The 914 Area Code was split into the 914 and 845 area codes in 2000.
| MAP OF THE 914 AREA CODE |
| Exchange List (Before 2000) (After 2000) |
| 914-221-0774 |
RBBS IBM PC Hopewell Junction, The Sports Network BBS (1984-1987) |
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For-Pay System ($30)
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| 914-221-0980 |
Sports |
(1985) John Giberson |
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| 914-221-2248 |
Eclectic |
(1985) David Hunter |
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| 914-227-6503 |
Poughquag, NY Horse Head, SENY Northern HUB |
(1989-1994) Karl Hoedl |
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| 914-228-4321 |
Carmel, NY Infinity ACI BBS |
(1988-1992) Bret Ancowitz |
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"Hello! My BBS number was 914-228-4321. The only mention I have found of my BBS here in the Google/internet age was in an archive of FidoNet boards here: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/host-tables/FIDONet-Hosts.txt. There is also an entry into the FidoNet History Project here: http://ambrosia60.dd-dns.de/fidonet/nlarchive2.php?e=Infinity+ACI. Here is my history below: "I was the SysOp of the Infinity ACI BBS in roughly the 1988-ish to 1992 timeframe. It was an Amiga BBS and it felt like I changed BBS software every few months, given the fact that Amiga BBS software was, in general, the product of mostly amateur efforts of middling stability and almost no support. I absolutely adored BBS'ing, especially growing up as a teenager in an obscure rural area (Putnam County), with obscure teenage interests (Sci-Fi, history, politics, science), using an obscure computer system (the Amiga). So the universe of BBS'ing was for me a proxy way to explore both the world and myself. The power of computers to connect people and communities that we take for granted today was new and intoxicating during that era, especially for teens, and it had the additional allure of feeling very forbidden and "underground." Enjoying BBS's as I did, starting one became a no-brainer in high school once I convinced my parents to purchase some additional phone lines. I can't praise my parents enough. They poured time, money, and effort into helping me start what almost became a round-the-clock enterprise despite their occasional concern and their incomplete understanding of what I was doing. How perplexed (and patient) they must have been to see my Amiga running 24 hours a day, the CPU fan audible around the house, as modem connect tones punctuated the quiet at all hours of the day and night! In the middle of dinner, a connect tone would ring out and I would jump down and run to my room to see who was on my BBS and what they were doing. I don't remember why I named the BBS what I did. I vaguely remember that the Infiniti car brand was about to soon launch in the US (which they later did in 1990) and remember feeling that the name did indeed sound somewhat upscale but I disliked Nissan.s silly, deliberate misspelling with the .i. at the end. So I thought I would beat them to the use of the name and spell it correctly. The infinity symbol was great fodder for a logo as well. The ACI? I have no idea. Acronyms seemed very adult and official. I don't know if the "A" was a play on my last name or Amiga. The "C" and "I" are lost to the dark recesses of my memory. The most fun I had was in doing animated and elborate ANSI menus for the BBS, a feature most users viewed once, praised, and then promptly turned off in favor of simplified text menus. I had some active forums on my site, especially relating to the Amiga, Star Trek, and some regional issues. I tried emulating the America Online thing in vogue at the time by joining FidoNet and, I think, ICN (see The Brewster BBS). In fact, I joined what felt like every available message network and it often felt like my BBS spent as much time doing timed dialing out to exchange messages as it was available for people to dial in. In fact, I have vague memories of one phone line being exclusively used for networking and another being used for dial-in. In short order, my BBS rapidly developed a reputation for being *the* place to go in my zone of the 914 area code for networked message forums, something that was helped by the fact that Amiga BBS software at the time seemed far ahead of its PC counterparts in forum organization and management. I even tried doing updated local weather, a local visitors guide (something I started long before when I had a Commodore 128), something resembling