201-226-0623	The Hidden Stronghold (1987-1992)	Andy Young	GBBS Pro
	"The Hidden Stronghold was a GBBS Pro system for trading Apple ][ software. This system made good use of the ProTERM emulation setting on Apple terminal software. It was a good system." - Brian Bernstein
201-239-0001 Verona, NJ	MicroSellar BBS (1983-1996)	Mark Rapp, Verona, New Jersey since 03/83	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.2
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: PCBoard 15.x alpha site. NJ's preferred BBS for the Pro 12 yrs running. 20+ hi-speed 28.8K lines. Charter m ember BBS Direct provides local access #'s for easy access. Best quality latest files games info gold mine. Many mail networks including Internet. Trial access provided. Major credit cards. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Verona, New Jersey since 03/83. Sysop: Mark Rapp. Using PCBoard 15.2 with 11 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 5100 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. No fee. PCBoard 15.x alpha site. NJ's preferred BBS for the professional 11 yrs running. HiSpeed lines for easy access. Gold mine of the best-quality, latest files, games, info. Many mail networks including Internet. Trial access provided. Major credit cards.
201-256-7499 West Paterson, NJ	The AJAX (Extra Strength) BBS, The Ajax (1990-1994)	Alan Kobb	Auntie BBS
	"I ran Ajax from 1990 through 1994. For a time, Auntie was the only BBS in New Jersey with a dedicated Scuba Diver's section. Also covered computer hardware and software and adult discussions (more toward politics and religion than sex.) I eventually shut down the BBS when it started to take too much time to run it according to my own standards. (I insisted on checking each uploaded file and message.) The main reason for running the BBS was to meet people, make friends and learn. I did all of those. I used Auntie BBS Software written by Wes Meier of the Walnut Creek BBS in California. Auntie was unique in offering excellent Sysop control and logging, the best fully-threaded message base around, and doorway access." - Alan Kobb
201-327-7808 Allendale, NJ	Eastern Alliance (1983-1987)	The Tracer	Customized Tele-Cat ][ + Ascii Express
	"Ran 202/212 AppleCat as well as USR 9600HST, Sider 20 Meg Hard Drive. Distro Point for PPG, Digital Gang and First Class for Apple Warez. Interactive gaming for credit and intergrated ASCII Express module to count download sectors won in gaming area." - James Wynen, "The Tracer"
201-327-8245 Ramsey, NJ	Hotel California (1982-1988)	Curt Stapleton	RBBS, Colossus, Wildcat!
	"Started with an IBM PC, 640K and hayes smartmodem (300 baud). System upgrades over time: Quadram quadboard, Hercules graphics card, Peachtree 10MB hard disk, 1200 baud hayes smartmodem. 24/7 (except when I was playing games or my dad actually had to use it for work)." - Curt Stapleton
201-335-2253 Hasbrough Heights, NJ	InfoHost Demo BBS (1993)	A-Comm Electronics Inc.
	Demo BBS for InfoHost BBS Software - Multiline - Database
201-337-1327 Franklin Lakes, NJ	FLEUG, Franklin Lakes ROS, The Data Exchange, The Data Exchange BBS (1984-1995)	John Dougherty	RoboBoard , RCPM, ROS (Remote Operating System), MBBS, Worldgroup
	"The BBS originally started out as the FLEUG (Franklin Lakes Epson Users Group) running the RCPM (Remote C/PM) BBS. The BBS ran only at night (yes, I used the computer during the day) for users of the Epson QX-10 computer and also supported the Epson series of printers. The board originally started out running on two 360K floppy drives; the first drive held the BBS programs and message areas, and the second drive would hold the support programs, text files & utilities. The main problem I had with the RCPM software was the fact that people had direct access to your computer and its drives and user areas. When I decided to install a hard disk, I switched to the brand new ROS BBS software, since it handled the bulletin board operations without allowing users direct access to your hard drive areas. I changed to an MSDOS system about the same time as the ROS software author, so ROS was ported to the MSDOS operating system (about 1985~1986) and I continued to run that. ROS soon was able to handle two nodes running under a multitasking software (DoubleDOS, Desqview) so I installed another phone line, bought a newer computer and another modem and let the BBS to run 24 hours a day. I Switched to MBBS around February 1990, mainly because of the ability to run multi-node operation on a single computer. I had 10 nodes up and running when I finally shut the system down on April 1995. I saw the writing on the wall; there was really no need for local BBS systems when you have the World Wide Web available." - John Dougherty
201-337-9214 Oakland, NJ	Twilight Manor BBS (1984-1986)	-=>shadow<=- (Pete Murphy)	FoReM BBS
	"I was a pretty young teenager when I got my Atari 1200xl and 1050 modem - and soon discovered the world of BBS’s (but was limited to only local numbers to avoid a toll charge). Some of the common ones I visited in the area were Devil’s Tower in Wyckoff, Skylands BBS in Ringwood, Sonnet BBS in Wayne and later Tumbleweed’s Castle in Wayne. Before long I wanted to run my own BBS, and realized the 1050 didn’t have autoanswer! So I swapped some pirated games with some guy in Wayne for a used MPP modem. It was a blast figuring out how to modify the code and creating my little ‘Twilight Manor BBS’ and started messaging and trading with other Atari nerds in the area, I’ll never forget the first time I heard a digitized song - it was a 20 second clip of Madonna’s ‘Dress You Up’ that a user uploaded to my board - which took ALL DAY to upload. XD Good times."
201-376-0816	Northlink (1982-2001)	Bruce Travers	C64
	"North*link was (is?) a C64 based system that has been around since the mid-1980's. Run out of Springfield, NJ, it was never an extremely popular system. However, it stands as one of the longest running Commodore 8-bit based BBS systems in history. Even at the turn of the millennium, it was still running off of its antiquated 300/1200 baud modem. As of this writing (September 2001), a single attempt to call the system was made. Unfortunately, only endless rings were heard from the other end of the phone. It is possible that this system has finally retired." - Brian Bernstein "Northlink actually began in 1982. In 1985, it switched software to Color64, and ran that for the entire rest of its run, from 1985 to 2005. It was always a 300/1200 baud BBS, though I remember some talk of trying to get it to hit 2400. The hardware, if I remember right, was a regular old C64 with a RAMLink and a CMD HD-200. After some temporary downtime in 2003 due to aging hardware and the health issues of the sysop, it finally went down permanently in 2005. The sysop, Bruce Travers, passed away in 2008 from complications related to cancer and heart disease. He was a good guy. I actually have some buffered message board postings from the 1993-1994 period, mostly of Bruce talking about the history of the board. It's in PETSCII format because it was a Commodore board, so I'm not sure how to best go about translating that to something that doesn't look bizarre, but you're welcome to it if you'd like." - AJH
201-376-6337	Dronefone (1986-1990)	Drone (Brian J. Bernstein)	Compunet BBS
	"Dronefone was an Apple //e based system with (originally) 2 floppy drives that eventually made it up to a 20MB Sider hard drive. From its beginning, it always ran custom software written by the Sysop. It averaged somewhere about 30-40 calls a day at its best, and was one of the first 2400 baud systems in the area. It was a member of "The BBS Triumverate", which included the systems "Middle Earth" (IBM based in Livingston) and "The Iron Castle" (C64/128 based in Florham Park). It should be noted that most of the content from this system has been archived and will one day be available on the web." - Brian Bernstein
201-376-9025 Springfield, NJ	Springfield Public Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
201-377-8245	Drew Univ I, The Drew Underground (1986-1989)	Neil Clarke and Chris Gorman	2AM BBS
	"The Drew Underground was a 2-line BBS system that was written and run by two computer science students at Drew University in Madison, NJ. The IBM PC based software was written in Pascal by the sysops, and was used by several BBS systems in the area. The two line ability was introduced when the system acquired a hard drive multiplexer for the pair of Zenith (?) PCs. A noteworthy item about this system was that it featured special access areas for students and faculty of Drew University." - Brian Bernstein
201-383-8684 Newton, NJ	Second Portal (1995-1997)	Vinny Abello	RemoteAccess , Remote Access
	"I started Second Portal as a hobby just to see how a BBS worked from the other side of things. I was totally hooked and loved maintaining it. Fidonet was a joy to be part of. Many of the things I learned about automation and system maintenance from Second Portal I apply today at my current job. Although it was a small BBS, we had a very large collection of door games enjoyed by many people. It's funny, but many people that used the board I later met inadvertently through some walk of life. I have even worked with a few of them and still work with one at my current job! :) The board was eventually shut down after I returned from a short lived attempt at college which I turned out not enjoying. I wanted my phone line for Internet access. Sorry guys! ;) I'm still into the same things, but now I'm a network engineering at Tellurian Networks working mainly with servers and routers and everything else you can possibly think of that an ISP has to do. I enjoy the latter more. I'm glad to have been part of some piece of the NJ BBS history! :)" - Vinny Abello
201-385-2821 Dumont, NJ	The Board! II (1995-1996)	Gerry Ferra	Galacticomm WorldGroup 1.01
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Since 10/95 Sysop: Gerry Ferra. Using Galacticomm WorldGroup 1.01 with 8 lines on MS-DOS 486 Pentium, with 12000MB storage Cardinal at 14400. Free trial period. Many different subscripition plans. NJ newest system with file areas with 2 CD-ROMs, many games, a cas ino, and lots of forums. Also we are a local area hub for Major.
201-398-2953 Sparta, NJ	Upside Down, Upside Down BBS, Upsidedown BBS P/W = Run, UPSIDEDOWN BBS P/W = RUN (1985-1988)	Dan Eriksen	Ascii Express, T-net, Cat-Fer
	"Customized modem handshake to auto detect bell 103/202/212 modes for AE, Cat-Fer, or BBS. AppleCat Modem with 20meg siders, Hack/Phreak/Warez (only for Elite users) http://www.textfiles.com/100/ad.txt" - Dan Eriksen
201-399-4772	Eastern New Jersey Net, EchoLink #13, Essex County Hub, Essex County NJ HUB, Hub 200 EchoMail Coordinator, Hub 900 Echo/File Distributor, Hub 900 Echomail Dude #2, Hub 900 Help Desk, Innovative Solutions, Innovative Solutions Online, Net 107 EchoMail Coord (NEC), Net 107 Tech Ops. (NTO), Net 107 Tech Ops. (NTO), Net 2630 Help Desk, Ogate/NEC, The T.E.R.N. BBS (1993-2000)	Scott Drake, Ogate/NEC	QuickBBS
	ListKeeper: New Jersey BBS's
201-427-9802 Hawthorne, NJ	Theta BBS, THE DIANETICS/SCIENTOLOGY BBS (1994-1995)	Frank Silvestro	TBBS
	THE DIANETICS/SCIENTOLOGY BBS, (201) 427-9802, Hawthorne, NJ. Sysop: Frank Silvestro. The official Dianetics(R) and Scientology (R) BBS with 2 Gigs, conferences, etc. The ONLY BBS that can guarantee TRUE Dianetics/Scientology material. Are you handling life or is life handling you? - BBS Magazine November, 1994
201-428-3959 Parsippany, NJ	The Party Zone (1983-1984)	Jeff Koyen
	"I was 13 when I got my Atari 800; I started a BBS the next year, as soon as my parents gave me my own phone line. Soon enough, my friend and I were swapping warez and swiping phone codes so we could dial into west coast BBSes. I almost lost my virginity to an "older" woman (20s) who met me on another BBS (it's probably on your list). She took me to the mall and bought me floppy discs. I was too scared to go through with it. These days. they'd call her a predator. Ah, god bless the pre-internet days." - Jeff Koyzen
201-432-2535	Coliseum 3 Nodes, COLISEUM [3NDZ], COLISEUM #1, COLISEUM [3NDZ] (1992-1995)	American Gladiator
	Afl/Inc Member BBS
201-436-9732 Bayonne, NJ	The Classic Gaming Network (Present)	Frostydasnowman	WINS
	"This bbs is only open Friday-Sunday starting at 5:00pm Eastern Time, and closing 10:00pm Sunday night. Includes everything retro...We are always working at making it better...It's currently work in progress. Please be patient with us. Thank you!" - Frostdasnowman
201-445-8152 Waldwick, NJ	Salem's Lot (1985-1994)	Vindicator	WWIV, Synchronet
	"Originally started in 1985 with a Commodore 64 and running on the NATCO BBS System. It then grew up to a Commodore Amiga for a about a year before I moved it over to a PC Compatible system. Finally took it down when I went back to school in 94." - Vindicator
201-457-0893 Bound Brook, NJ	CBBS, SJ Electronic Mail Center (1980-1985)		6800 CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
201-464-9251 New Providence, NJ	What BBS? (1986-1989)	What Sibley	Syntech BBS
	"What BBS? was a unique system run out of New Providence, NJ by an omniscient being. The unique humor and writing abilities of the sysop made this system a quite enjoyable experience. The fact that it was run on a Commodore 64 didn't bother most people because the site's content was just too much fun. No online games or anything, just a fantastic group of creative energies contributing to the experience that was What BBS?" - Brian Bernstein
201-467-2739 Elizabeth, NJ	FOG-41 (1986)	George Porcella
	Osborne Group (FOG AMO #138) member supported system, Osborne Group (FOG AMO #138) member supported system,
201-492-2396 Blomingdale, NJ	Megaplex (1992-1994)	Michael Ludwick	MajorBBS, Major BBS
	"Megaplex actually lives on today. It started off as a 4 line sci-fi image download (6 CD changer) and small chat. Then moved to the internet as Chatropolis.com. It is now a thriving adult chat community with 2000 simultaneous users at peak and a 24hr average of 1600+ chatters. It's a shame not many BBS's made the transition to the net. We were one of the first and had to write our own software in the early 90's to do it. All the time hearing it can't be done and nobody will come. Well we rate as high as 5200 on Alexa and generate 15,000 paid memberships per year. My early days in the late 80's early 90's with BBS'ing has been a major source of our success. We now run on a cluster of quad core *NIX boxes filling a half rack at Peer1. We now run on a 100Mbit connection and in 1996 we were one of the first T3's in NJ at a cost of 72,000.00 per month! But faith and a clear picture that I didn't want to be a cliquey site that booted anyone that said something the least bit offensive has continued our growth to this day." - Michael Ludwick
201-584-6308	ParaPet (1995-1997)	Pat Toner	PCBoard
	"There was a group of us who all ran BBS's who used to hang together every Saturday night, and it was in getting to know a few members of this group in the first place that I got interested in running a BBS and finally did. Mine was only a small BBS, but I still had 150 users and never advertised it anywhere! People found a lot by word-of-mouth. Other local sysops tended to know each other over the BBS chat, if not in person." - Pat Toner
201-586-8905 Rockaway, NJ	The Tammy Board BBS (1990-1997)	Elaine Stewart, Tammy Barth	PC-Board, Wildcat
	"The Tammy Board was a bit unique in that is was started and run by myself and my teenage daughter at the time...she was the 'Tammy' part! It was a good way for mother & daughter to share a common interest in computers. A gathering of all the local SYSOPS and many of their users would happen every Friday night at either my house or the House of the SYSOP of Jezebels Parlor. We called ourselves the FNG (Friday Night Group!) Sometimes as many as 30 or more would come, sometimes dragging their computers along to be looked at and fixed by the 'FNG' experts! All these years later many of us are still very good friends and still get together whenever we can." - Elaine (Stewart) Manganello
201-586-9891 Rockaway, NJ	The Dark End (1992-1994)	Dreadful Warrior (Mike Hetman)	AmiExpress
	"The Dark End was popular during its time for having distinctly 9 ongoing message boards with topics ranging from flirting to history to computers to simply arguing. In its early days, The Dark End was also an experiment in gothic ANSI art as skulls, swords and imagery of blood graced the system. In some ways, it was meant to be a virtual online horror show as even the SysOp claimed to roost in Lost Souls Cemetery. Although the BBS only ran on one phone line, there was no shortage of callers or files to download and the SysOp was often available to chat with users." - Mike Hetman
201-625-8929 Rockaway, NJ	AE Line: RUN, The Upside Down AE Line, Upsidedown AE Line, UPSIDEDOWN AE LINE (1984-1986)	Dan DAmelio	Ascii Express
	"Ascii Express Line for Software Uploads and Download, later transitioned into The Upside Down BSS ][" - Dan DAmelio
201-647-3054 HACKENSACK, NJ	Voyager BBS	Chris Kmosko	Voyager BBS (Custom)
	"The BBS was basically "a fantasy space game modeled after a popular Dungeons & Dragons type game called Traveler" with 10,000 planets in a 1,600,000 sector galaxy. I do not know the exact timespan, but it was not long if I recall correctly. The BBS was written in Pascal. I am also attaching a copy of the manual. Good thing I was able to retrieve the file off of a failing backup tape. Sadly, I have been unable to find if Voyager BBS or the software still exists. It was a fun game." - Sean Farley
201-652-4829 Glen Rock, NJ	Eastern Entertainment Exchange (E3!) (1993-1995)	Ed Lawrence	MBBS
	"I started this BBS as a chat and gaming board. We were one of the first to add the multiplayer DOOM module for MBBS and it was a big hit! When I first started this board it had 4 phone lines that we needed to request from the TelCo. They didn't have anymore available lines so they took some unused lines that were designated for the police station. The Telco had to ask permission and the police were curious why a residence would need 4 phone lines, thinking it could be a bookie operation. They called to inquire about it and after about 5 minutes of trying to explain what a computer BBS was all about, they gave up and said good luck! As others have stated, 1995 the writing was sadly on the wall and I decided to pack it in. Had lots of fun nights gaming!"
201-656-3942 Jersey City, NJ	Jewish Community Cent , Jewish Online Service, LUACH, JEWISH ONLINE SERVICE (1994-1996)	, Alex Wieder	PCBoard
	LUACH, JEWISH ONLINE SERVICE, 201 .656.3942, Sysop: Alex Wieder, Meet exciting people at Shlomo's Electronic Cafe! Discuss the latest books in Sifriya or the Palestine issue in the Knesset. Knesset. Join Nashim to discuss women & Judaism, or learn in the Bais Med rash. Databases, files, Internet and more!!! - BBS Magazine November, 1994
201-662-9274 Guttenburg, NJ	The Dark House (1994-1996)	Dan Lopez	Wildcat
	"The Darkhouse had internet email, Usenet newsgroups. and tons of files to download, with over 4 cd's online. Some very popular Doors (Online games) such as Bordello. The BBS had 4 lines which were usually all busy throughout the day, and a nightly PPTP connection to download/upload the new messages and emails going out to the net. " - Dan Lopez
201-667-9717 Nutley, NJ	Don Luby's Iron BBS and Fisherman's Paradise	Dead Ed
	"The home of Northern New Jersey's most heartless war board, and functional HQ of it's least continent gang of thugs, the Sons of Ed Gelb (SOEG)." - D. Waldman
201-703-2500 Fair Lawn, NJ	Mirage BBS, Realm of Mirage BBS (1994-2004)	Julia Howe, Julia Hiroko Howe (Iris or Cyr3n)	MajorBBS, Worldgroup 3x (Major BBS)
	"Realm Of Mirage BBS started out as a 8-node chat system in 1994 and quickly grew into an 80-node system after offering residential ISP services. The board was known as Mirage, Cyberwar BBS, Cyber Warrior, or Cyber Warrior ISP. Other staff involved as SysOps were Marian Montagnino, Vega, and MudOps Mike O'Brien and Stacey Pazana." - Julia Hiroko Howe
201-705-3787 Newark, NJ	Newark School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
201-712-1507	Radio One!, Radio-One! BBS (1990-1996)	Mike Nappi	Wildcat
	"3 node system running OS2 and wildcat with one unix (BSD version) node. IN addition to the usual items on BBS, Offered UUCP store-forward gateway access to fidonet e-mail to internet e-mail by around 1993. Was named for BBC Radio-One, as in the Hendrix song Radio One." - Mike Nappi
201-729-7046 Sparta, NJ	Candlelight Online, Candlelight Online!, Remote Host (1990-1996)	John Schumacher	MajorBBS
	"Remote Host started in 1990 as a 2 line BBS in Cedar Knolls, moved to Sparta NJ and expanded to 6 lines. Remote Host was renamed to Candlelight Online in 1994 until the system went offline in 1996." - John Schumacher
201-743-2314 Bloomfield, NJ	The Gamer's Exchange (1989-1994)	Mark J. Astarita	Wildcat
	"Wow, was it really that long ago. The years are right, actually I am not sure about the telephone number, but that is the one you have. I am an attorney, and started the BBS, for video game information in either 1988 or 1989. What a great time I had, figuring out the software and everything else that was required to run a multiline Wildcat board in the late 80s. I was an Echo coordinator in Fidonet - gee what was my address, I think, nah, I looked it up - my last address was 2605:156, here is the listing from 1992 - ,156,The_Gamers'_Exchange,Glen_Ridge_NJ,Mark_Astarita,1-201-509-7851,9600,CM,XX,HST,V32 I was around before that, this is my listing which started in 1991, I had the 743 number before that, but can't seem to find the details. Heck, its over 10 years ago. Anyway, I was in fidonet when the big split occurred in 107. Man, how important did we think that stuff was at the time. I helped start Globalnet in the 90s, and finally shut down the board in 1994 when I started a web site. Today that web site is SECLaw.com, one of the most active legal specific sites in the world. It was all about timing, too bad I didn't register business.com when I registered vgis.com in 1989! Good luck with your project!" - Mark Astarita
201-753-1225 Piscataway, NJ	ACG-NJ Apple User Group ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
201-753-9758	ACGNJ BBS #2 (1983-1990)	Kevin Tillbrook	RBBS
	"I used to run an RBBS system for the Amateur Computer Group of NJ (ACGNJ) for a number of years. It was run on a Zenith PC w/20 meg HD and later using DesqView for multi-tasking (which was way too slow on that hardware). I had a BBS running before that, but this is what I am noted for." - Kevin Tillbrook
201-765-0350 Florham Park, NJ	Old Dirt Road (1984-1991)	Black Belt Hamster/ Jim Anderson	Ivory Joe BBS derivatives
	"This started as a message board but quickly evolved into an xchange. Averaged 0-2 days warez but also had very active message board- and lots of war boards. Ran on a c64 with 300-1200 baud, eventually went to 2400 on an SX-64 and ended on conversion to Amiga and lingering interest on continuing with the c64." - Jim Anderson (Blackbelt Hamster)
201-785-1830 Totowa, NJ	The Meeting House (1991)	Bill Kreps	Phoenix RCS 1.07
	"The Meeting House was born out of my efforts in developing a fido<->uunet gateway for my employer (Res-Q - FidoNet Node 1:269/133) Not in your list. See http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/maps/uucp.bak/u.usa.nj.3 Res-Q and the company that owned it are long gone. They were pleased with the system, but were not willing to let me put as much "personal" time into it as I wanted. I developed The Meeting House as a means to improve and refine my skills, and to accomodate users who had no interest in the company, but liked my board. The Meeting House ran on a 286-16 with 2Mb Ram and a 20Mb partition. I still have the entire BBS (not including downloads) archived on 2, 1.2Mb floppy disks (5.25" media) and could bring it back up tomorrow if I really thought it would serve a purpose. Hmmm.....? Nah......." - Bill Kreps
201-785-1990 West Paterson, NJ	The Final Level, Final Level (GS Only) (1987-1994)	High Voltage	Digi-Net (GBBS Clone), Pro-Talk
	"This was my bbs which supported Apple //gs, then had a short span of time on the Amiga, and finaly died off in 94. I had the phone number up until 1996, when I moved. Nuff Said.." - High Voltage
201-797-3319 Elmwood Park, NJ	Bermuda TRiangle, Red Alert (1995-1997)	[dev]	Pcboard
	"ASBEST CREW HEADQUARTERS" - Dev
201-818-4894 Allendale, NJ	The UnderGround Oasis - TUGO (1991-1994)	Mister Twister	SPeCTRuM, Extreme, Prodoor, PCBoard
	"BBS started off small with 1 node and a few local lamers. Ended up with 3 nodes, 500 megs incoming per week, plenty of great ansis from iCE, GRiM, etc. Member board and even WHQ to countless groups -- over 90% LD callers with most heavy users coming from Germany! Eventually the Internet took over my life and I closed it down. I still have all my ansis and a zip of the BBS itself. :)" - Mister Twister
201-822-0527	The Iron Castle (1987-1989)	Iron Knight	C-Net
	"A member of "The BBS Triumverate", this Commodore 64 (later C128) based system featured good discussion and story boards, and some public domain Commodore 64/128 file transfers. A typical assortment of doors were available." - Brian Bernstein
201-822-8325 Madison, NJ	The Wolfpack, Wolfpack (1985)	Gerhard Bartsch	FidoNet
	"This was the inital incarnation of my BBS and was run on my new IBM-PC with dual 360k floppy drives, which replaced the old TRS-80 Mod I. Der Strand superceeded The Wolfpack, but was based out of Washington DC for a short while when I was in the USAF. Eventually it ran on an IBM clone with a i486 processor and a 1 or 2GB drive, and the wonderous US Robotics 9600HST modem!" - Gerhard Bartsch
201-825-7206 Mahwah , NJ	The Operating Room (1989-1991)	The Doctor	Searchlight
	"Ran this BBS for about 2 years until I moved to Illinois to go to medical school. Had a great little community feel to it." - The Doctor
201-835-9316 Pompton Plains, NJ	Metal Madness BBS (1986-1988)	Chris Mekelburg	Commodore CNET
	"This was a BBS I ran while in High School. Based around Heavy Metal Music. I called myself Slayer. Good Times were had. Thanks!" - Chris Mekelburg
201-836-0258 Teaneck, NJ	The Crystal Ship (1983-1986)	Adam Chernichaw, Mike Toth, Jacques Rosenbaum	Networks
	"We modified the software (it was in Basic) and gave it away for free. We had a loose network of bbs’ (I believe around 50 in its prime) across the US that we called “The Federation”. Was a lot of fun. Highlight of the time was a war we had with the “Roman Empire”, another group of boards, where we would crash each other’s boards."
201-845-8250	Cave of Cerebus BBS, RM Software (1994-1995)	Rosemarie Fox	C-Net-Amiga
	Product: C-Net 128
201-848-8217 Wyckoff, NJ	FOG-49 (1986)	Peter Suroff
	PRASCA Member PRASCA Member
201-854-2728	THE SPIRIT OF PLAY (1995)		The Major BBS
	THE SPIRIT OF PLAY, 201 .854.2728. Nothing but play here! Running The Major BBS ivith 4 lines. Tradewars. Global Destruction and Nova Trek are just a few of the top-notch games played here. How about multi-user Doom, Heretic and Spectre VR! Call now! - BBS Magazine October 1995
201-863-5253 Union City, NJ	Beacon Street Studios, BEACON STUDIOS 9, BEACON STUDIOS BBS, Beacon Studios BBS (1993-1996)	Conrad Koblack, Conrad & Scott, Union City, New Jersey since 01/93, Conrad Scott	MajorBBS , MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Union City, New Jersey since 01/93. Sysop: Conrad & Scott. Using Major BBS 6.11 with 15 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 15090 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. $.50 Hourly fee. NJ's largest database of downloadable files with 20 CDs on-line. Free downloads for new users with 60 min. allowed daily. Two National Chat hookups every night. InterNet, UseNet, FidoNet, MajorNet, WorldLink and ChatLink. BEACON STUDIOS BBS, 201.863.5253, Union City. M with 23 lines @14.4K. 14 CDRom's of files. 2 International Chat hook ups nightly. Games, E-Mail the world through the Internet, Fidonel, Majornet, Worldlink and Chatlink, Tailored memberships available. Tech support 201.863.5603 - BBS Magazine October 1995
201-864-1680 Union City, NJ	Chat Shack (1992-1995)	Vic Guzzetta	Galaticomm Major BBS
	"Best guess on the timespan. I'm going with the phone number you have. This BBS had about 8 lines. Although it probably had other common BBS features, it was primarily dedicated to chatting. They did charge for access, but the price was quite reasonable -- $15 bought a large number of "credits", for lots of chatting. I was an occasional chatter, so the $15 lasted several months. The members were quite friendly, even to occasional folks like me. From time to time they'd use one of their lines to crosslink with another BBS. Usually this was one evening every week or two, so there was a lot of anticipation and excitement when it did happen. One of their frequent linkups was with Chat Chalet in Marlboro. That board had a similarly friendly group. I still remember this guy "Sarge" -- quite a character, quite friendly too. Ah, memories... geez that was over 10 years ago, and at 2400 baud (I'm sure the board supported faster, but that's all I had)." - Tom Strano
201-869-8385 North Bergen, NJ	Central Control! (1986-1989)	Deeply Shrouded	Diversi-Dial/D-Dial
	"CC was one of the first multi-line systems I ran. The phone company sent a representative over to my house to find out why in God's green earth I needed 7 telephone lines in addition to the 2 the house already had. I was told I took up the wiring for the entire block. The lines are still there, but the hardware is long gone. I can still remember the day my system went up, and how fun it was to link around the country to other ddials. I also recall the day my system went offline. 30 seconds before I pulled the switch, the girl I loved logged in. The lines were disconnected the next day. I've made one or two very good friends from my ddial days and many many people who didn't like me or my system at all. I miss running the system. Perhaps I may put it back online one day when I'm much older and greyer." - Deeply Shrouded
201-874-6833 Princeton, NJ	Princeton Forum 80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
201-933-1031 Rutherford, NJ	Metal Militia (1990-1994)	TIM TDS	Amiga Sky
	"It was a single line system run on an Amiga 2000 HD, still have it in my basement. I was in high school running this. It may have started in 1988. It was 2400 baud. I think I still have the bbs manual somewhere." Tim TDS
201-935-1485 Lyndhurst, NJ	HUB 500 EchoMail Coord, Star BBS Network, Starship 2, Starship II, Starship II , Starship ][ BBS, The Galileo 7, The Starship ][ BBS, The Starship ][ BBS (1980-1997)	Peter Buonomo, Philip J Buonom, Phil Buonomo, Philip J Buonomo, Rutherford, New Jersey since 07/80, Philip J. Buonomo	TBBS, TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Rutherford, New Jersey since 07/80. Sysop: Philip J Buonomo. Using TBBS 2.3 with 32 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 10000 MB storage. All v.32bis Supportd at 19200 bps. $$0-75 No fee req fee. Operating for 14+ years, Starship is one of the longest running, most successful bbs systems EVER! FREE public access, Adult & non-adult topics, chat, files, games, & data-bases. USR, Hayes, Telebit, v.32bis 19.2 kbaud modems online, full internet access!
201-935-8634 NorthEast, NJ	TRI-STATE (1992-1995)
	TRI-STATE, Northeast's Largest Growing System, 7 lines, 1-201-935-8634, Up to 19,200, Mail, BBS Links, Live Conferences and more. TRI-STATE, Northeast's Largest Growing System, 7 lines, 1-201-935-8634, Up to 19,200, Mail, BBS Links, Live Conferences and more. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 TRI-STATE, Northeast's Largest Growing System. 7 iines, 1-201-935-8634, Up to 19.200. Mail, BBS Links, Live Conferences and more. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
201-939-5160 Wallington , NJ	Sector 64 BBS (1982-1985)	Redline	CNet
	"Commodore 64 running CNet software. Has 2 never seen before or since Commodore 1 GIG drives (still have them). Started at 300 baud, went to 2400." - Redline
201-955-6050 North Arlington, NJ	North Arlington Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
201-962-9067 Ringwood, NJ	Bluebeard's Blackboard (1985-1997)	Tom Beard, Bluebeard	TAG Version 2.6g
	"This system was started in NJ as a C-Net system, but changed to a TAG system before moving to Michigan, then to New York State where I closed it. Up 12 years in all. You have my name listed as "Tom Beard", but my name is "Thom Kirby". Thanks for the entry!" - Thom Kirby (Bluebeard)
201-968-1074 Piscataway, NJ	ABBS Apple Group N.J., Piscataway, ACG-NJ Apple User Group ABBS (1980-1985)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
201-992-0834 Livingston, NJ	Dragon's Weyr, Dragon's Weyr BBS, Dragon'sWeyr, Dragron's Weyr, The Dragon's Weyr (1984-1993)	Ron Stanions, Sauron, Dragon Master	DragonSoft, DragonSoft / C-Net
	"The Dragon's Weyr was a system that ran out of Livingston, NJ on IBM PC hardware. DragonSoft was custom software written by the Sysop, and featured a custom scripting language called AutoScript. The theme of the site was based on Dragon mythology and computers." - Brian J. Bernstein "Yes, Ron's BBS was originally on a Zeus-4 and then various Commodore machines (mostly Amigas). I think he might have had the Unix clone (Xenix if I remember right) on a PC for a while. It also used C-Net software for a good portion of the time it was up. Ron's own code was mostly just on the Zeus and then (extensive) expansions on C-Net." - Conrad Dunkerson, in a message to Gerhard Bartsch (Der Strand BBS). Both good friends of Ron's..." "I am the original Sysop of The Dragon's Weyr BBS, as well as the author of DragonSoft BBS upon which it ran. The software was originally written for a 4-user CP/M-MP/M machine and migrated its way up into the world of IBM-PC's (running multi-user under DesqView) before I released the source code to Neil Clark of 2AM-BBS fame for him to use however he saw fit. The BBS in all its phases always ran at least two phone lines plus usually had at least two additional terminals in-house for locals and visitors to connect all at the same time." - Sauron
201-992-2475 Livinston, NJ,	Atlantis (1983-1986)	David Brett	FoRum modfied by Sysop
	"Used Ascii Graphics and pioneered into one of the first BBS's with real color graphics in 1985" - David Brett
201-992-9893 Livingston, NJ	BMBBS The Hospital, General Hospital, The Hospital, GENERAL HOSPITAL (1984-1989)	Byte Master	BMBBS
	"The Hospital was the home base for BMBBS software. Based out of Livingston, NJ, this was an IBM PC based system (originally Apple ][)." - Brian Bernstein
202-327-5725 Allendale, NJ	The Eastern Alliance (1983-1987)	James Wynen	Cat-term 2.0
	"Ran 202/212 AppleCat as well as USR 9600HST, 20 Meg Hard Drive. Distro Point for PPG, Hit-Man & other Apple Warez. Interactive gaming for credit and intergrated ASCII Express module to count download sectors won in gaming area." - James Wynen, "The Tracer"
202-337-4694 Washington, DC	PSBBS Washington, Program Store Forum 80 (1980-1984)		Forum 80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
202-363-0364 Washington, DC	Duke's Domain	The Duke, Adam the Mike	WWIV
	"Lively discussions about politics, tech, and LARPing, among other things, with a very active story board where users took turns adding to an ever-growing, never-ending story. A number of game doors were installed, with the most popular among users being Legend of the Red Dragon and TradeWars2002. There was also a modest downloads section. Users were allotted 45 minutes per day, which could be split between multiple calls. WWIVnet was supported, and network messages were transferred at night. A script would run upon login which had something around a 10 - 20% chance of subjecting the user to a turn-based battle with the Snark from Alice in Wonderland. If the user lost, they would lose all of their time for the day. If they won, they would receive extra time. Both The Duke and Adam the Mike would sometimes interrupt a session and live chat with the users. Adam was The Duke's son."
202-363-1865 Washington, DC	NWDS Lights & Magix (1983-1985)	John Singleton	Networks BBS
	"I ran NWDS while in high school, and actually met my first girlfriend through it. NWDS started out as a stock Networks BBS on an Apple II+ with a Hayes Micromodem (300baud) and 5mb hard drive. I gradually rewrote all of it to include better email, online multiplayer games (taking turns each signon), graphic displays (HGR line drawings), and a romance-matchmaking game. I went pay somewhere in there because I was only earning $3.85/hr, and couldn't afford to keep the BBS going myself. NWDS was one of the more sophisticated BBSes, and so had a loyal local following. In the last year, I had about 50 paying subscribers. Lightning eventually took the BBS down, and I couldn't afford to repair the hardware. I look back at those first years online as some of the most magical ever. All the marvel and excitement of something new was there... and it was all as naive as were the 80's innocent." - John Singleton
202-364-3084 Washington, DC	AIM NET (1991-1998)	Charles Maranto	TBBS
	"The early 90s was an exciting time to run a BBS. We SYSOPS felt like real pioneers. I built this BBS for an organization in Washington DC and it was really cool to have people from across the country dialing in to read our publications and interact with us online. About 10 other organizations began sending me material to post on my BBS and I saw it as a growing clearing house for newsletters, publications and other info. I had about 10 lines coming into my BBS via an X.25 PAD to Sprint's PDN. I knew the online world was on the cusp of something much bigger. A very exciting and fun time." - Charles Maranto
202-512-1387 Washington, DC	US GPO, USGPO, GPO WINDO Online Service (1993-1996)	US Government Printing Office	None
	Fed Information from EPA, DOE, State Department - others.
202-561-9026 Bolling Airforce Base, Washington, DC	Mount Olympus, Mt Olympus (1988-1989)	Jeff Hellige	QuickBBS
	"It was actually run out of my co-sysop's townhouse, as I did all the development on a Tandy 1000HX and it didn't have a hard disk. The BBS itself ran happily off of the HX's dual floppy setup though and that is how it was tested. My cosysop's name was Mike, though I'm afraid I don't remember his last name. It was taken offline when he had a hard disk crash. Until I found your list, I no longer remembered the phone number that was used and browsing the lists for the 301/202/703 area codes brings back a lot of memories. I'm currently in the process of resurrecting Mount Olympus as a Telnet BBS, still using QuickBBS. It is already functional on my local network using NetFOSS. I currently have screenshots from one of my backups put up on my webpage at http://www.cchaven.com. Thanks for the memories. Take care." - Jeff Hellige
202-586-8658 Washington, DC	Energy Information , Energy Information Administration, Energy Info Admin E-Publications (1992-1994)	US Department of Energy
	Variety of Petroleum/Coal/Electricity Energy Statistic
202-646-2887 Washington, DC	Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) BBS, SALEMDUG (D. Wade), SALEMDUG BBS, State and Local Emergency Medical, State and Local EMS, State and Local FEMA User Groups , State and Local Emergency Mgmt. (1989-1995)	Federal Emergency Management Agency	PCBoard
	Hazardous Materials/National Dam Watch/Emergency Info
202-653-0351 Washington, DC	United States Naval Observatory BBS, USNO Time of Day (Tech Support BBS), USNO Time of Day for Clocks (1990-1993)	US Naval Observatory
	Xmits ASCII Time String - Sync Your PC to USNO Atomic Clock
202-653-1079 Washington, DC	GPS Data/USNO ADS , The Naval Observatory, U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY , US Naval Observatory BBS (1987-1994)	US Department of Commerce US Naval Observatory
	Time - Date - Sunrise - Sunset - Enter @ TCO for Commands
202-686-0059 Washington, DC	Dragon One (1982-1985)	Beltway Hacker	Self Written and Fido
	"One of the first Fido systems on the East Coast.. Originator of multiple interface selection. Run on an IBM PC Jr with outrigged 640K board and 2 5meg hard drives. Eventually 2 phone lines and user chat." - Beltway Hacker
202-707-4888 Washington, DC	ALIX II, Automated Library Info Exchange , FEDLINK ALIX II (1993-1996)	Federal Library Information Network	TBBS
	Info on Federal Libraries -Excerpts Library of Congress News
202-966-4875 Washington, DC	Ritual De Lo Habitual (1993-1994)	Perry Navarro	WWIV
	"I was the sysop, and also the network admin for AtomicNET, which was a decently sized WWIV-based network in the 202/301/703 area. As well as a few nodes in California and Seattle." - Perry Navarro
203-225-5482 New Britain, CT	Purgatory Node 1 (1992)	Brain Dead
	Nemesis Member BBS
203-226-3565 Weston, CT	LimeLight WDE, The Fine Blue Line, World Domination Enterprises, WDE (1985-1990)	Ron Sansone, Wylie Swanson	SuperBBS, QuickBBS, Fido, etc
	"after the c64 came a new phone line and new PC - this was run on a toshiba notebook with an external worm drive for the most part, later adding two 512mb scsi drives and a few cd-roms! software and name changed a few times. for most of '90/'91 the phone # forwarded to the LimeLight BBS in Wilton. " - Ron Sansone
203-227-0717 Westport, CT	PIRATES NEST (1982-1983)	David Katz
	"Can't remember the software.. it was Basic Based running on an Apple ][+ with 2 floppys and a 300 baud modem.. man, those were the days.. then I moved to Florida and started another years later..." - David Katz
203-235-9332 Meriden, CT	Cool Coco BBS (1983-1986)	Not telling	Custom drivers - Chaos OS for CoCo
	"Cool CoCo was one of the first BBS systems operating in Connecticut in 1983. We had at least three of them running in the Meriden - Wallingford area. Using hacked sprint long distance numbers the BBS was also capable of dialing out to establish "secure" connections. We tried to sell stuff like disks & software on the BBS. It seemed that everyone that we knew was able to make, break, and copy software. Pirates didn~Rt need to buy software. The BBS was run on a slightly modified RS Color Computer. One with 128 KB memory, 3 disk drives with custom hardware interrupts. The software used was called Chaos. It was an OS that Skolnik developed and tried to sell. He was a kid genius who spoke machine code as fluently as English. The hijinks that went on in that era were a hoot. Many users made attempts at crashing the system. One time a ~Sspecial~T code was sent to BBS. A code that reformatted the drive and repetitively slammed the read/write head against the sides of the unit. Not a very nice thing to do. Most memorable moment was a loud knock on the door from an FBI agent who was investigating a bank robbery. My BBS & name was posted on a Danbury BBS that was somehow involved in the crime. Considering the mass of hacked printed sprint numbers on hand the FBI encounter was nerve rattling. Another more jaded memory was the quantity of pornography that was being distributed on the Computer Bulletin Board systems." - Anonymous
203-236-3761 West Hartford, CT	Bruce's Bar & Grill, Bruce's Fido, Bruce's Fido (Fido #208), Bruces Bar&Grill, FIDO #208 Bruce's Fido, Ham, Veuxw'a Bar & Grill, W.Hartford Bar&Gril, W.Hartford Bar&Gril , West Hartford Bar & Grill, Bruce’s Bar & Grill (1984-1994)	Bruce Lomasky, Bruce Lomaski, Bruce Lomansky, Bruck Lomasky	FidoNet, TBBS
	24-line Social System - Chat - Games - Downloads
203-246-3747 New Hartford, CT	Hartford Info-Net, HH Info-Net BBS (1991-1993)	Lee Winsor	PC-Board
	MS Windows and OS/2 Files our specialty
203-259-2292 Fairfield, CT	Lost Horizon BBS (1987-1989)	Adam Freedman	Red Ryder Host
	"I ran this on a Mac+ with a 2400 External Modem. Those were the days." - Adam Freedman
203-261-3542 Monroe, CT	The Periscope (1987-1988)	David Filiatrault, Magic Fingers, The Renegade Chemist	Forum
	Holovision Network Node 3.
203-264-0394 Southbury, CT	Thaumaturgy (1992)	Alice Cooper
	T.R.F. Member BBS
203-266-5921 Bethlehem, CT	Empire (1994-1997)	Mike Eyre	TAG
	"Someone I was talking to on the phone from way back in the day pointed me to this list, and like a lot of other comments I see on here, it's a trip from the past. Some of my best memories ever were from this time. I ran TAG for my software, and had it in my room just out of high school and did a few years of it while in college. Just a little single line setup, but it was popular because of my "status" online, and some affiliations with some other known hacker and pirate software boards in the area. If you needed it, I could probably get it. I ran mostly 14.4 bps on a Zoom modem (remember those?), and I would frequently chat with people on the board. Those were good times, for certain. Just one correction, as noted above, I was in Bethlehem, CT not Southbury. And it's still second nature to me now to have area codes and prefixes memorized simply from my BBS days. To this day, my best friends are people I knew and met from the boards. Funny how some things stick with you.." - Mike Eyre
203-268-0079 Monroe, CT	Day After (1991)
	"The Day After was a post nuclear apocalypse themed board. Lots of really fascinating and creepy areas to explore, including sections about Project Blue Book and MK-Ultra long before these things were generally known. Spent many a long night exploring and reading here."
203-269-8313 Wallingford, CT	The After Board, The Vampire Connection Bbs, Vampire Connx (1990-2000)	John Melillo, John P. Melillo, John P. Melillo aka The Vampire Lestat	Telegard , Renegade, Renegard, Telegard & Renegade
	"In it's time, TVC was the busiest single line bbs in the entire state of Connecticut. At it's peak, it averaged almost 50 calls a day and almost 1000 minutes(out of 1440 possible) usage per day. (This doesn't count MY local time being logged on). I still have my bbs zipped up, as it was at the end. With my sysop logs intact from the entire run. My proudest thing about my bbs other the huge popularity it had was in the 9 years I ran the board, it was NEVER down for more than 8 consecutive hours. This includes my moving 3 times during that run. Ohhh. how we tried to one up one another. My bbs featured a little of everything, and that's why it was so good. Adult files, "elite" files, new shareware, and yes TEXTFILES, active local message bases, fidonet, kinknet, and my specialty was door games. Most bbs's had 5-10 online games, I scoured the Earth, and had 340+ at my peak." - John Melillo former aka ------------> The Vampire Lestat
203-271-2094 Cheshire, Ct	GENSIUS, GENSIUS BBS (1994-1996)	Hawke, Paladine, Apocalypse	MajorBBS
	"Wow, first of all let me start off with thanking you for this list, just reading through it has brought back some great memories! We used to run Majorbbs with a 32 line license, though we only had 8 data lines and one voice line in the office. We had the primary line set as a hunt group (rollover) so as long as there was an open line, everyone got in. In the first 2 months of being open we had 450 active users. We also had a Nakamichi 6 disc changer loaded with shareware, adult, and more files than I care to remember. We had another line in West Haven and one more in New Britain that were forwarded to the main number, so instead of multiple nodes, we effectively made ourselves local to a large portion of the state. 8 line teleconferencing, and later on we subsribed to a national majorbbs link wich gave us internet email, usenet, and about 200 boards to teleconference with. I haven't been able to remember the name of the service for about 4 years now, and can't get ahold of the other sysops, as time seperates people. We ended up closing shop when people didn't feel like paying for service, and we didn't feel like paying for 11 phone lines and the service. The bills piled up like the national library of congress. The final blow came when we attempted to go from Majorbbs to Worldgroup, and the whole system crashed. We couldn't access the backed up system that was on tape because someone password protected it and forgot the password, and we just threw in the towel. I can honestly say that we were in the right place but the wrong time, because we had a lot of active users, but internet access was just becoming available, and we couldn't afford to provide it. Those were the happiest days of my life then, reliving them through this list has made me weepy for ancient technology, long nights, and caffeine. Keep up the good work!"
203-274-2376 Oakville, CT	H.T.T. BBS, HTT, High Tech Theft (1987)	Dave Radix, Otho Radix	PC-Board
	Holovision Network Node 4
203-289-2442 East Hartford, CT	Hard Core Cafe, Loaded Deck (1985-1991)	Starquest & Billy "The Other Sysop" Blaze	BBS Express, BBS Express Professional
	"It was run on an Atari 800XL. Some users refused to believe it because it ran faster than the IBM boards at the time, plus it had ANSI support and 80 column menus. It was one of the few boards that didn't believe in rules and real names. If you didn't use a handle, you got deleted. And I know I ticked off a few other sysops in the area and across the network... ]:->" - Billy Blaze
203-299-3251	Piper'S Pit (1992)	Rowdy Roddy Piper
	Prisoners Member BBS
203-327-4101 Stamford, CT	VISAR (Rueckgauer Systems Technical Support) (1983-1988)	Jeff Rueckgauer	Virtual Services Exchange (VSX)
	"VISAR (acronym for Virtual Information Storage and Retrieval) was the online technical and customer support facility for Rueckgauer Systems between 1983 and 1986. It ran on the company's proprietary Virtual Services Exchange platform, which provided seamless integration between the BBS and the internal network for electronic mail, schedule, message boards, FAQs, file libraries and transfers. This vastly simplified sysop tasks, as the BBS appeared to be just another folder on the local network. It also freed-up the modem connection typically used by a sysop dialing in to do maintenance, or be present. "Callers could use any conventional communication/terminal program, such as Hayes Smartcom or Procomm+ for a standard TTY or ANSI interface. Callers using Rueckgauer Systems' vxC comm program in DOSMENU or DOSMENU/VS, or who were on Wang OIS or VS systems, interacted with the site exactly as if it were part of their local computer or internal network resources, using the DOSMENU user interface (which was a clone of the Wang OIS interface). Messages/discussion boards appeared as Wang or VSX mail or message boards; file libraries appeared as folders on their computer or shared from their server. "VISAR was more like a modern-day website than the typical company BBS of the day. The BBS provided clients direct interaction with the internal project management, customer service and accounting systems. "VISAR's first host was an IBM XT running DOSMENU/VS 1.1 with 640K and two external Hayes 2400 modems. The hardware was upgraded to an IBM AT running DOSMENU/VS 2.0 in early 1985 with two 4-port serial boards supporting 8 Hayes 2400 modems. The final host was an IBM PS/2 Model 80 running DOSMENU/VS 5.2 with 8mb of memory, a 320mb drive, and two 16-port serial boards with a mix of 2400 and 9600 Hayes modems. The host was connected to the network at first using a Davong ARCnet LAN; it was replaced with an IBM PC Network LAN in 1985. "The VISAR BBS was phased out during 1988 as Rueckgauer Systems moved its support platform to CompuServe. It was shutdown on October 28, 1988, coinciding with the company's relocation to Boston. The DOSMENU/VS product line sold over 10K copies of the Server product and over 40K copies of the Workstation and standalone product between introduction in 1983 and discontinuation in 1991."
203-337-1607 Shelton, CT	HandiCap news, Handicap News,! , The Handicap News, The HandiCap News BBS, Handicap News BBS (1989-1994)	Bill McGarry	Opus
	List of BBS List Keepers: BBS with Handicapped Focus/Bill MCGarry
203-345-8530 Middletown, CT	Dark Knight BBS (1990-1994)	Tony Torello
	"Elite board that ran 7pm - 7 am only on a 386dx40 and Supra 14.4. We branded this BBS number onto more VPIC .gifs than you could count. Renegade board with a warez/phreak/hack element - The Bat Cave" - Batman (Tony Torello)
203-355-5162 New Milford, CT	Cryptic Den (1992)	Crypt Roamer
	Fantasy Member BBS
203-365-0511 Bridgeport, CT	Pleasure Palace ]I[ (1992-1997)	Nancy Vaine	Maximus
	"I have no idea what possessed you to take on this project, but thank you. Looking through these pages and considering the work you've obviously done reminds me of the reasons why I put up the BBS in the first place: the online community I found at the time was so close, friendly, and eager to help that I felt I wanted to give back a little bit of all the kindness that was offered to me. Thank you." - Nancy Vaine
203-366-1234 Bridgeport, CT	Dave's Cave, Dave's Fido, Dave's Cave Opus (1983-1991)	Dave Beaudoin, Dave an Bob	FidoNet, Fido/Opus
	"Dave's Cave opus started out as Dave's Fido,, running Fido BBS ,, then later changed to Dave's Cave Opus, we where fido net/nod 141/280. first running at 300 baud then uping to 2400 at the end,,,in are last year we had 600+ users from all over the world!" - Dbeaudoin
203-371-4996 Bridgeport, CT	Pleasure Palace, The Pleasure Palace BBS (1989-1997)	Ken Lash	Opus / Maximus
	"This was an Awesome time. a time a greatness and community. You could really learn a lot and make a difference. The average person could dedicate a little time and make a huge impact on others lives. I miss all those times. A special thanks to Terry Wodek (RIP) who got me started. A special thans to Robert Somers my Best friend (Pleasure Palace II) and Nancy Vaine (Pleasuer Palace ]I[)" - Ken Lash
203-371-8769 Bridgeport, CT	Psycho Ward BBS (1991-1994)	Dennis The Menace Ryan	Cnet Amiga
	"Psycho Ward BBS took 93rd place in 1993 on the Boardwatch Top 100 BBS list in their magazine. It was a 5 line system." - Dennis Ryan
203-375-4419 Stratford, CT	Arrakis ][ (1993-1995)	Sirun-Z	Renegade
	"Ran this bbs, for a few years for my friends, at one time actually had 2 lines, got into it as a co-sysop on Starfleet HQ (which ran for about 4 years 91-95), an co-sysop as Warlocks Den, ahh the good days where you had to do more then just click to get online =) Started out on an atari 800xl with a 300 baud modem.. =)" - Sirun-Z
203-444-7607 New London, CT	Dungeon Of Who, Line Noise BBS, LineNoise BBS, UZI SUICIDE #1 (1991-1995)	Don Beck, Dondog , Don Dog	Paragon
	Paradise Member BBS Paradise Member BBS
203-468-2012 North Branford, CT	The A-Zone BBS (1994-1996)	Bruce Pantani	RoboBBS
	"This site ran RoboBBS and supported the graphical RoboTerm client. It also had a large CD-Rom changer archive and featured internet email for users at (If I recall correctly) a-zonebbs.com." - Bruce Pantani
203-496-8666 Torrington, CT	Conn-Quest , Conn-Quest BBS (1989-1994)	David Pfeffer, Dave Pfeffer	PCBoard, PC-Board
	"I was googling and was amazed to find this, how cool. I ran this :) Though it was in New Hartford, we just had the Torrington phone exchange. I don't remember what years I ran it, it was a long time ago. I now run a crappy website called www.neutralzone.tk - keep up the good work, I loved those old times :)" - Sysop of Conn-Quest
203-645-8900 Manchester, CT	Ken's BBS - later renamed Ken's PNTI (1992-1995)	Ken	rOverBoard
	I'm Kevin Brook, the creator of a Connecticut BBS List that I maintained from 1990-1993. Please read my email to you dated May 11, 2020 for some more additions to your area code 203 list when you get the chance. Tom McDonald took over editing my list in 1993 and 1994 and you have his versions of the list on your server as well as 3 versions of my list (my email provided the URLs of my versions), and his versions contain even more listings you're missing such as Late Nite BBS (203-238-3768) in Meriden, CT which ran Spitfire software and was open as of September 1994. My email is kbrook@khazaria.com
203-661-2967	Grid,a. -1279, The Grid, The Grid BBS (1988-1994)	Doug Fields	Magpie , Magpie Xenix
	Domain Name was admiral.uucp. Had UNIX shell access with Usenet and E-mail.
