| MAP OF THE 413 AREA CODE |
| 413-233-4611 Ludlow, MA |
The XE-BBS (1987-1994) |
Dan Ramos | Oasis Jr. / SBBS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Mainly an Atari related BBS but had games/doors, forums and downloads for many systems. Originally ran on an Atari 800XL, then Atari 520 ST and finally a Packard Bell 80286 based PC."
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| 413-243-0034 |
LEE, MA Berkshire Hub, FidoNews, Jones Nose, JonesNose, MilqueToast Help, New England |
(1988-1994) Harry Lee, Randall Greylock, Vince Perriello, H Lee | FidoNet |
| 413-243-2217 |
LEE, MA Davis Engineering |
(1988-1989) Steve Wellington |
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| 413-253-5469 |
AMHERST, MA Pioneer Valley PCUG2 |
(1987-1994) Pat Buttons |
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| 413-253-5518 |
AMHERST, MA Node Hog |
(1987-1991) Matt Kimmel |
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| 413-253-9872 |
AMHERST, MA Pioneer Valley PCUG3 |
(1989-1990) Matt Kimmel |
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| 413-256-1037 |
AMHERST, MA MassNet West, Pioneer Valley 1, Pioneer Valley PC Users Group, Pioneer Valley PCUG1, PVPCUG 1 |
(1986-1996) Mort Sternheim, Morton Sternheim |
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| 413-256-6846 |
AMHERST, MA Pioneer Valley PCUG0 |
(1989-1995) Pat Buttons, Mort Sternheim, Morton Sternheim |
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| 413-283-3554 |
PALMER, MA The MacSheep BBS |
(1988) Red Ryder Host |
| 413-283-6505 |
PALMER, MA Ballpark, BallPark BBS, The Ballpark BBS |
(1989-1991) Bob Orr | Wildcat |
| 413-357-8809 |
GRANVILLE, MA New England BBS |
(1985-1989) Scott Maentz |
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| 413-443-1465 |
PITTSFIELD, MA BTEco, M-R-T |
(1988) Bryan Tetlow |
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| 413-443-6313 |
PITTSFIELD, MA Berkshire Hub, Vet Link, Vetlink #1, VETLink#1 |
(1987-1994) Gjoseph Peck |
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| 413-443-6725 |
PITTSFIELD, MA K12Net Mail Server, Schoolhouse BBS, TheFireHouse |
(1989-1996) Rob Reilly |
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| 413-443-7310 |
PITTSFIELD, MA Schoolhouse BBS |
(1989) Rob Reilly |
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| 413-499-1327 |
PITTSFIELD, MA Berkshire County NEC, Berkshire Estates, Berkshire Estates BBS, Net 332 EchoMail Coordinator, The Checkered Flag, The Dog House |
(1989-1996) Pete Farias |
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| 413-528-5663 |
GREAT BARRINGTO, MA Berkshire Hub, Jones' Nose |
(1987-1988) Harry Lee |
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| 413-528-6938 |
Great Barrington, MA Berkshires Link, Future Access BBS, Berkshire Link BBS |
(1987-1993) Brett Simms | Future Access BBS |
"Wow, Long time ago.. But to give some correct history if anyone even cares anymore.. I started off with a copy of wildcat.. moved my way up to teleguard .. great software btw .. 1 of the first to have Yankee Trader and TradeWars running on my BBS and a member of fidonet.. Use to call out to springfield to deliver our mail packs.. Run off my tandy 1000 moved into ATXT style system.. Great up on a timex programing in basic.. Hosting a BBS user group at a local motel at the bottom of butternut ski mountain.. Pretty much 1 of the first BBS around beside what's his name from LEE.. Wrote a few Turbo PASCAL online games which faked out users to login into my fake c: drive.. watch for hours while they typed format C:/s I write this because I looked up my name Brett Simms and found this info of way way too long ago.. Pretty much ran Teleguard software though. and alot of pirate software of sierra games.. My True BBS name was always Berkshires Best - Telguard running system.. but anyways.. paul ran his bbs way after I started good friend.. and the only person I belive that even had roots was some old dude from LEE.. oh and had good times with old GIF video's..Was young better then HBO late nite..lol Thanks again" - Brett Robert Simms
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| 413-536-4365 |
Springfield, MA Springfield Public Access BBS, The SPA, the spa! |
(1989-1995) Matthew de Jongh | TBBS 2.3 |
| 413-536-8753 |
HOLYOKE, MA The Aztec Empire |
(1984-1994) John DeJordy |
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"A very busy BBS that was started heavily focused on c-64, moved to the Amiga series, and ended on the PC."
