| MAP OF THE 570 AREA CODE |
| 570-343-7604 Scranton, PA |
The Heart of Hell BBS, The Hearts of Hell BBS (1993-1998) |
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"The Heart of Hell was a WWIV based BBS and ran in the town of Scranton for years while I grew up. The BBS has been semi-resurrected in the State College (Penn State!) area. It is currently not setup for dialing in. (there appears to be no demand for dialup BBSes, but if it occurs, I will make dial in lines available) ... you can reach it by telneting to nl.neplug.org" - Hades
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| 570-344-6095 |
Scranton. PA The Devil’s Den BBS |
(1992-1996) Demon Master | C-Net Amiga |
Board ran on an Amiga 1000 for the first 2 years and on an Amiga 4000 for the last 2 years.
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| 570-346-3034 |
SCRANTON, PA The Gutter |
(1995-1999) Bill Deitrick | TriBBS |
| 570-347-2581 |
SCRANTON, PA Darkside |
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| 570-383-0182 |
OLYPHANT, PA Acropolis |
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| 570-387-4899 |
BLOOMSBURG, PA Sonic Boom BBS, Sonic-Boom BBS |
(1993-2001) Jim Coyle |
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| 570-408-0882 |
WILKES-BARRE, PA Dragon's Lair BBS, VooDoo, Wilkes-Barre Area HUB |
(1998) Jeffrey Stoodley, James Freeman |
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| 570-408-0884 |
WILKES-BARRE, PA VooDoo BBS |
(1999) James Freeman |
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| 570-476-3115 |
East Stroudsburg, PA Prophecy BBS |
(1996-2001) East Stroudsburg PA, Bill Wehrkamp | VBBS (Virtual BBS) |
"I moved a few times while running this BBS; started in 1996 in East Stroudsburg PA, then spent a year in Swiftwater PA, then the rest of its life in Effort PA from 1998 through mid-2000. The phone company was always kind enough to forward calls from the old number to the new one, at least for a few months. At its peak in 1998, had three incoming phone lines, hitting over 70 calls a day. Not bad for my area at the time. Thanks for maintaining this information." - Bill Wehrkamp
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| 570-489-5819 |
Jessup, PA Valley View BBS |
(1983-1992) Tom Clark |
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| 570-489-8001 |
Throop, PA The Budland Express |
(1983-1993) Richard Jones, RIchard Jones | EBBS128 |
| 570-563-6272 |
DALTON, PA StarBase 18414 |
(1994-2001) Mark Brelish | TriBBS |
| 570-624-1071 |
POTTSVILLE, PA AXIS, AXIS
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(2002) Jon Spatz |
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| 570-639-2474 |
HARVEYS LAKE, PA Stephanies House |
(1996-1998) Stan Amster |
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| 570-654-7060 |
PITTSTON, PA The Laboratory |
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| 570-655-0469 |
PITTSTON, PA BOIX-PROY DATA, Boix-Proy Data BBS |
(1994-1998) Dick Kovaleski | MajorBBS
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| 570-673-8444 |
CANTON, PA Cantro Connection PA |
(1996-1998) N.J. Owen |
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| 570-689-3760 |
Sterling, PA Planet Earth BBS |
(1995-1998) MrWizzard | Renegade |
"Ran the board on 486DX/33 with 4mb ram($2100) at the time and 2 lines with the CyberSpace Transporter,...Goodtimes...Hades, I remember your board!" - MrWizzard
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| 570-693-0704 |
Wyoming, PA Band on the Run, The Backdraft BBS |
(1992-1998) Joseph Hetro, Heats | WWIV |
| 570-748-1834 |
LOCK HAVEN, PA Woody's NutHouse |
(1995-2001) Jim Woodward |
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| 570-753-8120 |
JERSEY SHORE, PA NET268 Net Echomail Coordinator, Pocono Net, The StarPort |
(1995-2001) Jeffrey J Counsil |
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| 570-753-8366 |
Jersey Shore, PA The Data Express |
(1996-1998) Joshua Barnes |
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| 570-819-7721 |
Edison, NJ UltraSonic |
(1990-1993) Kyle DeFina | Tag |
| 570-822-2017 |
WILKES-BARRE, PA Phoenix Rising BBS |
(1996-1998) Marie Weidemann |
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| 570-822-5567 |
WILKES-BARRE, PA Dragon's Lair BBS, Wilkes-Barre Area HUB |
(2000) Jeffrey Stoodley |
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| 570-829-0626 |
WILKES-BARRE, PA Forbidden Planet |
(1997-1998) Steve Warnick |
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| 570-836-8017 |
Tunkhannock, PA AYAK Online |
(1994-1998) Tim Robinson | WWIV |
"The weird name was a name based of a baseball card business I ran as a kid called "Any Year, Any Kind" A.Y.A.K. and it just kind of stuck. I had one phone line and then added a second for dial-up. Then I started the BBS and ended up adding another line. At its peak I had 2 phone lines, at least 5-10 full time paid monthly users and 2-3 CD drives that contained "shareware" CD's that I would rotate out. This was all run out of my bedroom! Most people would post to the boards, some would login at the same time to chat, I'd then login locally so 3 people could chat at once! WOW! Most would play the WWIV games, often at all hours of the day!" - Tim Robinson
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| 570-868-3766 |
Mountaintop, PA 911 |
(1996-2000) Phoman | Iniquity and Renegade |
"The best art board to have existed in the 570 area code." - Phoman
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| 570-876-0152 |
Jermyn, PA NE File Bank, NE FileBank, Northeast File Bank, The Northeast File Bank |
(1990-1997) Stuart Wilson | QuickBBS
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| 570-876-5731 |
Archbald, PA Archbald Pothole |
(1985-1989) Jennifer Hutchey | HBBS |
"My brother John got me started with BBSs several years before I had one of my own (he ran N.E.P.A.T.S. and wrote an Atari BBS program called HutchBBS or HBBS). His first Atari modem was one of those acoustical models that couldn't answer the phone, so he built a ring detector. ;> My BBS had a few names over the years as it evolved, but the Archbald Pothole was its final incarnation. | When I was in junior and senior high school, the BBSs were something of a social connection. I made a lot of friends online, and we ended up forming a county computer club where all of us traded software. Usually the sessions involved computer wars where everyone would tout why it was better to have an Atari, Apple, Commodore, etc. At its height, my BBS setup was running off an Atari 800XL with 2 Indus GT disk drives, an Atari 810 drive, a Hayes 2400 baud modem, and a stable of printers which I always seemed to wear out. I can still remember the screeching of the modem and the tat-tat-tat of the printer whenever someone logged on in the middle of the night. I never quite got the BBS bug out of my system, and have been the webmaster of archaeologyfieldwork.com for 10 years. I still have the Atari and hook it up to the TV every so often for old times sake..." - Jennifer Hutchey Palmer
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