203-688-4973 Windsor, CT	Windsor Manor (1991-1999)	Jim Taylor	RBBS
	Over 27 Online Adventure Games
203-698-0588 Old Greenwich, CT	Starport, STARPORT - PARANET , The Ark (1986-1989)	Jim Bolster, JIM BOLSTER	Wildcat
	All computers welcome. Astronomy, NASA/space program, exploration & development, Star Trek, fantasy/adventure, sci-fi, UFO's, Sysop's & BBS's support. NE HQ of BBS World Registry, home of Paranet Theta.
203-738-0342 New Hartford, CT	H H InfoNet, H.H. InfoNet, HH Info-Net BBS, Hounds Haven BBS, Info-Net Multiline, Laser Ganes Int'l PCB, H.H. InfoNet. (1990-1995)	Lee Winsor, Glenn Field	PCBoard, PC-Board
	1200-9600 baud
203-740-2491 Danbury, CT	The African Dream (1989-1991)	Andy Shakinovsky	Maximus, BinkleyTerm
	"Hardware at the time of closing: IBM PC XT clone running at 10mhz, 640k of RAM, 20 meg hard drive, 2400 baud external USRobotics Courier modem (bought for $100 from Randy Devaux, the sysop of Star Trek (bbs:203-775-6198) to replace the 1200 baud generic modem that was flaking out). Up and running day and night in my bedroom while I was in high-school until I left home." - Andy Shakinovsky
203-743-4044 Danbury, CT	CreativeEdge,!, Paradise IV, The Creative Edge!, Creative Edge BBS (1990-1997)	Scott Wilson, Kevin Brook	Opus
	List of BBS List Keepers: Connecticut AC 203/Kevin Brook ListKeeper: Connecticut AC 203
203-746-0223 Danbury, CT	All-American Energy (1992-1994)	C. Douglas Stram	Maximus
	"Kevin Brook and Don Dawson helped set this BBS up. It was open daily from 8pm-6am. Its name was identical to the electrician sysop's business name."
203-746-0595 New Fairfield, CT	Bohemia (1986-1987)	Dave Faris	All American BBS
	"Bohemia was a Commodore 64 warez board. The software, message board and download files were all stored on a single 1541 floppy drive." - Dave Faris
203-754-9576 Waterbury, CT	Info-Net, Micro-Net (1980-1999)	Karl Ramonas	custom
	"Hi, I was just browsing the internet, and came accross your site. I am Karl Ramonas, the founder of micro-net. Actually, I began in 1980 as spectra-board. I am a developer, and i developed all the software myself, the BBS later became info-net, then micro-net micronet is actually still in existance (www.micro-net.com) , once the internet came about, i became an internet ISP, and in 1999 sold to a public company during the internet boom. i know alot of history about the early days in connecticut, i was actually one of the first 2 bbs's in connecticut, the other was called cool-coco, run by someone named cliff skolnick (also a developer)." - Karl Ramonas
203-777-5008 New Haven, CT	New Haven (1993)
	FrEdMail System
203-778-3578 Danbury, CT	Wildfire's Forest (1991-1993)	Jacob Markow	Telegard
	Wildfire's Forest was an interactive writing site, or what we used to call "continuing stories" back then. Users would log in and add on to stories in progress, a fun creative outlet. Many thanks for maintaining this list, so many boards I recognize and remember fondly!
203-795-6837 Orange, CT	B.O.M.C., B.O.M.C.(Bored of the Month Club) (1985-1989)	Ellen Snyder	Opus, Fidonet
	"This board originally went under various names such as Fido High School, and Fido Mansion, but I finally changed it to Bored of the Month Club. It orignally ran on a Columbia PC Clone, an 8088 with a 20 meg hard drive and a 1200 baud U.S. Robotics modem." - Ellen Snyder
203-799-6099 Orange, CT	Gold Barr BBS (1985-1988)	Gary Barr	PC Board
	"I ran a PC Board BBS with forums, doors, downloads on a Radio Shack Tandy 1000 [8086] with a 20 meg hard drive." - Gary Barr
203-826-2745 New Britain, CT	Purgatory Node 2 (1992)	Brain Dead
	Nemesis Member BBS
203-826-7567 New Britain, CT	Purgatory Node 3 (1992)	Brain Dead
	Nemesis Member BBS
203-826-7577 New Britain, CT	Purgatory Node 4 (1992)	Brain Dead
	Nemesis Member BBS
203-848-3393 Montville, CT	Dox Domus, Horus BBS (1991-1992)	Jacob Altovito, Pat Trainor, The Z
	Independent Member BBS
203-848-8783 Oakdale, CT	WinTower (1985-1991)	Steve Engratt	ARB BBS (C64)
	"Ran on a 1541, 1571 and two 1581 drives - a boatload of storage at the time." - Steve Engratt
203-866-2464 Norwalk, CT	Milliways (1989-1995)	Ralph Kramden & The Lunatic	GBBS Pro
	"We started Milliways as an easy way to leave messages for my parents when I went away to college, but it quickly became MUCH more than that. In fact, it got to the point where it was so busy that I had trouble logging in myself! We ran on an Apple //c with an external 800k 3.5" drive and a USRobotics Courier 2400 modem. The board ran strong until we had a winter day in 1995 with multiple power outages that killed the power supply for the //c. I was planning to move to Texas shortly thereafter and, alas, Milliways saw its last caller. I did give the software (which included a lot of customizations by both myself and The Shadow, who ran Treasure Vault ][) to a fellow who said he would run the BBS on his machine, but I'm not sure what happened after that. Great, great times. --Ralph Kramden (boy -- THERE's a handle/signoff I haven't typed in a LONG time!)"
203-869-7569 Greenwich, C	BMBBS The Firehouse, The Firehouse, The Firehouse BBS, The F][re House, The F][re House (1984-1987)	Jimmy Weeks	BMBBS, GBBS Pro, GMBBS
	"Started off with a couple of 5.25 disk drives on an Apple ][ with external Hayes Micromodem 1200 and 128k. Ended up with Promodem 9600 and dual disk Iomega bernoulli box. The BBS was featured on the front page of the Greenwich Time and an issue of inCider Magazine. The SYSOP was the Director of Telecommunications @ Greenwich Hospital and is now their CIO." - Jimmy Weeks
203-874-2685 Milford, CT	The Dark Knight BBS (1985-1987)	Gordon Murray, Bill Murray	CNET
	"24/7 bbs running on a C64, 1200/2400 BPS Hayes then Supra, (3)1541 drives complete with fan running so they would not over-heat. A elite BBS running warez, online games, chat rooms etc.. I wish I had the opening page file still. It was a nice picture of the batman logo above a building done by a friend of mine that was brilliant for a ansi graphic." - Gordon Murray
203-875-4132 Vernon, CT	Vernon IBM RBBS (1984-1986)	Bruce Walton	RBBS
	"Running the BBS was a blast. I was one of the few BBSes in my part of the state which meant I received a good variety of users. Configuring the computer to run the BBS was an adventure since it was an original IBM PC with 512K and two floppy drives." - Bruce Walton
203-877-2864 Milford, CT	Tom Sawyer's Island (1994)	Jim Santa Barbara, Today's Tom Sawyer (Jim Santa Barbara)	Virtual BBS (VBBS)
	"I was the SysOp of Tom Sawyer's Island BBS in 1994 (203-877-2864). It's pretty amazing to see that a listing for it still exists in some form on the Internet. I ran Virtual BBS (VBBS) and I got a lot of help from another SysOp in town (David Bell). In the late '80s / early '90s, I had run a Commodore 64 1200 Baud BBS called Highpoint on Color64 software, I believe on the same phone line as the later BBS. Good times! Thanks for bringing back a memory for me." - Jim Santa Barbara
203-878-2367 Milford, CT	The Hour Glass (1993-1998)	Michael Vignola	VBBS (OS/2)
	"The current entry is correct, according to my knowledge, but I'd like to add that a second line existed at 878-4276. Originally it was a 14.4k, trailing the primary's 19.2k V.everything. I guess that could give a timeframe for its introduction. Michael (sysop) mentioned to me how he had to sweet talk the phone company into getting him another line (he was up to 5 or 6 at the time.. what the others were for I do not know)." - Unknown
203-878-7808 Milford, CT	Identical Opposites (1995-1997)	Davey B. (Dave Novak)	Renegade
	te to the game, but came in with a 486 running 4 instances of DOS in OS/2 Warp - 2 internal modems, 2 external connected to 4 phone lines - ran by a 14-year old.
203-888-7952 Seymour, CT	BULET-80 OF SEYMOUR, BULLET-80 Seymour, CT (1980-1985)	JIM PETZOLD	BULLET-80
	"I STARTED THIS BBS ON AN OLD TRS80 MOD 1 WITH A HOMEMADE EXPANSION INTERFACE. I STILL HAVE THE SYYSTEM & MAY TRT TO GET IT UP AGAIN SOME DAY FOR KICKS!" - Jim Petzold
203-888-9370 Oxford, Ct	Airshow, Airshow BBS, The AirShow (1991)	Carol Rex	Spitfire
	"AirShow was restarted in Ocala, Florida in 1993 and had a final landing in 1998." - Carol Rex,
203-926-6168 Shelton, CT	Handicap News (141/420), The Handicap News, The Handicap News BBS (1989-1996)	Bill McGarry	Opus , MAXIMUS
	ListKeeper: BBS With Handicapped Focus
203-928-5310 Putnam, CT	The X-Files BBS Database, U.S.S. Excelsior NXC (1986-1994)	Peter White	SCBBS, Oblivion/2
	"My BBS went though 3 phases with some gaps (less then a year) between them. The first BBS was started about 86 on a CoCo2 with a single 5.25" drive called 'CoCo Masters Corner' on a 300bps modem. I do not recall the name of the s/w as it was some free published code out of rainbow magazine. Then I upgraded to the CoCo3, 2400bps and dual drives. I ended up buying some software called TMBBS (Time Machine BBS) which I heavily modified/re-wrote with the original programmers blessing (Paul from St. Louis whom I worked with. He included some of my mods into the core code base) and re-named SCBBS (Supreme Color BBS due to the great color ANSI graphics support of the s/w). I named the BBS 'The USS Excelsior'. The great thing about TMBBS it had 4 built in online games folks logged in could play and interact/fight with other users who would get a message next time they logged in (did not support multi-player). A D&D type game, a future trade wars type game, a text adventure you could bring your D&D character into and a casio where you could gamble (blackjack 21, slots, horse racing, dice) your loot from either of the other games. Around 92 I migrated over to a IBM and setup the final BBS, Called the 'X-Files BBS database' and ran it on Obv/2 software. I ended up running 2 physical lines with a 3rd one locally (I could log in at the PC locally while 2 other people were logged in via the nodes). I was on fidomail and with a few friends who ran BBS's even set up our own echomail network for awhile me being the central hub. Around 94 due to real lise issues I finally went off like BBS wise for good and witht he boom of the net never restarted for obvious reasons. This was a great time and I recall many fun and of course drama filled events I could perhaps write a book on. Needless to say it certainly was not a unexciting time in my life and am quite glad I was riding the wave of this once great hobby." - Peter White
203-931-4389 West Haven, CT	Corey's BBS, Coreys BBS (1994-1999)	Corey Cavalier	Spitfire v2.4
	"Corey's BBS was also a Fidonet Node from 1994 - 1999." - Corey Cavalier
203-933-5916 West Haven, CT	Reality Check (1994)	Inner Vision [iCe]	Renegade
	"ANSI Board, ICE Affiliated." - Inner Vision
203-938-8570 Redding, CT	Gumby's Hotline BBS and DDial (1988-1990)	Sean Langford	ACOS / Diversi Dial #9
	"Dual system; apple II based BBS and apple II based 7 line chat system." - Sean Langford
204-222-1769 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Les' Place, Nexus Computer Systems (1989-1990)	Leslie Bester	Waffle
	"One of the first hobbyist BBSs to offer Internet e-mail and some Usenet newsgroups. It got its feed from the University of Manitoba. A Waffle City Distribution Site." - Frootloop
204-222-6902 Winnipeg, MB	Mastermind (1986-1990)	“Mr Canoehead” (Dave)	Custom
	Originally a C-64 with 300 baud, then updated to 1200.
204-239-5227 Portage La Prairie, MB	Distillery (1980-1998)	Kelvin Krastel	Maximus
	"I started on the Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem running 64Exchange (I think). Then upgraded to a 1200 Baud modem when they were bleeding edge! Cost me a ton o money back then. Then into an IBM XT (4.77Mhz - Rocking!) and I can't remember the software package I used on the XT but I do remember getting my first 386 and the first thing to go on it was RBBS. A bitch to configure but it was very nice and stable (A MUST back then). Then on to GENESIS as a beta tester, then GENESIS Deluxe. Finally finding the most flexible package I'd ever seen in a BBS package called Maximus. I recall it had it's own programming language inside it based on C and Pascal and some other languages. MEX I believe it was. Anyway I ran that for the final years until the Internet came along. Thank God for that! Kelvin Krastel. Kelvin at Krastel dot com." - Kevin Krastel
204-253-2018 Winnipeg, MB	The Weyr, Futures Imperfect (1994-1997)	Shawn Bremaud (Ashrael / Draven)	Renegade, iNiQUiTY
	"Got my first computer in 93, 486 SX33 IBM clone with a 14.4k modem. Once I started figuring things out, found the BBS scene and immediately wanted to be a part of it. Launched "The Weyr" in 94 using Renegade. A year or two later i found iNiQUiTY BBS software (by Mike Fricker) and after much tinkering relaunched my BBS as "Futures Imperfect". At some point in there, also created the HiPNet messaging network. Made some great friends in those days and I still miss the feeling of community that was part and parcel of the BBS experience." - Shawn Bremaud
204-253-6711 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Eco Communications, Econet World H.Q., The Firin' Squad, The Modem Zone BBS (1992-1995)	Jordan Firth	Renegade
	"One of the Central Distribution Hubs for Renegade." - Jordan Firth
204-255-4588 Winnipeg, MB	Flaming Telepaths BBS (2000-2003)	Ben Strewons, Bungo Pony (Ben Strewons)	Mystic
	"Nice to see my board mentioned here! I was definately the late comer in the BBS scene. I still have the whole board archived onto CD-Roms, and have been threatening to go Telnet for years. My board originally went up on Aug. 20, 2000 and was taken down on July 30, 2001 when I was financially strapped and forced to move. The board was running Infusion BBS software for the first two weeks it was up. As I recall, there was a problem with the software's memory swapping and it wouldn't let me run games like LORD. I lost a few users because of that, and I quickly switched over to Mystic which I was very happy with. Before I took the board down, I was working on setting up internet access for those who wanted it, mainly the users with 2400 baud modems (there were quite a few). I got my feeds from Echo Beach BBS, and I arranged what was probably the last BBS Bash at The Forks in Winnipeg on Aug. 18, 2001 (five people attended including me). For the year that my board was up, it did quite well. I got some new people into BBSing and accumulated a total of 75 users. When Robin's Universe announced that it was going down, I spammed every one of his users, telling them to come over to my board. Many of them did. Thanks for putting up this page and bringing back some very fond memories!" - Bungo Pony (Ben Strewons)
204-255-8824 Winnipeg, MB	Fire & Brimstone, Fire & Brimstone BBS (1991-1992)	Chris Stone, Truckman, The Phantom, The Phantom Truckman, Chris Stone	eBBS (C64)
	"One of the longer running Winnipeg BBSs. It ran on a C64 for a long time then switched to Amiga." - Frootloop "Hi there. I'm the original SysOp of the BBS. How fondly I remember those days back in the early 90's. I started my bbs using a C64c computer and a 1541-2 disk drive. I had a crappy 1200 baud modem (Volksmodem) and sold it for a 1200 baud Commodore one. I upgraded to an Amiga 1 year later and had 3 floppy drives and a single 45 Megabyte hard drive. I ran the system from my my folks place. In 1993 I moved out and decided to stop the BBS. A few months later I sold my Amiga system for cheap, and didn't own a computer for 10 years. (Although I work in computers, I never owned one until 2003). I currently own and operate my own blog, www.stonemanautoreview.com. I love cars - and it shows. I invite you to visit my site and say hello. Thank you for mentioning my humble web site in your list. How I loved to hear people dial up and spend their time writing messages on my old system; I really appreciated their time. Sadly, with all things, they must end. But thanks again for mentioning my site." - Stoneman / The Phantom / Truckman / Chris Stone
204-256-6975 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Compu Tech, Draco (1989-1991)	Dave Rose	Waffle
	"One of the first hobbyist BBSs to offer Internet e-mail and some Usenet newsgroups." - Frootloop
204-269-0084 WINNIPEG, CANADA	System 6626 (1990-1992)	Victor Spicer	Waffle
	"One of the first hobbyist BBSs to offer Internet e-mail and some Usenet groups. It got its feed from the University of Manitoba." - Frootloop
204-275-5645 Winnipeg, MB	The Prime Directive (1995-1997)	Jason Smith	Synchronet OS/2
	"Well, this was unexpected to run across. Brings back a lot of memories. Many late nights tweaking and expanding upon the BBS. Programming new scripts and error trapping them. Those were the good ole days... I think I have a backup copy of the full system on zip disk somewhere around here. Well thank you for reminding me of some fun times..." - Jason Smith
204-334-0217 Winnipeg, MB	The Outworld BBS (1993-2000)	Lloyd Hannesson, Dasme	Renegade
	"I ran this BBS up until I had to move. Back up and running as a telnet only system now. http://outworldbbs.com/" - Dasme
204-338-3423 Winnipeg, MB	Man-Hub-7, Man-Net-NC, Manitoba Net, NLA-3, NLA-7, NLA-Hub-7, The Land BBS (1991-1999)	Chuck Collins	EBBS (C64), Maximus, EBBS 64, Dark BBS
	"This was a long running system in Winnipeg. It was originally a very popular C64 BBS in the 1980s, featuring lots of lively chat on the message boards (in 40 columns of glory), and fun software to download (especially from Europe). It later switched to the Amiga. A Usenet message circa 1989 mentions it running a "tweaked" version of Dark BBS (C64) with a 2400bps modem, and 1541 and 1571 Commodore drives for storage." - Frootloop "This was considered the premier Commodore BBS in Winnipeg in the late 80's and beyond. The line was almost always busy. Its name, The Land, was inspired by the "Thomas Covenant" science fiction series by Stephen R. Donaldson. The Sysop went by the handle "Lord Foul," based on a character from the books." - Brendan
204-338-4862 Winnipeg, MB	Crime Wave, Nuke, Yeah Whatever (1990-1996)	Jamie Ginter(Tchaikovsky)	Renegade
	"Was the WHQ For splash which was an ascii art group but it died shortly after the Board closed down." - Nat Price
204-475-5199 Winnipeg, MB	Generic BBS (1981-1999)	Victor Laking	Magpie , TriBBS, Homemade
	"Generic BBS first ran on a C=64 with a homemade program that was adapted from a Coco BBS that was running at the time. 300 BAUD modem ($800+ for 1200 BAUD at the time...) Later it switched to an IBM using TriBBS and a 2400 BAUD modem. One of the main goals for the system was to be as simple to use and friendly conversations. Generic BBS was also home to the most comprehensive and accurate BBS list available at the time." - Victor Laking ListKeeper: Known Networks ListKeeper: Manitoba , Canada List AC 204
204-488-1607 Winnipeg, Manitoba	The Inquiring Mind (1991)		Waffle, Tod Christien
	"One of the first hobbyist BBSs to offer Internet e-mail and some Usenet groups. It got its feed from the University of Manitoba." - Frootloop
204-589-1078 Winnipeg, Manitoba	Silicon Synapse Electronics	John Kamchen
	"A support BBS for the Sysop's Amiga hardware projects." - Frootloop
204-654-9424 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Clawbone (1996-2000)	Wolfgang Ernicke	TransAmiga
	Amiga Only BBS
204-661-6510 Winnipeg, MB	Outer Space (1991-1994)	Chris Wachal	Renegade
	"This BBS started running Hermes on a Mac Plus before I bought a PC and switched to Renegade. I ran a wide variety of BBS games and tried to encourage people to run RPGs in my message boards. I met some of my best friends while running this board." - Chris Wachal
204-667-5919 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Alphanet, Cybercom, Cybernetic Communications Network, Cyberspace, Muddy Water Computer Society BBS, Muddy Waters UG, MWCS Admin, MWUG, Software Etc (1986-1993)	Gord Tulloch (-=Overlord=-), Terry Smythe
	"Wow, what a blast from the past - I ran a google on my own name when they bragged they had doubled their index size and noticed your listing for my BBSes, thanks for listing me. Just to amplify comments on the local BBS scene, the Sysops for most of the boards used to get together at Garbonzo's Pizza at 12AM on Sunday morning to shoot the sh** and talk about the scene, until they kicked us out at 3 or so, then to the local pool hall til 6AM or so. The group called itself the Looney Club. A core of members that did house parties and other early morning bashes were the Hardcore Looney Club. Some of those guys I still see on occasion and are still friends for life. Here's some additional info on various incarnations of my own BBS: 1986-1988 "AlphaNet" Software: AppleNet. Ran on an Apple //e under DOS3.3 with two disk drives (total of 252K of disk!) and a 300bps modem 1988-1990 "Cybernetic Communications Network" Hardware: IBM PC XT with 10mb hard disk (later expanded to a 30mb) running RBBS and later Wildcat One of the first FIDONET nodes in Manitoba off YCN. 1990-1993 "Muddy Water Computer Society BBS" Hardware: Clone XT, 240mb disk, running RBBS (?) Online BBS for the Muddy Water Computer Society, which was originally the Muddy Water Osborne Group which ran an RCP/M at 204-832-4593 from about 1985 til it moved to MSDOS and my basement. The hard drives were pulls from the Burroughs mainframe as I recall and generated so much heat I didn't need baseboard heat in my office all winter. My parents probably wondered why their Hydro bill was so high! Eventually the BBS was moved to a commercial office owned by one of the members and grew into a 6 (?) line system with many hundreds of megs of software before the Internet made it irrelevant in about 1997." - Gord Tulloch
204-778-8707 Thompson, MB	Silverymoon BBS (1990-1993)	Kilf	All-American BBS
	C64 w/ four 1541 disk drives
204-783-3617 Winnipeg, Manitoba	Ariel II	Bruce Walzer	Ariel (Forth Language)
	"A classic Winnipeg BBS which was unabashadly dedicated to the highly technical computer, electronics and radio (HAM, etc.) enthusaist. The unique multi-user BBS with its simple to use command line interface was created from scratch by the Sysop, Bruce Walzer, in the Forth programming language on a stand alone 4 MHz Z-80 Forth system. By 1992 it was running on an 8 MHz 80186 - still perfectly adequate for the focus of the BBS. Bruce's friend, Greg Moeller, wrote his own BBS in C and copied the popular Ariel interface, launching the venerable 5-user multi-line Ariel III BBS, which later became known as Eric the BBS. (Some people didn't like the name change.)" - Frootloop
204-783-3744 Winnipeg, Manitoba	Leather and Lace (1993)	Chris Bourgeois
	"An X-rated adult BBS which was one of eight BBSs busted in coordinated raids by the Winnipeg Police in 1993, for hosting hardcore images and videos in violation of a recent Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Those systems were the first to be investigated due to the new ^� some say, obscure ^� laws, and similar raids would soon take place in Toronto. In a May 21, 1993, Winnipeg Free Press story, the Sysop of Leather and Lace said he wasn't breaking the law and vowed to re-open the BBS within days. Wired Magazine reported that most of the cases were settled by the operators receiving small fines or suspended sentences." - Frootloop
204-785-8518 Selkirk, Manitoba	Bowman's BBS	William Barrie Bowman (VE4UB)	PCBoard
	"Run by amateur radio operator VE4UB. The Bowman Micro-Software Ltd. web site declares, "... proud to have provided the longest surviving privately owned bulletin board service in Canada!"" - Frootloop
204-831-8088 Winnipeg, MAN	Davy's Booty (1986-1991)	Mony Dave, Dungeon Lord, Tiger	Silicon Calley
	"Tis I, Moby Dave, Who ran Davy's Booty way back on a c64 had an awsome 1000 k of storage Space... LOL. Just discovered this BBS list on July 31 2004 don't know if it's still up to date or not. P.S. I think I was the guy that bought that only copy od Silicon Valley Any of my ole pals out there pls email me at mobydave@shaw.ca" - Moby Dave
204-832-0235 Winnipeg, MB	Silicon Valley (1983-1988)	Robert Hayes	Custom (RBBS)
	"I'm a little sketchy on the dates and the phone number, but I recall being one of the first Sysops in Winnipeg to write a homegrown BBS program for the Commodore 64. It took up the entire 38K BASIC RAM, as well as several more K for machine language subroutines. At the time, EBBS was what everyone was using. Silicon Valley became quite popular, although I only managed to sell one copy. Being a teenager, living at home, I ran the system (with an extra 1541 drive donated by my friend) from my room upstairs! I think I shut the system down just as was heading into college. There was a HUGE BBS crowd back then in Winnipeg. We had regular parties, with people showing up from all over the BBS scene. It was really quite a great time. I hope the project goes well. BBSing was not just an online community, it was a way of life for a lot of us. " - Robert Hayes
204-837-2340 Winnipeg, MB	Latenight (1984-1987)	Tony Lettermun	Generic C-64
	"Generic C-64 code modified by Kirk Firth (Coco Master) who also worked on Victor Laking's web site. Comedy, crass, and moronic stupidity." - Tony Lettermun
204-837-7227 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Hawklord Software Tech, Hawklord Software Technologies, HST-BBS (1992-1993)	Robert McGeachy
	"The BBS ran on an Amiga. During its later years it became a UFO/fringe oriented BBS with a large collection of text files." - Frootloop
204-837-7400 Winnipeg, MB	The Digital Den (1988-1989)	Brendan Schulman	EBBS 128
	"At the time, the only BBS system in Winnipeg running the C-128 version of EBBS (80 columns). It also had the distinction of having the only hard drive operating on a Commodore-based bulletin board at the time: The 20-MB Lt. Kernal. 20 MB seemed like an unlimited amount of storage back then!" - Brendan Schulman
204-889-1432 Winnipeg, MB	Smorgas Board, 9900 Board, Winnipeg 99/4 Users (1985)	Charles Carlson
	"Ran on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4 or 4A computer and was the Winnipeg 99/4 Users' Group support BBS." - Roof of Clouds
204-895-1752 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Crucible Games		Major
	"A pay gaming service which let people play multi-user games such as Warcraft II and Duke Nukem 3D." - Frootloop
204-897-8654 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	Advanced Technologies E-Mail Services, IMP-2, ISO-12 (1994-1996)	Ray Henry, Jason Smith	Synchronet - OS/2
	"Wow. I was directed to this site by someone that claimed this list existed. It does, and there I am. There was only a couple of OS/2 boards up around here as I recall. David Storey had one, I think. I can't recall the exact numbers at this time, but we had well over 100 users, and were part of pretty well every *net. Tons of door games. The board was previously run as "Rubber Room", but attracted too many modem kiddies. I think it was up for about a year before we gave up cleaning it up, and simply changed the name. But times change, and now I have web servers rather than a BBS running in my home....." - Ray Henry
204-947-2920 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Open Access (1989-1991)	David Wetherow	Wildcat
	"From a 1990 Usenet posting: OPEN ACCESS specializes in the area of adaptive communications and computer access for people with disabilities. It is designed to provide information, idea-sharing, access and con-nections for people with disabilities, professionals, and interested citizens." - Frootloop
204-987-1234 WINNIPEG, CANADA	Blue Sky Communications Network		Original (Sparc)
	This was Winnipeg's Freenet system. It offered Internet e-mail and limited access to the web.
205-270-8489 Montgomery, AL	Forbidden Realm, The Forbidden Realm (1993-1995)	Joe Weiss (aka) The Boss	VBBS/RoboboardFX
	"I found my BBS on your list and that is exciting. I am Joe Weiss ( -=< The Boss >=- ). This BBS was grown from The Stack Shack BBS (a single node BBS running Wildcate) to a multi-node BBS running WWIV in Florida. With WWIV we started down the path of worldwide messages with FidoNET. That lead to the change to VBBS and the addition of several other message bases including my own creation called MysticNET which had nodes all across America. In 1993 the BBS was re-located to Alabama from Florida. In 1994/95 we went from being just a BBS to a full fledged ISP (WorldNet) and eventually had over 50 nodes." - Joe Weiss
205-353-8493 Decatur, AL	North Alabama Net, The Log House BBS (1992-1997)	Kerry Grissett	Wildcat!
	"I really miss the old days before the Internet took over. It was more of a real community experience and you got to know people a lot better. I am writting only to correct the dates of operation of my BBS. Although it first started with a non-dedicated phone line using a Ident-A-Ring box, a 2400 MNP modem and our one and only phone line (limited hours at first), I soon added a dedicated phone line and upgraded the modem to a USR. At the time, 14,400 bps was SUPER fast! (grin) Never made any profit from the BBS or even came close to breaking even, but that was never the point anyway. With the help of Jeff Fuller (ByteSwap) and Don Thompson (Cyclone BBS) I was able to not only enjoy being a BBS user/contributor, but also operate my own moderately successful (how do you judge success?) for over 5 years before divorce and the Internet forced me out. In any case, thanks for taking the time to compile all this BBS "trivia". Brings back some good memories." - Kerry Grissett
205-366-3639 Tuscaloosa, AL	Shades of Grey (1995-1997)	Joy Glass (Bandit)	VBBS
	"Shades of Grey died due to a hardware crash the day after Christmas... that and a corrupt floppy disk." - Joy Glass (Bandit)
205-556-8532 Tuscaloosa, AL	The Pentagon (1988-1989)	Grant Deason	Cnet 128, All-American BBS and Syntech at different times
	"Commodore 128-based system (I *think* that phone number is correct, the cobwebs are thick!), ultimately running on 4 daisy-chained floppy drives, 512K RAM expansion pack (total system memory 640K, woohoo!). First Commodore system in the local calling area to support 2400 bps connects, ran at 1200 before that time. Commodore transfer protocols included XModem and Punter (which was faster because it checked for errors less often). Fun stuff. :)" - Grant Deason
205-633-0636 Mobile, AL	TDS (The Dark Side) (1984-1988)	Randy Morrow	Color 64
	"The mid 1980's were a great time to have a BBS. I truly enjoyed every aspect of it. I ran my system on a C64 and we (as I was told) were the first system in Alabama to have the Color 64 BBS as well as our very on online space game (argh! I can't remember the name!). Also, we were the first to have a posting called "The Never Ending Story" where users would write new chapters to a story (this got us in the paper!). We ended up having a very active 350+ members with many calling in from Europe (pretty cool in the day!). Lastly, I was excited to have had a feature story done on us and our sister site "The Hotel California" (also in Mobile - by Ken Lowe) in the Mobile Press Register. I met many a friend through my site. (I hope I got the number right...we actually had Tshirts made / with number / hmm)." - Randy Morrow
205-739-3418 Cullman, AL	Southern Breeze (1992-1997)	Jimmy Bonds	Synchronet
	"Hello, and a HUGE Pat on the back for one hell of a job! I was blow away when i seen this, and even more so when I seen our little backwoods country town BBS listed! KuDoo's! on a job well done and the heart to keep history alive! It is Back! Telnet accessible as well as Dialup at same location although they changed our area code, and I tried to recover the number but couldn't so its now 256-739-8564 telnet southernbreeze.org webpage www.southernbreeze.org only the one dialup mostly for fido but publicly accessiable If theres any way to add that info when you do update the dates please let me know! and again thank you for putting a HUGE smile back on my face and a feeling of pride in seeing the little box make the list only had about 400 or so user in her prime but was a time I will never forget, and if all goes we will be repeating again." - Jim Bonds
205-792-1802 Dothan, AL	DATALINK, Datalink BBS (1984-1996)	Ody Ramey	Pcboard
	"This is great that someone has compiled a list for us hard core computer guys that worked so hard back in the day. I ran DataLink BBS in Dothan Alabama. I was just sending in so you could correct the listing. It was a multiple line (3 lines) BBS in Dothan Alabama. You show it listd in Birmingham, Al. They changed the area code some years ago to 334. The phone numbers were all 205 if I can remember correctly. 205-792-1802, 205-677-3086 and 205-677-7432... Thanks bunches." - Ody Ramey
205-824-1826 Bayou La Batre, AL	StarBase 15 (1993-1996)	Jeremy A Collier	Wildcat
	This BBS was started for Star Trek Fans and File Sharing in the South Mobile County Area and the Greater Mobile Area." - Jeremy A. Collier
205-825-6549 Auburn, AL	Tiger Town BBS (1990-1992)	Brian Blackburn	Telegard
	"Hi, this is Brian Blackburn, the sysop of tiger town bbs. I can't believe you had this listing.:) That was a LONG time ago. I comend you for putting this together. One error I did see was that I wasn't in T town I was in Auburn." - Brian Blackburn
205-825-6675 DADEVILLE, AL	The Ready Room (1996-1998)	Jaeger	Virtual Advanced
	"I still have the whole board backed up on tape somewhere. I finally took the board down because of hardware problems, and I didn't feel like rebuilding it on a new machine. Boy, was I mad about the downfall of BBS's." - Jaeger
205-881-0889 Huntsville, AL	The Bird's Nest BBS (1988-1995)	Martin Patterson	PCBoard, PC Board
	"Kye and Henry were later co-sysops and helped me run the board. Prior to running PC-Board, the BBS was called "Heartbreak Ridge BBS" and I ran it on R.O.S. - Remote Operating System. I'm pretty sure the timeline was 1988 to 1992." - Jeff McCord
205-891-3403 Albertville, AL	The Edge of CyberSpace	Brandon Crawford	VBBS
	"[From 1995 Logon Screen Capture]... Running under VBBS, 2 Nodes Zoom/Hayes 4.0 GIGAS On-line, (205)891-3403 & (205)891-4434 Sysop: Brandon Crawford." - Brandon Crawford
205-895-0028 Huntsville, AL	NASA SpaceLink, NASA's Space Link, NASA Spacelink (1992-1996)	Bill Anderson, Marshall Space Flight Center
	NASA Educational Affairs Div. - Flight Data/Space History
205-925-5099 Birmingham, AL	The Alter Ego (1989-1999)	Maggie Harden Henson	PC Board
	"This board ran on an improbability factor based on pure illogic. Our motto was "Chaos rules" because we couldn't spell "Anarchy"." - Maggie Harden Henson
205-928-2515 Fairhope, AL	PURPLE 12, Purple 12 (1981-1985)	Purp-Op (Thomas Dougherty)	Forem ST, Forem XT
	"Purple 12 was published in Antic Magazine, and now here. Those were some of the best days of my life!" - Thomas Dougherty
205-938-2145 West Blocton, AL	The Hanging Tree, The Round Table (1989-1992)	Michael Staggs	WWIV, Telegard
	"This BBS had a byline "Bham's Only Occult BBS" and I actually had occult feeds from Modem Magick in El Cajon, CA as well as FIDOnet (and I believe WWIVnet) feeds from The DuckPond BBS in Birmingham. It was actually boycotted by several Christian groups in Birmingham, AL." - Michael Staggs "This BBS was a bit controversial because of the name. However, at the time, I was a Christian and took the name "The Hanging Tree" as a reference to the cross. Rumors circulated that I was a racist and the name was a racist reference, however, it couldn't have been further from the truth. After I gave up Christianity in 1990 and became an occultist, the name was changed to The Round Table and you have an entry for that already." - Michael Staggs
205-942-6621 Birmingham, AL	Birmingham Microcomputer Group (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue).
206-241-7899 Burien, Seattle, WA	Sidhe Mail, SidheMail (1992-1996)	Herb Mitchell, HR Mitchell	SuperBBS, Wildcat!
	"SidheMail originally ran under SuperBBS and migrated over to WildCat!5 just as Mustang sold it to Santronics. It was a one-node BBS for most of its existence, as the second line was our home number and couldn't be used for the BBS all of the time. We carried FIDO, PODS and a few other, smaller networks including one from Australia called NuitNet. It was a great time to be a Sysop." - HR Mitchell
206-244-1766 Seattle, WA	Dark Tower (1986-1987)	Nicodemus, Psychotic Circus	Cit, Citadel
	"I just wanted to get the SysOp names listed here, and I'm honored that our BBS made it to this list." - N. Tresch
206-244-6115 Seattle, WA	Orbiter (1988-1994)	Glen Gorman	Minibin
	"Orbiter ran on a Citadel room system named MiniBin. It was written in Level II basic for the TRS-80 Model I by the sysop, Glen Gorman. The last known hardware the board ran on was an LNW-80 (A Model I clone) with a pair of 8" floppy drives."
206-251-0543 Renton, WA	Tech Alliance Line, Tech Alliance Line 1, The A P P L E Crate, The Apple Crate, The A.P.P.L.E. Crate (1980-1999)	A.P.P.L.E. Staff	TBBS, GBBS Pro
	This was the official BBS for the Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange, started by A.P.P.L.E. Members and staff, Robert Clardy and Don Williams along with Darrell and Ron Aldrich. The Final System Operator for The A.P.P.L.E. Crate was Norman Dodge
206-253-9389 Vancouver, WA	Freedom Board, Pro-Freedom (1983-1993)	Neil Hoopman	Proline
	"That was my BBS and it was actually just called .Freedom Board. using the Proline software by Morgan Davis. It really ran from about 1983 or 4 to 1988, not In the 1990.s. The early days of the BBS used the GBBS software by Greg Schaffer. At first it ran on an Apple //e with two floppy drives then later an Apple //GS with a 5MB hard disk (not 5GB, lol). The Proline software allowed us to get usenet newsfeeds, be a part of Fidonet and users could drop into a UNIX like command line. It was a sweet piece of software. Way above the pay grade of the lowly 6502 and 65C816 8 bit machines it ran on. Those were fun days when social media was civil, not anti-social and people actually wanted to learn how to tinker with the hardware and software of computers." - Monty McNew, Freedom Board sysop
206-255-6321	Steel Dream (1992)	Future Shock
	Independent Member BBS
206-256-1842 Vancouver, WA	Hangar 18 (1989-1990)	Mike Teague	Ivory BBS (C64)
	"Part time, on my parents' phone line from 8pm-7am!" - Mike Teague
206-258-4680 Everett, WA	Jupiter S. Station, Jupiter Station (Sci-Fi) (1990-1993)	Robert Swartz	Searchlight
	"Just a correction to one of your entries. :) Robert's BBS was our (The Mirage BBS) "sister" BBS. Both of our userbases were made up of people with similar interests. Ours had more files and his had larger message bases." - Telkibear
206-264-5941	Pains Point BBS (1994-1996)	Kris Keller Jr, Kristopher Keller, Jr.
	"I was one of the first in the state to obtain a Zoom 24,000 bps modem as a test pilot. I implemented RIP graphics as soon as it was released, but never really took off. I went into the military in 96 and let the BBS run itself, it lasted about a year before there was hardware failure and it just never revived. I ran Proboard under various configurations at different times DOS/Desqview/OS2 Warp/Netware Lite. I actually ran this BBS in Wisconsin a few years prior, but didn't have fidonet anything. A guy that ran Kim-Talk (an underground BBS with lots of goodies) got me into the sport. He had some crazy 12 node type setup with some Amigas. Thanks for the awesome memories." - Kristopher Keller
206-272-6343 Tacoma, WA	Mac's Revenge (1986-1988)	Mark Gregory	Fido
	"The BBS was named after the owners dog, Mac."
206-275-3352 Grapeview, WA	Grapeview Grapevine (1990-1994)	Mike Uglow	PC Board
	"This BBS actually had 3 nodes, which was pretty great for the time. It was run by my Dad. It's funny, but when 'dating' myself in regards to my internet experience, I tell people... 'I was on the web before there was a web. Do you know what a BBS was?' Games and endless conversations, but so much simpler then... I do miss it." - Victrinia Uglow Ridgeway
206-283-6771	Slumberland (1991-1994)	Wendi Dunlap	MacCitadel, TwinCit
	"The BBS is also accessible at telnet://bbs.slumberland.org and is quite active!" - Wendi Dunlap
206-285-3898 Tacoma, WA	GemStar Info Services, Gemstar Information Services (1991-1995)	Vince Callaway	CocoNet
	"Vince founded Washington Internet Services in 1996. The company currently lives on as Telisphere, a subsidary of Amerion, Inc."
206-285-5359 Bellevue, WA	Investor's Online, Investor's Online , Investor's Online Data, Investors Online Link, Investor's Online Data Node 1, Investor’s Online Data (1987-1996)	Riley Condor, Don Shepherdson	BBS-PC
	Online Investment/Stock Market Information/Tech Analysis
206-325-5967	Memory Alpha (1990)	Dana Seaney aka Heather R. Scott	DragCit
	"StarTrek themed BBS." - Dana Seaney
206-337-4410 Everett, WA	Final Eclipse (1992)	Phontom Dude
	Independent Member BBS
206-343-5688 Seattle, WA	CyberQuest, DataStore, Cyberquest (1993-1995)	Scott Brown, Seattle, Washington since 11/93
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Seattle, Washington since 11/93. Sysop: Scott Brown. Using TBBS 2.2 with 18 lines on MS-DOS with 10000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $.25 Hourly fee. Full internet access, home of Seattle After-Dark. Telnet to cyberquest.com. Extensive shareware, files, news via satellite. Active & friendly chat areas. Multi-player games, Connex, newsgroups, FidoNet. Flexible rates, free trial. All credit cards.
206-363-8969 Seattle, WA	Babble, Babel, Tower of Babel (1987-1994)	Bob Perigo	Babel301, Citadel, BabelCit, Cit2.29, BabeCit
	"The Tower of Babel ran a custom version of Citadel 2.25 (CP/M) called BabelCit. The hardware the board ran on was a CP/M machine called the Pied Piper."
206-364-4519	House Of Magic #1 (1992)	Radical Rick
	Independent Member BBS
206-367-3837	Eskimo North, Eskimo North , Eskimo North Line 1, EskimoNorth, EskimoNorth1$ (1987-2004)	Robert Dinse, Bob Dinse/Nanook
	List of BBS List Keepers: Seattle AC 026/West Washington/Bob Dinse/Nanook ListKeeper: Seattle AC 206/West Washington
206-367-7949 Shoreline, WA	BBS IBM PC Seattle, Midnight PC, The Midnight PC (1984-1987)	James Shields
	"James, the sysop, wrote this in assembly and it was created as a script language for bbs's that even allowed other programs (like a pascal adventure game I wrote) to run in a shell." - solararis
206-391-0373 Issaquah, WA	The Flying Dutchman (1992-1995)	Tomcat (JPV)	Remote Access
	"Sister site to Jeffrey Kopczynski's The Flying Dutchmen. Ran out of Tomcat's bedroom on a 386sx." - Tomcat
206-433-9014 Burien, WA	Section 109 (1986-1988)	Rajah	C-Net/64
	"I ran this on a C-64 with a single phone line and one floppy drive. The board was available whenever I was at school or in evenings. It was mostly used as a message board with minimal file transfers. I ended up with over 200 active users which surprises me." - Rajah
206-452-7681 Port Angeles, WA	Ten Forward, Ten Forward BBS (1991-1996)	Sheldon Koehler	Wildcat, WildCat!
	WOW! Ten Forward BBS actually started in 1991 and stopped being a BBS in 1996 when we went to a full ISP. Ten Forward still exists today at www.tenforward.com but I sold my 1/3rd in April of 2004 to one of my partners. It was founded and run by myself until 1996 when I took on 2 partners to expand as an ISP. We were Fidonet node 1:350/401 from 1992 until 1996. I also had a satellite downlink with Planet Connect from 1993 until 1996. For trivia's sake, Port Angeles is an isolated town on the Olympic Peninsula. Seattle is only 90 or so miles by air, but a 2-3 hour drive by car. My BBS was the first to offer email off the peninsula. I had a UUCP connection to Holonet (tenforward.bbs.net) for Internet email. For several years we were the digital link to the rest of the world." - Sheldon Koehler
206-472-9884 Tacoma, WA	Central Access, The Total Access Board, TotalAccess (1983-1997)	Dick Fairchild	TBBS
	System was first started on a Model I Computer. - Gene Buckle
206-481-8171 Seattle Area, WA	Park Place (1983-1992)	caren park (ckp)	Ironhenge, citadel (many versions, including my own), stonehenge, ironhenge
	"I learned how to program in 'c' by hacking up jeff prothero's original citadel code... as i recall, it was one of the first citadel clones around, though i *am* getting old and my memory isn't what it could be... bruce king was already running his own then, and bob perigo and kerry kyes i believe were after mine..." "park place had several phone numbers; this was one of the last ones, probably 1987-1989-ish... ran under several versions of citadel (circa 1983), from (i believe) a bruce king version to my own... from there, it migrated to stonehenge and eventually ironhenge, where it was finally allowed to rest sometime in 1992..." - Caren Park
206-524-0203 Puget Sound, WA	Washington ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
206-527-5618 Seattle, WA	BECS Tandy FIDO, BECS TandyFido, BECS TandyOpus, Central Hub, Lesser Seattle Opera, PAC NORWEST, Tandy Help, B E C S MS-DOS (1983-1993)	Neal Curtin, Neal Curtain	FidoNet, Opus
	BECS stood for "Boeing Employees Computer Society". - Gene Buckle
206-527-8999 Seattle, WA	Crack House (1992)
	Shining 8 Member BBS
206-531-0817 Tacoma, WA	Cyborg Command, CYBORG COMMAND (1992-1995)	Jabbawocky
	D-Tect Member BBS
206-537-0656	No Holds Barred BBS (1994)	Russell Wiley
	"You have 2 listing for "No Holds Barred BBS" as well as 5 listings for NITE-TIME AFFAIRS at the following URL http://bbslist.textfiles.com/206/ These could all be summed up with a single row or at least consolidate them so they're all together rather than spread throughout the page. No Holds Barred BBS ran in late 1993 and part of 1994 using Maximus BBS and BinkleyTerm as the front end for Fido style mail transfer It was followed soon after by NITE-TIME AFFAIRS BBS in 1994 and ran thru 1998 after Ripscript hit the scene offering EGA graphics capabilities to BBS's and the only BBS package to properly implement Ripscript graphics was Searchlight BBS, so with the software change came the name change from No Holds Barred to NITE-TIME AFFAIRS. I ran Searchlight for the BBS package and Frontdoor as the front end mailer. In 1995 it went from single node to a 2 node system offering Fidonet mail, Multiple other networks that I now forget as well as the entire Fidonet Filebone for all your Freeware/Shareware needs and of course multiple Door Games including the ever popular Legend of the Red Dragon. I had 2 Co-Sysops starting in Late 94, early 95, Their handles were Snowman and XmanT who between them helped maintain the file base which was too large for a single person to manage. The phone number changed many times because originally it was setup in the barracks at Fort Lewis when I was single, but after getting married and moving off base, the number changed. When family housing became available on base, we moved back on base with a 3rd number, then when I got out of the Army and moved off base again, the phone number changed yet again. Throughout my time running NITE-TIME AFFAIRS I also participated as a member of the Allfix File Tosser beta test team as well as a little known front end called BeeMail which was a 100% Windows based front end and only ran that mailer in it's final year. With the internet coming online as well as a move from Washington State to Pennsylvania NITE-TIME AFFAIRS shut down and I moved on to other endeavors. You have my permission to use any or all of the above statements on the website for historical BBS accuracy." - Russell Wiley
206-566-1155 Tacoma, WA	Amo Cat, Amocat , AmoCat BBS (1988-2002)	Rich Langsford, Richard Langsford	Wildcat , WildCat!
	List of BBS List Keepers: Tacoma Washington AC 206/Richard Langsford ListKeeper: Tacoma Washington AC 206
206-573-4773 Vancouver, WA	Nicks BBS, The Cardboard Land BBS (1988-1994)	Nick Vichas, Deno Vichas
	"I was running the Cardboard Land BBS from 1988 to 1991. My brother Nick took over and ran it into the ground from 1992 on..." - Deno Vichas "I found this site on accident, and I can't believe you posted such a comment. I think you would be better off to remove this comment and keep out of my family life. I'm sorry my brother has nothing better to do and write untrue stupid comments." - Nick Vichas
206-581-9292 Seattle, WA	Computist Magazine (1989-1990)	David Goforth
	"Apple II, Source: Computist magazine 71, p. 4"
206-582-0786 Washing,ton	Red Flag, RED FLAG (1992-1995)	Matrix
	Eclypse Member BBS
206-582-5339 Washing,ton	Digital Illusions, DIGITAL ILLUSIONS (1992-1995)	Evolutionist
	Independent Member BBS
206-584-3320 Seattle, WA	The Gopher Hole (1989-1990)	David Goforth
	"Source: Computist magazine 71, p. 4"
206-584-4309 Tacoma, WA	The Wolf's Den (1994-1995)	Keith Shinkle	Spitfire
	"Hi! I am flattered that you have a historical record of us hobbyists! WOW! For your records my bbs moved from Tacoma to White Sands Missile Range in '95 as I was a US Army Ranger and was assigned as a ranger school instructor so moved my BBS and fidonet hub there.....kept it going for 3 more years I think..... My current info is retired.......website is kmsdigital.com also have hobbysite kmstraffic.com and lorasplace.com (my wife's homesite) I retired to the beach at Ocean Shores Wa, live on Duck Lake.... Currently collecting Hot Wheels and racing remote control sail boats........websites soon to follow...... Love your work and am very flattered you mentioned me!" - Keith Shinkle
206-586-6854 Olympia, WA	Electric Ideas, Electric Ideas Clearinghouse (1993-1996)	Greg Ware, Bonneville Power Administration WSE
	Energy Efficiency Efforts In Pacific Northwest-HydroElec
206-588-3973 Tacoma, WA	The Blue Light Special (1992-1995)	Ryan Kipple	MavenCit
	"Board was known as a crazy, anarchistic citadel board when many of the BBSes of the area were tightly controlled by overzealous/oversensitive sysops. A place to unwind and relax and to meet new people. Closely associated and networked with like-minded cit boards run by real life friends. Fond memories of meeting lots of good friends. This community is something I miss now with the hugeness and impersonalization of the internet. " - Ryan Kipple
206-588-8416 Tacoma, WA	Ceti Alpha Six (1992)	Iced Heat
	Tarkus Team Member BBS
206-623-6610 Seattle, WA	Talk Channel, Talk Channel Seattle (1987-1992)	Eliot Sands, Tammy Sands, Rhonda Jarvis	DLX
	"Talk Channel Seattle was a multiline Chat BBS, we went live as Pier-71 on Thanksgiving night 1987 running two lines out of my apartment in Auburn Washington, Pier-71 grew to eight lines by the end of that year. We changed our name to Talk Channel Seattle when I met the owner and creator of Talk Channel in Los Angeles Ca. Gary had written a software app that would collect the Email and update user profiles for the DLX BBS system that powered Pier-71, he offered us the opportunity to allow our users the ability to browse user profiles and Email users of 12 Talk Channel system across the US and Canada. We became Talk Channel Seattle in February 1989 at that time we moved our equipment to a small office that was located on what is now Safeco Field (Yep they blew it up along with the entire block.) with that move we grew to sixteen lines. But on New Years Eve 1990, the office that housed the equipment (Very High Tech at the time a 386 PC with a 300Mb SCSI Hard Drive.) was broken into and all was lost. As with most BBS system, it was run on a shoe string budget, with no insurance Talk Channel Seattle came to an end." - Eliot Sands
206-631-3903 Kent, WA	Seattle Underground (1985-1989)	Scott Pappas	6485
	"It was also known as The Tonight Show in its very early days. I ran it from 9pm-6am on my parents' line from a Commodore 64 and a single 1541 disc drive. Since it was one of the older BBSs on the west coast, I was able to compete with the newer, 24-hour systems that offered more space. I also was president of the United Sysops of America, a nationwide group created to share information among Sysops, which started around 1986. The group has around 30 members at its peak. I may still have some old newsletters, if you're interested." - Scott Pappas
206-643-2874	Computer Classifieds (1995)
	Product: Hermes II
206-643-5477	Alacrity, Alacrity BBS (ACAD), Alacritty BBS (1990-1993)		WildCat!
	List of BBS List Keepers: Autocad Related BBS/Jason Osgood
206-649-9836 Redmond, WA	Micro Rim Technical Support, Microrim Technical Support, Microrim Tech Support, Microrim Technical Support BBS (1992-1995)	Microrim Corporation	PC Board
	Support for Popular R:Base Relational Data Base System
206-653-1052 Marysville, Wa	Heinous Demise (1992)	Ted Theodore Logan
	Independent Member BBS
206-670-2722 Lynnwood, WA	Areas Best BBS (1994-1997)	Jim Cody, Dave Ashcroft, Ed Gosser	MajorBBS, WorldGroup
	"In 1993 Tabbbs started as a Major BBS. 2400 baud, Dial-up with 10 phone lines. Total Cost 26,000.00 one time cost. and 1,500.00 per month. by 1996 their were a total of 1,172 customers." - Ed Gosser
206-675-0565 Oak Harbor, WA	Orion Station, Whidbey Hub (1994-1996)	Art Tomlin
	ListKeeper: Puget Sound Area
206-687-2085 Seattle, WA	Addiction, THE ADDICTION #1, ADDICTION,THE #1, The Addiction (1991-1998)	Captain. Crook , CAPT.CR00K, 0NE-EYED PiRATE	AmiExpress /X
	Independent Member BBS ""The Name With Fame!"" - Big Amiga Ascii Art HQ - Part of the US & EU /X scene. Very well known in Europe and Down Under.. Run on a GVP Combo 68030 /68882 - 40mHz, 350mb, 14.4 USR on 2 nodes 1 @ 2400, later on to 19200 and then to 57600 USR Courier modems. At the end it was connected via Telnet and part of the Amiga Elite systems available via telnet.
