809 BBS List

809 Area Code BBSes Through History (80's Version)

MAP OF THE 809 AREA CODE

809-287-2191
San Juan, PR Decaying Syndrome
(1986-1996) Phiber Optik, Cyber-Phase! PC Board - Modified
"Decaying Syndrome started as a project running under a VAX at the University of Puerto Rico. In 1988 it moved from a VAX to a Digital Unix and in 1992 to a PC Running PC Board Software by Clark. In 1993 SysOps Phiber Optik & Cyber-Phase heavily modified the system using the PC-Board Scripting Language. In late 1993 the hackers re-named their board Decaying Syndrome and it became the 1st BBS in Puerto Rico offering h/p/a/v/c texts and information. The board became a haven for those who liked to learn about underground concepts in telephony, security, software cracking and hacking. It is rumored that the legendary group of puertorican hackers, the dead pirate society -=dPS=- , used the BBS to share information with anyone that managed to get access into the system. Access was not public and users needed to access the board after answering a lengthy questionnaire that only those in the "know" or part of the Elite movement would know the answer. In late 1996 SysOps Phiber Optik and Cyber-Phase! decided to retire the Old Skool BBS and the board quietly disappeared from the scene. dPS dissolved its organization around the same time. Most of its members hold now in their professional capacity chairs in disctinctive technological, economic, health and government industries. dPS members were: Phiber Optik, Cyber-Phase!, iRS, Jackal and Medicine Man." - Cyber-Phase!

809-292-1774
CD-BBS, Christian Deliverance BBS
(1988-1999) Craig Clark GT Power, Maxiumus, Wildcat!
"809-292-1774 and 809-292-7376: all the same BBS. It had three phone lines at it's peak. Both of those numbers you have listed belonged to the same BBS, just different lines. The full name was Christian Deliverance BBS, and was abbreviated Christian Deliverance or just CD-BBS by our users (we also had up to 8 CD-ROM drives online at one point for downloads). Bermuda Net was the name of our local Fido network, of which CD-BBS was the primary node or gateway for the others. The BBS itself was never called Bermuda Net, but was known as the "home of Bermuda Net". CD-BBS started in 1988 and ran until early 1999, basically killed off by the Internet which became available here in the mid '90s. It's location for most of that time was Devonshire Bermuda, and I was it's main sysop from the beginning to the very end. Two years before an ISP existed here we started to offer internet e-mail to our users. CD-BBS joined FidoNet in 1992 or 1993, but as early as 1989 belonged to the GT Power Network, and offered users international netmail through that BBS network. CD-BBS was also a member of FamilyNet, a Fido-technology network, for most of the time it belonged to FidoNet. Other than for a very short trial period in the beginning (a few months maybe), CD-BBS first ran GT Power, then Maximus (first the DOS version then later the OS/2 version when the extra phone lines were added), and finally for the last year of it's life ran Wildcat! (Windows version). For most of it's life, Maximus/2 was the software behind it, and it was solid - both the operating system (OS/2) and the BBS software. At one point it ran for nine months without a single reboot, all the while hosting users, handling our incoming satellite feed for echoes and file feeds, managing both incoming & outgoing internet connections, running door games, etc. CD-BBS had a number of firsts for a BBS in Bermuda: - first to offer international netmail - first to offer echoes (messages) - first to offer dialup speeds above 9600bps - official McAfee anti-virus update distribution site (before they had a retail version or web site) - first to offer Internet e-mail (ahead of any ISP here) - first & only to ever use a satellite dish to receive files & echoes - first to use the internet to deliver/receive netmail and echomail - first to offer limited internet access to our own users - first to become accessible from the Internet - first to offer the short-lived RIP graphics - first to offer multiplayer door games - first to offer multi-user chat - most phone lines - most message areas - most users - most files online (most storage) At eleven years total running it was not the most long-lived BBS in Bermuda - that honour went to BerMUG. But BerMUG catered only to Apple users and required a special client. CD-BBS was accessible to anyone with a modem and had a wide variety of software available for download." - Craig Clark

809-292-8274
BerMUG
(1983-1996) Rolf Martin

809-721-3310
Moonshine BBS
(1988) Francisco Reyes

809-724-0621
San Juan, PR AmigaUsers BBS, Opus Amicus BBS
(1988-1995) Efrain Cordero

809-751-0471
Fres Software BBS
(1988) Gilberto Fres

809-751-7728
Rio Piedras, PR Mega D, Mega-D RBBS, Mega-D RBBS 1, Mega-D RBBS 2, Mega-D RBBS 2 IDS, Mega-D RBBS NetMail, MegaD RBBS II, Puerto Rico Net
(1987-1995) Juan Davila RBBS

