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"One of the first commodore bbs's in the area to have a 20mb hard drive, lots of storage." - Spiderman
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216-241-6727
CLEVELAND, OH |
OHIONet Express
(1987-1990) |
Dave Chatfield | |
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216-243-0233
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Cleveland Nitelite
(1989) |
| Wildcat |
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216-243-0990
Cleveland, OH |
Data Base Portal, Database Portal, The Database Portal
(1989-1996) |
John Fisher | GT, GT Power |
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216-252-2630
CLEVELAND, OH |
Modem World (2 nodes), Modem World U S A, Modem World U.S.A, Modem World USA, Modem World USA
, Modem World U.S.A.
(1987-1997) |
Leigh Hotz | |
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216-253-9247
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Akron Connection, ECHO HUB 500
(1982-1996) |
Terry Russell | Remote Access |
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216-267-2938
Cleveland, OH |
The Dock
(1986-1994) |
Seven Seas, Rigi Intl | Ascii Express, GBBS Pro, Wildcat |
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216-271-9273
CLEVELAND, OH |
C.A.C.E
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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216-273-1340
Cleveland, OH |
Appleholic's BBS, Appleholic's FIDO #511, Northeast OH, Appleholic’s
(1987-1997) |
Bob Abbott | SEAdog |
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216-273-8224
Brunswick, OH |
HCS BBS
(1983-1997) |
Al Hawker | GAP
, Citadel, C-Net |
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"HCS BBS was actually started in mid 1983. HCS started on a CP/M system running Citadel for a short time. I then switched to a commodore 64 machine running C-Net BBS software. It allowed the Sysop the ability to write door "modules" in BASIC that would swap and overlay themselves into the "center" of the main BBS BASIC code. If I remember correctly, I think you were allowed roughly 100 lines of BASIC code to write your door modules. HCS was pretty high-end at that time. I had 3 serial drives (I think they were like 174K or so) and a Commodore tape drive. And...I was running a 300 Baud Modem RS-232 modem. That was "smoking" for a BBS at that time. [Big Grin]. I next upgraded to a C-128 which allowed both Commodore BASIC and CP/M OS modes. At that time, HCS was one of the first, if not "the first" in the Cleveland area to run at 1200 Baud and had a 1 Meg hard drive. I eventually wrote my own BBS software that linked with C-Net and took advantage of a 512K RAM Expansion for the C-128. "Not long after, I switched to my first Intel PC... one of the infamous "IBM Compatibles" of the time. It was quite a step up. Not only was it a 286, but it was one of the first XT "Turbo" models... a screaming 8 MHz with a 20 Meg Drive! [Grin] From that point on the BBS continuously grew... from 386s, to 486s, to Pentiums that were networked, running multinode BBS software, and 56k lines. HCS even went through having its area code changed from 216 to 330 when the phone company decided it needed more numbers in the Cleveland area. That explains why your collected BBS lists have it listed as both area codes over the years. "I had originally tried RBBS, PCBoard, and several other popular board software packages, but in 1987 I switched to GAP and I was hooked. GAP was written in C & Asm, it was fast and had a lot to offer. Kenny Gardner did a great job of developing and supporting it. HCS became a development test and support site for GAP until I shutdown in 1997. If you should ever come across an old GAP BBS manual, you'll find sample graphics and configurations with familiar references in them. [grin] At its high point, I was running the 99 node version of GAP BBS software, however, 10 lines were the most HCS ever had active. It had all the normal features like Door Games & Utilities, Relayed FIDO mail, Gapnet mail, Numerous Forums, and the works. "In 1996 or so, the Internet became easily accessible to everyone and the boards started a rapid decline. The slow, dedicated ANSI/ASCII boards just couldn't compete with the graphical worldwide accessibility. I held out and kept HCS running until 1997, however, BBS traffic had declined so drastically to the Internet that it was just no longer feasible. So in 1997, after 14 years of being online with many wonderful users... HCS shutdown." - Al Hawker, Sysop, HCS BBS
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216-282-3423
LORAIN, OH |
Art's Archives RBBS/RCPM
(1984-1985) |
Art Petkosek | |
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216-291-3048
CLEVELAND, OH |
IFNA Mem. Data, PC-OHIO at CCC, PC-Ohio H Opus #200, PC-OHIO II HST, PC-OHIO PCBoard, Reg 11 EchoCoord
(1987-1997) |
Norm Henke | |
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216-323-8052
Elyria, OH |
Tower Of High Sorcery BBS
(1988-1996) |
Raistlin Majere | Wildcat BBS, MajorBBS |
