| MAP OF THE 217 AREA CODE |
| 217-224-3920 QUINCY, IL |
Liberty BBS, The Free Zone (1988-1994) |
Wildcat | |
| 217-235-2000 Mattoon, IL |
AMIS I.C.C.C., I.C.T.C., ICCC (1985-1991) |
AMIS | |
| 217-244-1188 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
NAPCC (1986) |
Thomas Dirks | |
| 217-244-6954 Urbana, IL |
Check Source (233/13), The Check Source (1989-1999) |
Melissa Woo, Hector Mandel | MAXIMUS |
| 217-328-6015 Urbana, IL |
StageDoor, The Stage Door (1989-1995) |
Paul Brady | |
| 217-333-2842 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
AAFT Fidonet (1986) |
Edward Otto | FidoNet |
| 217-333-5554 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Toolbox Annex (1989) |
Wayne Hamilton | |
| 217-333-8301 Champaign, IL |
Hacker's Anonymous BBS (1988-1992) |
Russ Blakeman, Matt Mayer | Fido, Maximus |
| "This BBS was run on an IBM PC/AT 5170 with 640k ram, 20 Seagate ST-225 20 mb hard drives and a 2400 baud external modem. The machine was part of UofI C-U and lived on a table in the graduate student's office in the Theoretical Chemistry building on campus. I ran the BBS remotely from 89 to 90 having never seen it physically until then when the HD crashed. I also ran Midwest Softsource BBS from my family housing on Chanute AFB during the Hacker's Anonymous period and afterwards until Chnaute closed in 93 and I went to Wichita, KS and started another there." - Russ Blakeman | |||
| 217-333-9660 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Sig-Bio (1989-1990) |
James Hejmanowski, Rick Blewitt | |
| 217-337-6312 Urbana, IL |
SUBURBIA! (1987-1995) |
Mitch Duszynski | Deadlock/WWIII |
| "This small town feel BBS was set up like a community where all were welcome. Originally started on a Commodore 64 using Deadlock BBS software (home BBS for the software) it had many customized features, online games, and heavily used message boards. It was eventually switched to a PC using WWIII software in the latter years of its existance." - Mitch Duszynski | |||
| 217-344-4032 Urbana, IL |
FOG RBBS-RCP/M #14, FOG - 14 (1985-1986) |
Jonathan Block | |
| PRACSA Member PRACSA Member | |||
| 217-348-8088 CHARLESTON, IL |
Programmers' Shack (1988) |
Joi Ellis | |
| 217-352-6118 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
LawBoard Fido (1986-2002) |
Fred Grosser | FidoNet |
| 217-352-9318 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
TechnoBoard II (1989) |
Chad Brooks | |
| 217-356-2162 Champaign, IL |
Bikers Home (1989-1994) |
slim | PCBoard |
| "The first biker bbs in central Illinois that I knew of. slim was quite a strange guy. There was alot of stories and bike pics..etc he had a program called sherry or something like that for chat. He also had an extensive interactive bar and shop guide. We had some great times.. and all got together at the local bars. Many female users said that they got the number off stall walls :) He went on to start the virtualbiker web site as well as the vbmo around 94 or 95 I havent heard from him in many years. Thanks for keeping things like this alive!" - Anonymous | |||
| 217-356-6922 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Dark Side Of the Moon Software (1988-1991) |
Harold Barker | |
| 217-359-0139 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Avalon (1988) |
Red Ryder Host | |
| 217-359-2163 Champaign, IL |
Bloom County BBS (1986-1987) |
Sun Kwok | UBBS |
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"I ran Bloom County from 1986 to 1987 while attending the University of Illinois until I graduated in December 1987. Many users took an alias from Bloom County comic strip at the time. We had all kinds of folks, from The Pooch (Jeff Schomer, age 12) to mostly college age users. Some of the users would get together at my college apartment at 604 E. White Street to play Risk, eat pizza, or just hang out. I was also friends with Helen Whatley (Unnamed BBS), Dale Creekmur (Tranquillity II) and Russ Price (CatStar BBS). Helen and Russ are classmates and we had several classes together! We were in the Computer Science curriculum. The sysops in the area were a pretty tight group at the time. We would gather monthly (hosted by Dale, usually) and talk about running our BBS's, users, and so on. It was a great time. I still have a printout from my old Apple ][ with all the users names and addresses. | |||