809-752-8713
Carolina, PR Medi Land, Midi Land, Puerto Rico Net
(1988-1999) Hector De Jesus

809-753-4525
The Glass BBS
(1983-1999) Heber Soto TriBBS

809-755-2972
Jhosua BBS
(1989-1991) Hector Devarie

809-755-6083
Centus (R) BBS
(1983-1996) Edfel Rivera

809-756-5857
Rio Piedras MEGA-D Information Services 2, Mega-D OPus BBS, Mega-D RBBS 1, Mega-D RBBS 2 IDS, Puerto Rico Net, UUCP prnet.com
(1988-1996) Juan Davila

809-756-6726
Mega-D BBS, MEGA-D Information Services 2, Mega-D RBBS 1 IDS, Puerto Rico Net, UUCP prnet.com
(1988-1996) Juan Davila PCBoard

809-756-7137
Rhodes BBS
(1987-1989) Arturo Morales Wildcat

809-756-8863
Cyclone BBS
(1988-1994) Erick Hanftwurzel, Eric Hanftwurzel PCBoard

809-762-9117
The Island Wolf II
(1983-1996) Ricardo Landrau

809-763-7240
San Juan City Health BBS, San Juan Health
(1988-1989) Gilberto Fres

809-767-4942
Cyclone BBS
(1989-1991) Erick Hanftwurze

809-773-0195
CHRISTIANSTED, BERMUDA Caribbean Breeze, CBreeze
(1988-1995) Doug Canton Red Ryder Host

809-773-3001
CHRISTIANSTED, BERMUDA PARADISE BBS
(1988) Wildcat

809-774-5579
CHAR AM/PASTORY, BERMUDA Mongoose Den
(1988) Wildcat

809-779-4066
CHAR AM/PASTORY, BERMUDA COM-DAT The Caribbean Connection
(1988-1996) Thom MacDonald Wildcat

809-781-0350
BBS Commodore
(1983-1985)

809-781-2408
The Warehouse BBS
(1989-1991) Ramon Mendez

809-783-9542
IslandSun, Puerto Rico Net, The Island Sun BBS, The Island Sun I
(1989-1996) Luis Salazar Spitfire

809-793-8198
Borinquen-Quest BBS
(1988) Wildcat

809-799-3333
Top Secret BBS
(1983-1996) Danny Ponce

809-837-7034
The Vision BBS
(1983-1996) Omar Ortiz

24 Sysops currently listed.
28 BBSes Listed.

809-287-2191 San Juan, PR	Decaying Syndrome (1986-1996)	Phiber Optik, Cyber-Phase!	PC Board - Modified
	"Decaying Syndrome started as a project running under a VAX at the University of Puerto Rico. In 1988 it moved from a VAX to a Digital Unix and in 1992 to a PC Running PC Board Software by Clark. In 1993 SysOps Phiber Optik & Cyber-Phase heavily modified the system using the PC-Board Scripting Language. In late 1993 the hackers re-named their board Decaying Syndrome and it became the 1st BBS in Puerto Rico offering h/p/a/v/c texts and information. The board became a haven for those who liked to learn about underground concepts in telephony, security, software cracking and hacking. It is rumored that the legendary group of puertorican hackers, the dead pirate society -=dPS=- , used the BBS to share information with anyone that managed to get access into the system. Access was not public and users needed to access the board after answering a lengthy questionnaire that only those in the "know" or part of the Elite movement would know the answer. In late 1996 SysOps Phiber Optik and Cyber-Phase! decided to retire the Old Skool BBS and the board quietly disappeared from the scene. dPS dissolved its organization around the same time. Most of its members hold now in their professional capacity chairs in disctinctive technological, economic, health and government industries. dPS members were: Phiber Optik, Cyber-Phase!, iRS, Jackal and Medicine Man." - Cyber-Phase!

