| MAP OF THE 614 AREA CODE |
| 614-237-0285 COLUMBUS, OH |
Portal, The Portal (1987-1989) |
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| 614-253-4566 Bexley, Ohio |
JapAnimation Station (1987-1991) |
Sean O'Connor (Hoke To No Ken) | WWIV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Back in the day before Japanese animation was cool we used to translate whole scripts into English from pirated Japanese satellite broadcasts. Now everyone and their mother has got on the bandwagon. About darn time! :)" -Sean O'Connor
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| 614-253-4568 |
Bexley, OH Gerbilz Unite |
(1989-1990) Trojan, Sean O'Connor (Hoke To No Ken) | WWIV |
"If you need to ask then you don't want to know about it! Am I right, Trojan?" -Sean O'Connor
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| 614-262-4428 |
COLUMBUS, OH Blue Moon BBS |
(1989) Grant DeLorean |
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| 614-263-3113 |
COLUMBUS, OH Dave's Place |
(1981-1985) Dave Harris | Commodore |
| 614-263-3412 |
COLUMBUS, OH New Spirit Of 99, Spirit of #'99 TIBBS |
(1989) Irwin Hott, Dick Beery
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| 614-263-9775 |
COLUMBUS, OH Northland BBS |
(1988-1994) Wildcat |
| 614-267-5441 |
COLUMBUS, OH Graphics Unlimited, Hot Coco, Hot CoCo BBS |
(1988-1994) Mike Cotts |
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| 614-268-2227 |
Columbus, OH Columbus CBBS |
(1981) Ben Miller | CBBS |
| 614-268-4446 |
COLUMBUS, OH MARDUK II |
(1989-1996) Stuart Crane |
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| 614-272-2227 |
Columbus, OH Columbus CBBS, RCP/M CBBS Columbus |
(1981-1985) Ben Miller | CBBS |
"The last four digits spelled CBBS." - Jason Scott
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| 614-274-3540 |
COLUMBUS, OH FIDONET WIZARD'S WOCSHOP, The Wizard's Workshop, Wizard's WOCshop HST, Wizard's Workshop |
(1987-1991) Bill Merrow, William Merrow |
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| 614-279-2327 |
COLUMBUS, OH Mobius Locus, Scientific Columbus, South Parking Lot |
(1989-1994) David Hinerman |
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| 614-288-9128 |
COLUMBUS, OH The Book Club BBS |
(1989) Todd & Angela Emmer |
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| 614-293-4458 |
COLUMBUS, OH Black Bag II |
(1988) Daniel Sands |
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| 614-293-5625 |
COLUMBUS, OH Emergi Net, EmergiNet |
(1989-1990) Ken Wilkins |
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| 614-293-7606 |
COLUMBUS, OH The Ultimex BBS |
(1989-1991) Mike Cooper |
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| 614-293-8810 |
COLUMBUS, OH Black Bag II, Black Bag II BBS, Black Bag II Medical BBS |
(1988-1999) James Mirazita, Paul Prior | TriBBS |
| 614-294-5216 |
COLUMBUS, OH Cross-Fire BBS |
(1989) Bob Wiley |
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| 614-294-5314 |
COLUMBUS, OH MARDUK II |
(1988-1991) Stuart Crane |
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| 614-294-5340 |
COLUMBUS, OH MARDUK |
(1988) Mark Lynch |
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| 614-344-2994 |
Newark, OH Craig's Commodore 64 BBS |
(1986-1988) Craig Presley | Xavian |
| 614-353-1932 |
COLUMBUS, OH The Jungle! |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-363-0368 |
The Forbidden Zone |
(1989) Scott Neitz |
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| 614-366-4392 |
COLUMBUS, OH Newark Connection RBBS PRIV, Newark Connection RBBS-PC |
(1989-1994) Chip Morrow |
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| 614-382-4258 |
DUBLIN, OH Macola Inc. |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-387-3946 |
COLUMBUS, OH Marion Community BBS |
(1987-1994) Jerry Gibson |
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| 614-421-0111 |
Columbus, OH The Santa Maria BBS |
(1985-1990) The Red Pirate | GBBS ][ v1.7 |
"This was an off-hours BBS that ran on an Apple //e with three floppy drives. It initially ran on a 300bps Hayes Micromodem IIe, then moved to an Apple Cat 1200 modem. It generally was online between 9pm and midnight most evenings and stayed up until 3pm the next day. The peak years for the BBS were 1985 to 1987." - The Red Pirate
