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"I had several BBSes with different names, but settled on this one. At the time it started, I was 11 years old. I was very sick as a child and had to stay home from school and away from friends -- so this became my life. The SysOp from "Dr. Z's Computer Hospital" (Ed Grinnell) in Tulsa was a fantastic PC guru and helped me learn everything I needed to know. I don't know why he was so nice to me, but he was very gracious and happy to teach what he knew about computers. I wish I knew how to get in touch with him today to let him know how he contributed to my life! I was (to the best of my knowledge) the youngest person to have a FidoNET node in Oklahoma at the time. I remember this well because my parents had to sign a release for me to actually get a node! My family moved to Texas (in 90) where I started doing the multiline BBS thing under various names at 713-364-7180, 713-364-7181 and 713-364-7182 untill 1993. Final name was Yankee Rose. I stopped in about 93 when I dropped out of High School to simultaniously start College and begin work in the telecommunications industry. Without the BBS world and it's great people, I really don't know what I'd be doing today." - Ben Lindsey
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918-245-2354
TULSA SAND SPRI, OK |
C.E.C., Slick CEC
(1989-1991) |
Danny Wasson | |
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918-245-3456
TULSA SAND SPRI, OK |
NetSet I, THE COMPUTERCENTER
(1987-1988) |
Si Hawk | |
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918-245-5633
TULSA SAND SPRI, OK |
ComTron DataCentre, Slick Follower
(1988-1992) |
Jason Cox | |
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918-245-8618
TULSA SAND SPRI, OK |
Computer Quest
(1989-1990) |
Dennis Haber | |
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918-250-7997
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
Obvious Front
(1988) |
Joe Winett | |
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918-250-8495
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
FIRST MidAmerica Multiaccess
(1989-1990) |
Steve Dee | |
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918-251-1056
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
9 Items or Less
(1988-1989) |
Mark Barbee | |
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918-251-1612
Broken Arrow, OK |
Fat Ladies, Fat Ladies BBS
(1987) |
Michael Chasteen a.k.a. --=> The Head Hacker <=-- | Originally Genesis BBS |
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"My real name is Michael Chasteen, I am currently 42 years old. I ran one of Tulsa's first Pirate BBS's called Fat Ladies BBS from 1984 until 1992 when I was a teenager and still living at my parents house. After many months of work, I posted over 30,000 Long distance Telephone access codes through 10 different telephone companies and private business exchanges. This was known as "Phreaking". I was only known as "--=> The Head Hacker <=--" My real name was never revealed until the Tulsa County Sheriff's Department raided my parents house, led by a Dallas commissioned team with Sprint, MCI, and AT&T. They confiscated all computers, books, and software. My parents had no idea about Computers, BBS's or phreaking, they swore "We will NEVER buy you another computer!". My real name was broadcast on the 3 main local news channels 2,6,and 8. I was the first local Sysop to have not just one, but,two 20 meg hard drives! since I was running 9,600 Baud, I made people upset by kicking off 1200 baud or less users. I attended TJC (TCC) for mainframe computer programing. In the middle of my degree program mainframes went obsolete, when some guy invented some stupid program that required a "mouse and windows". Who would ever use something like that when we can just enter D.O.S. code??!? I miss ya guys, look me up on Facebook. I do ministry now days and travel to and from the Philippines."
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918-251-9110
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
The 7th Inning Stretch!
