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"The BBS of the Kaypro Users Group of the Boston Computer Society; The BBS of BOSKUG, the Boston KUGEL Kaypro Users Group. 1984: board runs R_CP/M in Brookline, MA. 1986: board moves to Sommerville, MA, at new number 617-776-1332 . 1987: board's new number 617-776-6029. 1988: a crisis emerges as BOSKUG breaks up, Don Hinds steps in to rescue the board. The board moves to Dorchester, MA at a new number, 617-288-6477 . The BBS switches to TP-Board host software and goes by the name -- Wyzard's Castle, CP/M Castle, or BOSKUG Castle. 1989: board moves to 617-825-3135. 1990: A new era begins as CP/M guru Jay Sage takes over the Kaypro Group. The board moves to 617-965-7046 in Newton, MA, and runs PC-Board as the B.C.S. Zi/tel Z-Node. 1992: second line at 617-965-7785 . 1994: third line at 617-965-7259 . 1996: third line dropped. 1997: line 617-965-7785 dropped." - Winston Smith
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617-232-0920
Brookline, MA |
Boston PUP Net
(1985) |
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617-235-5082
BOSTON, MA |
Visiboard
(1983-1984) |
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617-237-1511
Wellesley, MA |
Heath Users Group, Heathkit RCP/M, Heathkit Users Group of Wellesley, Wellesley BBS
(1983-1994) |
Dan Gentile, Heath Users Club | PCBoard, R CP/M, RBBS |
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"One of the Boston First Wave boards, the Wellesley HeathKit Users Group BBS became a "beautiful people's board" that was highly exclusive. It had the following history.... 1983: Board starts as 300 BPS, R_CP/M (Remote CP/M). 1986: the board replaces R_CP/M with RBBS. 1988: the board replaces RBBS with PC-Board and begins FidoNET networking as Fido node 1:101/196 . (NOTE: Early Boston boards have node numbers that start in the 100's.)" - Winston Smith
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617-237-3750
Wellesley, MA |
BCSnet Host, Boston Computer Soc.
(1984-1987) |
Doug Chamberlin, D. Chamberlain | RBBS, TBBS |
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"This was a 6-line installation running on an IBM PC XT machine using an Alloy Computer Products extension system unit that contained 6 different computers. Each computer was a single board containing CPU, memory, serial ports, etc. (What were later to be called "blades".) All the comuters shared the same hard drive and message base. "This was one of the earliest multi-line BBS systems in continuous operation. It supported a community of IBM PC users for the Boston COmputer Society which had approximately 42,000 members at its peak. "Most of the time the system was operational it ran out of a closet in a dormitory at Wellesley College. This was my residence at the time. "It took some convincing to talk the phone company into installing 6 residential phone lines into one location. They thought I was running a bookie operation. It then took some doing for the technician to find 6 spare wire pairs running through thr campus that he could use for these lines. We spent several hours tracing through the basements of buildings until we found the connections we used. "While running the BCSnet Host BBS using the Alloy Computer Products blades we were using RBBS, not TBBS. We switched to TBBS when we moved the system to Cambridge, MA into the Boston Computer Society offices near Davis Square. The system was later moved to Waltham, MA when the entire BCS offices moved there." - Doug Chamberlin
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617-239-3530
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
BCSnet ONE OPUS
(1988) |
Steve Groginsky | |
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617-244-1903
NEWTON, MA |
The Lost Fido
(1986) |
Dan Mahoney | FidoNet |
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617-244-3425
NEWTON, MA |
Twilight Zone
(1987) |
| Forum |
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617-246-5876
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
TOS Tech BBS
(1987) |
Dana Montgomery | |
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617-247-0417
BOSTON, MA |
Starbase: Boston
(1989-1990) |
Rick Giguere | |
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617-247-6888
BOSTON, MA |
East Coast Circuit Board, EastCoaCircBd
(1989-1994) |
Jeffrey Polo | PCBoard |
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617-252-4694
Taunton, MA |
Arlenet
(1985) |
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617-255-9465
BOSTON, MA |
Cape Cod Fido, CAPECOD Fido
(1986-1988) |
Rives Mc Ginley | FidoNet |
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617-258-7784
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Live Wire
(1986-1987) |
Steve Wolf | |
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617-259-0181
WORCESTER, MA |
OUTPOST
(1985) |
| TBBS |
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617-262-9167
Boston, MA, |
Mac Boston, MacBoston
(1984-1986) |
Steve Garfield | RBBS-PC, Wildcat, Lazarus |
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"I worked at Northeast Computer Stores in Boston and went to the Macintosh Rollout in Boston with Steve Jobs in 1984. After the meeting I signed up to be a founding member of the Macintosh Users Group of the Boston Comnputer Society. As a salesperson in a retail store I purchased a Macintosh under Apple's Own-A-Mac program." "The manager of the computer store allowed to to run MacBoston 24 hours a day out of the store. It started off running on a PC and then moved to a Macintosh with a General Computer Hyperdrive." "People from all over the United States dialed in to the message boards. We even had a MacInTouch message board moderated by Ric Ford." - Steve Garfield
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617-266-7507
BOSTON, MA |
Emerson Wall
(1989-1994) |
Rob Koeppel | Wildcat |
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617-266-7789
Boston, MA |
BULLET-80 BOSTON, BULLET-80 Boston, MA, Bullet TBBS I
(1982-1996) |
Marshall Goldberg | BULT, TBBS, BULLET-80 |
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"One of the Boston First Wave boards, the Boston Bullet-80, a.k.a. the Boston Bullet, a.k.a. Ye Olde Boston Bullet, this board lasted almost as long as Xevious BBS, the record holder for Massachusetts. 1984: Boston Bullet expands to two lines. Line #2 placed on 617-267-7751. 1988: Line #2 is removed and Boston Bullet reverts to one line running at 2400 BPS at 617-266-7789. 1993: Boston Bullet moves from Boston, MA, to the town of Waltham, MA, at the new number of 617-893-1753." - Winston Smith
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617-266-9436
BOSTON, MA |
TrailBlazer
(1989-1991) |
Dave Strickler | |
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617-267-7751
Boston, MA |
Bullet TBBS II
('-1985) |
| TBBS |
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617-272-1911
Burlington, MA |
Ampro Exchange
(1984-1985) |
| R CP/M |
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"AMPRO of Burlington, MA, was a company that sold computer kits and motherboards. They were famous for their AMPRO 'little board' Z80 CP/M systems." - Winston Smith
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617-272-7533
BOSTON, MA |
Crystal Towers |
(1987) |
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617-273-3262
BOSTON, MA |
99BBS
(1984-1987) |
| TI-BBS |
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"Location: Burlington, MA, U.S.A. The 99 BBS was an early BBS in Burlington, MA, around the time that Bill Cosby and the Texas Instruments TI 99/4A micro-computer was at its height of popularity. The 99/4A was an interesting microcomputer in that it's built-in B.A.S.I.C. had no PEEK or POKE command. TI-BBS, BBS hostsoftware written specifically for the TI 99/4A, was one of the first BBS programs to sport an online BBS list database." - Winston Smith
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617-274-0109
Bedford, MA |
B.C.S. Victor, Victor Bug
(1984-1986) |
| MBBS |
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"The Victor Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs TeleSys-V host software, a version of MBBS that runs on The Victor, a computer of Morrow Computing. (The Victor was a computer that competed with The Osborne. The Osborne won against The Victor, but lost against the IBM PC, i.e. The Victor was the loser!)" - Winston Smith
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617-274-8469
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
TC-Trader
(1987-1990) |
Cheryl Buzzell | |
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617-277-5428
BROOKLINE, MA |
Midnite DEC
(1989-1990) |
David Strickler | |
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617-277-6538
Brookline, MA |
Brookline RBBS
(1984-1986) |
David Watson | RBBS |
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617-288-4667
Dorchester, MA |
B.C.S. Osborne/Zitel, Boston F.O.G., FOG RBBS-RCP/M #29, Bar-Ken (FOG 29)
(1984-1998) |
John Kinsella | R CP/M |
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"The Osborne Users Group of The Boston Computer Society, The Boston (F)irst (O)sborne (G)roup, B.C.S. Zi/tel. Before the ThinkPad... before the PowerBook... (before the TRS Model 100, even...) the most successful little "portable" computer of its day was Adam Osborne's marvel of a machine, The Osborne. How "portable" it was was debatable, since you had to be a weightlifter to lug the "suitcase" around, but as it could run for an hour or so off of batteries, it made it the most successful "on the go" business machine of its era. 1984: board begins service in Dorchester, MA, running R_CP/M (Remote CP/M) Heavy Metal BBS host. 1986: First Osborne Group of Boston is merged into the B.C.S. Osborne board. 1994: the Boston FOG archives are merged into CP/M guru Jay Sage's B.C.S. Zi/tel Z-Node PC-Board to join the Kaypro archives at 617-965-7046." - Winston Smith Boston Osborne Group (FOG AMO #122) member supported Boston Osborne Group (FOG AMO #122) member supported
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617-288-8319
DORCHESTER, MA |
Boston EMS (101/455)
(1989) |
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617-288-9460
Dorchester, MA |
Message Unit, Tech Talk
(1983-1984) |
| MBBS |
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617-293-2522
Halifax, MA |
Cerebral Vertex
(1985) |
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617-293-3977
Pembroke, MA |
Embassy of Knowledge
(1983-1986) |
R.K. Adams | InfoQuick |
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617-321-3214
Malden, MA |
99er's Association
(1985) |
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617-321-6809
Malden, MA |
Atlantis Control
(1984-1985) |
| Color-80 |
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617-321-8214
Malden, MA |
National 99er's, Rockers 99'er
(1987-1989) |
Russ Medeiros
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617-324-8468
BOSTON, MA |
The New Beginning
(1988) |
Lazarus Long | GBBS Pro |
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617-325-9147
JAMAICA PLAIN, MA |
R.A.M.