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| 614-423-4422 |
Ohio Valley BBS |
(1982-1983)
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| 614-423-7879 |
OEC-BBS |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-436-0173 |
WORTHINGTON, OH Goal Post |
(1987-1991) Steve McVey, Dennis Robinson, Allyn Thompson |
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| 614-436-0456 |
WORTHINGTON, OH DISABILITIES |
(1989) Jim Ridenour |
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| 614-436-2414 |
Columbus, OH Briefcase BBS |
(1989-1995) Fred Feldman |
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| 614-436-4758 |
WORTHINGTON, OH The Lavender Board |
(1989) Barrett Robinson |
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| 614-436-6284 |
WORTHINGTON, OH CCS Multi Board, Columbus Multi Board, Columbus Multi-Bd |
(1988-1989) Barry Robinson, Barrett Robinson |
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| 614-436-7740 |
WORTHINGTON, OH ELECTRONIC FINANCIAL SERVICES |
(1986)
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| 614-439-0310 |
COLUMBUS, OH SE Ohio Computer Society, SOCS |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-439-7451 |
COLUMBUS, OH The Other Board |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-442-1852 |
COLUMBUS, OH T.I. ABS, T.I.A.B.S. |
(1989) Bud Wright
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| 614-442-6695 |
COLUMBUS, OH The Utilities Exchange, The Utility Exchange, Utilities Exchange BBS, Utilities Xchg, UtilXchg |
(1989-1994) Mike Koehler | PCBoard |
| 614-443-3282 |
COLUMBUS, OH The Twilight Zone, Twilight Zone BBS, Twylight Zone bbs |
(1988-1994) Joe Munyan |
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| 614-443-4297 |
COLUMBUS, OH Lavander, The Lavender Board |
(1989-1992) Barrett Robinson |
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| 614-447-2352 |
Columbus, OH File Bone, The Archive, The Archive! |
(1986-1997) Howard Waggoner | Wildcat |
| 614-453-6494 |
COLUMBUS, OH Problem Solvers! BBS |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-454-6063 |
WORTHINGTON, OH Grab Bag!, Grab Bag! BBS |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-456-6448 |
COLUMBUS, OH Kitty City |
(1981-2003) Jennifer Murphy |
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| 614-457-4227 |
COLUMBUS, OH HAM BBS, Ham BBS (HBBS) |
(1988-1991) N8EMR |
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| 614-461-6943 |
COLUMBUS, OH NightLine |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-466-1136 |
COLUMBUS, OH O.D.O.T, ODOT, Ohio Department of Transportation, Ohio Trans Port, The Ozone, The Ozone/O.D.O.T. |
(1986-1996) Terry Dawson |
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| 614-466-1384 |
COLUMBUS, OH The Construction Zone |
(1987-1988) Scott Bumgardner |
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| 614-471-6209 |
GAHANNA, OH Aurora Borealis, Aurora Borealis II, Lininger Technology |
(1988-1994) Mike Lininger, Michael Lininge |
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| 614-471-8559 |
Gahanna, OH A.C.E.C. Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus, ACEC BBS (Atari) |
(1983-1993) Brent Borghese, Frank Seipel | AMIS, Carina |
"Originally run on A.M.I.S. (Atari Message and Information System), then Carina I. Originally with Percome disk drives in Brent Borghese's basement, then later, run by Frank Seipel under Carina. Upgraded to an Atari 800 with a whopping 10 MB (haha) hard drive, which was the size of an entire PC itself. Hard drive plugged into joystick ports. Probably had 30,000 or 40,000 callers over the approximately 10 year lifespan." - Frank Seipel
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| 614-471-9209 |
Gahanna, Ohio Pandora BBS, Pandora's Box |
(1989-1994) Frank Seipel | Carina I |
"Run on an Atari 800 with Corvus hard drive, attached to joystick ports 3 & 4. With a whopping 10 MB hard drive :) I learned to program on the Atari, and made many friends. I experimented with networked message bases with several cities and the "PC Pursuit" service." - Frank Seipel