206-725-1048 Seattle, WA	Isles of Ether BBS (1990-1995)		Citadel, GremCit
	"Ran it from the time I was 13 to the time I graduated from High School." - Jonah Gruber
206-734-7678 Bellingham, WA	The Pirate Chip (1981-1984)	Phillip F. Esterhaus	TBBS - AE Pro
	"I used to run an Apple pirate board called "The Pirate Chip" - I can't remember the front end I ran that after login loaded the Xfer portion of AE Professional. It was the first pirate BBS that I know of that ran on a 5 megabyte Corvus hard drive instead of several floppy drives for program storage. I eventually upgraded to a whopping 10 megs. That would give me about 60 sections of older software and 10 sections for th eusers to upload. It was all done on the honor system, but I did ask for a 1 to 5 ratio of uploads to downloads. (Phillip F. Esterhaus was the desk sargeant in Hill Street Blues who would tell the patrolman "Hey! Let's be careful out there!" - Since nearly all my calls received were long distance I assumed they were all on someone elses dime)." - Theresa
206-743-0293 Edmonds, WA	Certre of Eternity, The Mystic Plains (1984-1987)	Rory Berger	Midnight PC
	"This BBS was used as a base for many of the prominent hackers/phreakers of the day and we held many software parties for the users. After I was contacted by the FBI to set up a sting operation (by THE FED) I implemented a 'super secret' level for all the regulars to keep them safe." - Rory Berger
206-759-1724 Tacoma, WA	Doomed to Failure (1989-1999)		GremCit
	"The BBS was up from 1989-1995, and from 1997-1999." - Eric Montgomery
206-763-8454 Tukwila, WA	Late Nite BBS (1990-1997)	Jack Leeper	WWIV v3.11
	"Originally started in Lake Mary, Florida in 1990 on an AT286-6MHZ then moved to Tukwila, WA in 1991. In 1992 upgraded to an AT386-25 pc. Started a message network called NWNET using WWIVNET networking through various BBS's in WA. Major feature were door games with The Pit being the major game." - Jack Leeper
206-770-2364 Puyallup, WA	Barter America (1994-1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Telnet Access 205.163.70.2 Barter America is now running WorldClub by Galacticomm Inc. If you like to run your programs under windows we think you will like the changes. The client soft-ware is free, download it from us. We accept Visa and Master cards. Slip accounts now available. Browse the Worldwide Web at a low price. Online bartering coming.
206-778-9832 Lynnwood, WA	The High Voltage, The Mirage BBS, Total Annihilation (1990-1994)	Jason Caywood, Jon Caywood	Express!, SuperBBS
	"Great site! I was so pleased to see our BBS immortalized on your site. :) You list Mirage BBS twice. Once under my name, Jason Caywood, and once under mine and my brother's name (with same name as I inputed on this form). In actuality they are the same BBS. We changed the name after a guy in Tacoma, WA stole the name. Rather than argue with him, we just changed the name and moved on. I did run a small BBS on the 206-776-9079 phone number, but I can't remember the name of it (maybe it was the original Mirage and that's why you list it twice... hmmm), it was only up a year, and it was run on an Atari 130XE using BBS software I can't remember the name of (searched the software out there, but none of it fits the description of what I had). *grins* Good BBS, that, but us 8-bitters got overrun by the PC." - Jason Caywood
206-780-2011	Quicksilver, Quicksilver BBS (1991-1995)	Michael Schuyler	QuickBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Kitsap County Washington/Michael Schuyler ListKeeper: Kitsap County Washington
206-781-9424 Seattle, WA	Broken Blade (1990-1994)	Aragorn III	Vinyamacil
	"BB ran on homegrown software developed by the Sysop using the ModemWorks toolkit on an Apple IIe. At the end of its life, BB ran on a 14.4kbs SupraFaxmodem and a 40MB hard drive on a 256k Apple IIGS. The original Apple IIe it ran on had all 7 slots filled, and ran so hot I regularly replaced the AE heavy-duty power supply in it. They don't build machines like Apple IIs any more!" - Aragorn III
206-785-4346 Bellevue, WA	Round Table II (1984-1992)	Chris Guzak, John Callaham	Custom
	"This BBS was custom software written in BASIC on a TRS-80 3 (48K RAM, 2 180K drives), developed by Chris Guzak. When Chris went to College, he passed it on to John Callahan (Blue Adept), a loyal user and talented programmer. John moved to a TRS-80 model 4 (64K of RAM) and kept development up till he to went to College and the BBS faded." - M. Meyers
206-813-8778 Kent, WA	FutureLink OIS (1994)	Sheree Graham, Kent, Washington since 01/94
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Kent, Washington since 01/94. Sysop: Sheree Graham. Using WildCat 3.9M with 1 line on MS-DOS with 20 MB storage. Hayes at 19200 bps. No fee. We are for the whole family. Internet's Usenet, E-Mail, games, PC-Catalog, FL-Gazette, CD-ROMs (organized), free 1 week preview. Shopping mall, register online, our customer service is excellent. Nice RIP support. Free gift with purchase of complete.
206-845-2418	My Desk (1982-2004)	Vicki Fletcher
	Now on the Internet at http://mydesk.darktech.org. - Gene Buckle
206-852-7874 Auburn, WA	The Hack Shack (1984-1987)	The Mad Hacker	GBBS Pro
	"The Silicon Society Head Quarters"
206-866-7875	Pantheon (1992)	Vortex
	Rebels Member BBS
206-868-3736 Redmond, WA	Cycling (1990)	Patrick Walters	WWIV
	"I started this Cycling oriented BBS because I was into cycling racing competitively in High Shool which is when this BBS ran. I ran ads for the BBS in the United States Cycling Federation (USCF) newsletter (now USA Cycling). The site never really reached a critical mass of users and was discontinued when I went to college. The site was WWIVnet and WWIVLink connected. I had help from a local BBS enthusiast to get things up and running and provided my connection to the HUBs. I'm currently active in supporting WWIV 5.0 and will soon be launching Cloud City BBS. Thanks for keeping the site going!" - Patrick Walters
206-874-5551 Federal Way, WA	Ameeron (1983-1986)	Vince Callaway, Richard March	Customized Citadel, Stonehenge
	"Ameeron was run on a Columbia computer (CP/M) and was at one time, one of the top BBSs in Tacoma. It seems at any given moment there was someone logged in. Auto dial was a required tool back then. We started out with 300 baud, but moved with the times until we were a blazing 28.8 baud system with a HUGE 10 meg hard drive. Vice Callaway was responsible for taking the original code and reworked it to get the bugs out. He did a great job, as it hardly ever crashed, and was up 24/7, only on occasion needing a re-boot. I do remember when there were a lot of us sysops that banded together and started an inter-BBS e-mail system. It was slow, but it was sure a cool thing. Every morning my system would call another main hub (I think the one I connected to was InfoTech BBS???) and swapped e-mails to and from my users. I believe there was a userbase of around 200 or 300 people, I can't remember anymore. It may not have been that many, but it sure seemed like it. Well, that's my essay. I've since turned the name into a dot com. I can be reached there. Thanks for all your hard work and time." - Richard March
206-927-2866	Ice Station Zebra #3 (1992)	Professor
	Fusion Member BBS
206-927-3102	Ice Station Zebra #2 (1992)	Professor
	Fusion Member BBS
206-927-5211	Ice Station Zebra #1 (1992)	Professor
	Fusion Member BBS
206-932-5691 Seattle, WA	Smurd Pit, Smurf Pit (1987-1990)	Smurfler	Ivory, Ivory BBS
	"Ran from 3 1541's & one broken 1571. The program would crash or get stuck every few hours to days depending on what disk I was using. Them 5 1/4 disks didnt last to long before they picked up errors and the drive head got dirty or worn out from running so much. I use to have like 30 users and had someone logged on half the time or more at its peak." - Smurfler
206-936-6735 Bellevue, WA	Microsoft BBS, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Download Service, Microsoft Technical Support, Microsoft Download BBS (1992-1995)	Jeff Whitlatch, Microsoft Corp/Scott J. Honaker
	Windows Technical Notes and Support Information
206-938-7879 Seattle, WA	The Room Next Door (1986-2001)	My1Gizmo / Russ Goodale
	"The Room Next Door was established in 1986 on a 2 line system. In time it grew to 20 lines and moved downtown Seattle. And in time the grow deminished, the BBS moved back in the home as a hobby. TRND actual timeframe with one name as "The Room Next Door" was 1986-2001. Listed under "T" as insisted by the Sysop in all BBS publishings, when listed. I was surprised to see the history listed. That is fantastic. Thank you, Russ Goodale, sysop of the previous known BBS, The Room Next Door."
206-941-3183 Kent, WA	PowerHouse, Xantor's Empire (1981-1990)	Puff&Stuff	Ivory BBS
	"The number then changed to 206-941-0714. The 206-941-3183 was 10pm to 6am bbs before I got my second line. I did change the name a couple of times. PowerHouse and Tropicana was some of the names I tried for a while. Xantor's Empire was the name for 90% of the time. My Co SYSOP was Crazy Eddie." - Puff&Stuff
206-943-2755 Olympia, WA	Light Speed 5 Nodes (1992)
	Fusion Member BBS
206-946-0579	ProStar Plus (1992-1999)	Robert Michnick
	Turned into an Internet-Only BBS in 1999. Currently still an ISP. - Gene Buckle
207-339-2168 SOUTH LEBANON, ME	Silent Scream, SILENT SCREAM #1 (1992-1995)	Lazarus
	Independent Member BBS
207-353-9500 Lisbon Falls, ME	Midnight Express BBS (1982-1996)	Hard Warren	VBBS
	"BBS. Midnight Express BBS sysop Harold Warren bbs # back then 207-353-9500 ran from 1982 on a commodore 64 then 128 then vbbs on a 486dx machine then Major BBS ending in 1996. Lisbon Falls was the area in 207. Not many around back then.. That.s why I started one while in Middle School.. I still have some copies of my old bbs from 96. Hoping to bring it back on line someday.. I had local callers and about a lil over 100 users.. doors was a big hit. LORD was the biggest user door game.." - Harold Warren
207-374-5161 Blue Hill Falls, ME	Celebration Shop, Celebration Station (1992-1994)	Noel Paul Stookey, Noel Stookey (Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary)
	Adventure Games, Chat, and Sigs - Children
207-442-0997 BATH, ME	Street Corner BBS (1992-1995)	Scott Bodeen, Scott R Bodeen
	ListKeeper: Maine 207
207-490-4561 Sanford, ME	The Flipside/Ambrosia BBS (1992-1996)	Jim Skeffington	Spitfire
	"Flipside was a public domain bbs with ambrosia running a subboard from the doors menu. It was one of the only "free speach" bbs's in the area. The sysop Jim Skeffington donated alot of time to helping local sysops in getting thier bbs's started and running. Flipside was also the 207 hub for SFNET, the Sptifire message network." - tombin
207-725-8533 Topsham,, ME	I-95 Hub, Icon Net BBS, Maine Reactor BBS, Rabbits Foot BBS (1981-1994)	Mike Faul, Bill Thomas	OPus, RA, D'Bridge, etc
	"The second or third BBS in the State of Maine. Hub, Packet Gateway, SMTP (UUCP) Bridge etc Operated by the now owner of http://www.rabbitsfootmeadery.com" - Mike Faul
207-729-4392 Brunswick, ME	Renegade BBS, Incognito BBS (1995-2000)	Kristian Meyer	VBBS, Wildcat
	"It was known briefly as 'Renegade BBS', until I realized there was a BBS software package named Renegade. I then changed it to Incognito BBS." - Kristian Meyer
207-761-0438 Portland, ME	The Basement BBS (1988)	Boingoloid (Anthony Citrano), Judas (Jeff Richard)	Telegard
	"FidoNet Node 1:326/211. TSAN New England Outpost. Night Only."
207-774-5045 Portland, ME	The Wicked Good BBS (1988-1992)	Cindi Terroni	RemoteAccess
	"This was the first and only girl run BBS in Maine at the time. Started and run by Cindi Terroni in 1988 when she was only 12 years old. She had very active message bases with over 100 regular users. There were many articles about her in the local newspapers. Amazing young lady." - Ron Terroni
207-799-9080 Cape Elizabeth, ME	The GS Connection BBS (1991-1996)	Theo Van Dinter, Bill Smith	Renegade
	"I helped Theo with the board when he went to college (i ran it for its last two years). The GS Connection was also hub for a local network (with something like five boards as members). Theo and I went through the user list when the BBS went down and we found that there were 2700 different users from 29 different countries." - Bill Smith
207-828-0438 Portland, ME	The Basement BBS (1988-1992)	Boingoloid (Anthony Citrano), Judas (Jeff Richard)	Telegard BBS
	"FidoNet Node 1:326/211. Telegard BBS Software. TSAN New England Outpost."
207-865-1806 Freeport, ME	T-SHIRTS ONLINE, T-Shirts Online (1994-1995)	Mike DeVaudreuil	PCBoard 15.1
	T-SHIRTS ONLINE, 207.865.1806, Upload graphic files, CD Photos, or your kid's Paintbrush art, and we'll put it on a high quality T-Shirt and mail it to you fast. High resolution 256 colors. Use your imagination. Visa and Mastercard. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
207-865-3713 Freeport, ME	The Andromeda Strain (1992-1994)	James Johnson	Renegade
	"I ran this BBS for almost two years and had a lot of different callers from all over the area. The ones that I still remember being surprised about were a guy from Australia and some folks from the UK. I thought it was pretty cool they were calling little 'ol me. We weren't huge, but we had file trading, the message boards and games such as Legend of the Red Dragon & Trade Wars. We had some great local users who supported us with donations too. Really great memories!" - James Johnson
208-267-8974 BONNERS FERRY, ID	Room 5 (1992-1996)	Ed Katz, Wes Hamilton	OPUS
	Located in Bonners Ferry high School in Bonners, ID 83805
208-338-6638 Boise, Idaho	The Sanitarium BBS (1990-1994)	Dave Richardson (Zing)	MajorBBS
	"It's good to know someone out there remembers the beginning of it all." - Dave Richardson
208-378-0098 Boise, ID	Psychosys BBS for Creative Minds (1992-1999)	Biomech (Kevin Putzier)	TriBBS, Spitfire and TriBBS
	"I was somewhat surprised to find myself in your list:) I'm Biomech, formerly the Sysop of Psychosys BBS for Creative minds. The board was down for a year, due to various hardware and financial disasters, then I brought it back in late '98 with new software.. Unfortunately, the BBS was pretty much dead by then, and the 2-3 calls a week weren't worth a dedicated phone line. During the height of it's popularity (93-95) I got 100's of calls a week. I have unfortunately lost the original phone number, so the one you have listed will have to do, I suppose. I like the idea of your list! I've recently got back onto the idea behind Psychosys, which was PRIMARILY a giant message base. While getting a modern user to even acknowledge that bbs's once existed is difficult, I think the basic premise can work on the web.. and I'm learning how it might be done.. so Psychosys may end up existing again in this brave new world. Thanks for your time." - Biomech
208-459-4253 Caldwell, ID	Tater Patch, The TATER PATCH (1988-1996)	Rich Elliott	Spitfire
	"What a difference 10 years makes, at the time 28.8 was FAST and a 1Meg download took ages! Tater Patch catered to the gamers of the time... Anybody remember ANSI graphics? Tater Patch also had TONS of downloads for the time a 6 pack CD reader and two stand alone drives full of shareware and pictures. Thanks for the walk back into the past!" - Rich Elliott
208-538-7312 Ririe, ID	Ririe High Comp (1987-1989)
	"Just a small BBS set up by a teacher at the local high school for our computer class. I don't remember the teachers name but I remember what he looked like but a description would take too long." - Anonymous
208-777-7058 Post Falls, ID	The FAR SIDE (1996)	Brett Seright	VA
	"Was 12 years old at the time. This is a great resource for the history of BBS's." - Brett Seright
208-882-6374 Moscow, ID	The Bazaar at Deva, The Bazaar Of Deva (1991-1993)	Ryan Sasser, Joe Dowding	Quickbbs with WWIV
	"Ran WWIV as a door under Quickbbs for the messages. This was because Quickbbs had better support for online games." - Joe Dowding
208-939-6285 Eagle, ID	Turnip Juice (1984-1986)	Tom McNair	FoReM
	"Run on an Atari 600XL with 64K, two floppies, and a 300 baud modem." - Tom McNair
209-226-6808 Fresno, CA	Gridpoint (1993-1995)	Dixie Flatline	WWIV
	"I remember setting up a BBS several years after becoming a user, before the internet was made widely available (in fact, back when HTTP was still being developed). I was 16 at the time and ran the BBS out of my allowance at first, and then the funds from my first job on a hand-me-down 286 with a 1200 baud modem. Over the years, I upgraded it to a 486 with a 9600 vbis/etc modem and connected to WWIVnet and WWivLink and a local network whose name I forget. We even lived through the 209/559 area code split. As the internet became available, users stopped flocking to the BBSs and instead went online. We lost something in the conversion from BBSs to the internet that we won't easily get back, as the internet is too big and too diverse to accommodate that community feeling. I miss my friends from those days, the pizza parties, the conversations. If any of my old friends visit textfiles.com and see this, know that I'm thinking of you." - Dixie Flatline
209-227-2738 Fresno, CA,	West-Net 1, Westnet (1984-2002)	Chris Rudd	OPUS, Genesis, Wildcat
	"Westnet evolved w/Fidonet. What a Journey and adventure it would be during those times. The old guys in NET 205 like John Cribari, Ken and Sam Wecter have now become legends and a story for the ages. I truly enjoyed our moment and the story will continue... Eat, drink and live like there is no tommorow." - Chris Rudd, Sysop - Net 205/35
209-227-2807 Fresno, CA	West-Net 2 (1986-2002)	Chris Rudd	Wildcat
	"Still here after all of these years, http://www.westnet.org" - Chris Rudd
209-233-2937 Fresno, CA	The Colony (1994-1998)	Steve Jensen
	"A feature of the Washington Colony Elem School computer lab." - Steve Jensen
209-237-2839 Fresno, CA	Fresno Unified School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
209-252-4109 Fresno, California	Sharks Lair, The Sharks Lair BBS (1980-2000)	Terry Sharp, Terry Sharp, a.k.a. TSharK	VBBS - Virtual Advanced
	"VirtualNET, FidoNET, CenValNET, SnOOkNET " - Terry Sharp
209-255-7338 Fresno, California	Pirate Cove BBS (1982-1990)	Maverick	Ravics, Wildcat!
	"Great Times back then, Commodore 64 Full Blow with 6 SFD 1001 Drives 1 MEGs running multiple free files. IEEE, FastLoad Cart were the days. Dont forget SnapShot!" - Maverick
209-268-4676 Fresno, CA	Tai Tastigon, Tai-Tastigon (1980-1994)	William Helton (Magist*r)	WWIV
	"Motivated by Trippers City and Dedicated to P.C.Hodgell, This board ran for years, passing Ren faire information and all those awesome BBS games!" - William Helton
209-277-3005 FRESNO, CA	WILOWARE! BBS, WILDWARE! BBS (1994-1995)		Wildcat, Wildware!
	WILOWARE! BBS, 209.277.3005, demonstration and support BBS for Wildware! software add ons for the remarkable Wildcat! BBS software. Add ons include wwVerify — a call back verifier, wwBroadcast, wwBirthday, wwNewuser and more. New add ons always being developed. If you are a Wildcat! sysop and want the best for your Wildcat! BBS, give Wildware! a call. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 WILDWARE! BBS, 209.277.3005, demonstration and support BBS for Wildware! software add ons for the remarkable Wildcat! BBS software. Add ons include wwVerify — a call back verifier, wwflroadcast, wwBirthday, wwNewuser and more. New add ons always being developed. If you are a Wildcat! sysop and want the best for your Wildcat! BBS, give Wildware! a call. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 WILDWARE! BBS, 209.277.3005, demonstration and support BBS for Wildware! software add ons for the remarkable Wildcat! BBS software. Add ons include wwVerify — a call back verifier. vjwBroadcast, wwBirthday, wwNewuser and more, f^ew add ons always being developed. If you are a Wildcat! sysop and want the best for your Wildcat! BBS, give Wildv/are! a call. - BBS Magazine October 1995
209-289-1328 Clovis, Ca,	Tripper's City (1980-1982)	Matt Mills, Terry Linebach	hand craft Apple II code
	"Programmed by Tery Linenbach, tripper's city was one of the first "theme" BBS's. Themed after "dungeon" a fortran PDP 10 program (and early zork). Tripper's city also acted as a charter member of Fido Net west Cluster 6, with direct fido connections with The Outpost, Open Pages, Penguin Pages and The exchange." - S. Gueydan
209-293-7358 West Point, Ca	Byte's Mess, Calaveras Amador Hub, West Point Power & Light (1992-1995)	Jeff Wood, Mr. Byte & Nybbles	VBBS, Image 1.2 T-rels, Network mods
	"Why would anyone name a BBS West Point Power & Light? Well, when I first migrated from my Commodore 64/Image BBS system to an IBM, I obtained a 1000 watt UPS system. A friend of mine commented that I could run the town on the UPS if we lost power...West Point is quite small...thus the name "West Point Power & Light." - Jeff Wood "Byte's Mess was a flamethrowing Commodore 64 with a 256kREU and a Lt. Kernal hard drive. Hacking that monster to run with Image was a chore...but that was what we did in the old days. The hardware used to run "Th' Mess": 1 Commodore 64, 256 Ram cartridge, 1 1541 160k floppy, 2 1581 800k floppies, 1 40Mb Lt Kernal HD (what a HACK that was...) At one point we were going to run it next to West Point Power & Light and call it "Nybbles' Nest"..." - Jeff Wood
209-367-0787 Lodi, CA	Bill Baker's BBS, Greater Lodi AT&T BBS, Greater Lodi BSA BBS, Lodi Hub (1989-1996)	Bill Baker	Opus
	"This BBS was the First in Lodi! Always on OPUS!" - Bill Baker
209-432-2487 STOCKTON, CA	North Fresno Hub, Star Base III, StarBase III, Starbase III BBS (1989-1995)	John Pickens	Opus
	List of BBS List Keepers: Astronomy/Space BBS/John Pickens
209-435-0633 Fresno, CA	Comline BBS (1984-1985)	Mike Yun	Custom written in C-64 BASIC and compiled with Blitz
	"Originally written in BASIC line by line, Comline operated on a Commodore 64 with no floppy drive. This meant I could never turn off the computer because it would erase all users and messages. I eventually got a floppy drive and merged the users in a single sequential (not random) file. I was quite proud of that user file coding because no id # was required for login. I eventually released Termline, a terminal program for Commodore 64 users complete with buffers, x and z modem protocols, and quick dialing." - Mike Yun
209-436-1727 Fresno, CA	Digital Dissonance BBS (1994-1996)	kid ego, mr self destruct, chaotic lord	renegade
	"Digital Dissonance was a community of musicians that swapped original music and remixed each others compositions. If you would like to get copies of the music, email me at berkleejake@mediaone.net."
209-439-0119 Fresno, CA	F.A.M.O.U.S. (Fresno Area Modem Operator/User System) (1981-1985)	Jason Knapp	Homegrown
	"This BBS was my early teenage social life. I did start with some public domain software that I spliced together but I don't remember the references--it wasn't Fido or anything. All run on Atari with a 300 baud modem. I wrote everything in Microsoft Basic, and eventually lost control of the spaghetti code. I had some experimental features to my BBS: it was all themed as if you were in a medieval village and read like a simple Infocom (remember those?) game. Sometimes if you were at a menu prompt, something surprising would happen based on random timers like "a beggar comes up to you and asks for a pence"--if you choose not to give him one, some random % of the time the system would say that he calls you a cheap scoundrel and pulls a knife and kills you for your money--then when you tried to log back in during the next 24 hours the system would deny access saying "sorry, you're dead!". Or if you gave him something it might reward you with higher level access. Or maybe something else would happen~Wyou never knew! Anyway, it got quite popular and the modem was basically busy 24 hours a day until I took it down (and then the line was still constantly ringing for some several months. Some great memories. Thanks for doing this!" - Jason Knapp
209-491-0782 MODESTO, CA	Anything Goes [ASV] (OS/2) (1993-1995)	Chris Mitchell, ""Gomba""
	ListKeeper: Modesto, CA BBS List
209-521-2196 San Jose, CA	Up The CREEK, UP THE CREEK (1994-1997)	Alan Popiolkowski
	ISDN Line
209-529-6130 Modesto, CA	Dragonriders of Pern (1989-1994)	Dave Rasmussen & Liz Driver
	"Just add it was an Amiga-ran BBS, I forgot the name of the software we used at the time. Might have been Skyline? BBS software for amiga's only, allowed online amiga graphics.. I created the flying, fire breathing dragon animation for the log in. We ran that BBS on an amiga 2000. My name is Liz, at the time my ex and I ran that board. Him and that machine are part of history now. Dave Rasmussen did the programing to the board, I was the graphic person. Seeing the listing of other boards from that time period and from the modesto area brought back many memories. The BBS pizza parties, and other local get togethers with the sysops..and users...something lost when the internet came." - Liz Driver
209-532-6753 Sonora, CA	Outworld Cat-Fur, Starbase 209 (1984-1988)	Jason Snell	Telecat
	"One of the first BBSes in Sonora. Briefly a Cat-Fur/Catsend line, but for most of its life a message board, text-file serving BBS. I posted a lot of serialized fiction, much of it by myself, making it a precursor to the Internet-based magazine InterText, which I started in 1991." - Jason Snell
209-536-9160 SONORA, CA	The Paradox BBS V2.0 (1993)	Brian Curnow	Renegade
	"Nathan and I were both high school students at Sonora High School. He was 1 or 2 years ahead of me. We were good friends, and since he was going to be graduating, operation was transferred to me instead of just shutting the BBS down entirely. Of course, I liked using BBSes, but one of my interests in taking over operation was that I was at the time an OS freak. (I am writing you from pine on FreeBSD, connected by a Mac OS X terminal) What good was having a system that could dual-boot OS/2 2.0 and Windows NT 3.1 Beta if you didn't have an 'important' BBS to run? I can report that the BBS ran under NT 3.1 almost all of the time, as I found that the 'Tosser' functions for inter-BBS message transfer ran faster due to NT's apparently better disk cache functions, but the tradeoff was OS/2 2.0 had a better shot of running a DOS game at the same time; what a dilemma. BBS networks were another fascination. In 1994 I started an ISP, which I run to this day. In fact, I think one of the ways I helped gauge interest in 'the Internet' was by posting on some of the local BBSes.. I think I saw a printout of that post in some of my old papers a while ago." - Brian Curnow
209-549-2865 Modesto, CA	Most Excellent, The Most Excellent BBS (1992-1995)	Phill Kenoyer	Modified WWIV - 21026
	"Started in Turlock, Ca and moved to Modesto, Ca. Some may have known the hacked in "elite" command to go into the "other" sections." - Phill Kenoyer
209-549-7980 Modesto, CA	Modesto Ceres Hub, The Connection, The Connection BBS (1991-2003)	Dennis Travis	Renegade
	"The Connection BBS is still around but now running Synchronet BBS Telnet with 4 nodes. the address is: theconnection.ods.org" - Dennis/The Karate Kid
209-569-0388 Modesto, CA	Frayed Ends of Sanity BBS, The Frayed Ends of Sanity (1995-1999)	Phantom Lord	Nexus/2 and Impulse
	"I was the SysOp of The Frayed Ends of Sanity. I was looking into getting my BBS back up sometime soon. I found this and thought for historical purposes that the correct info should be added. I no longer have the phone number 209-569-0388, but I will probably be putting it up as Telnet only! Love live the dialup BBS!" - Phantom Lord
209-579-2949 Modesto, CA	Just Another BBS, Just Another BBS (JABBS) (1993-1995)	Jaxom	WWIV
	"SysOp went by the handle Jaxom, real Name: J. Lee Eaton-Maxwell." - Jaxom
209-638-6392 Fresno, CA	California CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
209-668-0631 Denair, CA	T.E.H.H.O.L, The Electric Harley House of Love (1994-1996)	Zero.Hour	WWIV
	"The Electric Harley House of Love was born from a crappy 286 motherboard that would take several attempts to start up. As a result I never turned it off, and in my infinite wisdom I decided since I had a computer I never turned off and a dedicated phone line I would run a BBS, a 2400 baud bbs in the age of 14.4 and 28000 baud bbs's, to slow to pirate software, not interesting enough to sustain messageboards, and since I was 16 in a conservitate christian home no good porn. It was the only open acess board in the area (why do I care who you are, and calling my users to verify who they were was a pointless waste of time) I did let me get an interesting list of what people thought the secret name of god was, as WWIV wouldn't let me run an open access bbs I changed the signup questions to random questions and people STILL asked why I was asking for personall info on an open access board, for christs sake READ people. Yeah, I'm a angry bastard, bbs's were perfect for me as almost every bbs caller was/is an angry nerd, good time's, good times..... Since I'm moving back to the area next month I am exercising extream dorkiness and puting the board back up, with the same 286 if it's still in my parents attic (no I won't be living with them) It will be like old times, no callers and a great excersise in futility." - Zero.Hour
209-674-4801 Madera, CA	Alpha Elementary' (1993)
	FrEdMail System
209-675-3684 Madera, Ca	ZDS-OnLine, ZDS-Online Information Service (1989-1996)	Jack Porter	Wildcat
	"We're still online at www.MaderaOnline.com. Over sixteen years of providing online news to the people of Madera County. Thanks for keeping the history of BBSing. It was a fun time for me." - Jack Porter
209-675-8436 MADERA, CA	ZDS-Online Information, Zen Den Systems BBS (1988-1995)	Jack Porter, Jr., Jack Porter/Madera UG	Wildcat
	List of BBS List Keepers: Central California AC 209/Jack Porter/Madera UG ListKeeper: Central California AC 209
209-683-3673 Oakhurst, CA	The UnderCity (1993-1996)	Korrupt	Oblivion / 2
	"The Biggest Undergroud HPAC in 209 at the time. Even carried CCI ( Cybercrime International Network) for a brief period. Sysop ran RoT e-zine and wrote for HOE and VAS. Claim to fame was the 1500+ archive of virus' and codes. It was a single line 2400 bps on an old 386. Local callers ( anyone in 209 ) was basically denied and the 500+ LD and international callers kept it alive with basically 1 day files. Over 5000+ files were onhand...very large for that day and age." - Korrupt
209-685-8487 TULARE, , CA	Route 66, Visalia Hub (1987-1995)	Mark Richmond, Russ Beechinor, MARK RICHMOND	SEARCHLIGHT
	"8 lines, a FIDO hub from '91-95. This was a free board with 14 CD-ROM drives providing shareware." - Mark Richmond
209-734-0852 Visalia, CA	VABBS / Enterprise BBS (1988-1989)	Matt Brady	BBS Express!
	"Started as VABBS (Visalia Area BBS) running on an Atari 800XL with BBS Express! software. Later changed the name to Enterprise BBS with a Star Trek theme. The 88-89 time frame may be a little off, but it's close to that." - Matt Brady
209-736-4007 Angels Camp, CA	Pine Renegade BBS (1992-1994)	Mike Hamanaka	Renegade
	"The software was shareware from Cott Lang in Pascal, based on the source code of Telegard, I downloaded it from a dial up BBS on a 2400 baud modem,I was just 6 or 7 years old, I used a PS2 that my mom had bought from Montgomery Ward, she made me research the cost of a computer and show them the ad that promised a price, I think it was $1,000 or more, later I got a separate telephone line for the BBS, which was a single user system that had so many ridiculous rules that hardly made sense. Most people did not make it through the scroll down entry, as I had a huge message written in just 0's and 1's, it was a design that I made look like a tree, my plan was to have lots of pages that you could load instead of the single scrolling page, I eventually wanted to make it more like an framework for a community newspaper, I was fascinated with the weather since we lived just west of the snowline, I thought it might be important for me to bring satellite images down from Prodigy and post them on my BBS for download by people who had phone numbers that were not long distance (at the time I had no concept of copyrights as I was only 8 years old by that time, about the same time the computer moved from the family den room near the kitchen, to the area behind the couch in the living room that was in the formal dining room, this was my first concept of setting up my own online command center.) I think that I had composed over 10 pages of community rules, in Microsoft Works, then later in notepad, and I had printed versions that were numbered since I didn't have knowledge to re-write the BBS framework, I had to make my rules comply with the existing parameters. I remember promoting my BBS on other BBS's, then I would hang up, and wait for other people to dial up to my computer, I would of course watch everything they did, and I made some improvements, that is where I first learned about source control and documentation. I was making backup directories using MS-DOS batch commands and saving them to a disk, I would carry the disks with me to school and work on the code on school lab computers whenever I could. It was the same as what my Mom did at her office, but for me I was the boss of the data, things of never changed." - Mike Hamanaka
209-754-1363 San Andreas, CA	The Silicon Realms (1987-2005)	Joe Commodore	All American, C-Net, Image (Commodore)
	"One of the longest running BBSs in the California gold country. Started out as the Mother Lode 64 BBS. Silicon Realms, was mainly a Commodore/Gaming (RPG) oriented BBS. Was a member of several Commodore BBS networks - UBAN, NISSA, FNET, COMM-NET, (?) identified as SLR. Notable features were Commodore files (PD/Utilities), story boards and on-line games, and network discussion boards. Board folded as I got too busy on other projects, though I still had a few callers near the end." - Joe Commodore
209-833-0291 Tracy CA	ACE InfoSystems (1997)	Don Mankin	MajorBBS
	"In 1997 I started a 23 line BBS out of my home in Tracy CA. I started a company called ACE InfoSystems to support it. The ACE part was derived from 'ASCII Computer Enterprise', another company I previously created to support the MINIHOST BBS software I wrote. The BBS started with MajorBBS software (later Worldgroup) using a T1 and D4 channel bank with 23 US Robotics modems. Later the modems were replaced with a MultiTech Complete Communications Server CC2400, a great piece of hardware in its day. The most sought after feature was the ability to play multiplayer games online, Duke Nukem - Doom - Decent, to name a few. Later I added Internet access to become the 1st ISP in the area." - Don Mankin
209-836-2402 San Ramon, CA	Maxi Host Support Technical Support, MegaHost Support, MINIHOST, MaxiHost Support BBS, ASCII Computer Enterprises (1992-1996)	Don Mankin
	MaxiHost BBS - small, very easy to run BBS Product: MEGAHOST
209-883-0275 HUGHSON, CA	Programmer's Retreat, Programmers Retreat BBS (1987-1997)	J. Hill	Home rolled in Better BASIC
	"Ran a very complex and total custom BBS. All the code was in Better BASIC. Supported file transfers and *.wav files... a remote controlled FM radio served up WAV files of the station you could pick. Also, had a message base tie into the ham radio BBS system known as packet radio. I moved a lot and put a diverter line in Hughson, California to forward the calls out to Waterford so it would not be long distance from Modesto. We used to have local user parties in this area and all the sysops would hook up for drinks and PC Support. There's over 1000 users in my old BBS database... I could and did run on DOS 2.11 (300 baud) through to DOS 6.2 (9600/14.4kbps). I kind of ran under Windows 3.01 but we found AOL and soon after the Internet in 1997 and lost interest fast after we got our house in Salida. Now I run a low-power FM station (KQRP). For me, it's always been about serving the community." - Brad (J.Hill)
209-883-0673 Hughson, CA	Crystal Towers BBS (1988-1992)	Frodo Baggins and Gambit	WWIV 4.24
	"Hughson was a great place to run a BBS because it was a local call from Modesto, Turlock, and all the other towns around that area. They all had long distance charges to each other, so we became one of the important local WWIVNet links."
209-951-6394 Stockton, CA	BattleField BBS/AE (1986-1989)	Hawk (Sysop)	GBBS ][ and GBBS Pro
	"Apple ][ BBS. Ran for six months on software I wrote myself, then upgraded to GBBS ][, then upgraded to GBBS Pro. I miss those days :(" - Hawk
209-952-9372 Stockton, Ca	West Point Power & Light , West Point Power & Light<> (1995-1998)	Jeff Wood, Jeff and Judy Wood	AdeptX
	"Why "In Exile"? WPP&L was started in West Point, but because I had to leave the mountain under circumstances that weren't of my choosing, I added the bit. But the UPS stayed with me, and while it never was put to the test of running the whole town of West Point, it did manage to keep 3 computers and my stereo running for hours if the power went out." - Jeff Wood
209-957-7372 Stockton, CA	The Mystic Bbs ]I[, The Mystic BBS/AE ][, The Mystic BBS/AE ][ (1984-1998)	Kevin Morris	Ascii Express, FutureVision
	+-=[ Howdy Jason ]=-+ from the past, I am Ananke, Sysop of The Mystic BBS. The final software used was FutureVision compiled in METAL on OS/2 Warp. When adopting METAL/FutureVison, in '92 I believe, as an early adopter, I became the Network Engineer/Admin for FutureNet, which interconnected all the FV BBS, in parallel to FidoNet. This was a twice daily orchestrated exchange of personal email, "forums" and Usenet topics, across the United States as stated previously by Joshua Levitsky. The design diagram was a real-time dynamic wall map of the U.S.A., colored pushpins & string!
209-962-4045 Pine Mountain Lake, CA	Exxxtacy Adult BBS, ADULT EXXXTACY BBS (1986-1995)	Victoria Cummings, Pine Mountain Lake, California since 04/86	MajorBBS 6.12
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Pine Mountain Lake, California since 04/86. Sysop: Victoria Cummings. Using MajorBBS 6.12 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 6000 MB storage. US Robotics at 9600 bps. $25 Annual fee. 6 Gigs and over 20,000 latest hi-rez erotic files. New member bonus. Free amateur x-rated video to new members this month. Full access and Free adult videotape only $25 a year. Visa and mastercard accepted online. Call today, for exxxtacy tonight. ADULT EXXXTACY BBS 209.962.4045, Pine Mt. Lake, CA since 1 986. Large Hi-rez adult file collection and 1 CD Rom's online. Mew Member Bonus - Adult Burlesque Video Tape of our California Coeds with each S25/yr membership. Visa and MC accepted online. Sysop: Victoria Cummings. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 ADULT EXXXTACY BBS 209.962.'10'!5, Pine Mt. Lake. CA since 1 986. Large Hi-rez adult file collection and 10 CD Rom's online. New Member Bonus - Adult Burlesque Video Tape of our California Coeds with each S25/yr membership. Visa and MC accepted online. Sysop: Victoria Cummings, - BBS Magazine October 1995 - BBS Magazine October 1995
210-303-5937 Seguin, TX	The Twilight Zone, Twilight Zone (1994-1997)	Alvin Seehausen	Renegade
	"Started in 94, Became FIDO member in 95, had one of the first Metro Numbers in Seguin, for local calls to San Antonio." - Alvin Seehausen
210-534-8661 San Antonio, TX	Orion Nebula, The Orion Nebula (1992-1995)	Roy Fernandez	SuperBBS
	"My best recollection is meeting my wife Natalia on this BBS. We are still happily married and have 3 wonderful children. We meet playing Legend of The Red Dragon." - Roy Fernandez
210-657-9950 San Antonio, Texas	BBG's Bottom's Up, BBG's Bottoms Up, BBG's Erotica (1994-1995)	Otto Bernhardt, Valarie Bernhardt	D'bridge
	"Hi, I think this list and up coming documentary is a great thing. We had a really great time having a BBS. I have a correction for you on the above listed BBS. You indicate Otto Bernhardt, my husband, as the sysop. I, BBG, was actually the sysop, and if I may be so bold, the reason that users flocked to my board, and associated boards, for on line chat. My sigop areas were shared the "Adult Links" nationally. We even went so far as to align with other boards in order to share the user verification process. We gathered users in a favorite haunt and got to meet a lot of new and fun people. Thanks for your time and effort." - Valarie, aka BBG (Big Bottom Girl)
210-658-0994 UNI, TX	Dos Guy's BBS (1992-1996)	Jeff Kuwik, James Grimsley	Telegard
	"Co-Sysops (Dos Guys = 2 guys, Jeff Kuwik, James Grimsley. No, it was not a gay BBS!) Supported MS-DOS, Window, Commodore 64 & Amiga. Only BBS ever to support both ANSI & CGS (Commodore color graphics)using only Telegard software. Jeff Kuwik was the Telegard guru for the San Antonio area. He wrote many utilities for Telegard & helped many sysops with setting up BBS's. Originally ran on a Commodore Colt XT!" - James Grimsley
210-658-8009 SAN ANTONIO UNI, TX	Main Complex BBS, San Antonio (1992-1997)	Donna Murrell
	ListKeeper: San Antonio TX (AC 210) BBS
210-734-9141 SAN ANTONIO PER, TX	SAN ANTONIO 0NLINE (1995)
	SAN ANTONIO 0NLINE 210.734.9141, Real Estate w/photos, business, international trade, fed/state/local jobs. Largest info source for south Texas includes business directories. Free trade news, PC Magazine, classified ads. SIGs, Nafta files Limited free access to jobs and real estate. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
210-735-7282 San Antonio, TX	CHALLENGER BBS (1982-1986)	Manuel Z	Color-64
	"Manuel Z ran the CHALLENGER BBS and had Sysop access to about 90% of the Commodore BBS's in San Antonio. He also made many intro screens using Ascii and C= graphics for Color BBS's. Very good at modifying BBS programs and making on-line games for gambling credits." - Anonymous
210-805-0679 San Antonio, TX	Abyss, The Abyss (1994)	Jeffrey Berube	Renegade
	"The Abyss was started primarily so that I could play all the Door games I wanted to play in one place. It also featured over a gig of software for download for the boards users. I fondly remember my poor users autodialing for hours on end as the board was busy nearly continously, save for the 2 mins or so it took to process mail in between users." - Jeffrey Berube
210-827-1025 San Antonio, TX	The 128 P.C. (1988-1993)	Tom Peranteau	C-Net 128
	"Although this BBS moved around southern Texas, San Antonio was its home for the longest time. The BBS ran on a Commodore C-128 on C-Net software, with an ICT 40 meg hard drive." - Tom Peranteau
210-828-8632 San Antonio, TX	Terrapin Station (1989-1995)	Joey Snell, Chris (Joey) Snell	Maximus
	"This BBS was originally started by my father as the "DOSS BBS" in 1989, when I was a freshman in high school. I took over the phone line and started Terrapin Station at some point around 1991. The original machine was a Packard Bell desktop with a 40 Mb drive and a Compuserve-branded modem running DOS and RemoteAccess. It was later upgraded to a 340 Mb drive and a ZyXEL U-1496+ external modem. Eventually, it moved to a 486/66 running Maximus on OS/2. Those were the days! I've always wondered what happened to all of the folks from the 387NET. If anybody wants to drop me a line, you can find me at nw5w.com." - Chris Snell
210-914-4669 Marion, TX	Breeze Way BBS, San Antonio (1995-1998)	Wayne Breezee	Spitfire 3.5
	"I ran this BBS from 1995-1998. During 1995 I was not a full member of FIDO Net, but a point of another board. I became a full member in 1996, and in 1997 I was elected the NC for the 387 NET (387 was the San Antonio area). I served until 1998 after which time with membership declining I decided to take the board down. I still have the old software and .bat files needed to run the BBS and the program to toss the caller to the BBS or transmit message files. The board operated under the same number the whole time, but a split in area codes put the BBS in the 830 area code for the last few years. I wasn't the 1st, but was one of the 1st to have a BBS with a metro line allowing those from the metro area, and not just those in San Antonio to call me as a local call. The board had many doors (games) running, and thanks to support from the users many where registered allowing full use of the game, and unlimited use up to the limits I set for daily use." - Wayne Breezee
212-274-8110 New York City, NY	Invention Factory, Invention Factory Node #1, The Invention Factory BBS (1984-1996)	Michael Sussell, New York City, NY since 03/84, Mike Sussell	PCBoard, PCBoard 15.1
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: New York's best BBS. Free downloads for new users. More than 14 gig of shareware and freeware. Internet, Usenet, e-mail. Large adult files area. MC Visa Amex. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: New York City, NY since 03/84. Sysop: Michael Sussell. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 48 lines on MS-DOS/NOVELL-3.11 with 99999 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $15 Monthly fee. New York's best BBS! Free down-loads for new users. More than 14 gig of share-ware and freeware. Internet/Usenet E-mail. Large adult files area. Master/Visa/Amex. "I ran Normandeau Newswire as a SIG there. Favorite amongst readers was "Filthy Food for Thought" which were highlights of FDA recalls which at that time I had to get via dial-up from FDA. I published the list of "Allowable Filth Limits in Food". When it went down, there were OVER 100 phone lines. In last few years there came about an FCC MONTHLY surcharge of a few dollars on each phone line. BSS was in its hayday during DOS. Mew computers came with Windows and preloaded with AOL or other on-line GUI software so people didn't go hunting for BBSs to call. Declining revenue VS escalating cost brought it down." - Ray 46 Lines - 100 Directories - Full Usenet Feed - 8.2GB
212-348-3842 NYCZ 2, NY	The Screaming Goat (1992-1994)	Mark Berger	Wildcat
	"A small New York City BBS that dealt mostly with shareware games like Rogue and Moria and with .gif files."
212-348-5714 New York City, NY	Laserboard, RRHost (1986-1992)	Stuart Gitlow	Red Ryder Host
	"The BBS was for Mac users only and was the first BBS of any kind in NYC to have 9600 bps access. I started and ran the Board until 1988, when Adam Wildavsky took over in NY and I moved the primary system to Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh system closed shortly afterward." - Stuart Gitlow
212-406-3318 New York, NY	ZyBrex Realm (1989-1993)	Zephyr / Damon	Renegade, Telegard then switched to Renegade
	"Err ... I still have the BBS backed up on them old 5.25 disks." - Zephyr / Damon
212-420-0527 New York, NY	Magpie BBS (1993)	Steve Manes
	Support/Demo System for Magpie BBS/Conferencing Software
212-448-6576 New York, NY	Long Island ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
212-489-7370 New York City, NY	FOG#15 NYOUG RCP/M, FOG-15 (1986-1991)	L. Hinckley, Livingston Hunkley
	New York Osborne Users' Group (FOG AMO #135) New York Osborne Users' Group (FOG AMO #135)
212-534-3149 New York, NY	VTUG-BBS (1982-1985)	Adam Jacobs	RAVICS
	"Noticed that my BBS wasn't in your list! I think its story is mildly interesting, so... here's a brief summary. I ran VTUG-BBS for somewhere between 2 and 3 years, starting in the fall of 1982, first on a VIC-20 and then on a C-64. I wrote the software, RAVICS, which was -- I believe -- the first BBS available for these machines. VTUG stood for VIC Technical Users' Group, although I never really got a user's group off the ground - the BBS was all there was to it. The BBS was initially fairly simple - a single message base and "chat with the sysop" - but rapidly developed into a reasonably interesting system with multiple message bases, private mail, tree-structured conferencing, and uploads/downloads (which were, however, a relatively unimportant part of the BBS's culture - this was long before the warez days). I think the user base was a couple hundred and the system was off-hook pretty much 24 hours a day at the peak. I wrote the software on a VIC-20 shortly after obtaining the VICmodem (for my 13th birthday - I'd received the VIC for Christmas a few months before!) and hacking up a simple autoanswer device for it. I'm sure it was the first, and possibly the only BBS on a VIC-20. Without really setting out to do so, I sold a few copies of it and I bought the C-64 with the proceeds shortly after its release. Of course I promptly "ported" the BBS to the 64, so RAVICS was probably the first BBS software available for the C-64 as well - this was at a time when virtually all BBSs, at least in 212, ran on Apple IIs, TRS-80s, etc. In the next couple of years I ran VTUG and sold a reasonable number of copies of RAVICS to sysops around the country (despite having no advertising other than the BBS itself). "In 1984 I sold the C-64, sold the rights to RAVICs, and bought an IBM PC XT. I made some half-hearted attempts to write a BBS for the PC, and ran some third-party software for a while at 534-3149, but I was in high school by then and I was spending too much time thinking about girls and mathematics. I relinquished the title of sysop and became instead a user: a denizen of the legendary Ailanthus Tree. Thanks for a site that brings back some memories from nearly 20 years ago - although my BBS is far from the only interesting one from those days that is missing from your 212 list! Let me know if you're interested in any of the others I remember... BTW I posted a message to Usenet in 2002 requesting info about the later life of RAVICS (after I sold it) - archived at http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/COMMODORE/VIC-20/RAVICS/adam.txt and http://mail.textfiles.com/pipermail/cosysops/2003-February/000046.html, but note that the email address I gave in the message is no longer active. That message gives a few more details about VTUG/RAVICS. I never received any replies, unfortunately, so I still don't know what happened to RAVICS later on, though I know that there were BBSs running RAVICS for at least a few years more...." - Adam Jacobs
212-562-5161 Bronx, NY	Fever, Fever BBS (1987-1992)	Victor M. Alvarado
	It's been a very long time since I seen the name of my BBS on the monitor. I was the Sysop of Fever BBS. The system was running on an Atari Computer serving the City of NY user groups MANIA and AFUG. The BBS started out back in 1987 and pulled its plug 5 years later." - Victor M. Alvarado
212-595-2798 New York City, NY	Flash Traffick (1994-1998)	Josh Ehrlich, Julian Graham	PC Board
	"We got started a little bit late in the game, so we had some trouble bringing in the calls. However, as we were both somewhat active in the local and national computer art scenes, Flash Traffick became a distribution site for several prominent ansi/ascii groups. Most of our callers were from 212 and 718, but we got some from as far away as 516 and 914."
212-685-8309 New York, NY	PosterBd Net, PosterBed Net, The Posterboard Network (1992-1996)	Tom Murphy	PCBoard
	"Relay Hub for BrooklynNET" - Tom Murphy
212-704-3094 New York, NY	ACDBBS, Islam LifeStyles BBS, The ACD BBS! (1991-1994)	Yaakob Abdullah, Larry Dipaola, Larry DiPaola
	"I worked for Delta Air Lines and had ACD BBS in the NYC office. The office closed and apparently the same number ended up running an Islam BBS. I didn't run that one." - Larry DiPaola
212-733-2816 NYCZ 1, NY	Hollow World (1992)	Groo
	Agile Member BBS
212-750-3643 New York City, NY	Midnight Driver Data Super Highway, Midnight Driver Super Data Highway, MidnightDriver (1993-1996)	Dave Lew, New York City, New York since 07/93	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.2
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Free Internet mail and Usenet news. Tons of newsgroups. CD-ROMs with gigabytes of s hareware online all the time. We specialize in games including the latest from Apogee and ID. The best buy around. Come cruise by and see what all the excitement is about. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: New York City, New York since 07/93. Sysop: Dave Lew. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 3000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $59.95 Annual fee. Free Internet mail and Usenet news. Over 800 Usenet newsgroups and increasing every day. 2 CD-ROMs with tons of shareware. Lots of games including the latest Apogee wares. The best buy around. Come cruise by and see what all the excitement is about.
212-759-2125 New York, NY	Air Force One (1991-1994)	Maverick	PCBoard
	"Originally started in the 80's on and for the 8-bit Atari, this updated version of the BBS was geared toward the Commodore Amiga." - Maverick
212-792-8881 Bronx, NY	Enterprise BBS, Star Gate BBS, Stargate BBS (1986-1989)	Nick Di Napoli (Admiral Kirk), Nick DiNapoli (Admiral), Cousin Nicky	CNET 9.0, 10.0, 11.5, CNET 12.0, C-NET, Wildcat!
	"Went from Stargate to Stargate II and then to Enterprise BBS because it wasn't like there weren't enough systems called that already....." - Nick di Napoli "I originally started off running C-Net then modified it like everyone else did for the games etc and eventually used Wildcat before I took it down. Phone bills then were 10x more what they are now lol. One user at a time of course. Took it down whenever I wanted to log into The Great Beyond (DDial) lol until I bought the phone line for it. I had an impressive fanbase and ran along side other boards like Top Secret BBS, Searchlight, etc." - Captain NYC
212-803-5405 NEW YORK, NY	CYBEROTICOMM (1995)
	CYBEROTICOMM 212.803.5405. local access available from 201, 516 and 914. Exciting, fun. social board for adults only. Join us for chat, spe- cial interest forums, straight and fetish file libraries, personals and a shopping mall of hot products to suit your desires. Become part of a dynamic online community with an excellent male/female ratio. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
212-831-9280 New York City, NY	METRO Online Entertainment (1993)	Bruce Kamm/Metro Online Services
	32 line DLX with City Guide/Ski Database - Matchmaker - Chat
212-876-5885 New York, NY	Amer.Info.Svcs, American Information Services, AmerIServe Public, Graphical User Interface, The Gooey (GUI) BBS, The Gooey BBS (1991-1996)	David Shapiro	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Graphics User Interface BBS/David Shapiro ListKeeper: Graphical User Interface BBS
212-879-9031 New York City, NY	Big Electric Cat (1991-1992)	Robert Sweeney, Charles Foreman, Lee Fischman, Richard Newman	Stride Unix
	"I was one of the sysops. Originally we were set up (illicitly) in the computer room of a midtown advertising agency. It is a VERY amusing story -- pity you didn't know about it before the movie! We eventually migrated to the offices of a communications firm elsewhere in the city. I still have the Big Electric Cat user manual, with its very entertaining cover. Robert Sweeney was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2001." - Lee Fischman
212-888-4773 NYCZ 1, NY	Beyond Paradise #1, Paradise Wares, BEYOND PARADISE #1 (1991-1995)	Paradise King
	Crystal Member BBS
212-888-6239 NYCZ 1, NY	Beyond Paradise #2, BEYOND PARADISE #2 (1992-1995)	Paradise King
	Crystal Member BBS
212-888-6565 New York, NY	Computers & Dreams Inc. BBS, Computers and Dreams, Incorporated, COMPUTERS & DREAM BBS, Computers&Dream (1991-1996)	William Stewart	PCBoard
	COMPUTERS & DREAM BBS — Simply the best BBS in New York City! Don't believe us? Call (212) 888-6565 and enjoy our FREE access and instant verification. 3 FREE and PUBLIC NODES give you access to 760mb of files and dozens of up to date registered doors. Another 3 PRIVATE NODES allow access to a jukebox of CD-Roms, USATODAY online and BoardWatch Magazine online, more time and download capabilities all for $30 per year! All modems are USR Courier HST Dual Standard!
