9777
NYCZ 1, NY |
CareerPath BBS
(1987-1990) |
David Hart | |
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212-724-9071
NYCZ 2, NY |
StairCase
(1987-1992) |
Chris Lincoln | |
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212-727-1380
NYCZ 1, NY |
STAR TREK
(1985-1988) |
Curt Vendel | Carnival |
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212-740-5680
NYCZ 3, NY |
BULLET-80 New York
(1982-1983) |
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212-746-3778
NYCZ 2, NY |
TITAN'S TOWR
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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212-750-0132
NYCZ 1, NY |
Age Base
(1989-1994) |
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212-753-0888
NYCZ 1, NY |
APL PI, NY MetroNet, NYC Hub
(1986-1989) |
Bill Bertholf, Chris Lincoln, Auto Pilot | |
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212-757-3387
NYCZ 1, NY |
Metro CPU Studio
(1989) |
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212-764-5912
NYCZ 1, NY |
UNITEX
(1988) |
James Waldron | |
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212-766-3788
NYCZ 1, NY |
LLM
(1988-1990) |
J Wallace | |
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212-767-9881
NYCZ 1, NY |
R A C S IV
(1982) |
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212-772-7167
NYCZ 2, NY |
DATAbase DABBS)
(1984) |
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212-781-4723
NYCZ 3, NY |
Friend's, Friends!
(1985-1994) |
Gerry Pulver, WB2RSI | PCBoard |
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212-792-8881
Bronx, NY |
Enterprise BBS, Star Gate BBS, Stargate BBS
(1986-1989) |
Nick Di Napoli (Admiral Kirk), Nick DiNapoli (Admiral), Cousin Nicky | CNET 9.0, 10.0, 11.5, CNET 12.0, C-NET, Wildcat! |
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"Went from Stargate to Stargate II and then to Enterprise BBS because it wasn't like there weren't enough systems called that already....." - Nick di Napoli "I originally started off running C-Net then modified it like everyone else did for the games etc and eventually used Wildcat before I took it down. Phone bills then were 10x more what they are now lol. One user at a time of course. Took it down whenever I wanted to log into The Great Beyond (DDial) lol until I bought the phone line for it. I had an impressive fanbase and ran along side other boards like Top Secret BBS, Searchlight, etc." - Captain NYC
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212-799-2123
NYCZ 2, NY |
DNH Enterprises
(1989-1991) |
Steven Schlusse | |
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212-799-4649
New York, NY |
ASTROCOM, TCBBS AstroCom, TCBBS W.E.B.B. New York
(1982-1984) |
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212-803-1363
NEW YORK, NY |
ASGARD
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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212-823-1520
NEW YORK, NY |
MetroChat$
(1988) |
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212-823-6412
NEW YORK, NY |
Patch House
(1989) |
John Morales | |
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212-823-9232
NEW YORK, NY |
LoveLine BBS, The Loveline TBBS
(1987-1990) |
Anne Capola | |
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212-826-8827
NYCZ 1, NY |
Textbase, Textbase BBS
(1985-1989) |
Martin Ellis | |
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212-861-2475
NYCZ 2, NY |
Ellena Caverns
(1989-1990) |
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212-874-6319
NYCZ 2, NY |
Wolves Den
(1985-1989) |
Tony Woolf, Simon Namthor | |
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212-877-7703
NYCZ 2, NY |
ABBS New York, LINKS II MIDI INN, LINKS II MIDINET
(1983-1992) |
Billy Arnell | |
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212-879-5182
NYCZ 2, NY |
AMIS Manhattan Message Manager
(1984-1985) |
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212-879-7698
NYCZ 2, NY |
TCBBS Leigh's Computer World
(1982-1983) |
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212-885-0969
, NY |
Tele-Master:Women's BB
(1986) |
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212-886-5035
NYCZ 1, NY |
AE Line: GETRAD/FRESH, AE LINE: GETRAD/FRESH
(1984-1985) |
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212-889-7022
NYCZ 1, NY |
Medical BBS, NYU Med Center, NYU MEDICAL FIDO
(1985-1986) |
Jim Mihalcik MD | |
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212-891-8100
Brooklyn, NY |
Earth News Central
(1979-1988) |
Jonathan Gleich | Apple BBS, DDIAL, Galacticomm |
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"It was the first Multiuser apple bbs system, running three apple ]['s and a 6 gig corvus drive, then was a 12 line chat system called diversi dial, then became a 16 user galacticomm system. Died sept of 1988." - Jonathan Gleich
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212-896-0519
NEW YORK, NY |