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| 614-474-9130 |
GAHANNA, OH Starry Night |
(1988-1990) Hal Spencer | Wildcat |
| 614-475-0295 |
GAHANNA, OH cmhGate UF Gateway, Frog Talk, Frogtalk BBS |
(1988-1993) Lanny Partlow |
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| 614-475-1823 |
GAHANNA, OH Buckeye BBS |
(1987) GBBS Pro |
| 614-475-9791 |
Columbus, OH APPLE CRACKERS, Applecrackers, Pro-MM |
(1982-1994)
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| 614-476-4825 |
GAHANNA, OH Faneuil Hall |
(1989) Jim Vaughan |
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| 614-476-4967 |
GAHANNA, OH Any Port in a Storm, Castle Opustein, Gild Aef Venteners |
(1987-1989) Jim Vaughan |
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| 614-476-9404 |
GAHANNA, OH Space Angel BBS |
(1988) Larrie Green |
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| 614-478-3602 |
GAHANNA, OH AveMaria, AveMaria HST, IJOMA, liberia, Portus aveMaria |
(1989-1998) Ijoma Flemister |
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| 614-478-7385 |
GAHANNA, OH Timeclock |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-488-3991 |
COLUMBUS, OH Utilities Xchg 40m |
(1987-1991) MIke Koehler |
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| 614-488-4736 |
COLUMBUS, OH GENEALOG
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(1987)
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| 614-532-6920 |
COLUMBUS, OH BULLET-80 Ironton |
(1982-1983)
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| 614-587-3959 |
Information Illusions |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-593-1019 |
Ohio U |
(1986-1989) Brian Shapiro |
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| 614-593-4859 |
Hermes |
(1987-1988) OU Sch Telecom |
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| 614-594-6588 |
GROVE CITY, OH DDT Archives, DDT Archives BBS |
(1981-1999) David Wm Wrage |
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| 614-654-3910 |
Proteam |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-687-6413 |
RTPM RBBS, RTPM RBBS Columbus |
(1984-1985)
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| 614-761-1179 |
DUBLIN, OH Columbus Area, Guardian |
(1986) Scott Sharkey |
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| 614-761-1836 |
DUBLIN, OH Chef's Pantry |
(1989) John Hores |
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| 614-764-0661 |
DUBLIN, OH O.C.L.C., OCLC |
(1987) Brian Staples |
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| 614-764-6744 |
DUBLIN, OH NoChange #12 |
(1986-1989) Mike Shivley |
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| 614-772-5520 |
Chillicothe, OH Chilli Hub, Chilli-Net Echo Coord, Chilli-Net NEC, The Outer Limits I, The Outer Limits II |
(1988-1998) Chilli-Net NEC, Keith Wineka |
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| 614-773-2423 |
WORTHINGTON, OH South of Bauder, South of the bander, South of the Bauder I |
(1989-1996) Jerry Arnold | Wildcat
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| 614-773-6003 |
WORTHINGTON, OH The Bit Bucket |
(1989) Martin Essenburg |
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| 614-773-8284 |
WORTHINGTON, OH The Node Warrior |
(1989) Bill Hoey |
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| 614-775-3370 |
Chillicothe, Oh Chilli Echo Processor (CEP), Chilli Net, Chilli-Net Echo Central, Chilli-Net Echo Processor (CEP), ESFNET BBS, ESFNET BBS I, MCINET, The Bit Bucket, The Bit Bucket BBS |
(1989-1994) Martin Essenburg, Chilli-Net NEC |
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| 614-794-3143 |
WESTERVILLE, OH Ginger's Port Limited, Your Basic BBS |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-837-3269 |
CANAL WINCHESTE, OH RCP/M RBBS Pickerington |
(1983-1985)
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| 614-837-3896 |
Pickerington, OH Aspencade BBS, Lancaster Area HUB |
(1988-1996) Fred Forrest | Wildcat
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| 614-837-7428 |
CANAL WINCHESTE, OH NCC-1701 |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-846-7669 |
Worthington, OH Heartland BBS |
