515 Area Code BBSes Through History (80's Version)

MAP OF THE 515 AREA CODE
515-223-0328
DES MOINES, IA
Enterprises, PC BBoard, PC BULLETIN BOARD
(1987-1992)
Glen SchaeferWildcat
515-225-8496
DES MOINES, IA
Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek Software Technical Support, Buffalo Creek's BBS , Buffalo's Creek, BuffCrk, BuffCrk,hm Spitf, Spitfire Support And Files
(1988-2004)
Mike WoltzSpitfire
Product: SpitFire BBS
515-226-0680
DES MOINES, IA
Stock Exchange
(1989)
Curtis KyhlPCBoard
515-232-0547
AMES, IA
Rod's BBS
(1988)
Red Ryder Host
515-233-5254
Ames, IA
Health BBS, NET-WORKS Health BBS
(1984-1985)
NET-WORKS
515-236-2578
GRINNELL, IA
Grinnel Fido, Grinnell Fido
(1984-1985)
Michael Strait, Bob StanisFidoNet
515-276-6243
DES MOINES, IA
Benden Weyr
(1988)
Reggie Swain
515-276-8688
DES MOINES, IA
Omni Keyboard
(1987-1989)
515-278-5880
DES MOINES, IA
The Alpine Exchange
(1987)
515-279-3073
Bagdad, IA
The ZOO System, ZSys BBS
(1985-1995)
Mark Toland, ZooieGBBS
515-279-3074
DES MOINES, IA
ARCADE
(1989-1990)
Bryant Graham
515-279-5040
DES MOINES, IA
E=MC^2
(1989-1990)
David Van Horn
515-279-6769
DES MOINES, IA
CIA Central Iowa Net, Enchanted Mansion, IAMUG Info Server, MANSION
(1989-1994)
Michael Pester
515-279-8863
DES MOINES, IA
COMPUTER EMPORIUM, NET-WORKS Computer Emporium
(1982-1984)
515-279-9283
DES MOINES, IA
TARDIS, Tardis CAD
(1989-1994)
Todd Ferson, Karrie SacksPCBoard
515-280-9107
DES MOINES, IA
Sirius Cybernetics, Sirus Cybernetics
(1989-1994)
Dennis Babcock
515-280-9206
DES MOINES, IA
Sirus Cybernetics
(1988)
Dennis Babcock
515-282-1915
Des Moines, IA
The Apple Hide-A-Way
(1989-1998)
Scott JohnsonWarp Six
"I'm located in Des Moines, Iowa. It ran from late 80s to mid 90s. It was mainly just a little local board. Very little file transfer action. Had a fairly active forum section and a few games, some of which I wrote. I had a trivia game that was kinda popular, and a never ending story that was pretty stupid but people kept on adding to it. It was just a text file that people would add one line at a time to once a day (per user)." "One thing that was a little different. one of the users on the Hide-A-Way decided to start his onw BBS running Warp Six and after about 6 months of late nights, his wife was ready to shoot him. Instead of shutting it down, we added it to my hardware and had a prompt for which BBS you wanted when it answered. Not multi-line, but multi-board. He was more able to resist the late nights when the computer wasn't humming away in the bedroom 24/7. ;) A compromise his wife could live with." - Scott Johnson
515-283-0436
DES MOINES, IA
The Realm
(1988)
Rod NewcombTUBBS
515-283-1902
DES MOINES, IA
The City
(1988)
515-294-3977
AMES, IA
M.A.D.
(1986)
Ascii Express
515-432-7853
BOONE, IA
The Tomb
(1988)
Steve KratzTUBBS
515-673-3763
Oskaloosa, IA
SKUNK RIVER BBS , The Skunk River Bullit
(1986-1987)
515-682-0761
Ottumwa, IA
The Underground Switchboard
(1985-1987)
Rob RutledgeC-Net 9.22
515-683-5193
OTTUMWA, IA
Indian Hills CC
(1985-1989)
Bill Bagley
515-753-0607
Marshalltown, IA
PMS - Teen-Line, Teen-Line
(1985)
PMS
515-782-9205
CRESTON, IA
Trivia
(1985)
Steve Lorimor
515-961-3325
INDIANOLA, IA
AMSAT BBS, W0RPK AMSAT BBS, Work Amsat
(1988-1994)
W0RPK
515-961-8881
INDIANOLA, IA
MID-AMERICA
(1985)
AMIS
515-964-7401
Ankeny, IA
Prisoners Of Reality
(1989-1996)
Night Stalker , Chad KovacCNET, Tempest, Ami-X
LSD Member BBS.

"I'm Chad.. I ran POR for several years, helped run about a dozen of the other's you have listed as well. Beta tested for CNET, Tempest and Ami-X. "Amiga 500 running 2 lines and 52 meg HD with 2.5 megs of ram (Supra 500xp drive). LSD US HQ for a short time. Started on a C64 and ended on the Amiga. Ah, memories ;)" - Chad Kovac

515-964-7937
ANKENY, IA
CIA Central Iowa Net, Fog Line, FOG LINE BBS, FOG-Line , Midwest FOG, Midwest FOG OPUS 200m, Nat'l Echo Coord, Old Addr. Use 290/627 instead., Reg 14 EchoCoord, FOG Line BBS
(1987-2002)
Dan BudaOpus , Maximus
515-981-0036
NORWALK, IA
Ast Turbo Byte, AST Turbo Byte 86m
(1989-1991)
Jim Papcun
515-986-3464
GRIMES, IA
Mother Board, The Mother Board
(1989-1994)
22 Sysops currently listed.
33 BBSes Listed.