212-888-6746 NYCZ 1, NY	Beyond Paradise #3, BEYOND PARADISE #3 (1992-1995)	Paradise King
	Crystal Member BBS
212-891-8100 Brooklyn, NY	Earth News Central (1979-1988)	Jonathan Gleich	Apple BBS, DDIAL, Galacticomm
	"It was the first Multiuser apple bbs system, running three apple ]['s and a 6 gig corvus drive, then was a 12 line chat system called diversi dial, then became a 16 user galacticomm system. Died sept of 1988." - Jonathan Gleich
212-912-9141 New York City, NY	Modem Over Manhatten (MOM) (1978-1982)	Larry Kelly, Alif Terranson	CBBS
	"We were one of the very first CBBS systems in use, and we *were* the first one with multiple floppy's always online (1mb across four drives IIRC). M*O*M was heavily trafficked by the Phreak community although it was not a Phreak board per se. In late 1978 we took a KIM-1 and used it as a controller so that we could run Ward's [now modified - poorly] code to accomodate multiple lines: by the time 1979 became the year you remembered to write on your checks, we had 2 lines available on a 24x7 basis. This was *extremely* unusual in 1979: CBBS was still on it's birth curve, and only supported a single "user". I've been wanting to send this in for years, but I couldn't find any floppies (8 inchers: if there's any left, it should be obvious, right?) or flyers. Then were sitting here talking about it, and the number just popped into my head unannounced!!! Now it's yours. :-)"
212-933-9459 Bronx, NY	Bronx BBS, Bryan Boyle's Bronx Bulletin Board (1980-1986)	Bryan Boyle	Message-80, Connection-80, TBBS
	"Built the system on a mod 1 trs-80. Had, at the time, about 150 regular users, including most of the leading lights of the phone phreaker community that met in greenwich village under the name "TAP". Also a large selection of downloadable programs for broadcast engineers. The experience of running/maintaining/hacking a beeb got me into the computer industry full-time. Still have the system I used, as well as the software. Pack rat, you know...:)" - Bryan Boyle
212-982-3333 New York, NY	Air Force One (1983-1984)	Maverick	BBSExpress
	"Board ran on an Atari 800XL with two double density 5 1/4" floppy drives- one for the OS/BBS software, and the other for file upload and downloads." - Maverick
212-988-5030 New York, NY	MindVox, MindBox (1992-1994)	Phantom Access Technologies, Inc.	UNIX
	Internet Access, E-Mail, Newsgroups, ftp/telnet
212-989-4675 New York, NY	Inbound/Outbound/Teleconnect (1993)	Harry Newton Publications
	Telephone Sales Trade Magazine Online Service
213-223-3522 Los Angeles, CA	Twisted Dreams (1992-1994)	Sid	WWIV
	"Wow, a nice blast from the past. Thank you for keeping this alive. I ran this BBS in my high school days. Learned a lot from the "community." What a great experience!" - Sid
213-227-4838 LOS ANGELES: DA, CA	Ghost Shadow, GHOST SHADOW (1992-1995)	Ghost Master
	Crystal Member BBS
213-236-1229 LOS ANGELES, CA	J&J’s BBS (1993)
	List of BBS List Keepers: Selected BBS/Joseph Caplinger & Son
213-274-1333 Beverly Hills, CA	HMS Queen Mary's Revenge (h/p/a) =LoL= WHQ!, West Coast Technologies, Inc. (1984-1992)	Digitone Cypher	Emulex, Telegard
	"Board had several names over the years, among them were Wesst Coast Technologies Inc, HMS Queen Mary's Revenge, Digital Infinity Inc, ... The System Op (real name: Michael Allen Turner) was known as Digitone Cypher aka Captain Swashbuckler aka Wave Runner -- also among a few others." - Michael Turner
213-324-0218 Gardena, CA	S.W.A.M.P.S, The S.W.A.M.P.S. (1982-1988)	Mike Andruschak	AMIS, AMPS (Mike Andruschak Author)
	"Originally a much modified AMIS, by '85 I was running my own 100% original BBS program. The final version was writen in OSS Basic-XE, running on an Atari 130XE. Extensive machine language subroutines made it the fastest 8-bit BBS, bar none." - Mike Andruschak
213-325-0213 Torrance, CA	Your Average BBS, Your Average Remote Bulletin Board System (Y.A.R.B.B.S.) (1983-1987)	Thomas de Lellis
	"Greetings! I was the Sysop of YARBBS and author of that BBS software. What a suprise to find that anyone still cares about archiving and making available info on the existence of all those old BBS systems. The software was originally written from scratch for the PolyMorphic System 8813 in BASIC and reimplemented in Turbo Pascal and ran on a GenRad FutureData 2300 ADS and other CP/M systems. I still have all the hardware, software (and actual BBS data files from those old days somewhere - hmm, might be amusing to fire it all back up)." - Thomas De Lellis
213-328-8715 Torrance, CA	BBS-A-Holic (1991-1992)	Genesis	Celerity
	Affiliations (throughout time): USA/Fairlight Western HQ, USA-DoX Home, NEUA Distribution Site, ACiD World Headquarters.
213-340-0135 Canoga Park, CA	San Fernando Valley ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-370-3160 Lawndale, CA	Computer Components Association of Orange County (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-394-2781 Santa Monica, CA	Crypt of Chaos (1984-1985)	Harrison Zanuck
	I was the sysop of The Crypt of Chaos, which I ran on an Apple II+ from the den of my dad's house on Santa Monica Beach beginning when I was 13 or 14. I don't remember a whole lot about the BBS, other than I spent so much time on the computer that one summer day, I was physically picked up and thrown into the pool to get me outside.
213-394-6902 Santa Monica, CA	Megabyte BBS (1983-1986)	Andrew Silber	RBBS-PC
	"I started this BBS when I was 12-- I was a contributor to RBBS-PC starting at version 09, then I wrote my own BBS software based on my experience from RBBS. These were heady days indeed :)" - Andrew Silber
213-395-0221 Santa Monica, CA	Club Zero (1986-1987)	Harrison Zanuck
	Club Zero was the successor to my first BBS, The Crypt of Chaos. I don't recall why I changed boards, but maybe it had to do with me getting a 30 megabyte hard drive as a present, which I remember being obscenely expensive. By this time I had become quite good at Applesoft BASIC, and my strongest memory of Club Zero is a hockey game I built which placed you in a simulated game with and against other members of the board, complete with stats and standings. Eventually the hard drive crashed, and I must have lost interest in the whole BBS thing, because I don't think I bothered to try to fix it. And with that, my years as a sysop came to an end.
213-398-9183 Pasadena, CA	Wamblyville (1987-1994)	Chris Gorman, John Borowski	2amBBS, GAP, Djinn
	"Ran 2amBBS from 87 to 93, GAP from 93 to 94, and a custom work called Djinn from 94 into 95... Was part of RIME network in 93/94 and went InterNET in 94. Became the commercial Unix ISP "rexx.com" in 1994/95 which still has a listing of some wamblyville history online in the web pages. (Under Other Info / Company history)"
213-421-8202 Long Beach, CA	Clockwork Orange (1980-1993)	Nemo, Sid
	"This BBS has 4 nodes at the time... I LOVED this orginal system.... and then it expanded to I believe 6 nodes around 1990. This was when the sysop (Nemo) added an entirely new bbs. So you would call your number, or forwarding number and it would get your to an inital bbs screen. From there you could the select to go to 'Clockwork Orange' or 'The Time Machine'." - Anonymous
213-422-7942 LOS ANGELES: DA, CA	SOCAL Corner (1993)
	List of BBS List Keepers: Southern Califnornia/Mike Hefferman
213-423-4999 Long Beach, CA	Carrier-Point Info, CPI BBS (1989-1993)	Mark Bishop	TBBS
	"CPI BBS was started by me (Mark Bishop) back around 1989 in a small office off Cherry Street in Long Beach, California. At that time, I was also an authorized PC-SIG re-seller of Shareware with PC-SIG being among the largest distributors of Shareware worldwide. I was using at that time the infamous TBBS multi-user BBS software running on a single 486 PC and 10 incoming telephone lines. I tinkered around a lot and amazingly with some help managed to run a single drive CD-ROM player with a PC-SIG Shareware disc in a multi-user environment. I then designed an ASCII menu program and created an online library of Shareware. Determined to make a living out of the Shareware business, and seeing the potential of BBSes and the advent of the Internet, I started a subscription online service and brought together my magazine ads for selling Shareware and that of joining my BBS. While CPI BBS eventually closed it doors, a couple of years later I re-opened it in Gardena, California but tripled the number of incoming lines and then adding a database and matchmaker site as well. Believe it or not, I had only 1 other competitor that matched my membership size and that was a small company called "Earthlink". And as the story goes, Earthlink succeeded by being the first BBS in the area to get a T1 Internet connection and then over-selling it's connection with the smart marketing idea of sending out a floppy disc with all of the dial-up programs needed to get on the Internet. That, along with a large assortment of porn on their site, Earthlink grew by leaps and bounds. I will always remember my BBS experience. I ran both the CSULB BBS (562-985-8737) for a number of years as I was both a student and later a staff member, and then CPI BBS (213) 423-4999 and then Carrier-Point Informatin BBS (310) 366-7959 and loved every second of it." - Mark Bishop
213-424-3506 Signal Hills, CA	Peripherals Unlimited Inc. ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-428-4718 Long Beach, CA	Long Beach CBBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-459-9934 Pacific Palisades, CA	Pacific Brigade (1987-1990)	Street Skater, DC-AiR	WWIV
	"Home site to the group "Pacific Brigade". Wrote first graphical, full color online game entitled "Space Wars" (based on Space Invaders)." - Street Skater
213-466-4482 Los Angeles, CA	THE CRUSADER BBS, The Crusader BBS (1985-1995)	Jack Farmer	WildCat 4
	THE CRUSADER BBS 213.466.4482, Hollywoad/LAX 310 area. Sysop: Jack Farmer. Wildcat w/5 lines (14,400). 4 Gig online. S45 yr/no limits. 30 min. day free w/limits. Fidonet/lnternet conf's. 100,000+ files. 6 online CDRoms. Chat. Geoworks files/conf's. Fun + Files + People + Games + Info. No Adult Files. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
213-470-6869 West Los Angeles, CA	Black Dragon Enterprises, The Snark's Abode (1988-1996)	The Black Dragon	WWIV
	"The only WWIV BBS that could dynamically reload its configuration file and thus become a "separate" system. Now, we call that virtualization but back then it was simply schitzophrenic!" - The Black Dragon
213-484-0260 Los Angeles, CA	Downtown, DownTown BBS v.32bis, The DownTown BBS Main, Downtown BBS (1990-1995)	Ken Sukimoto
	List of BBS List Keepers: 96 List – 9600+bps BBS/Ken Sukimoto ListKeeper: 96 List - 9600+bps BBS
213-484-0269 Los Angeles, CA	The DownTown BBS (1988-1994)	Ken Sukimoto	MajorBBS
	From Boardwatch March 1994: "The DownTown BBS (213)484-0260 Los Angeles, California since 08/88. Sysop: Ken Sukimoto. Using MajorBBS 6.11 with 6 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 6800 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $1.00 Hourly fee. Featuring VGA, SVGA Adult graphics. Original adult GIFs. 28,000+ adult files on 6 CD's & 4Gb of hard drive storage. Originating system for 96LIST & MajorNet Node List. All lines v.32bis; 16.8k ZyXEL & 14.4k HST available. MajorNet Node-ID: @DWN."
213-530-0670 Torrance, CA	The CP/M Connection MBBS/RCPM (1984-1989)	Arun Baheti	MBBS
	"I was the SysOp, and both numbers listed here are correct -- I did switch lines at some point. It is hard to describe the community that existed around Los Angeles, and even in the South Bay area. We had a thriving audience and solid CP/M communities -- and so little commercial activity to muddy things up. I no longer have the old archives, but would enjoy hearing from some of the folks from those days." - Arun Baheti
213-542-7226 Rancho Palos Verdes, CA	ASTRO'S DOG HOUSE, Gamenet (1984-1991)	Jim Grimes, Lord Jim / The Skylord	Custom
	"Featured Alkahest, an original AD&D system designed by Lord Jim." - Lord Jim
213-568-5551 Los Angeles, CA	Pepperdine Univ (1993)
	FrEdMail System
213-575-8803 Hawthorne, CA	Hawthorne ABBS (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-630-1595 Paramount, SC	AmiCon/C-Link! International AmiConnection (1987-1996)	Warren Peace, John Hoyt	CNet
	"AmiCon started in June of 1982 in Fayetteville Arkansas and was called Non-Prophet BBS. It has run since then with limited interruptions when the SysOp moved from Arkansas to California in 1987, then again back to Arkansas in 1996, and then from Arkansas to South Carolina in 1998. Total downtime is estimated at less than a week over that entire time period, including time down while the system was moved to new hardware/platforms. "AmiConnection was *THE* official support board for CNet (Commodore 64, 128 and then Amiga) between 1987 and the time when it was totally abandoned by the author/maintainer in about 1999. Most of the users on the BBS were comprised of other SysOps from around the world. AmiCon was also the originator of a FidoNet-like network which was had around 500 nodes at its height. The name was C-Link!. AmiCon was an official beta test and support site for hard ware companies such as GVP, Xetec, Supra, US Robotics, as well as for many software companies. AmiCon still operates today, in Easley South Carolina. It is telnetable at telnet://amicon.net and runs CNet Amiga. There are currently around 1000 users in the user log, but only about 100 of them are active. The most active group is a group of roll players. In 1999, Scott Smith (GodSmith) turned over the gnomes.org domain to AmiCon and a good number of those visitors to the Northern California BBS (TGGH / The Gnomes Guest House) migrated to AmiCon. WarNPeace / Warren Peace / John M. Hoyt authored several pfiles/doors, and modified many more. Empire, which was a Crazy Cad / Warren Peace offering was the most popular CNet 64/128/Amiga game of all time. Empire is still supported and played on this board." - John Hoyt "In regards to the game, EMPIRE, I can tell you with 100 percent certainly that the game was not written by WarNPeace / Crazy Cad. It was a door that they modified. I know this because I wrote the original Empire in the course of a weekend when I was in 9th grade (1983 or so - Cleveland OH area). The original was on the C-64, written in 5 parts, about 50 lines of BASIC each I think that the new C-NET of the day would POKE over each new loaded line and trick BASIC into thinking that the new lines that been typed. It was actually ingenius for the day. The game was actually based on a TRS-80 Model III BASIC game of the same name, where 4 players could play on a local machine...." - Bryan Chilcher
213-675-8803 Hawthorne, CA	Hawthorne ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-679-8542 Long Beach, Ca.	Mike's Corner BBS, Mike's Corner BBS (RCP/M) (1985-1990)	Mike Heffernan	Wildcat
	"Home of SOCALBBS.LST, a frequently updated compilation of BBS's in 213,818,895,714,619 area codes. There were about 200 on the list, and I wrote (in assembler!) a dialing routine that could detect a modem answer, a disconnect or a voice answer, in order to verify each BBS. The List header... ** SOCAL053.LST ** April 05,1989 This is a list of public computer bulletin boards in Southern California. Many thanks to David Bartholomew and Phil Hansford for the fine job that has been done producing earlier editions of this list. I also intend to continue maintaining this list in the tradition they have established. This list may be freely copied, distributed, or compressed, PROVIDED THAT IT IS NOT ALTERED. (You may also distribute sections of the list if this heading is included.) This list is updated about every two months." - Mike Heffernan
213-732-2300 Los Angeles, CA	Liberty BBS (1992-1996)	David Salch	MajorBBS 6.21
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Members are overwhelmingly adults with adult discussions and forums, but system is open to all. Features Internet, Web & your own home page. Other numbers local to most of Southern California and nationwide via BBS DIRECT, or telnet to liberty.com.
213-732-6935 Los Angeles, CA	Digital Vision Systems, Digital Visions Sys, Digital Visions Systems (1987-1994)	Dion Kraft	TBBS
	"I, Dion Kraft created graphics and animation and put them up on my BBS after another BBS sysop Basi Angulo of MicroCell BBS together created a scrolling graphic that was twice wide and twice tall. The scroll went sideways and then diagonal. We called them Digipics. The mode was in CGA. The images were created on a MAC 512K and then converted to a PC file using TurboPascal which Basi programmed in. Each image was executed via a player program which had out BBS numbers as the frontend splash screen. After a while we had callers from all over the world calling! What a rush! No one had seen such graphics on a PC! We then later moved on to EGA and later scanned images were the norm. I created adult, futuristic and contemporary art on my MACs. It was a graphics powerhouse!" - Dion Kraft
213-735-4716 LOS ANGELES, CA	The Threshold of the Twelve Galaxies, The Twelve Galaxies (1992-1995)	Sire Doime #1	SearchLight, Synchronet BBS (SBBS)
	"I started this when I was working at a bank in Los Angeles. The idea was to create a BBS with a dynamic universe, where the focus was story telling by allowing the user (called a Desdine) to become active in The Twelve Galaxies (12g). Each of the 12 nodes were named after the 12 galaxies. In fact, I actually only had 1 phone line; 12g was only up when I wasn't using the PC. I used SearchLight (SL) at first because I wanted RIP support. But SL could not support traditional handles, using a "nickname" feature instead. I found Synchronet BBS (SBBS), which had a lot more features, & unlike SL much better External Door support. Never did buy it. :( "12g never really took off. I spent a lot of time creating my BBS, setting it up to do things that my AMD 386DX 40mhz w/4MB RAM PC couldn't really do, like QWK & FIDONET networking. Friends would log on, & occasionly users would come via other BBSs. My interface was unique because it was completely different from the standard SBBS menus. I customized everything; even the .DAT files. All the default text would be consistent with 12g's Atmosphere. File transfer was called Contributions, messages were CyberTransmissions, nodes were Junctions, and chat rooms were CUBicles. I edited nearly everything I could in the TEXT.DAT file. "Sigh, I had a lot of fun with my BBS. It "ran" from 1992 to 1995 until I had to move." - Sire Doime
213-795-3788 Pasadena, CA	Pasadena CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-806-2226 LOS ANGELES: DA, CA	Downey RCP/M, The Downey Remote CP/M Exchange Center (1983-1994)	Mark Motley	WildCat, RCP/M
	"The BBS started as an RCP/M on a Kaypro 10 and ended it's life as a DOS-based board (WildCat! with Waffle for Internet UUCP connection, DesqVIEW providing the multitasking). I ended up shutting down the BBS when my equipment was destroyed in a flash flood. By that time the Internet was really taking off anyhow, and "BBSing" was dying a slow death." - Mark Motley
213-821-7369 Marina Del Ray, CA	Marina Del Ray CBBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-843-5390 Los Angeles, CA	San Fernando CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
213-868-4773 Norwalk, CA	Norwalk-La Mirada USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
213-933-4050 Hollywood, CA	Metro Online, MetroOnline, The West Side, THE WESTSIDE, Westside, The Westside (1987-1996)	Dave Harrison	Metropolis
	Area’s Largest/Most Active Adult System-Chat,E-mail,Games
213-934-6026 Los Angeles, CA	Horse Racing BBS, HORSE RACING BBS, Handicappers Log (1985-1995)
	HORSE RACING BBS, 213.934.6026, LA, CA, offering the contenders racing at the following tracks: SA - HOL - DMR, Thinking a big phone bill? Not to worry,. Race data will download in about 90 seconds or less (14400 bps) - BBS Magazine October 1995
213-940-7562 LOS ANGELES, CA	TI-World of So. Cal (1984-1986)	J. Stephens	MXT BBS for the TI-99/4A
	"My BBS ran a TI-99/4A running MXT BBS software. This gem actually allowed multiple Downloads at the same time!! Multi-Tasking in 1984 Imagine that!!" - John Stephens
213-962-2902 Los Angeles, CA	B-C-S BBS, BCS BBS, BSC BBS, The B-C-S BBS, BCS BBC, The BCS BBS (1992-1996)	Bill Weinman, Jim Lee, Los Angeles, California since 03/92	Wildcat!
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Los Angeles, California since 03/92. Sysop: Jim Lee. Using WildCat 3.90P with 6 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 2500 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $52 Annual fee. Los Angeles' premium BBS. Full subscription. ILink, Cal-Link & Internet, Usenet. Quality files only. New services regularly added. All major credit cards. 6 high speed lines and growing rapidly. BCS BBS, (213) 962-2902, Four High Speed Modems(DS) and growing. Gigs of files with the latest files added every day. Qsoftware support, Intelligent Conversations, Excellent Conferences, ever expanding on-line services. One week FREE access! - BBS Magazine November, 1994 BCS BBS, (213) 962-2902, Four High Speed Modems(DS) and growing. Gigs of files with the latest files added every day. Qsoftv/are support. Intelligent Conversations, Excellent Conferences, ever expanding on-line services. One week FREE access! - BBS Magazine March, 1995 Los Angeles’ First Super BBS Under Development
214-216-7424 Mesquite, Texas	Dragon's Throne (1986-1989)	Robert and SpaZzie... (Linda)	WWIV
	"We had MANY get-togethers and parties for the members of this board and had lots of fun and made lots of great friends. BBSing ruled! *8)" - SpaZzie (Linda Alexander)
214-221-3703 Lewisville, TX	GreyMatter BBS, GreyMatter bbs (Right Hemisphere) (1991-1992)	Erik Nordstrom, Eric Nordstrom	Renegade
	"GreyMatter BBS began in 1991 using the Telegard BBS software. Switched over to the Renegade BBS software and a new phone number in 1992. File sharing, online games, etc. System: Compaq Portable, 10 MB HDD, 8088 CPU, 1200 baud connection. Good times."a - Infowarhorse
214-221-7031 Lewisville, TX	GreyMatter BBS, GreyMatter bbs (Right Hemisphere) (1991-1992)	Erik Nordstrom, Eric Nordstrom	Telegard
	"GreyMatter BBS began in 1991 using the Telegard BBS software. Switched over to the Renegade BBS software and a new phone number in 1992. File sharing, online games, etc. System: Compaq Portable, 10 MB HDD, 8088 CPU, 1200 baud connection. Good times."
214-228-3521 DALLAS DANIELDA, TX	The A.I. Board, The Visionary (1991-1996)	Jeremy Gaither	RemoteAccess
	"I initially set this up so I could chat with friends. I started the board while I was in junior high. I quickly met a lot of new friends, especially playing Barren Realms Elite! We had one small user meetup, and I think everyone was just surprised how young I was... I ran the board on top of OS/2, so I could continue using my sole computer. I couldn't afford a second computer just for the BBS. I developed several applications to process messages from FidoNet and shareware distribution in the background, to keep the BBS running for callers. I'm sure those experiences helped me start my career in technology. Today, I'm a software developer. Thank you to all of my friends and users!" - Jeremy Gaither
214-228-4109 DALLAS DANIELDA, TX	***AIK*** BBS (1996-1997)	Richard Henretta	TriBBS, Spitfire, Wildcat!
	"I started off to make the BBS with the most door games (had approx 200). Bought a CD changer from another BBS, can't remember the name, as well as a hacking files CD. placed it on the BBS. Fought against the internet, but gave in finally in 97. Still miss those good ole days." - Richard Henretta
214-231-5250 Dallas, TX	First Time, First Time BBS (1993-1999)	James Simmons	DLX/SDLX
	"One of the largest social/chat systems in the country catering primarily to gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Had a sister BBS in Houston under the same name."
214-238-1568 Lakeside, TX	Teledunjon IV (1983-2000)	Mary Rush	TeleDunjon
	"A play-by-modem Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying BBS where players and dungeon masters carried out gaming campaigns lasting five years or more."
214-251-1175 Irving, TX	Psychlo Empire, The Psychlo Empire (1982-1996)	Mark Corona	Forum XL, XPRE
	"It was run on an Atari 800 computer with 48K of memory until 1991 when it was transfered to an Atari ST." - Mark Corona
214-264-1808 Grand Prarie, TX	The Range (1991-1995)	Bob and Lisa	WWIV
	"Sysop shut down the BBS after going to work for a local Internet company." - Bob
214-268-6495 Dallas, TX	Computer Hobbyists Group of North Texas CBBS (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
214-270-9076 Garland, TX	CADD-net (1990-1996)	Larry Baggett	GT Powercomm, Wildcat BBS
	"Originally started with GT and one computer. Ended up with 6 computers running Wildcat. Offered Internet access in the end. Then the AOL disk flood started... Users dropped like flies... miss the days though :)" - Larry Baggett
214-271-8899 Garland, TX, 75041	Diver Down BBS/Garland BBS/PC Tech BBS, PC Tech, PC-Tech (1984-1996)	Jon Hutto, Hutto/Garrison, Jon Hutto/various	UltraBBS , PCBoard, RBBS, Fido, PC-Board, UltraBBS
	"Just a little updates. I put it up originally on a 2400bps Hayes modem and an Original IBM PC with Dual Floppy drives in 1984. I was only 13 at the time, and basically grew up around the whole BBS community. I spent many years running legitimate, and illegitimate BBS on the same number. In the 80s I think everyone did a little pirating out of their boards. In the end, the last 3-4 years I was working with Bill Rathbone, and Bob Farmer on the UltraBBS software. Mine was one of the official sites for it, and the first site to run it. In the end I ran two nodes of UltraBBS, until finally the Internet was taking over BBSes almost completely. Then I ran a Telnet BBS for a year or two before finally dropping it. Was a great time, and quite fun. Thanks for keeping the list. Hope this updated information is useful. You've kinda made me nostalgic!" - Jon Hutto
214-276-7499 Garland, TX	Lost Island Desktop, Lost Island, The (1983-1991)	Dennis Recla	Cit? ?.?, TurboCit
	"Started in 1983 when it was a lost island, since it only operated during the daytime from 6am till 10pm each day. It was in the bedroom and made too much noise. It later moved to another room where I changed from the original BBS software that I had developed to running a Citadel system." - Dennis Recla
214-288-4859 Dallas, TX	Dallas Forum 80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
214-289-0431 DALLAS, TX	Amiga Network, AMIGA NETWORK (1991-1995)	Masterblaster	CNET
	Tarkus Team Member BBS
214-289-8328 Dallas, TX	Anarchy Online, The Anarchist's BBS, THE ANARCHIST'S BBS (1993-1996)	Alan Bradshaw, Dallas, Texas since 06/93	MajorBBS 6.2
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Categories include: Computer hacking & cracking, drugs, fake ID, fraud & con games, locksmithing, phone phreaking, surveillance and survival. Encrypted e-mail. No ID verification. telnet: anarchyonline.com From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Dallas, Texas since 06/93. Sysop: Alan Bradshaw. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 12 lines on MS-DOS with 2500 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. No fee. Categories include: bombs, computer hacking, drugs, fake ID, firearms, fraud and con games, investigative techniques, locksmithing, phone phreaking, political, revenge, sex, surveillance, and survival. Encrypted email. No ID verification. THE ANARCHIST'S BBS 214.289.8328, is a resource for anarchists, survivalists, adventurers, investigators, researchers, computer hackers and phone phreaks. Categories include: Bombs, Computer hacking, Drugs, Fake ID, Firearms, Fraud and con games, Investigation techniques, Locksmithing, Phone phreaking, Political, Surveillance and Survival. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
214-303-0444 Dallas, TX	-=*CCS-Online*=-, CCS-Online, ThE EleCtriC LoungE!, -=*CCS-Online*=- (1993-1999)	Corley Efurd	Virtual BBS Modded
	"Originally I started a BBS called CCS-Online. Afterwards I worked with a few other sysops to modify a version of VirtualBBS and turned out a shared version between myself and a few other Sysops in the area such as Bryan Erickson of Kozmik Kathouse. Shortly after I renamed the BBS to ThE EleCtriC LoungE! Thanks for keeping this information up. I was shocked to find it! Fun to think about the good old days when we had our kick ass networks running before the Internet was so prevalent. I find it very interesting that some of the mods and tools we made for our networks are just in our time now being implemented for the Internet. How cool was a auto-quoter for email with selectable quotes? :)" - Corley Efurd
214-306-3393 DALLAS, TX	Executive Connection (1994-1996)	George Smith	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Employment BBS's
214-315-8244 Lewisville, TX	The Alpha Centauri BBS (1985-1989)	Dan Ratje	Opus
	"This BBS was originally part of the FIDO net, and ran FIDO as the BBS. I was looking for more punch than what was available in FIDO (at the time) and moved to OPUS. This BBS had a small user base, and was really just a step towards getting really connected. I remember posting that I had the fastest machine in town (I purchased the first 16 MHZ - 386 w/1M ram, a US Robotics 9600 and a new VGA monitor)... About 3 days after I posted that bit of info, I got a messaage from another sysop saying that he had the fastest machine... He had just purchased a 20 MHZ 386 that day. Ha! What fun we had. " - Dan Ratje
214-324-3501 Dallas, TX	Keely Net, Keelynet (1988-1995)	Jerry Decker	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"I was the creator and sysop for KeelyNet back in 1988 when I got tired of photocopying so many papers, thinking it would be much easier to share them via a BBS. The first 6MB was all HAND TYPED by me as seed material. We had as many as 2,000 members at one point. I tried the Internet in 1994 and finally shut down the BBS in 1995 when I setup a KeelyNet homepage and populated it with 'some' of the many files that had built up on the BBS. At that time, there were 7 KeelyNet 'mirrors' of our files. The focus of the board was and is alternative science, primarily free energy, gravity control and electronic health/rejuvenation techniques. KeelyNet always encouraged the free sharing of information except where proprietary with the idea of making correlations that would lead to experiments with the end result being working technology that would better the world. It continues to this day, October 2005 with a much bigger network." - Jerry Decker/KeelyNet
214-340-5850 DALLAS DIAMOND, TX	Datalink RBBS	Jeff Wallach
	Specializes in topics relating to amateur radio, satellite tracking, decoding of telemetry of N.O.A.A. weather satellites. Also dedicated to furthering the public's understanding and interest in the space program. Supports color/graphics, doors, conferences.
214-346-2819 Dallas, TX	The River Styx (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: 8 Cds and additional files. Play Doom,Decent and most modem games online up to 12 player. Internet access with telnet, rlogin, live e-mail and full PPP/SLIP soon. Many online games including online windows games. See other users Gifs and even hear a sound clip while you view their picture. Denton and Dallas numbers.
214-352-2259 Dallas, TX	SDF-1 - Super Dimension Fortress (1987-Present)	charmin (Ted Uhlemann), jello (Stephen Jones)	Magic City Micro BBS
	"The original "SDF" Apple ][e was purchased on July 13th, 1985 for $1065.95 by Ted Uhlemann. On June 16th, 1987 SDF answered its first call at 1200 bps. The BBS ran on the Apple ][e until sometime after Operational Sundevil (February 1990) when another local UNIX BBS 'killer.dallas.tx.us' was shutdown. This event is the catalyst for SDF's transition from running as an traditional menu BBS to that of a multi-user public access UNIX System. In late 1990 sdf.lonestar.org began answering at 972-436-3281 and continues to run this day. Infact, it is the only system that offers a direct UNIX login connection from major cities in the USA via a modem without the need of running CSLIP or PPP." - Stephen Jones (Jello)
214-352-2564 Dallas, TX	Talyn's Lair (1992-1994)	Talyn SilverGrizzly
	"Text conversation boards for: Bondage, Pain & Other Entertainment Gender, Sexuality & Orientation Whatever else is on your mind." - Talyn SilverGrizzly
214-369-5475 DALLAS EMERSON, TX	Sherwood Forest, Sherwood Forest (2), SHERWOOD FOREST (1991-1995)	Robin Hood	CNET
	Recline Member BBS
214-394-7438 Carrollton, TX	Datalink, DATALINK BBS, Datalink BBS-AMSAT, Datalink,Satelli, DRIG BBS, DataLink RBBS System, Digital Remote Imaging Group (1985-1998)	Jeff Wallach, N5ITU, Jeffrey Wallach, Dallas Remote Imaging Group/Jeff Wallach	PCBoard , RBBS-PC
	Weather Satellite Imaging, NOAA Satellite Tracking-AMSAT-NA
214-412-7703	Twilight Zone #1 (1992)	Shocker
	Independent Member BBS
214-436-2858 Irving, TX	Hidden Valley RCP/M (1985-1986)	Sysop?, Joe Gattis	RBBS v3.5
	"Ran on an S100 System." - Joe Gattis
214-437-9441 Richardson, TX	The Biker Board (1993-1996)	Ryno D. Biker	Maximus
	"Before the internet really caught on big time, The Biker Board was the home of the bored biker inthe Dallas area. It was just a little one liner with some public chat and file areas and also many higher levels for those in the know. It was nothin' fancy but it was wide open with almost no rules at all and it was about the only board in town that anyone could log onto for free and say any damn thing they wanted without being censored or bounced off all together. Of course they were always at the mercy of all of the other users so the board always kind of policed itself. It certainly made for many amusing conversations and verbal battles but it was also a great spot to find out where all the local (biker) fun was on any given day. I started it with an old donated, bare bones 286, then traded for a 386 and ultimately had a 486 by the last year. I got married in '96 and the internet was killing my traffic so I shut it down that summer. One of my brothers, "Big Richard" Wells (RIP) of the Dallas Chapter of the Scorpions MC told me back in '94 or so about one of his brothers (Slim, with American Breed MC in Illinois at the time) who had a BBS that sounded a lot like mine called The Virtual Biker. I dialed it up one day and checked it out. Much to my surprise I found that Slim had a very similar vision but he was already light years ahead of my little bs BBS. :) His board later evolved into one of the best biker sights on the net (VBMO.ORG) and it still is. Even though I don't really do the BBS thing much anymore, I still check in with my old friends over at The Virtual Biker at least once or twice a year. It's still a great place for old school bikers and I highly recommend it to anyone in our lifestyle. I haven't checked in over there lately so be sure to tell 'em Ryno sent ya and that I sent greetings to all! Thanks to the powers that be for posting and keeping up with this list. Somehow I never imagined anyone would be interested enough in BBS history to embark on such an endeavor." - Ryno D. Biker
214-458-2620 Dallas, TX	InnsofCourt, The Inns of Court (1989-1996)	Arthur Geffin, Arthur Geffen	Collosus, Phoenix
	LAN Related Files and Utilities 1:124/6101
214-475-4598 Rowlett , TX	Comm Link Rowlett, Rowlett RBBS (1986-1989)	Dan Kardell	RBBS
	"The first board was stolen when the house was broken into and a second machine was set up to replace the system." - Dan Kardell
214-475-7718 GRAND PRAIRIE, TX	Twilight Zone #2 (1992)	Shocker
	Independent Member BBS
214-484-2590 Addison, TX	The Wyrms Byte (1988-1993)	John Bowlin, Thomas Wheeler (Co-Sysop)	OPUS, Maximus
	"We started it in 1989 in College Station, Texas, running on OPUS. When the Maximus system (which I still think is the best BBS software ever written) came out we ported to it. In 1991 we moved to Addison, TX (a Dallas suburb). It was shut down forever in either '92 or '93. TWB was mostly role playing game oriented, with a smattering of files and programming stuff and other miscellany. We were in several networks, including Fido, and in our heyday I think we had around 50 callers a day. It was a lot of fun, a lot of work, and a lot of aggravation. And it was great." - Thomas Wheeler "The BBS actually started in 1988 under the Wildcat BBS software, on an XT clone that didn't even have a hard drive (2400 baud). But I'd say 1989 is when we actually settled on the name "The Wyrm's Byte" and when we switched to using Opus and we also were running on a 30mb hard drive (same XT clone). We also ran it under a software called Remote Access (RA) from Australia for a while after Maximus (or maybe in between Opus and Maximus). We were a part of Fidonet for a long time, and also V-Net (Vervan's Wargaming Network), and Candy Net (C-Net). We ran several "Doors" games such as Tradewars and Baron Realms Elite. At one time we even ran 2 lines, but that got to be too expensive. We shut the system down in either late 92 or early 93, as I moved away from Dallas and my living situations at my new place didn't allow me the freedom to operate a BBS. At the time the system was shut down it was operating on an AMD 386 40mhz. Not sure about hard drive size but probably in the neighborhood of 100mb." - John Bowlin
214-494-1024 Garland, TX	V.iolent I.n P.ublic (1994-1998)	Gangsta, Gangsta Spanksta	CNet Amiga
	"V.i.P was a message base oriented freedom of speech board in the 2i4 and 972 area codes. One of the chosen home of the group of poster's know as the Sub Junkies or Sub-J's for short. Many talented posters roamed the message bases of V.i.P including some of the writers of the underground TR0 E-Zine. At Its time V.i.P was the only zine oriented BBS in the Dallas area. Huge archive of zines, H/P/A/V/C and so forth. Many of the text files on the BBSs are probably lost forever due to Hardware failure that eventually brought down the board." - Gangsta -- Freedom of Speech Message Board.
214-494-1940 Garland, Tx	Dodge City (1984-1986)	Bernie Lawrence, Josey Wales, Bernie Lawrence aka Josey Wales	Fido and later Opus
	"I found your site and boy did it bring back some good memories. I found my old BBS site listed and hoped that you could add the below to it as an update. Thanks for keeping the history alive! I started Dodge City in 1984 running on an original IBM PC with only two floopy disk drives. The board was mainly a message board due to limited space, but as a programmer I was able to add features to the site that no others did. Based on a old western town, the message rooms were named after buildings in town with the Saloon being the most popular. I added a back door for online games and created a shooting gallery where users could select another user and have a show down shootout in the street with the loser losing points and the winner gaining points. I released the source code which then started showing up on other sites. A generous user finally donated a 10 MB hard drive. As part of FidoNet, node 124/3, users were able to send messages all over the world. I wrote several programs related to the web sites, including a remote SysOp program called RemSysOp for managing the users database. Computers were stillin their infancy and I remember staying up until I fell asleep at the keyboard either writing programs for logging onto the different bulletin boards. In the Dallas area, we even scheduled pizza parties and Wet-n-Wild trips so that the users could actually get to meet face to face. I actually met my old girlfriend online in what I suppose was an early form of online dating. I later switched the software to the Opus bulletin board software and wrote some programs for that software as well. In 1986, after becomming a police officer in Garland, Tx, I took down the bulletin board. I'm still a police officer in Garland and still a computer programmer as well." - Bernie Lawrence
214-495-4403 Garland, TX	Parallax BBS (1982-1986)	Rogers Cadenhead	MUMPS-NET
	"As far as I have been able to determine, Parallax was the first BBS to feature door games (and call them that). In a section of the site called the Zeppelin door, there was a shooting gallery, game show, and other games programmed by sysop Rogers Cadenhead. Another Dallas sysop whose name I cannot recall created a version of the shooting gallery that could run on an early OPUS system and made his source code available to others to run on their own systems, helping to popularize this early form of online gaming." - Rogers Cadenhead
214-528-4943 DALLAS LAKESIDE, TX	NSS BBS (1994-1995)	Bev Freed
	Product: OPUS-CBCS
214-594-7911 Irving, TX	Squirrel Talk (1989-1994)	Jimmy Kitchens	RemoteAccess, QuickBBS
	"I ran this during my high school years.. It was up Feb 12, 1989 to August 12, 1992, after which I went away to college and never ran a BBS again. Fidonet address was 1:124/3106." - Jimmy Kitchens
214-613-0777 Dallas, TX	Shadow Magic BBS (1988-1993)	Kirby Flake (Alex K.)	WWIV
	"The BBS went up on Jan. 1, 1988. It moved several times (with me) and eventually went down in 1993 because I went into the army was not going to be able to support it. It was an alias BBS so my name on the BBS was Alex K. It had 2 co-sysops, the first was Zaphod. The second was Burleigh Wood, Jr. It had message boards and files available for download, as well as a few online games." - Kirby Flake
214-634-2775 Dallas, TX	KA Electronics ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
214-638-1181 DALLAS MELROSE, TX	Blues Cafe (1995)	Mark Elson/Mike Shockley
	ListKeeper: Dallas/Ft.Worth BBS List
214-641-8759 Dallas, TX	Dallas CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
214-642-9559 Grand Prairie, TX	Fantasy Football Information Exchange (1992-1994)	Edward Girard, Grand Prairie, Texas since 06/92
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Grand Prairie, Texas since 06/92. Sysop: Edward Girard. Using Synchronet 2.0 with 3 lines on MS-DOS with 420 MB storage. Supra at 28800 bps. $19.95 Annual fee. Dedicated to Fantasy Football league enthusiasts as a centralized forum to network information. Membership includes: stats, boxscores, injury reports, games, FF shareware, Draft Day info, predictions, player ratings, and more. Accept Visa MC. Call us.
214-680-3406 Richardson, TX	BBS AMERICA/3RS BBS, Bulletin Board System America, BBS America (1992-1996)	Jay Gaines
	Home of DFW Online Electronic Newsletter
214-686-1146 DALLAS NORTH ME, TX	South Garland Mail System (1989-1990)	Eric Hedstrom
	"Hi - I am Eric Hedstrom and just ran across your site! Wow it brings back so many memories. Because I have not thought about this in ages I am not sure if I can remember more history other than the South Garland Mail system (SGMS) was originally run on a Tandy 1000. I think it had 512k and a 30MB HD! I was a DFW hub for FamilyNet and a member of FidoNet as well (duel "net" members were not that common). Starting at 2400 baud I believe I had upgraded to a 4800 (that was able to compress to 9600 baud with devices/models of the same type) before shutting it down as I went to college. I was on the Internet by 1992 which I guess ended my interest in BBS. "I would also like to make mention of my earlier BBS (87-89 I believe) I ran a Colorama BBS on a TRS-80 Color Computer at the same phone number, it was "The Flying Fortress". It was originally started on a 300 baud acoustic coupler for a limited time during the day. Yes, I would hear the phone ring and run and answer it. I later upgraded to a manual answer 300 baud modem, then an auto answer 300 baud modem and kept the BBS up 24/7. During that time period I had upgraded Color Computers to a "COCO 2" and had a speech/sound pack that would announce who was logging in, an 80 column card and green screen, all the bells and whistles. The BBS had many message boards and many games and a download section. I also maintained my own Dallas, Fort Worth BBS list that I manually verified monthly. I finally had a 1200 Baud auto answer modem, and perhaps a 2400 before moving to an IBM PC clone (Tandy 1000) and starting the SGMS. Thanks for your site!" - Eric Hedstrom
214-686-4796 Garland, TX	The Flying Fortress (1985-1989)	Eric Hedstrom	Colorama
	"I ran a Colorama BBS on a TRS-80 Color Computer it was "The Flying Fortress". It was originally started on a 300 baud acoustic coupler for a limited time during the day. Yes, I would hear the phone ring and run and answer it. I later upgraded to a manual answer 300 baud modem, then an auto answer 300 baud modem and kept the BBS up 24/7. During that time period I had upgraded Color Computers to a "COCO 2" and had a speech/sound pack that would announce who was logging in, an 80 column card and green screen, all the bells and whistles. The BBS had many message boards and many games and a download section. I also maintained my own Dallas, Fort Worth BBS list that I manually verified monthly. I finally had a 1200 Baud auto answer modem, and perhaps a 2400 before moving to an IBM PC clone (Tandy 1000) and starting the SGMS." - Eric Hedstrom
214-699-9488 Dallas, TX	Public Image Limited (1984-1988)	Kevin Boardman
	"I ran this BBS from '84 until early '88. Still have my old call logs - 10,000+ calls per year." - Kevin Boardman
214-783-1506 Richardson, Texas	KIE Richardson, Shuttle USS Richardson (1989-1993)	Bill Hayes	QuickBBS 2.76
	"Had a loose Trekkish Theme, with a Bridge for the main menu, holodeck for games, engineering for sponsers, and airlock for logging in and out. Fidonet messages about Star Trek, Food, and Beer." - Bill Hayes
214-786-4168 Sherman, TX	MHMR Services of Texoma (1985-1989)	Paul Campbell	GT Power
	"I ran the BBS on IBM PC and later an IBM XT. The BBS used at computer at MHMR in the evenings and on weekends. There were downloads and Trade Wars available. Although I'm not much of a programmer, I wrote an QuickBasic interface for the GT Power Door to parse the user's information to hand off to the Trade Wars game. My BBS was later part of the GT Mail network that sent mail worldwide. There was a GT BBS in the Netherlands who would call my BBS every evening to exchange mail from Europe. My BBS would call a hub BBS in Houston to exchange mail. It was an impressive email system for its time. There were a lot of good BBS's in the area like Electrodes and Doc's Office. I started off with a 2400 baud and later had 9600 which was great speed for a text based system." - Paul Campbell
214-790-8343 Irving, TX	Balulator C-64 (1984-1990)	Roger Bacak	Texas-BBS
	"Was originally a c-64 but after about 1 year was ran on a 16Mhz XT.... How times have changed...." - Roger Bacak
214-817-972 Irving, Arlington, Duncanville, Tx	Sanctum Viaticus, Second Sanctum (1982-1996)	Mark Robbins	Various
	"I personally created and ran the D/FW BBS LIST and the TEXAS BBS LIST for over a decade, which was printed in Computer Currents, Computer Shopper mag, and more. This was done from 2 BBS's over time and a variety of phone numbers in different cities of D/FW. Every person and system listed in this historical list can be found in the remnants of my own D/FW BBS List or TEXAS BBS LIST." - Mark Robbins
214-826-3728 Dallas, TX	Treffin's Lair (1990-1994)	David Tucker	GT Powercomm
	"This actually began as a GTBBS by the name of "The Laboratory". I started working on it in mid 89 while living in Arlington, TX. When my wife and I moved into Dallas, I went ahead and had dedicated lines installed, upgraded the PC hardware to 386 class and began running under Desqview/QEMM. After a hard drive incident, I had to rebuild and changed the name. I loved the BBS world in those days! I actually went on to start an ISP in the Infomart a few years later (97). Wow, how the world has changed since those days." - David Tucker
214-938-2840 Dallas, TX	Ronin BBS, RONIN BBS (1992-1995)	Chuck Mattern	WildCat! v3.0
	RONIN BBS. Your Online Martial Arts Connection. 214-938-2840 HST-DS on WildCat! v3.0. Specializing in Martial Arts we offer 200 conferences from RIME, DataNet and PlanoNet. GiGabyte drive and 2 CD-Roms. Coming soon: PDSI-006. Call back verifier for instant access nationwide. Chuck Mattern, Sysop. Dallas, TX.
214-960-7654 Addison, TX	ABBS Teledunjon III, Teledunjon III (1982-1995)	Janet and Wes Gaige	TeleDunjon, ABBS
	"A play-by-modem Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying BBS where players and dungeon masters carried out gaming campaigns lasting five years or more." Wes Gaige writes "The original Teledunjon was a experiment at University of Texas Dallas. When the Apple II was need for other, more pressing business, they gave the code to my wife who ran it on her Apple II as Teledunjon II. I ran Teledunjon III independently for a while before we were married. We then gave the code to Mary Rush who ran Teledunjon IV with it. We did move the BBS to a Macintosh and ran some commercial software whose name I can't remember for a while before we closed it down. Then we used the tele number as a FAX line."
214-987-2135 University Park, TX	Eclectic BBS (1981-Present)	Chuck Thompson	TriBBS, Mumps-NET
	"On or before 1 January 1981, Eclectic BBS was created by Randy Morton, under the sponsorship of Eclectic Systems Corporation (now defunct). The system ran on an Apple computer, using a crude Apple-specific BBS program. Later, when some of Eclectic System's Outpost 11 computers (originally with two 5.25 inch floppies and later with one floppy and a huge 5 megabyte hard drive) came in off lease, Randy switched to the Outpost, and wrote the MUMPS-Net software. This was used, with significant modifications by Randy, and later me, until 22 August 1994. "Three BBSes used the Eclectic name (Eclectic 1, 2, and 3), all sponsored by Eclectic Corporation and operated by Randy. Later, four Dallas BBSes ran on Outposts and used Eclectic/MUMPS-Net software -- Eclectic, Parallax, Quotron, and Alternative London Underground --all but Eclectic only lasted a year or two before going to that great bit-bucket in the sky in the late 1980s. "On 26 March 1986, as Eclectic Systems was going out of business, Randy handed over to me the equipment, manuals, name, and responsibility for continuing Eclectic's proud tradition. On 5 November 1990, Eclectic BBS was switched to a PC-type computer (still using MUMPS-Net software), and on 22 August 1994, Eclectic began using TriBBS software. "At one time, Eclectic was an very active discussion board, with a few games and downloadable files. However, in recent years, the remaining 15 or so active users have mostly played the old door games, with only a few discussions and no files. "As of 5 February 2007 (my wife and I celebrated our 52d anniversary today), Eclectic still operates 24/7. "Eclectic is the oldest BBS continuously operating in the Great Southwest -- the tradition continues." - Chuck Thompson
215-230-7723 Doylestown, PA	Neurosis, TechOp (1993-1997)	Blackbob (Jim Paris, jim@jtan.com)	WWIV
	"Started in late 1993, ran until the end of 1995 (at which point it changed into Neurosis). My dad actually suggested early on that unless my BBS offered something that other people didn't, I would never get much interest, and so this one was dedicated to computer programming. I made a handful of nifty animated ANSI advertisements for this BBS, which people seemed to really love. I think these ads were probably what got a lot of people interested in calling, or at least grabbed their attention so they considered it. Had 409 users when it went down. "Ran from early 1996 to late 1997, as a replacement for TechOp at the same number. This one was focused loosely on the demoscene, and lasted until it slowly faded out, primarily due to the fact that BBSes began to die in my area when the Internet took over. I stopped leaving my BBS online and started tying up the modem more and more, until I simply closed the door for good one day. I don't remember the closing being particularly sad; it was just something that happened. The Internet looked bright on the horizon." - Jim Paris
215-233-0240 Philadelphia, PA	Philadelphia BBS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
215-249-3287 Dublin, PA	SCBBS (1987-1998)	Don Fox, WaKKo!	Virtual BBS 6
	"OS/2 Support Board. Online-Multi-BBS Gaming Hub. Legend of the Red Dragon, Barren Realms Elite, NARC. 16 dialin lines, added telnet capabilites. Internet email. VirtualNet Node, SCNode, OS2WORLD Hub. 5 PC's all 486 Dx266's Ran the board. 1340 users at peak. Averaged 3000 posts/emails per day. 560 Meg online, with 8 CD changers. Hobbes Mirror. Formed Atomicfrog.com in 1997." "OS/2 Support Board. Online-Multi-BBS Gaming Hub. Legend of the Red Dragon, Barren Realms Elite, NARC. 16 dialin lines, added telnet capabilites. Internet email. VirtualNet Node, SCNode, OS2WORLD Hub. 5 PC's all 486 Dx266's Ran the board. 1340 users at peak. Averaged 3000 posts/emails per day. 560 Meg online, with 8 CD changers. Hobbes Mirror. Formed Atomicfrog.com in 1997." - Don Fox
215-259-4308 PHILADELPHIA SU, PA	The Lord's Keep (1986-1989)	The Wanderer	WWIV (Mac)
	"Running that BBS was one of the best memories I have from my early Computing days... Tip o' the hat to The MACgician, Corwin of Amber, Hari Seldon, Sexy Biomajor, Wolf Blade, Elrod the Albino, Saverio Mercurio and Aztec Ace. Thanks for the Memories." - The Wanderer
215-267-9999 Hatboro, PA	Traveler BBS (1992-1995)	Edge and vamp..	CNET
	"It was in an apartnment, it was on an AMIGA 3000, and it rocked."