(1989-2001) Reid Buyaky | The Major BBS |
| 614-848-5947 |
WORTHINGTON, OH Midi & ST Exchange, Midi & ST Information Exch., Midi and ST Exchange, MIDI Inf.Xch |
(1988-1991) Rick Duff |
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| 614-848-5971 |
WORTHINGTON, OH THE MICRO GALLERY |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-855-1024 |
NEW ALBANY, OH BuckeyeNet, ElectChronicle, Electric Chronicle, Gild Aef Venteners III |
(1987-1989) Tom Martin |
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| 614-855-1743 |
NEW ALBANY, OH AE LINE: CHIEF |
(1984)
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| 614-855-2659 |
NEW ALBANY, OH Buckeye Echo Control, Gild Aef Venteners II, Information Exchange II |
(1988-1991) Max Mail, Tom Martin | PCBoard |
| 614-855-2776 |
NEW ALBANY, OH Turbo BBS |
(1988-1991) Arthur l Brandt | Wildcat |
| 614-861-1287 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH THE WANT ADS |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-861-8377 |
Pickerington, OH The Computer Room, The Corvette BBS, The Inner Circle BBS |
(1989-1996) Marshall Thompson | Wildcat |
| 614-863-0963 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH ComputerWrks |
(1988)
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| 614-863-6721 |
Columbus, OH Pentagon |
(1986)
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| 614-863-9065 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH The New Continental BBS |
(1988) Shawn Ingram |
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| 614-863-9611 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH Phoenix, Phoneix, THE PLTOENIX |
(1988-1994) Wildcat |
| 614-864-0775 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH The Citadel BBS |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-864-2673 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH C O R E (Central Ohio Remote) RCP/M, C.O.R.E. (Central Ohio Remote Exchange) Z-NODE, C.O.R.E. BBS, CORE Z-node, CORE Z-Node (Central Ohio Remote Exchange) |
(1984-1992) Rich Rodeheaver | Wildcat |
| 614-864-4518 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH The Book Club |
(1987-1988) Todd Emmer |
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| 614-864-9013 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH NetWork Remote BBS, NetWork System BBS |
(1989-1990) Bruce D. Rubin, Bruce Rubin |
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| 614-868-0906 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH Earthrise |
(1988)
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| 614-868-9982 |
REYNOLDSBURG, OH Blue Moon BBS |
(1989-1990) Grant DeLorean |
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| 614-870-6544 |
Columbus, OH COMM*PORT, Instant CoCo, InstantCoCo, The Comm 201 202 203 204 205 206, The CommPort BBS |
(1987-1995) Joe Rhinehart | Wildcat |
| 614-870-9608 |
ALTON, OH The Professional Connect. |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 614-875-2286 |
GROVE CITY, OH Billy's BBS, Billy's Bulletin Board Service, Programmer's Connection |
(1989-1993) Billy Cash |
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| 614-875-8325 |
GROVE CITY, OH MARDUK IV |
(1988) Bill Wilt |
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| 614-878-1898 |
ALTON, OH The Continental BBS |
(1987-1988) Philip Thompson |
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| 614-878-3630 |
Galloway, OH DPI, The Dragon's Paw Inn |
(1989-1991) Daniel Chester | WWIV |
| 614-880-9203 |
WORTHINGTON, OH The Tusk |
(1988-1994) Mike Dissinger |