(1989) |
Kelly Griffin | |
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918-252-5542
Tulsa, OK |
1st Admendment MLTBBS, 1st Amendment TBBSML, First Amendment
(1985-1991) |
Steve Schendel, Joe Winett | TBBS |
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"Joe and I ran this system on an old Compaq Deskpro 286 motherboard with 2MB RAM and 2-30MB full height drives We didn't have a case, so the system ran on bare, on a wood board with the video and serial boards sticking up. When TBBS came out with a multiline version, we went with 6(?) lines at 1200 and 2400 baud. We had quite a following. We did picnics, we rented out a video arcade one night. We had a blast with this system. Those were the daze." - Steve Schendel "I believe we made it all the way to 8 lines. That was huge for the time. The online chat rooms were so popular, it was very difficult to logon during the evening. I have several friendships from that community that persist today, 2004. Those were the days." - Joe Winett
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918-252-9728
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
BitStream
(1989-1990) |
Steve Dressler | |
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918-254-0354
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
New Frontier, PC Designs
(1986-1989) |
Allen Alfrey | |
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918-254-5184
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
Joe's Garage
(1989) |
Joseph Savard | |
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918-254-6618
Tulsa, OK |
Africa Gate, FrontDoor HELP, FrontDoor Help USA, Oceania Gate, R19 Internet Gate, Reg 19 EchoCoord, RemoteAccess Help USA, The Heartland, The Truckstop BBS, Tulsa Area, Tulsa Hub D, TX AR OK LA, Zone1 Echo Coord
(1989-2000) |
Zonegate 3, Zonegate 5, Bruce Bodger, UUCP, Bruce Bodgers | RemoteAccess |
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918-272-7169
TULSA OWASSO, OK |
The Inter-City BBS
(1989-1994) |
Keith Martin | |
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918-272-7779
Tulsa, OK |
Black Gold BBS
(1981-1995) |
Michael Cline, Roger Ridgway | PCBoard, PCBoard 15.2 |
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From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Tulsa, Oklahoma since 06/81. Sysop: Michael Cline. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 26 lines on MS-DOS with 38000 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $30 Annual fee. Full PageSat and Planet Connect. 56k connect to Internet, 100 Doors, Full time SYSOP's and much much more. Many free areas and files with 45 minutes free access per day. 350 file areas, 3+ million messages less than 7 days old. Never Porno/Just hard work
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918-299-0785
JENKS, OK |
Black Gold
, Black Gold RBBS, Black Gold RBBS 75 Megs
(1989-1994) |
Roger Ridgway | |
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918-299-8795
JENKS, OK |
The Heaven & Hell BBS
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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918-321-3171
KIEFER, OK |
OVER THE RAINBOW
(1989-1990) |
Micki Morrison | |
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918-337-0067
BARTLESVILLE, OK |
PCBUG
(1988) |
John Westerman | |
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918-369-1001
BIXBY NORTH, OK |
China Trader, PRISM, \ CHINA TRADER \
(1988-1994) |
Barry K Krueger, Barry Krueger | |
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918-369-5032
Bixby, OK |
Person To Person
(1984-1985) |
Randal Chapman | Custom on C64 |
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"I wrote the software for the Person to Person BBS which ran on my Commodore 64! Only one user at a time but I had a fairly lively message board and some downloads. I was 14 at the time..." - Randal Chapman
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918-425-5401
TULSA, OK |
Telecom Int'l
(1987-1989) |
S. Rahseparain | |
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918-428-7285
TULSA, OK |
Tulsa Outpost
(1988) |
Paul Prag | |
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918-437-3837
TULSA GENERAL, OK |
Chem-Link Chemistry Messages
(1989-1991) |
Richard Morris | |
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918-438-2749
Tulsa, OK |
Laser Publishers, Pascal Programmers Club, Software America Inc., Tulsa Hub G
(1989-1995) |
Kelly Drown | |
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918-438-3363
Tulsa, OK |
BBS IBM PC Tulsa Info. Exchange, TIE Tulsa Information Exchange, Tulsa Info Exchange
(1983-1987) |
Steve Lerman | TBBS |
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918-446-1218
TULSA HICKORY, OK |
The Hilltop, The Hilltop BBS
(1989-1990) |
Pat Owens | |
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918-446-1523
TULSA HICKORY, OK |
Daily Planet, THE DAILY PLANET, The Electric Mall
(1988-1994) |
Eldon Simpson | |
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918-446-5219
Tulsa, OK |
BBS IBM PC Tulsa Computer Soc., Tulsa Computer Society