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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617-326-0259
Dedham, MA |
Binex II, BINEX II Systems, Binex II Online
(1985-1991) |
Bob Damelio, KB1S | PCBoard |
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617-326-4812
Dedham, MA |
BINEX II Systems, Castle Island T-Net
(1983-1991) |
Bob D'Amelio | PCBoard, T-Net, R CP/M |
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"Castle Island T-Net was one of the more interesting of the Boston First Wave boards. Bob D'Amelio wrote the custom T-Net software for his Apple-][ system. Although it never caught on in the Apple-][ market, when his Co-Sysop appropriated it and converted it over for the Commodore 64, it became a success as C-Net. The board was renamed and became line #1 of the Binex-II system. In 1984: Binex-II T-Net was moved to 617-326-0259 as line #2, and R_CP/M was placed on 617-326-4812 as line #1. 1985: The end of the T-Net experiment, RBBS is placed on 617-326-0259. 1986: New experiment, Bob starts the earliest UNIX BBS in Boston -- Binex-II UNIX-Chat Line#1 at 617-354-8604 and Binex-II UNIX-Chat Line#2 at 617-354-8605 in Cambridge, MA, USA. 1987: PC-Board replaces R_CP/M on 617-326-4812. 1988: All lines are now PC-Board. Third line added: 617-326-4676." - Winston Smith
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617-327-1181
JAMAICA PLAIN, MA |
RAM BBS
(1989) |
Michael Kentley | ?some homebr |
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617-331-1070
BOSTON, MA |
The Navigator BBS
(1989-1997) |
John Connolly | |
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617-331-4181
Weymouth, MA |
B.C.S. #-1, B.C.S. TI99 BBS, BCS TI 99er's BBS Line 1
(1984-1996) |
Tom Ward, Tom Ward
| TI-BBS, Telegard |
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"The Texas Instruments Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. The 'TI Twins' as some called them, were twin TI99/4A's that ran TI-BBS on two separate lines in the town of Weymouth, MA, in the 1980's. 1984: twin TI-BBS systems begin operation in Weymouth, MA, Line #1 is at 617-331-4181 and Line #2 is at 617-335-8475. (Wonder Twin Powers... Activate!) . 1990: Line #2 is dropped. (Wonder Twin Powers... Deactivate!) . 1991: board at 617-331-4181 switches to Telegard host software, the only software at that time that could support the forty-column TI99/4A. 1992: board begins FidoNET networking as node 1:101/610, sharing the B.C.S. echomail message bases. (The TI99/4A had quite a nice little graphics chip co-processor. If you tried to print to the screen the CPU was slow as molasses; write to the buffer with a graphics call and zap!)" - Winston Smith
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617-331-8624
BOSTON, MA |
Fred's Fido
(1986) |
Fred Donahue | FidoNet |
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617-332-5584
NEWTON, MA |
BCS IBM UG TBBS, The Boston Computer Society
(1984-1996) |
Doug Chamberlin, D. Chamberlain | TBBS
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617-332-5896
NEWTON, MA |
CASINO
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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617-332-7096
NEWTON, MA |
Midnite DEC
(1987-1988) |
David Strickler | |
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617-334-2020
Lynnfield, MA |
Diversi-Dial 16, 2112 Chat Line
(1985) |
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$3 month for the password.
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617-334-6369
Lynnfield, MA |
DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #18, DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #18 Lynnfield
(1982-1985) |
Robert Oppenheim | DIAL-YOUR-MATCH |
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"Came across this site through BBS Documentary. I ran this BBS while I was in high school after my sister went to college and we had extra phone line. It was a blast chatting with people and meeting a few along the way. Afterwards, I majored in Computer Science (thanks largely to this experience). Later went to medical school and am currently an ophthalmologist in Chicago area." - Robert Oppenheim
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617-335-8475
Weymouth, MA |
B.C.S. #-2, BCS TI 99er's Line 2
(1985-1989) |
Wendell Davis
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617-336-4243
CHELSEA, MA |
Hotel California
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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617-344-0863
JAMAICA PLAIN, MA |
Dream Weavers - DITR, Dream Weavers DITR
(1982-1998) |
Tony Koker | |
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617-352-7505
Georgetown, MA |
Demon's Lair, The Deamon's Lair
(1983-1988) |
Reed Savory | TBBS |
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"I ran a BBS out of Georgetown, MA in the mid-80s called "The Deamon's Lair" (and later I learned how to spell, "The Demon's Lair"). Original system went online in approx. 1983 (on an Apple II+ clone [Franklin Ace 1000], using software I wrote myself in Apple BASIC of all things!), with an Anchor Automation 300bps modem. Entire system was replaced in 1985 by an IBM XT clone (Kaypro PC) running TBBS. The later system was distinguished by having two lines, and I also hosted five or six of the old Infocom text adventure games (like Zork, "Leather Goddess of Phobos", etc.) which users could play online." - Reed Savory
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617-353-2244
BOSTON, MA |
Sam's Place
(1987-1990) |
Sam McCracken | |
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617-353-3137
Cambridge, MA |
Channel 1
(1987-1992) |
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HST HST HST
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617-353-5377
BOSTON, MA |
Boston University CRS, CSR Net
(1989-1992) |
Sam-po Law, Cathy Norman | |
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617-353-7528
BOSTON, MA |
FIDO #45 Midnight DEC, Midnight DEC
(1984-1985) |
David Strickler | FidoNet |
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617-353-9312
Boston, MA |
B.C.S. IBM PC User's Group, Boston Computer Soc., Computer Society, RBBS IBM PC Computer Society, BCS IBM
(1983-1997) |
, Dick Rohrdanz | RBBS, Fidonet, Opus |
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"The BBS of the IBM Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs RBBS in Boston, MA. 1986: board switches to Fido software, begins networking as FidoNET node 1:101/122 . 1987: board moves from Boston to Newton, MA, at 617 -332-5584. 1988: board switches to Opus software to share B.C.S. echomail bases. 1989: board switches to TBBS and adds another line at 617-964-2544. 1992: A third line is added at 617-964-2546. 1994: board moves to the town of Waltham, MA. Line #1 is now at 617-466-8730 and Line #2 is at 617-466-8740. 1995: B.C.S. tries for the "super-board". The IBM Users Group forms an alliance with the main board and is renamed as a sub-node of FidoNET node 1:101/121. 1996: the board drops FidoNET cold switching over to the internet and talking UUCP protocols. 1997: last gasp, board runs a few months at 781-466-8724." - Winston Smith
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617-354-2171
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Viking Magic
(1987-1994) |
David Patterson | PCBoard |
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617-354-3137
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Chan.One 3, Channel 1 (R), Channel 1 Node #3, Channel One BBS
(1988-1994) |
Brian Miller | PCBoard |
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617-354-3230
Cambridge, MA |
Channel 1, Channel 1 (R), Channel One BBS, CHANNEL 1 ONLINE
(1987-1995) |
| PCBoard |
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v.32bis v.32bis CHANNEL 1 ONLINE, 617-354-3230 — Using PCBoard. ""The Best Files in the USA"", 90 lines, v.32bis support. 96 IBM file libraries; Amiga; Macintosh; Unix; Adult. Massive Windows, .GIFs, sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo Nets. InterNet. Over 2,500,000 calls and growing. Come Join us! - BBS Magazine November, 1994 CHANNEL 1 ONLINE, 617-354-3230 — Using PCBoard, ""The Best Files in the USA"". 90 lines, v,32bis support. 96 IBM file libraries; Amiga; Macintosh; Unix; Adult. Massive Windows, .GIFs, sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo Mets. InterNet. Over 2,500.000 calls and growing. Come Join us! - BBS Magazine March, 1995 CHANNEL 1 ONLINE. 617-354-3230 — Using PCBoard. The Best Files m the USA"", 90 lines, i',32bis support, 96 IBM file libraries; Amiga; Macintosh; Unix: Adult. Massive Windows, GIF's, sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo Nets, InterNet, Over 4,000,000 calls and growing. Come Join us! - BBS Magazine October 1995
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617-354-6073
Cambridge MA |
Grand Central BBS, The Commodore 64 Hotel
(1987-1995) |
Paul Ferdinand, The Manager | C-Net, C-Net 12, New Image BBS 1.0 |
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"This BBS started as a C-Net BBS. In say about 1889 I converted to BBS software called New Image BBS. This software was written by Ken Pletzer, (not sure of the spelling) who was one of the original writers of the C-Net BBS system. The writers had written a networking routine into the New Image BBS so all of the boards could network with each other and exchange message boards and software. I was connected to 3 other New Image Boards which in turn connected to other boards all around the country. It turned out to much fun and we all enjoyed the info we received." - Paul Ferdinand
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617-354-6155
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Chan.One 2, Channel 1, Channel One BBS (Subscriber Line), node 2 - comms
(1988-1993) |
Brian Miller | PCBoard |
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617-354-8873
Norwood, MA |
Channel 1 (tm), Channel 1 (tm) Online, CHANNEL 1 Communications, Channel 1 Node #1, Channel One BBS, Jung, Robert K., Channel 1 BBS
(1986-1996) |
Brian Miller, Miller & Heder, Brian Miller & Tess Heder, J. Brian Miller | PCBoard
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2400 baud 70-line PCBoard - 8 GB Files - Internet - 1000’s msg. confs. 70-line PCBoard - 8 GB Files - Internet - 1000’s msg. confs.