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"The Tusk was probably one of the very first BBSs I got on when I lived in my hometown of Lancaster. There was a newspaper article in the Intelligencer Journal in 1988 about BBSs and that's where I got it's phone number, which allowed me to get more Lancaster-area BBS phone numbers since the first telecom software I had, called Talk-Is-Cheap, wasn't much use at all and what use it had was like being tortured. I'm digressing for a few, but Talk-Is-Cheap was "only" $20 as advertised by Epic Modems, located I believe somewhere in California, of course, which was the brand of my first two modems, first a 1200 internal and then an external 2400. I used them both on my Apple IIGS that I bought that year. I had actually owned a 300 baud modem that would have worked with my Apple IIc if I had enough patience before I possibly fried it about three years earlier. I went to a BBS Christmas or New Year's Eve Party in 1988 and met Randy Carney who got me a job at RAM Motors and Controls, and perhaps a year later took me with him to Mike Dissinger's house, who occasionally hosted little computer get-togethers. It was there that I was wowed by the power of the Commodore Amiga. I had already sold my Apple IIGS (for less than half what I paid for it) in late 1989 after being disillusioned/disgusted/bored (take your pick) by the Apple II scene and in the meantime had bought an extremely advanced $650 VCR with some of the money, plus I was of course a bachelor so by the time I was ready to purchase another computer, I couldn't afford much. I bought an Amiga 500 and I loved it (and the Amiga 2000 my brother later gave me after he got a 4000). I used them (with various upgraded hardware and hard drives) up through sometime in 2000. I will end this story here because anything further has nothing to do with Mike Dissinger, but I just wanted to get his name on record as the SysOp, and also note that I know The Tusk was up and running at least until around 1994, possibly longer like 1995 or 1996." - Kevin Eckenrode
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| 614-882-4478 |
Columbus, OH Central, MARDUK, MARDUK Region Operations |
(1989-1995) Mark Lynch |
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| 614-885-4004 |
WORTHINGTON, OH Nightmare BBS |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-885-9829 |
Worthington, OH Central Ohio Net, Colossus, Colossus (CCS), Columbus C.Soc
, Columbus Computer Society |
(1986-1997) Craig Wright | PCBoard
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| 614-889-0387 |
DUBLIN, OH Satelite Computer Network, The Satellite Computer Network |
(1988-1991) PCBoard, Wildcat |
| 614-889-9593 |
Amlin, OH 64-MESS |
(1985-1988) Eric Floehr | Custom |
I programmed a BBS in BASIC on my Commodore 64. It had a SYSOP chat and messages. I was in sophomore in high school and my Dad was an early employee of CompuServe, so we had a spare phone line that he would use to dial in when he was on-call and there was an issue. So when he wasn't using it, our dual-floppy C64 was a BBS (we had just gotten an Amiga 1000 so the C64 didn't get much use otherwise). It lasted until I went to college. I remember the sound of the modem picking up a call and would run to see who was on. I advertised it at a few local computer shops that had BBS lists. I made a few friends... wish I would have stayed in touch with them but ended up going away to college. 64-MESS officially stood for MESSage board, but really I named it that because the code was such a MESS of BASIC :-D. I no longer have the source code unfortunately.
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| 614-890-7043 |
WESTERVILLE, OH Mariner's Coven |
(1988) Wildcat |
| 614-891-2972 |
WESTERVILLE, OH Columbus Skyline, Skyline BBS, THE RAVENS NEST, The Skyline BBS |
(1988-1991) Rick Redick | PCBoard, Wildcat |
| 614-891-5001 |
WESTERVILLE, OH Buckeye Net, MARDUK III |
(1988-1989) David Pointer |
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| 614-891-9996 |
WESTERVILLE, OH Hidden Matzoh, Hidden Matzoh Messianic BBS |
(1989-1991) Michael Schiffman |
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| 614-895-7209 |
WESTERVILLE, OH Bandit's Badlands, The Badlands, The Badlands PCB2 REG |
(1988-1994) Jeff Tocket, The Bandit | PCBoard |
| 614-927-3644 |
The Alternative BBS |
(1988-1994) Ryan Kissell |
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| 614-927-4130 |
//icrotools BBS |
(1989) John Hayman |
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| 614-927-6998 |
Pataskala, OH The Terrian Academy |
(1986-1988) The Fungus |
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| 614-928-2259 |
The Mother Board, The Mother Board Club BBS |
(1989-1994) Wildcat |
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