215-289-8784 PHCZ 4, PA	Buccaneer'S Den #1 (1992)	Merlin
	Network Member BBS
215-289-8785 PHCZ 4, PA	Buccaneer'S Den #2 (1992)	Merlin
	Network Member BBS
215-295-0178 Morrisville, PA	Arcads, The Plane of Shame (1990-1994)	Drakkhen	T.A.G. v. 2.7c
	"Arcad�s, the Plane of Shame, was an official UA/CiA distribution board and hosted a number of networks and active message boards. It was one of the few boards in existence to ever successfully use Intermail with T.A.G for networking. Arcad�s was impressive both graphically and for the full range of message boards, networks, and HCAV file content it contained. Sysop: Drakkhen Cosysop: Dragon Master" - Drakkhen
215-322-5943 Langhorne, PA	.ZIP Your .FLI / Compu-plex Online, .Zip your .FLI BBS, Comp-u-Plex BBS (1989-1994)	Nathan Cobleigh	Maximus
	"Known to his friends as "Nate", the Sysop of this BBS (age 13) was one of the greatest of all time. His website was unique in design as it ran the premier software of its time and offered the ability to board an elevator with different virtual floors. The message forums would be on one floor, the games on another, and files on the last. He learned a lot about the Maximus system from his friend, Josua Mazess, who ran the Opus Penguin or Outland BBS until 2003! Both their BBS's were far superior to other local BBS's in content, membership and design. "In 1994, (age 17) Nathan received an award from the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce for his successful website Comp-u-plex BBS. "After the BBS days ended, Nathan focused on the internet and the revolution that was coming. In 2001, (age 21) He created a company called eOrders LLC. (www.eorders.com) The company generates increased revenues for restaurant owners by enabling their customers to order their food online. The company has grown under the leadership of his close friends Tedra Cordisio, Wade Neumeister, and Jason Maher. In an unexpected and very unfortunate event, Nathan passed away in 2004 at only age 24 from complications during a surgery. His company passed to his parents whom have successfullly grown it in his memory. Nathan Cobleigh was a true pioneer and visionary of his time and is missed terribly by his friends and family." - Jason Maher
215-322-9359 Feasterville, PA	Mission Control BBS (1991-1994)	Marvin The Paranoid Android, Carl's Lindburgh	WWIV / VBBS
	"We started as a BBS called "Moon Base Station Three" which got changed when several users said the name was just too long.. I ran this BBS mostly when I was in Junior High school as a modified WWIV board, and in its later years, switched to VBBS, since it supported WWIV doors. We participated in WWIVnet as node @2573." -Christopher Herff, AKA "Marvin The Paranoid Android
215-348-9727 DOYLESTOWN, PA	Pandoras Box, LGNP1 (login:BBS) (1993-1996)	Phil Eschallier
	List of BBS List Keepers: Open Access UNIX Site List/Phil Eschallier ListKeeper: Open Access UNIX Site List
215-426-1630 Philadelphia, PA	Harrowgate Uplink, Harrowgate Uplink Services, The Realm of Hellfire (1992-1995)	Tom Creary, The Reaper	Renegade, Telegard
	"I owned it, I ran it. I really miss it. Never forget upgrading it to that 286 with 16 megs of ram! And the change from 2400 to 14.400 WOW! Look at me now. I really do miss it. Thanks!" - Tom Creary
215-434-2237 NEWTOWN (BUCKS), PA	Info 80, Information 90 BBS, Information-90 (1991-1994)
	"Info 90 was run by Danny Uff. He was a super nice guy, and this was the BBS I first cut my teeth on after I moved back to the states in 1995. When I think of dialing a modern, it's actually the tones for 215-434-2237 that play in my head first." - Steve Custer
215-435-1339 Allentown, PA	Wasted Youth BBS (1990-1993)	Steve Henry (aka Cool T)	Renegade, Telegard/Renegade
	"This was one of (if not THE) first BBSs dedicated entirely to the underground bbs art scene." - Steve Henry
215-443-5023 Hatboro, PA	The Gonzo BBS (1988-1995)	Dave Hall	PDP-11, WWIV
	"BBS was originally run on a DEC PDP-11 with a home brewed program written with the TSX-11 indirect command processor (hence the name "Gonzo"). Changed to a PC-compatible around 1990 and ran WWIV from then on." - Dave Hall
215-443-9434 PHSZ 39, PA	DSC (Datamax/Satalink Connection), Dsc BBS, DSC BBS, DSC/VOICEN ET, DSC/VOICENET (1992-1996)	Ron Brandt	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Pennsylvania AC 215/609/302/Ron Brandt
215-444-0773 Kennett Square, PA	Death's Head (1993-1995)	Rasputin (Tom Gamble)	WWIV
	"This board actually ran off an old IBM PS1 (remember those). I believe I changed the name of this board once and it even changed phone numbers for a few months. Once, we even organized a picnic to meet everyone. Although this sounds nice, most of users were a little on the arguing side. I ran this board while I was a junior and senior at Kennett High School and most users were local to that area. The board also focused on hacking and cracking and other stuff that I abandoned after I turned 18. We had a great BRE tournament going upon which we took first place (competing with about 10 other boards). After receiving the prize it was discovered that someone (wonder who?) managed to find a flaw in the game and exploited it again and again. Anyway, the board was a lot of fun to run. -Rasputin (sysop)"
215-453-9486 Perkasie, PA	Chaotic Order (1995-1998)	Wade Fulp	Renegade
	"This is Wade Fulp, Sysop of Chaotic Order, aka Red Dakota. CoSysops were Kevin Moyer and Tom Fulp. Tom Fulp, my brother, went on to create Newgrounds.com where I am now employeed as a site administrator." - Wade Fulp
215-490-0749 Philladelphia, PA	Insurrection BBS, The Insurrection (1989-1993)	The Icon Warrior	WWIV, Telegard
	"Originally from the 301 (now 410) Baltimore area, I started The Insurrection during my college years in the 215 area code. Consequently the board was down during the summer months but I remember users quickly joining back up. I ran WWIV for the first year then switched to Telegard (can't remember exactly why). The board ran on a USR Courier HST/DS,386/25Mhz with 387, 4mb RAM, 2 320mb ESDI Hard Disks that made the computer sound like a Jet was taking off. I also had one of the first CD-ROM drives for the board which hosted a number of the "classic" apps in the files section. I seem to remember being in a WWIV type net but for some reason that doesn't sound right since Telegard boards were banned from WWIV net. I've been thinking about putting The Insurrection back online for the heck of it. Keep checking http://www.The-Insurrection.com." - The Icon Warrior
215-493-4492 Yardley, PA	Midnight Peace BBS, Starbase 2000, Starbase One BBS (1987-1990)	The Vulcan (Tom Woolman)	ARB BBS and others
	"This was one of the earlier BBS set up in Bucks County. It was such a cool board! I started it in 1987 on a HEAVILY modified Commodore 64, running an early version of ARB BBS software. That modified C64 had an extra video chip (VID chip), 2 5.25" 1541 model 170k floppies, and two "massive" high density 5.25" 1.44MB floppy drives. We had a huge war board, role playing game message boards with some outrageous game titles that the SysOp and friends invented. We had a great download section for some of our early custom programs, and we used to have several BBS parties, and sometimes even some girl users would show up! Best memory: The Starbase 2000 BBS vs. Shadows Keep BBS laser tag battle. It was held late on a Saturday night at Edgewood school, around 1988. The BBS started out being called Starbase One, and ran on that Commodore 64 for about 2 years. Then around 1988-89 I upgraded to an Amiga 500 and had a "massive" 20MB external hard drive, and started running new AmigaBBS software. The name was changed to Starbase 2000. Finally towards the end of it's reign and my senior year in high school I changed the name to Midnight Peace BBS. Other funny memories: hacker forums, hidden message boards, busting on The Wing and his retard friends and plotting revenge, hacking Haven of Rest BBS which was a sucky religious loser BBS, and meeting a lot of interesting and also a lot of strange people. Good memories!" - The Vulcan (Tom Woolman)
215-493-8379 Yardley, PA	In The Dark (1994-1997)	Commander Kang or Dark Lord	Renegade
	"The BBS was originally located in the Levittown area and was known as Starbase 911. We moved to Yardley and renamed the board In The Dark. Notable cosysops were Egghead (now known as Rewster), Merlin, and Kronos." - Commander Kang (ckang.com)
215-533-6902 Philadelphia, PA	Club 69, Club 69 BBS (1989-1995)	Robert Hooper	TBBS
	"Gay Affilated BBS. Features: 9 users online at once. Live chat with other users online, private chat. Message board, Online Profiles, download Gif format pics, Z-modem connection with Digi Board modems. BBS had by FAR the highest users per day in the tri state area. Averaging 480/590 users per day. Was broadcast LIVE on WPVI channel 6 TV with Lisa Thomas Laurey, giving news report about Club 69 BBS. Fujitsu hard drive - 672 meg cap, running 486 at 125 MHz clock speed, modified refresh times, 2400 baud. Chat was automatically deleted within 24 hours. Messages/profiles posted were also automatically deleted after 30 days. Users had 45 min free daily, 120 min for contributors (all of 3). Users had to log in at least once in 30 days to stay active. Handles only, no real names, over 18 Only. Sysop Stud, Philadelphia PA. Note - Was great for users but expensive to operate. Way ahead of its time!" - Robert Hooper
215-535-5550 Philadelphia, Pa	P.H.U.G., P.H.U.G. Philadelphia Heath Users Group (1993-1998)	William Le'Mon	Wildcat
	"P.H.U.G. was Philadelphia Heath Users Group Now known as C.E.S.O.P. Computer Education Society of Philadelphia. Bill Le'Mon (my father inlaw) ran the BBS out of his basement until they moved. The Users Group is still out there but do not have the membership of 20 years ago nor do they have the yearly events of many years prior. Great group of people! If you want further information on this family run venture visit and send them an e-mail www.leoradio.com / blemon-sr@epix.net - Paul"
215-536-6751 QUAKERTOWN, PA	Cyber Dreams (1993-1996)	Odin (Randy Ward), Midnight Bard (Brian Black)	WWIV
	I was on WWIVnet, ICEnet, and started my own net, CYBERnet. It was running WWIV (modded) and was up from 1993 through 1996. I still have reg. codes for WWIV, tradewars, and BRE... ::sigh:: - Randy Ward
215-537-5267 Philadelphia, PA	KAOS (1984-1989)	Maxwell Smart (Scott Corsetti), Captain Infinity (John Bradley)	GBBS (later GBBS Pro)
	"Maxwell Smart founded KAOS in late 1984, and ran it until April 1986. Captain Infinity took over the board at that time, and ran it until it closed. (Source: http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=259) KAOS ran until about 1989 or 1990 (date approximate). At some time before it finally closed down, Captain Infinity moved out of the house where the system lived, leaving KAOS running in his old room. The system would sometimes go down, and stay down for days at a time, until the Cap'n could either visit it, or relay instructions to his mother for rebooting it. The software was not really stable enough for "lights out" operation...." - Pat
215-546-7088 Philadelphia, PA	Clockwork BBS, ClockWork the BBS (1993-1996)	Sloan, Philadelphia, PA since 05/93
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Philadelphia, PA since 05/93. Sysop: Sloan. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 19 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1200 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $10 Monthly fee. FIRST MONTH FREE!! We offer ChatLink and MajorNet. We also have over 6 Gigabytes of Shareware and Freeware available from CD-ROMs and many other files, including MAC, on disk. PLUS we have over 20 online multi-player games. We support RIP.
215-569-4225 PHCZ 1, PA	Incunabula (1989-1991)	Homeless Toaster, Alex Wetmore	Opus, Telegard
	Also known as 215-JOY-HACK. "Ran out of the Friends Select School." - Alex Wetmore
215-579-7059 NEWTOWN, PA	Ghoul's Lair, The Ghoul's Lair (1992-1994)	SubGhoul	VBBS, Telegard
	"The Ghoul's Lair ran on a 386. I think I've got some old floppies in a shoebox somewhere with some of the customized menus etc." - Subghoul
215-623-8505 Lansdowne, PA	High Voltage BBS! (1986-1992)	Steve Basciano	Wildcat
	"High Voltage BBS!, was started in 1986. I was 15 years old. Originally using a commodore 128 with a 300 baud modem. Over the years I saved money from working and kept upgrading as much as I could afford. Computer equipment was outrageously expensive back then. I eventually upgraded to a Radio Shack 8086 processor computer, then 80286, 80386, and then finally a 80486 processor computer. I was using Wildcat BBS with windows DOS and Quarterdeck's Desqview and QEMM programs which allowed me to run multiple nodes. In the final years of High Voltage BBS!, I was running 3 nodes, lots of registered online games, many chat boards, utilized two different relay email systems, and had a huge user base. It was a great learning experience and made many friends with people all over the world as well as the local other BBS sysops. Eventually private BBS's lost user interests due to AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. Even though all three of those systems were extremely expensive and charged by the minute for most features!!!" - Steve Basciano
215-624-2985 Philadelphia, PA	Reality Cubed BBS (1994-1998)	Lou Gentile, Badthrax	Renegade, PC-Board
	"Lou Gentile originally started a BBS back in the Summer of 1994 called Reality Cubed BBS. The BBS was a file, message and news sharing system that started with one phone line, running RENEGADE BBS SOFTWARE ( Cott Lang ) on a 386 PC with 8mb of ram and DOS with lantastic connected over a peer network to two(2) other computers to share a whopping 1 gig of file space. In February of 1996 the BBS had grown to be the biggest RENEGADE BBS SOFTWARE system of the time. It was running on a 486/AMD Prototype 150mhz CPU, 64mb of ram, DOS 6.X with 10 gigs of SCSI filespace, Fido-Net and other newsgroups, over 30 online games (doors) and 10 nodes all accessible over the internet and via phone lines. The BBS had grown to big and Lou needed to upgrade the software and hardware to a more stable and flexible system. In 1997 Reality Cubed BBS moved to PcBoard and had over 1000 registered users, 10 phone lines, internet acces via isdn/telnet/Dial-up, over 50 games (doors) and 10 gigs of online SCSI file storage. The BBS was free to the general public and was running PcBoard v15.X registered for 50 nodes! It was considered at one time to be one of the largest BBS's connected to the Internet via telnet. In the Summer of 1998, Reality Cubed BBS said goodbye to all it's faithful visitors and was taken offline due to a move to a new location and the popularity of the World Wide Web. Today, Lou Gentile will be trying to revive the BBS scene shortly with a new project due out January 2006! Stay tuned to his website at www.lougentile.com for more details!" - Lou Gentile
215-628-2646	The Magic Bus (1993-1994)	Matt Payne, Ambler, Pennsylvania since 06/93
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Ambler, Pennsylvania since 06/93. Sysop: Matt Payne. Using MajorBBS 6.11 with 08 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 850 MB storage. Zyxel at 19200 bps. $5 Monthly fee. PHILADELPHIA'S FASTEST GROWING BBS! 8 lines up to 19.2. 15 games including Swords and Sorcery, Inter-national chat every night, World-Wide Mail Transfers using Mailink, 6 CD-ROM'S online, and much more!
215-639-3242 Trevose, PA	Qtach2/QNX Help, Qtach2/QNX Support, Rat BBS, RATS BBS, Sec Tec, SecTec, The Rat, SecTec BBS (1987-1995)	Thomas Lynch, Tom Lynch	Qtach2
	"I ran this system and the Philly Vertex echomail collection system for many years. It originally started in the mid 1980s in a SWTP 6809 with dual 180k 8-inch floppy systems with a 300 baud acoustic modem running CP/M. Years later in the same apt complex a pretty sharp guy who eventually ran the entire Zone 1 Fidonet email system named George Peace. I would walk to his apt and we woudl drink pepsi and watch the lights blink on the hard drives (big 40 meg units!!!!) and supervise the echomail getting processed and write DOS batch programs. (its 2013 September and i am on Long Island for many years, this is great stuff) had this url since my son was born in 1994 and i took the systems down and let the internet process the packets and email." - Thomas Lynch
215-657-6130 Willow Grove, PA	Book BBS (1993-1996)	Ken Taylor, Business & Computer Book Store
	Information on 2000 Computer Books - 800 order number
215-675-3851 PC-Ohio PCBoard (216)381-3320 Cleveland, Ohio since 09/85.	Anterra Network, The Anterra Network (1990-1995)	Steve Ferguson	Wildcat!, WildCat 3.9
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Hatboro, Pennsylvania since 03/90. Sysop: Steve Ferguson. Using WildCat 3.9 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 10800 MB storage. US Robotics at 16.8 bps. $5 Monthly fee. Philadelphia area's largest BBS. Over 53,000 files and 700 message conferences from FidoNet, WildNet, ThrobNet, AdultNet, ElNet, and RimeNet. The best game of Trade Wars in the 215 area code.
215-678-0818 Reading, PA	RoundTable, Roundtable BBS, The Round Table BBS, THE ROUND TABLE BBS (1990-1996)	Brown & McCoy, Mike Brown/Dan McCoy, Brown&McCoy, Dan Mccoy, Dan MCCoy	PCBoard , PCBoard 14.5a
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Reading, Pennsylvania since 03/90. Sysop: Dan MCCoy. Using PCBoard 14.5a with 7 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 2500 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $20 Annual fee. Free two week access for all. Engineering & AutoCad specialty system. 50,000+ files technical, Windows, DOS util & more. 400+ gigs on 6 networks. USA Today, games, & news. Member USN and ASP. 300/1200/2400 THE ROUND TABLE BBS 215-678-0818 USR v.32/v.42bis at 19,200bps. Six phone lines — NEVER a busy signal! PCBoard 14.5a based with 1.3 GB HD and 1.2 GB CD-Rom Capacity. 51,000+ files w/extended Engineering, AutoCad, Programming, 3/90 by Sysops Mike Brown and Dan McCoy. Two week free trial for all. Subscriptions range $30.00 to $45.00. THE ROUND TABLE BBS 215-678-0818 USR v.32/v.42bis at 19,200bps. Six phone lines — NEVER a busy signal! PCBoard 14.5a based with 1.3 GB HD and 1.2 GB CD-Rom Capacity. 51,000+ files w/extended Engineering, AutoCad, Programming, 3/90 by Sysops Mike Brown and Dan McCoy. Two week free trial for all. Subscriptions range $30.00 to $45.00.
215-678-5323 Wyomissing, PA	The Round Table BBS (1992)
	9600/14.4 v32/v42bis HST
215-698-1905 Philadelphia, PA	Herp-Net, Herpnet, Satronics, Herpnet/Satronics TBBS, Tele-Master:Satronics (1986-1994)	Mark Miller, Mark Biller	TBBS
	Reptile and Amphibian Studies – Poison Snakes/Toads/Fish
215-732-3413 PHCZ 1, PA	Mogel-Land (1993-1995)	Mogel	Telegard
	"This was a major center for spawning mid-90s 'zines." - Mogel
215-742-9590 Philadelphia, Pa	Ghost BBS, The Ghost with the Most! (Old Star Wars BBS) (1993-1998)	Paul and Michele	Renegade
	"This was me (Paul) and my wife Michele's Board until we moved out of the city. We caried many Door games like BRE, SRE and Legend of the Red Dragon. Hosted leages and carried many message boards for other local BBS's using Front Door 2.9. We were a single node BBS but had many callers." "The internet has pretty much killed the BBS idea. But my wife still bugs me to put up another (at least she could play her door games again) :) Thanks for the opertunity to write you and I like what your doing! - Paul SYSOP (hehehe that looks wierd seeing sysop again)"
215-788-4662 Croydon, PA	Storm Front BBS, THE STORM FRONT BBS, The Storm Front BBS (1990-1998)	Bill Dennison	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"Started on a Packard Bell using Wildcat!, the system ran for 13 years until the power went out one day and I decided that it was time to switch it off. It still sits in the garage; I can't bear to get rid of it." - Bill Dennison
215-799-4557 SOUDERTON, PA	The Wiz's Hideout (1987-1990)	Brian Reichert	Ivory BBS
	"The phone number given is the phone number of the time my BBS was up and running. Since then the area code has changed to 610. Infact, the phone number is still in use at my parents house for their computer to access the internet. The hardware specs of The Hideout in it's day was: 1 Commodore 64 1 512K Memory Expansion Unit 2 1541 5 1/4" Floppy 1 1571 5 1/4" Floppy 1 1581 3 1/2" Floppy 1 IEEE Hi Density Double Sided Drive (I don't remember the model) A generic 2400 Baud Hayes Modem I love the idea of this list. BBS's were a significant part of my life as a teenager and influenced me to start a career in computers. May the history of the BBS live on. Most kids today won't even know what a BBS was."
215-876-4876 Brookhaven, PA	Time Continuum, The Time Continuum (1991-1994)	Dan Pilone (Whiz Kid), Joe C (Milkster)	Image BBS, Telegard, Renegade
	Started running Image BBS on a Commodore 64 with a Lt. Kernel HD (space measured in MBs!!) then moved to Telegard / Renegage BBS on a 286 then 386. Such an amazing time to be part of BBS history. Because of long distance phone call costs it was so neat to create these virtual, but local, communities.
215-879-6616 Philadelphia, PA	ONIX (1987-1995)	Jeff N Miller	MajorBBS 6.12
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 04/87. Sysop: Jeff N Miller. Using MajorBBS 6.12 with 22 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 2550 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $15 Monthly fee. Philadelphia's friendliest BBS. 38 multi-player games. Files for IBM, Amiga, MAC, Windows. Local & national chat lines. Internet, Usenet, Majornet, Worldlink. RIP support. 30 days free for new members. King of Prussia: (610)992-1720
215-882-1415 Philadelphia, PA	The Dragon's Den (1985-1993)	Collin Rodolitz
	"I started my BBS when I was around 13. I ran it on an Atari 800XL with a 300 baud modem, both a gift from my grandfather. I used BBS software written in Basic, but I don't remember the name. Little by little, I made edits to the software to add small new features here and there and to give it a more custom feel. The BBS was named CHR's board when I first started it and shortly after I renamed it to The Dragon's Den. I set it up just as a fun project. As soon as I had been on a few BBSes and got a hold of the software, that was it. It sparked my love for programming after I printed out the basic code and started figuring it our little by little... it's no surprise I'm a software developer now. "I really got a kick out of people 'Paging the sysop' and I was usually up pretty late chatting with my users who paged me. My sysop name from Dragonmaster Bink, if I remember correctly. I used the name Bink after a character in a book I really loved at the time A Spell From Chameleon. "The sad thing was the reason I eventually shut the site down... the floppy disk with software I had customized so much, for such a long time and that had all my user's accounts on it corrupted and I didn't have any more backups! I didn't want to start over making all the changes I had made, so I gave it up." - Collin Rodolitz
215-883-1900 Philadelphia, PA	Onix BBS, ONIX BBS (1987-2002)	Jeff Miller	MajorBBS , MajorBBS/Worldgroup (MBBS/WG)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Philadelphia's friendliest BBS. 45 multi-player games. Files for IBM, Amiga, MAC, Windows. Local & national chat lines. Live Internet services. MajorNet, Worldlink, Chatlink. A Boardwatch Top 100 BBS. 30 days free for new members. Telnet or http:onix.com.
215-926-8540 Reading, PA	Reading BBS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
215-943-1309 Levittown, PA	Futile Frontier (1992-1996)	Jay	Renegade, Telegard
	"This was definately a hackers BBS - back in the day when hacking was 'cool' instead of a business. It also hosted the largest collection of virus source code available at the time - something on the order of source (asm, c, etc) for about 18000+ viruses. It was a public BBS with a definate hacker side to it - you had to get special access to know it even had a hacker side to it. Regularly was full with calls from across the globe - had some regulars from the netherlands call up several times a day! Was fun!" - Jay
215-985-0462 PHCZ 1, PA	That Stupid Place (1996)	Mogel	Renegade
	"8-month old DTO support BBS run out of Mogel's mother's basement." - Mogel
215-999-9999 Upper Darby, PA	The Web ~W~ (1993-1996)	Deedler and Veil	MAJOR
	"Alternative Lifestyles and a tight knit community, regular bar nights at 'Pocket's' in Manoa. Yes, my life was never the same."
216-228-0462 Lakewood, OH	The Last Stand (1991-1993)	John C. Rowland, Jason Kraley	Waffle
	"Offered UUCP access to Internet mail and Usenet(pwrtool.wariat.org) and Barren Realms Elite (multi-player game) amongst other things..." - John Rowland
216-232-5985 Cleveland, OH	Cyberdyne Systems:VSI (1990-1995)	iCE Breaker, ICE Breaker	ShockWavE:PRO
	"Home of ShockWavE/ShockWavE:PRO BBS Softare. Member Board of CIA/ACE. HQ of Cynic Magazine. HQ of PuNk Digest. Cyberdyne Systems had gone throught a few name changes, and revamping of the system before sticking to the current name. According to people in the scene, iCE Breaker and his BBS contributed greatly, and often helped out when and where he could. Some of the users that frequented this system: Ur'Lord Pyro, Ms. Jewels, MCI Sprinter, Lord Tracer, The Undertaker, Zealot, Mercury, CoIL, AdRock, and many others. The BBS was mainly a message based system. It had few warez. It didn't need to. It had cool users who posted and that's all that mattered." - iCE Breaker
216-238-6937 Cleveland, OH	Skid Row (1985-1990)	Spiderman	CNet, Image, Ivory
	"One of the first commodore bbs's in the area to have a 20mb hard drive, lots of storage." - Spiderman
216-261-7558 Euclid, OH	Drive-Thru BBS (1995-1996)	Dave Solema, Jim O'Neill	Searchlight
	"Our tagline was "Would You Like Files With That?" Ugh." - Jim O'Neill
216-273-8224 Brunswick, OH	HCS BBS (1983-1997)	Al Hawker	GAP , Citadel, C-Net
	"HCS BBS was actually started in mid 1983. HCS started on a CP/M system running Citadel for a short time. I then switched to a commodore 64 machine running C-Net BBS software. It allowed the Sysop the ability to write door "modules" in BASIC that would swap and overlay themselves into the "center" of the main BBS BASIC code. If I remember correctly, I think you were allowed roughly 100 lines of BASIC code to write your door modules. HCS was pretty high-end at that time. I had 3 serial drives (I think they were like 174K or so) and a Commodore tape drive. And...I was running a 300 Baud Modem RS-232 modem. That was "smoking" for a BBS at that time. [Big Grin]. I next upgraded to a C-128 which allowed both Commodore BASIC and CP/M OS modes. At that time, HCS was one of the first, if not "the first" in the Cleveland area to run at 1200 Baud and had a 1 Meg hard drive. I eventually wrote my own BBS software that linked with C-Net and took advantage of a 512K RAM Expansion for the C-128. "Not long after, I switched to my first Intel PC... one of the infamous "IBM Compatibles" of the time. It was quite a step up. Not only was it a 286, but it was one of the first XT "Turbo" models... a screaming 8 MHz with a 20 Meg Drive! [Grin] From that point on the BBS continuously grew... from 386s, to 486s, to Pentiums that were networked, running multinode BBS software, and 56k lines. HCS even went through having its area code changed from 216 to 330 when the phone company decided it needed more numbers in the Cleveland area. That explains why your collected BBS lists have it listed as both area codes over the years. "I had originally tried RBBS, PCBoard, and several other popular board software packages, but in 1987 I switched to GAP and I was hooked. GAP was written in C & Asm, it was fast and had a lot to offer. Kenny Gardner did a great job of developing and supporting it. HCS became a development test and support site for GAP until I shutdown in 1997. If you should ever come across an old GAP BBS manual, you'll find sample graphics and configurations with familiar references in them. [grin] At its high point, I was running the 99 node version of GAP BBS software, however, 10 lines were the most HCS ever had active. It had all the normal features like Door Games & Utilities, Relayed FIDO mail, Gapnet mail, Numerous Forums, and the works. "In 1996 or so, the Internet became easily accessible to everyone and the boards started a rapid decline. The slow, dedicated ANSI/ASCII boards just couldn't compete with the graphical worldwide accessibility. I held out and kept HCS running until 1997, however, BBS traffic had declined so drastically to the Internet that it was just no longer feasible. So in 1997, after 14 years of being online with many wonderful users... HCS shutdown." - Al Hawker, Sysop, HCS BBS
216-286-4611	Bigfoot BBS, Total Eclipse, BIGFOOT'S BBS (1990-1995)	Bigfoot	Quartez
	Quartex Member BBS
216-323-8052 Elyria, OH	Tower Of High Sorcery BBS (1988-1996)	Raistlin Majere	Wildcat BBS, MajorBBS
	"Really Cool, Warez BBS Known Members, Raistlin Majere, Pyro, Viper, Linquiest, ZeroCool10101, The Rouge, Bruno B. Battlehammer, Knarf421, Bishop, and too many others." - Raistlin Majere
216-328-0374 Independence, OH	Damage Incorporated (1985-1997)	Damin	METAL/FutureVision
	"Damin was responsible for writing the UUCP to FutureNet bridging software that allowed the FutureNet BBS system to send/receive electronic mail and news on the Internet. All of the FutureNet sites were accessible under the fnet.org domain. Damin and Josh Thompson actually met, for the first time, after knowing each other for 14 years in 2004 at the Astricon 2004 convention in Atlanta, GA." - Damin
216-333-4364 Rocky River, OH	The Clinic, Clinic, The (1986-1997)	Doctor Quack, Doctor Quake	Metal / Future Vision 4
	"The Clinic opened for operation on Feb 1, 1986 on 216-835-9273 in Westlake, Ohio running on an Apple ][ Plus with an Apple-Cat II 103/202 modem running Tele-Cat // version 4.6. In January 1987, the system upgraded to a "Woz" Apple IIgs. In December 1989, the phone number changes to 216-892-HYPO. The 10,000th caller is reached on March 31, 1990. On April 30, 1990, a new modem, the USRobotics Courier HST Dual Standard is put into production. In June, 1991, The Clinic moved to Rocky River with the 216-333-4364 number. The system remained online until October 5th, 1995 (approximately 2 weeks prior to the birth of Doctor Quack's first child!) Co-Sysops of The Clinic BBS were Doctor Bogenbroom, Friday Knight, Kelson Haldane, Damin, and Evil Genius." - Doctor Quake
216-336-3476 Wadsworth, OH	The Airliner BBS (1987-1992)	The Pilot	BBS-PC!
	"This was an Amiga BBS set up for Message Board RPGs." - The Pilot
216-362-1532 Cleveland, Oh	Doom's Retreat (1985-1995)	Ur'Lord Pyro -K Of TFD	C-NET
	"Doom's Retreat was the ultimate in concept boards. It's mods made it feel like a real and solid place in modemia. Some of it's users were: Shadowspawn, The Enchantress, Dark Mistress, Apprentice, La Femme, Aphrodite, Faust, FanG, Gumbshoe Grant, Durak, TDK, Road Warrior, Trinity, Rifka, Alpha Wolf, Ishtar, Line Noise, Jammer, Ms Jewels, Disk Invader, The Huntress, Ms Jewels, Tempus, and many more. At one point Ur'Lord Pyro -K was running 2 SFD drives (one of them bought from The Engineer of The Fourth Dimension), and became one of the fastest C-Net BBSs of it's time. Many people attribute Doom's Retreat wih forming and shaping who they are today! Ama Semper." - Ur'Lord Pyro -K Of The Fourth Dimension.
216-365-0000 Elyria, Ohio	The Trading Post (1992-1996)	Frank McCourry	Searchlight, Wildcat
	"The Trading Post was a small BBS that provided Doors games such as Legend of the Red Dragon. It's main focus was the propagation of shareware and freeware. This BBS initially ran on a Commodore Colt PC10 computer with a 10mb Hard drive and shared CD Rom Drives. When the BBB was shutdown in 1996, it was running on a 386 custom built computer with 20 CD Rom Drives. The trading post had one of the largest shareware libraries in Lorain County." - Frank McCourry
216-368-3888 Cleveland, OH	Case Western Reserve FreeNet, Cleveland Free-Net, Cleveland Freenet, DOC-IN-THE-BOX, Free Net (Case Western), Free-Net, Free-net BBS, FreeNet (Case Western Reserve University) (1986-1999)	Case Western Reserve, Tom Grundner, CWRU, Case Western University/AT&T/Ohio Bell	Freeport
	The Software (Freeport) it ran on was created and developed at the University (CWRU) - Froggy (Mr. Death) Cleveland City Info/Public Library - Free Internet Mail Box
216-381-3320 Cleveland, OH	PC Ohio, PC-Ohio 1, PC-Ohio PCBoard (5 nodes), Agora Online (1985-1996)	Norm Henke, Norman Henke, Marius Kirschner	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.1
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Planet Connect satellite connection. 22 email networks including the Internet as pcohio.com. 100,000 files, 250 game doors, 5000 conferences. USR V.34+ 33600 modems at 216-691-3030. Now with full Internet access. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cleveland, Ohio since 09/85. Sysop: Norm Henke. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 50 lines on MS-DOS with 15000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $52 Annual fee. Planet Connect satellite connection. 22 Email networks including the Internet as pcohio.com. 100,000 files, 250 game doors, 5000 conferences. Hayes V.FC 28800 modems at 216-691-3030.
216-381-6550 CLEVELAND, OH	Ground Zero (1986-1990)	George Burgyan (Vector), John Minadeo (Stealth)	CNet
	"A talk BBS ran off 1 meg of floppy space. Had around 30-40 regulars at its peak. A great little community board without all the warez and nonsense. Also had a couple cool online games to keep people busy. I miss that poor old thing." - George Burgyan (Vector)
216-381-7859 Cleveland, OH	The Basement UnderWorld, Basement UnderWorld, The (1986-1998)	John Polka	ExpressNET, BBS Express Pro!
	My BBS was an Atari 8 bit BBS that went online in November 1986. It was originally known as "WL's Basement" (WL were the last name initials of the SysOp and Co-SysOp). It was later called "The Basement"; then much later it was called "The Basement Underworld". It went offline in September 1998, but was resurrected on July 4, 2017 using backup floppy disks from 1990-1993. You can now see how the The Basement BBS was in the early 90s by telnetting to basementbbs.ddns.net:9000.
216-382-2558 CLEVELAND, OH	The Wine Cellar (1992-1994)
	List of BBS List Keepers: Cleveland Area 216/Eric Rickin
216-385-3185 East Liverpool, OH	Systems Plus BBS (1989-1997)	Larry Merriman	Wildcat
	"We ran Wildcat until 1995 then went to Excalibur through to 1997. Turned it off then started an ISP. In 2000 I brought both online and are running via telnet / web / or old client software." - Lerry Merriman
216-562-4006 Cleveland, OH	Homes OnLine, Homes OnLine, Inc. (1994-1996)	Paul Moon	MajorBBS , MajorBBS 6.21
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Searchable databases of real estate for sale with online color photos. Mortgage and other real estate related services. Very user friendly. Call 800-896-9002 (voice) for advertising info. Free DCTERM software also at our web page: http://www.webcom.com/-greeting/homes_online.html. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cleveland, OH since 06/94. Sysop: Paul Moon. Using MajorBBS 6.12 with 2 lines on Novell DOS 7 80486 with 250 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. No fee. Searchable database of real estate for sale with online color photos. Advertising is open to the public & agents. We do all the scanning & data input for you. Call 1-800-896-9002 (voice) for advertising info.
216-582-1196 Cleveland, OH	Part-Time (1985-2000)	Ken	ExpressNET, BBS Express Pro!
	Part-Time BBS was the longest running Atari 8 bit BBS in the Cleveland, Ohio 216 area code. It was up from 1985 until early 2000. On December 23, 2017, the SysOp's step son, John Polka, resurrected Part-Time BBS from backup floppy disks from 1990-1993. You can now experience what Part-Time was like in the early 90s by telnetting to ptbbs.ddns.net:8000.
216-631-2891 CLEVELAND, OH	Uhu Information Service (1990-1997)	Gergely Tapolyai	Searchlight
	"For the first two years, I ran a Telix script as the BBS, with quite a lot of users. I also managed the Wine Cellar List for a few years, which was the autoritative BBS list for the 216 area code." - Gergely Tapolyai
216-631-9285 Cleveland, OH	Searchlight Software Technical Support, Searchlight BBS, American Banking Systems, Seqrchlight Software (1994-1995)	Frank Larosa	Searchlight
	Product: Searchlight BBS
216-662-1383 Garfield Hts, OH	Top Cat BBS (1994-1999)	Kit Kat	Wildcat
	"Was originally run by Top Cat then taken over by Kit Kat in 1994." - Kit Kat
216-694-5732 Cleveland, OH	Book Stacks Unlimited (1993)	Charles Stack
	200,000 Book Titles Database – Online Ordering
216-726-2620 Youngstown, OH	Rusty & Eddie's, Rusty & Eddie's BBS, Rusty & Edie's BBS, Rusty & Edie's PCB, Rusty and Edie's BBS (33 nodes), Rusty n Edie's, Rusty n' Edie's BBS, Rusty&Edie 1, Rusty&Edie's, Rusty-N-Edie's, Rusty n Edie's BBS (1987-1996)	Russ/Edwina Hardenburgh, R. Hardenburgh, Russ Hardenburg	PCBoard
	2400 baud 2400 baud 2400 baud
216-726-3589 Youngstown, OH	Rusty n Edie's BBS (1992)
	HST 14.4k/v.32bis HST 14.4k/v.32bis HST 14.4k/v.32bis
216-726-3619 Youngstown, OH	Rusty & Edie's BBS, Rusty n Edie's BBS (1992-1995)	Russell Hardenburgh
	Hayes V-Series Hayes V-Series Hayes V-Series
216-726-3620 Youngstown, OH	Rusty n Edie's, Rusty n Edie's BBS (1991-1992)
	Compucon
216-745-7855 Akron, OH	ABBS Akron Digital Group, Akron Computer Group, Akron Digital Group, Digital Group CBBS (1980-1991)	WA8SNF	ABBS, CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
216-842-0417 Parma, OH	The Fourth Dimension (1982-1984)	John Jones	C-Net
	"I was a member of a group called "The Alternate Reality" (TAR) and also "The Fourth Dimension" (TFD). These groups had a long list of some of the best Commodore BBS sites in town. They were the most popular in the area. All of our BBSs had over 250 users, with a high rate of daily callers. All were 24/7, and most started when 300 baud was a baby. We had the first 1200 baud BBSs around.I wish I could remember more now." - John Jones
216-867-7282 Akron, OH	Saturday BBS (1986-1994)	Dan Berlyoung, John Gruver	Searchlight
	"Apple and Mac oriented. Also had a large collection of GIF and JPEG graphics. Also, Apple and Mac shareware repository." - Dan Berlyoung
216-882-3401	All Star BBS (1992)
	Chemistry Member BBS
216-883-6298 Cleveland, OH	Railnet, RAILNET (1984-1992)	Rick DeMattia	Tabloid-80 then Waffle, TAB80 then Waffle
	"Railnet started out on August 28, 1984, as a single-line BBS on a TRS80 Model 4 (in Model III mode) running the Tabloid-80 BBS program - a BASIC program with versions for Apple and TRS-80 computers, published in a book and keyed in. Since it was all BASIC I was able to improve the software pretty readily, and added some assembly-language routines that made the speed bearable and improved functionality quite a bit. The board started with 2 180k floppies, later expanded to 4 180k floppies and ultimately in the TRS-80 configuration a 5meg hard drive. Users peaked at about 160 active in a 30-day period. In April 1991 the board moved to Waffle on an IBM-XT home-built clone, since the sysop was interested in email and Usenet news. The move pretty much killed the board's user activity as most of the users were put off by the UNIX-like command-line interface. In 1992 the board moved to Bedford and a new phone number (as listed in this list) and quickly migrated to Waffle on an AT&T 3B2 computer. That incarnation lasted until the board closed down in 1999. The board offered internet email and selected railroad-hobbyist related and other Usenet newsgroups from September 1991 until is 1999 shutdown." - Rick DeMattia
216-888-7739 Parma, OH	Dimension Hatross I, The Ultimatum (1987-1991)	Dalamar Do'Urden (Lance Gentile)	UFPBBS Express!
	"My board was board as The Ultimatum in 1987 running @ 300 baud and on an Atari 130 XE. It ran various software, always something hackable to make it look unique. Message boards were #1. It later ran on a 20MB hard drive! In the conversion to the PC, it ran a hacked Telegard version among some other experiments. I was the Cleveland UFP node. "After 1991, I moved in / married Julianne Glover of The Edge of Dementia, and our boards merged to become Dimension Hatross III: The Edge of Dementia. It ran Aftershock, Searchlight, and lastly Renegade. RIP - 1994. We had two lines at its peak (14.4k). I still miss it!" - Lance Gentile
216-888-8426 Cleveland, OH	Disk Connection (1990-1993)	Handyman	CNet
	"One of many multiline BBS systems that came as a later generation of CNet systems. Operated by Handyman who often had swap meets and was very helpful to the community as a whole. He later ended up throwing the computer in a closet and one day just shut it off... Very popular system at it's time. Was at one time part of NASA (North American Sysop Association)" - Editor
216-946-9630 Cleveland, OH	Crazy 8 Ranch, Crazy Eight Ranch (1988-1994)	Chrome	CNet, C-net
	"Another NASA (North American Sysops Association) board. Although this one wasn't always up, for whatever reason, but it did have a 9600 baud modem, which was rare at the time." - Editor
216-951-9134	Flip Flop, Time Vault (1992-1997)	James Barry, Jim Barry
	ListKeeper: Cleveland Area 216
216-951-9150 Cleveland, OH	Flip Flop, FlipFlop BBS, The Time Vault, Time Vault (1989-1996)	Jim Barry (of www.stipey.org)	Searchlight , Searchlight 4.0
	"I'm not sure when FlipFlop started, but it was one of the two best BBS' in the 216/440 area code, as far as I'm concerned. It was a 10-line board and one day it just... died. I know that Jim Barry now runs www.stipey.org, but I have not kept contact with him." - Jafit From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cleveland, Ohio since 03/89. Sysop: Jim Barry. Using Searchlight 4.0 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 340 MB storage. v.32bis at 14400 bps. No fee. We don't have alot of rules. Just treat the other users with respect. Home of the Wine Cellar Cleveland BBS List. Free. What's the catch? There isn't one. Then who pays for this ads Oh, that crazy Sysop Jim. Figures. See you on the Flip Flop.
216-979-0524 North Olmsted, OH	Absolute Zero, Oriel Window, Threshold (1989-1996)	Michael Ryan, Neil Rossin	Searchlight
	"Part of the original INFO screen: This BBS (Bulletin Board System) is called Oriel Window? The SysOps (System Operators) are: NEIL ROSSIN & some mike guy. Oriel Window? is mushed into a Micro _X_perts 486SX computer with 4 MEGS RAM, a 250 MEG Colorado tape drive, 212 MEGS of Hard Drive space at 25 Mhz clock speed with 2 2400 Hayes compatible modems and a Smart One 14.4 Fax Modem running off of 3 scrolling lines. The Operational System is DOS 6.2 & DesQview 386. And we didn't have to butcher anyone else's computer to get it that way, either. Special Thanks to Craig McGee for lending us a 2400 modem!! This BBS became operational on November 1, 1989 under the name Threshold of Madness. At that time, Threshold was hidden in a computer at a Ford Dealership on Clevelands west side, with all operations being handled remotely. Eventually, as changes occurred over time, the BBS needed to be moved. Residence of the program was moved to its present area on November 9th,1992. The name was changed to Oriel Window? on Friday, December 18th, 1992 at 13:25hrs. It's present area is situated in Township 6, Range 15 from the original Connecticut Land Company (the Western Reserve) in the 17th state to enter the union of The United States Of America (being bearings of Latitude 41 degrees north, 24 minutes, 6.649 seconds, Longitude 81 degrees west, 55 minutes, 29.178 seconds), on a class M planet third of nine from a spectral class O star at sector 001 in the Alpha Quadrant." - A. S. Baile
217-244-3368 Champaign, IL	University of Illinois (1993)
	FrEdMail System
217-333-2246 Champaign, IL	Univ of Illinois (1993)
	FrEdMail System
217-333-8301 Champaign, IL	Hacker's Anonymous BBS (1988-1992)	Russ Blakeman, Matt Mayer	Fido, Maximus
	"This BBS was run on an IBM PC/AT 5170 with 640k ram, 20 Seagate ST-225 20 mb hard drives and a 2400 baud external modem. The machine was part of UofI C-U and lived on a table in the graduate student's office in the Theoretical Chemistry building on campus. I ran the BBS remotely from 89 to 90 having never seen it physically until then when the HD crashed. I also ran Midwest Softsource BBS from my family housing on Chanute AFB during the Hacker's Anonymous period and afterwards until Chnaute closed in 93 and I went to Wichita, KS and started another there." - Russ Blakeman
217-337-6312 Urbana, IL	SUBURBIA! (1987-1995)	Mitch Duszynski	Deadlock/WWIII
	"This small town feel BBS was set up like a community where all were welcome. Originally started on a Commodore 64 using Deadlock BBS software (home BBS for the software) it had many customized features, online games, and heavily used message boards. It was eventually switched to a PC using WWIII software in the latter years of its existance." - Mitch Duszynski
217-344-4032 Urbana, IL	FOG RBBS-RCP/M #14, FOG - 14 (1985-1986)	Jonathan Block
	PRACSA Member PRACSA Member
217-352-3682 CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL	Valhalla (1992-1993)	Matt Hucke	WWIV
	"VALHALLA began operation on June 12, 1992 on a 286 with 80MB of disk space and a 14,400 bps modem, running DOS 5 and WWIV 4. At that time, a board could be in only one network (using WWIV's proprietary networking), and there was a schism between two major networks, WWIVNet (managed by the author of the software, Wayne Bell "Random #1@1") and WWIVLink, which had broken away about a year before. I joined WWIVNet and became "Starship Trooper #1@2750". Within the next year, however, the software was modified to support multiple networks, and VALHALLA joined WWIVLink as well, as well as several others. Most of the networked "sub-boards" (newsgroups) were related to science fiction, role-playing games, C programming, and WWIV sysop discussions. One user of my system was Tim Skirvin, who was made co-sysop because of his frequent contributions to many "subs", and later became a well-known Usenet personality. Source to WWIV was available to sysops who had paid the $50 registration fee, and we exchanged "mods", or modifications, on networked sub-boards. I created a few trivial mods, but spent much more time developing external utilities, mainly related to WWIV-style networking. Among these were "ELN", a more graphical version of "L-NET", a viewer and editor for spooled messages awaiting transit to the next node, and "STRIPIT", which intercepted incoming messages and applied various filters -- basically implementing system-wide killfile functionality. In December of 1992 the 286 system was upgraded to a 386/25 with 4MB of memory. I hoped to be able to run the BBS under Windows 3.0 and take advantage of multitasking; I quickly learned that Windows was unable to service the serial interrupts fast enough, and the high error rate made any connection unuseable. A month later, I upgraded to OS/2 2.0, which was much more able to handle a high-speed serial connection, even when other programs were running. Like several other local sysops who had come to the same conclusion, I quickly became an OS/2 advocate (and added several OS/2 advocacy subboards). Also in early 1993 I joined Fidonet, where WWIV systems were rather rare, due to the complexity of the gateway software. The board remained extremely popular, with its single phone line in use almost constantly, until August of 1993, when I relocated to the 312 area code (Chicago). In its next incarnation, it was known as "A Clockwork Orange OS/2" - Matt Hucke "History of this BBS is at http://www.cynico.net/~hucke/valhalla.html"
217-356-2162 Champaign, IL	Bikers Home (1989-1994)	slim	PCBoard
	"The first biker bbs in central Illinois that I knew of. slim was quite a strange guy. There was alot of stories and bike pics..etc he had a program called sherry or something like that for chat. He also had an extensive interactive bar and shop guide. We had some great times.. and all got together at the local bars. Many female users said that they got the number off stall walls :) He went on to start the virtualbiker web site as well as the vbmo around 94 or 95 I havent heard from him in many years. Thanks for keeping things like this alive!" - Anonymous
217-359-2163 Champaign, IL	Bloom County BBS (1986-1987)	Sun Kwok	UBBS
	"I ran Bloom County from 1986 to 1987 while attending the University of Illinois until I graduated in December 1987. Many users took an alias from Bloom County comic strip at the time. We had all kinds of folks, from The Pooch (Jeff Schomer, age 12) to mostly college age users. Some of the users would get together at my college apartment at 604 E. White Street to play Risk, eat pizza, or just hang out. I was also friends with Helen Whatley (Unnamed BBS), Dale Creekmur (Tranquillity II) and Russ Price (CatStar BBS). Helen and Russ are classmates and we had several classes together! We were in the Computer Science curriculum. The sysops in the area were a pretty tight group at the time. We would gather monthly (hosted by Dale, usually) and talk about running our BBS's, users, and so on. It was a great time. I still have a printout from my old Apple ][ with all the users names and addresses. If anyone would like to get a hold of me you can email me at sun@integralcorp.com." - Sun Kwok
217-384-0322 Urbana, IL	Deep Space (1993-2002)	Rawley Greene
	"I finaly lost the BBS when the computer crashed, but I was put out of business by the Internet and the freenet that popped up here around 1995 (Prairienet). I went by the nick names Captain Picard, and switched over to Skybok, which I've been using ever since. I started working with BBS's in 1992 when I helped Keith with his after school bbs that ran Maximus. Keith is blind, but that didn't stop him from making a kick ass BBS. He learned from Jim Danley who ran Lucid Dream using Maximus, who is also blind....Once I got a 2400 baud modem in 1993, (I was 13) I started up my bbs right away, using the Maximus software and I talked my mom into buying me a phone line for the thing. I got Keith and other sysops to spread my number around and soon got plenty of callers. I built a large collection of MOD and sound files on my BBS, and also had a large collection of door games, including Tradewars, Land of Devastation and others. Later that year I joined Fido net as a point off of Afterschool BBS. I was point 1:233/8.1 a few months later I got my own node at 1:233/18 I carried alot of news groups aimed at music and such." - Rawley Greene
217-384-3554 Urbana, IL	Urbana School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
217-425-7051 Decatur, IL	Smokin' Joe's, Smokin' Joes (1992-1995)	Joe Prosser	PCBoard
	"Smokin' Joe's Computer Corner & 2/3 Board were part of the Central Illinois Tri-Connection." - Anonymous
217-428-9345 Decatur, IL	SLASHER BBS (1993-2009)	John Riley and Robert King	TriBBS, ProBoard, Synchronet
	"SLASHER BBS was started by John Riley with the help of Robert King, SysOp of Planet Caravan BBS, which later became God and Country Node 2. It started off in Feb. of 1993, as a private BBS for the two users, John Riley and Robert King to quickly exchange files and chat if needed. In March of 1993, we both decided to open our BBS to the public. TriBBS had a high price for it's registeration, so the two SysOps started looking for other software to run their BBS. In early or mid summer of 1993 Rob King was introduced to Dave Wright, SysOp of God and Country Node 1. He ran God and Country Node 1, using ProBoard BBS software. ProBoard was hardly crippled at all in it's shareware state, and Robert King suggested to John Riley, he switch over to ProBoard as he was doing. He was also going to become God and Country Node 2. John switched over and several users were happy. Infact one even donated a 28.8 Baud Modem which was the fastest speed at the time. SLASHER BBS ran in Decatur, IL until around April of 1998, when the SysOp moved to Tupelo, MS. He looked for other local SysOps, but had found only ghostly traces of the old BBSes. However with the help of some online SysOps, John Riley turned SLASHER BBS into a telnet ProBoard BBS. After a few years, and ProBoard being murder by Pat Clawson, John Riley, finally switch over to a Synchronet system.... Which he still mods every chance he gets to make it more like his old ProBoard system. You can reach SLASHER BBS via telnet @ telnet://slasherbbs.com Thank you!" - John Riley ""SLASHER BBS was started by John Riley with the help of Robert King, SysOp of Planet Caravan BBS, which later became God and Country Node 2. It started off in Feb. of 1993, as a private BBS for the two users, John Riley and Robert King to quickly exchange files and chat if needed. In March of 1993, we both decided to open our BBS to the public. TriBBS had a high price for it's registeration, so the two SysOps started looking for other software to run their BBS. In early or mid summer of 1993 Rob King was introduced to Dave Wright, SysOp of God and Country Node 1. He ran God and Country Node 1, using ProBoard BBS software. ProBoard was hardly crippled at all in it's shareware state, and Robert King suggested to John Riley, he switch over to ProBoard as he was doing. He was also going to become God and Country Node 2. John switched over and several users were happy. Infact one even donated a 28.8 Baud Modem which was the fastest speed at the time. SLASHER BBS ran in Decatur, IL until around April of 1998, when the SysOp moved to Tupelo, MS. He looked for other local SysOps, but had found only ghostly traces of the old BBSes. However with the help of some online SysOps, John Riley turned SLASHER BBS into a telnet ProBoard BBS. After a few years, and ProBoard being murder by Pat Clawson, John Riley, finally switch over to a Synchronet system.... Which he still mods every chance he gets to make it more like his old ProBoard system. I finally have purchased the rights to the ProBoard software, and went back in 2006 to using it. We are working hard every free chance we get to completing a 32Bit and 64Bit version of ProBoard. I may no long live in Decatur, Illinois, but you can reach SLASHER BBS via telnet @ telnet://slasherbbs.com Thank you!" - John Riley"
217-431-5885 Danville, IL	Danville High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
217-525-3349 Springfield, IL	Springfield District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
217-698-0335 Springfield, IL	Fantasy Land, Fantasy Land BBS (1991-1996)	Steve Horrighs, Steve Horrighs, Jr	Spitfire
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Springfield, Illinois since 12/91. Sysop: Steve Horrighs, Jr. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 10000 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $30 Annual fee. Simply the best. 5+ Megs added daily. Lots of doors. Thousands of message echos from more than 9 national mail networks w/ 3 adults only networks. 1/3 of files online are adult related. Fast online instant upgrades with VISA, MC. Download on first call.