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617-361-5459
Boston, MA |
Dial Your Match #284
(1985) |
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617-364-2474
HYDE PARK, MA |
The Toolbox
(1988-1990) |
Charlie Kron | |
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617-364-6217
HYDE PARK, MA |
The Toolbox
(1988) |
Charlie Kron | |
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617-364-7932
HYDE PARK, MA |
Board Room
(1989-1991) |
Curtis Holzendo | |
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617-366-5685
BOSTON, MA |
Boston Area Real Estate BBS
(1988) |
Dick Copits | |
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617-366-5784
BOSTON, MA |
M.L.S. Westboro, Westboro Fido
(1986-1988) |
Chester Humphrey | FidoNet |
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617-366-9141
BOSTON, MA |
KING INSTRUMENT BBS
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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617-369-0501
Concord, MA |
Computer Room
(1985) |
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617-371-1075
BOSTON, MA |
The Cat's Den IV
(1984) |
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617-371-1855
BOSTON, MA |
RAM COMP CTR
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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617-373-2204
BOSTON, MA |
Rogers & Blake BBS
(1988) |
Sid Rogers | |
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617-373-3193
BOSTON, MA |
TwiliteZone
(1988) |
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617-388-5125
WOBURN, MA |
Amesbury BBS
(1980) |
Howard Moulton | |
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617-393-3875
WATERTOWN, MA |
Middle Earth
(1989-1991) |
John Radoff | |
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617-393-5346
WATERTOWN, MA |
Northway
(1988) |
Alex Lotoski | |
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617-396-4607
Medford, MA |
B.C.S. Atari, BACS, S.S.A.G.#2, Toad Hall
(1984-1998) |
Dana Jacobson | Nite-Lite, RatSoft, MichTron(M-Net) |
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"The BBS of the Atari Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs Paul Swanson's Nite-Lite host software. 1988: a second line is added at 617-391-6745 and the BBS switches to an Atari ST running the MichTron host software. Dana Jacobson takes this opportunity to rename the BBS, 'Toad Hall', in honor of his favorite music album. 1994: board moves from Medford, MA, to East Boston. The new numbers are: Line#1 at 617-567-8642 and Line#2 at 617-569-2489 . The board adds M-Net networking to make up for the B.C.S. dropping all support in its vain try for a 'super-board'. 1997: After the collapse of the BCS the board moves to Billerica, MA, at 978-670-5896 . Board switches to an Atari Falcon running RatSoft and becomes the new home of the S.S.A.G. (South Shore Atari Group of Boston) Dana Jacobson carries the Atari e-'zine, 'ST Report'." - Winston Smith
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617-398-1695
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
MALE BOX
(1987-1988) |
Mario Mere' | |
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617-399-7876
BOSTON, MA |
Amiga Land
(1988) |
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617-423-6985
BOSTON, MA |
Boston Information Exchange
(1982-1983) |
Glenn Meander | M-TREE (Communitree Clone) |
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617-424-6822
Boston, MA |
WBCN-terface, WBCN Listings
(1983-1985) |
| Ethylnet Videotext |
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"WBCN was always the most progressive radio station in the city of Boston. They were the first radio station to allow callers to dial into their mainframe and leave feedback about their various radio shows and various on the air personalities. A full decade before the advent of the World Wide Web, the WBCN-terface allowed consumers to provide direct public electronic feedback to a commercial enterprise." - Winston Smith
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617-429-8857
BOSTON, MA |
Cul De Sac
(1987-1988) |
Pete White | |
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617-433-2702
BOSTON, MA |
The Demon's Den
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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617-433-8452
BOSTON, MA |
IBM Tech Fido, IBM Tech Fido 101/433, Net 322 Echo Coord, SoftWare Dist, IBM TECH FIDO
(1986-1989) |
Steve Ahola | FidoNet |
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617-438-6887
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Revolution #9
(1988) |
The Vidiot | |
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617-439-5699
BOSTON, MA |
Citi Net
(1989-1990) |
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617-441-2202
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Allegro
(1987-1989) |
Fred Holmes | |
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617-444-5401
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
KINGS CASTLE
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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617-444-6821
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
TREASURE ISLAND
(1982) |
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617-448-2739
BOSTON, MA |
Tony's Opus
(1988) |
Tony Roscillo | |
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617-449-2589
Needham, MA |
Xevious
(1982-2000) |
George Kassabgi, Jeff Keegan, Nels Anderson | Net-Works-][, GBBS-Pro, PC-Board, custom (on Apple II) originally |
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"One of the original Boston First Wave boards, the origin of Xevious is lost in the mist of time. Xevious was the greatest BBS in the state of Massachusetts. When the Sysop moved out of the Boston Metr Area, he left a call-forwarded line so that regulars could still reach him. *ALL* hardware types were welcome: Apple, TRS-80, Atari, TI, Commodore, Z-80... even when the BBS ran on INTeL hardware! 1983: 617-449-2589 and 617-449-4146. 1986: Board moves to Framingham, MA, at 508-875-3618. Call forwarded line begins service at 617-449-7322. 1987: Board switches to GBBS-PRO software. 1990: Board switches over to PC-Board software and starts networking as R.I.M.E. Relaynet Node #159. Two lines are added: Line #2, 508-875-4786 and Line #3, 508-820-7360. 1998: Board drops from four lines to two -- Line #1, 508-788-6951 and Line #2, 508-788-6952." - The Boston Historian "Xevious was originally written by George Kasabgi of Needham Massachusetts. It ran on two Apple II computers, connected with two serial cards and a serial cable wrapped in tin-foil. It had a 6-meg hard drive. Two distinct features were a two-person chat system (where you could chat with whomever was on the other computer, not just the sysop), and Xevious Trek (a highly addictive grid-based trek game, with multiple planets, hidden galaxies, and the ability to attack other players while they were offline). When George Kasabgi had to go to Canada for several months, he considered closing the BBS. I (Jeff Keegan) offered to run it in his absence, and the BBS was moved to Stoneham, MA. If I remember correctly, the two lines there were 617-279-0354 and 617-438-???? Anyway, I ran it there for several months, eventually it went back to George, and then later he decided to call it quits. Nels Anderson stepped in, offering to move the BBS to Framingham, Massachusetts. At some point someone made the joke that since it was born in Needham, moved to Stoneham, and then moved to Framingham, it should probably go to die in Dedham." - Jeff Keeghan
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617-449-3112
BOSTON, MA |
AE LINE: BUBBA
(1984) |
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617-449-4727
Needham, MA |
FIDO #318 PC-Week, FIDO #318: PC-Week, FIDO #319 Tribury-Fido, FIDO #319: Tribury-Fido, PC Week hints
(1985-1986) |
Garry Ray, PC Week | FIDO |
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617-449-7322
Framingham, MA |
)(evious, Xevious, Xevious Direct Chat
(1986-1995) |
Nels Anderson | PCBoard |
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617-454-3391
BOSTON, MA |
Psycho Ward
(1988) |
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617-454-3864
Lowell, MA |
Dave's Opus, Dave's PCBoard
(1988-1991) |
Dave Layte | PCBoard |
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617-454-9515
Lowell, MA |
99 Zone
(1985) |
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617-455-8154
EAST BOSTON, MA |
Gamma Hydra IV, Player's Guild, The Alternate Link
(1988-1994) |
Marcel Damien | DLX, Spectrum |
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617-466-2071
BOSTON, MA |
Apple/Boston Elite
(1989) |
Chris Spencer | |
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617-467-4824
Marlboro, MA |
PDL
(1986) |
DEC | |
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617-467-7437
Marlboro, MA |
DEC Market
(1986) |
Bernard Eiben | |
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617-469-0192
JAMAICA PLAIN, MA |
DigiCom Hub, Digicomm Bulletin Board, The DigiCom BBS
(1988-1994) |
Marco Bitran | PCBoard |
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617-470-0849
Andover, MA |
Colonial NiteLite
(1985) |
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617-470-2548
Andover, MA |
Andover cnode, RCP/M CUG-NODE, Andover CNODE
(1983-1988) |
Layne DuBose | |
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617-471-0542
Wollaston, MA |
Tom's BBS
(1989-1995) |
Tom McGee, KA1TOX | |
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617-472-1676
Quincy, MA |