journalism for my local community, and opinion pieces. At the BBS's peak, I probably had 2 or 3 phone lines and several users per hour and a few even paid me for "upgraded" access. I, for about 5 minutes, tried to establish an Amiga "warez" scene on the BBS which immediately failed due to my lack of cred in that community and due to a general lack of Amiga users in my area code. I got to know several of my online users very well and even met one or two in the real world. My experience keeping the BBS cobbled together, attractive, and operating became increasingly difficult as the technology, boardering the proto-internet age, started to zoom ahead. I rapidly hit the ceiling of my self-taught technical knowledge at the end of high school and was keeping things going by trial and error, the advice of generous experts on help forums, and by sheer will. It was increasingly apparent that computer-based connectivity was professionalizing, separating the truly knowledgeable from us mere tinkering hobbyists. The best BBS operators started to become people who did IT for a living or were purposefully taking computer networking or graphics design courses to keep themselves relevant as BBS.s became websites. Like many, I shut everything down before leaving home for college, which was less an event than I had imagined it would be, as my user base began to dwindle as the overall Amiga and BBS communities both entered their twilights. At the end, I ha d maybe 3 or 4 daily users. While I'm still amazed that the average American lives in a society that is drenched in a style of 24/7 connectivity far outstripping anything of my BBS youth, I can't help but feel sad that something from that BBS age has been lost." - Bret Ancowitz
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| 914-234-3453 |
Bedford, NY The World's End |
(1987-1988) Spell Binder | Genesis Deluxe |
"The original. Ran on an IBM PCjr for awhile." - Spell Binder
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| 914-235-4957 |
New Rochelle, NY The Stand
, The Stand BBS |
(1989-1994) Scott Edgar | PC-Board, PCBoard |
| 914-237-6405 |
Yonkers, NY Excalibur, Excalibur BBS |
(1984-1988) Mac Campbell |
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| 914-238-4251 |
Chappaqua, NY Chappaqua Remote, RBBS IBM PC Chappaqua Remote |
(1984-1985) RBBS |
| 914-238-5196 |
Chappaqua, NY Stuffed-Node E-MX RCP/M |
(1985) Andy Rubin |
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| 914-238-5833 |
Chappaqua, NY Programmer's Workshop, Programmers Wkshop |
(1987-1991) Mike Lepp | PCBoard |
| 914-238-8195 |
Ferretville, NY The Works BBS |
(1986-1991) Jason Scott, Terror Ferret | PCBoard, Ferret BBS (FBBS) |
BBS Run by the Now-Webmaster of TEXTFILES.COM when he was 16.
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| 914-245-2455 |
Amawalk, NY Amawalk Premium, Amawalk Premium PCB, The Amawalk BBS |
(1989-1996) Richie Cawley | PCBoard |
| 914-245-4034 |
11PM TO 7AM |
(1985) Forem ST |
| 914-246-6906 |
Saugerties, NY Data Plus, Data-Plus |
(1987-1994) Harry Kaemmerer |
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| 914-246-7605 |
Saugerties, NY RBBS IBM PC S.U.E., RBBS IBM PC S.U.E. Saugerties |
(1982-1987) Robert J Demkowicz | RBBS-PC |
"A second phone line added 1984 for rollover dialin, and scheduled store and forward of mail/files. Host files for MHVPC, mirror directory listing for NYPC, Capital PC and C - Users Group. Site moved to Rhinelan in 1988." - Robert Demkowicz
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| 914-255-8154 |
New Paltz, NY PC Paradise, PC-Paradise |
(1989-1994) Eric Barkie | Wildcat |
| 914-271-9366 |
Croton, NY Croton Computer Club, The Croton BBS |
(1989-1994) Martin Glynn | PCBoard |
| 914-277-8030 |
The Somers BBS |
(1985-1991) Steve Haase | PCBoard |
| 914-279-5693 |
Brewster, NY Brewster RBBS, RCP/M RBBS Brewster |
(1982-1983) Paul Bosshold & Carl Erhorn | RBBS |
| 914-297-0665 |
Poughkeepsie, NY BBS IBM PC Poughkeepsie, Mail reg., PC-Rain Node #1, PC-Rain Node1, Rasputin Compute's, Rasputin Computes Node #1, SouthEast NY State HUB |
(1984-1996) Ray Hyder |
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| 914-297-5616 |
Wappingers Falls, NY Software City BBS |
(1987-1991) David Burkart, Dave Burkhart | PCBoard |
40mb of Storage
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| 914-297-8810 |
Wappingers Falls, NY The 5-K BBS |
(1989-1994) Rick Kramer |
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| 914-298-0527 |
Wappingers Falls, NY The 5-K BBS |
(1988) Rick Kramer |