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"Really Cool, Warez BBS Known Members, Raistlin Majere, Pyro, Viper, Linquiest, ZeroCool10101, The Rouge, Bruno B. Battlehammer, Knarf421, Bishop, and too many others." - Raistlin Majere
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216-327-1099
Elyria, OH |
Timex Support CP/M Commodore, Timex Sinclair Users
(1986-1991) |
Chris Raynack, Thomas Simon | |
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216-328-0374
Independence, OH |
Damage Incorporated
(1985-1997) |
Damin | METAL/FutureVision |
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"Damin was responsible for writing the UUCP to FutureNet bridging software that allowed the FutureNet BBS system to send/receive electronic mail and news on the Internet. All of the FutureNet sites were accessible under the fnet.org domain. Damin and Josh Thompson actually met, for the first time, after knowing each other for 14 years in 2004 at the Astricon 2004 convention in Atlanta, GA." - Damin
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216-331-0510
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Cleveland BBS
(1985) |
Bill Tobin | |
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216-331-3576
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Cleveland BBS
, Cleveland RBBS
(1986-1994) |
Bill Tobin | |
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216-331-4241
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NE Ohio PC Club BBS
, NEOH PC Club, Northeast Ohio
(1986-1989) |
Phil Ardussi | |
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216-333-4364
Rocky River, OH |
The Clinic, Clinic, The
(1986-1997) |
Doctor Quack, Doctor Quake | Metal / Future Vision 4 |
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"The Clinic opened for operation on Feb 1, 1986 on 216-835-9273 in Westlake, Ohio running on an Apple ][ Plus with an Apple-Cat II 103/202 modem running Tele-Cat // version 4.6. In January 1987, the system upgraded to a "Woz" Apple IIgs. In December 1989, the phone number changes to 216-892-HYPO. The 10,000th caller is reached on March 31, 1990. On April 30, 1990, a new modem, the USRobotics Courier HST Dual Standard is put into production. In June, 1991, The Clinic moved to Rocky River with the 216-333-4364 number. The system remained online until October 5th, 1995 (approximately 2 weeks prior to the birth of Doctor Quack's first child!) Co-Sysops of The Clinic BBS were Doctor Bogenbroom, Friday Knight, Kelson Haldane, Damin, and Evil Genius." - Doctor Quake
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216-336-3476
Wadsworth, OH |
The Airliner BBS
(1987-1992) |
The Pilot | BBS-PC! |
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"This was an Amiga BBS set up for Message Board RPGs." - The Pilot
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216-339-1533
CLEVELAND, OH |
The Reaper of Darkness
(1982-1996) |
John Angelo | |
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216-339-4592
New Philadelphia, OH |
The Ace of Spades BBS
(1988-1997) |
David Proper, (Dr. Nibble) | Maximus |
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216-343-1176
TERRACE, OH |
New Visions Information Exchange Network
(1989) |
John Marstrell | |
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216-349-4515
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InfoGuide, Infoguide PCBoard, Infoguide PCBoard (3 nodes), The Information Guide
(1987-1994) |
Josef Stiene | PCBoard |
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216-351-5385
CLEVELAND, OH |
Epson Citadel
(1987) |
Brett Kollar | Cit2.15 |
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216-352-8410
Painesville, OH |
NET-WORKS Stellar Cellar, Stellar Cellar
(1984-1985) |
| NET-WORKS |
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216-352-9499
Painesville, OH |
FireHouse
(1988) |
Ed Stange | |
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216-356-1772
Rocky River, OH |
NAB Robot, Nat'l Echo Coord, Nerd's Nook II, Nerd's Nook Mail
(1982-2001) |
Butch Walker, B Walker, NAB Robot | |
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216-356-2739
CLEVELAND, OH |
Medieval Realms
(1982-2001) |
Jon McKenzie | |
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216-362-1532
Cleveland, Oh |
Doom's Retreat
(1985-1995) |
Ur'Lord Pyro -K Of TFD | C-NET |
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"Doom's Retreat was the ultimate in concept boards. It's mods made it feel like a real and solid place in modemia. Some of it's users were: Shadowspawn, The Enchantress, Dark Mistress, Apprentice, La Femme, Aphrodite, Faust, FanG, Gumbshoe Grant, Durak, TDK, Road Warrior, Trinity, Rifka, Alpha Wolf, Ishtar, Line Noise, Jammer, Ms Jewels, Disk Invader, The Huntress, Ms Jewels, Tempus, and many more. At one point Ur'Lord Pyro -K was running 2 SFD drives (one of them bought from The Engineer of The Fourth Dimension), and became one of the fastest C-Net BBSs of it's time. Many people attribute Doom's Retreat wih forming and shaping who they are today! Ama Semper." - Ur'Lord Pyro -K Of The Fourth Dimension.