| 217-359-3257 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
The Edge (1988) |
Wildcat | |
| 217-359-3431 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Champagne FIDO, Champaigne Fido (1987-1989) |
Jim Lewis | |
| 217-359-6165 Champaign, IL |
Capp Mail, CappMail, CourseWare, Courseware Applications Inc (1986-1995) |
Tom Scaefges, Tom Schaefges | |
| 217-359-6636 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
UN NAMED BBS (1987) |
Helen Whatley | |
| 217-367-7770 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Freeside Uplink (1989-1991) |
Dave Gerdes | |
| 217-367-8429 Urbana, IL |
The Cloud Chamber (1989-1995) |
Hector Mandel | |
| 217-384-0408 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Spaceboard (1989-1990) |
Tanya Sienko | |
| 217-384-0605 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Murphy's Hobbie (1989-1993) |
Mark Williams | |
| 217-384-2127 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Xanadu (1988-1993) |
Scott Coleman | |
| 217-384-4311 Urbana, IL |
Programmer's Toolbox, The Programmer's Toolbox (1988-2002) |
Wayne Hamilton | Opus, Maximus |
| 217-384-4435 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
CatStar (1988) |
Russ Price | |
| 217-384-7448 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Altered Crates (1989) |
Gary Faulkner | |
| 217-384-8173 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Tranquility II (1987-1989) |
Dale Creekmur | |
| 217-398-0470 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL |
Wolfram Research Inc (1989) |
Harold Barker | |
| 217-429-4738 DECATUR, IL |
C.A.M.S. (1984) |
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| 217-429-5541 DECATUR, IL |
C A M S II, NET-WORKS C.A.M.S. (1982-1983) |
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| 217-431-1695 DANVILLE, IL |
The Relative Connection (1988-1994) |
Chuck Haine | RemoteAccess |
| 217-526-3710 MORRISONVILLE, IL |
Ole Tinbrain (1988) |
Jim Colligan | |
| 217-529-1113 Springfield, IL |
BULLET-80 Springfield, IL (1982-1985) |
BULLET-80 | |
| 217-529-6452 SPRINGFIELD, IL |
Capitol City bbs, Capitol City BBS RBBS HAM (1989-1994) |
Gary Huff, K9UAB | |
| 217-546-7608 Springfield, IL |
Quest,The, The Quest (1988-1994) |
Wally Hartshorn, Dominic Duvall | AmiDel, Cit86v3.31 |
| 217-546-8231 SPRINGFIELD, IL |
RBBS IBM PC Old Jack (1984-1985) |
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| 217-546-8767 SPRINGFIELD, IL |
PC Connection, PC Connx, PC-Connection BBS (1989-1994) |
Dave Pointer | PCBoard |
| 217-562-2280 PANA, IL |
Prairie Data BBS (1989) |
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| 217-753-4309 Springfield, IL |
MCMS Word Exchange (1983-1985) |
MCMS | |
| 217-789-5970 Springfield, IL |
B E C, B.E.C, BEC BBS 2, Bell Employees Club BBS, B.E.C. (1989-1995) |
George Lollar | PCBoard |
| 217-854-3046 CARLINVILLE, IL |
Super BBS (1986) |
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| 217-854-6131 CARLINVILLE, IL |
Cville Radio Shack (1987-1988) |
Matt Turley | |
| 217-875-5418 DECATUR, IL |
CondCrit, Condcrit (1989-1994) |
Joe Prosser | |
| 217-875-5579 DECATUR, IL |
TSPNET 2.3 (1984) |
The Penguin | TSPNET |
| 217-875-7114 Decatur, IL |
CAMS (Central Il. Automated Message System), NET-WORKS C.A.M.S., NET-WORKS C.A.M.S.][, NET-WORKS CAMS][, The Data Hut (1983-1996) |
Robert Williams | PCBoard , NET-WORKS, Red Ryder Host |
| 217-892-8236 RANTOUL, IL |
Library BBS (1989-1991) |
Bill Province | |
| 217-892-8716 RANTOUL, IL |
TechnoBoard (1989-1990) |
Curtis Campbell | |
| 217-892-8889 Rantoul, IL |
Network: Atari (1986) |
Jeff Look | |
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41 Sysops currently listed. 52 BBSes Listed. | |||