809-292-1774	CD-BBS, Christian Deliverance BBS (1988-1999)	Craig Clark	GT Power, Maxiumus, Wildcat!
	"809-292-1774 and 809-292-7376: all the same BBS. It had three phone lines at it's peak. Both of those numbers you have listed belonged to the same BBS, just different lines. The full name was Christian Deliverance BBS, and was abbreviated Christian Deliverance or just CD-BBS by our users (we also had up to 8 CD-ROM drives online at one point for downloads). Bermuda Net was the name of our local Fido network, of which CD-BBS was the primary node or gateway for the others. The BBS itself was never called Bermuda Net, but was known as the "home of Bermuda Net". CD-BBS started in 1988 and ran until early 1999, basically killed off by the Internet which became available here in the mid '90s. It's location for most of that time was Devonshire Bermuda, and I was it's main sysop from the beginning to the very end. Two years before an ISP existed here we started to offer internet e-mail to our users. CD-BBS joined FidoNet in 1992 or 1993, but as early as 1989 belonged to the GT Power Network, and offered users international netmail through that BBS network. CD-BBS was also a member of FamilyNet, a Fido-technology network, for most of the time it belonged to FidoNet. Other than for a very short trial period in the beginning (a few months maybe), CD-BBS first ran GT Power, then Maximus (first the DOS version then later the OS/2 version when the extra phone lines were added), and finally for the last year of it's life ran Wildcat! (Windows version). For most of it's life, Maximus/2 was the software behind it, and it was solid - both the operating system (OS/2) and the BBS software. At one point it ran for nine months without a single reboot, all the while hosting users, handling our incoming satellite feed for echoes and file feeds, managing both incoming & outgoing internet connections, running door games, etc. CD-BBS had a number of firsts for a BBS in Bermuda: - first to offer international netmail - first to offer echoes (messages) - first to offer dialup speeds above 9600bps - official McAfee anti-virus update distribution site (before they had a retail version or web site) - first to offer Internet e-mail (ahead of any ISP here) - first & only to ever use a satellite dish to receive files & echoes - first to use the internet to deliver/receive netmail and echomail - first to offer limited internet access to our own users - first to become accessible from the Internet - first to offer the short-lived RIP graphics - first to offer multiplayer door games - first to offer multi-user chat - most phone lines - most message areas - most users - most files online (most storage) At eleven years total running it was not the most long-lived BBS in Bermuda - that honour went to BerMUG. But BerMUG catered only to Apple users and required a special client. CD-BBS was accessible to anyone with a modem and had a wide variety of software available for download." - Craig Clark

809-292-8274	BerMUG (1983-1996)	Rolf Martin

809-721-3310	Moonshine BBS (1988)	Francisco Reyes

809-724-0621 San Juan, PR	AmigaUsers BBS, Opus Amicus BBS (1988-1995)	Efrain Cordero

809-751-0471	Fres Software BBS (1988)	Gilberto Fres

809-751-7728 Rio Piedras, PR	Mega D, Mega-D RBBS, Mega-D RBBS 1, Mega-D RBBS 2, Mega-D RBBS 2 IDS, Mega-D RBBS NetMail, MegaD RBBS II, Puerto Rico Net (1987-1995)	Juan Davila	RBBS

809-752-8713 Carolina, PR	Medi Land, Midi Land, Puerto Rico Net (1988-1999)	Hector De Jesus

809-753-4525	The Glass BBS (1983-1999)	Heber Soto	TriBBS

809-755-2972	Jhosua BBS (1989-1991)	Hector Devarie

809-755-6083	Centus (R) BBS (1983-1996)	Edfel Rivera

809-756-5857 Rio Piedras	MEGA-D Information Services 2, Mega-D OPus BBS, Mega-D RBBS 1, Mega-D RBBS 2 IDS, Puerto Rico Net, UUCP prnet.com (1988-1996)	Juan Davila

809-756-6726	Mega-D BBS, MEGA-D Information Services 2, Mega-D RBBS 1 IDS, Puerto Rico Net, UUCP prnet.com (1988-1996)	Juan Davila	PCBoard

809-756-7137	Rhodes BBS (1987-1989)	Arturo Morales	Wildcat

809-756-8863	Cyclone BBS (1988-1994)	Erick Hanftwurzel, Eric Hanftwurzel	PCBoard

809-762-9117	The Island Wolf II (1983-1996)	Ricardo Landrau

809-763-7240	San Juan City Health BBS, San Juan Health (1988-1989)	Gilberto Fres

809-767-4942	Cyclone BBS (1989-1991)	Erick Hanftwurze

809-773-0195 CHRISTIANSTED, BERMUDA	Caribbean Breeze, CBreeze (1988-1995)	Doug Canton	Red Ryder Host

809-773-3001 CHRISTIANSTED, BERMUDA	PARADISE BBS (1988)		Wildcat

809-774-5579 CHAR AM/PASTORY, BERMUDA	Mongoose Den (1988)		Wildcat

809-779-4066 CHAR AM/PASTORY, BERMUDA	COM-DAT The Caribbean Connection (1988-1996)	Thom MacDonald	Wildcat

809-781-0350	BBS Commodore (1983-1985)

809-781-2408	The Warehouse BBS (1989-1991)	Ramon Mendez

809-783-9542	IslandSun, Puerto Rico Net, The Island Sun BBS, The Island Sun I (1989-1996)	Luis Salazar	Spitfire

809-793-8198	Borinquen-Quest BBS (1988)		Wildcat

809-799-3333	Top Secret BBS (1983-1996)	Danny Ponce

809-837-7034	The Vision BBS (1983-1996)	Omar Ortiz

24 Sysops currently listed. 28 BBSes Listed.