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216-368-3888
Cleveland, OH |
Case Western Reserve FreeNet, Cleveland Free-Net, Cleveland Freenet, DOC-IN-THE-BOX, Free Net (Case Western), Free-Net, Free-net BBS, FreeNet (Case Western Reserve University)
(1986-1999) |
Case Western Reserve, Tom Grundner, CWRU, Case Western University/AT&T/Ohio Bell | Freeport |
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The Software (Freeport) it ran on was created and developed at the University (CWRU) - Froggy (Mr. Death) Cleveland City Info/Public Library - Free Internet Mail Box
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216-375-6504
CLEVELAND, OH |
Akron U. CBE Fido #520, U of Akron
(1987-1990) |
Bill Taylor | |
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216-381-3320
Cleveland, OH |
PC Ohio, PC-Ohio 1, PC-Ohio PCBoard (5 nodes), Agora Online
(1985-1996) |
Norm Henke, Norman Henke, Marius Kirschner | PCBoard
, PCBoard 15.1 |
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From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Planet Connect satellite connection. 22 email networks including the Internet as pcohio.com. 100,000 files, 250 game doors, 5000 conferences. USR V.34+ 33600 modems at 216-691-3030. Now with full Internet access. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cleveland, Ohio since 09/85. Sysop: Norm Henke. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 50 lines on MS-DOS with 15000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $52 Annual fee. Planet Connect satellite connection. 22 Email networks including the Internet as pcohio.com. 100,000 files, 250 game doors, 5000 conferences. Hayes V.FC 28800 modems at 216-691-3030.
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216-381-6550
CLEVELAND, OH |
Ground Zero
(1986-1990) |
George Burgyan (Vector), John Minadeo (Stealth) | CNet |
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"A talk BBS ran off 1 meg of floppy space. Had around 30-40 regulars at its peak. A great little community board without all the warez and nonsense. Also had a couple cool online games to keep people busy. I miss that poor old thing." - George Burgyan (Vector)
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216-381-7859
Cleveland, OH |
The Basement UnderWorld, Basement UnderWorld, The
(1986-1998) |
John Polka | ExpressNET, BBS Express Pro! |
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My BBS was an Atari 8 bit BBS that went online in November 1986. It was originally known as "WL's Basement" (WL were the last name initials of the SysOp and Co-SysOp). It was later called "The Basement"; then much later it was called "The Basement Underworld". It went offline in September 1998, but was resurrected on July 4, 2017 using backup floppy disks from 1990-1993. You can now see how the The Basement BBS was in the early 90s by telnetting to basementbbs.ddns.net:9000.
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216-384-2604
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ChemNet (Univ of Akron), ChemNet U of Akron Chemistry, University of Akron
(1989-1994) |
Dr. James Hardy | |
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216-385-3185
East Liverpool, OH |
Systems Plus BBS
(1989-1997) |
Larry Merriman | Wildcat |
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"We ran Wildcat until 1995 then went to Excalibur through to 1997. Turned it off then started an ISP. In 2000 I brought both online and are running via telnet / web / or old client software." - Lerry Merriman
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216-397-4513
CLEVELAND, OH |
GCPCUG/JCU BBS
(1987-1989) |
Dave Feldman | |
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216-398-4043
CLEVELAND, OH |
The Life Line
(1987-1992) |
Ismael Cruzado | |
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216-428-5087
CLEVELAND, OH |
PEEK+POKE
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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216-434-2359
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Project Thunder
(1988) |
Kevin Benton | |
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216-434-5431
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STar FLeet HQ
(1982-1996) |
Drew Klenotic | |
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216-442-9327
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The Pleasure Dome
(1982-2001) |
Jim Hellriegel | |
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216-447-8045
INDEPENDENCE, OH |
Cyberdyne Systems
(1987-1988) |
Ken Rolsen | |
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216-456-8856
CLEVELAND, OH |
Hall Of Fame BBS, Net 2216 Echomail Coordinator, Stark Hub, Hall of Fame BBS
(1982-2001) |
Dennis Haddox | TriBBS |
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216-466-1151
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No Anchovies PC
(1982-2001) |
Frank Capo | |
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216-467-2026
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North Coast RBBS
(1989) |
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216-476-2907
CLEVELAND, OH |
Royal Flush B.B.S.
