| MAP OF THE 608 AREA CODE |
| 608-221-3226 MADISON, WI |
Starlight Express (1989) |
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| 608-222-8842 MADISON, WI |
Powerboard, PowerBoard
(1987-1997) |
Sarah Thaler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 608-233-0286 MADISON, WI |
Madison PC User Group, Madison PCUG (1986-1997) |
Marty Shannon, C. Zenchenko | PCBoard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 608-233-1111 MADISON, WI |
RTPM Madison (1984-1985) |
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| 608-233-4828 Madison, WI |
Bee Line (1986-1996) |
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"Madison's first chat line. For the first five years, The Bee Line ran on an Apple II+ using custom 'Honeycomb' software written in 6502 assembly. It grew from five 300 baud modems to eleven 2400 baud modems (thanks to 4-port serial cards handmade by Raist, founder of Sonic Foundry). The last five years, the Bee Line ran on a DOS PC with a 17 ports, message boards, etc. It still used custom software (a mix of C and assembly), including several multiplayer ANSI action games. It was a real challenge convincing the phone company that a 17-line hunt group deserved residential rates. Bee Line was a subscription service. Non-paying users could chat for a bit, but were generally at the mercy of the paying users. It was a very social system and the user population was mixed and varied over the years. There was no emphasis on tech, and many users only learned enough skills to be able to type "ATDT2334828" on the surplus dumbterms from the local university. One unique aspect was that chat attracted women. At one point I calculated that even though women were only 15% of the user population, they represented about 30% of the minutes online. Memorabilia and reunion info at http://beeline.org" - Bee
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| 608-233-8449 |
Madison, WI FIDO #90 MidNet UW, MidNet |
(1984-1986) Mike Mansfield | FidoNet |
| 608-249-0275 |
MADISON, WI 1st Circle, Madison Area |
(1987-1988) John Galvin |
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| 608-249-5657 |
MADISON, WI M.O.O.S.I.E. |
(1988)
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| 608-251-3494 |
MADISON, WI Power Board |
(1985) Maurice Thaler, Carl Williamson, Peter Daly |
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| 608-251-4755 |
MADISON, WI Disaster Area HST, Int'l Archives |
(1988-1990) Ted Tang |
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| 608-251-8538 |
MADISON, WI AMIS Magic Lantern |
(1982-1983)
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| 608-255-2755 |
Madison, WI BITS, Bits BBS, Bits II |
(1983-1997) PondScum (Brian Goldsworthy) |
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"BITS was run under the auspices of the Madison Apple User's Group, and continued to run even after the user group suffered the loss of all of the Macintosh users, and even outlasted the user's group itself." - Brian Goldsworthy
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| 608-255-5227 |
MADISON, WI INDRANET BBS
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(1987)
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| 608-256-6227 |
MADISON, WI Mad Mac BBS |
(1988) Red Ryder Host |
| 608-256-8088 |
MADISON, WI Madison PCUG |
(1987-1989) Gary London |
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| 608-258-9723 |
MADISON, WI 1st Circle, Madison Area |
(1986) John Galvin |
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| 608-262-1434 |
MADISON, WI Mersenne |
(1987-1988) Jim Lattis |
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| 608-262-4469 |
MADISON, WI FIDO #324 UW-Hat, UW Hat |
(1985) Michael Mansfield |
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| 608-262-4939 |
MADISON, WI BBS IBM PC Madison, RBBS IBM PC Madison |
(1983-1985)
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| 608-263-6057 |
MADISON, WI MIC BBS at MACC |
(1988-1997) PCBoard |
| 608-266-3014 |
MADISON, WI DILHR PCBoad, DILHR PCBoard, DILHR PCBoard PCB |
(1989-1992) Marty Shannon | PCBoard |
| 608-271-0687 |
MADISON, WI 1st Circle, Madison Area |
(1989-1990) John Galvin |
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| 608-271-3685 |
Madison, WI Cooper Works, Cooper Works - fonts, CooperWorks, Cooperworks
, Cooperworks PCB Laserfonts, Jamestown (K. Flee), Jamestown Sftw, Jamestown Software, Jamestown Software BBS |
(1986-1997) Ken Flee, Chuck Cooper, Flee & Cooper | Searchlight
, PCBoard |
| 608-273-2123 |
MADISON, WI Madison PC User's Group BBS, Madison PCUG, MadisonPCUG |
(1989-1994) William Thousand, Bill Thousand | PCBoard |
| 608-273-5037 |
MADISON, WI NICBUL BBS |
(1985) Mike Brown |
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| 608-274-0321 |
MADISON, WI AE LINE: UTOPIA |
(1984)
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| 608-274-1904 |
Madison, WI NineJackNine |