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| 914-298-1319 |
Wappingers Falls, NY USS Starcross |
(1978-2001) Tony Denizard |
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| 914-328-9078 |
West Harrison, NY The Wrong Number ][ |
(1986-1998) Al DeRosa |
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"Wow, Like someone else said, I can't believe my old BBS made a list! This thing started out as a way to exchange warez and became a way of life for me for 12 years. Started out on a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive, and ended as a Pentium 75 with 5 Gigs of HD Sheesh! Now all of that seems small. Something that has to be mentioned is that WE (us sysOp's) were the pioneers of the WWW. We made it possible for "users" to send email across the country (though sometimes it took days) we made it possible for people to write messages like todays newsgroups, and all this took place when AOL was known as QLink, and AppleLink. Thanks for including my BBS, who knows maybe one day I will get the bug back and put it on the web. Thanks again.." - Al DeRosa
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| 914-338-8837 |
Saugerties, NY Spectrum 007 bbs, The Spectrum 007 BBS |
(1989-1994) Albert Sorbello | PCBoard |
| 914-339-4210 |
Kingston, NY Supra Image Center, SupraBBS |
(1988-1991) Thomas Majewski | Odyssey BBS |
"We had a network of affiliated BBSs that would dial each other up each night and pass on emails. Network never made it past the Hudson Valley. My user list, however, was worldwide. Attraction was one of the largest collection of GIF pics on a small BBS around at that time. No one ever heard of spam. People were happy to get messages!" - Thomas Majewski
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| 914-339-6818 |
Kingston, NY The Ucon |
(1987-1988) Arnold Fischer |
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| 914-342-4941 |
Wawayanda, NY Luv at First Byte |
(1989-1996) George Armstrong | Wildcat |
| 914-343-2434 |
Middletown, NY Banana Republic |
(1987)
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| 914-343-3791 |
Middletown, NY Solomon's Portico |
(1988) Bryon Dayton |
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| 914-343-5065 |
Middletown, NY Ouan BBS |
(1987)
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| 914-343-5076 |
Middletown, NY TI-NET BBS |
(1987)
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| 914-343-8292 |
Middletown, NY The Beta Projections BBS |
(1985-1989) Chuck Newman |
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| 914-343-9836 |
Middletown, NY Bernie's BBS |
(1987)
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| 914-344-0833 |
Wurtsboro, NY Top Notch, Opus BBS |
(1987-1988) John Barden |
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| 914-344-4716 |
Wurtsboro, NY V.M.S. |
(1987)
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| 914-344-4718 |
Wurtsboro, NY V.M.S. |
(1987)
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| 914-352-0926 |
Monsey, NY #357 |
(1985) Eric Brown |
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| 914-352-5452 |
Spring Valley, NY The Gotham City BBS |
(1988-1994) Da Joker | WWIV, Citagel, Renegade, TAG |
"This was the best BBS in Rockland County, New York that was the first to have chat sessions with members of the BBS and first to have color DOORS games - every other BBS practically copied its style and everyone else tried hacking it for years. It was a hip BBS of the pre-Net phenom days and it later incorporated usenet groups it downloaded every so often. It was ANSI and ascii that made it very noticeable. Surprised it wasn't on the 914 or 845 area code list earlier." - Da Joker
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| 914-352-6543 |
Monsey, NY Sherwood Forest III, Sherwood Forrest ///, SHERWOOD FOREST ][ |
(1985) High Technology |
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Source of many Phreaking and Hacking Textfiles
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| 914-353-2176 |
PC Rockland, The PC-Rockland BBS |
(1985-1994) Charlie Innusa, Charles Innusa | PCBoard |
| 914-353-4256 |
The Liberator BBS |
(1988) ][llender, ][llender, ][llender | GBBS Pro |
| 914-355-3829 |
Slate Hill, NY Amiga Vault |
(1989-1990) Larry Slonaker |
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| 914-355-7508 |
Slate Hill, NY Pirate Ship |
(1987)
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| 914-356-2849 |
ComputerDiscnt |
(1988)
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| 914-357-8791 |
Satan's Hollow |
(1984) Ronnie James Dio |
