| "Unfortunately for my potential callers, the BBS computer | was also my personal use computer... which meant it went | offline anytime I wanted to dial out. :)
"I look back | very fondly on the BBS days.. quite miss it actually but | that was a different time and a different place." - Jason | Ledbette --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-577-3686 | Willie's World | JACKSONVILLE-BL, NC (1994) SYSOP | William Hall --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-577-3712 | The CRYPT BBS | JACKSONVILLE-BL, NC (1994) SYSOP | Todd Wilson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-577-3717 | The Game Room | JACKSONVILLE-BL, NC (1995-2000) SYSOP | Robert Wilson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-577-7322 | The Arcade BBS, The Bird's Nest | JACKSONVILLE-BL, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Rob Pryor --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-578-9541 | The Legislative Outreach | BURLINGTON, NC (1995) SYSOP | Dennis Reynolds --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-579-1672 | Looney Bin, LoOnEy BiN!, LoOnEyBiN! | Calabash, NC (1994-1996) SYSOP | Pat Finnerty SOFTWARE | QuickBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-582-0357 | Digital Realms, Mine Field BBS, South Atlantic BBS, South | Atlantic Online BBS | HAMLET, NC (1996-1998) SYSOP | Ray Turner, Raymond Turner Jr --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-582-0704 | Hermit's Cave BBS, Hermits Cave | HAMLET, NC (1995-1999) SYSOP | Bryan Bush SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-582-1786 | Amiga Haven | HAMLET, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Tom Clayton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-582-3698 | Rocket Red BBS | HAMLET, NC (1994) SYSOP | Jimi McDuffie --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-582-4372 | Mind Threads, Mind Threads BBS | HAMLET, NC (1995-1997) SYSOP | Gene Mercer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-595-3864 | Five Star BBS | ([A-2001) SYSOP | Dayne Doty SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-595-8073 | PC MOTORSPORTS, PC-Motorsports, PC-MOTORSPORTS / MASONIC | Walkertown, NC ([A-2001) SYSOP | Ronald Conrad SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-616-0570 | The N E X U S, The Nexus BBS | WILMINGTON, NC (1995-1996) SYSOP | Mark Comer SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-616-0724 | The Red Oasis | WILMINGTON, NC (1996) SYSOP | Charles Davis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-623-8180 | Familiar Anomalies | (1995) SOFTWARE | MAJOR --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-625-0715 | Dementia Doors | (1994) SYSOP | William Blake --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-625-3401 | Realm of Darkness, The CyberZone BBS, WyldSpace | (1994-1995) SYSOP | Adam Snodgrass --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-625-4978 | Sybore One | (1995) SYSOP | Goodman Griffin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-626-2173 | The Grapevine BBS | (1995) SYSOP | Phillip Murray --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-626-2917 | The Cyberzone | (1995-1996) SYSOP | Oldrich Bubak --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-626-4172 | New Moon Research Group ][ | (1994) SYSOP | Bert Kennedy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-626-7985 | The Steiner Line BBS | (1983-1999) SYSOP | Barry Laws --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-626-9273 | Sanctuary BBS, Sanctuary District A | (1995) SYSOP | Kevin Casper --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-627-5190 | The Byte Exchange | (1994) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-629-2490 | The Mothership | (1994-1995) SYSOP | David Johnson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-629-6380 | In The House BBS, The Cat's Eye BBS, The Data World BBS | (1994) SYSOP | Randell Beavers --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-632-4820 | Stitchmaster On-line | (1994-1995) SYSOP | John Basinger --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-632-8943 | The Answer Board | (1994-1995) SYSOP | Kevin Craig --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-642-4294 | The Trekker BBS | WHITEVILLE, NC (1995) SYSOP | Walter Simmons --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-643-9030 | The Tarheel Connection | SUMMERFIELD, NC (1994-1998) SYSOP | Mickey Lightsey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-643-9570 | The Tarheel Connection | SUMMERFIELD, NC (1994) SYSOP | Mickey Lightsey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-652-2173 | Amiga Haven | ELLERBE, NC (1994) SYSOP | Tom Clayton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-652-2367 | Amiga Haven | ELLERBE, NC (1994) SYSOP | Tom Clayton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-652-3823 | Mind Threads BBS | ELLERBE, NC (1994-1999) SYSOP | Gene Mercer SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-654-5593 | The Leap BBS, The Leap Mailer | CHADBOURN, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Charlie Jarman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-659-0576 | PC Addict, Winston-Salem NET | Winston Salem, NC (1994-1996) SYSOP | Jim Ribet, James Ribet, Jim Ribel SOFTWARE | Opus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-659-9121 | PC Solution Source, PC Solution Source (Node 1) | Winston Salem, NC (1993-1999) SYSOP | Jeff Moen, Jetf Moen SOFTWARE | PCBoard , TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-659-9161 | PC Solution Source, PC Solution Source (Node 2) | WINSTON-SALEM, NC (1995-1999) SYSOP | Jeff Moen SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-667-7157 | Life Begins At 150 MPH, Net Echo Coord, Wilkes Hub | WILMINGTON, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Rick Shelton, Eddie Money --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-672-3105 | New Moon Research Group, New Moon Research Group KR4PZ, | The Central Carolina Network | FAYETTEVILLE MCGILV, NC (1994) SYSOP | Rocky Hurley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-672-9301 | Wire Walker's Haven | FAYETTEVILLE MCGILV, NC (1994) SYSOP | David Stephens --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-674-7553 | Dave's World | (1994-1995) SYSOP | David McDuffie --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-675-9466 | Terraces of Time | CASTLE HAYNE, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Helen Horne --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-686-1722 | Micro Computer Prod | SCOTTS HILL, NC (1994) SYSOP | Michael Ingram --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-686-1867 | Goddess Rising BBS | SCOTTS HILL, NC (1995) SYSOP | Chris Church --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-686-2182 | Nuggets Doom BBS | SCOTTS HILL, NC (1998-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-686-4338 | Micro Computer Prod | SCOTTS HILL, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Michael Ingram --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-686-4932 | Inspirations of the Goddess, Pink High Heels | SCOTTS HILL, NC (1994-1996) SYSOP | Randolph Clayton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-686-9993 | Coconut Telegraph/2 | SCOTTS HILL, NC (1995-1998) SYSOP | Greg Vandergriff --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-686-9994 | Coastal Carolina Hub, Coastal Carolina Net, Coconut | Telegraph | SCOTTS HILL, NC (1995-1998) SYSOP | Greg Vandergriff --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-696-4092 | Louie's Place | (1994-1997) SYSOP | Eugene Bauguess --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-697-2998 | Lightspeed, LightSpeed BBS, LightSpeed BBS Node 1 | Greensboro, NC (1990-1997) SYSOP | Jonathan Preston SOFTWARE | Super BBS COMMENTS | "This was run by a friend of mine from high school who | got me into BBS's. He was a real techno-geek who dressed | up as a Klingon in his spare time. Tons of fido message | boards and, as we called them back then 'door games'; | Barren Realms Elite was my favorite. I remember he was | accused at a local sysop meeting of packing his user base | to inflate his numbers." - Paul --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-697-7990 | LightSpeed BBS Node 2 | (1995) SYSOP | Jonathan Preston --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-725-2441 | Ghost Town BBS, Winston-Salem NET | ([A-2001) SYSOP | Robert Everhart SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-725-7550 | The Underworld | (1994) SYSOP | Paul Fisher --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-727-0302 | ICEHOUSE | (1983-1998) SYSOP | David Silvers --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-738-5968 | Boredom Zone | LUMBERTON, NC (1995) SYSOP | Gary Carr --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-744-9030 | The Game BBS | WILMINGTON, NC (1994) SYSOP | David Fife --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-748-9216 | WSPD BBS | (1996) SYSOP | Ronnie Abernathy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-763-1850 | Coastal Carolina Net, Wilmington**80 TBBS | WILMINGTON, NC (1983-1996) SYSOP | Mark Samwick SOFTWARE | TBBS COMMENTS | "My board was up for 13 years, from 1983-1996. It | originally started on a TRS-80 Model III running 'The | Green Machine" public-domain software written in BASIC. | After a couple of years I moved to TBBS software for the | TRS-80, and then migrated to the MS-DOS version of TBBS | around 1990. 