B.C.S. Telecomm, Photo Talk, BCS Telecomm
(1984-1996) |
Robert Gorrill | RBBS, Fido, Opus, Maximus |
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"The Telecommunications Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs RBBS in Quincy, MA. 1986: board moves to new line at 617-786-9788 and switches to Fido host software. 1987: board networks with the B.C.S. IBM Users Group and "mirrors" their message bases, both BBSes are FidoNET 1:101/122 . 1988: BBS switches software to Opus and begins sharing B.C.S. echomail message bases. 1995: In a try for a "super-board" the B.C.S. suspends its normal FidoNET networking. Many INTeL boards continue on independently. The B.C.S. Telecommunications Group merges with the Photo Talk BBS and continues FidoNET networking as FidoNET node 1:101/206 running under Maximus host software. 1996: the Boston Computer Society disbands." - Winston Smith
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617-472-8612
Quincy, MA |
Boston Central, Photo Talk BBS
(1987-1994) |
Robert Gorrill | |
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617-475-7464
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Andover Hub, Chalk Board
(1988) |
Ed Germain | |
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617-478-4164
BOSTON, MA |
Milford RCPM/CBBS
(1983) |
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617-478-6062
BOSTON, MA |
Milford S-100 User's Sys., Milford S-100 User's System
(1983-1984) |
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617-479-2462
QUINCY, MA |
Fido Country Club
(1986) |
Nevin Markwart | FidoNet |
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617-479-3432
QUINCY, MA |
Unicorn's Inn
(1987) |
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617-479-3668
QUINCY, MA |
MuScan Tcomm Music library
(1989-1991) |
Isaiah Lederman | |
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617-481-4633
NEEDHAM, MA |
Arcanum
(1988) |
Chris Davidson | |
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617-481-4659
NEEDHAM, MA |
The Little Builder
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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617-481-7147
Marlboro, MA |
FIDO #14 Waystar, Kevin Porter, Marlborough Hub, New England, WayStar, WayStar Fido BBS
(1984-1988) |
Kevin Porter | FidoNet |
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617-481-8445
NEEDHAM, MA |
The Shadow's Lair
(1988) |
Henry Garcia | |
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617-481-9570
NEEDHAM, MA |
Flight Connection
(1988) |
Jack Forman | |
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617-486-2285
Littleton, MA |
Rainbow Engineer, RBG-ENG HOOTNE
(1986-1988) |
Bruce Gibson | |
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617-489-4930
Belmont, MA |
YELLOWDATA
, Yellow Data
(1985-1987) |
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617-489-4976
Belmont, MA |
Amber-II, Amber-III, Amber BBS
(1984-1985) |
| MBBS, Lazarus |
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617-491-1644
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Oakland Group
(1987) |
Rohan Khaleel | |
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617-491-4568
Cambridge, MA |
B.B.N. BBS
(1984) |
| RBBS |
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"B.B.N. BBS stands for the name of the private school, 'Buckingham Browne and Nichols'; it was *NOT* affiliated with the famous computer company of B.B.N., 'Bolt Baranek and Newman'. One of the first school affiliated BBSes, B.B.N. BBS was heavily into the Fantasy Role Playing Game, "Dungeons And Dragons". There were text files on dungeon mastering, creating characters, creating interesting traps for dungeons, and much more. B.B.N BBS was also the first BBS in the area to carry the text file, "Requiem For A Sysop". The appearance of this text file is considered by some to officially mark the end of the "First Wave" of BBSing. (The "Second Wave" is said to have begun with the advent of Tom Mack's text file, "The Second Ring", the advent of the IBM PC, and the popularization of Ward Christensen's RBBS.)" - Winston Smith
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617-491-6010
Cambridge, MA |
D.R.A.G Net, Drag Net
(1985-1986) |
David Mann | |
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617-494-1985
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
NET-WORKS Pirate's Harbor
(1983) |
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617-494-2985
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Bald Eagle
(1987) |
Brooke Albert | |
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617-497-6166
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
4th Dimension BBS
(1989-1990) |
Zeff Wheelock | |
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617-497-6463
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Number Nine Computer Corp., Number Nine Graphics BBS
(1989-1994) |
Tim Blagden | |
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617-497-6641
Cambridge, MA |
TRaSh Bin
(1982-1984) |
Jonathan Toner | Greene Machine |
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One of the Original First Wave boards, the TRaSh Bin was a TRS-80 board. It did not run Major Galacticomm Worldnet, which some boardhoppers abbreviate as MBBS, but ran the TRS-80 Multi-Board or Message Board, the first use of MBBS as a designation of hosting software.
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617-498-4551
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Harvard BBS, Harvard U
(1987-1991) |
John Moon | PCBoard |
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617-498-4553
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Harvard BBS, Harvard U
(1989-1991) |
John Moon | PCBoard |
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617-527-5677
Boston, MA |
The Tao of Telecommunications
(1987-1991) |
Mark Kupferman | Red Ryder Host |
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"The Tao of Telecommunications was dedicated to discussions of various topics that were mostly non-computer related: local theater, music, and other events around Boston. Between 1997 and 1991 the web site operated at various phone numbers depending on where I was living at the time (I finally had to close it down when I left Massachusetts). During its last couple of years of operation it was a member of Fidonet." - "Mark Kupferman
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617-527-8348
Newton Centre, MA |
The Assembly Line
(1986-1988) |
Scott Perry | GBBS |
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"A fairly basic BBS that ran on an Apple ][+ with 64K of RAM and 280K of storage (2 140K disc drives) to hold the BBS software, forums, files, etc. It went online in November, 1986 and lasted through August, 1988. The most unique feature of the BBS was the Simulated SysOp, a program designed to mimic a chat session with a SysOp. The user would normally ask a question, and the program would 'type' a response at about the same speed as the real SysOp normally would, complete with occasional typos and backspacing to fix them." - Scott Perry
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617-527-8373
NEWTON, MA |
Shabtai's Opus
(1988) |
Shabtai Lerner | |
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617-528-9009
BOSTON, MA |
CBBS Dr. Data
(1984-1985) |
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617-534-1842
BOSTON, MA |
Green Dog, LeominStar
(1988) |
Lar Kaufman | |
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617-534-9028
BOSTON, MA |
TC Trader BBS
(1989-1991) |
Cheryl Buzzell | |
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617-535-9674
BOSTON, MA |
The Think Tank BBS
(1988) |
Bill Heiser | |
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617-536-1917
BOSTON, MA |
PC Week, PC Week hints
(1986-1989) |
Garry Ray, PC Week | |
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617-536-4670
Boston, MA |
DD Network, FIDO #315 DD-Network, FIDO #315: DD-Network
(1985) |
Dana Long | FIDO |
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617-544-6933
ROXBURY, MA |
Locks Hill BBS
(1987-1988) |
Robert Heller | |
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617-544-8337
ROXBURY, MA |
Locks Hill BBS
(1988) |
Robert Heller | |
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617-544-8401
ROXBURY, MA |
MassNet East, Orange Dog
(1987-1988) |
David Kaufman | |
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617-545-6239
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Garden Spot BBS, GardenSpot, The Garden Spot
(1989-1996) |
Karl Johnson, Steve Johnson | PCBoard
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617-545-9131
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Turbo Source Search
(1987-1991) |
Gerry Power | PCBoard |
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617-545-9292
Scituate, MA |
Project BBS
(1983-1987) |
Jarrod Kailef | PRIME, GBBS |
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617-547-1250
Cambridge, MA |
City Solutions Institute's BBS
(1989-1994) |
Michael Rollins | |
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From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cambridge, Massachusetts since 01/89. Sysop: Michael Rollins. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 8000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $25 Annual fee. Access free Cities newsgroup cities@csi.cambridge.ma.us. Email to listsery or join@csi.cambridge.ma.us and place sub cities your-internet-address in message. Affect political policies. Access political & economic forecasts. Be part of solution - join.