217-893-3728 RANTOUL, IL	MidWest IBM SoftSource BBS (1990-1993)	Russ Blakeman	Fido, Maximus, Proboard
	"Ran this BBS in conjunction with running (remotely and physically) of Hacker's Anonymous on the U-I C-U campus. This BBS was my own personal BBS run initially on a Sanyo MBC-555-2 with 4 floppies (no HD) using Fido then upgrading to a 286 era machine with 40 mb RLL HD and 2 floppies and 2400 baud external modem. It evolved to other BBS platforms to eventually having BinkleyTerm for mail/front end, door games, Fidonet, etc. Closed it down in early 1993 when I had to pack to move for a move to Wichita/McConnell AFB as Chanute was closing." - Russ Blakeman
218-224-2926 Laporte, MN	Kicker's, Kicker's Hole in the Wall BBS (1992-2000)	Leo Anderson	varied
	"Kicker's was an ongoing experiment in what could be done with no cash. It would still be on/off if that house hadn't been lost in a fire (not computer related)." - Leo Anderson
218-365-6907 Ely, MN	Boundary Waters BBS (1993)	Gary Knopp/InfoNorth
	Canoe Trips/Resorts/Fishin/Wilderness in Minnesota
218-525-1901 DULUTH, MN	Celtic Frost BBS (1992-1994)	Beowulf (Tony Mattson)	CNET, RPGBBS
	"I started out with 1 2400 baud node with a 7.5 Mzh 68000 processor. It grew to three nodes on a 25 Mzh 68030." - Beowulf
218-525-5112 Duluth, MN	Kerowyn's Haven (1993-1996)	Jennifer McNitt	Renegade
	"I was the sysop of this gaming focused BBS. Detrix was my co-sysop. I ran the BBS in Duluth until about 1995. It moved along with me to the Twin Cities area where I then kept it running until 1997." - Jennifer McNitt
218-724-3761 DULUTH, MN	The Wormhole (1994-1996)	Andrew Langager, Mark Finn, Carey Biron	Pegasys
	Development Headquarters for the Pegasys BBS System
218-724-4210 Duluth, MN	The Vault (1986)	Zaphod Beeblebrox (Ole Lund)	Ascii Express
	"Great warez site back in the day!" - Anonymous
218-729-5290 Saginaw, MN	Captain's Quarters (1984-1986)	Byte Knight	Nexus, GBBS, ASCII Express
	"Warez BBS that ran on an Apple IIe with two disk drives. It's back up now via telnet at cqbbs.ddns.net:6502!".
218-729-5598 Duluth, MN	The Carbon Abyss	Jeff Rosati, Telik Netslayer	Wildcat
	"It was real cool to see us on the list. I miss the days of anonymity that the BBSs brought. I remember going to BBS parties and only a handful of people knew who I was. Really miss the years with Loki, Artemis & Wolf. Fun times and good friends." - Telik Netslayer
218-729-7026 Duluth, MN	Net 2802 Echo Coordinator, Northern Minnesota Net, TBNT, The Board Not Taken (1993-1996)	Roger Martell, Lori Martell, Lori Amendola, Lori Amendola Martell	Renegade, Telegard
	"What a kick to see TBNT listed here, thank you!! I miss the days of door games and 5-6 nodes online. The local community was great fun and had a lot of wonderful people in it that I still try to keep in touch with - although sporadically. Thanks for putting this bit of nostalgia online for folks!" -Artemis, TBNT
218-773-1749 East Grand Forks, Minnesota	Red River Telecommunications (1981-1993)	Richard Rybacki	WW2
	"There was so much fun running this BBS.. Since then.. I kept all my friends since.. I enjoyed all them years with them.. My real friends.." - Richard Rybacki
218-847-9509 Detroit Lakes, MN	Detroit Lakes JHS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
218-879-6003 Cloquet, MN	Shipwreck, Shipwreck BBS (1991-1996)	Scott Willie	Searchlight
	"I was the Sysop for this BBS. It was just nice to see that you have such a huge collection of history here. It ment alot to me to run this system for the time I had it. It was great fun!" - Scott Willie
218-879-8308 CLOQUET, MN	The Echo Chamber (1992-1994)	Timothy Houck	PegaSys
	We owned the source to PegaSys and were probably the only BBS running it. It was really fun to be able to customize your own BBS software. It was written in Turbo Pascal. - Timothy Houck
219-223-8879 Rochester, IN	The BoatHouse BBS	William "Corky" Wilder, Bob "Crash & Burn" Keen
	"I'm not sure how long Bill had The Boathouse up and going I was a member from the late 80's till 1997 or `98. He was driven out like many of the BBSs by local internet service. I believe he held out longer that most due to the fact the he did carry part of the backbone of the UUNet on that mess of systems in what could be euphemistically called a living room. It was great to have access to ALL the news groups that were out there not just a few that the ISP tell us we can get. Bill always went out of his way to help anyone trying to get a BBS going or to try and keep one going. He was the same with his members. If your system was down he'd dig till he found the problem or the part. You "NEEDED" the latest Blue Wave or whatever he would track it for you. I miss him and the Friends at the boathouse." - Dave McDougle
219-232-7373 South Bend, IN	Flag Net BBS (1987-Present)	Carey Treesh (Flag Master)	C-Net Amiga, Cnet Amiga
	"Flag Net started out on a Commodore 64 originally in Niles Michigan at the phone number of 616 (now area code 269) 683-7373. Always running Cnet software, my goal was to be the longest lasting most up-time message base(not download file based) BBS in town. Im proud to say we are still on-line today with our non-Y2K compliant software, its a bit buggy, but still up an running. To access flagnet bbs, telnet to: telnet://bbs.flagnet.org or our old link may still be up... telnet //flagnet.qtm.net" - Carey Treesh "Flag Net BBS is still on-line via telnet. Our ip address changes, but we try to keep the name active. To access, telnet to bbs.flagnet.org The original telephone number was 616-683-7373, then moved from Niles Michigan, to South Bend Indiana and changed numbers to 219-232-7373. In 1999 we added a telnet in port via a local ISP called Quantum Connections. We are no longer affiliated with them, but have a registered domain name now. The Amiga 2000 with 2 gig scsi hard drive lives in my home in South Bend. All modem access has been terminated to keep cost down. This BBS not well attended too, and activity is very low. But despite this, I made a commitment when I was just a kid with an Commodore 64 to keep it going. Im proud to say, we are still up and running, with all data in-tact since 1994 till today. Message bases, "G-files" and even some "P-files" can still be activated." - Carey Treesh
219-262-3980 Elkhart, IN	AMIS Hart City BBS, HART CITY, Hart City BBS (1982-1987)	Ron Blessing	Forem ST, AMIS, Fido
	"Hi Jason, I was the Sysop of Hart City BBS. I started it back in August of 1982 and I can't verify this but I believe I was the second BBS in Indiana. Originally the system consisted of: Atari 800 - 48K (Newell Fast Chip Installed), Atari 810 Disk Drive (appx: 90K), Atari 850 Interface Mod., Hayes 300 Baud Smartmodem, NEC PC-8023A-C Printer. The software I started with was the A.M.I.S. software from MACE, which I ended up making a number of enhancements to. Several years later I moved to a Tandy 2000 and then finally to a PC clone system. Eventually, I just couldn't keep up with the size of the other BBS system around me. I must admit I had the most fun with the Atari and miss those early days. There were a LOT of great people running BBS systems and unselfishly willing to help anyone that needed it. I still have my 800 stored away and wouldn't give it up for anything. Thanks for remembering." - Ron Blessing
219-269-7061 Warsaw, IN	Ambition, Amiga Online (1991-1994)	Chad Study, Mark Krenz
	"Ran on an Amiga 500 in Chad's house." - Mark Krenz
219-277-7748 Granger, IN	Chocolate Lowfat Milk BBS, The Fool On The Hill (TFOTH) Online (1993-1999)	Joshua Railton	TriBBS, RemoteAccess
	"I was only 14 years old when I started this BBS from my 8086 computer after getting my first modem (2400 baud) and finding other boards like "The Great Beyond" and "The Squawk Box" and having so much fun with it. At some point, I found out about a Zoom promo that allowed SysOps to buy a 14.4 modem for a special price and I jumped on it. Although I had to pay for the extra phone line myself, I'm so grateful to my parents for being open to allowing me to do this, which really helped shape my whole career." - Joshua Railton
219-287-5090 South Bend, IN	Party Line TBBS (1990-1994)	Rebecca King	TBBS
	"Party Line was a 3-line bulletin board service, run from the home of Rebecca King in South Bend, Indiana, running multi-line TBBS software. It was a node within FidoNet (#227:160). While another local BBS later claimed use of the 160 node, FidoNet nodes were never reused and there is some content on the Web that indicates that the node number was reported in error. While the bulletin board was accessible free of charge, membership required the submission of a copy of one's drivers license. Features included Netmail, multi-line chat, Freeware/Shareware downloads all within a 2-hour limit daily limit." - Rebecca King
219-287-7373 South Bend, IN	Flag Net BBS (1996-2001)	Carey Treesh	C-Net Amiga
	"Still up and running, available (now) via a telnet port at flagnet.qtm.net" - Carey Treesh
219-289-1962 South Bend, IN	SouthWinds (1984-1996)	Robert Lehman	MEBBS
	"MaxNet Echomail Coord, Aminet Midwest Regional Star. South Bend's Commodore Amiga Technologie Support Board. A proud member of the Michiana Area Sysops Association." - Robert Lehman
219-322-8462 Schererville, IN	The Night Time, The Night-Time BBS (24 hrs) (1990-1994)	Bob Nightingale	Wildcat
	"The Night-Time moved to Hammond, IN in 1992 and changed its number to 219-989-1716. In '94 I changed to the name to Ham'nd Eggs to reflect running from Hammond. Night-Time was a play on my name and the fact that the board only ran from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.--on a 1200 baud modem. My (now ex-) wife insisted on a separate phone line when we moved to Hammond. Both systems ran Wildcat, although Ham'nd Eggs had a short sprint under Spirfire." - Bob Nightingale
219-369-9425 LaPorte, IN	LaPort Area Network, Laporte Area Network (LAN) (1994)	Dave Merrick	TriBBS
	"Simtel Archive, Doors, home to custom plugins for LORD and TW2002." - Dave Merrick
219-447-6680 FORT WAYNE SOUT, IN	City Limits! (1994-2000)	John Good, John Good (Pontio)	Renegade
	"Host for CityNet, local Fido-style network. Still intact, and considered putting back online, but will most likely go online via the web. CityLimitsBBS.com officially registered, but on hold for now. In the interim, check out the old website at http://members.aol.com/pontio/index.html" - Pontio
219-456-1914 Fort Wayne, IN	Shadownet (1988-1992)	Scott "The Shadow" Cramer, Keith "The Punisher" Cramer	WWIV
	"We ran Shadownet in Fort Wayne for over 4 years. We started with a 1200 baud modem, then bumped to a 2400 baud modem. We ran briefly at 9600 baud, but shut down soon after. The phone rang off the hook all night long, Our mother in her 60's learned how to reset the computer after crashes. We held Shadownet pizza parties where upwards of 40 people would attend. Our home became known as Shadownet central. We had many users trying to earn an invite over. Users wanted to know what we did on the other side of the computer. We met many of our current friends through the BBS. We were widely known as the Shadownetters. Those were some good days. Kinda geeky, but still good." - Keith Cramer
219-471-0586 Fort Wayne, IN	Illusions Unlimited (1994-1999)	UsYr Illus, Lupey, Flirt, Beameup Scotty, Pontio, Dedhed, and others	Renegade
	"It was sad to see it go. Dang Internet. Anywas, the number may not be exact, it had four in its time. Been recreated many times on the net, current version can be found at www.usyrsillusion.com ." - UsYr Illus
219-482-5324 Fort Wayne, IN	The Tower (1992-1995)	The Wizard	Renegade
	"Long ago and far away when the world was small there was a great community here until the internet washed it away. I will always miss it, and you. Thanks for calling! Shouts out to all friends in the present. And all of those who have slipped away. :(" - The Wizard
219-626-2150 WALTON, IN	KSI Public, KSI Public BBS (1994-1996)	Joe McIntosh, Joe Mclntosh	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Educational BBSs ListKeeper: Educational and Indianna BBS
219-744-4219 FORT WAYNE SOUT, IN	Isles of Euphoria, Shrouds of Mist, Terrorist International, The Place to Be (1991-1995)	Mystic Walker (Jason)	TAG BBS
	"Every time the system crashed (which was usually a crappy 40mb Seagate hdd dying) I reloaded, and changed names." - Mystic Walker
219-762-8411 Portage, IN	Last Chance BBS, Last Chance Data Systems, LastChance (1984-1994)	Dennis Wood	PCBoard, PC-Board
	"This started out as a test bed for another sysop in the area who was too chicken to convert over from RBBS to the brand new (at the time) PC-Board software. From there on, as they say, the rest is history. When Last Chance finally shut it's electronic doors in 1991 there were over 200 registered users and the system had added a second line. Two dedicated Intel 286 workstations answered the phone with US Robotics HST modems and a third 386 machine was the network server, running on the then brand new Lantastic network hardware and software. The decision by the telephone company (GTE) that this was now a "business" because I solicited donations from users to try and offset the ever-increasing operating costs was the nail in the coffin of this BBS. The entire system was sold intact to a hospital in Dyer, IN and used for staff access. I was fortunate enough to work as an installer and consultant to them for a short while and oversaw the installation of a multi-disk CD-Rom drive (brand new technology at that time) added to the system that allowed access to a vast medical database for the use of doctors and hospital staff. To this day I remember fondly the many people I met thru this BBS, including a couple of online romances that sprung up between users. While the Internet has opened up a vast new world of information and global communication, I still miss the small friendly community of people that frequented my BBS. Thanks to all of you, should anyone who remembers me be reading this." - Dennis Wood
219-872-6547 Michigan City, IN	Irish Connection BBS (1994-1996)	Bob Griffin	Wildcat
	"4-node BBS relocated from southern California to northwest Indiana." - Bob Griffin
219-879-7184 Michigan City, IN	Magicland BBS (1992-1995)	Tim Downs
	"4 lines at one time. We started with 2400 baud modems and ended with 56k modems." - Tim Downs
219-923-7611 Griffith, IN	Excaliber, Excalibur BBS (1988-1996)	Jeff Ready	PCBoard , Wildcat, PC-Board, PCBB
	"I was the SysOp of this BBS, which was a project started by my dad and I together when I was in the 7th grade as a sort of father-son project. We started with Wildcat software which we used for a long time, briefly used Quick BBS, and finally ended up on PC-BOARD as we evolved into more sophisticated things like participating in FIDO-NET. We started at 1200 baud and one computer, which I would have to take offline if I wanted to call into another BBS because we had just the one. Eventually, we added another line, had two PCs networked together with LANTASTIC, and got a 16.8k US ROBOTICS modem with the special "FOR BBS USE ONLY - NOT FOR RESALE" placard on it because of the special pricing availble to SysOps. "I remember being amazed at the whole FIDO next message board/email system -- being able to send a message from the local BBS, then watching as our system auto-dialed a system in Chicago at night, which would then dial some other system, and eventually the message would make its way to the intended recipient. An email and a reply might take days to complete, but it was still electronic and free, which was just the coolest thing ever. Little did we know then what those early email-relay systems would evolve into. "We kept the BBS going even while I was in college, although from '93-96 the whole BBS thing was really in its twilight. For a number of years we won the prestigious (LOL) "Northwest Indiana's Best BBS Award" - heck we may well have won that ever year such voting actually took place -- at least 3 or 4 times anyway. "I look back now and can't believe how much things have changed, but since I got out of school I've been a technology entrepreneur, I've started a number of internet related companies, raised venture capital, did the dot-com thing, and here I am still at it -- and I probably owe it all to running that BBS with my dad when I was 13 years old. My first "real" business out of college was an ISP in 1996, which was really nothing more than a more modern BBS, with dial up modems and the whole bit. "The funny thing is that you can't even talk about the BBS days to people that didn't experience them first hand, because it all seems so foreign - yet if you were there, the evolution to where we are now is plain as day. "Anyway, thanks for having this site - I stumbled onto it by complete accident as I was checking a caller ID call I missed, and somehow this came up. It really has brought back some memories." "Now if I can just remember how to play Tradewars... Thanks again." - Jeff
219-926-2060 Chesterton, IN	Restoration Rock (1991-1995)	Curtis Taylor	PC Board, PCBB
	"Carried Christnet, Phileonet(host), started on Tandy 1000. I started knowing almost nothing except BBSing seemed neat and I wanted to run a Christian BBS - ended up running a relay network." - Curtis Taylor
219-980-4619 Gary, IN	The Village, Village (B) (1984-1995)	Number 2	BBS Express Pro
	"I had a blast running The Village...Didn't know anything about BBS'ing at first. Got a Atari 800Xl and a 300 baud modem and started going online. Met Nick Hard and Glenn Holt of N.W.I.P.C.U.G. and learned a LOT from them. Upgraded to 1200 and 2400 eventually as money permitted...( the kids were still young then, and I'd just bought my house! Ran the BBS on a 40 MB Control Data Wren II drive...pretty good sized in those days, some folks were running boards on 8 in. floppies!!! Nick moved for health reasons, and I haven't seen Glenn in years, but I made a lot of friends over the board." - Number 2
219-988-2279 Hebron, IN	Dwayne's World BBS (1993-1996)	Dwayne & Karacinda Dobson	Searchlight
	"10 Lines, FRED Chat, 1000's of downloads available. Member of SL-NET and RIPNet. BBS was RIP Enabled. Many Door Games as well. BBS started as one line and quickly grew to 10. We spanned multiple calling areas which were long distance. This allowed users from greater distances to interact, chat and become friends. We featured FRED Chat written by Robert Mikkelsen of Flight Line BBS in the Tampa Bay area." - Dwayne Dobson
219-988-4227 Hebron, IN	Dwayne's World BBS (1993-1995)	Dwayne Dobson, Dwayne & Karacinda Dobson	Searchlight
	"10 Lines, FRED Chat, 1000's of downloads available. Member of SL-NET and RIPNet. BBS was RIP Enabled. Many Door Games as well. " - Dwayne Dobson
248-347-6631 Novi, MI	Nuclear Meltdown (1993-1997)	∩εR	Renegade
	"Single node BBS with various door games and a fairly active message board. Many long nights of chat sessions." - Atomic Internet
248-546-4467 Ferndale, MI	Comm Connect, Communication Cnct, Communication Connection, FERNDALE (1993-1998)	Jeff Squires	T.A.G. , Image 1.2 - TAG
	"I started Communication Connection on a Commodore 64 with Image 1.2 software and after getting a PC switched to TAG software. I enjoyed running the board and the many users I had call the board. At it's peak Communication Connection was on 4 lines and getting over 100 calls a day but buy the end in 1998 the call had dwindled to less than 5 and I decided to pull the plug. I miss those days and the users of my board." - Jeff Squires
248-553-2644 Farmington Hills, MI	E Oakland Hub, FARMINGTON, Forest of Wayreth, The Forest BBS, The Forest of Wayreth (1987-1999)	Bryan Stanbridge, Bryan Stanbridge MI	Renegade
	"All the information is essentially correct. However, since I was only 7 in 1987, that's not when I started the board. It ran from 95-99, as best I can remember. We ran Renegade the entire time, but dropped the "of Wayreth" part a little over halfway through the run and just became The Forest BBS. (I've been looking into restarting it as a telnet board, but haven't found a package I'd like to run yet). Cheers, Bryan Stanbridge (Sorcerer)."
248-641-3921 Troy, MI	Quaz-A-Tron (1990-1994)	The Holy Sinner	TAG
	"Quaz-A-Tron was actually run for about 3 years, until I moved to (248)879-9571. The BBS has several other names, including "The Local BBS", and "Satan's Restroom"." - The Holy Sinner
248-641-7311 Troy, MI	Neverland, The Neverland BBS (1995-1998)	Mike Proszkow	Renegade
	"I can't believe I found this listing. Just so happens that I was the Sysop of this board (aka Big Cheese). It actually began as the Midnite BBS, which was extraordinarily popular. Went I left for college (U of Michigan) in 1997, I changed the name to The Neveland BBS (or "TNL"). The rise of the 'net of course was the fall of the board. I do miss it a ton, and have the whole BBS (Front Door, Renegade and all of my doors) on a floppy disk and even backed up to a CD now. Good times." - Mike Proszkow
250-337-2163 OYSTER BAY, CANADA	The Uptown BBS, The Uptown BBS , Uptown BBS, The (1992-1994)	Graham Tippett	Maximus CBCS 2.01
	Graham is around at globoy@gloland.com
250-337-2173 OYSTER BAY, CANADA	The Uptown BBS (1992-1994)	Graham Tippett	Maximus CBCS 2.01
	Graham is around at globoy@gloland.com
250-339-0684 Comox, BC	Rod & Rene's, Rod & Rene's BBS, Rod 'N Rene's BBS (1986-1999)	Rod Armstrong	RBBS
	"Rod & Rene's BBS was the Western North American hub for Fido-Net. It had 6 telephone lines at its busiest time. It had features such as online dating (I still know some of the people who are still married today) Online Buy Sell & Trade, 100's of Games. The original BBS started on a 2 line Apple II computer with a 300 & 1200 baud modem. Once it moved to the PC platform many bbs softwares were tried, settling on RBBS. The original 300 baud modem was built by myself using components available from Radio Shack." - Rod Armstrong
253-472-9884 Tacoma, WA	The Total Access Board, Total Access (1980-1999)	Dick Fairchild	TBBS , TBBS (The Bread Board System)
	"We had the first BBS in Tacoma and ran for 19 years. At one point we had 16 lines (14 Tacoma and 2 Seattle). We had a satellite feed for Fidonet mail and newsgroups. Was pretty cool for its time. Nice to see that somone has taken the time to compile this piece of history. Keep up the good work Jason." - Dick Fairchild
253-756-2323 Tacoma, WA	eXile BBS (1985-1989)	ChBooth (Nyk)	WildCat
	"Originally called Soylent Green BBS (1985-1986) renamed eXile BBS by SysOps Nyk and Yaj" - Nyk
253-756-8063 Tacoma, WA	Cesspools in Eden, USWoRSt Communications (1989-1994)	TheWard3n, The Cowboy, TheCowboy, NC-17	LiQUiD, ViSiON-X, Oblivion/2
	"USWoRSt Communications, LoC World Headquarters -/- DNA Division Headquarters. lol.. The good ole days.. You currently have cesspools in eden.. next to it in the list, not sure where that came from.. I ran that BBS on a 8088 Compaq at the start and then upgraded it to a 386/20 with a whopping 10GB of space.. Ran a Dual HST 14.4K modem..woot! I was 13 when I started it and 19 when it finally shutdown.. Then along came IRC..:)" - TheWard3n
254-542-6097 Copperas Cove, TX	Fire and Ice BBS, The Arctic Zone BBS (1995-1998)	Ice Gunner, Puppy Luv	ProBoard
	"FidoNet, BRE, Falcon, modest file database, adult option, one line. Sister BBS to The Iceland BBS in Killeen." - Ice Gunner
270-825-9359 Madisonville, KY	Udo's Cantina (1995-1998)	Kyle Davis	SynchroNet, Excalibur
	"Madisonville had a good number of BBSes in the late 90s. Udo's was one of the later ones. I ran it from my own system under, first windows 3.11 then 95. The fastest modem we had was a 33.6, but that was towards the end of 98, most of the time we had a 14.4 It was a fun time, but the arrival of the first ISP really limited the activity. Them where the days." - Kyle Davis
281-852-3295 Houston, TX	Heaven on Earth, Intrepid Confusions, Optical Dilusions (1993-1995)	Darwin, Eric Scalf, Voyager	TAG, Renegade
301-203-0281 Washington, DC	Asia Club, Asian Penpals!, World Club Online, ASIAN PENPALS (1994-1996)	Alex Clarke	MajorBBS, Worldgroup, MajorBBS 6.21
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Romance, friendship, love, correspondence. WorldClub BBS features a rotating filebase of 300 GIF photos and bio-data of attractive Asian ladies overseas who desire American penpals. Also: Asian XXX graphics, adult japanimation, adult Asia travel info, and much more. Internet newsgroups & e-mail. Adults only. Instant access. Call today. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Washington, DC since 03/94. Sysop: Alex Clarke. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 800 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. $.50 Hourly fee. Featuring an exclusive penpal file-base of beautiful Asian ladies desiring American men for correspondence, friendship or romance. GIF photos and bio-data. Call for Instant Access. Also: Chat, Games, Adult Files. ASIAN PENPALS, 301.203.0281, Romance, Friendship, Love, Correspondence. World Club BBS features a rotating filebase of 200 GIF photos and bio-data of attractive Asian ladies overseas who desire American penpals. Also: Asian adult GIFs, Adult Japanimation, Chatlink, Forums etc. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 ASIAN PENPALS, 301.203.0281. Romance. Friendship, Love. Correspondence. World Club BBS features a rotating filebase of 200 GIF photos and bio-data of attractive Asian ladies overseas who desire American penpals. Also: Asian adult GIFs. Adult Japanimation, Cfiatlink, Forums etc. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
301-229-0363 Potomac, MD	The Courts of Amber (1993-1994)	Jeff Riordan (Corwin)	GT-Power
	"I'm already on the list but wanted to fill in the missing bits. Ran the BBS out of my bedroom in a group house I lived in for a while. Only had 20 regular users who were almost all real life friends but had 50 registered users when I shut down. Was part of the GT mail Network as well. Amazing how many memories these names bring back to me. Had a blast learning basic coding and modding on Doors programs and email relays." - Jeff Riordan
301-252-0717 Lutherville, MD	261-Elsewhere, ALPHA, Avi-Technic, Aviculture (parrots) OPUS 109, AviTechnic, COMP-U-TYPE, HUMBLE, SoftWare Dist, The Freemason BBS, AviTechnic 1:264/662 (1987-1993)	Tom Hendricks, Dawn Toler, T. R. Hendricks
	Software Distribution System - BBS Utilities
301-292-5016 Ft. Washington, MD	The Dojo (1987-1990)	The Karate Kid	GSBBS
	"Evolved from DMBBS. Heavy use og medium res graphics. Ran 24/7. GS = Grafix Suppliers. Written by Vigilante and The Karate Kid. Offered customization with colors and graphics. It had a karate game mod." - The Karate Kid
301-344-9156 WASZ 13, MD	GASNET, Remote Northstar NASA, N.A.S.A. (Gasnet), GAS-NET (1982-1989)
	Primarily for Get Away Special (GAS) projects. Non-GAS participants may browse.
301-373-8793 HOLLYWOOD, MD	Southern Maryland, Southern MD , Southern MD RBBS, Southern MD RBBS (1982-1996)	Gene Talley, Gene Talley & David Talley	RBBS
	"Operated most of its life on a 6 MHz IBM AT. Maxed out at 2400 baud. It was well known for having an excellent files section. Went to a second line (301-373-5355) somewhere around 1989. I used DESQview to multitask on the AT to achieve the multiple lines. Loaded up on expansion memory as well (EEMS Quadram boards). Oh yeah, I did get a new motherboard somewhere along the line to get a faster 286." - David Talley
301-384-0351 Silver Spring, MD	MIDI-Thru, The Midi Thru BBS (1988-1993)	Steve Jones	QuickBBS
	"WOW! Amazing.. Just on a whim, I googled for my old BBS name, and here's your list. Who knew anyone remembered this stuff, let alone had so much detail.. Started w/ 1200 baud on a 5-slot PC and eventually ran a 9600 baud Codex modem on a 12 mhz 286 with 50 meg hard drive. Somewhere I have an old backup of that machine :-)" - Steve Jones
301-417-6952 Gaithersburg, MD	InterMission BBS, No Montgomery Co Lcl Hub, Taesar's Palace / Intermission, Taesar's Palace Adult BBS (1991-1997)	David Christian, Monique Arnow, Monique Arnow (with David Christian until 93)	Maximus
	"At our max, we had over 1600 paying users with 4 lines. We weren't the largest but we tried to keep it personal and made friends with all of the users. Shut down finally after the Internet and the larger services became popular and subscribers had gone way down. We also had a front page article of the Washington Post that we were part of in November of either 91 or 93. It was a series of articles dealing with how "adult" bbs's keep children from accessing anything adult rated." - Monique Arnow
301-423-7860 WASZ 5, MD	Revelation 5 Node (1992)	Bhc
	Tdt Member BBS
301-424-6684 Rockville, MD	Capri (1993-1996)	Emil Sina	Renegade
	"Capri was an artistic chat BBS hosting a message-routing network." - Emil Sina
301-424-8158 Potomac, MD	Celestial Happenings (1992-1994)	Surface, Rob Allegar	WWiV
	"This BBS had over 300 users at its peak. My highest daily call volume on record was 103. I got the source code to WWIV and began modding -- teaching myself C with the WWIV source code started my current career as a systems architect and J2EE guru. I don't think I would have been a CS major if it were not for this BBS. I still have most of the messages from 1993-1994." - Rob Allegar
301-437-7017 Pasadena, MD	Devil's Courier, The Devil's Courier BBS (1984-1990)	Greg Hammond	WWIV
	"The Devil's Courier BBS once held one of the largest collections of software on the East Coast. Peak busy times were very often over 1200 minutes/day for the last 3 years of operation. At the time it was taken offline, TDCBBS was using a USR Courier HST 9600 modem, 25 MHz 386DX Clone system with 8MB RAM (yes, that was 64 1Mx9 parity DRAM chips), MS-DOS 5.1, and had over 1.8 GB of SCSI disk storage and 2 single-speed CD-ROM drives - quite a bit for 1988. If you are a former user of TDCBBS you are encouraged to contact the previous owner at Greg@rints.com" - Greg Hammond
301-439-7414 WASZ 3, MD	Amiga Exch., Amiga Exchange (1988)
	"Amiga Exchange was the BBS home of an Amiga disk-based magazine of the time by the same name, Amiga Exchange or "A.X. Magazine." The board hosted both IBM and Amiga files and featured an active Tradewars game." - Anonymous
301-449-6100 Camp Springs, MD	Ap Di BBS, Application Programming & Development, Inc., APDI (1993-1995)	Mark Burnett	Wildcat
	Cheetah
301-474-2656 Greenbelt, MD	Real Life (1988-1998)	Jyri Erik Kork	TBBS, TBBS/EBBS
	"Originally ran on a TRS-80 Model I, then model 4. Around 92/93 it switched to an Apple IIgs and EBBS software. I took it over from the original Sysop in spring of 88, and while not 100% certain, it was probably 98 or 99 when I finally took it down (due to the usual reason of no one calling BBS's any longer)." - Jyri Erik Kork
301-532-3210 Baltimore, MD	Silicon Chalkboard (1985-1994)	Various	Unknown
	"Run on an Apple ][e with a 3.5" floppy in the Friends School of Baltimore computer lab in the Science Building. Unsure when the board was taken down." - Tronster
301-546-1508 Salisbury, MD	Computer Garden BBS (1991-1993)	Milford P. Webster
	Treasure Hunting - Metal Detectors - Online Catalog
301-585-6697 WASZ 3, MD	Coin of Realm, Coin of the Realm, Coin of the Realm BBS, Tools for Knowledgeworkers (1993-1996)	Dan Wendling, Daniel Wendling, DWendling/JS Christianso	PC-Board, PCBoard , PC Board
	List of BBS List Keepers: Conservation/Nature BBS List/D.Wendling/JS Christianso ListKeeper: Conservation/Nature BBS List
301-593-3042 Silver Springs, MD	WB3ETS (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
301-593-7357 WASZ 3, MD	Hex, HEX - Handicapped, HEX BBS (1989-1996)	Richard Barth	PC-HEX, CUSTOM
	List of BBS List Keepers: Handicapped Issues BBS/Richard Barth ListKeeper: Handicapped Issues BBS
301-596-1180 Columbia, MD	Programmer'sCor, Programmer'sCorner , The Programmer's Corner (1986-1996)	Gary Smith	Custom
	"This was one of the larger BBS's in the country. At its peak, I supported 20 lines, with some eventually having access to the Internet (before browsers). The Internet ultimately killed it off. This was also a subscription service, which had almost 1000 subscribers in 1992." - Gary Smith
301-604-0957 Laurel, MD	The Honey Board (1991-1996)	Heather James	OPUS
	"I started the BBS when I lived in Laurel, Maryland, moved it to Silver Spring, Maryland for three years, then moved it Virginia where it was during the fading days of BBSes when folks started going to the internet in droves." - Heather James
301-654-2554 WASZ 2, MD	Main Frame, Main Frame , Main Frame (A. Bilski), Mainframe #1, The Main Frame BBS, The Mainframe BBS, WDN, World Data Net, World Data Net (Andrew Bielski/Tony McClenny), MAIN FRAME BBS, WORLD DATA NETWORK (1984-1996)	Andrew Bilski, Andrew Bielski/Tony McClenny, Andrew Bilski/Tony McClenny	PC-Board, PCBoard , PC Board, PCBoard v15.1
	MAIN FRAME BBS, (301 )-654-2554. PCBoard v15.1. Online since 1984. Now with 16 lines, voice support and 28.8 Kbps modems. 24 hour online Internet access via Telnet bbs.mainframe.com. Gigabytes of files, 6 CDRom's and close to 1 00 doors. Hundreds of networked conferences. Guest accounts and online subscriptions available. Please give us a call. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 MAIN FRAME BBS, (301)-654-2554. PCBoard v15.1. Online since 1984. Now with 16 lines, voice support and 28.8 Kbps modems. 24 hour online Internet access via Telnet bbs.mainframe.com. Gigabytes ot files. 6 CDRom's and close to 100 doors. Hundreds of networked conferences. Guest accounts and online subscriptions available. Please give us a call. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
301-654-6872 WASZ 2, MD	Iceman's Castle (1987)	Bulls Eye, Iceman, Vincent Blackshadow	Emulex, Genesis PC
	2400 baud, 63 megs!
301-695-9116 Frederick, MD	Advanced Data Services, Advanced Data Services, Incorporated, Advanced Data Services Inc. (1991-1994)	Blaine Brodka	PCBoard
	22 line PCBoard with 5.5 GB of Files
301-725-1072 Columbia, MD	F.C.C. PAL Hotline, FCC (EMI data), FCC Public Access Link, Federal Communications Commission (1989-1996)	301-725-1072, FCC, Federal Communications Commission
	Equipment Authorization Status Advisory Service
301-737-2435 Lexington Park, MD	T.C.B. (1990-1993)	Mark Khatiblou, Andy Anderson	Opus
	"T.C.B stood for The Corporate Board and was run as a service for the Computer store A.O.M. Since we had piles of used equipment to use the BBS went through several incarnations I can't remember what equipment we used except for the prized USR 9600 HST and the 100MB Disk drive LOL! Anyway in my opinion this was the best of times in the fledgling PC market, everything was so new and exciting. " - Mark Khatiblou
301-738-9060 Rockville, MD	CPCUG BBS , CPCUG Member Info eXchg, CPCUG MIX BBS, Member's Only, Members only, CPCUG Member Info eXchg (Michael Kane), Capital PC User’s Group BBS (1986-2001)	CPCUG MIX, Michael Kane, CPCUG Staff, Capital PC Users Group/Roger Fajman	PC-Board, RBBS, PC Board, PCBoard
	One of the oldest PC User’s Groups – 5500
301-856-0817 Clinton, MD	Intercom, IMS Intercom (1994-1996)		WildCat
	SLIP/PPP Provider
301-924-0398 Greenbelt, MD	Infinite Perspectives, Perspectives, Perspectives BBS (1991-1995)	Carl Dickson, Frank Atlee	Remote Access, Rmt Access
	List of BBS List Keepers: Desktop Publishing BBS/Frank Atlee ListKeeper: Desktop Publishing BBS
301-924-5422 Olney, MD	Battlefront (1988-1990)	Jeff Blanchard	WWIV
	"Used to run tradewars tourneys, had lots of files to download. " - Jeff Blanchard
301-983-4247 Potomac MD	Beta Systems East (1993-1994)	Kevin Strishock	CIE
	CIE BBS Software Home
301-984-5806 Rockville, MD	COSMIC (1983-1986)	P. Uribe	Cosmic
	"Ran own software written in Basic/Assembly L. on an Atari 800 and a Hayes 300 modem." - P. Uribe
302-239-7242 New Castle, DE	Inner Word BBS, Inner World BBS, The Inner World BBS (1986-2003)	Brian Funk, Drew Mehan	Acos
	"Credit system with Knights of Roundtable theme and paying members got higher Surnames!" - Drew Mehan
302-322-3602 New Castle, DE	The Basement BBS (1991-1998)	David Knight	Sapphire, Search Light, Wildcat 5.0
	"Started with a Beta version of Wildcat 5.0 and moved up to the full version once it was available - (3 lines) and also a telnet port. It retained the Doors, File Downloads and network mail. This was a BBS that utilized HTML pages. It was a great source of education in telecommunications and future INTERNET work. This BBS was listed in Sysop News,Computer Shopper and the Deleware Valley Telecommunication Guide." - David Knight
302-429-7667 WILMINGTON, DE	Talk Radio BBS (1993-1995)	Vince Boehm/Dave Osburn
	ListKeeper: Delaware AC 302
302-453-9519 NEWARK, DE	World Chaos (1992)	Master Bard
	Independent Member BBS
302-456-3721 Newark, DE	DolphinWare Software (1991-1994)	Kristopher T. Liu	VBBS
	"One of the few VBBS systems that actually had a node on WWIVnet, and ICEnet. Also Known as the DS BBS." - Kristopher T. Liu
302-654-2900 Elsmere, DE	Starfleet Command (1986)	Randall Kobetich
	Sci-Fi Echomail Sci-Fi Echomail
302-697-3744 Rising Sun, DE	PlayPen BBS (1993-1998)	Tony Browning	Major BBS
	"For a few years, the dream of running a successful bulletin board was on Tony Browning's mind. In 1993, that dream became a reality. In July of 1993, Tony became a father and three weeks after that big event, another event happened. Tony's dream started taking shape. In August 1993, Tony Browning's PlayPen BBS went online. Originally, PlayPen was supposed to be a small private board for friends, but word rapidly spread about a new BBS in the area. Over the course of five years, PlayPen grew. It became known as Delaware's Best. Then on September 30, 1998. the unthinkable happened. PlayPen BBS came down, closing its doors forever. This was not an easy decision for Tony to make since PlayPen was his baby. But down it came."
302-731-1998 NEWARK, DE	Black Bag BBS, Black Bag BBS (150/101), BlackBag, Delaware Hub, The Black Bag (1987-1994)	Edward Del Grosso, Edward DelGrosso, Ed Del Grosso
	List of BBS List Keepers: Medical Issues BBS/Edward Del Grosso
302-736-5709 Dover, DE	Northern Lights (1993-1994)	Cyrus Long, Mike Carpenter	MajorBBS
	"Mike moved Northern Lights to Seattle WA in 1994 when his wife Stephanie was done with her military commitment." - Anonymous
302-738-0572 Wilmington, DE	St. Marks High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
303-225-2293 Fort Collins, CO	another friggin bbs., Another Friggin' BBS (1991-1996)	Gully Foyle, Abbub	T.A.G.
	"Initially started in Harrisonburg, VA, but moved to Fort Collins, CO around 1993. There were three incarnations of the board (one in Virginia, two in Colorado), but the longest stretch it ran was under the 225-2293 number in Colorado. Gully recently came across an archive of the site from around January, 1995, and I'm considering sticking it up on Telnet." - T. Miller
303-232-0735 Denver, CO	Batcave BBS	Ron Fick (The Caped Crusader)	CNET 128
	"I knew the sysop personally and wanted to make sure he was listed and credited. This man helped MANY folks in the BBS scene." - Kenny Kant "KenDog"
303-270-4865 Denver, CO	Denver Free-Net (1993)	University of Colorado Health Science
	Free Community Online Service - Health Info
303-273-8672 Denver, CO	Earthquake Epicenter Data , USGS Quick Epicenter Determin. (1993-1994)	US Geological Survey Earthquake Info Center
	Earthquake Epicenter Data - Geomagnetism7E2 800-358-2663
303-296-1300 Denver, CO	HotelNet, The Digital Inn (1994-1996)	Steve Adams	TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Denver, Colorado since 03/94. Sysop: Steve Adams. Using TBBS 2.2 with 10 lines on MS-DOS with 17000 MB storage. Intel at 14400 bps. $10 Monthly fee. 18 CD ROM's online, satellite Internet/Usenet News Groups, Fido Echo Areas, Internet Email. USA Today, Boardwatch. Great message areas, Ultrachat, games. FREE OPEN HOUSE! Type "open" as access ID during registration. Home of HotelNet online H&R services.
303-347-2921 Littleton, CO	DLS InfoNet (1992-1995)	Jerry McCarthy	WildCat 3.91
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Littleton, Colorado since 11/92. Sysop: Jerry McCarthy. Using WildCat 3.91 IM with 5 lines on MS-DOS with 8300 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. $14.95 Annual fee. User friendly with the personal touch. Large file database, 110 file areas, well maintained. Extensive Windows area. No upload, download ratios. Internet e-mail & 120 newsgroups. RIP graphics. USA Today. Time Bank Door. Free trial period. Give us a call.
303-360-6089 Aurora, CO	THE PEAK BBS (1992-1993)	Jon Almon	MajorBBS
	Free Demo Line
303-362-1183 Broomfield, CO	Mercenary Guild BBS (1991-1994)	Battlemaster, Warlord, Assassin	EzyCom
	"Mercenary Guild BBS started with one phoneline and some simple message board only software package on a Amiga 500 computer. 4 months later it evolved to Tinity BBS Software, unique in that it was written totally in AREXX Scripting Language which ment if you wanted a feature write a script for it. Late in 1992, I bought my first PC and added EzyCom BBS to the system. I added a second line and upgraded the modems to a whopping 28.8 at that time. Warlord joined the sysop Team and helped managed the messages and files database. Assassin joined and remotely operated an adult section, which was later discontinued at the request of a majority of users. Mercenary Guild shut down operations in 1994 when the internet started stealing away the users." - Battlemaster
303-367-1935 AURORA, CO	TBBS Intercomex, Alpha (1985)	Cyro Lord, Robert Galyen, Bill McGuire, Mark Felton, Robert Brumley
	allows read access to space and ham related sections of the UNIX network (which has over 11,000 sites worldwide, incl. USA, Canada, Europe, Great Britain and Australia). Type 'alpha' at login. Only serious users accepted, no fake id's. Also space and ham radio discussions within site.
303-369-2438 Denver, CO	MMC BBS (1992-1996)	Tony Carpenter	Remote Access 2.0
	"I originally started this BBS in Auckland New Zealand in 1992 as 2400 baud was becoming a big thing. I went from a single node BBS, called Tc's Muzak BBS running on a 386sx25 with a 40MB HDD running DOS 5.0 with Qemm and DesQview to a dual node P75 with a pioneer 6 stacker CD running under OS/2 then Windows 95 at the end. Over the years I was involved heavily in various project mail nets. And was an active area co-ordinator for Fidonet in a place called Wollongong NSW Australia in the middle of it all. I still feel the world and people in general lost a much more personal connection when BBSing as it was fizzled out. At the height of my BBS I had over 1000 users and an average traffic of 48 per day online for various times totally about 22hrs usage a day." - Tony Carpenter
303-369-8397 Denver, CO	The Stock Market BBS (1986)	Jim Pritula
	Financial Data -- On Line Trading Financial Data -- On Line Trading
303-423-9775 Arvada, CO	Bird Info Network, Bird Information Network, Colorado Connection (1990-1995)	Terry Rune, Dave McClauggage
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Arvada, Colorado since 12/90. Sysop: Terry Rune. Using TBBS 2.2 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 800 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $60 Annual fee. 16 CD-ROMs online, games, Internet, FidoNet, EchoNet, Home of the Bird Info Network, BirdNet, game contests, all RIP system. Over 32,000 messages online, Board-watch Magazine, Colorado Weatherline, VISA/MC online. Visit us today. Breeding, Raising, Taming, Exotic Birds Breeding, Raising, Taming, Exotic Birds
303-429-0291 Denver, CO	InfoPort, INFOPORT BBS (1993-1994)	James Barry
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Denver, Colorado since 12/93. Sysop: James Barry. Using NovaLink Pro 3.1 with 5 lines on Macintosh with 1600 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. No fee. Your place for political discussion, political files and political news. Rush Room. Full Internet access available including telnet, mail and 100's of newsgroups. 1,000's of Mac shareware files. Home of NovaWorld Network. Macintosh GUlclient & RIP INFOPORT BBS, 303.429.0291, Telnet to infoport.com, your place for Political discussion, political information and news. Rush room. Full 24 hr Internet access including telnet, 1 00+ newsgroups, mail. 1 000's of Mac shareware files, Mac GUI, RIP graphics, ANSI. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
303-443-1692 BOULDER, CO	Liquid Sky (1994-1997)	Ty Babcox, Ronin
	"I was Ronin, the co-sysop of Liquid Sky BBS from 1994 to 1997. Not long after I left, Ty sold it to a user and it moved from Boulder to Evergreen, where it stuck around for a few more years from what I understand. It was a MajorBBS running TW2002, Tele-Arena, MajorMUD, and some other games, but people spent most of their time in the chat room. As the Internet started heating up, it also offered SLIP connections. I met someone on there, married in 1998, and we have two kids. I also met some friends I still have today. I was really into the BBS scene in the mid-90s in Denver, and it was good to see a lot of names I'd forgotten." - Ronin
303-443-9073 Boulder, CO	Into The Wind (1987-1989)	Dana P'Simer, Donley and Dana P'Simer	QuickBBS and SHEDIT
	"Dana is the creator of the Shamaal Editor, a full-featured BBS mail editor. We ran the board for the benefit of programmers." - Donley P'Simer
303-447-0927 Boulder, CO	GISnet BBS (1993)	Bill Thoen
	Graphics Information Systems/Mapping topics
303-455-3113 DENVER, CO	TBBS The Star Board (1985)	Mark Johnson
	Several astronomy related boards and publications. Astronomy-related computer programs. Additional information is posted by the Denver Astronomical Society.
303-458-3832 DENVER, CO	Big Boy's, BIG BOY'S BBS, Big Boy's BBS (1992-1995)	Willis Morrow
	ListKeeper: Colorado AC 303/719
303-466-5638 BROOMFIELD, CO	Flatline (1991-1994)	Karb0n, Nuklear Phusion	Renegade
	"This was the HQ and starting point of Colorado's most notorious hacking and phreaking group, "TNO" (The New Order). The group published a 'zine called "COTNO" (Communications of The New Order). Flatline, as a result of its association, became arguably the best and most well-known H/P board in Colorado at the time. Flatline was busted in 1994 when four members of TNO were taken down. After that, the group went under the radar, but still persisted in other places and with newer members."
303-471-2415 Colorado Springs, CO	FOG - 45 (1986)	Ken Moon
	Colorado Springs Osborne Group (FOG AMO #133) member Colorado Springs Osborne Group (FOG AMO #133) member
303-494-4775 Boulder, CO	Auto Comp. Tele Service , NIST ACTS (1993-1994)	Nat. Institute for Standards/Technology
	Automated Computer Telephone Service - Sync PC to NBS Time
303-494-8446 BOULDER, CO	The Space Network	Tom Meyer
	Space exploration and development. Mars missions, science, research, education, and contest. Information from the Space Studies Institute, National Space Society, Mars Underground, World Space Foundation, NASA Ames Research Center, Jet Propulsion Lab International Planetarium Society, CALTECH, Mars Institute of the Planetary Society. Also the publication list from the American Astronautical Society, this BBS list and more.
303-534-4646 Denver, CO	File Bank, Inc, The Comm Post, The Comm-Post, The File Bank Inc., The File Bank, Inc., THE FILE BANK, INC., The Comm-post (1988-1997)	Bartee & Westerberg, Brian Bartee, Bartee & Westerberg, Girard Westerberg, Bartee Westerberg	TBBS , TBBS 2.2
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: ASP & AOP approved BBS with one of the finest collections of IBM compatible files. Many free download areas including extensive libraries of astronomy programs & data files. 500+ message areas, online games, chat & more. Vast files areas including adult files. With 24 lines & 35Gig of hard drives. VISA, MC, AMEX, Discover welcome. Voice support: 534-4538. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Denver, Colorado since 01/93. Sysop: Brian Bartee. Using TBBS 2.2 with 22 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 21000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $10 Monthly fee. ASP Approved BBS & one of the finest collections of IBM-Compatible Shareware. Many free download areas including extensive libraries of Astronomy Software & Data files. Message Areas, Online Games, Chat. VISA, MC, AMEX, Discover Welcome. Voice: 534-4538. THE FILE BANK, INC. (303)534-4646 ASP Approved BBS Available Nationwide via CRIS. Outstanding collection of IBM-Compatible Shareware. Many FREE file areas including extensive libraries of Astronomy Software & Data files. Vast Ham Radio, Programming & Aduit file areas. $7.50/Mo Visa/MC, Amex, Discover. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 Merger of ‘Microlink B’ and ‘The Comm-Post’ 16 Line File Library - Radio Comm/Astronomy - USA Today 16 Line File Library - Radio Comm/Astronomy - USA Today SIGS include ACC, Astronomy, Tandy 1000, Tandy 2000, TI-Pro. Also jokes and open-forum discussion. Astronomy and MS-DOS programs available for download. Also several space-related files.
303-543-0512 Pueblo, CO	The Pueblo Towne Crier (1978-1989)	Mick Occhiuto	Towne Crier v 2.0 (modified)
	"Originally built based on BASIC and machine code hand entered from a TRS-80 Microcomputer magazine, this BBS ran on a 48k TRS80 Model 3 with a 5 meg. hard drive and a 300 baud modem. We maintained over 10,000 downloadable files and had interactive games (casino with personal cash accounts, T.A.G. etc.), online chat and many other features. The BBS had over 2,000 paid members (a $10 annual fee) from all over the world who called in regularly for files, chat and games. When we had to close shop (part for a job relocation and part because technology was moving away from the TRS-80) a big picnic was held for me as the SysOp and over 50 local memebrs were in attendence. It was great fun!" - Mick Occhiuto
303-617-9004 Aurora, CO	Royal Fush (1994-1997)	Maverick	C-Net 128
	"I ran this BBS a long time ago... Still have all the Commodore stuff." - Maverick
303-623-4965 Denver, CO	Denver Exchange, The Denver Exchange 104/909 (1992-1994)	James Craig
	Denver’s Most Diverse Gay/Lesbian Info Service
303-642-7463 Pinecliffe, CO	Pinecliffe, Pinecliffe bbs 1.2gb!, PINECLIFFE BBS, Pinecliffe BBS, CBD Systems, Inc (1980-1996)	Craig Baker	Opus , UltraBBS 2.09 Beta, UltraBBS 3.01c
	PINECLIFFE BBS, (303)642-7463, Pinecliffe, Colorado since 01/82. Sysop: Craig Baker. Using UltraBBS 2.09 Beta with 14 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 9500 MB storage. USRobotics at 14400 pbs. No fee. Largest BBS in RockyMtn area. FREE ($20/yr gets 2hrs/day. $100/Lifetime membership.) 60,000 zips. CD-Roms online. Games. Home of CDBREG — allows immediate upgrades with credit card. Sysop also a computer store. NightOwl Rom $59. Help us grow. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 PINECL1FFE BBS, (303)642-7463, Pinecliffe, Colorado since 01/82. Sysop: Craig Baker. Using UltraBBS 2.09 Beta with 14 lines on MS-DOS 80388 with 9500 MB storage. USFtobotics at 14400 pbs. No fee. Largest BBS in RockyMtn area. FREE (S20/yr gets 2hrs/day. S100/Lifetime membership.) 60,000 zips. CD-Roms online. Games. Home of CDBREG — allows immediate upgrades with credit card. Sysop also a computer store. NightOwl Rom S59. Help us grow. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 Product: UltraBBS
303-650-5636 ARVADA, CO	Day's End (1986-1990)	Chris Day
	Astronomy SIG with many astronomy programs and files. Also many other programs and MS-DOS utilities.