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| 914-359-1517 |
Nyack, NY Sherwood Forest II BBS, SHERWOOD FOREST ][, Sherwood Forrest // |
(1982-1985) Creative Cracker | Custom Apple II software |
Home of BIOC Agent 003 and the Basics of Telecommunications Series
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| 914-361-4318 |
Blue Jay's Nest |
(1987)
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| 914-365-0180 |
Mnematics Videotext |
(1988-1991) WA2IAC/(K2SK-HR SIG) |
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| 914-368-0658 |
Suffern, NY Eastern 'C' Brd, Eastern C-Board BBS, The Eastern "C" Board, The Eastern ""C"" Board |
(1987-1994) Mike Halsall | PC-Board, PCBoard |
"This is a trip seeing this again - bringing back memories from the dialing past and man, all those boards I used to leech from - thank you for keeping it alive! The board used to run on a nice old 8mhz 8086, 1mb ram, and a snazzy hayes v-series 9600 (could talk to another v-series at 19200 - when another one of those boards were found, it was full bore for days!)... had almost 3000 users at the high water mark. I was 10 years old - thought I knew everything! :) Thanks Again." - Mike Halsall
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| 914-376-2657 |
Hire-A-Techie, The Tycoons's Tabernacle |
(1987-1991) Norman Dachamn | PCBoard |
100mb of Storage Space
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| 914-425-2613 |
Spring Valley, NY Rainbow Corner BBS |
(1986) Ted Needleman | FidoNet |
| 914-428-7216 |
White Plains, NY CITADEL Crystal Palace |
(1985) CITADEL |
| 914-429-5616 |
Stony Point, NY The Crucifixion BBS, The Crusification |
(1983-1986) Violent Fox, Torino Man (Co-Sysop) |
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| 914-442-4006 |
Music Net |
(1988)
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| 914-454-2379 |
Poughkeepsie, NY Halnet DataGrid BBS, Poughkeepsie Hub |
(1989-1998) Ronald E. Schrivani, Ronald E. Scrivani | Telegard |
"Hi; Ron here...Well, it does bring back memories seeing this compilation. I am glad to see that there are those whom care enough to preserve a little piece of history. The BBS was our internet back then. Slow....Steady.....but very Personal, and many members really enjoyed the time spent on their favorite boards. I THANK YOU ALL FOR THE CHANCE. Special thanks to: The Poet, Warren Katz, Mike Consumio, and..........FREELOVE." - Ronald E. Scrivani
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| 914-462-0363 |
Poughkeepsie, NY The Outer Limit, The OuterLimit BBS |
(1986-1996) Scott Wolpert | RBBS, Genesis |
| 914-462-1536 |
Poughkeepsie, NY PC Panic, PC-PANIC
, PC-Panic BBS, PC-PANICit |
(1986-1996) Paul Corey | PCBoard
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| 914-462-7674 |
Wapp. Falls, NY PC Rain Node #2, PC-Rain Node2, Rasputin's Annex BBS |
(1988-2000) Ray Bobak |
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| 914-462-8128 |
Wappingers Falls, NY Hudson Valley BBS |
(1988-1990) Wildcat |
| 914-472-6522 |
Scarsdale, NY PHALSE Fido |
(1986-1988) Dave O'Shea | FidoNet |
| 914-478-1097 |
Hastings, NY Forem ST MIDI Atari, Octagon |
(1989-1991) Mike Gondek | Forem ST |
| 914-482-3693 |
Jeffersonville, NY Quark, the Electronic Fanzine BBS |
(1987)
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| 914-485-3393 |
Poughkeepsie, NY COYnet Ham Radio BBS, Ham Radio, Hamnet-80 BBS, Hamnet-80(Login:GUEST, HamRadio |
(1988-1996) Bob Farrell, WB2COY | PCBoard
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| 914-528-4739 |
Peekskill, NY Fun and Games BBS, Fun&Games |
(1989-1991) Ron Day | Wildcat |
| 914-561-0864 |
HudsnVly/Amicu |
(1988)
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| 914-562-4621 |
Newburgh, NY The Land of Dementia BBS |
(1987-1991) James Nowack | PCBoard |
| 914-562-7837 |
New Windsor, NY AlterLink BBS, The Alterlink BBS |
(1986-1991) Richard Roos, Rich Roos | PCBoard |
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| 914-562-8528 |
Newburgh, NY Mid Hudson Mac, The Mid-Hudson Mac BBS |
(1988-1992) Phil Leahy | Red Ryder, Red Ryder Host |
| 914-564-3342 |
Newburgh, NY Micro Mania, Micro-Mania, MicroMania BBS, Mirco-Mania, SENY Northern HEC |
(1988-1994) John Coombs | Wildcat |
| 914-564-7228 |
Newburgh, NY Mike & Mel's All Night BBS |
(1987)
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| 914-564-9465 |
Newburgh, NY Night Shift |
(1986-1988) Wayne McWilliams (spectre13) | Genesis, RBBS |
| 914-565-3088 |
Newburgh, NY The Last Resort |
(1987-1989) Steve Davis |
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| 914-565-6696 |