(1984-1985) |
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918-455-4657
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
TestPoint, The Relay Station, The Relay-Station
(1989-1990) |
Jerry Rotert | |
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918-455-5544
BROKEN ARROW, OK |
Data Warp
(1989-1994) |
Mike Meyer | PCBoard |
| Click Here to Browse Artifacts for 918-455-5544 | |
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918-481-1188
TULSA, OK |
TheGreatEscape, Tulsa Echo Gateway
(1988) |
Rob Fletcher | |
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918-492-0087
TULSA, OK |
MegaByte Image Center, Megabyte Soft
(1989-1994) |
Eric Weber | PCBoard |
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918-492-1053
TULSA, OK |
Flying Dutchmen
(1989) |
Sean Goller | |
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918-492-1749
Tulsa, OK |
Morning Star BBS, Psalms 35 BBS CfC 31
(1989-1994) |
David Wenrick | |
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"Psalm 35 BBS on QuickBBS from 1989-1991, *** Morning Star BBS *** on RemoteAccess from 1991-1994. Excellent knowledge you've gleamed and thank you for keeping this historical record going! I would also like to add that I was a Fidonet member node, a Ghoti-Net Regional Coordinator, and a Regional Coordinator for CFC. The Morning Star BBS was the largest Echomail recipient in the 918 area code with a combined 230 echos online for the users. This was only possible after Andrew Milner (Author of Remote Access) replaced the old "Hudson Database" (named for Adam Hudson, author of QuickBBS and limited to 20mb) with a larger-capacity mail depository. I was crashing my system weekly and having to keep the echos to under 100 for roughly 8 months before he released the new database and I went straight over 200 echos overnight. In addition to being one of the largest echomail boards in the country, we had the single largest depository of downloadable textfiles in the country that I have ever been aware of for a non-profit hobbyist BBS -- over 75,000 indexed and categorized public domain text files. One interesting fact is that there were more registered users from overseas than from the local 918 area code." - David Wenrick
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918-492-2101
TULSA, OK |
AE Line: ACTIVE, AE LINE: ACTIVE
(1984-1985) |
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918-493-0165
TULSA, OK |
Over The Edge BBs
(1989) |
Gregory Richardson | |
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918-493-1903
TULSA, OK |
FrontLine
(1988) |
Steve Champion | |
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918-493-2137
TULSA, OK |
Computer Aide, FIDO #19/329, FIDO #329 Computer-Aide, OPUS 170/329 UNIX C Pascal, Tech Network One, TECHNET ONE, TRANSOK ONE, Tulsa Town, Unix, Unix,C,PC-Uti
, TechNet One
(1985-1996) |
Mike Johnson | Opus
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918-493-7183
TULSA, OK |
ENTRE Fido
(1986) |
Jack Coursey | FidoNet |
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918-496-2055
TULSA, OK |
BroadsidePCjr, NjUG
(1986-1989) |
David Wollman | |
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918-582-8044
TULSA, OK |
TJC Metro Campus BBS, Tulsa Jr. College
(1985-1990) |
Dwayne Sturge, Steve Murtha | |
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918-583-0098
Tulsa, OK |
Neon Sidewalk
(1983-1987) |
Bob Glidewell | Excalibur |
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918-583-2948
TULSA, OK |
The Line BBS, The Sanctuary
(1988-1989) |
Tim Hawn | |
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918-583-3125
TULSA, OK |
Bedrock, Bedrock BBS
(1989-1990) |
Monte James | |
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918-583-3832
TULSA, OK |
Sparky BBS (170/232), The Sparky BBS
(1989-1994) |
Harry Mueller | |
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918-584-0703
TULSA, OK |
Macom/Tulsa
(1985-1986) |
Brian Tiernan | |
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918-584-5337
TULSA, OK |
Brain-Wash Yourself
(1989) |
Seth Martin | |
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918-585-2552
Sand Springs, OK |
THE SLAMMER, THE SLAMMER BBS
(1985-1991) |
M. Phillips, Michael L. Phillips | TBBS |
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"With a jailhouse theme, the SLAMMER had no SysOp; I was "The Warden". Met my wife as a user on the BBS, learning that she lived in the same apartment complex not 50 yards away. We were renegade Tulsa Computer Society members, forming a splinter group Green Country Computer Association (GCCA)." - Michael L. Phillips
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918-585-3763
TULSA, OK |
The Great Escape
(1989-1990) |
Rob Fletcher | |
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918-585-3840
TULSA, OK |
Techniboard
(1989-1994) |
Al Humphries | |
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918-587-4302
TULSA, OK |
Mystic Mansion, Mystic Mansion BBS
(1989-1990) |
Al Jump | |
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918-599-3001