80-MICRO magazine highlighted my board in | one of it's issues as the only one it knew of that was | being operated from within a Radio Shack store. I was the | manager of a Tandy Computer Center here in Wilmington at | the time. Of course, the corporation didn't know that I | was using some of their phone lines for a BBS, so when | the magazine came out, I was awaiting my forced | retirement phone call. It never came. But my BBS | started getting calls from all over the world requesting | support for Tandy computer products. I tried to answer | all that came in, but it definitely showed that Radio | Shack needed to set up a corporate BBS. I suggested it | at one of our annual meetings, but the idea fell on deaf | ears. I know I have that huge list of TRS-80 based BBSs | from 80-Micro around here somewhere. I left Tandy's | employment in 1987 and moved the board to my home. I was | Wilmington's first BBS, and had hoped to be it's last, | but the Internet came along and stole the attentions of | most of my BBS's adult members, leaving me with just the | troublesome teens whose parents wouldn't let them on the | Internet. I decided that it was no longer worth the time | and money to keep it going, so I pulled the plug. Now I | devote my hobby time to maintaining web sites." - Mark | Samwick --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-763-3849 | Wilmington Online Se | WILMINGTON, NC (1994) SYSOP | Jim Leutgens --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-764-8380 | InnerLink Communications BBS | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1996) SYSOP | Joey White --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-765-6455 | ADAPTABLES BBS | WINSTON-SALEM, NC (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-766-4369 | The Rebel Outpost | Clemmons, NC (1991-1995) SYSOP | Dave Flexman Hill SOFTWARE | WWIV COMMENTS | "Running this BBS back before the Internet was even | available in homes was a total blast and I still miss all | of the fun things that BBS's allowed you to do. Then the | internet came along and now BBS's are virtually extinct. | ...but that's cool too, because now I have my old BBS | name as my internet domain and have a website that can | offer so much more...even though it has not been updated | in quite some time due to school and the fact that I am | working on redesigning it. I do still have my old BBS | backed up on disk, though, so I guess I could always put | it back online again for anniversary purposes. ;) | Thanks in advance for adding my info." - Flexman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-766-4384 | The Downward Spiral, The Serial Port BBS | Clemmons, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Nate Johnson SOFTWARE | WWIV COMMENTS | "Great times! Better were the weekly meetings at Chen's | on Saturday nights!" - Anonymous --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-766-7650 | Chaos! BBS | (1994-1995) SYSOP | Jim Blair --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-768-1512 | Holistic Insanity | WINSTON-SALEM, NC (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-768-7570 | Anachro Corner | WINSTON-SALEM, NC (1995-1996) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-774-6658 | PC Solution Source | LUMBERTON, NC (1996) SYSOP | Jeff Moen --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-784-9535 | Deo Volente, PC Addict, Winston-Salem NET | (1996-1998) SYSOP | Jim Ribet, BrainBiter --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-785-9007 | The Dark Castle | Winston-Salem, NC (1990-1995) SYSOP | Black Paladin SOFTWARE | WWIV --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-786-2254 | American BBS | (1994-1996) SYSOP | Doug VanVleet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-786-5549 | Net Echo Coord, Pure Energy, PURE ENERGY - Node 1 | (1994) SYSOP | Tim Dowell --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-786-6098 | PURE ENERGY - Node 2, Surry Hub, Ten Forward | (1994-1996) SYSOP | Tim Dowell --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-788-9844 | Space Your Face BBS | (1994-1995) SYSOP | Michael Kaufmann, Mike Kaufmann --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-789-8183 | Mayberry BBS, Surry Hub | (1994-1998) SYSOP | Randy Culler SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-799-5628 | Christian Searchlight | WILMINGTON, NC (1996) SYSOP | Timothy Alford --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-799-8065 | The Fine Ride BBS | WILMINGTON, NC (1994) SYSOP | Tim Turner --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-799-9471 | Cape Fear Ratite Ra | WILMINGTON, NC (1994) SYSOP | Jack Moore --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-814-2378 | Programmer's Library | LILLINGTON, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Pete Graner --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-814-3682 | No Name BBS | LILLINGTON, NC (1996-1997) SYSOP | James Marcum --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-815-1097 | Quantum Net, Quantum.Net | WILMINGTON, NC (1995) SYSOP | Michael Ingram --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-822-1497 | La Conection Latina Americana | FAYETTEVILLE R, NC (1994) SYSOP | Justo E. Urena --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-822-2677 | Vertigo! BBS | FAYETTEVILLE R, NC (1994) SYSOP | Dave Nielsen SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-822-8695 | Force IQ | FAYETTEVILLE R, NC (1994) SYSOP | Vinson Nichols --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-824-1095 | The Circuit Board | FAYETTEVILLE, NC (1994) SYSOP | David Cox --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-824-2253 | New Moon Research Group, The Central Carolina Network | FAYETTEVILLE, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Rocky Hurley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-824-2866 | New Moon Research Group III, New Moon Research Group ][, | Wizard's World | FAYETTEVILLE, NC (1995) SYSOP | Chris Beane --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-838-3282 | The Dark Side Of The Moon | (1995-1997) SYSOP | Robert Wellborn --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-838-5114 | PC Source Tech. Support | (1995) SYSOP | Dale Prevette --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-838-8342 | The Bare's Den | (1994-1996) SYSOP | Jerry Bare --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-842-4907 | White House | HOLDEN BEACH, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Michael White --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-852-0778 | The Midnight Caller | (1994-1997) SYSOP | John Craven --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-852-2336 | Greensboro HUB, Piedmont Net, The Paragon, The Programmers | Paragon | (1993-1998) SYSOP | Jim Dever --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-852-3281 | Auto Net of the Triad | (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-852-3520 | Southern Exposure BBS | (1995-1996) SYSOP | Mike Dillard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-852-8664 | Information Plus | (1994-1997) SYSOP | J.D. Wannamaker, J D Wannamaker --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-854-1528 | The Dark Legacy | (1994) SYSOP | Matt Evans --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-855-7216 | The Tower Noctvrnvs | (1994) SYSOP | Scott Rule --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-855-8255 | The Shadow of Darkness | (1994) SYSOP | Mike Hassell --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-857-3530 | MainDoor Support and Registration, SouthEast County Hub, | The Central Carolina Network, The Hole In | The Woods BBS | (1994-1999) SYSOP | Luther Brown --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-859-2712 | The Crossroads | (1996) SYSOP | Mark Ligon --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-864-5429 | The Quick Byte Cafe | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994) SYSOP | Dan McDevitt --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-864-8163 | Treasure Coast BBS | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994) SYSOP | Hugh Bell --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-864-8898 | Fayetteville Hub #3, Fayetteville Hub 3, Fayetteville Net, | Pro Shop/2, The Pro Shop/2 | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994-1997) SYSOP | Mark Yoder --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-864-9623 | Exotic Manueverz! | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1996) SYSOP | Julie Jackson & Kenny Miller --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-867-0383 | The Snake Pit | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994) SYSOP | Pete Graner --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-867-3645 | The New Vision BBS | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Vernell Goings --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-867-5521 | Fayetteville Hub #4, Fayetteville Hub 4, Fool's Gold | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994-1997) SYSOP | Al Thorley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-867-8184 | Freelance Inc. | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Mark Emaus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-868-1214 | Smart Computers & Software Support BBS, Smart Computers | BBS | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Jason Schwarz --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-868-8558 | GODHEAD BBS | FAYETTEVILLE MO, NC (1994) SYSOP | Erik Manwaring --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-869-9963 | Business Information BBS | (1995-1998) SYSOP | Martin Frazier SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-874-7021 | The Blue Ridge BBS | ELIZABETHTOWN, NC (1994-1997) SYSOP | Dale Prevette --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-1618 | Toon Town | RAEFORD, NC (1995-1996) SYSOP | Beth Grau, Stephen Grau --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-3737 | Centurion BBS | RAEFORD, NC (1994) SYSOP | Jim Vanderpool --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-4176 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | RAEFORD, NC (1998-2000) SYSOP | Donald Neal --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-4628 | Death's Realm | RAEFORD, NC (1996-1997) SYSOP | Christopher Zinkula SOFTWARE | Renegade COMMENTS | "My parent's had just gotten the internet hooked up at | our place which made us get a second line. At that point | there wasn't too much for your average joe to do on the | 'net and we had a half broken laptop laying around the | house. So I asked my dad if I could run a BBS off of it. | The BBS was only up for about a year or so but I was | really amazed and intrigued at watching other peoples | styles of using BBS's. People sent me money to register | a few door games (L.O.R.D. and Usurper I believe) and I | got to chat with random people that I would have | otherwise not chatted with. I moved in 1997 after | getting out of high school and shut the BBS down with | it." - Christopher Zinkula --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-7080 | Fire House, Fire House BBS | RAEFORD, NC (1994-1996) SYSOP | Ron Fairbanks --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-7608 | Hawg Pen | RAEFORD, NC (1995) SYSOP | Robert Colson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-7916 | Home of DreamNet & League 283 | RAEFORD, NC (1999-2000) SYSOP | Donald Neal --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-875-9457 | Sundance's Best 'o The West | RAEFORD, NC (1994-1996) SYSOP | Shayne MacKinnon --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-879-4305 | The Hometown BBS | ELIZABETHTOWN, NC (1994) SYSOP | Lee Hinson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-879-5088 | The Dragon's Lair | ELIZABETHTOWN, NC (1994) SYSOP | Michael Cox --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-882-4227 | The Holla-Dazed Inn | (1995) SYSOP | Jeff Henry --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-883-4946 | Wild Blue Yonder | (1994) SYSOP | Aaron Millikan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-886-3435 | The Dox Shoppe | Trinity, NC (1987-1989) SYSOP | Mark Creasman (Mach I) SOFTWARE | CNET-128 COMMENTS | "I got started in the world of BBS's back in 84 or 85. I | remember getting my first "Mighty Mo" 300 baud modem for | my Commodore 64 for Christmas. After a year of just | calling other BBS's, I decided to start my own. It ran on | a Commodore 128 with a 1200 baud modem (blazing at that | time) and I had about 4 external floppy drives from which | everything ran. My handle at that time was "Mach I".
| "I chose the CNet software package because it allowed me | to really get in the guts and customize things the way I | wanted. I had users all the way from Canada that logged | in on a regular basis. On my site I provided | documentation for various apps and games that were found | on other sites. In addition, my site hosted some online | games for the users to enjoy and compete against the | other users.
"The BBS community was a great place. I | had the opportunity to meet about 10-15 of my regular | users and kept in touch with them for probably the next | 10 years, even after I closed my BBS for good. It was | truly a community of people willing to help other people | learn about the new electronic frontier and it was | awesome! In the area I was in, there were probably 4 or | 5 BBS systems that were a local call, and I got to know | the SysOps really well. We helped each other maintain our | systems and increase our userbase.
"Today I am a | Network Admin for a communications company, something I | probably would not be if it had not been for my | experience in the BBS community. The friends that I made | during that time were very instrumental in my staying in | the IT world." - Mark Creasman (Mach I) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-887-0443 | NC Public Safety, PSO BBS | (1989-1996) SYSOP | Steve Boyles SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-892-0663 | Johnny's Place | DUNN, NC (1994) SYSOP | Scott Coats --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-0141 | Gilligan's Island | ROCKINGHAM, NC (1997) SYSOP | Ravi Agarwal --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-0161 | The Guardian's Domain | Rockingham, NC (1995-1997) SYSOP | Gil Davis SOFTWARE | Renegade BBS COMMENTS | "One thing I liked to do on the BBS was to give them a | show. I had neat ansi graphics screens when you first | dialed up and logged on, you'd see a castle with an | animated door that opened. It closed when you logged off | and gave the goodbye message. I had the very first | 200Mhz Pentium system in town. It was, by far, the | fastest local BBS. I also used the fastest modem | available on the market at that time, I believe it was a | 33.6k external US Robotics. I ran the latest version of | Renegade BBS software and even had it up on FidoNet | toward the end of its run. Something else that few | people knew; from about 10pm until 8am, I would run it as | a