| MAP OF THE 705 AREA CODE |
| 705-253-5366 SAULT STE MARIE, CANADA |
Fisherman's Scroll, Fisherman's Scroll 1, Fisherman's Scroll BBS, Fisherman's Scroll CFC #24, Soo Net NC, The Soo Net Head Quarters (1989-1999) |
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| 705-272-2980 Cochrane, ON |
Toad's Place BBS (1987-1994) |
Richard Toal | Remote Access | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Those were the days... started the BBS on a 8088 and built it up to a whopping 386 sx66. At the end it was flying on a 28.8 kbps modem. And now today in 2006 I'm an ISP :-)" - Richard Toal
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| 705-325-8199 |
ORILLIA, CANADA Northwest HUB, Ontario North Hub, The Leading Edge BBS |
(1988) Don Mackaracher |
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| 705-326-7208 |
ORILLIA, CANADA Central Connection |
(1988) George Thompson |
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| 705-326-7328 |
ORILLIA, CANADA Karl's Computer Centre, Northwest HUB |
(1987) Don Mackaracher |
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| 705-424-1747 |
BORDENANGS, CANADA LAKE SIMCOE HUB, Terminal Velocity BBS, Terminal Velocity QBBS |
(1989-1992) Andy Tane |
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| 705-424-5198 |
BORDENANGS, CANADA Lake Simcoe HUB, The Amiga Zone BBS |
(1989-1995) Mark McGregor |
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| 705-424-6181 |
BORDENANGS, CANADA Orbiter One |
(1989-1990) Peter Saar |
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| 705-426-7240 |
BEAVERTON, CANADA * * B.C.B.C.S., B.C.B.C.S., BCBCS |
(1987-2000) Howard Johnson, Howard Johnston |
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| 705-472-6908 |
NORTH BAY, CANADA Northern Lights |
(1989-1990) Tony Loeffen |
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| 705-474-6368 |
NORTH BAY, CANADA Cindy's House |
(1989) Cindy Long |
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| 705-476-6227 |
NORTH BAY, CANADA Eastern Canada, Maximus Help, Near North Net, The NiteLine |
(1989-1991) Jesse David Hollington |
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| 705-476-9275 |
NORTH BAY, CANADA Algonquin Knights, Algonquin Knights Part II, Net 225 Echo Coord |
(1989-1994) Matthew Little, Keeling Little |
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| 705-484-0517 |
BRECHIN, CANADA B.C.B.C.S., Beaverton BBS |
(1988-1996) Howard Johnston |
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| 705-497-3057 |
North Bay, Ontario The Fat Agnus BBS |
(1989-1995) Chris Guertin |
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"The "Fat Agnus" is one of the co-processors in the famous Amiga line of computers. The system was run on a Commodore Amiga and helped support the local Amiga users group (long gone too). It was killed by the budding popularity of the Internet and finally became to costly to run. It peaked at 3 phone lines and 100+ calls a day! I ran a BBS for a few years on a Commodore 64 in the 1980's as well (300 baud era) in St. Thomas, Ontario, 519 area code. If I can find any of my old papers with a phone number I'll submit it too. It ran from 1984 until about 1987 and was very popular with a local users group connection as well. At it's peak it had eight (8) 5.25" floppy drives connected to it! At night in my bedroom I could tell what a caller was doing by what drive was lit up... lol... Those were the days... Thanx for keeping a little bit of BBS history alive. I have younger computer guys working for me who don't even know what a BBS was." - Chris Guertin
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| 705-522-8599 |
SUDBURY, CANADA Valhalla Palace |
(1989-1990) Kavian Moradhassel |
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| 705-560-9983 |
SUDBURY, CANADA Rick's Retreat |
(1989) Richard DeWolfe |
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| 705-566-5089 |
Sudbury, Ontario The Crystal Cavern |
(1986-1992) Dave Cushing | Opus, Maximus |
"Just ran across your list and have to say, it was a nostalgic trip down memory lane. I was the SysOp of The Crystal Cavern and remember all the great friends I made through my BBS (in days of yore, before the Internet was cool). It was only last month that I had been introduced to a colleague who recognized my name and said "Didn't you run The Crystal Cavern?" - us old schoolers never forget." - Dave Cushing