303-651-0754 LONGMONT, CO	Crystal Firestorm, Vector Sigma (1987-1992)	Jeff Taylor	Custom
	"The software (Crystal Firestorm) was written from scratch. The bbs started out on a C64 with an 800k floppy drive, got bumped to an Amiga 1000, still with a single floppy (this is when the name changed), and finally to a 286 with a 40Mb hard drive." - Jeff Taylor (Shadowdragon)
303-657-0126 Adams County, CO	M&D's Travelling Circuits, M+D'S TRAVELLING CIRCUITS BBS (1984-1997)	Marshall Barry, Michelle (Dede) Weisblat	CCBBS (Chuck Crayne-BBS)
	"So much to say. M&D's was originally started in Sherman Oaks, CA in 1984. It was an extension (i.e. complete replacement) for "The Travellers (Travesty) RBBS" which was running part time since 1981 in my various apartments around town. Hey, it was something to do while I was out of town, consulting, and being away from friends and family -- The people I'd meet via BBS were either Geeks (like I was) or someone who would be interested in one. Biggest problem - Very Few Fem-BBSers (at the time). Oh, back to the story... "After a while, I began to hate the RBBS software, and didn't really like much else out there. So, another Sci-Fic Fan out there, Chuck Crayne, and I began to talk. He had been running CC-BBS#1 in the South Bay for quite a while - and didn't really see a lot of things to do with it. It was nice, friendly, and - dare I say it? Yeah (Hi Chuck!) moderately dull. So, the fool I was, I said "Hey, how about I run your software, debug it a bit, maybe add some things to it? Huh? Huh?" (OK, I wasn't THAT much of a Geek). Anyway - we did it. July 1, 1984 - with the able help of the love of my life (Michelle - aka Dede Powell - Weisblat) "M&D's Travelling Circuits (CCBBS#2)" came up. Neat software, for the time. Ran TWO lines (native IBM-PC COM supported two ports) plus a console. Multi-task, multi-thread, security (including one-way encrypted passwords). WAY ahead of its time. But, neither Chuck nor I had much time to put it into a form for "sale" (sigh) it was too much of a "labour of love" "Time Passes. Dec 5, 1988 M&D's goes down in Sherman Oaks, and Dec. 11, 1988 it "magically" reappears in Louisville (not looie-ville) Colorado. Only running one line, at the time, it sits in the FRIGID basement of a house on the top of the hill. What's so important about that? Uh, other than a chair, a refrigerator, and a stove, and the table it sits on, there is neither persons nor property in the house, and there wouldn't be until Dec. 20th, when our furniture arrived. (That is another, long, albeit unrelated horror story!) M&D's Travelling Circuits lived there until August 1990, when it "travelled" again to its final location - unincorporated Adams County, CO (Westminster, Thornton area). It moved into a house - along with (you have the info from the FidoLists) TelePeople, TelePurple, and TeleCircuits - those all part of FidoNet 104, becoming known as the "*69" group (104/69,169,269, and 969). "Alas, CCBBS never became "fidonet" capable - it just wasn't part of the original design concept, and having the BBS "be down" to process mail was just anaethema to us. It became a "home away from home, a place for wanderers and friends" for many years. Too many. It did many things - supported many groups of people, had its "invisible" sub-sysops. Our eldest daughter, Meera, became the main Sysop of the system for a while, added gaming groups to it, did a lot to keep it alive for much longer than it had a right to be in the mid-90's "Internet" era... But, it was "PRIVATE" in the way that what you said stayed there. People had to WANT to be involved there, not have what you wrote go around the world 100 times and more. Type locally - stay local. "Anyway - in April, 1997, we wandered into the back room and heard a horrible, heart-rending, squeeeeaaaalling sound. The 20 meg (yes, MEG) hard drive that had been the only real upgrad to the ORIGINAL IBM PC (8088!) had crashed. Yeah, I had a backup (about 3 weeks old, not a big deal, really), but we looked at the machine, and the fact that it was getting about 2-3 calls a day, mostly people checking in "for old times" and not for much else. It took a while. We put up a minimal system saying "We'll be back - in the meantime, for a good time call 'TeleCircuits' at 303-426...." "But, our "zest" for BBSes had pretty much died by then. We had a computer business to run (we had refered our clients to M&D's for shareware downloads and support, but they prefered to talk to us on the phone for some reason (wan smile)), and so much else to do than BBS. Beside which, it really didn't support FidoNet even then... people weren't calling much... and I couldn't figure out how to justify a REAL computer (snort!) and a phone line to that small a BBS. We gave her a real, honest, burial in late August, 1997. We buried the hard drive in the back yard and donated the real, original, IBM PC to the Whiston Bide-A-Way home for ancient and dismembered computers (Whiston was a good friend and also a part of the *69 group) along with our Hyperion and a few other systems. M&D's Travelling Circuits became a memory. "It was one of the first multi-user BBSes around. It ran, other than movement, continuously for almost 13 years. It began with the idea of "1984" and having a way to communicate, other than the "government approved" ones, a died of hyper-accellerated "old age" in a time when regular BBSes, the "solo node, not connected to anything", were (already) an anachronism. It's still remembered, or was until we finally gave up the phone line (we used it for an outbound voice line for a while - it would really wake us up when it rang!). It served a need, handled (at its peak) over 200 calls a day, and I don't know how many calls total. At the end, it was really down to 1 or 2 a day, some days, none. Curse you, big bad Internet!! And bless you as well for taking up the slack. "Now when I say BBS, or BBSing, some people still remember what it was about. Sigh..." - Marshall Barry
303-659-8231 BRIGHTON, CO	NCC-1701 ENTERPRISE (1994-2001)	Bob Whiston	TBBS
	"Actually this BBS has been up since 1982 - 1983, first under Jim Starke. In 1985 Bob Whiston purchased all the equipment and software and moved it to a new location with Jeff Tensly of Jaguar's Networking Labs as the `resident SysOp'. In 1991 the old hardware and software, APPLE IIe+ and ELITE, was `retired' and the first version of the present software TBBS [M16] Multi-line was installed on a DOS `box' w/ 386DX33 MB and 2 12.0K baud modems. At this time the hardware and software was moved North to just outside of Platteville, CO and Bob Whiston took over as `resident SysOp'. FIDOnet connectivity was finally realized in 1994 with the, *finally*, installation of a FX line into Metro Denver by `USeless Waste'. In about 1996 the CPU was `upgraded' to a 386DX40 and later that year a pair of SupraFax 24.0K modems were brought online. Later on, when Supra finally offered the 33.6K `upgrade' the modems were brought up to this and have remained in service since. When `USeless Waste' decided that there was a new Area Code needed in Colorado the BBS's FIDOnet line, actually out of Platteville, CO, 303-785-0217 was changed to 970-785-0217. The BBS has always been the `origin' of The Denver Metro and Front Range Scanner Echo along with also having served, for 1999 - 2000, as a FIDOnet HUB between NET 104 in Denver and NET 315 in Greeley CO up until the disbanding of NET 315. The future plans for the BBS include, beyond keeping the `local' dial-in, an eventual InterNet presence and TeleNetability as eventual hardware and software will allow." - Bob Whiston
303-665-6091 Louisville, CO	Boulder County, Boulder Echo Hub, Denver Area Net, King's Market BBS, KINGS MARKET, The King's Market BBS, King’s Market BBS 104/115 (1983-2009)	J Burt, Jim Burt, Jim & Karen Burt	TBBS
	400 MB Book, Writers Area - TRS 80 Support 400 MB Book, Writers Area - TRS 80 Support
303-667-1357 Parker, CO	Realm of Lost Souls (1989-1993)	Spencer Hansen	WWIV, Worldgroup
	"Spencer stared with WWIV and joined that family early on. He then made his system Mulit-Line using VBBS as his second system. His WWIV was highly modified thanks to some help from his friends, Barry and John. He then later purchased MajorBBS and Worldgroup. Then the Internet came about, and put an end to most all BBS's." - Spencer Hansen
303-673-9470 Lafayette, CO	Micromanic, GDP Technologies (1988-1993)	Bill Mullen, Tom Getty’s	Wildcat
	Outstanding IBM Shareware on a small system Outstanding IBM Shareware on a small system
303-679-0161 Evergreen, CO	Empire of the Dragon BBS (2008)		Worldgroup
	Online since 1992, and still dialup (56k!) as well as telnet. EOTD BBS has been a big part of the 303 BBS scene for over 15 years. Worldgroup with Worldlink, forums, retro file libraries, and door games such as LORD and TW2002.
303-680-7209 Aurora, CO	Sound Doctrine BBS (1987-1997)	Tim Williams	TBBS 2.2
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Family & Christian BBS. Open to all. Totally free with access to Internet e-mail. Programmer, technical and gerneral files. Order free material. Unlimited time allowed with many kinds of message boards. Beginners ask for our free manual and starter kit.
303-690-8144 Aurora, Colorado	Reggae Land B.B.S. (1984-1990)	Grandpa Reggae (Lane R. Ellis)	C-Net 9.4 through BBS-PC, C-Net 9.40 - 11.1a, BBS-PC!
	"In 1984 I first put the Reggae Land Bulletin Board System on-line, open only between the hours of 10:00PM and 8:00AM on weekdays since I had only one phone line at the time. I used a Commodore 64 computer and a single 140K Commodore 1541 disc drive, along with a 300 baud Total Telecommunications modem, with Prospective Software's C-Net 9.40 B.B.S. software. I customized the software quite a bit, as it was written in fairly simple BASIC language, and designed all my own custom Reggae Land menus, which I took great pride in. "Reggae Land grew in size over the years, becomming one of the largest and most loved B.B.S.'s in Colorado. Before moving to an Amiga based setup, Reggae Land at one point was running off of 2 1541 disk drives and 6 SFD-1001 IEEE drives. Once running on the Amiga platform and BBS-PC! software I was able to customize the system to my hearts content, which I did to the tune of over 1,000 different menus, the equivalent of todays individual HTML pages. Using Reggae Land was almost like playing an incredible and witty text adventure game, with twists and turns available that just weren't available on-line anywhere else at the time. One year it was voted the best B.B.S. in Colorado by Chet Solace and his "Final List", and was frequently listed in the "Computer Shopper" magazine. "Someday I'll re-establish Reggae Land on the web, having it both as a time-capsule into the past and as a fully-functioning giant web site. I'd love to make contact with any of the 1,000 plus old-time Reggae Land users!" - Best Regards, Grandpa Reggae (Lane R. Ellis)
303-693-4798 Aurora, CO	The Board of Directors (1991-1995)	Larry Coulson	Wildcat, WildCat 4.0
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Aurora, Colorado since 08/91. Sysop: Larry Coulson. Using WildCat! 3.9 with 1 line on MS-DOS with 350 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. $25 Annual fee. An information exchange service for entrepreneurs, managers and business professionals. We feature only the highest quality business related shareware. Message base includes Fido and Bizynet echos.
303-693-5432 Aurora, CO	ONE, Inc., ONE BBSCON BBS (1992-1993)
	Oneline Networking Expositions Oneline Networking Expositions Oneline Networking Expositions
303-693-6160 AURORA, CO	THE TIKKI ROOM, The Tikki Room with Mickey Mouse (1993)	Mickey Mouse (Jack Stephens)	Renegade
	"Hi there - I saw my BBS 'The Tikki Room' listed on your site. I think it's just great that it's on there, and I didn't submit it to you originally! Wonderful. That BBS was one of two that I ran at the same phone number. The other was called THE ABYSS. My handle on Tikki was Mickey Mouse, and on The Abyss it was Lt. Commander Data. You can see my interests were (and still are) Disney, Star Trek, James Cameron films. The BBS started out on an Amiga 1000 using CNET I believe. After a while, I switched it over to an IBM PS/2 running Renegade. The BBSs both featured some cool ANSI graphics, message boards that were fairly active, Trade Wars 2002, and a bunch of great local people of various ages, mostly young like me! I was in middle school and high school (at Laredo Middle School and Eaglecrest HS) when I ran the BBSs. I ran them out of my bedroom and my dad's home office. He was very generous with offering his computer when he did not use it, and a phone line for the cause. Running these BBSs was great fun. I also called quite a few BBSs around that I also saw listed. I remember several that weren't listed, such as Fuzzy's BBS, The Back Burner, The Gridiron, Denver Matchmaker, Star Trek BBS, The Grotto, and a few others. But, since I don't remember their phone numbers, I guess I cannot add them. I am sad to see the passage of the days of BBSs, and in general the days of computers that existed where computers were a hobby, a special interest, a new and amazing idea. Now, everyone has one, and those days are long gone. I like the internet - but it doesn't have the same character or charm as did the old BBSs. It's hard to be a computer geek now! Oh well. It was fun and the memories are great. This is a totally awesome Oh well. It was fun and the memories are great. This is a totally awesome site to have set up. Let me know that you got this!" -Jack Stephens
303-699-8222 Aurora, CO	E-Soft, Inc., eSoft Inc, eSoft Inc Technical Support, TBBS eSOFT user board, TBBS HQ SUPPORT, TBBS Support BBS, eSoft Product Support BBS, eSoft, Inc (1990-1995)	Phil Becker, Phil Becker/eSoft Inc.
	Home of The Bread Board System (TBBS) BBS Software Product: TBBS
303-733-5802 Denver, CO	ShadowLight (1994-1996)	Disorder	Renegade
	"World HQ for the F.U.C.K. e-zine..."
303-738-9482 Denver, CO	Blackout, Prototype BBS (1996-1997)	Phrenic/Kaneda	Public address (Mac)
	"Anime, Files, Audio philes." - Phrenic
303-740-2223 Littleton, CO	ADP Audit , ADP Audit,SAS,Wr, The Professional System (1986-1996)	Bob Voorhees	TBBS
	"Sponsored by the Denver chapter of the EDP Aduitors Association (EDPAA) now the Information Systems Audit & Control Association (ISACA)." - Bob Voorhees
303-758-1551 Denver, CO	Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL), C.A.R.L. Library Service (1993)	Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
	Citation to 4 Million Texts in Colorado Library System FREE
303-766-3104 Aurora, CO	Jabberwocky, The Horizon BBS (1992-1996)	Andrew Strotheide, (Alias I[E and Lodestone)
	"I got into BBSes as an elementary school kid messing around on my Apple ][+. I had a 300 baud modem, but it eventally died. I then installed an old 110/300. Sometimes 300 got flaky and I used 110... Quite a bit, actually. Things happened very slowly in the 1980's (especially when you were a relatively poor kid with ancient equipment). "My family got a brand new computer for Christmas of 1991, a 486DX/33. :) I hadn't used a BBS in a couple of years, but as soon as we got that thing, I knew I needed a modem. With a 2400 baud modem, I got back into BBSing. As a seventh grader, I had a lot of time to dive into learning. A few months later, I bought a 14.4k modem and On June 10, 1992, I opened a BBS which I called "The Horizon," running Telegard 2.7. The board was named after my school, Horizon Middle School, but it was really more of a metaphor for the way I saw computers. I had been constrained to the Apple ][ for so long that I didn't really see the future of things; getting into a new computer and meeting more people online gave me an eye into the future of computing, which is what really solidified for me the fact that I would someday work with computers for a living. "I ran the BBS very diligently. I worked so hard to have good file storage, up-to-date information from the industry and about viruses and whatnot, and a good, solid community of local people. Ultimately, the board had many teenagers, but we managed to keep a pretty steady crowd of older people. I think our youth was refreshing to them. That, and we had really lively discussion and intelligent people. There were about 100 regularly active people registered, and about 200-300 user accounts in the system for the year or so that it was a heavily used one-line BBS. "I eventually restructured the board and named it "Jabberwocky." Running Telegard 3.0, it was supposed to bring a new energy to the BBS scene. Unfortunately, as most BBS operators who used Telegard will tell you, the BBS niche had started to expire, and Telegard 3.0 was too little, too late. It was either for the third or fourth anniversary of the board that I changed its name, either June 1995 or June 1996. Unfortunately, it didn't last too long. In August of 1996, I began my senior year of high school. I had a girlfriend, a job, did lots of partying, and had too many other things to worry about. My poor little 486 with its 14.4k modem was also too slow and the internet was starting to take hold. I closed the doors to the BBS in November of 1996. (tear)" - Andrew Strotheide
303-843-9721 Littleton, CO	Shadowmire Keep (1991-1997)	Lady Di	WWIV
	"It was also known for the frequent little "user gatherings". Some of the gatherings included Woddy's Pizza on Leetsdale near Quebec as well as the, then recently-opened, Laser-Quest near Hampden and Yosemite where frequent Shadowmire Keep visitors, Malice and Shard had become members. BTW, nice job on the site!" - D. Spanel "Hi there...thanks for the kind comments on my BBS - I was waxing nostaligic and came in contact with some old Keepsters (as we were called back then)...started browsing around and found your site...but I closed the BBS in 1997 rather than 1996(It ran from 1991 thru 1997)...I had planned for a few months that the last day would be July 31, 1997...it was very sadly coincidental that the real Princess Diana who was my namesake as Lady Di died on that day...almost minutes from the time the BBS shut down..." - Lady Di
303-864-2227 Nucla, CO	Alcun Atirutan, Starcraft/2, USS Alcun (1991-1997)	Keith Thomson	QuickBBS , Remote Access, LoraBBS
	"I ran this BBS for 6 years, up until I went to college and no longer had the phone number. The original name was Alcun Atirutan, because the sysops lived in the Nucla-Naturita area. Shortened to USS Alcun when I went to a space based theme, then Starcraft/2 when I decided I didn't want a Naval space theme, but an Airforce based space theme instead. This was before I had heard anything at all about the game Starcraft. This was on Fidonet at 1:15/42. Towards the end, the phone number switched to 970-864-2227 when the 303 area code went to the eastern side of Colorado." - Keith Thomson
303-932-1308 Littleton, CO	Empire Of The Dragon, EOTD BBS (1992-2007)	Icedragon	MajorBBS , MBBS, Worldgroup
	"We ran from 1992-1996, similarly to TcP's 20 Miles North of Nowhere, as we both ran them out of the same location. List currently has it as 1995-1996; we were definitely up for more than a year, 4-line MajorBBS, which ran from at its insception, MBBS version 5.31 all the way to Worldgroup 3.0; 1000+ users. Currently reviving it, trying to even get the old phone numbers back. (Unlikely.) But will be going back online in 2008, dialup." - Icedragon
303-936-2791 Denver, CO	D Link-1, D-Link 1 (1978-2007)	Robert Wells, Bob Wells, Jerald Cape	Proprietary and Wildcat!
	"Dr. Bob Wells (WD?GSE) is now a silent key. I run D Link-1 in the Denver Area now on one of 30 IP adresses in 63.227.33.x as there is no hosting. This is to challenge the BBS'er to "dig" for it. D Link-1 was and is designed for teaching beginners the wiles of white-hat hacking and network troubleshooting. From it's very beginnings, using a pair of 300 baud modems and software written in BASIC the BBS was there for learning. Since Bob's passing away, I have resurrected D Link-1 with both Dial-Up and Telnet access. There is even a Packet Node and EchoLink/IRLP VOIP feature on the telnet connection, along with five remote desktops accessed via VNC for member use. As far as I know D Link-1 is the longest running BBS in the history of cyberspace. At least here in colorado." - Jerry, KA?TXW
303-973-4222 Lakewood, CO	Boardwatch BBS, Boardwatch Magazine, BoardWatch Magazine BBS, USA Today Distr, USA Today Distr , USA Today distr. bbs, Boardwatch Magazine BBS, Boardwatch Magazine Online Info (1989-1996)	Jack Rickard, Boardwatch Magazine	TBBS
	Distribution Service for USA Today/Boardwatch/Newsbytes
304-327-7452 Bluefield, WV	The Outer Limits (1990-1992)	Mark Turner	MetroBBS
	"The BBS was in West Virginia initially and run on an Amiga computer using MetroBBS. Then it moved a few miles across the state line into Virginia. The complete phone number changed. Later, the area code changed, too. So, it went through three different phone numbers. It also jumped from the Amiga to an IBM clone, so the software changed to Synchronet." - Mark Turner
304-343-6554 Charleston, WV	The Wall BBS (1987-1988)	Sean Breeden	All American BBS
	"The Wall BBS was operated by Sean Breeden from 11PM to 8AM 7 days a week. It ran for about a year on a Commodore 64 with a 1200 baud modem. There was a small, but active, message board with a different disk full of software that rotated every 2-3 days. It had two 1541 floppy drives, so disk space was hard to come by. The BBS software was the "All American BBS" by Nick Smith." - Sean Breeden
304-442-4738 Smithers, WV	The Alternative (1995-1998)	Jeff Tomasek	Remote Access
	"This was a nice little BBS. On average we had about 15-25 callers a day depending on if it was a holiday / weekend or not. The message boards were never that active as the board was mainly a graphics BBS where people could download pictures of thier favorate celebs both legal and not so legal (if you were under 18). The other draw was 2 seperate running games of LORD, a.k.a. Legend of the Red Dragon ANSI based online game. Lots of memories here!" - Tomahawkeer
304-592-3390 SHINNSTON, WV	Cat Eye, The Cat Eye, The CatEye BBS (1992-1996)	Doug Moore, Douglas L Moore II	PCBoard
	ListKeeper: Cave Exploration BBSs
304-697-0101 HUNZ 1, WV	ICEBBS, The Inner Circle (1984-1999)	John Pinson - Iceman
	"From within The Inner Circle, where the name came from, those from the early days of computing may remember. Started with a Commodore 64 on a SFD 1001 floppy drive in Southern California's Orange County. Built the system up to a C128 running with Ramlink and CMD 100 Meg Hard drive. Connected with other great boards of the area (Expanded Universe, Dudley's Place, Swampland, Purple Dragon among others and the CTUG of Orange County (Commodore Technical Users Group). Moved the system to Wilmington NC in 1991 and expanded more with a Super CPU, 16 MB Memory and 4 GB Hard Drive. (Remember, this was on an 8 bit computer that ran at 1 mhz, with 64k of internal memory standard). Had to move again in 1993 to Huntington WV where the system remains today, although it has not been actively used since 1999, but it is still my favorite computer. To my knowledge, The Inner Circle was the largest and fastest Commodore 8 bit BBS in the world. We had callers from around the world (I won't tel l you how they paid their LD bills though) Software, Started with the old All American BBS before hooking up with a fellow in Virginia who ran a BBS called the Dailey Exchange by the name of Greg Pfountz and was running Color 64 the next week. While running Color 64 in Orange County, we had a new user, a young kid that turned into a real programming whiz that went by the handle "The Ant" who was known to the rest of the world as Adam Fanello the author of Color 128 and then the best bbs program ever written for the 8 bit Commodores called Centipede. Over the years we met and conversed, had excursions and outings with many thousands of computer users. Today's internet is fun, but not as personal and interactive as those "good old days" when SysOp's and users connected with each other. To all of those that ever called, chatted or shared "warez" Thanks!" - John Pinson
304-722-2315 St. Albans, WV	Prime Rasp (1986-1990)	Bill Dempsey, Scott Patrick, Chris Higgins	Hotline, QBBS, RandomAccess, Vision/X, Oblivion/2
	"Miss you guys greatly. Remember the WARS! SAGE vs SABE! FYD Software - "F$#@ You Dunn!" Hahaha. Great Times. Prime Rasp. Every one hated it, but everyone called it." - Anonymous
304-728-0884 Charles Town, WV	The Bit Bank, The BitBank (1990-1999)	Jamie Willingham, J. Willingham	QuickBBS , PCBoard
	"I started TBB (as my users affectionately called it) as part of my search for knowledge about serial communications and programming. No one in our local calling area had a BBS, and access to online services were available only by a toll-call. TBB first went online in the spring of 1990. Daily usership grew to over 25 users at its peak around 1995, thanks primarily to a core group of impulsive emailers (bless them!) who also liked to compete in the online game 'doors'. Once the 'Net became a local call away, usage dropped off sharply, I decided to pull the plug on March 1st, 1999. I was blessed (?) with just about every type of user that most SysOps discuss, from the file- and game-hungry kid to the supportive 'Co-SysOps'. To mention any of them, I'd have to mention them all. Together they made up an experience that I will never forget." - Jamie Willingham
304-744-9059 Charleston, WV	Aesopian Systems (1990-1997)	Jason Dunn	ProBoard, RA, FrontDoor, PC-Board
	"Also ran aesopian.com for a while. :p" - Jason Dunn
304-755-8025 Poca, Wv	Caddilak BBS, PyroTech BBS, The Palace of Exile (1990-1991)	Charles King a.k.a. Dark Angel, Angus M. Killmoore, Peace Frog, Caddilak Man	Remote Access
	"Specializing in hard to find 'How to blow stuff up' text files. As short lived as it was I tried my hardest to provide anarchists around Charleston with as many Pyro/Phreak/Hack files as possible. Wrote several of the pyro texts myself, if anyone has any files by the above mentioned aliases, I would love to see them again, can't believe some of the things I did in 8th grade... lmao." - Charles King
304-768-1867 Dunbar, WV	Deckers Cafe', Dragons Dawn Inn, The Dragon's Dawn Inn (1987-1993)	Rob Vaughan, Robert A Vaughan	Remote Access
	"Deckers Cafe' was the Science Fiction Sister Site to Dragons Dawn Inn. The two BBS's ran off the same registered version of Remote Access with a unique front-end and setup structure." - Robert A. Vaughan
304-877-2165 Pax, WV	WV Wolf Pack (1994)	Wesley Williams	Super BBS
	"I ran this board from 11pm to 6am and was at the time southern WV only adult BBS. It was a beast of a system running on a IBM clone with 4 old MFM hard drives 2 of which were hanging out of the case without the cover in place! I was using a table fan to help keep the drives and motherboard cool! I was on FidoNET node number 1:2620/9.0 and in December of 1994 I shut the board down and re-opened it as Wolf Pack BBS when I moved down to New Orleans and was running it on PodsNET, and was awaiting to get back on FidoNET when my system died." - Wesley Williams
304-925-3338 Charleston, WV	21st Century Connection, 21st Century TBBS (1978-1990)	Bob Vaughan
	"Oldest BBS in the State of West Virginia, created and operated by Bob Vaughan." - Robert A. Vaughn (Son)
305-232-0389 Miami, FL	Millenium Force (1992-1998)	Scorpius	VisionX, Renegade
	"MILLENNIUM FORCE 305/407 - ONE OF THE LARGEST BBS'S IN MIAMI WAS RUNNING VISIONX 6 LINES. THE TOP BOARDS IN 305 IN THE EARLY DAY WHERE (SILVER BULLET / DESTOYER) AND THE PRIVATE COLLECTION. AND ONE OTHER AMIGA BASED BOARD CANT REMEMBER THE NAME. MILLENNIUM FORCE BBS MOVED TO 407 AREA CODE IN 1995. WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST IN 407 WITH 12 LINES RENEGADE ON INDIVIDUAL 486 DOS MACHINES RUNNING LANTASTIC! THERE WAS A CDROM CHANGER ONLINE, FOR WEEKLY ROTATIONS, AND A WHOPPING 300+ GIGS OF SOFTWARE AND GAMES. HOPE THAT HELPS!" - Todd
305-232-4467 Miami, FL	Stretchmark (1996)
	"I'm really fuzzy on this one, but somehow the phone number came to me so I wanted to submit it since it wasn't on the list. The details I am sure of: the phone number, the city/state, and that it was active in 1996. Not even 100% on the name, but I'm sure it had "stretch" in it. Guess this isn't that helpful, but maybe some other idiot can help us preserve this arcane information." - C. Miller
305-246-3632 Homestead, FL	Road Runner BBS (1981)	Eddie Scott	Conversion MI
	"Road Runner BBS ran for years back in the Sherwood Forest Days."
305-251-2932 PERRINE, FL	Primitive Future, PRIMITIVE FUTURE (1992-1995)	Swayzar
	Crystal Member BBS
305-252-1449 Perrine, FL	Check-In BBS, Check-In BBS (Line 2) (1987-1992)	Dave Game	Red Ryder Host
	"One of the first Macintosh BBS Systems in Miami, it grew to two lines and took calls from all over the world. It was killed by Hurricane Andrew." - Dave Game
305-256-2672 PERRINE, FL	EUROPEAN IMAGES BBS (1992)
	EUROPEAN IMAGES BBS: Hundreds of original, adult, imported images! Very active, friendly message areas... Why pay for images scanned from convenience store magazines? (305) 256-2672, (305) 256-2675. Multi-line HST/V.32/14.4K/ 9600/2400/1200 WILDCAT 3.0 1M FREE Demo Account!
305-256-2675 PERRINE, FL	EUROPEAN IMAGES BBS (1992)
	EUROPEAN IMAGES BBS: Hundreds of original, adult, imported images! Very active, friendly message areas... Why pay for images scanned from convenience store magazines? (305) 256-2672, (305) 256-2675. Multi-line HST/V.32/14.4K/ 9600/2400/1200 WILDCAT 3.0 1M FREE Demo Account!
305-262-5848 Miami, FL	Face Florida Atari Computer Enthusiasts (1983-1986)	zz top (carlos)	forum ii
	"Ran at the time with SAR- southern atari remote ran my Steve and Treasure Island ran by Egar the saltine. It was a bbs and user group.." - ZZ Top
305-262-5858 Miami, FL	Face Florida Atari Computer Enthusiasts (1983-1986)	ZZ Top (Carlos)	Forum II
	"Ran at the time with SAR and Treasure Island. It was a bbs and user group.." - ZZ Top
305-268-8576 MIAMI, FL	Astronomer's BBS, Astronomer's RBBS & RCPM, Astronomer's RBBS, STAR-NET, GENERAL LIBRARY, RCP/M Astronomy (1983-1989)	Chuck Cole
	Large amount of astronomy info posted. Only serious users are considered for charged, higher access.
305-271-9380 Miami, FL	The Snake Pit (1993-1998)	Green Iguana	Celerity / Vision X / VABBS
	"I started my BBS because in 1993 with a 14.4k modem and a 386 running at 40 mhz. I think my original hard drive was all of 170 megs. I started with a free copy of Celerity, but the software was unstable because of the crack. Too bad, I really liked Celerity. I used Vision X for a while, but it had the same problem so I bought Virtual Advanced BBS. For door games I had L.O.R.D., Usurper, LORD 2, Planets TEOS, TRADEWARS (the all time best door game), and more. It was a lot of fun, it all ended when the BBS computer hard drive gave out. I let the BBS die because my 1998 everyone was going to the internet. It was a sad day." - James Carlin AKA Green Iguana, Sysop The Snake Pit BBS
305-274-3924 Miami, FL	RadTrans, Radical Transfer, RadTranS (1989-2002)	Mark Graham, Radical User	Renegade
	"Started on a Commodore 64 in 1984, cant remember the software, then in 1989 moved to a 386 PC. Door games; L.O.R.D., Usurper, LORD 2, Planets TEOS, Tradewars, and ECHOMAIL." - Radical User
305-324-3434 MIAMI - FLORIDA,	LOS PINOS II BBS - (1990-1998)	Martin Bueno	The Major BBS
	"Los Pinos has been one of the first BBS in Latin America, with first operation in Argentina in 1984 running on Commdore 64. On the 90', the BBS reach other points in America, including USA, based in Miami,Florida, near the office of galacticom." - Martin Bueno
305-370-9376 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Superdemocracy Foundation BBS (1993-1994)	Tim Stryker	The Major BBS
	Online Democracy/Political Culture for the Future
305-382-3412 Miami, Fl	The Intruder BBS (TiB) (1993-1996)	Randy Lion Sanchez	Renegade BBS
	"I ran this BBS during my late teenage years. Not many BBS's listed here used Renegade BBS software. Renegade was one of my favorites because of it's flexibility. It's a shame what the internet did to the BBS community, but I will never forget those file transfers, and cool SysOp chats! Well, it was fun while it lasted. I took it down because it was time for me to get out of the house and start my life! 1 line and 28.8bps, ANSI based, and a few door games as well. Legend of the Red Dragon anyone?? :) " - Randy "Lion" Sanchez
305-382-5713 Miami, FL	True Colors, True Colors BBS (1988-1994)	Michael Robert	Opus, Maximus
	"What memories your page just brought back!! I ran True Colors BBS for six years, under two numbers since I moved during that time. New number became 305-595-0313. Running a BBS was the coolest experience of my life. It meant staying up late making changes to the system, trying to find new ways of attracting callers and of course meeting the most amazing people. Nothing like waking up in the middle of the night,looking at your computer screen and seeing someone typing an email. Was like you were never alone. People that use the internet now have little idea of the BBS world that existed. The knowledge and experience I gained through running a BBS has stayed with me and furthered my career in information technology." - Michael Robert
305-383-0126 Miami, Fl	Odyssey & Passion BBS, Odyssey BBS (1987-1991)	Artie Ayala	RYBBS, Telegard
	"I was amazed today to read thru the textfiles and see my Odyssey BBS and Passion BBS listed. Like many others have said, It sure brought back many fond memories. Some of us throughout the country were involved at the time in sending messages to the troops during "Operation Desert Storm" using a software provided to us which I can't recall at the moment. Thanks to the BBS's of the time the soldiers were able to get mail much faster than with the traditional snail mail. I congratulate you on a great job with the movie and putting such a great piece of history together. My best to you and all those who took part in the pioneering of the net ... Artie Ayala - SySop Odyssey & Passion BBS 1987-1991" - Artie Ayala
305-428-5094 Deerfield Beach, FL	StarGazer, Stargazer BBS (1993-1997)	Cory Coddington	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"BBS had 2 nodes and over 50 calls per day =) Was ran by a 12 year old at the time =) I'm 24 now. (2004)" - Cory Coddington
305-432-2223 Pembroke Pines , FL	Moderator Help & Info, SunShine, Sunshine BBS, SunShine PCB, Sunshine PCBoard (1989-1996)	Michele Stewart, Michele Hamilton, Michele Hamilton-Stewart, MicheleHamilton	PCBoard
	"It's 2013 and amazing to see a list of people I once knew and how the world has changed since I first discovered computers. Back in 1989 I started with a self built computer that had a whopping 40 meg hard drive and an enormous 2 megs of RAM plus an 8" floppy drive. I made so many friends and thanks to Fidonet, the years running Sunshine PCBoard are among my fondest memories. The local, national and international friends made, the pot luck holiday dinners, the good times, the bad, the conventions, my marriage to Peter Stewart and the kindness of people thousands of miles away that I never met, but knew better than the neighbors next door. Until it's close in 1997, my BBS was my lifeline to the world and I am privileged to have been a part of computer history and it's future. We proved it's a small world, the Internet just took over to make it easier to do what we'd been doing all along. If anyone is still around, feel free to email me at michele@sunshinemac.com. Yeah, I'm a Mac baby now. LOL"- Michele Hamilton
305-437-4499 MIAMI, FL	Internal Affairs (1992)	Spy Hunter
	Trsi Member BBS
305-473-5134 Plantation, FL	High Society BBS, Tessier Technologies (1994-1995)
	Reseller of multipe BBS projects
305-473-8759 Fort Lauderdale, FL	3rd Dimension, The Third Dimension Online! (1995-1996)		MajorBBS , WorldGroup
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: 16 lines, Running Worldgroup! Features too many to list! Internet Access, Slip, CSlip, PPP, Telnet, FTP, IRC, WWW, Gopher, Usenet and MORE! Online Weather, Shopping, Travel, Sports, Vast File Libraries, Lively Chat, Multi-player Games and MUCH MORE! Free two week guest access. Secure Adult Entertainment Offered. Get ONLINE Today!
305-474-6512 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Silicon Beach, Silicon Beach BBS, SiliconBch (1989-1996)	Lautenschlager, Eric Thav	RBBS, Wildcat , WILDCAT!
	List of BBS List Keepers: South Florida Area 305/407/Eric Thav ListKeeper: South Florida Area 305/407
305-547-6754 Miami, FL	Nervous System (1982-1985)	David Landowne	Communitree
	"This was the 5th BBS to open in Miami and eventually became the last one which did not require a password. It ran the Communitree software on an Apple ][ with 280K of floppy storage. The program was all in RAM so the floppies were entirely available for (compressed) messages and the index. There was nothing to break in to, all the messages were available, so there was no real security need for passwords. Another feature was the fairwitnesses, people with passwords, who could hide messages they thought were inappropriate. The messages were still available to the persistent hackers until I deleted them. After a few years Bob Scheel took over as sysop and eventually ported the concept to different hardware." - David Landowne
305-581-4983 Fort Lauderdale, FL	The Library, THE LIBRARY BBS (1991-1996)	Terry Woodward	Wildcat , WILDCAT!
	THE LIBRARY BBS, Multilines, 2.2 GigaBytes, Huge Adult Section, 16,000+ GIFs, 75 Conferences, Online Games, Download on first call. 305-581-4983
305-581-6834 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Silent Morning BBS (1991-1992)	David Reina	WWIV
	"Silent Morning first was online in 1987 as a Commie (Commodore 64) board using Color 64 software. It was briefly known as The Power Station. It had some down time and then went back online in 1990 as an IBM system. It then moved to another location and took on the number listed in 1991 and stabalized until I publicly announced my waning interest in the BBS and an official termination date of the BBS. Some of the regulars posted their dissapointments. It was sad but I preferred to take it down rather than allow it to turn into a grave yard. If my old users want to find me, I'm at http://www.davidreina.us." - David Reina
305-583,8407 MIAMI, FL	THE FETISH NETWORK BBS (1995)
	THE FETISH NETWORK BBS, Inject your modem with the finest in leather alternatives. Join Goddess Dianna Vesta & other famous Mistresses & FehshisL 16 lines. Lots of files, shopping, high speed modems, Worldlink, Kinklink, National Local access 305.583,8407, - BBS Magazine October 1995
305-583-7808 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Galacticomm BBS, Galacticomm Demo System, Galacticomm Inc, Galacticomm Major BBS, Galacticomm Technical Support, Galacticomm, Inc BBS (1990-1995)	Richard Skurnick, Tim Stryker	The Major BBS
	Product: The Major BBS
305-583-8407 MIAMI, FL	THE FETISH NETWORK BBS (1994-1995)
	THE FETISH NETWORK BBS, Inject your modem with the finest in feather alternatives. Join Goddess Dianna Vesta & other famous Mistresses & Fetishist. 16 lines. Lots of files, shopping, high speed modems. Worldlink, Kinklink, National Local access 305.583.8407. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 THE FETISH NETWORK BBS, Inject your modem with the finest in leather alternatives. Join Goddess Dianna Vesta & other famous Mistresses & Fetishist. 16 lines. Lots of files, shopping, high speed modems. Worldlink, Kinklink. National Local access 305.583.8407. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
305-596-6107 Miami, FL	Electronic Link (Original), Westwood BBS (1982-1989)	Vincent Medina	CNET
	"Was the original Electronic Link, later the name was willed to Alan Criado who revived the site from Commodore 64 based to a multi line PC based running Esoft TBBS (Awesome one of the first multi person chat rooms and had an internet, fidonet portal). Later it became one of Miami's 1st Internet providers: Electronic Link .or. www.elink.net - In the late 90's The entire Biz was sold to another ISP in Homestead somewhere and the name rights went to a telecom company I think?" "What memories, I remember my dad telling me to turn that sh!t off and get to bed!!! hahahahaha.... I love it. 2 Lines on a C64 later a C128 (New name Electronic Link) with link 6 floppy drives and westridge, hayes modems later USR, Smarteam." - Vincent Medina
305-598-5887 Miami, FL	The Forth World (1990-1995)	Marvin the Martian, Fatal Error	Renegade
	"WHQ for AWS (artists with style), bbs went through many phases.. it started as your basic bbs.. and then shifted around from warez, hpvac, bbs mods, then art.. at the end it was just hpvac/art/bbs mods... nothing more.. it used to be considered one of the "elite" in the area.." - Dan Rodriguez
305-644-8327 Orlando, FL	CONNECTION-80 Orlando (1981-1985)	Bill Vermillion	CONNECTION-80
	"I put up the first 24x7 BBS in Orlando on July 1, 1981. The software was called Connection-80. I was listed the hardbound book that listed all the BBS in the US that came out sometime after I brought my BBS up. "I'm a pack-rat so somewhere I still have the original TBBS manuals, and even have my first computer, the old original Radio Shack Model I that I got in 1977 - two days after Christmas after a 3 month wait. It was the 4th Radio Shack computer sold in Orlando. "That became the orignal BBS machine. The Connection 80 software would hold only about 80 or so messages. The TBBS used a database type approach to store message and capacity went way up. I then moved to 80-track double density drives with the TBBS software and that was 360K per drive and I could keep a great many more message on line. "When I moved it to the Max80 with the 8" DSDD floppy drives with 1.2MB per disk things got better and faster. Limits like that seem quaint in today's world. "I moved to TBBS - and serial number as recall ws 23, with the first 10 being reservered and were for local testing in the Denver area. I ordered TBBS to be shipped when it was released. I got it and had one file missing and they set it up for transfer. I was up and running before the hour was out. Dave Ebert at the company said I was the first TBBS East of the Mississippi and may have been the first up and running outside their test machines in the Denver area. I later gave up TBBS and moved to a BBS on a Radio Shack 16 written in BASIC that I bought, and then in a couple of months moved to be a usenet leaf, and shortly thereafter a node. At it's peak I was in the top-500 sites monthly - and that was in the days when the full usenet feed was not too large. When the daily feed when to 100MB/day I dropped the alt.binaries, and finally all the alt groups." - Bill Vermillion
305-720-1382 North Lauderdale, FL	The Nine Muses BBS (1994)	Jim Jones
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: North Lauderdale, Florida since 04/94. Sysop: Jim Jones. Using MajorBBS 6.12 with 8 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 4500 MB storage. ZyXel at 16800 bps. $.50 Hourly fee. FREE trial period. National Chat linkups 5 nights a week. Chat with 100's of others. Over 4 gig of files on-line with no up/dnload ratio. Daily news and monthly publications. Over 200 MajorNet forums. Online multi-player games. Much more soon! Call now!
305-726-3849 Pompano Beach, FL	Logic Circuit, Logic Circuit - Logicom, Logicom, Logicom Inc (1993-1995)	Edward Bush	The Major BBS
	Galacticomm reseller
305-734-6026 Palm Beach, FL	Atari CC of Palm Beach (1986)
	ATASCII only -- Atari Computer Club of the ATASCII only -- Atari Computer Club of the
305-746-0096 Lauderhill, FL	The Jungle BBS (1993-1996)	Chris Geroy	WildCat
	"Just wanted to add to all my friends I made in Ft. Lauderdale the following: Divorced in 1995, moved to South Dakota and married my soulmate (4 years + now) and believe it or not, we met by accident on the internet (go figure). I was proud to be involved in the bbs community back in the hayday, I miss my friends, but am happy where I'm at. I ran Wildcat and I remember when I finally got it all configured and up (I was in Pompano Beach at the time), I got up the next a.m. and checked my log, and it was a guy in the bldg next to mine whom I'd never met, but we became friends. I went to his door and knocked, and told him I had a problem with his log-on and introduced myself. We'd been neighbors for 3 years and never had met until then. It was fun being a node for fido-net, and when I first got Inter-mail successfully configured, I actually felt like I'd accomplished something. Retired from land surveying and started new career in Outside Plant Design for the telcomm industry, designing Fiber In The Loop and Sonet rings. Have my own recording studio and still play with some bands when I have a chance. If anybody remembers me, just wanted to say Hi and hope all is as good with you as my life is for me now. Cya L8r (still remember how to do that!)" - Chris Geroy
305-748-0004 MIAMI, FL	COMPUBASE, Compubase BBS (1995)
	COMPUBASE 305.748.7791. 0409. 0004. The new kid on the block. 3 high speed 14.4 nodes. We welcome users of all ages, Adult section for 18 + callers. 1 GIG of capacity and growing/expanding. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
305-748-0409 MIAMI, FL	COMPUBASE (1995)
	COMPUBASE 305.748.7791. 0409. 0004. The new kid on the block. 3 high speed 14.4 nodes. We welcome users of all ages, Adult section for 18 + callers. 1 GIG of capacity and growing/expanding. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
305-748-7791 MIAMI, FL	COMPUBASE (1995)
	COMPUBASE 305.748.7791. 0409. 0004. The new kid on the block. 3 high speed 14.4 nodes. We welcome users of all ages, Adult section for 18 + callers. 1 GIG of capacity and growing/expanding. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
305-749-6680 Sunrise, FL	Psycho Ward, The Psycho Ward (1987-1994)	Psycho Murdoctor	The Major BBS
	"The Psycho Ward was started by me in 1987 using GBBS II on a Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple clone).... and upgraded to a PC in 1989 using The Major BBS from Galacticomm (I wrote several online games for them), after which a second line was added (305-749-3637). It remained a two-line BBS for several years, until I finally took it down to "move on with my life". The major focus of The Psycho Ward was an RPG based on the Transformers cartoon, but there were other discussion areas and RPGs (such as AD&D and Wrestling), and it was a proving ground for many of the games I wrote." - Psycho Murdoctor
305-763-8337 Fort Lauderdale, FL	Telelink BBS, TELELINK BBS !!! (1993-1999)	Marc Livesey	WILDCAT!
	"What a flash back! This was the ultimate learning experience. Started on a 286 and a full meg of memory - didn't have room inside the computer for the 2nd hard drive, so it just hung outside the box. Thanks to Onyx - tyler for helping me get started. Up and running for 6 years. I miss the users and the fun. Internet killed the BBS community - but such is life with growth." - Marc Livesey
305-769-9364 North Miami, FL	FIDO/SEADog Radio Broadcast, NET 135 ECHOMAIL HUB, Power Mail Link, Power Station, Region 18 PCP EchoHUB (1986-1991)	Miguel "Mike" Lombana	Fido, Seadog, DBridge, Opus
	"Wow, hard to believe it's been 20 years! I started the Power Station as a place for my listeners when I was a jock on Power 96 to dial up and keep in touch with what was going on at the station. Suddenly it grew from being a pet project to a full time / part time job! I even ran all the echomail for the entire region for a period of time until the long distance bills got beyond my meager DJ salary. "I was always trying to be one step ahead, I was one of the first, if not the first, sysops in Miami to run with a USR 9600 HST baud modem purchased under the sysop program, had a full meg of ram and the box was an XT clone with a whopping 10 meg hard drive! The original box was a clone with an 8086 processor later upgaded to an 8 mhz 8088 thanks to a sysop in California that worked for MicronPC and finally a 286 setup by Peter Adenaur from AMS. I somehow managed to be a beta for a host of systems including the Opus BBS system which ran until the end powered by a DBridge front end. "Many thanks to Chris Baker from Miami-Fire who came over on a rainy day to help me get all the script files fixed, Marc Ache' for helping with all the betaware he scripted, Chris Irwin for allowing me to beta DBridge and Peter Adenauer for helping me to build a new mega box to run the show!" - Miguel Lombana
305-793-2975 Palm Beach, FL	Alternate Universe (1986)
	ATASCII only -- Atari Computer Club of the ATASCII only -- Atari Computer Club of the
305-821-7401 Miami, FL	South Florida Computer Group CBBS (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue). Ran part-time from 6:30-8:30pm.
305-868-0211 MIAMI, FL	Star Net O.M.E.G.A Atari (1988-1995)	Guy Ferrante (Star)	BBS Express PRO
	"Outstanding Atari Multi-line BBS Full ATASCII/ANSI/RIP Xlation 500 megs online storage hrs 24/days 7 Bauds: 300-19.2 - 2 nodes" - Guy Ferrante
305-872-0342 Big Pine, FL	Kanda's Lair (1993-1994)	Jeff Thompson, AKA Kanda' Jalen Eirsie	OPUS, GBBS
	"The third incarnation of Kanda's Lair, Became a Fidonet node, Served mail to the Crow's Nest in Key West. Big Pine being situated between the nearest Fidonet node in Miami, and Key West. Key West being (at the time) a long distance call to Miami, I was ideally placed to be a "Hop" as Big Pine was NOT long distance to Miami or Key West. KLAIR was on 2 Networks at this time, GBBSNet (national) and FidoNet (international) Didn't get too many callers but did a LOT of mail transfer... I remember that a number of us "wildcat sysops" formed a sort of coalition against one of the local PCBoard Sysops in Key West, as most of us thought at the time, that he was a real jerk - The Kanda's Lair Tagline of "No Limits" really ticked him off psycologicly." - Jeff Thompson
305-885-0409 Miami Springs, FL	Fantasia	Sarah Connor	Celerity, ViSiON/X, Aftershock
	"The board went through quite a few names. Fantasia was the last name it held, before i took it down around the time of sundevil. affiliated with INC, iCE, Fairlight and a few others i can't even remember at the moment." - Sarah Connor
305-887-9006 Miami, FL	Ground Zero BBS (1989-1992)	Eric Limegrover, Eric Limegrover (Phantom)	Remote Access/Telegard/Custom T.A.G
	"I ran this board under a variety of different bits of information. Man, the memories and friends that developed while doing this. The internet killed the sense of community that was so precious to me back in the day." - Eric Limegrover
305-994-3578 MIAMI, FL	Pro-Entropy (1993-2001)	Eric A. Seiden	Pro-Line
	"Still up and running and accepting callers. (Formerly Pro-Miami but I have no information on the start date. It ended 8-23-92 when Hurricane Andrew hit it. The sysop was Nelson)" - Eric Seiden
305-995-1928 Miami, FL	DCPS BBS (1990-1995)	Bruce Raskin	MajorBBS
	8-line MajorBBS run by Dade County Public School system. Obviously intended for ""educational"" purposes, but ended up mostly used by local nerdy teens to chat in Teleconference. Was notable for being one of the few outright free to use multi-line MajorBBS boards around.
306-477-5233 Saskatoon, SK	Micro City Saskatoon (1993-1999)	Lobo	MajorBBS
	"Was a 24 line MajorBBS in Saskatoon from 1993 to 1999. It had almost 4000 registered users by the end, most of the account were fake but I would guess between 800 and 1000 of them were real accounts. In 1997 MC shifted to Worldgroup 1.0 which is where the problems began. Frequent crashing ensued and soon after the BBS community was swallowed up by the internet. Main features were teleconference, the roll playing game Arena, and Galactic Empire. Some effort was put into a web based revival of Micro City but it went nowhere as the domain name Microcity could not be secured and the user database was irretrievable." - Lobo
306-543-4605 Regina, SK, CA	Menzoberranzan (1994-1998)	Shaun Koltun, Shaun Koltun and Chris Koltun	Remote Access
	"MENZOBERRANZAN was established in April of 1994 by Chris and Shaun Koltun. MENZOBERRANZAN was running on a 486SX/25 with a 2400 bps modem, upgraded to 28800 bps later. It had 4 Megs of RAM upgraded to 8 later. MENZOBERRANZAN had two hard drives. The first was a 202 MEG drive, the other was a 1.032 gig drive. In the end MENZOBERRANZAN was running on a PENTIUM 100MHZ with a 56000 bps modem, 4X and 1X CD-ROMS, a 5.1 gig and a 1.032 hard drives and 8 megs of RAM on March 30th 1996 upgraded to 16 megs of RAM. My last posting before shutting the BBS down about 2 weeks later looked as follows: Tuesday, October 20 1998: Well, it's been almost a year since I've written here... obviously I haven't been taking care of this BBS like I should. Many of you who have wrote messages to me haven't recieved a responce. Well, it's because I rarely log-on to the BBS anymore. Anyways, I have 2 main reasons for not watching the BBS as I should. 1: The InterNet. The pull of the InterNet and it's Multi-player Games such as StarCraft and others are where I spend all my time when I'm on my computer now. You say that I sould make time to maintain the BBS? Well, that brings about my 2nd reason. 2: Since I upgraded the computer from a P100 to a P200II half (Jan.) the doors haven't worked... half the BBS utilities I used to use don't work. A fellow SysOp says that it is the new P2 processors, they don't allow some old programs made in Pascal to run anymore... so I have disheartantly given up with it. Anyways, the BBS may shut down. My brother and I are getting a Cable-Modem for the Inter-Net and this BBS may be shut down as a result... within the next 2 months. Shaun Koltun In the end I think we took over 14,000 calls - having only 1 phone line that wasn't all that bad. We had 2 people who called over 500 times, and 1 who called over 1000 times. Over 9000 files were transfered throughout the years." - Shaun Koltun
306-543-7683 Regina, SK	C.U.G.S. BBS (Commodore Users Group of Saskatchewan) (1984-1996)	Barry Bircher, Tristan Miller	EBBS 128
	"For most of the BBS's life it was run on EBBS on a Commodore 128 with several ancient Commodore 4040 dual disk drives to store the message boards and file database." - Barry Bircher
306-585-3973 Regina, SK	Tumorhaus (1994-1996)	Aaron Ward	custom
	"The sysop wrote his own BBS software using QuickBasic 4.5." - Aaron Ward
306-586-6608 Regina, SK	Myrkul's Realm (1993-1995)	Tristan Miller	C*Base 3.0
	"Also known briefly as the Lycanthrope's Den. The system was run on a Commodore 64 with JiffyDOS, a CMD 20 MB hard drive, a TurboMaster 4.09 MHz accelerator, numerous 1541 and 1581 floppy drives, and a 2400 baud modem with a custom RS-232 interface. The C*Base 3.0 software was later patched with special networking code from Gunther Birznieks and became the only Commodore BBS in Regina to be networked with BBSes in other area codes." - Tristan Miller
306-764-0888 Prince Albert, Sask	Computer Answers BBS, iNET2000.com, Kilroy's World, Prince Albert Echo 1 (1982-Present)	Todd Chamberlain	Wildcat, DLG, Excelsior
	"This BBS has undergone MANY changes and revisions over the years. AFAIK, it's the oldest BBS in Saskatchewan, and most probably one of the oldest anywhere. It certainly was the first BBS in Prince Albert, the first to have multiple lines, the first to have online games, the first to offer HST & 56K, and the first to use an optional graphical terminal program. "When I was in grade 12 (1981) I got a Texas Instruments TI99/4A and began programing to beat the band. Later that year, I got a job at a Video store selling Vic 20's, and our company communications were done over 'DataPac' Packet service, where I was fasinated with the online services and games (Wumpus Hunt!!!) that were avaialble on DataPac connected computers. "Around Christmas 1982, I had one of the first Commodore 64's available, and the first order of business was to program a BBS program and to get it online. Within a few days, KILROY'S WORLD was online in a very primative form. Over the next couple years, I wrote what I modesly called TWFBBS (The Worlds Fastest BBS) plus I added 4 Disk Drives for the largest online file library and message base anywhere, 300 Baud modem, in all it's glory! "In 1985, I went to see my first Amiga 1000, and one look at the Boing Demo and I was sold. I bought an Amiga 1000, an Extra Disk Drive, the extra memory and a modem. My Commodore 64 BBS software was in BASIC, so it was relatively easy to translate to the Amiga, and within days, the faster more powerful Amiga BBS was online, complete with two 880K drives (WOW, over 1.7 MegaBytes!). Shortly thereafter, commercial Amiga BBS software came available, and I finally retired TWFBBS software in favour of DLG Pro, which in allowed me to add a second modem and to become Prince Albert's first multiline BBS, and the MultiTasking allowed another first - online games. "In 1987, I opened a retail computer store, Computer Answers, and with the introduction of the Amiga 2000, we could add a hard drive, and eventually Multi-Serial boards to support 8 modems. We also changed the name of the BBS from 'Kilroy's World' to 'Computer Answers BBS' to better reflect where the loot was coming from to finance the operation. The store also allowed us to expand the number of lines - we had 2 lines dedicated to the BBS (764-0088 and 764-0888) but after hours, we also added the three store business lines to have a five line BBS - unheard of at the time. We also constantly kept on the leading edge of modem technology, moving to 2400 baud, and 9600 baud Intel modems as soon as they were available. We also took advantage of USR's BBS/Sysop offer and moved to HST/Dual Standard modems to support both HST and V.32 standards as soon as they were available. "I should also give a nod to other BBS Pioneers from Prince Albert - Howard Weitzel, Ken Harrison, Glen Outlette, Mark Warner and Trevor Cook to name ome of the most notable. They ran the gambit - Howard worked was a middle aged man working for SaskTel, while Ken Harrison was a 12 year old with his Atari ST, but all with the same passion for computers and telecommunications that I had. "By 1997, we had 8 dedicated lines, with an automatic hunt group, and a 1 GigaByte SCSI Hard Drive. DLG Pro had served us very well, but there were a limited number of games available, and Boardwatch magazine had ads and reviews for WorldGroup and Wildcat software that caught my attention. We choose Wildcat, largely because they were supporting this new graphics protocal named 'HTML'. We just a feeling it was going to catch on. ;^) In January 1997, we moved to Windows and Wildcat software, again brining several more 1st to Saskatchewan - Graphic Terminal program and FidoNet communication. In July 1997, we added the Wildcat 'Internet Connectivity Package' to allow us to migrate from the BBS to the ISP World, and www.iNET2000.com was born. "Over it's lifetime, Kilroy's World / Computer Answers BBS had 1107 registered users and accepted 2,168,944 calls. Yes, I said 2 Million, 168 thousand, 944 calls. "Currently (as of March 2006) our ISP Business offers Internet Connectivity via Satellite and Wireless Internet accounts, but we still offer 64 dialup lines for 56K - V.92 modem users. Our Wildcat BBS software no longer answers the modems, this is now done on Total Control V.92 / PPP modem pools, however, we still run our Wildcat BBS / Telnet / Files / Message base at the center of it all. Of course, most new customers have no use for it, and no idea that it's even there, and with the advent of fle sharing and forums, the Wildcat file & message bases are no longer unique. However, every now and then when I walk into the server room, I look at my 64 port Modem Racks, network switches and firewalls, plus a dozen servers doing DNS, Mail and Hosting services, and I have to smile - Man! Now that's a Big BBS!" - Todd Chamberlain
306-789-4378 Regina, SK	Bale Buster's Bug Bustin' Board, Bale Buster's Bug Bustin' Bullitin Board (1990-1992)	Matthew Ornawka	RemoteAccess
	"I was the sysop of Bale Buster's for about 4 years all in all, in different locations, and it actually went through a name change once. That I regretted, because I the BBS lost alot of its patronage, citing that the BBS lost its "feel".. and a couple of months later I changed it all back. It was alot of fun running that BBS, which took quite a bit of work, mainly because I ran it on a 8088 with a 5 1/2 and a 3 1/2 inch floppy for the first year of its existance. Keeping enough free space available was a challenge. There was were some large BBS's in Regina at the time, but there was a trio of BBS's which I was a part of, that were considered to be the most fun to be on, at least in my mind, because of the amount of conversations happening on them at any one time. I have to admit, the advent of the Internet killed bulletin boards, and I do not even know if any are around anymore. I think you are doing a great service to their memory and contribution to computing. And thank you for remembering." - B6
306-922-5700 Prince Albert, SK	Monkey Heaven (1985-1991)	Glen Ouellette	meBBS
	"Multiline BBS, had 3 lines but I forget the other numbers it had (I think 922-5700 5701 5702 but I could be mistaken). Was the first multiline BBS in Prince Albert, the Amiga made that possible (all 3 modems were in one computer). Was also the only BBS to feature multiplayer online games (over 50 different games including a few self-authored games). Monkey Heaven was the Canadian hub for MEBBSnet (similar to FIDOnet, but smaller and targeted mainly at Amiga BBSes) and the Canadian support site for meBBS BBS software and a number of Amiga BBS boardgames. Monkey Heaven BBS went down when I moved to Saskatoon to go to UofS, reopened a single line BBS there for a couple months but it wasn't the same so it eventually shut down forever. Besides, the internet was the way of the future. :)" - Glen Ouellette
306-922-8415 Prince Albert, SK	Computer Answers, Gateway to Balumnia (1992-1995)	Mark Warner	Maximus
	"Gateway to Balumnia was an independant BBS, run off a 486DX66 with a 14.4kpbs single line modem. It was a functioning FidoNet node, and primarily used by its members for playing door games and sending email." - Mark Warner
306-949-1564 Regina, Saskatchewan	Onyx RCP/M (1986)	Cris Ball
	FOG Remote System #50. PRACSA member FOG Remote System #50. PRACSA member
306-955-6272 SASKATOON, CANADA	The Underground Deus (1990-1991)	Simon Giles, SysOp	Deus
	I started writing the Deus BBS software in 1989, while in still high school, in Borland Turbo Pascal. It started out as a stand alone dialup MUD, but pivoted into a fairly typical message focused BBS system after I realized I wasn't going to be able to afford multiple modems and phone lines.