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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216-477-1661
CLEVELAND, OH |
The Confederate BBS
(1982-1997) |
Thom Davis | |
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216-477-2547
CLEVELAND, OH |
Land of Exile, The Immortal
(1982-1996) |
Jay Moock | |
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216-478-5317
Canton, OH |
ABBS The Night Owl, The Night Owl
(1985) |
| ABBS |
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216-486-0348
CLEVELAND, OH |
Telecomm/PCB, The Telecomm Networ
(1987-1989) |
Bob Diliberto | |
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216-486-4176
CLEVELAND, OH |
FORUM-80 Cleveland
(1982-1983) |
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216-486-8192
CLEVELAND, OH |
TelecommNet$
(1988) |
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216-492-8807
INDEPENDENCE (CUYAH, OH |
Consultant's Resource BBS #2
(1988-1989) |
Mark Cottom | |
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216-499-0775
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Midwest Exchange
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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216-521-6610
CLEVELAND, OH |
Talent-Entertainment
(1989) |
| Wildcat |
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216-521-6835
CLEVELAND, OH |
No Bullsheet
(1987-1988) |
Killjoy | GBBS Pro |
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216-524-6494
INDEPENDENCE, OH |
Amcom
(1987) |
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216-526-9480
Cleveland, OH |
Amcom, AMCOM (6 nodes)
(1982-2001) |
Bill Poissant | PCBoard
|
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216-526-9482
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Am Com, AMCOM, Amcom BBS
(1988-1994) |
Bill Poissant | PCBoard |
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216-527-4123
CLEVELAND, OH |
The Doghouse
(1982-1996) |
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216-529-0121
CLEVELAND, OH |
Signal BBS
(1989-1994) |
Lynn Lamon, Howard Laymon | PCBoard |
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216-533-2535
CLEVELAND, OH |
Canfield BBS
(1988) |
Bill Campbell | |
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216-534-8937
CLEVELAND, OH |
Compu-Tech BBS, Echo Hub, Madhouse BBS
(1982-2001) |
Richard Foley, Richard K. Foley | |
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216-542-0822
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Data Express
(1982-1996) |
Mark Stanchin | |
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216-543-1866
Cleveland, OH |
Smart Modem BBS
(1982-2001) |
Stan Newell | Omni 128 |
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216-544-4022
Niles, OH |
Host - State Line , Security Systems, State Line , State Line OH/PA, Steel Valley , Steel Valley , Steel Valley ][
(1989-1997) |
Shane Gouseman, Orren Zook | |
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216-545-0093
Niles, OH |
Mud Puppy Opus, State Line OH/PA, Steel Valley , Steel Valley I, Steel Valley II, Steel Valley II , Steel Valley Opus, SteelValley, SVBBSystem I, SVBBSystem II, The Missing Lynx, The Missing LYNX
(1987-1999) |
Orren Zook, Moderator | |
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216-545-2142
TERRACE, OH |
Security Systems, The Head Board
(1989-1994) |
Sid Roberts, Shane Gouseman | |
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216-545-2318
Niles, OH |
Echo Hub (via PC), Echo Hub(Planet Connect), Echo Mail Hub, PC-Echo SVBBS1, SLNorth, State Line OH/PA, Steel Valley , Steel Valley , Steel Valley I, Steel Valley II, Steel Valley ][, SVBBSystem I, The Crystal Palace, Steel Valley BBSystem
(1989-2001) |
Orren Zook, Mike, Moderator | |
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216-545-6739
TERRACE, OH |
State Line OH/PA, SVBBSystem III
(1982-1996) |
Orren Zook | |
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216-545-9205
TERRACE, OH |
PC Key BBS
(1988-1989) |
John Colapietro | |
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216-581-2284
MONTROSE (CUYAH, OH |
CAUG
(1988) |
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216-582-1196
Cleveland, OH |
Part-Time
(1985-2000) |
Ken | ExpressNET, BBS Express Pro! |
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Part-Time BBS was the longest running Atari 8 bit BBS in the Cleveland, Ohio 216 area code. It was up from 1985 until early 2000. On December 23, 2017, the SysOp's step son, John Polka, resurrected Part-Time BBS from backup floppy disks from 1990-1993. You can now experience what Part-Time was like in the early 90s by telnetting to ptbbs.ddns.net:8000.