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617-551-0495
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Net 101 EchoMail Coord, Rainbow's Edge, Rainbows Edge, Reg 16 EchoCoord
(1987-1994) |
Jim Greely, Jim Greeley | |
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617-559-1638
NEWTON, MA |
WARLOCK TREBOR CASTLE, Warlock Trebor's Castle
(1988-1991) |
Warren Shadrick | |
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617-562-4164
BRIGHTON, MA |
Cheers BBS
(1988) |
Andrew Miller | |
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617-565-7259
Newton, MA |
Z-Node
(1985) |
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Password: BIGBOARD
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617-565-9136
BOSTON, MA |
WB3ABN, WB3ABN BBS
(1988-1994) |
WB3ABN | |
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617-566-0847
BROOKLINE, MA |
IPPNW Connection
(1986) |
Andrew Kanter | |
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617-566-7860
Brookline, MA |
Gridpoint
(1989-1990) |
David Shih | TAG 2.5g |
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"Gridpoint was a kind of Sister BBS to House of Grace. When HoG switched over to file transfers, Gridpoint stayed mostly a message and Games board, and also had a rivalry with HoG for elaborate ANSI opening screens. Gridpoint was online most nights from 11pm to 7am." - Wiley Cox
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617-568-8110
EAST BOSTON, MA |
CHAOS
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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617-577-8092
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Buzzboard, FIDO #330 Buzzboard
(1985) |
Buzz Moschetti | |
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617-580-0049
Brockton, MA |
Commodore Boardello
(1985) |
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617-581-3225
CAMBRIDGE 1, MA |
NPI III
(1989-1990) |
Charles Carley | |
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617-581-5087
CAMBRIDGE 1, MA |
SCMAX!, Sin City TBBS
(1988-1994) |
Herb Oxley | |
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617-584-0155
Brockton, MA |
Bushido
(1985) |
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Part time BBS (6pm-12am)
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617-587-1886
BOSTON, MA |
Shoe City BBS
(1985-1987) |
Bill Ruby | |
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617-592-5772
BOSTON, MA |
NPI II
(1989-1993) |
Charles Carley | |
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617-592-8247
BOSTON, MA |
The Far Side
(1988-1989) |
Bill Therrien | |
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617-593-0081
Boston, MA |
NPI
(1985-1992) |
Charles Carley | Opus |
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"I was the Sysop for the NPI BBS systems it was actually started in 1985 and did not become a fidonet node until later. It was started with Opus ver 0.00 which I still have an zipped copy of. It was a lot of fun and work in the heyday of Fidonet (Fight-o-net). at one time I had over 2500 registered users and 350 extremely active ones NPI 2&3 were put together just to handle the flow of mail. Ah yes the wonderful world of 300 baud." - Charles Carley
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617-593-4535
Lynn, MA |
Satellite C64
(1985) |
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617-595-0211
Lynn, MA |
NORTH SHORE, North Shore A.M.I.S., North Shore AMIS
(1983-1988) |
Brian Oliva | A.M.I.S., Nite-Lite |
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"The most fun that you could have on an Atari 6502 8-bit at the time, North Shore A.M.I.S. is the only BBS I know of that has a pinball game named after it -- Brian Oliva's "A.M.I.S. Ball" (courtesy of The Pinball Construction Set). North Shore A.M.I.S. was rather large for an Atari board of that time, and easily rivaled the medium sized TBBS boards of its era. 1983: Board runs A.M.I.S. (Atari Message Information System) 1987: Board switches to Paul Swanson's "Nite-Lite" BBS software but retains A.M.I.S. in its name." - Winston Smith
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617-595-5036
Swampscott, MA |
Swampland NiteLite
(1985) |
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617-595-5626
BOSTON, MA |
Boston Metro, Magic Boards, MassNet East, New World Magic, NewWorld Magic1, NewWorld Magic2
(1986-1995) |
Hal DuPrie | Maximus |
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617-595-5627
BOSTON, MA |
Freehold III, NewWorld Magic2
(1986-1995) |
Hal Duprie | |
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617-598-5616
BOSTON, MA |
ICOMM
(1988) |
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617-623-3244
Somerville, MA |
Algol-1, Project Crossbow
(1984-1986) |
David Kaufman | ABBCS |
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"The Algol-1 BBS used the Atari Bulletin Board Construction Set. ABBCS was an ambitious software package that contained many novel features for a BBS run on the ATARI 8-bit micro-computer (a computer whose virtues were pitched by Alan Alda), including an intra-line editor. Unfortunately, the software package was highly unstable, and after a large number of crashes, most ABBCS SysOps ave up on the software entirely." - Winston Smith
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617-625-0381
Somerville, MA |
BCS Macintosh TBBS, Macintosh Help
(1989-1995) |
Zeff Wheelock, Daniel Crawford, Becki Sherman | |
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617-625-5348
SOMERVILLE, MA |
MALL Five Opus
(1988-1990) |
Mark Dulcey | |
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617-628-4575
SOMERVILLE, MA |
ICOMM of Somerville
(1989) |
David Bristow | |
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617-631-3304
Marblehead, MA |
DEC Rainbow, DEC Rainbow MS-DOS CP/M, Island Logistics, TRUK BBS, TRUK BOARD
(1986-1994) |
Mark Borenstein, Mark Bornstein | |
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617-632-1861
Gardner, MA |
Dave's Fido, Daves Fido, Daves-FIDO, David Rene's RCP/M (??), FIDO #27 Gardner, MassNet, DAVE'S FIDO
(1984-1988) |
David Rene | FidoNet |
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617-641-1080
NEWTON, MA |
Quincept Inc, QUINSEPT
, Quinsept Inc
(1987-1988) |
Martin Schedlbauer | |
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617-643-4726
BOSTON, MA |
The Whole Wheat BBS
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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617-646-3610
Boston, MA |
CBBS - BOSTON, CBBS Boston, FIDO #44 NECS Arlington, N.E.C.S. CBBS, NECS
(1982-1986) |
Dave Mitton | FidoNet, CBBS |
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"What can be said about N.E.C.S. CBBS ? It was an early Fido board. The node number was below the 100's. The board used to go down quite often. The Sysop would often run it for long periods of time without any supervision or intervention. As a result, the callers that got out of hand got *WAY* out of hand! It resembled a "war board", not by design, but rather, by circumstance. It was a free-for-all where techies and pirates would trade insults mano-a-mano in a cacophonous scream of teen angst, bluster, and machismo amidst a background noise of raging hormones. For a faint echo of what it was like back then, today, try reading the international english "FIDONET SYSOP" echomail message base." - Winston Smith
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617-649-7097
Dunstable, MA |
Forum-80
(1980) |
| Forum-80 |
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Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
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617-655-0108
NEWTON, MA |
Zorro the Malamute
(1988) |
Ken Levitt | |
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617-655-8935
NEWTON, MA |
The Cat's Den BBS
(1984) |
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617-657-8512
Wilmington, MA |
Atlantic Seaboard
(1985) |
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617-659-1479
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Solution Systems BBS
(1986) |
David Nanian | |
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617-661-6609
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
ATF Support BBS, Softbridge Cambridge
(1989-1991) |
HAL DuPrie | |
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617-662-4840
Melrose, MA |
Atari Hex Exchange, ATHEX
(1984-1986) |
| Nite-Lite |
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617-663-4758
Billerica, MA |
Worep's Corner
(1985) |
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617-665-3796
Melrose, MA |
Information Exchange, Wonderland
(1985-1991) |
Ron Perry | PCBoard |
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617-665-4170
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
MOM'S BBS
(1987-1988) |
Michael Clark | |
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617-666-5982
SOMERVILLE, MA |
Synaptic Potential
(1988) |
Juan Pineda | |
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617-667-7388
Billerica, MA |
MACRO EXCH, Macro Exchange TBBS
(1985) |
| AMIS, TBBS |
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617-668-1560
Walpole, MA |
Data Channel
(1985) |
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617-682-0133
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
BlackMarket
(1988) |
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617-682-3751
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
DigitlImags
(1988) |
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617-682-5279