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| 413-536-9250 |
Holyoke, MA The Tardis Console BBS |
(1989-1992) Joe Occhiuzzo | ADAM Custom Engineered, WWIV |
| 413-545-1959 |
AMHERST, MA Physics Forum, Physics Forum (321/110), Physics Forum (321/114), SpaceMet Central |
(1986-1995) Helen Sternheim, Mort Sternheim | MAXIMUS |
| 413-545-4453 |
AMHERST, MA Physics Forum, SpaceMet Central |
(1989-1995) Helen Sternheim |
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| 413-545-4717 |
AMHERST, MA INFONET, INFOnet 1 |
(1986-1997) Wesley Autio, Waseem Farshori, Bert Szala, Kathleen Leahy |
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| 413-547-6262 |
Ludlow, MA StarCastle/Ultimate Exchange |
(1987-1991) Tim Sliski | C-Net 128 |
Any of you old W-MAers out there?? E-mail me @ tsliski01@yahoo.com" - Tim Sliski
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| 413-549-6409 |
AMHERST, MA Pioneer Valley PCUG3 |
(1988) Mike Walker |
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| 413-549-8387 |
Amherst, MA The Micro Shuttle BBs |
(1988) Jose A. Bloise | Wildcat |
| 413-562-0274 |
WESTFIELD, MA The Wall BBS |
(1989-1991) Dave Ogiba | PCBoard |
| 413-562-1870 |
WESTFIELD, MA Baudville |
(1989-1994) George Brooks |
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| 413-567-1822 |
Longmeadow, MA Top Cat BBS, TopCat PCB PRIV 160m CP/M |
(1987-1994) Tracy Carman, Tracy E. Carman | PCBoard, PC Board |
"I started the BBS as a night-time thing when my office wasn't running. It was meant to be private and only had a handful of users. However, the handful were influential in the world of software and bbs' of that era. One of the authors of a primary communications program released the latest version of his software with a glitch. He fixed the problem and rereleased it, including his phone list. My bbs was on there. I went from having 12 users to over a thousand in about a week. I moved the BBS from my office to my home and ended up having thousands of regular callers. In 1994, the bbs crashed for its final time. I had spent a fortune upgrading the hardware and hanging hard drives off of the machine for massive storage. To me, this was the end. It was a labor of love, but I wasn't going to spend another thousand dollars on new drives and upgrades. Some of the components (the old drives and such) are buried under tons of stuff in an attic closet. It was fun running the bbs at the time, but that era was quickly drawing to an end as the internet was developing. Now everyone has moved from bbs' and CompuServe to websites and it's a whole new adventure." - Tracy E. Carman
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| 413-568-7669 |
WESTFIELD, MA RBBS of Westfiel, RBBS of Westfield
, Westfield, Westfield Board |
(1987-1996) Eric Willcox | PCBoard
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| 413-583-6167 |
LUDLOW, MA The Valley BBS |
(1987-1994) John Minerich | PCBoard |
| 413-585-5109 |
Northampton, MA Ultra Zone |
(1989-1992) Tim DiRocco, David Spencer | WWIV |
"I started this board back in high school on a Hyundai 286-10 with my brand new 1200 baud modem. Seeing as it only had a mono monitor, all the color screens/menus/etc. had to be done on an adjacent computer then transferred over. I would spend many nights chatting with the regular users, most of which I got to know very well in real life, having known such people as David Kuhns from Joe's Bar & Grill (for a while this bbs ran off a community system in the basement computer lab at Williston Northampton School, where students could log in as well), Communication Breakdown (run by Dor, better known as Purple Hair Freak Boy), and countless others. We were all one big happy dysfunctional family!" - Tim DiRocco