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| 705-566-5628 |
SUDBURY, CANADA The Romulan Sector Qbbs |
(1989-1990) Jamie Macdonald |
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| 705-652-3506 |
Lakefield, Ontario Connect2 |
(1984-1988) Don Gordon |
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| 705-693-2893 |
GARSON, CANADA Rick's Retreat |
(1989) Richard DeWolfe |
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| 705-722-4287 |
BARRIE, CANADA Acidic Reality, CIS Online, Dyanmic BBS, Generation 2 BBS, The Dynamic BBS, The Unholy Realms |
(1989-1995) Justin Cohen | RemoteAccess, Renegade |
| 705-722-6815 |
BARRIE, CANADA Dreamhouse |
(1987-1988) Justin Wells |
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| 705-726-9581 |
BARRIE, CANADA The Dark Side Of The Moon |
(1989-1992) Colin Smith |
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| 705-743-7296 |
Peterborough, Ontario 'The BBS' Bulletin Board |
(1983-1991) B. White, Blaine White | PCBoard, PunterNet |
"Originally, I was the SYSOP of the RTC Bulletin Board in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada...owned by Richvale Telecommunications. Their system ran on a small-screen Commodore PET, and an accoustic modem. Someone had built a little "answering circuit". The unfortunate part of the accoustic modem was that the constant carrier signal caused the receiver to vibrate out of the rubber cups. The RTC BBS ran from the store's repair shop, and when the phone receiver had vibrated far enough out of the modem cups, people talking in the room would cause nasty garbage characters on the screen. When I took the system over from Ernie Kalwa, the original RTC SYSOP, I ended up having to drive in from Bridgenorth (a 20 minute drive) to push the phone receiver back into the rubber modem cups. | When their store closed (went out of business), I switched from runing Steve Punter's PETBBS, and moved to the new 64BBS software on the Commodore 64. In doing this, I became PunterNet Node 80. PunterNet was a great system to run, because you could send e-mail all over North America. Remember, this was before the Internet was widely accessable. Each node would call the nearest long distance node, after midnight - when Long Distance rates were the cheapest, and transfer any messages that were in the outbox. Each successive node would pass messages along, until they reached their destination node. Users kept a cash balance (by sending money to the SYSOP), and the system automatically deducted the cost of the LD call from their account when they sent an e-mail. PunterNet was the brainchild of Steve Punter, of Mississauga Ontario. Punter was also responsible for creating WordPro, the first real wordprocessor for the Commodore PET and C64 computers. The board rapidly expanded, and soon I was running 13MB of disk storage (spanning a D9090 Hard Drive, and 4 SFD-1001 (1MB floppy drives). This amount of drive space running on a C64 was virtually unheard of, and I believe at the time I was running the most in my geographic area. Eventually, the board grew too big for the C64, and I moved to an XT running PCBoard. As things continued to expand, I eventually wound up running 3 networked 286 (LANtastic) nodes. Callers could chat between the lines, and play online games, like TradeWars! 'THE BBS' always had the password "Calculus" when it ran the Punter software. This was a "throwback" to the original RTC SYSOP, Ernie Kalwa. Ernie had placed the password in to keep "undesirables" out. I tried removing it when I switched to the C64 version, but people had become so accustomed to seeing it, they found it disturbing when it vanished, so I put it back in. I was a teenager when I first started the system, and I ran it until I was in my early 20's, and had my "first real job". It was one of those "formative" life experiences that helped to shape who I became in later years. I met many interesting people during the time I ran the system, and it was one of the best times of my life. I look back fondly to the time when I was a SYSOP, and often wish I could go back there once again." - Blaine White
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