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
ElctricDrms, ElectricDreams
(1987-1988) |
Paul Gosselin | |
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617-683-2119
Boston, MA |
CBBS Lawrence General Hospital
(1981-1985) |
Dr. Matt Cushing | CBBS |
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617-683-2431
BOSTON, MA |
Restaurant
(1988) |
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617-686-5735
BOSTON, MA |
80 Boston BBS
(1988) |
Kenyon Karl | |
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617-689-0699
QUINCY, MA |
Abacus Data Xchange 80386
(1989-1991) |
Steve Hobbs | |
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617-692-3973
Westford, MA |
FORUM-80 Westford, MA
(1982-1985) |
| FORUM-80 |
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617-692-5476
Westford, MA |
Tool Box, Tool Box AMIS
(1988) |
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617-697-1206
BOSTON, MA |
Sci Net
(1989) |
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617-699-0206
BOSTON, MA |
FirePlug II
(1988) |
Don Martino | |
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617-699-9357
BOSTON, MA |
Attleboro Hub, FirePlug
(1987-1988) |
Kevin Sinksen | |
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617-720-3600
Boston, MA |
ABBS - BOSTON, Future Tech Xchg, Future Technology, Future Technology - 4DOS, Future TechXchg, Future TechXchg,512M, NET-WORKS Pirate's Harbor, Pirate's Harbor, PIRATES HARBOR, T-I-M-E-C-O-R, PIRATE'S HARBOR
(1982-1994) |
Napier & Moran, Bud Napier, Napier&Moran | PCBoard, Net-Works-][ |
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"One of the first large commercial pay boards in Boston, a subscription to Pirate's Harbor would allow the caller access to a collection of text files that would extensively explain the various software protection cracking techniques useful for all brands of 8-bit computer. There were separate sections for all brands of popular computer. 1983: Board is originally known as Pirate's Harbor. 1986: A second line is installed at 617-720-4097. The board now goes by the name of T-I-M-E-C-O-R, rather than Pirate's Harbor, as the term "Pirate" is now looked upon with much disfavor. Tightening of copyright laws and the spread of the Internet will lead to the eventual demise of the board. (The term "pirates" is replaced by "elites" and "RaTz", among other euphemisms....)" - Winston Smith
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617-721-1688
Winchester, MA |
BLUE Line, DEC Line, DEC-Line, FIDO #202 DEC-line, The BLUE-Line BBS, Fidonet
(1984-1991) |
Bill MacNeill | FidoNet, PCBoard |
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617-721-7360
BOSTON, MA |
Base 10, Metropolis
(1987-1991) |
Peter Vernaglia | PCBoard |
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617-723-7465
Boston, MA |
Brewer PC BBS
(1985) |
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617-731-1575
BROOKLINE, MA |
BeyondWar/IPPNW, BeyondWar/IPPNW BBS
(1986-1989) |
Andrew Kanter | |
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617-731-9171
Brookline, MA |
Comm. Exchange
(1985) |
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617-734-2975
Brookline, MA |
House of Grace
(1989-1991) |
Grace - Wiley Cox | Tag BBS 2.0 - 2.5 |
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"House of Grace originally was started as a Message-only BBS running on a Tandy 8088 4.77 mhz machine, with a 1200 Baud modem on a single phone line. "The system really took off when I upgraded to a 286-25mhz motherboard with a 120meg Seagate 4144 drive, allowing for animated ANSI logon screens, Games (Galactic Warzone, mostly), file transfers. At one point, HoG had regular callers from over 30 states and 5 or 6 other countries, including Italy and England. At the end of HoG's life, the TAG BBS system allowed for two phone lines, which I had, allowing two separate users to chat with each other on the BBS. "House of Grace closed down when I went to College in 1991, after being moved and SysOp'd briefly by Ninjo, John Kumpf, also in Brookline." - Wiley Cox
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617-738-0503
Brookline, MA |
Beacon BBS
(1987-1995) |
Spaceman | |
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"Beacon BBS, run out of a location just outide Cleveland Circle, was a well-run file-trading Bulletin board. Spaceman enforced strict file upload/download ratios, but if you needed a file, Beacon was the place to go. The hardware and modems were always up to date and cutting edge, thanks to Spaceman's job working for NEC." - Wiley Cox
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617-738-1968
BROOKLINE, MA |
Wizards Tower
(1986) |
Tony Rousmaniere | |
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617-741-3423
BOSTON, MA |
Witch City Fido/Opus 101/150, Witch City Opus
(1987-1989) |
Paul Walkin | |
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617-742-9194
BOSTON, MA |
Linchpin, LynchPin
(1988-1992) |
Kathleen Lynch | |
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617-745-4892
QUINCY, MA |
Salem Adventure Board, Salem's Fido
(1986-1988) |
Ed Davis | FidoNet |
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617-746-4463
BRIGHTON, MA |
On The Edge, Twilight Datalink
(1986-1988) |
Steve Jennings, Peter Flynn | |
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617-752-7284
BOSTON, MA |
CBBS MicroStar
(1982-1984) |
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617-756-4042
Worcester, MA |
Dragon's Lair, Modem Mania, Mouse House, NiteLite 86, Red October Rising
(1986-1992) |
Tony Piltzecker | WWIV |
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617-757-8622
BOSTON, MA |
DataCore Info Services, Worcester Hub
(1987-1988) |
Paul Outerson | |
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617-758-4735
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
Mattapoisett Hub, Tech Line, Techline
(1988-1991) |
David Rogers | |
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617-767-1303
BOSTON, MA |
PMS - Apple Guild
(1982-1983) |
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617-767-2909
BOSTON, MA |
Vi Bug, VI/BUG, VI/BUG (101/460)
(1989-1997) |
Donald Breda | Opus |
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617-769-0850
QUINCY, MA |
Phoenix Sfwr, Phoenix Software
(1984-1985) |
Bob Vandette | FidoNet |
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617-769-5063
QUINCY, MA |
Outlands BBS Microcom HQ, Synergy
(1988-1991) |
Jim Boxmeyer | PCBoard |
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617-769-5309
QUINCY, MA |
Synergy
(1989-1991) |
Jim Boxmeyer | PCBoard |
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617-769-6761
QUINCY, MA |
Cullinet Software
(1986-1988) |
Ken Melkisetian, Nat Poe | |
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617-769-8444
QUINCY, MA |
IDCMP
(1988) |
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617-769-9358
Norwood, MA |
Microcom's/MNP prot
(1987-1989) |
Jim Fitzgerald | |
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617-770-3066
Quincy, MA |
Quincy RAM-Net
(1985) |
Andrew Moore | Various (Citadel, RBBS?, MBBS, RCP/M) |
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"As best I can remember this ran around 1985. It was more of an experimental platform for the system rather than a long-lived BBS. I ran it on a Xerox 820 CP/M machine or possibly 820-II (can't remember if the box was upgraded before the BBS started). It started out as a part-time BBS but eventually got a dedicated phone line at 617-770-3066. Board went through several software flavors including RBBS, MBBS, and a brief stint as a Citadel system. Acronym stood for "R)CP/M A)nd M)essage NET)work." Started out at 300 baud and I think it eventually ran at 2400. At one point Jonathan Toner (who ran TRaSh bin) volunteered some programming to give the board username and password capabilities since I hadn't learned about file I/O yet. Not sure when or why the board came down." - Andrew Moore
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617-772-3977
BOSTON, MA |
Silicone City BBS
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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617-772-5478
BOSTON, MA |
Mike's Fido
(1986) |
Michael Gray | FidoNet |
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617-772-6373
BOSTON, MA |
Denis's Opus, DENIS'S WILDCAT!
(1988) |
Denis Marchand | Wildcat |
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617-774-0751
QUINCY, MA |
Shakers BBS
(1988) |
Bob Dealmeida | |
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617-774-3510
Danvers, MA |
Magrathea Nitelite
(1985) |
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617-774-7516
QUINCY, MA |
PMS - Computer City
(1982-1983) |
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617-776-6029
SOMERVILLE, MA |
Teele Square BBS
(1989-1990) |
Adam Heath | |
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617-776-8722
SOMERVILLE, MA |
MacEast
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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617-784-9047
BOSTON, MA |
The Garden Observatory
(1985) |
Automan | |
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617-786-8282
QUINCY, MA |
Razors Edge, The Razor's Edge
(1987-1991) |
Don Cosseboom | PCBoard |
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617-786-9788
QUINCY, MA |
B C S Telecom, B.C.S. Telecom, BCS - Telecomm, BCS Telecom
, BCSnet Telecomm Opus, Boston Central, Photo Talk BBS, BCSnet Telecomm OPUS, B.C.S. Telecom.