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| 413-592-0942 |
CHICOPEE, MA SpaceMet South 1 |
(1989-1990) Phil Jachem |
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| 413-592-4538 |
Chicopee, MA cha0tic s0ciety, The Gallery |
(1987-1991) Christopher Allard (Artman) | CNet 64, Image BBS, Color 64 |
"I originally started as a Public Domain BBS. Gradually moved toward warez and eventually h/p as well..." - Christopher Allard
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| 413-594-2524 |
CHICOPEE, MA Apollo Systems BBS, Apollo Systems TBBS |
(1987-1992) Phil Jachem |
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| 413-594-8405 |
CHICOPEE, MA SpaceMet South 2 |
(1989-1990) Phil Jachem |
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| 413-637-0879 |
LENOX, MA Jones' Nose |
(1986) Harry Lee |
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| 413-637-1657 |
LENOX, MA False God, FalseGod |
(1987-1989) Bob Nicholas |
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| 413-637-3515 |
LENOX, MA ? Western Massachusetts |
(1982-1983)
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| 413-637-4888 |
LENOX, MA The Vortex BBS |
(1989-1990) Chris Skinner |
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| 413-665-4227 |
SOUTH DEERFIELD, MA Farm net |
(1986) Kent Fleming |
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| 413-684-1938 |
DALTON, MA Field Street BBS |
(1989-1999) Vern Pero |
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| 413-684-2886 |
DALTON, MA Mountain Top Fido |
(1986-1991) Don Hall | FidoNet |
| 413-732-3615 |
Springfield, MA Latin Express |
(1986) Rafael Mora |
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| 413-734-1737 |
SPRINGFIELD, MA TCOMM Comms 7p-11p Mon-Sat, Terrier Bbs, Terrier PCB System |
(1989-1994) Larry Blinderman | PCBoard |
| 413-736-0667 |
SPRINGFIELD, MA Mass. Gold Mine |
(1989-1994) Edward Goldberg
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| 413-739-3226 |
SPRINGFIELD, MA PC-Gram, PC-Gram
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(1987-1994) Jeffrey Heath | PCBoard |
| 413-743-1111 |
ADAMS, MA Berkshire County NC, Berkshire Hills BBS, Berkshire Hills I, Power Station, Berskshire Hills BBS |
(1989-1995) Fred Menty, Fred Menty Meczywer |
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| 413-743-7044 |
ADAMS, MA Berkshire Hills BBS |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 413-747-8459 |
Springfield, MA The Toyshoppe BBS, Toyshoppe |
(1989-1996) John Hebert | Synchronet, C-Net |
"Ran as a Commodore based system until 1993. Re-launched as a multi-line chat BBS."
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| 413-772-2030 |
GREENFIELD, MA Spacemet, SpaceMet North 0, SpaceMet North 2 |
(1989-1994) Terry Dun |
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| 413-772-2038 |
GREENFIELD, MA Spacemet Bbs, SpaceMet North 1 |
(1989-1995) Terry Dun |
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| 413-774-5751 |
Greenfield, MA Wizard's Domain |
(1986) Unknown |
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| 413-782-5038 |
SPRINGFIELD, MA Club Hooked |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 413-789-0120 |
SPRINGFIELD, MA "MY BBS" Legal SIG, My BBS |
(1989-1992) Charles Yates |
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| 413-863-8214 |
TURNERS FALLS, MA Eagle's Nest, Franklin Hub |
(1987-1990) Terry Dun |
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| 413-967-9541 |
WARE, MA Quaboag Valley Transfer, Quaboaq Valley Xfer |
(1989-1994) Gary Reardon |
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