TULSA, OK |
PSO Tech Board
(1986-1988) |
Bert Hunsicker | |
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918-622-1066
TULSA, OK |
Tulsa Outpost, Tulsa Outpost Remote
(1989-1991) |
Paul Prag | |
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918-622-1121
TULSA, OK |
Alpha Complex, Future City BBS, Jelly Baby, X-Factor
(1988-1993) |
Josh McCormick | Carnival, Madronna Marsh, Utopia |
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"An Atari 8-bit BBS which ran many different types of software over its lifespan. All were highly customized with unique features. Utopia was a 100% custom BBS written from the ground up. The most memorable theme of the BBS was Alpha Complex, which placed the user, er Citizen, in the role of a Troubleshooter, ala Paranoia by West End Games. One interesting feature that was implemented was data call forwarding. Because the BBS was located in the center of a large number of suburbs, it had a very wide calling area. Suburbian users could dial into the BBS, and one of the BBS's modems to dial out and make a connection to a BBS in another suburb that was normally long-distance. A later feature used call forwarding, where the line would temporarily be forwarded to the remote number, and the user would directly connect to the remote system, free of charge. The BBS would then disable call forwarding, and another user could log in, and possibly do the same thing, to another number. It was also the home to AVBList, which was a 100% automated BBS list which verified its listings each night, and pruned it of entries that hadn't responded for a period of time. It was the most accurate BBS list of its day, because it was updated nightly and automatically." - Josh McCormick
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918-622-4373
TULSA, OK |
The Circuit Board II
(1989-1990) |
Mark Farris | |
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918-627-2479
TULSA, OK |
Epson
(1989-1990) |
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918-627-6289
TULSA, OK |
Grandma's Place, Nancy's Place
(1989-1990) |
Nancy Martin | |
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918-628-0543
TULSA, OK |
Horner's Corner, Horners Corner RetailGrocery
(1989-1991) |
Don Horner | PCBoard |
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918-628-0662
TULSA, OK |
TulsaCompuSoc 2
(1989) |
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918-663-5535
TULSA, OK |
Sarco Lan Systems Inc., Sarco Limited, SARCO LTD, SARCO Ltd., SARCO Ltd. OPUS 170/208
(1986-1996) |
Jack Coursey, Jack coursey | |
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918-663-5945
TULSA, OK |
Wabbit Season BBS
(1989-1990) |
Scott Herndon | |
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918-663-7492
TULSA, OK |
Slick Leader
(1987-1988) |
Jerry Bain | |
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918-664-2679
TULSA, OK |
StarshipExcalibur
(1987) |
Gary Miller | |
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918-664-7656
TULSA, OK |
Pillars of Hercules
(1988) |
Rick Sampson | |
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918-665-2293
TULSA, OK |
THE OPERATING ROOM
(1989-1990) |
John Marlett | |
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918-687-3276
MUSKOGEE, OK |
TBBS Tulsa, Tulsa Hub C
(1989-1990) |
Floyd Grant | |
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918-687-8460
MUSKOGEE, OK |
Muskogee BBS, Muskogee OBBS
(1987-1994) |
David Bergmann | |
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918-743-5982
TULSA, OK |
Byte Me, Tulsa Lampoon
(1988-1989) |
Noel Crow | |
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918-743-6831
Tulsa , OK |
Uncle Dave's High Octane BBS
(1983-1987) |
Steve Epps, Dave McFadden | TBBS |
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"Steve Epps bought the hardware, a Tandy Model III, and added on a 10MB drive. It ran under NewDos with a Hayes 300 Smartmodem. I configured TBBS to be just plain goofy, generally parodying the other local BBSes. A lot of the sysops in the 918 list knew each other and still have contact. Si Hawk was always active in the local computer club and his booming voice was always announcing on radio & TV. Ken Dunlavy was just a wild man. Mike Lester was the owner of my ISP till recently, and now my ISP is Joe Winett. A BBS not on the list is TRACE, Tulsa Regional Atari Computer Enthusiasts. I met Sheila Spencer, the sysop, online and we got married." - The Coyote
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918-743-8347
TULSA, OK |
Palindrome
(1988) |
| Red Ryder Host |
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918-744-0249
TULSA, OK |
TulsaComputerSociety
(1988-1989) |
Paul Lindquist | |
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918-745-2448
TULSA, OK |
The Tower of London BBS, Tower of London
(1989-1994) |
Mike Looney | |
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918-747-1310
TULSA, OK |
CONNECTION-80 Tulsa
(1982-1983) |
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918-747-2453
TULSA, OK |
Tulsey Town I.T., Tulsey Towne I.T.