(1986-1996) |
Robert Gorrill | Opus
, Maximus |
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617-787-3033
Brighton, MA |
DEC Rainbow, Midnite DEC
(1986-1991) |
David Strickler | |
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617-789-5840
BRIGHTON, MA |
FRAZZLE'S FREE FOR ALL, The Dragon, Frazzle's Free For All
(1988-1996) |
Eric Boyer | Opus |
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617-791-5909
SAUGUS, MA |
Fire Fly
(1988) |
Tom Trostel | |
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617-791-8723
SAUGUS, MA |
Megabyte BBS
(1987) |
John Dickinson | |
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617-796-6802
NEWTON, MA |
MEDMUG
(1988) |
| Wildcat |
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617-821-0649
WOBURN, MA |
FIDO #340 Leading Edge, Leading Edge
(1985) |
Fred Federlein | |
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617-824-4878
BOSTON, MA |
Masspet BBS
(1983-1984) |
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617-825-1594
Dorchester, MA |
Neponset Nite Lite
(1983-1986) |
Kevin Champagne | Nite Lite (Atari 8-Bit) |
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"This BBS was moved in 1986 to UMass Boston (running Michton BBS on an Atari ST), and then from there in 1987 to Computer Cache, a computer store in Quincy, MA, where it was run until 1990." - Kevin Champagne
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617-826-8960
BOSTON, MA |
Alternative Inputs
(1989) |
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617-828-7814
Canton, MA |
Crypt
(1985) |
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617-828-8150
BOSTON, MA |
Leading Edge UG
(1987-1989) |
Mac Rosenbaum | |
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617-832-9229
BOSTON, MA |
The Parallel Universe
(1988) |
Whirlwind | |
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617-839-5810
BOSTON, MA |
STar Net
(1988) |
Eric Drewry | |
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617-848-8281
BOSTON, MA |
RCP/M RBBS EPSON, RTPM QX-10, RTPM QX-10 Boston
(1983-1985) |
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617-849-0347
BROOKLINE, MA |
The Graphics Factory
(1988-1992) |
Noel Gouevia | Red Ryder Host |
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617-849-0975
BROOKLINE, MA |
The Universe Elite, Parallel Universe ][gs|
(1986-1987) |
| Ascii Express |
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617-853-4079
NEWTON, MA |
IVY BBS
(1987-1988) |
Richard Kenadek | |
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617-853-7406
NEWTON, MA |
BBS Pro-Hackers
(1984-1985) |
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617-853-7420
NEWTON, MA |
Mind Link
(1986) |
Dan Dixon | |
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617-861-8125
Lexington, MA |
Writers Cramp
(1985) |
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617-861-8976
Lexington, MA |
The Works BBS
(1989-1994) |
Dave Ferret | Waffle, Ferret BBS |
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"Originally started in Chappaqua, NY in 1986, The Works BBS went down when the sysop went to college. At the time it had one theme and one theme only: textfiles. It was pretty popular, especially as a place to download the archives of textfiles available to any user who logged on. After the board went down, Dave Ferret found the old sysop on a BBS in Boston called "The Wall", and asked if he could take it over, to which I agreed. The Works went up in Lexington using my Waffle Run-Alike software, Ferret BBS, and ran throughout Dave's high school career, until he ultimately took it down via attrition. The board moved in with Matt Iskra, who kept it going for a number of years after that, and then grabbed by Owen, who now runs it as a telnet BBS at works.org." - Jason Scott
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617-861-9764
BOSTON, MA |
Byte (magazine) (Tech Support BBS), Byte Net Listings, BYTEnet Listings
(1987-1994) |
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617-861-9774
Boston, MA |
BYTE-Net
(1987) |
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617-862-0781
Lexington, MA |
RCP/M MCBBS Superbrain, RCP/M Superbrain, SuperBrain RCPM
(1982-1985) |
Paul Kelly | RCP/M |
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617-862-5779
Lexington, MA |
B.C.S. Commodore, BCS BBS, Boston Commodore
(1984-1997) |
Stephen McRae | Info-Quick, BBS-PC, DLG-Pro |
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"The Commodore Users Group of the Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs Info-Quick 1988: board switches to BBS-PC host software. 1989: board moves to the town of Winchester, MA at 617-729-7340 . 1993: board switches to DLG-Pro host software, joins FidoNET, and goes multi-line. Line#1: 617-729-7340. Line#2: 617-729-7310. Line#3: 617-729-4164. (FidoNET nodes 1:101/337 , 1:101/336). 1994: fourth line added at 617-729-2843 . 1996: with the collapse of the Boston Computer Society, two of the lines are pressed into service as mailers on FidoNET node 101/336; 617-729-4164 and 617-729-2843 become mailer servers. Line 617-729-7310 switches from FidoNET to UUCP mailer protocol to talk with the internet. Line #1, 617-729-7340 remains FidoNET node 1:101/337 . 1997: the board bravely continues for another year, appointing Dan Devoe's BBS as mail mover." - Winston Smith
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617-862-6942
Newton, MA |
Terra Cresta
(1982-1989) |
The Ninja | Heavily modified PRIME |
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"Terra Cresta was arguably the best Apple-based gaming BBS in the Boston area. The SysOps were programmers and they custom coded an incredible game called Starfire which was vaguely similar to TradeWars but substantially more fun. They later also made another game called TavernWorld which was also extremely popular, basically a multiplayer roguelike game. The BBS was around during the 80's, but I can't remember exactly what span of time it was there. I would guess that it was in operation for at least five or six years, but that's just conjecture on my part. I would redial my modem for hours and hours every day trying to connect - That's how popular it was. I know it existed prior to when I started running my own BBS, 'Project BBS'. The timespan I listed is guesswork and may not be accurate. There were two SysOps of Terra Cresta, but I don't know either of their real names. One of their aliases was 'The Ninja'. I can't find ANY trace of this BBS anywhere except for here, at the very end of the file: http://www.textfiles.com/humor/lbinter.hum Because of how popular this BBS was and how fun and addictive the games were, I'd really hate for the memory of Terra Cresta BBS to slip into oblivion without having its place of honor among the other BBS systems in your list. (By the way, my own BBS that I ran back then, 'Project BBS', is present in your list. All the information about Project BBS is accurate _except_ that it wasn't based in Cambridge, it was in Scituate, about fifty or sixty minutes south of Cambridge)" - Kailef
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617-863-0282
Lexington, MA |
TERMEXEC, Termexec Newsletter
(1984) |
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617-863-0677
Lexington, MA |
Buckman Tavern, Buckmans Tavern, ? ? ? ? ?, Buckman's Tavern
(1984-1995) |
| ASCII-Express, Hermes, FirstClass |
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"Buckman Tavern started as an ASCII-Express or A.E. board running on an Apple-][. Here is the history of the board -- 1984: BBS runs ASCII-Express. 1986: board goes private for friends only. 1992: board goes public again, thanks to the wild popularity of Hermes B.B.S. software for the Apple Macintosh, at its new number at 617-863-8502 now running Hermes and known as Buckman Tavern II. 1994: board switches to FirstClass B.B.S. host and runs OneNet networking and is now known as Buckman Tavern III. 1995: board moves to the town of Somerville, MA, and goes multi-line for a short while, before eventually going down due to the Area Code split. Line #1 is at 617-625-7483 and Line #2 is at 617-625-7484." - Winston Smith
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617-864-3819
Cambridge, MA |
CBBS Cambridge, New England Computer Society CBBS
(1980-1981) |
Dave Mitton | CBBS |
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Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
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617-864-6909
Cambridge, MA |
The Type Recorder
(1986-1987) |
Sam Ezust | Tele-Cat 3.0 |
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"Host of the New England Apple Tree files and discussions for Apple ][ and Macintosh Users. Also host of the Modem Journal BBS List, a monthly-updated BBS list of the greater Boston area. It ran on a Franklin Ace 1000, Apple-Cat 212 modem, and a Corvus 5mb hard drive on loan from the New England Apple Tree." - Sam Ezust
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617-865-0498
BOSTON, MA |
Davy Jones Locker #2
(1988) |
Richard Kenadek | |
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617-865-3290
BOSTON, MA |
Davy Jones Locker, Davy Jones Locker #1, DavyJonesLocke
(1986-1988) |
Richard Kenadek | |
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617-874-3302
BOSTON, MA |
Daves Fido
(1987-1988) |
David Rene | FidoNet |
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617-874-4325
Westminster, MA |
Daves Annex, FIDO #310 Dave's Annex
(1984-1986) |
Dave Rene, David Rene | FidoNet |
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617-875-3618
Framingham, MA |
Xevious
(1985-1986) |
Nels Anderson | |
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617-875-4229
BOSTON, MA |
Alloy Computer
(1987-1988) |
Scotty Williamson | |
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617-876-4885
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
AMIS Starbase 12 Philadelphia
(1982-1983) |
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617-877-9823
BOSTON, MA |
FoReM PC
(1988) |
Matt Singer | |
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617-879-3714
Framingham, MA |
The Doctor
(1986) |
Herbie Cohen | |
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617-881-6332
NEWTON, MA |
Northeastern Xchg
(1986) |
Dave Perkins | |
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617-881-6495
NEWTON, MA |
Eagle-1, FIDO #73 Eagle-1
(1984-1986) |
Dave Hornbaker | FidoNet |
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617-884-6106
Chelsea, MA |
Pirate's Cove, The Fisherman's Cove
(1983-1994) |
Larry Cyr, Larry Cyr (Big Fisherman) | Net-Works-][, C-Net, Telegard |
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"Pirate's Cove was originally part of the Pirate's Harbor family of Net-Works-][ pay subscriber boards for providing fee for service descriptions of techniques for cracking software protection schemes on 8-bit software. It changed its name to Fisherman's Cove and switched software to the C-Net BBS host software in an attempt to provide a BBS for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts." - Winston Smith
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617-885-2543
NEWTON, MA |
Silicon Valley BBS
(1988) |
Paul Masiello | |
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617-885-6816
NEWTON, MA |
Spacers' Node
(1988) |
Tim Carter | |
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617-889-4330
Chelmsford, MA |
MicroBBS, NET-WORKS MicroBBS
(1983-1985) |
| NET-WORKS |
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617-891-0650
BRIGHTON, MA |
INFOnet 2
(1986) |
Pat Vittum | |
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617-891-1349
Waltham, MA |
N.E.M.S. II, Pirate's Chest, PIRATES CHEST
(1982-1985) |
| Net-Works-][ |
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"As the micro-computer started to become popular, pay or subscription boards offering software protection cracking techniques on a fee for service basis started to spring up all over Boston and its environs. This particular class of commercial board to which the Pirate's Chest belonged was known around Boston, Massachusetts, as the 'Pirate's Harbor' family of Net-Works-][ boards. The Pirate's Chest was one such board of this group." - Winston Smith
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617-892-4295
CAMBRIDGE, MA |
DavyJonesII
(1988) |
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617-893-5772
NEWTON, MA |
Info Jr
(1986) |
John Debay | |
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617-897-0346
Maynard, MA |
New England Comp. Soc., NECS/DEC CBBS
(1980-1983) |
| DEC CBBS |
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Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue). At one point ran from 6am-7am and Weekends.