Newburgh, NY Info Center BBS, InfoCenter BBS, The InfoCenter RedRyder BBS |
(1988-1992) Fritz Kass | Red Ryder, Red Ryder Host, Second Sight |
| 914-566-0130 |
Newburgh, NY "TINY", T I N Y, The Tiny BBS, TINY BBS. |
(1988-1994) Joe Santacroce | Wildcat |
| 914-576-6139 |
Smart Office Solutions (SOS), Smart Office Solutions BBS, SOS |
(1987-1994) Bob Browne | PCBoard |
| 914-591-9285 |
The Conference Center, The Conference Center (Password: EXEC) |
(1986) Ascii Express |
20mb Disk Space
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| 914-592-1959 |
Soaring SIG |
(1987-1988) Brian Shoemaker |
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| 914-592-5385 |
Nybbles-80 Elmsford |
(1982-1983)
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| 914-623-1471 |
Apple Pit I |
(1986) Torino Man | AE/CatFur/BBS, Ascii Express |
10mb of Disk Space
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| 914-626-4637 |
Accord, NY High Peaks ACOA, MetroLink Editor, Seacom Systems RBBS |
(1988-1989) Don Schryver, Dona Hall |
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| 914-628-7578 |
Prodeus Electronics BBS, U.S.S. Enterprise |
(1988-1989) Joseph Grimont |
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| 914-633-0043 |
E.B.B.B.S. Relay 3 |
(1988) Fabian Gordon |
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| 914-633-2019 |
Programmer's Forum BBS |
(1989) Wildcat |
| 914-634-1268 |
New City, NY APPLE TREK I, NET-WORKS Pirate's Lodge, NET-WROKS Pirate's Lodge 201 202 203 204 205, Pirate Trek BBS, Pirate's Lodge, PIRATES TREK, PIRATE'S TREK |
(1982-1985) NET-WORKS |
| 914-634-8385 |
D.A.T.A. |
(1985) Dennis Friedman |
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| 914-634-8692 |
West Nyack, NY The Dragon's Lair |
(1982-1989) Dragon Master, Mike Spike | Customized TBBS?/CatFur/AE Line -- 20 MB online |
"My brother and I ran the Dragon's Lair at both: 914-624-8692 914-624-8888 (later number -- mostly AE). The first experience was using commercial software -- we came home one day and some jerk hacked the BBS and deleted the software off floppy disk. So, we went back to the drawing board and took parts of other BBS software and customized it. We would love to hear from the "old school" people that were on our BBS. Funny anecdote -- when I went to high school, my typing teacher accused me of taking a typing class already :) I couldn't really tell her I was running a BBS at home. Funny anecedote (2) -- I received a call from some guy at home saying he was from the New York Times -- Science Section on a weekend and they were running a story on the BBS phenomenon. I thought it was total BS so we called the New York Times on the other phone number and asked for this guy....They transfered me to his desk and we got his voicemail. Needless to say, the short interview was very tame and not a lot of information was passed along to the New York Times :)" - Dragon Master
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| 914-635-1059 |
Pleasant Valley, NY BOARDwalk, The Boardwalk BBS |
(1989-1994) Ed Hosier | TBBS |
| 914-636-1455 |
Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, AdvComp |
(1989-1994) Skip Ross | PCBoard |
| 914-654-1981 |
New Rochelle, NY Advanced Computer Concepts, Advanced Computer Concepts Node #1, Adv'dCompCpts |
(1989-1996) Skip Ross | PCBoard
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| 914-667-2607 |
Mount Vernon, NY Amer Herald BBS, The Herald |
(1987-1988) Rich Craparo |
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| 914-667-4567 |
Mt. Vernon, NY Exec Net, Execnet BBS, ExecNet,LAN, Executive Network, The Executive Network, Executive Info Network |
(1987-1996) Andy Keeves | PCBoard
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Continues to run in present day as an ISP in Mount Vernon (www.execnet.com) | Interlink Netmail National Host - Multiline PCBoard System
"It's pretty funny. The Disk-Bomber and I met because I CNA'd him, looked up his mother's phone number and showed up at his house one day. 15 years later I was the best man in his wedding and we're still great friends." "The board was amazing for its time because he had a 20mb Apple Sider ][ at a time when 2 HD floppy disks was standard. He also had the Apple Cat with the full 1200 baud (I only had the one that did the half duplex 1200 baud). That hard drive sounded like a helicopter taking off. Thanks for bringing back the memories (and thanks for archiving a couple of my old t-files!)" - The Gremlin
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