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216-582-3151
CLEVELAND, OH |
TTS Comp Clinc
(1986) |
John Holcepl | |
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216-588-9690
CLEVELAND, OH |
Beyond The Fringe BBS, Beyond The Illusion BBS GateWay, Beyond The Illusion BBS TCP/IP, Beyond The Illusion BBS.Com, Beyond-The-Illusion BBS, Beyond-The-Illusion.Com BBS, Net 2215 GateWay, Net 2215 Internet GateWay, Net 2215 UUCP GateWay
(1982-2001) |
J S Kinsley, Jerry Kinsley, ftnadmin, jkinsley | |
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216-621-7925
CLEVELAND, OH |
Easy Access
(1989) |
| Wildcat |
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216-628-4860
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Patriot BBS, The FallOut Shelter, The Patriot
(1982-2001) |
Glen Gilbert | |
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216-630-3301
CLEVELAND, OH |
TGTBAEW
(1982-1997) |
Steve Burwell | |
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216-637-8397
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The Love Board
(1989-2001) |
Carl Deleo | QuickBBS
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216-642-1034
INDEPENDENCE, OH |
FidoNews, Melenkurion Skyweir, Revelstone
(1988-1992) |
Dale Lovell | FidoNet |
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216-644-0028
CLEVELAND, OH |
LCE
(1988) |
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216-645-0827
Akron, OH |
COMNET-80 Akron
(1982-1985) |
| COMNET-80 |
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216-650-2989
CLEVELAND, OH |
Clound Nine BBS
(1987) |
| GBBS Pro |
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216-655-9626
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Freedom BBS
(1982-2001) |
Brian Hart | |
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216-661-6607
CLEVELAND, OH |
Eagles Nest
(1988) |
Doug Kron | |
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216-661-7117
CLEVELAND, OH |
PE FIDO
(1986) |
Dale Lovell | FidoNet |
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216-665-4551
Akron, OH |
AIE BBS, Akron Info Exchange, AlE BBS
(1982-1997) |
Justin Spies | PCBoard
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216-666-0306
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Fire and EMS
(1989) |
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216-673-1088
CLEVELAND, OH |
Kent Public Schools, Kent Public Schools BBS
(1987-1991) |
James Kennedy, Yoshiki Hakutani | |
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216-673-4276
CLEVELAND, OH |
Dagget Child
(1982-2001) |
Rudy Pizzute | |
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216-673-4906
CLEVELAND, OH |
Slash/2
(1982-2001) |
Doug Cullen | |
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216-673-6233
CLEVELAND, OH |
The Ghetto Bulletin Board
(1982-1996) |
Tim Stahl | |
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216-682-0567
CLEVELAND, OH |
AL Bundy's BBS
(1982-1996) |
Steve Kasner | |
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216-686-1921
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LIBERTY BBS
(1982-2001) |
Jim Turrin | |
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216-686-6236
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Comedy Club BBS
(1982-2001) |
Fred Fortin | |
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216-688-3111
CLEVELAND, OH |
ECHO HUB 800, Realquick's ELS
(1982-1996) |
Pat Morrow | |
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216-688-6231
CLEVELAND, OH |
Akron City Emer (157/525), Akron City Emergency Medicine BBS
(1988-1989) |
Lawrence Payne | |
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216-699-4474
CLEVELAND, OH |
SoftLink BBS
(1982-2001) |
Garey Smiley | |
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216-724-1963
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RBBS of South Summit, SOUTHERN SUMMIT CONNECTIO
(1988-1994) |
| Wildcat |
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216-724-2125
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INFOEX-80 Akron, TBBS of Akron
(1983-1990) |
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216-724-6375
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Net 2215 Echomail Coordinator
(1982-1996) |
Ray Wilson | |
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216-726-0737
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Rusty & Edie's BBS, Rusty n Edie's
(1989-1992) |
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216-726-2620
Youngstown, OH |
Rusty & Eddie's, Rusty & Eddie's BBS, Rusty & Edie's BBS, Rusty & Edie's PCB, Rusty and Edie's BBS (33 nodes), Rusty n Edie's, Rusty n' Edie's BBS, Rusty&Edie 1, Rusty&Edie's, Rusty-N-Edie's, Rusty n Edie's BBS
(1987-1996) |
Russ/Edwina Hardenburgh, R. Hardenburgh, Russ Hardenburg | PCBoard |
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2400 baud 2400 baud 2400 baud
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216-726-4983
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Ask Fred BBS, Ask Fred's BBS
(1989-1991) |
Fred Martin | PCBoard |
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216-729-0625