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617-897-5610
BOSTON, MA |
The Boston L5
(1986) |
William Caefer | |
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617-898-0058
MILTON, MA |
Westboro Fido
(1988) |
Chester Humphrey | FidoNet |
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617-921-0422
Beverly, MA |
Assembly
(1985) |
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617-921-1685
Beverly, MA |
Adventure Board
(1985) |
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617-922-8167
MILTON, MA |
IronMan BBS
(1988) |
Jim Allen | |
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617-923-7373
WATERTOWN, MA |
Infoworks BBS
(1988-1990) |
Gilbert Edwards | |
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617-923-7605
WATERTOWN, MA |
Mass Ham, MassHam BBS
(1988-1994) |
K1OJH | |
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617-927-2537
BOSTON, MA |
Titan BBS
(1988) |
Bob Chesley | |
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617-927-6416
BOSTON, MA |
Beverly Hubbillies, Rotor Head BBS
(1987-1988) |
Al Denis | |
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617-927-7520
BOSTON, MA |
The Godfathers Den BBS
(1988) |
James Allen | |
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617-942-1298
BOSTON, MA |
Hack Net, Hacknet, Reading Access
(1987-1996) |
Steven Ryan | |
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617-957-3921
Dracut, MA |
AmigaManiacs, Cantelope Grove, Lowell Area Amiga Maniacs BBS
(1988-1991) |
Brian Pelletier | PCBoard |
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617-961-7870
CHARLESTOWN, MA |
N.E. Online, New England Online, NewEngland Onl
(1982-1997) |
Michael Flood | PCBoard
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617-963-5807
Randolph, MA |
Toxic Warez Dump
(1986-1989) |
The Toxic Avenger | CNET-- highly modified 11.1a |
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"In high school I spent way too much time modifying CNET. However, I made that board program completely customized. I had psuedo AI automated SYSOP chat, download/upload credits, etc. In my heyday I was getting between 20 - 40 calls a day. Towards the end, it just dwindled. Time has passed the BBS by. My BBS was a testament to guzzling Coca Cola Classic, banging in Microsoft C64 Basic, and abusing a 1541 disk drive. It was fun. I am often nostalgic. The experiences were definitely helpful later in life. Give a kid a 1200 BPS modem, an 8 bit computer, and a cool alias, and suddenly the nerdiest kid in his high school feels like a super hero. Special shout outs to: The Culprit, *** CBM Ranger (upload to my board dammit - whuh huh huh), Zippy The Pin Head, The Improper Bostonian, Zack The Hack / The Shadowlord, The Warlord (from Bushido), The Doc (from the Emergency Room), The Big Fisherman (from the Fisherman's Cove). It was fun. Thanks fer da memories." - Toxic Avenger
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617-964-2006
NEWTON, MA |
Mass Mac & Electric
(1989) |
Barr Plexico | |
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617-964-2544
NEWTON, MA |
BCS PCUG Mailbox
(1989) |
Steve Groginsky | |
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617-964-6088
NEWTON, MA |
Newton' Corner
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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617-964-6866
NEWTON, MA |
BoardWalk
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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617-964-8069
NEWTON, MA |
Bionic Dog, The Bionic Dog
(1986-2000) |
David C Lescohier | Maximus |
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617-965-7259
Newton, MA |
B.C.S. Zitel, Big Board, Newton Center Z-Node, Newton Centre BigBoard
(1984-1998) |
Jay Sage, Sage Microsystems East | R CP/M, PCBoard |
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"This B.B.S. was a Remote CP/M board run by Sage Micro-Systems of Newton, MA. It was a premier CP/M system, and eventually became the home of all of the CP/M systems of Boston. 1984: board runs R_CP/M. 1994: After running both the Newton Center Z-Node board and the B.C.S. Zitel board concurrently since 1990, and having merged the Kaypro Group into Zi/tel, Jay Sage decides to merge both the Boston F.O.G. and the Newton Center Z-Node into the B.C.S. Zitel board and make it an "all inclusive" CP/M board. The board software is switched to PC-Board and the new number is that of the B.C.S. Zitel board; Line #1 at 617-965-7046, Line #2 at 617-965-7785, Line #3 617-965-7259. 1996: the line at 617-965-7259 is dropped. 1997: the line at 617-965-7785 is dropped." - Winston Smith
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617-965-7816
NEWTON, MA |
PRISM, Prism
(1988-1990) |
Jesse Berman | Red Ryder Host |
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617-965-8294
NEWTON, MA |
I.C.E.
(1988-1989) |
Kenneth Macleod | |
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617-965-8761
Newton, MA |
Billboard
(1984-1985) |
| A.M.I.S., F.O.R.E.M. |
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"The Atari Message Information Service (A.M.I.S.), the earliest Atari B.B.S. host software, was eventually superceded by better software called the (F)riends (O)f (R)ick (E). (M)oose, F.O.R.E.M. for short, a pun on FORUM-80, an early TRS-80 BBS software." - Winston Smith
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617-966-0416
WALTHAM, MA |
Bellingham RBBS
(1983) |
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617-969-0925
NEWTON, MA |
Shabtai's Opus
(1989) |
Shabtai Lerner | |
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617-969-9660
NEWTON, MA |
Boston Computer Society (Info,IBM)
(1983-1996) |
| RBBS, Fido, Opus, TBBS (1:101/121) |
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"One of the early Boston boards, the B.C.S. main board a.k.a. the Info Center, a.k.a. the Calendar board, has a history that mimics the history of BBSing in general. ?-1983: Starts as an RBBS board at 617-696-9660 in Newton, MA, USA. 1984-1986: still an RBBS board, it moves to 617-227-7986, Boston, MA, USA. 1987: Finally ends its isolation as a stand-alone RBBS board and switches to Fido FidoNET networking as node 1:101/121 . 1988: the Fido board switches to Opus, sharing echomail among BCS groups. 1989-1991: Opus board switches to TBBS for multi-line support and online databases. 1992-1993: still a TBBS board, it moves to 617-621-0882 in the town of Cambridge, MA, USA, the new B.C.S. office (the zenith of BCS power!). 1994-1996: Giant BCS*MAC super-board consolidation forces out Info Center. Board moves yet again to 617-290-5726 in Waltham, MA, USA / Oct.1996 BCS disbands!"
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617-975-3163
BROOKLINE, MA |
Inner Realm
(1987) |
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617-975-5610
BROOKLINE, MA |
Anarchy Alley
(1987) |
Judge Dredd | STadel |
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617-994-8949
BOSTON, MA |
AE Line: BRIAN, AE LINE: BRIAN
(1985) |
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617-999-3210
Bedford, MA |
Alpha Five
(1984-1985) |
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224 Sysops currently listed.
325 BBSes Listed.
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