(1989-1992) |
Mike Sheehan | |
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918-747-2542
Tulsa, OK |
ACCESS AMERICA, Access America
(1988-1995) |
Vance Martin, Linda Hargraves | TBBS 2.2 |
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From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Tulsa, Oklahoma since 03/88. Sysop: Vance Martin. Using TBBS 2.2 with 5 lines on MS-DOS with 6,500 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. $25 /100 hours fee. REAL ESTATE MARKET with photos, Internet mail & newsgroups, JOBMARKET, Ultra Chat, .QWK mail system, PhotoClassified ads, FidoNet, Matchmaker & Personal Ads, multi-player ANSI & RIP games, 40,000+ files, 8 CD-ROM's, Oklahoma & Branson travel info & MORE! List of BBS List Keepers: Tulsa Oklahoman Area BBS List/Linda Hargraves ListKeeper: Tulsa Oklahoma Area BBS List
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918-747-3560
TULSA, OK |
IntegMicroSys
, Integrated Micro Systems BBS
(1989-1994) |
Tom Hawkins | PCBoard |
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918-747-8377
TULSA, OK |
Relayer OPUS
(1988-1989) |
Brian Cooper | |
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918-749-0059
Tulsa, OK |
BULLET-80 Tulsa, TBBS, TBBS Tulsa
(1981-1987) |
Floyd Grant | TBBS |
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"Floyd Grant's BBS was 'Bullet" when I first dialed it up in 1981 and later became (just as generic a name as Bullet) 'TBBS' when he was the first in the area to change to The BreadBoard System v1.0. This was simply THE bbs to use. It was #1 on all our dial lists, and your heart always jumped when you heard the modem finally ring instead of the busy signal. Floyd moved to Muskogee later, which you can see in other BBS listings here with his name." - The Coyote
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918-749-0718
TULSA, OK |
"C", RBBS IBM PC Tulsa
(1984-1988) |
Lynn Long | |
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918-749-4610
TULSA, OK |
Comtech FIDO
(1986) |
Allen Alfrey | FidoNet |
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918-749-9036
Tulsa, OK |
Hi-Tec, Tulsa Hub A
(1989-1995) |
Rob Ragan, Robert Ragan | |
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918-832-0867
TULSA, OK |
Magic Empire
(1989-1992) |
Al Heal | |
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918-832-1462
TULSA, OK |
The Asylum BBS, Tulsa Gas & Electric BBS, Tulsa Hub B
(1988-2000) |
Bill Schnell | |
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918-832-7711
TULSA, OK |
PowerSurge INC, PowerSurgeINC
(1987-1988) |
Scott Butler | |
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918-834-0104
TULSA, OK |
9 Items or Less
(1989) |
Mark Barbee | |
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918-835-0920
TULSA, OK |
E/t Mail Node, Tulsa Hub F
(1989-1992) |
Terry Garrett | |
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918-835-4072
TULSA, OK |
E/tech BBS, E/tech's BBS, Lost Horizons
(1988-1994) |
Terry Garrett, Rick Brumbaugh | |
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918-835-8933
TULSA, OK |
Galaxy Computer, Galaxy Computer OPUS170/999, GALAXY COMPUTER/Star One, Galaxy/Star Systems Sat., Star One HST, Tulsa Town
(1987-1995) |
Mike Lester | |
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"Mike ran a computer consulting company for many years, and his BBS was an extension of his business. Mike was an eccentric personality (as were many in the BBS scene), and with his networking and telecommunications experience, I joined him in founding the first commercial Internet service provider in the region. Mike passed away in the early 2000s, but he become a local net.legend who introduced many locals to the wonders of the late NSFNET and early commercial Internet. Mike will forever be missed!" - Josh McCormick
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918-836-2210
TULSA, OK |
Amateur Radio Board
(1988) |
Bert Hunsicker | |
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918-836-4742
TULSA, OK |
SAT EVE ONLY
(1985) |
| AMIS |
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918-836-6308
TULSA, OK |
MOTE PRIME
(1989-1990) |
Jim Burns, Howard Burns | |
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918-838-1615
TULSA, OK |
The Gunner's Mate
(1988-1994) |
Ed Shirley | |
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918-838-8698
TULSA, OK |
INFOEX-80 Tulsa
(1983-1984) |
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918-865-7578
MANNFORD, OK |
VSSI Tech Support BBS
(1989) |
Dan Steurer | |
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99 Sysops currently listed.
108 BBSes Listed.
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