Cleveland, OH |
TWIN PARADISES BBS, The Twin Paradises
(1986-1990) |
Dave Studly | |
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216-729-2769
Chesterland, OH |
BULLET-80 Chesterland, OH
(1982-1985) |
| BULLET-80 |
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216-729-6543
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After Hours
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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216-742-1789
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The Forum
(1989) |
Joe Waldron | |
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216-742-7255
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The Forum
(1988-1990) |
Joe Waldron | |
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216-745-7855
Akron, OH |
ABBS Akron Digital Group, Akron Computer Group, Akron Digital Group, Digital Group CBBS
(1980-1991) |
WA8SNF | ABBS, CBBS |
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Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
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216-745-9355
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Kenmore Clone Conn.
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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216-749-3665
CLEVELAND, OH |
GT Host/Netmail System
(1989-1991) |
Charles Navin | |
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216-754-1814
CLEVELAND, OH |
Deviant's Palace, The Deviant's Palace
(1989-1990) |
Steve Lin, Pair a Dice Control | Telegard |
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216-757-2372
CLEVELAND, OH |
DS-1 (Data Station #1), DS1 (Data Station #1)
(1982-1996) |
John Whitinger | |
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216-757-3711
CLEVELAND, OH |
BBS Computer Applications Co.
(1982-1983) |
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216-758-7617
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Apple Tree GBBS APPLE, The AppleTree
(1987-1991) |
Alex Sabo | GBBS Pro |
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216-777-4944
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North Coast Mac User's BBS
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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216-782-8970
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Woodbutcher's BBS
(1982-1996) |
Mike Calzo | |
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216-784-1558
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AKROMAC
(1985) |
| Mouse Exchange |
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216-784-5793
Akron, OH |
The Oven BBBS
(1986) |
Eric Lazar | |
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216-792-0981
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Austintown, Austintown BBS 1, Austintown One
(1989-1996) |
Mike Gollner | PCBoard
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216-823-6658
Alliance, OH |
Night Moves
(1989-1995) |
Dan Jones | |
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216-832-0984
CLEVELAND, OH |
Massillon SEAdog/Opus
(1987-1988) |
Bill Taylor | |
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216-832-8392
Massillon, OH |
PMS - Massillon, PMS Massillon
(1982-1985) |
| PMS |
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216-835-0504
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Westlake
(1985-1986) |
John Riley | |
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216-835-1114
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The Electric Apple
(1988) |
Electric Apple | GBBS Pro |
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216-835-2502
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The Outrageous Opus
(1988) |
Ted Klopp | |
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216-836-9769
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NEO Apple Akron
(1987) |
Frances Pake | |
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216-837-1191
Massillon, OH |
The House of the Rising Sun
(1986-1987) |
The Ninja Master | C-Net 12.0 |
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216-837-9592
CLEVELAND, OH |
Massillon TeleNet
(1989-1994) |
Greg Ledbetter | |
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216-842-0417
Parma, OH |
The Fourth Dimension
(1982-1984) |
John Jones | C-Net |
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"I was a member of a group called "The Alternate Reality" (TAR) and also "The Fourth Dimension" (TFD). These groups had a long list of some of the best Commodore BBS sites in town. They were the most popular in the area. All of our BBSs had over 250 users, with a high rate of daily callers. All were 24/7, and most started when 300 baud was a baby. We had the first 1200 baud BBSs around.I wish I could remember more now." - John Jones
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216-845-0935
Cleveland, OH |
Drop Zone
(1989-1994) |
Ron Krepina | Wildcat |
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216-845-3179
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AE Line: COPS, AE LINE: COPS
(1984-1985) |
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216-845-3249