ABBS ?-Queens
(1982-1984) |
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212-897-3392
NEW YORK CITY, NY |
COMM-80 Queens
(1982-1983) |
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212-912-9141
New York City, NY |
Modem Over Manhatten (MOM)
(1978-1982) |
Larry Kelly, Alif Terranson | CBBS |
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"We were one of the very first CBBS systems in use, and we *were* the first one with multiple floppy's always online (1mb across four drives IIRC). M*O*M was heavily trafficked by the Phreak community although it was not a Phreak board per se. In late 1978 we took a KIM-1 and used it as a controller so that we could run Ward's [now modified - poorly] code to accomodate multiple lines: by the time 1979 became the year you remembered to write on your checks, we had 2 lines available on a 24x7 basis. This was *extremely* unusual in 1979: CBBS was still on it's birth curve, and only supported a single "user". I've been wanting to send this in for years, but I couldn't find any floppies (8 inchers: if there's any left, it should be obvious, right?) or flyers. Then were sitting here talking about it, and the number just popped into my head unannounced!!! Now it's yours. :-)"
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212-924-1138
New York, NY |
The Red Phone Info Net, The Red Phone Information Sys, The Red Phone Network InfoSys, The Village Inn, THE RED PHONE NETWORK
(1988-1994) |
Chris Welber | PCBoard |
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212-924-6598
NYCZ 1, NY |
PCSI
(1985) |
Daniel Doman | |
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212-925-8231
NYCZ 1, NY |
DorsaiEmb.3
(1988) |
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212-927-6919
NYCZ 3, NY |
> Super 68 <, DANTE'S INFNO, Super 68000
(1985-1992) |
Dante Nicolello | AMIS |
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212-931-9629
NEW YORK, NY |
Instinet
(1988) |
Darrin Rodriguez | |
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212-932-9512
NYCZ 2, NY |
NYMUG BBS
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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212-933-9459
Bronx, NY |
Bronx BBS, Bryan Boyle's Bronx Bulletin Board
(1980-1986) |
Bryan Boyle | Message-80, Connection-80, TBBS |
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"Built the system on a mod 1 trs-80. Had, at the time, about 150 regular users, including most of the leading lights of the phone phreaker community that met in greenwich village under the name "TAP". Also a large selection of downloadable programs for broadcast engineers. The experience of running/maintaining/hacking a beeb got me into the computer industry full-time. Still have the system I used, as well as the software. Pack rat, you know...:)" - Bryan Boyle
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212-942-5059
NYCZ 3, NY |
ShadoWorld
(1989-1990) |
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212-951-8373
NYCZ 1, NY |
ATARI LIBRARY
(1985) |
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212-962-1920
New York, NY |
Wise Byte
(1988-1996) |
Ron Chibnik | Searchlight
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212-964-8090
NYCZ 1, NY |
Inner New York City HUB, New York City Fire Dept, NYC Fire Dept (278/702), NYC Fire Dept.
(1988-1995) |
Mike Ciferri | TBBS |
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212-966-4187
NYCZ 1, NY |
Abiel Corporation
(1989-1991) |
Mark Clayton | |
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212-966-4653
NYCZ 1, NY |
DorsaiEmb.5
(1988) |
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212-966-6406
NYCZ 1, NY |
DorsaiEmb.4
(1988) |
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212-980-6951
NYCZ 1, NY |
Mission Control Opus, Network Policy Coord, Troy's Mailbox
(1989-1991) |
Troy Volin | |
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212-982-3333
New York, NY |
Air Force One
(1983-1984) |
Maverick | BBSExpress |
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"Board ran on an Atari 800XL with two double density 5 1/4" floppy drives- one for the OS/BBS software, and the other for file upload and downloads." - Maverick
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212-989-2696
NYCZ 1, NY |
New York Apple CP/M Group (NYACPMG) RCPM, New York Micro-Systems RCPM
(1984-1985) |
Larry Clive | |
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212-989-3278
New York City, NY |
Bigtime, Carders Carbera
(1984-1986) |
Edison Carter | CNET v12.0 |
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212-991-1664
NEW YORK CITY ZONE, NY |
CONNECTION-80 Manhattan
(1982-1984) |
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212-997-2488
NYCZ 1, NY |
PMS - McGraw-Hill Books
(1982-1984) |
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86 Sysops currently listed.
135 BBSes Listed.
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