multi-user system. I had 2 lines available for it. | Shortly before I moved away, the Internet came to town | and the BBS traffic went down a bit. If some of the old | members would like to see what I've been up to, they can | visit my website at www.gildavis.com. Thanks, all! Gil" | - Gil Davis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-0225 | Bandit BBS | Rockingham, NC (1995-1998) SYSOP | Willie Clark, Wilie Clark SOFTWARE | TriBBS COMMENTS | "I really enjoyed running my BBS, it was mostly for the | games and playing with users, also I enjoyed messing | around with the software and figuring out how things | worked and setting things up. Bandit BBS is actually | back up since July '07 through telnet at | bandit.synchro.net running Synchronet Software. I tried | for a few years to get TriBBS running through netmodem | and other software for telnet over the web but kept | having issues. I still miss alot of my old users and | hopefully even though it is dead with my new board to | make some new ones." - Willie Clark --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-0775 | CompuTech BBS | ROCKINGHAM, NC (1995) SYSOP | Frank Edens --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-1214 | Computech, CompuTech BBS, NET 3655 NEC, Rockingham Net | ROCKINGHAM, NC (1994-1998) SYSOP | Frank Edens, {OPEN} --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-1391 | Metal Zone BBS, Starfleet Academy | ROCKINGHAM, NC (1996-1998) SYSOP | J Michael Covington --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-2184 | Lonely Nut Tavern, Lonely Nut Travern, The Lonely Nut | Tavern | ROCKINGHAM, NC (1995-1999) SYSOP | Lee Montrose SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-895-9463 | Terminal Entry BBS | ROCKINGHAM, NC (1994-1995) SYSOP | Alan Bennett --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-897-4940 | Mt. Cuz Observatory BBS, Mt.Cuz Obs | DUNN (ERWIN), NC (1993-1999) SYSOP | Steve Langdon SOFTWARE | TBBS , TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-897-7340 | Genocide! | DUNN (ERWIN), NC (1995) SYSOP | Jason Ledbetter --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-922-4047 | Software & Hardware Shopper | (1995-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-922-4077 | Software & Hardware Shopper | (1994-1995) SYSOP | Glenn Makitka --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-922-4460 | Rob's Splatterboard | (1994) SYSOP | Robert Hahn --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-924-2373 | InFiNiTe rEaLiTy BBS | (1994) SYSOP | Justin Jackson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-924-6492 | Death of a Sysop | (1994) SYSOP | Josh Gates --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-938-1477 | Theme-Atic | JACKSONVILLE-BR, NC (1994) SYSOP | Adam Wood --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-938-3393 | GUILD of DEMENTED SYSOPs | JACKSONVILLE-BR, NC (1995) SYSOP | Bill Kervaski --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-938-3533 | Tim's Tavern | JACKSONVILLE-BR, NC (1994) SYSOP | Tim Sommer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-938-9296 | Artificial Reality | JACKSONVILLE-BR, NC (1996) SYSOP | Adam Wood --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-944-1165 | Sandhills, Sandhills Net, The Sandhills Net, WhiTech, | WhiTech BBS | ABERDEEN, NC (1994-1997) SYSOP | John White --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-944-3494 | Nag Nag Nag | ABERDEEN, NC (1994-1997) SYSOP | Janet Robertson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-945-3847 | Secular Humanist Exchange | (1994) SYSOP | Elissa Schroeder --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-945-6364 | Mystery Mansion ][ [ASV/GSA] | (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-947-2398 | Anonymous, Anonymous BBS | CARTHAGE, NC (1994) SYSOP | Chris Chastain --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-947-3077 | Maniac's Den, The Maniac's Den | CARTHAGE, NC (1994-1998) SYSOP | Don Warling --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-957-4307 | Net Echo Coord, The Chicken House, Wilkes Hub, Yadkin | Valley Net | LOMAX, NC (1994-1997) SYSOP | Eddie Money --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-969-1852 | Griffin's Cyber Shop | (1998-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-983-2452 | NCMicro | (1994) SYSOP | Ken Farmer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-992-0164 | Cataclysm BBS | (1995-1996) SYSOP | J.C. Doll, Charon --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-993-0485 | Definitive Intensity | (1995) SYSOP | Todd Sickmiller --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-993-4456 | Cataclysm | (1995) SYSOP | J.C. Doll --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 910-993-6634 | //FLAT LINE//, PhantasmX, R.O.I. | (1994-1995) SYSOP | Todd Sickmiller --------------+-----------------------------------------------------------