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Let's Talk BBS
(1982-2000) |
William DeFranco | |
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216-845-9049
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AE LINE: WAREZ
(1984) |
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216-864-2948
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Rick's ADG II
(1989) |
| Wildcat |
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216-867-6984
CLEVELAND, OH |
Hamnet, The Buckeye Hamshack
(1987-2001) |
Ken Dorsey | |
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216-867-7282
Akron, OH |
Saturday BBS
(1986-1994) |
Dan Berlyoung, John Gruver | Searchlight |
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"Apple and Mac oriented. Also had a large collection of GIF and JPEG graphics. Also, Apple and Mac shareware repository." - Dan Berlyoung
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216-867-7463
Akron, OH |
Akron Echo Hub, Akron PMS, PMS - Akron, PMS - RAUG, RAUG
(1982-1990) |
Robert Nebiker | PMS |
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216-867-8296
CLEVELAND, OH |
Mail Order Hotline
(1989) |
| Wildcat |
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216-867-8727
CLEVELAND, OH |
Midnight Express
(1982-2001) |
Ryan Potts | |
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216-868-6342
CLEVELAND, OH |
MGM, Pirates Cove
(1989-1991) |
Doug Morton | Wildcat |
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216-869-5750
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NEO Apple Akron, NEOAC-Akron FIDO #701
(1988-1997) |
Lew Wagoner, Ivan Frey | |
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216-872-5850
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Devil's Den
(1982-1996) |
Dwayne Fetterolf | |
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216-875-4582
CLEVELAND, OH |
Micro-Com
(1983-1984) |
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216-878-7031
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ThE DaTa ZoNe, The Digital Dreamland
(1982-1996) |
Eric Rusk | |
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216-883-0578
CLEVELAND, OH |
Auer Register, IFNA Mem. Info, Northeast OH, Reg 11 Echo Coor
(1987-1991) |
Phil Ardussi | |
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216-883-6298
Cleveland, OH |
Railnet, RAILNET
(1984-1992) |
Rick DeMattia | Tabloid-80 then Waffle, TAB80 then Waffle |
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"Railnet started out on August 28, 1984, as a single-line BBS on a TRS80 Model 4 (in Model III mode) running the Tabloid-80 BBS program - a BASIC program with versions for Apple and TRS-80 computers, published in a book and keyed in. Since it was all BASIC I was able to improve the software pretty readily, and added some assembly-language routines that made the speed bearable and improved functionality quite a bit. The board started with 2 180k floppies, later expanded to 4 180k floppies and ultimately in the TRS-80 configuration a 5meg hard drive. Users peaked at about 160 active in a 30-day period. In April 1991 the board moved to Waffle on an IBM-XT home-built clone, since the sysop was interested in email and Usenet news. The move pretty much killed the board's user activity as most of the users were put off by the UNIX-like command-line interface. In 1992 the board moved to Bedford and a new phone number (as listed in this list) and quickly migrated to Waffle on an AT&T 3B2 computer. That incarnation lasted until the board closed down in 1999. The board offered internet email and selected railroad-hobbyist related and other Usenet newsgroups from September 1991 until is 1999 shutdown." - Rick DeMattia
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216-888-7739
Parma, OH |
Dimension Hatross I, The Ultimatum
(1987-1991) |
Dalamar Do'Urden (Lance Gentile) | UFPBBS Express! |
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"My board was board as The Ultimatum in 1987 running @ 300 baud and on an Atari 130 XE. It ran various software, always something hackable to make it look unique. Message boards were #1. It later ran on a 20MB hard drive! In the conversion to the PC, it ran a hacked Telegard version among some other experiments. I was the Cleveland UFP node. "After 1991, I moved in / married Julianne Glover of The Edge of Dementia, and our boards merged to become Dimension Hatross III: The Edge of Dementia. It ran Aftershock, Searchlight, and lastly Renegade. RIP - 1994. We had two lines at its peak (14.4k). I still miss it!" - Lance Gentile
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216-896-9500
TERRACE, OH |
Data Base BBS
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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216-922-3142
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The Cove BBS
(1982-1997) |
Richard Cross | |
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216-923-4046
CLEVELAND, OH |
Pipeline
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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216-923-9762
CLEVELAND, OH |
Family Radio Forum WCUE
(1987-1988) |
Dave Ficere | |