(1988-1991) Ed Almasy | Opus |
"I started NineJackNine (9J9), 608-274-1904, in 1988 as an antidote to all of the techie-oriented BBSes that were in operation at that time. It carried nothing but non-technical Fidonet conferences, plus a game or two (a modified version of Pyroto Mountain was the most popular). 9J9 also had a strong bent toward material of more interest to women, who I believed were very under-represented in the online world at that point. In 1991, after attending Fidocon in Colorado and hearing the Gospel According to Jack Rickard and Phil Becker, I moved 9J9 over to TBBS (and to 608-256-5697), bumped it up from two incoming lines to four incoming lines, and added a dedicated Internet connection that allowed people to use telnet, gopher, and to (eventually) browse the web using Lynx. I believe 9J9 was the first BBS in the area to offer live Internet connectivity." - Ed Almasy
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| 608-274-4045 |
MADISON, WI WCSI Info Xchg |
(1987-1988) Bill Thousand |
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| 608-274-5476 |
Madison, WI Lunar Software, Selene |
(1987-1990) Ed Almasy, Jim Roberts, Pat Splinter | Opus |
"Selene, 608-274-5476, was started in 1987 while I was working at Lunar Corporation, as a BBS focused on the profession and practice of Software Engineering. Initially it offered file areas with C and assembly language source code for an array of MS-DOS and Unix software packages. In late 1987 I ran across John Galvin's 1st Circle BBS, which was the first Fidonet hub in the Madison area. John was also part of the group working on UFGate, the first software package that allowed BBS sysops to carry Usenet newsgroups and RFC-822 e-mail traffic on their Fidonet system. UFGate caught my interest and I added various Fidonet programming-related conferences and Usenet newsgroups to Selene over the next two years, and further expanded the collection of source code and programming utilities. In late 1989 I was hired away from Lunar by Persoft (makers of SmartTerm), to build a new product that was intended to be a ProComm-killer. Since Selene was running (unofficially) on a computer and phone line owned by Lunar, I had to move Selene to a computer and phone line in my home (608-273-1406). After I left Lunar, Jim Roberts and Pat Splinter ran the "Lunar Software BBS" on the same phone line and computer that I had used for Selene. After relocating Selene to my home, I switched it from Opus 1.03c to Maximus, and then in 1992 Selene was subsumed into another, larger BBS that I was running, NineJackNine (608-256-5697)." - Ed Almasy
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| 608-274-6377 |
MADISON, WI Bill1000Jr, FIDO #38 Madison |
(1984) Bill Thousand, Jr. | FidoNet |
| 608-274-8190 |
MADISON, WI W.S.E.U. |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 608-274-8435 |
MADISON, WI NABT/FISCHER |
(1989-1992)
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| 608-274-9763 |
MADISON, WI JW-PC DataFlex.OS2, JWPC Dataflex |
(1989-1996) Jim Wargula | RBBS |
| 608-274-9785 |
MADISON, WI Jw-PC DataFlex, JW-PC DataFlex OS2, JW-PC DataFlex.OS2, Madison Area, Madison NEC, Madison PC Users Group, MPCUG WebBBS |
(1989-2002) Jim Wargula | Wildcat |
| 608-365-2302 |
BELOIT, WI Connecting Line BBS |
(1989-1999) Dave and Lynette Long | MajorBBS |
| 608-655-4012 |
MARSHALL, WI Romany RBBS, Syform |
(1989-1996) Mark Simmons, K.& M. Simmons | RBBS |
| 608-752-7840 |
JANESVILLE, WI J.A.D.E. |
(1982-1996) Dennis Adams, Peter Melan, David Wendt | TBBS
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"J.A.D.E., 608-752-7840, was started in November of 1982, by myself (Dennis Adams) and Peter Melan on a Model I TRS-80. We wrote the software ourselves in BASIC. We had to optimize the heck out of the word-wrap algorithm, which we thought was really needed back then with the wide disparity in display widths (VIC-20 @ 22, many various computers @ 40, TRS-80 @ 64, serial terminal @ 80). The final optimization ran in real-time even on the new *fast* modem we bought (a USRobtics 1200 baud |
| 608-757-3009 |
JANESVILLE, WI JADE, Jade BBS |
(1982-1999) David L Wendt |
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| 608-836-9473 |
MIDDLETON, WI Audio Project 222-8842, Audio Projects, AudioProj, AudioProj
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(1987-1997) Maurice Thaler |
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| 608-837-4862 |
SUN PRAIRIE, WI Syform |
(1989-1994)
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| 608-873-0703 |
Stoughton, WI The Buzzard Bait BBS, The Buzzards Bait BBS |
(1987-1995) Paul Bratland | Opus |
| 608-873-4700 |
STOUGHTON, WI Daily Planet |
(1988)
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| 608-884-3207 |
Edgerton, WI Blackshoe BBS |
(1989-2004) Dr Deshi, Tormentor | tag, synchronet, Worldgroup 3.30 |
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