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216-928-8565
Cuyahoga Falls, OH |
Akron Echo Hub, Northampton Data Connection, Northampton Data ConneXion
(1989-1995) |
Todd Smith | |
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216-929-8483
CLEVELAND, OH |
Chips, CHIPS (157/697)
(1986-1990) |
Paul Esterle | |
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216-932-9956
Cleveland Heights, OH |
DIAL-YOUR MATCH #34
(1985) |
| DIAL-YOUR-MATCH |
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216-941-2488
CLEVELAND, OH |
Cleveland RCP/M
(1984-1985) |
Peter Petto | |
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216-942-3389
Cleveland, OH |
NEO Apple Cleveland, NEO Apple Corps, NEOAC-Cleve. FIDO #700, NE Ohio Apple Corps
(1987-1997) |
John Stypa | Fido |
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216-943-2388
Cleveland, OH |
FORUM-80 Cleveland, OH
(1984-1985) |
| FORUM-80 |
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216-944-1072
Cleveland, OH |
TIBBS-Northcoast 99's
(1986) |
Earl Blewitt | |
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216-945-9068
CLEVELAND, OH |
Tri-Way BBS Group
(1989) |
| Wildcat |
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216-946-2980
CLEVELAND, OH |
Squires Castle
(1988) |
Dave Smith | |
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216-946-9630
Cleveland, OH |
Crazy 8 Ranch, Crazy Eight Ranch
(1988-1994) |
Chrome | CNet, C-net |
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"Another NASA (North American Sysops Association) board. Although this one wasn't always up, for whatever reason, but it did have a 9600 baud modem, which was rare at the time." - Editor
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216-951-9150
Cleveland, OH |
Flip Flop, FlipFlop BBS, The Time Vault, Time Vault
(1989-1996) |
Jim Barry (of www.stipey.org) | Searchlight
, Searchlight 4.0 |
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"I'm not sure when FlipFlop started, but it was one of the two best BBS' in the 216/440 area code, as far as I'm concerned. It was a 10-line board and one day it just... died. I know that Jim Barry now runs www.stipey.org, but I have not kept contact with him." - Jafit From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cleveland, Ohio since 03/89. Sysop: Jim Barry. Using Searchlight 4.0 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 340 MB storage. v.32bis at 14400 bps. No fee. We don't have alot of rules. Just treat the other users with respect. Home of the Wine Cellar Cleveland BBS List. Free. What's the catch? There isn't one. Then who pays for this ads Oh, that crazy Sysop Jim. Figures. See you on the Flip Flop.
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216-953-0336
Willoughby, OH |
The Plains of Abyss
(1986) |
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216-953-8057
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North Coast
(1988) |
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216-974-1153
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The Mist II
(1987-1988) |
Dungeon Master | GBBS Pro |
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216-979-0524
North Olmsted, OH |
Absolute Zero, Oriel Window, Threshold
(1989-1996) |
Michael Ryan, Neil Rossin | Searchlight |
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"Part of the original INFO screen: This BBS (Bulletin Board System) is called Oriel Window? The SysOps (System Operators) are: NEIL ROSSIN & some mike guy. Oriel Window? is mushed into a Micro _X_perts 486SX computer with 4 MEGS RAM, a 250 MEG Colorado tape drive, 212 MEGS of Hard Drive space at 25 Mhz clock speed with 2 2400 Hayes compatible modems and a Smart One 14.4 Fax Modem running off of 3 scrolling lines. The Operational System is DOS 6.2 & DesQview 386. And we didn't have to butcher anyone else's computer to get it that way, either. Special Thanks to Craig McGee for lending us a 2400 modem!! This BBS became operational on November 1, 1989 under the name Threshold of Madness. At that time, Threshold was hidden in a computer at a Ford Dealership on Clevelands west side, with all operations being handled remotely. Eventually, as changes occurred over time, the BBS needed to be moved. Residence of the program was moved to its present area on November 9th,1992. The name was changed to Oriel Window? on Friday, December 18th, 1992 at 13:25hrs. It's present area is situated in Township 6, Range 15 from the original Connecticut Land Company (the Western Reserve) in the 17th state to enter the union of The United States Of America (being bearings of Latitude 41 degrees north, 24 minutes, 6.649 seconds, Longitude 81 degrees west, 55 minutes, 29.178 seconds), on a class M planet third of nine from a spectral class O star at sector 001 in the Alpha Quadrant." - A. S. Baile
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216-992-6930
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Happy Hacker BBS
(1989-1995) |
David Bucci | Wildcat |
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138 Sysops currently listed.
181 BBSes Listed.
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