306-955-9297 Saskatoon, Sask	The Improv (1990-1991)	Jim Chometa	Maximus
	"Alias BBS with a Theatrical Theme. Focus on users with any type of post-secondary education. Wonderful, miss those times a lot" - Jim Chometa
307-472-4918 Casper, WY	The N.E.A.T. Suite (1992-1996)	Michele Siedenburg	Remote Access
	"The name of the BBS was based on the N.E.A.T. chipset. (Newly Enhanced A.T.) from Chips & Technology. I ran the BBS using Remote Access and Frontdoor on a 386/40 AMD processor, running OS/2 and later upgrading to OS/2 Warp. All the games ran through OS/2 using batch files! Popular games included Planets, L.O.R.D.(legend of the red dragon) and Baron Realms." - Michele Siedenburg
307-638-0358 CHEYENNE, WY	Amiga Wasteland (1992)	Crowley
	Independent Member BBS
307-766-7596 Laramie, WY	Lukanary BBS (1989-1992)	Jason Scheuerman	WWIV
	"Galactic Warzone was the best door game ever!!! Of course Food Fight came in a close second :-)" - Jason Scheuerman
307-777-5945 Cheyenne, WY	Wyoming Department of Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
307-778-7946 CHEYENNE, WY	Great White North, GREAT WHITE NORTH (1992-1995)	Hosehead
	Fairlight-Dist Member BBS
308-234-9499 Kearney, NE	Penguin Crossing BBS (1998-2001)	Tableau Doubleday	TriBBS
	"This BBS is gone. I shut it down officially earlier this year, because absolutely no one had an interest it anymore. BBSes have died off, sadly. Also, I went off to college this year, and with zero callers, I thought it would be futile to continue the BBS. But, I had fun running it. I still try to keep in touch with the BBS world." - Tableau Doubleday
308-995-5667 Holdrege, NB	PCjr, PcNebraska (1985-1987)	Steve Clark	Fidonet
	"During this time I headed the PCjrNet section of Fido net. We had close to 20 nodes in our group. We also did alot of work with IBM and US Robotics to try to get the PCjr to run up to 2400bps with an external modem. Great job! Thanks for the interest!" - Steve Clark
309-263-2168 Morton, Il	Morton Unit School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
309-295-7742 Macomb, IL	The Underworld (1985-1988)	The Mole and The Sorceress	Universal BBS (UBBS)
	"First BBS on WIU Campus! Ran on a cloned Apple ][ with a 2400 baud US Robotics Courier modem, 10 MB external hard drive (about the size of a shoe box)." - Greeny
309-343-3799 Galesburg, IL	MAGIE, NET-WORKS MAGIE, L-5 Galesburg, Il (Magie) (1984-1985)		NET-WORKS
	Several different SIGs. Network access to Telenet, Tymnet, C-serve, Genie, many others. Various computer SIGs and L-5 info.
309-452-2616 Normal, IL	The Dark Side [ASV] (1993)	Dark Lord	WWIV
	"I lived in Bloomington in 1993. Don't know how long The Dark Side preceded or followed my stay, but it definitely ran WWIV, local and networked message boards. I stopped by the sysop's home once, probably to drop off a donation to the phone bill; recall the house having properly been in Normal. He was a high school student, as were the board's core participants. This culturally differentiated it from other local dialups I frequented.* I have the impression a few older sysops regarded it a den of juvenile delinquents, but in my own experience, a clever, hospitable and especially fun bunch. *There was a subsequent board originating out of this set, don't remember the name. I think it ran VBBS with strictly local message boards. Featured an online game its sysop had collaborated with another member in writing -- involved moving your character across a grid of post-nuclear Oklahoma threatened by mutant "tards."" - Kousotsu
309-667-3686 Peoria, Il	Bradley University (1993)
	FrEdMail System
309-672-4405 PEORIA, IL	Hacker's World BBS, Hackers World, Reg 11 EchoCoord, Region Echo Mail Hub 3, Hackers World BBS (1991-1996)	Martin Belcke	Wildcat
	v32b, v42b 14,400 bps
309-672-4447 Peoria, IL	Hacker's World 2 BBS, Reg 11 EchoCoord, Region Echo Mail Coordinator, Hackers World BBS (1991-1993)	Martin Belcke
	USR HST Dual Standards
309-672-6444 Peoria, IL	Unleashed (1992-1996)	Daphantom	Iniquity
	"Was a Great Graphics bbs, Had over 10 CD-roms online at it's peak and had over 5 gigs in files stored on a local hard drive. Unleashed BBS had 6 phone line going into the bbs using one number and later on in it's life the sysop added 5 telnet nodes Rumor has it that the sysop Daphantom was going to bring the bbs back online through telnet only as a history thing, but havn't heard anything more about this." - Daphantom
309-674-1100 Peoria, Il	Heartland Free-net (1993)	Peoria County Board/Bradley University
	Community Online Service - Free Internet E-mail Boxes
309-676-7871 Peoria, IL	Norwood School District 63 BBS, Norwood School District BBS (1996-2000)	Sysop, Denene Gallion	Searchlight Software
	"This BBS was started with funding help from the Village of Bellevue and Business Donations. It was started in order to give students, facilty and the community an 'online' experience. Everything from online educational game playing to message boards to homework assignments were obtainable on this system. This project came about before the internet was very accessible and was a labor of love on my part. Denene Gallion"
309-677-2075 Peoria, IL	Future Link (1988-2000)	Murrel Rhodes	MajorBBS
	Some history of this BBS: http://www.a5.com/about/our_history.asp
309-697-1011 Bellevue, IL	BearWhiz, BearWhiz BBS (1989-1999)	Denene Gallion	Searchlight Software
	"Multi-Line BBS (the other number was (309)697-9523 ) Without John Smith of the PC Connection BBS BearWhiz would never have been 'born'. He was my mentor in getting it all started. Special thanks to John!" Denene Gallion
309-697-1758 Peoria, IL	Nuclear Zone (1985-1989)	James Howell
	"The Nuclear Zone was a single line C64 300 baud BBS which had a message board and hosted files focused on (hacking, phreaking, anarchy, cracking, cookbooks, etc..)" - James Howell
309-698-3254 East Peoria, Il	Range World Online Insanity And Information Service (1985-1993)	Range & his co-SySauce, Closeapple	Renegade
	"Range World was dedicated to freedom of speech and information. The majority of its file section was dedicated to textfiles of all kinds, from anarchy to collections of recipes." - Range
309-755-4006 East Moline, IL	HookNet (1986-1993)	Terry Tharp	ForumST
	"Began on an Atari 1040ST w/4mb RAM, 2x65mb SCSI HD's Lotsa doors, 2 Lines, Later moved to Champaign, IL (HookNet II) then to Moline, IL (HookNet III+ (ForumPC/PCBoard on 386DX33)) FIDO'd all the way!" - Iron Chicken
309-764-8875 Moline, IL	The Luney Bin BBS (1990-1995)	Nick Hammond
	"Began on C64 1200 BPS, then commodore 128d 2400 bps, finally amiga 500 dual standard 9600, then 14,400." - Nick Hammond (Banana)
310-208-6689 Rolling Hills Estates, CA	Amber , Amber,WWIV , Amber,WWIV autho, WWIV Support BBS (1989-1996)	Wayne Bell	WWIV
	Support for WWIV BBS Software
310-318-5302 Manhattan Beach, CA	MMB Forum, TEAMate Unix Bulletin Board (1993-1994)	Bob Baskerville/MMB Development Corp.
	Demo/Support for TEAMate BBS Software for Unix
310-318-7705 HERMOSA BEACH, CA	AMULET:vc Virtual Reality (1988-1996)	Dan D. Gutierrez	Wildcat
	"This was the first BBS devoted to virtual reality technology and was highlighted in one of the first issues of WIRED magazine. Billy Idol used to frequent our BBS before his fateful motorcycle crash." - Dan Gutierrez
310-327-2255 GARDENA, CA	K & L TeleCatalog, K & L TeleCatalog, K&L BBS, K&L BBS (1993-1994)	Spanky
	A drunk driver killed Spanky at the age of 16.
310-373-7876 Palos Verdes Estates, CA	Castle Kzin (1983-1993)	B'lith	WWIV
	"Used WWIV-NET to great advantage as the BBS was mostly Fantasy Role Playing Game oriented. Iron Horse's Hz Castle, Shotar's Castle Mythril, and Black Dragon's Black Dragon Enterprises (BDE) boards were closely associated and linked with common boards and online games that were similar. Castle Kzin had regular breakfast meetings that were well attended and held at "Roys Mill" on Sepulveda Blvd (Torrance) just East of Maple and West of Crenshaw. These meetings were very important to some of the growing technical minds of the area and were fun for everyone. One of our users (Lone wolf) was a real loner, and due to lack of communication on several levels committed suicide in the late 80's. There were extra efforts made after that time to offer discussion to anyone who felt too alone, or in trouble to share, even one-on-one and avoid that kind of teenage loss." - B'lith
310-407-1300 Santa Fe Springs, CA	Hotel California, HOTEL CALIFORNIA (1995)
	HOTEL CALIFORNIA, 310,407,1300. Full Internet! Telnet. IRC. FTP, WWW, Usenet, 50 CD-ROMs— over 40 gigs of files, Aduh GIFs, movies, games & utilities. Adult and standard chat w/Worldlink 24 hrs, Multiplayer games online— DOOM, Heretic, MUDs, 64 lines— 14.4 & 28.8! Free guest accounts. Unlimited access. Local to Los Angeles/D.C. Telnet to 1 65.90.141 .2 - BBS Magazine October 1995
310-422-0401 Long Beach, CA	The Home Office Online (1994-1995)	Don Bearor	PCBoard 15.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Long Beach, California since 03/94. Sysop: Don Bearor. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 9 lines on 486-50 with 1000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $25 Annual fee. For people who want to be self-employed or work at home. Many how-to pamphlets to read online or down-load. 4 BBS Boards on each line; Main board, Windows board, Office board, Network board. Logon as "DEMO ACCOUNT", password "DEMO" to take a peek.
310-422-7942 SANTA MONICA: M, CA	Mike's Southern California Corner, SOCAL Corner (1992-1995)	Mike Hefferman
	ListKeeper: Southern California
310-423-5048 Long Beach, CA	Castle Mythril (1987-1994)	Shotar	WWIV
	"The BBS was mostly Fantasy Role Playing Game oriented. BBS physically was on border with next zone so many messages were passed freely from one zone to next at no cost. Also called once a night overseas to get messages. Regularly attended Castle Kzin breakfast meetings. Many discussions on games, gaming, and writing of programs occurred as well." - Shotar
310-436-1311 Long Beach , CA	Why Not RBBS, Why Not RBBS-PC, Why Not? (1988-1997)	David Scott, David A. Scott	RBBS, Wildcat , RBBS & Wildcat
	"We were one of the first BBS systems in our area to offer users both Internet email and access to Usenet Newsgroups using a UUCP feed." - David Scott
310-459-1264 Los Angeles, CA	The Link BBS, The LINK BBS (1993-1995)	Samuel Koh
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Los Angeles, California since 09/93. Sysop: Samuel Koh. Using WildCat 3.91M with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 8000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. No fee. FREE Access to Internet! Free membership to California's BEST System! We have it all! News, Stocks, Weather, Magazines, Business, Hobbies, Computers, & Shopping. Local Access to (213)-(818)-(310) Areacodes. Call Today and LINK to the Future today!
310-477-0408 Los Angeles, CA	Business BBS, The, The Business BBS (1993-1994)	Jim Appleby
	Utilities/Support for Microsoft Windows
310-542-5378 Torrance, CA	Torrance Unified District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
310-559-8723 CULVER CITY, CA	Milliways IIN (1987-1998)	Joseph	A Cup of Seagulls
	"MW has a web page at http://thenewhouse.org/mw , sort of in effigy but I do keep updating the picnic page with each year's picnic info. (the millipicnics started around 1992 and have continued past the lifespan of the BBS itself.) you can get all kinds of info about mw (including pictures and some of the public textfiles from its early days) off the webpage." - Joseph
310-657-5775 LOS ANGELES, CA	OUTLAW BBS (1994)
	OUTLAW BBS, 310.657.5775 for Windows, Multline, Multi-interest, animated graphics, Adult XXX. GIFs & services.FREE trial period, full GUI (Graphical User Interface) for real Windows point & click operation, advanced BETA site, Download FREE - BBS Magazine November, 1994
310-659-7000 LOS ANGELES, CA	Modem Boy, MODEMBOY BBS, M0DEMB0Y BBS (1992-1996)		DLX
	MODEMBOY BBS, 310.659.7000, Gay/bi/curious, Instant access, free chat, global access, 32 lines, 2400/14400bps, 1.2 gig downloads, color GIFs, friendly, campy fun! - BBS Magazine November, 1994 M0DEMB0Y BBS, 310.659.7000. Gay/bi/curious, Instant access, free chat, global access. 32 lines. 2400714400bps, 1.2 gig downloads, color GIFs, friendly, campy fun! - BBS Magazine March, 1995
310-804-3324 SANTA MONICA: SANTA, CA	Illusions, Illusions BBS, llIusions BBS (1992-1997)	Jim Walton
	List of BBS List Keepers: California AC 310/Jim Walton ListKeeper: California AC 310
310-815-0117 Culver City, CA	Miller's Party Board, MPB (1993-2002)	Jack Stern	MajorBBS, Worldgroup
	"Miller's began in part as a break-away from Modem Butterfly after some of the future staff got into a series of disputes with the MB sysop and decided they could do things better themselves. I was on board from the beginning to about 1998. It started as a raunchy collection of misfits (the "Party" in the name was well-deserved) but gradually turned into a gaming board with the ascent of the internet. It still exists as a telnet-only MajorMUD board." - Jack Stern
310-827-2426 Los Angeles, CA	L.A. Networking Systems', L.A. Networking Systems' BBS (1991-1996)	Lance Stewart	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"BBS had more than 1,000 active users, with more than 100 unique callers per day. BBS included thousands of public domain and shareware applications, dozens of discussion groups, and several popular doors, including TradeWars, The Pit, and Sink'em. Co-founder of South Bay Mail network, which began as shared conferences between L.A. Networking Systems' BBS and The Source! BBS (Chip North, sysop). Network grew to be hosted on more than a dozen BBS's in the Los Angeles area. Author of Address Book for Wildcat! which became a popular Internet address book application for users of Wildcat BBS software as many sysops began to move to the Internet in/around 1993 by providing Internet email for their users." - Lance Stewart
310-829-4996 West Los Angeles, CA	Dragonfire (1993-1996)	Chris Kleinbub, Tony Spataro	WWIV
	"Achieved some local notoriety for its homebrewed graphic terminal software, featuring support for 16-bit images and vector graphics." - Chris Kleinbub
310-842-6880 Los Angeles, CA	Data Core BBS (1993)	Matthew Schoen/Delta Enterprises
	25 line Major BBS
310-929-4460 Norwalk, CA	The Forbidden Zone (1993-1994)	Robert Burrows Beltair	WWIV
	"I was the SysOp of The Forbidden Zone. It was taken down in a failed attempt to save my marriage. I had a "square headed girlfriend". There were deeper issues and we still ended up divorcing a short time later." - Beltair
312-210-1087 Harvey, IL	The Town Crier BBS (1985)
	"First BBS I ever called after acquiring a 300 baud modem for my Radio Shack TRS-80. Remember it like it was yesterday...." - jjo31420a
312-223-4802 Grayslake, IL	NixPix Person-To-Person (1992-1995)	Larry Green	Oracomm
	"17-line chat board. Renamed MindScapes in 1993. Part of the loose-knit NixPix network (Denver, Chicago, Grayslake, Tennessee) until the renaming. Featured in "The Joys of Cybersex," by Phil Robinson and Nancy Tamosaitis (Brady, 1993)."
312-226-0672	A Clockwork Orange OS/2 (1993-1995)	Matt Hucke	WWIV
	"This BBS was a continuation of "Valhalla" (217-352-3682) after I relocated from Champaign to Chicago in the summer of 1993. For the first nine months, it was part-time, because I lived in a University dorm and had only one phone line. Due to the limited hours, it did not have much of a local user base - it primarily existed so I could stay in contact with my friends in the WWIV sysop community. When I moved into an apartment where I could install an additional phone line, I requested a number where the last three digits spelled out "OS2". With this move, it did gain some more local users, but its primary purpose was the distribution of my software and maintaining contact with other WWIV sysops. My handle was "Starship Trooper", and WWIVNet address was "1@3250". I continued to work on several WWIV-related utilities that I had begun developing in Champaign. One of these was a network spool file editor for OS/2 Presentation Manager GUI. In January of 1995 I took a job as sysadmin at a local ISP. After that, I had little time to maintain the BBS at home or to work on its software. I turned over the source code and distribution rights for my WWIV utilities to a sysop in St. Louis. The BBS went down permanently in late April, 1995." - Matt Hucke
312-235-7902 Chicago, IL	C.F.O.G. Two, CFOG - 2 (1986-1988)	Bill Kuykendall
	FOG (FOG AMO #80) member supported system. PRACSA FOG (FOG AMO #80) member supported system. PRACSA
312-248-0900 Chicago, IL	CCS BBS, Chicago Computer Society, Ddsw1, MCSNet (40 lines), MCSNet (Chicago) (1991-1996)		AKCS
	SLIP/PPP Provider
312-248-4822 Chicago, IL	Thunderbolt (A), Thunderbolt (Inc.), THUNDERBOLT! (1990-1995)	Zeus	MajorBBS 6.21f
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Chicago, Illinois since 02/91. Sysop: Zeus. Using MajorBBS 6.21d with 10 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 16000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $10 variable fee. "Where the GODS come to play.." mythology-themed BBS! MajorNet, NetAccess netmail, ChatLink, InterLink, Interactive Games, Oracles, Online News/Magazines, RIP Graphics, INTERNET access & MORE! FREE demo access. Rates low as $0.01/hr. Family rates, too!
312-252-1125	Phoenix, PHOENIX (1992-1995)	Gandalf
	Tarkus Team Member BBS
312-255-6489 Arlington Heights, IL	Computerland (New Format), NET-WORKS CLAH (1981-1982)		CLAH-NET
	"Apparently a part-time BBS run at a Computerland, later transferred elsewhere." - Jason Scott
312-260-0640 Wheaton, IL	MCMS Metro West Database (1982-1983)	Terry Haas
	"It was originally running from my shop in Wheaton and then moved to the city where I had a computer mail order business and store. It ran on a TRS 80 Model 3, initially on the built-in floppy drives, and used a 300 baud modem. Upgraded it to a buggy beta version of a US Robotics 1200 baud, and also purchased a Corvus 5 MB external drive. I think at the time it might've been the only BBS using a hard drive (probably because nobody else was dumb enough to spend $2,000+)." - Terry Haas
312-274-9515 Chicago, IL	Insane Domain (1991-1996)	Aaron Yelton	Hermes, Firstclass, Hotline, FRST
	"This was one of the first BBSes I can remember running on a Mac. I think Aaron originally ran Hermes on it, but I forgot if he went to Hotline then First Class, or the other way around. Anyway - it was a friendly bunch, and the regulars would meet in real life fairly often. I haven't heard from any of them in over a decade. Too bad - I miss that bunch!" - Jay Duff
312-274-9963 Chicago, IL	Skyway BBS (1995-1997)	Robert Newton, Chuck Goes	tbbs
	"This was a short lived BBS. We tried it when our old software was end of lifed at the Zoo BBS. The secondary number you listed, 312-274-9982 is non-existant. We did have a voice line at 312-274-9981. Again, these numbers changed with the area code split and became 773. This bbs actually was the precursor of our current firm, Digital Interplay which is an internet service provider." - Chuck Goes
312-276-4159 Chicago, IL	American Archive, Ye Olde Archives (1985-1996)	JohnRosengarten, John Rosengarten	PCBoard , PCBB, RBBS first week, PC Board after that
	"This was a hobby of mine, I started with a 1200-baud Hayes modem and one dedicated line, the name was ye Olde Archive the first year or so, but later people complained that the name was too far down the alphabetized list and we changed it to American Archive in 1987 I recall. We also were the first (or maybe the second, hard to tell as there was no central registry) IBM-based BBS, running on an IBM-XT with a ten megabyte HDD the first year. Soon a second, 20-MB Seagate half-high drive was purchased from Elek-Tek in Lincolnwood and we has a total of thirty Mb of disk space. About 25 Mb of space was available for downloadable files, mostly programming languages, file utilities, device drivers and how-to files. We always worked with ShareWare authors to keep the latest versions of programming utilites available. Features included programming forum, sale-trade forum and the ever-loved Adult forum. Users had to send me a xerox of their driver license by US Mail to access adult section. Adult pictures were very tame, mostly bikinis and tasteful nudes. When explicit photos were uploaded we would delete them, as Attorney General Ed Meese (remember the draconian policies and intrusions of free speech that characterized the Ronald Regan era?) was proposing harsh penalties for anything indecent. In 1988 we went to two lines and a third was added in 1990. We had a 3-Com server and five dedicated computers at its heighth. At the end (1992-1996) we had five US Robotics Courier HST (56 kbps link speed) all externals so I could impress visitors to my basement with the rows of blinky lights. With the universal adoption of the Internet, few visitors came after 1995 and in 1996 we finally pulled the plugs. We want to thank the many people who donated time, hardware and cash to support American Archive. John Rosengarten (Ye Olde Sysop) now works as Internet Administrator at a small nameless government agency." - John Rosengarten
312-283-0559 Chicago, IL	Chinet, Unix - Chi-Net [wlcrjs], chinet (1985-1996)	Randy Suess
	UNIX System offering Internet Mail
312-335-0305 Hazel Rest, IL	The Science Fiction Centre, The Sci Fi Centre (1987-1988)	Derek Ferguson	Pyroto Mountain
	"I used to read the TV Guide cover to cover every week, posting exact times for all the old Sci Fi movies that were shown in the middle of the night. One day, my dad got a call from the FBI asking why a Polish spy was calling our house. He must've been a Sci Fi fan in his spare time. My dad made me shut the board down, to be safe."
312-337-6631 Chicago, IL	Computer Room, Personal Computers of Chicago (1980-1981)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
312-350-1109 Wood Dale, IL	Trade Mark (1986-1988)	Teleprompter	Marsh
	"I ran this BBS on an Atari 800 and Atari 800XL systems. Storage was on four Atari 1050 drives, all having the eprom chips to double its capacity. There was at one time Trade Mark II and Trade Mark III when it was cool to franchise the name :-) Remember passwords = pirate and phreak numbers?" - Teleprompter
312-354-6606 Countryside, IL	The Byte Board (1980-1982)	jaxtrx	Self Written
	"Fun story - Originally I used computer to download games, after a rather large phone bill, I was informed to find a way to have people call me or the modem would be taken away. So dug through the Commodore C-64 manuals and taught myself enough machine code and BASIC to write a BBS. Feature and refinement wise, it "bit"(lower quality) compared to the CBBS of the day, hence "bytes" board but I did sell a couple of copies and had an active message and file base for a part time BBS." - Jaxtrx
312-384-0013 Chicago, IL	RCP/M RBBS Xerox Midwest, Xerox Midwest RCPM/RBBS (1983-1986)	David Lowy	RCPM
	"This was one of the 1st BBSs up on the Xerox 820 SAM (Simply Amazing Machine) an early commercial CP/M system with an initial whopping 482K space on two 8' floppies!" - David Lowy
312-395-5865 ANTIOCH, IL	The Outer Limits (1988-1992)	Ralph Kenyon	Wildcat and PC Board
	"I remember this bbs. He had a node 1 of 312-395-5865. His node 2 was 312-395-1992. He shutdown OL after talking to John at Lakes bbs. I was a supporting user on both. I remember both Ralph and John taking time to call me and say they are shuting down." - Pete
312-420-1959 Naperville, IL	The Wall (1983-1986)	The Rook, Bishop	ABBS
	Rock music theme BBS run on an Apple II+ computer, later with a DSDD Rana Elite 3 drive to keep up with usage. Users left "graffiti" on the "wall".
312-438-9356	Dark Side of the Moon, The Dark Side of the Moon (1986-1989)	Chad Hendrickson (Dioskilos)	AMIS, Carina
	"An Atari 8-bit BBS that started with a highly modified version of AMIS and ended with Carina II. The final few months saw a switch over to a custom built Atari ST BBS program called "Matrix" written in GFA Basic by Mike Szewczyk. If anyone has a copy of Atari ST Matrix BBS software, please contact hendricksonc@hcgi.com." - Chad Hendricks
312-465-HACK	The Glue Ball (1983-1986)	Vid Kidz, Barney Badass, Mr. //c	CBBS
	"The Glue Ball was a message base/pirate board running modified Commodore 64 CBBS code, 3 1541 drives and the 300/450 Commodore modem. The multiple 1541 drives were obtained by fraud at a local Zayre store when we discovered that buying a drive then returning the box with a brick in it and claiming that the drive didn't work. This is not cool, but it is history. The Glue Ball was possibly best known for the writing contained upon it, as the welcome screens were constantly changing and tended to be fairly imaginative. The name Glue Ball is a reference to an aspect of particle physics that I'm too stupid to explain. Vid Kidz was taken from the name of the design team of the coin-op video game Robotron. The name Barney Badass was selected as it was the name Vid called Barney the day they met in the cafeteria of Mather High School in 1983. That meeting would also develop into an early Chicago punk rock / surf band called The Defoliants, whose career lasted 5 years. An early song by that band was an instrumental called "Cold Start 64738", which should entertain any C64 head. Modifications to the code were done often under a programmer's tool for the 64 called Sysres, a kind of wrapper environment for C64 Basic code. It was admired because of its ability to display all variables in the code using the "dump" command, which also caused much snickering." - Barney Badass
312-528-7141 Chicago, IL	Chicago CBBS, Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists' Exchange (CACHE), Ward and Randy's Chicago CBBS (1980)	Ward Christensen, Randy Suess	CBBS, CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980).
312-587-8756 Chicago, IL	Crossroads, Crossroads (B) {743}, Crossroads {743}, The Crossroads BBS (1991-1996)	John Kristoff, Niteline	Telegard, RemoteAccess
	14400
312-631-3467 Chicago, IL	Emergency, Emergency , Emergency BBS, Emergency Public (1991-2004)	Clark Staten	MajorBBS
	"Emergency.com was originally a "BBS." It was established in the mid/late 80's on a 286 desktop that cost about U.S$3,000. It orginally had one and then two dial-in phone lines, with an eventual increase to 16 available accesses. We were among the original WorldGroup BBS's and operated it until 1995, when we formally went to different software on the World-Wide Web. This was our initial entry into the on-line world and it included e-mail and messaging on FidoNet. All communications were done via modem, though in it's late stages, we also had highspeed (56K) that were internet access. Our first modems were Hayes, at 1,200 baud, then 2,400 and eventually 5,600. We then had a dedicated 56 frame-relay internet connection. Finally, we got a real highspeed (1.54mb) line into our office. The rest is history and available in various formats and iterations at emergency.com We were on-line, at least intermittently, before 1991....not sure exactly when we went on-line all of the time....think it was when we got our second computer. Please also see: On Becoming a Techno-Nerd...By Clark Staten, EMT-P I/C at: http://www.emergency.com/technerd.htm for additional history on what became Emergency.com." - C. L. Staten
312-685-4873 Chicago, IL	Cybertech, CYBERTECH (1992-1995)	Flashback
	Independent Member BBS
312-690-6775	The Electric Cafe (1986-1988)	Seth Tisue (Dr. Strangelove)	GBBS Pro
	The Electric Cafe was located in Wheaton, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago). It operated on an Apple II+ with a 1200 baud internal modem. It was primarily a discussion board, especially about music and politics. I'd be delighted to hear from any of the board's old users; visit me at http://tisue.net." - Seth Tisue
312-743-3153 Chicago, IL	Lakeshore Modem Magazine (1981-1985)	Patrick Townson	Apple ][+ with a variant of Apple ABBS
	"We did social issues discussions, I think there were about 20-25 regular users. About this same time, I was an assistant sysop for Chicago Public Library BBS phone 312-235-7200. I also worked a little with Jerry Ablan with his THINK! BBS. I 'got into' Usenet as a newsgroup Moderator on comp.dcom.telecom (a position I still hold today, 2006) and I also maintained in those days a forum on Compuserve. I grew tired of the old 'single server' style machines and decided to close Lakeshore Modem Magazine at the end of 1986 and go full time with Usenet; by that point I had about 35,000 participants in TELECOM Digest (comp.dcom.telecom). Old users from Lakeshore Modem Magazine are invited to stay in touch at ptownson@telecom-digest.org" - Patric Townson
312-776-0417	Centrum (1992)	Reeet-Mon
	Nemesis-Dist. Member BBS
312-777-4184 Chicago, IL	The Wild Side, Wild Side 7 Node, Wild Side C-NET COMMO, WILD SIDE [6NDZ], WILD SIDE [6NDZ] (1989-1994)	Rick Anzaldua, Baby Bear, Analog Kid	CNET
	Rebels Member BBS
312-787-2174 Chicago, IL	The Dark Side 312 (1984-1989)	Exilic Xyth	Networks, GBBS, AE Pro, GBBS Pro
	"Memories. I got my first copy of "Net-Works" from the owners of Ghost Ship I (312) 528-1611 and Ghost Ship II (312) 644-5165 (so named for their pirate proclivities) along with one of the early SSI games, "The Warp Factor." I think these two programs actually filled 2 discs. It was a heavily modified version of Net-Works with no documentation and I had no idea whatsoever how to program such things so I had to learn by poking through the code and experimenting. This must have been around 1984 or something as I had just gotten an Apple //e and those hadn't been out very long (1983) when I finally got mine. I even had that ugly dual disc drive thing that sat on top of the //e too. I don't know who thought up the casing color for these things but I am convinced it came out of a Miami design convention. "It took me several months to modify the thing well enough to try and open my own BBS, which looked for several months suspiciously like the two Ghost Ships that birthed it. It wasn't until GBBS Pro came out (along with its "ACOS" language) that "The Dark Side" finally got its own look. "The Dark Side was primarily a text file (called G-Files then, I still know not why other than that's what they were called on RIPCO, "General Files" perhaps?) and eventually a rather prolific Apple II pirate software BBS. I don't think I paid for a single piece of software after I bought the //e. This is significant because I remember one weekend when my friend and I went in together to buy a bulk of 1,000 floppies. We filled them in three weeks and had to buy another case. We were all very much impressed with the boards in California back then, as they all seemed to have the newest games sooner than everyone else and all the boards in Chicago were always trying to get a connection to Cali boards whenever something came out. I'm sure my parents freaked out over all the 213 phone calls at some point but having Aquatron (Cracked by The Freeze!) before everyone else in 312 was worth even a serious shouting match. "Somewhere in there, right around the time we went to 9600 baud from 2400 I think, I managed to put my hands on an external 20 meg hard drive for the Apple //e I had. It was made by some firm called "CMS" (all traces of which have since vanished), was the size of a large 4 waffle toaster and sounded like a King Air spooling up the engines on the tarmac when you turned on. COOL! The thing must have weighed 15 pounds and it was totally featureless except for two LED lights on the front. Green (power) and red (activity). Ugly as it was it ran reliably for as many years as the BBS was still up. "At some point a good friend of mine opened "The Courts of Chaos," the sister system to "The Dark Side" and also a GBBS board and also shamelessly pirate oriented. I think we made some attempt to hide things by making the files section "private" (with a sucker public section filled with, and I'm not kidding, desert recipes, though I doubt most of the users even noticed them since going straight to the files section was SOP) but I doubt anyone was fooled for very long. "By 1988 I figured the way to really get the word out about a BBS was to write a popular text file and stick the number of the board on the bottom (and top and middle) of it. I penned "The Modern Speeders Guide to Radar and State Troopers" early that year. (You can still find it all over the place via a Google search so I guess it worked!). I actually did more research on this little project than I ever did for anything in grad school many years later. The phone was busy all the time after that and though I used to love to hear it ring reminding me that someone was logging on, I was happy to install a switch to shut the damn ringer up at this point. Even the separate Radio-Shack "flashing ringer" got annoying and found its way into my junk drawer along with the old, 300 baud internal Hayes MicroModem //e. "Things had pretty much peaked back in 1987 though with the release of "Airheart," by Dan Gorlin. After that passed through The Dark Side everything else seemed to pale in comparison. (Well, Karateka was pretty cool). People started to spell "Pirate Wares" with a "z" at the end and drop the word "Pirate" all together. Folks started getting arrested for text files. I graduated High School. I discovered EFNet. And that was pretty much the end of The Dark Side. Looking back at how serious the government was taking such things I'm surprised I didn't end up another teenage hacker felon. Instead, I got a law degree." - Exylic Xyth
312-787-3008 Chicago, IL	The Rest of Us MUG, TRoU - The Rest of Us MUG (1988-1990)	Jemiah Duff	FIDO
	"I took over this BBS from Brian Wink and Steve Levinthal, who ran it for The Rest of Us MUG (Macintosh Users Group). It ran on an XT-class IBM with a 40MB HD and a 2400baud modem. Thanks to Steve and his friends at US Robotics, we were given a brand new Courier HST/V.32bis Dual Standard modem and could connect a whopping 19,200bps! Of course, the backchannel was only 450bps, but for BBSing, it was great. I also got the MUG to upgrade the hard drive to 80MB - I thought I'd NEVER be able to fill that up! I was 16 years old, a Junior in High School, when Brian asked me to save his marriage by taking over the BBS for him. LOL. It seems Brian was spending too much time online, and not enough time IRL. Of course, being 16, I had no RL, so I was happy to take it over. I was elected by the MUG to continue running the BBS until I left for College in the summer of 1990. I learned a ton, and it's amazing now that I think about it, how much of that information still comes in handy even today, in 2003. I found this by Googling for my first name - thanks for the trip down memory lane!" - Jemiah Duff
312-789-0499 Hinsdale, IL	Aims Dynabyte, AIMS, Hinsdale, Ill., CHICAGO, Janus Software Group, RCP/M AIMS Hinsdale, RCP/M RBBS AIMS, Hinsdale RCP/M (1981-1986)	Mark Pulver	RCPM, RBBS, AIMS
	$$$$ Subscription service only $$$$ Subscription service only
312-841-2401	1984 (1986-1988)		CCBS, PCBoard
	"This BBS was listed as using CCBS, however I used it for years and they always ran PCBoard. He used the default bland theme that the BBS software came prepackaged with, the menus were all yellow, it wasn't much to look at. I remember he had 5 phone lines and the BBS was so popular they were always filled up. Mostly people were playing door games. Though, some messaging and file sharing went on as well. I'm not sure if the number is correct, I just copied it from the list. I do believe this is the same board though. Hope this helps." - Blakesteel
312-902-3599 Chicago, IL	Compu Erotica , Compu-Erotica, CompuErotica [Fee], CompuErotica , CompuErotica [$], COMPU-EROTICA BBS! (1984-1996)	Tiger	Custom 5.5
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Chicago's LARGEST adult BBS with nearly 1 million served! If you like your chat hot, you'll love CEBBS. Alternate lifestyle chat-conferences, erotic shopping, active party calendar, unique features, internet mail and more! Women free after v/v. V/MC/D. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Chicago, Illinois since 07/84. Sysop: Tiger. Using Custom 5.5 with 32 lines on DEC VAX 3500 with 1500 MB storage. US Robotics at 38400 bps. $.15 Hourly fee. If you like your chat HOT, you'll LOVE CEBBS! Alternate lifestyle chat-conferences, erotic shopping, active party calendar, unique chat features, internet mail and MORE! Chicago's premier adult BBS with over 500,000 served! Women FREE after v/v. V/MC/D. COMPU-EROTICA BBS!, 312.902.3599. Chicago's largest adults-only system, serving open-minded adults for years! 32 lines running on VAX mainframe/USR Courier v.32bis, using unique custom software system with features found nowhere else! Rates as low as 1 50/hour; local dialups nationwide. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
312-907-1831 Chicago, IL	Lincoln Park Zoo, The Zoo, Zoo BBS, Zoo [Fee], Zoo [Fee] (10 lines) (1988-1995)	Micky Bernal	DLX, DLXB
	"The bbs still continues via the web @ . This also changed phone numbers to 773-743-9791 with a change of ownership to Chuck Goes in March, 1990. Kept operating as a dial up until 1999." - Micky Bernal
312-925-0259 Chicago, IL	Forum 80 of Chicago (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
312-942-0089 Chicago, IL	The Conference Tree, UNICIN: University Conference Information Network (1984-1987)	Jim Limber	Conference Tree, Conference Tree (tm)
	"This system was a continuation of my interest in social communication via electronic media. Working at a University and having founded the University of Chicago Computer Club in 1975, I had some continuing interest in my lifelong hobby of technical communications. Ham Radio started it off in 1959, and the M.I.T.S. Altair Computer 8800 8-bit kit (serial # 243?) at an affordable price 1974 shifted me from the radio frequency realm to landline. At that time Bill Gates was my Altair Interpreter Basic Language consultant- he was the co-author, if I recall. When the U of C Computer Club disbanded in 1977 spring semester to form the U.S. Robotics Corportation (named by Stan Metcalf), I was left without enough to do to keep me busy and interested in the evolving virtual world. Conference Tree software was innovative and efficient, operating at 300 baud which was deemed the optimal speed for personal communication via keyboard, and for not sending boilerplate spam messages at high-speed (1200 baud). Various groups made it their home for several years, because the threaded tree-branch nature of the messages was quite convenient to select and extend a given topic of discussion. "When Apple gave zillions of computers to high-schools in substitution for paying taxes, the hackers and spammers made it too difficult to continue operation of a respectful, non-bigoted Conference system without constant checking for truly disturbing postings of everything you might imagine that is offensive, threatening and indicative of a culture gone bad. I eventually just pulled the plug in frustration and it sits to this day- an Apple One (maybe Two) bootleg motherboard kit, I think, in a dish-rack in my kitchen pantry, buried in dust and clutter. The dates of operation are approximate- I don't fully recall that far back from today (May08)" - Jim Limber
312-969-1145 Downers Grove, IL	Atlantis, Crosstalk (1986-1988)	Zeno	Online
	"In 1986 this was called Crosstalk, sysop "Scanners Inc." (Chuck Wolf). He graduated from high school and sold the hardware to me, I took it over with the same phone number. From 1987-1988 it was called "Atlantis", I was the sysop, handle "Zeno"." --Eric Weeks
313-229-4465 Hartland, MI	Hartland Pride, Hartland Pride BBS (1989-2002)	Mike Ryan	Wildcat 3 under OS/2
	"I closed Hartland Pride in 2003, due to a lack of callers.. At one time, Livingston County had as many as 30 BBSs running. The Internet surely had a huge impact on us, as well as many of the Sysops leaving home for college. I don't think there are any BBSs online at this time.. I am a member of the Livingston County Computer Users Group: http://www.lccug.org I enjoyed running HP, and have many fond memories." - Mike Ryan
313-247-1828 Utica, MI	Diskwiz BBS (Atari) (1983-1986)	Don Peruski	Wizardry
	"Hard to say exactly when the board was up. I need to get my Atari computer back up, as I think I still have my BBS on a floppy here somewhere. :) You have a cool site. I was happy to see my 90's IBM version BBS, but was hoping to find info about my 80's BBS as it was very popular for a few years. I had the first Atari 835 modem BBS in existence. 300 baud!! Then went to a 1200 Hayes compat modem. :) Jim Steinbrecher gave me some beta drivers and I modified his software to work with mine. Ahhh...the good old days. Darn hormones destroyed everything when I got in my mid to late teens. :( hahaha" - Don Peruski
313-255-2466 DETROIT, MI	Perspective Software (1995)
	Product: CNet Pro 3
313-261-4128 DETROIT ZONE 1, MI	Skyline (1992-1994)	Ken Sroka	TAG
	Catered to Atari ST Software. Was run out of my tiny house in Garden City where I upgraded to a 286 and second line. Originally run on a Televideo CP/M system then moved to TAG on an 8086 then 286.
313-272-4405 Detroit, MI	DeCom Enterprises, DeComm Enterprises (1991-1992)	DeWitt Mulhearn, DeWitt R. Mulhearn	QuickBBS
	"At time I ran a BBS from my home and enjoyed doing it. Time has changed with the internet and all and I beleive that BBS's have turned into BLOGs. It is good to see that my board was noticed. THANKS!" - DeWitt R. Mulhearn "I think the BBS listing and it's information being around for this long is GREAT. I enjoyed that time running DeComm Enterprises. At the time I was using QuickBBS with the help of some friends. It would be nice to hear from anyone during that era that was working with BBS's. Since then I have relocated to Chicago, IL, so like the BBS's, CB-Radio's and cassette tapes time goes on and now we have the internet. Would love to hear from any fellow Sysops. Thank You." - DeWitt R. Mulhearn
313-273-8316 Detroit, MI	John's Corner, One Way Christian BBS (1987-1991)	John Kupel	Renagade (Conversion)
	"Hi All, I ran this delightfull BBS from '87 - late '91. I had a great helper in redesigning and adding to the Renagade software. Brian Giles was a great help and encentive to keep the system running. I ran the system on a Commodore 64 and as it was only 300 baud we had to rewrite it to work at about 600 baud. In about the later part of '88 we upgraded to a 1200 baud modem and we called it a bee Boo modem because it was a two toned (mid to low) looking for which mode it would connect with 600 or 1200 baud. One Way was designed and ran to promote living a Christ like lifestile and to educate others on the Salvation plan. I met my Christian wife (Sheryl) through running this system. the system ran till late '91 from the Commodore to the software being redesigned for an IBM Clone system and was dropped in late 1991 due to lack of calls and interest.." - John Kupel
313-278-6466 Dearborn,, MI	Big Blue Globe, Tari ForeST, Tari Forest/Tech/Blue (1986-2001)	Anton Malje	Oasis 4.x, later Renegade
	"Originally started in Plymouth Twp., MI. on an Atari 800XL with an Atari 400 handling the connection or deferal to recording a voice message. The original name was 'Tari Tech and it supported the eight bit Atari family and ran on the first version of Oasis Jr, which was a small but powerful ML program. In 1988 the system followed me to Dearborn and eventually evolved to Oasis 4.3, and later 4.6. With 4.6 the BBS acted like 4 BBSs in one as 'Tari Tech, 'Tari ForeST, Big Blue Globe and Spiral Springs; supporting Atari eight bit, Atari ST, IBM (and Amiga), and a place for Philosophy and Metaphysics, which sadly didn't get much use. At that point I was running An Atari 130 XE with expanded memory and CSSs "Black Box" with a couple hard drives. Eventully I ended running the system on an IBM clone I put together runn ing Renegade for the last few years but by then usership had declined to a trickle. After '99 calls were down to a few calls per WEEK. The heydays were back when the Merit Dialouts were available and the western 313 area BBSs recieved calls from all over. I was also networked via Oasis for a number of years with seveal boards including two in New Zealand. I really miss the old BBS community." - Anton Malje
313-286-0145 Mt.Clemens, MI	he erial ort, Serial Port TBBS, The Serial Port (1982-1994)	Stu Jackson	TBBS
	"Hello, Just wanted to say HI and what a great site you have! I almost said "board"! I ran The Serial Port for those very fun years and enjoyed it very much. When we moved to Texas, the board went with me, but alas, never caught on. About that time, the internet was picking up steam, and BBS business was on the decline. I still have the (486) computer, CD drives, software, and a ton of 14.4 modems in the basement. Maybe some day I'll fire it up, just for laughs! Of course, there's always Ebay, the ultimate BBS!! Great job on your site!" - Stu Jackson, X-Sysop, Lansing, MI"
313-286-8820 Semco, MI	SEMCO CBBS - Macomb County (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
313-291-3812 Taylor, MI	The Cutting Boad, The Cutting Board (1984-1986)	Doug Geiss	AMIS/FIDO-NET, AMIS/FidoNet
	"Started on a Atari 800XL with a MPP 300 baud modem, using AMIS software from MACE. (I was a member at 14.). Switched to a Signalman 1200 baud modem and revised software. Upon receiving one of the first IBM PC-AT's in 1985, switched to Fido software. In 1986, started dating - so the board was shut down! (Note: Your listing showed the name as Cutting Boad, instead of Board. The name was a play on the word Board, although I was producing short films at the time, and my film teacher was working with Michael Moore on Roger and Me.) Ps: Great documentary!" - Doug Geiss
313-291-5571 Rockwood, MI	Gateway Online, Gateway On-Line (1991-1996)	William Mullen, Bill Mullen, Jeff Breitner	MajorBBS
	Interactive Chat,MultiplayerGames,Usenet/Internet,E-mail
313-294-0959 Roseville, MI	The WORD Exchange, The WORD Exchange (CfC #47), Word Exchange (1989-1993)	Michael Sly
	"The WORD Exchange was a Christian BBS that actually started in Warren, MI running Telegard and then later, Maximus. About 2 years into it (1991) we moved to Roseville, MI and I switched software to Wildcat. The BBS went offline around 1993." - Michael Sly
313-295-6865 Taylor, MI	The Basement (1992-1994)	Darrin Gorski, Darrin Gorski (BIG D)	T.A.G.
	"FIDO node 1:2410/340. We played a lot of SRE/BRE." - Darrin Gorski
313-299-5864	Utility City BBS (1985-1993)	Eric Kimminau	Renegade, Telegard, Celerity, UBBS
	"I actually started this board down in Dallas on a original IBM Xt, 8Mhz, 1MB ram, 10MB Harddrive. It slowly grew in size and went multi-line in 1987. My board was geared to people looking for any and every kind of utility: anti-virus, disk compression, diagnostics (PCTools & Norton 1.0!), modem dialers, BBS software, toolkits, ascii art and BBS doors. I think at one time I had about 30 doors running on my boards. I ran DOS based software under DesqView/X for the last 3-4 years so I could run both nodes from a single system and have a 3rd local node for maintenance. I became the South Central US USTG (US Telegard Network) which them became the ITCNet FIDO Network regional Host working with Jack Reece, Paul Maner and Jack Schofield (who took over for me when I moved to Michigan). I am listed in the ITCNet Guidelines here: http://textfiles.com/bbs/FIDONET/itcguide.txt and on the Routing map here: http://textfiles.com/bbs/FIDONET/itcroute.pol These (USTGNet, ITCNet) were FidoNet style networks but it wasn't a part of FidoNet per se. We were a standalone, isolated network (because FidoNet was such a big bunch of wankers at the time). Then I moved to Michigan and became not only the North Regional Hub but the Central US Zone coordinator and a regional FidoNet hub. Serviced Auburn Hts, Leonard, Auburn Hills, Sylvan Lake, Milford, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Troy, CLarkston, Waterford, Taylor. I was the first to distribute out the huge M.O.D. Bust info http://www.textfiles.com/news/modbust.txt I participated in a number of "Warez" and "Cracking" groups. With three other friends we started "S.A.T.A.N" and released the first crack for the original Mech Warrior game. If only I had thought that this info would ever be needed. I donated about 200GB of tape backups and my tape drive to Goodwill about 2 years ago which had 8 years of FidoNet, USTGNet and ITCNet netmail and BBS lists. Such is life. My BBS went down when I started getting serious about Linux. I started the alt.sport.photon internet newsgroup and had one of the first FidoNet/ITCNet to Internet News gateways. Shouts to Freddy Krueger and the ElmStreet Crew, BK, Jim Kitchen, Charlie Riess, Jack Reece, Paul Maner, Jack Schofield, Midnight Oil (1 & 2), Cool Hand, INC, THG and RAZOR. I now run BeamSport, http://beamsport.com which is really just another BBS. I have now come full circle." - Eric Kimminau
313-326-6020 Westland, MI	SEMCO CBBS - Westland (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
313-334-8877 Detroit, MI	Club II, CLUB II BBS, The Club, The Club II (1981-Present)	Terry Conklin, Terence Conklin, Unknown	Fido/Renegade
	"Came across an old email that mentioned your site, and I can help with the specifics of my own boards, which are a bit off. However the story is a bit complex, so I'm not sure how you would choose to represent it, so here's the chain of events. My system, The Club, (Not "Club I") came online in either late 1980 or 1981 (no records of the actual date exist so call it '81) on a TRS-80 Model 1 on my own software, at the phone number 313-334-8877. The original modem was a Radio Shack non-auto-answer unit and I answered calls manually at first(!) In fall '83 I moved to East Lansing, (Michigan State,) and The Club came with me, and opearted full time in our dorm room, a 517 number. Since there were a lot of calls, I set up a second system, "The Club II", (not "Club II or Club II BBS") on the Detroit number, on a DOS box. The Club and Club II did limited message and file sharing to tie the communities together. In '84 it was up in the dorms again, then I met my wife and we moved into our own place, and it went up on.... 517-372-0004? We were there a year and then picked up a new house, and with it the 517-372-3131 number, so that'd be 1985. I ordered multiple lines, and another TRS-80. A year or so later I rewrote the system on Unix with a multiport card. The Club continued to operate at 372-3131 until December of 2000. The Club II is still up, still at the original 313-334-8877, (though the area code was changed to 248,) and it's also telnet'able at theclub.conklinsystems.com, though there are essentially no callers now. I'm not sure how you would want to map that into your listing format, but as I've maintained a BBS at the 334-8877 number for ~25 years now, I'm pretty sure your existing entries need an update. ;-)" - Terence Conklin As a footnote, I still have The Club's original hardware, that TRS-80 Model I, overclocked 200%, still running strong. On rare occasions, I've had a 'retro' day and allowed people to log in to the original hardware via telnet (through a PC.) At this point though I'm starting to see disks losing sectors, as I believe I'm at the chemical age limit of magenetic media.
313-343-2370 Grosse Pointe, MI	SEMCO CBBS - 110 Baud Only (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
313-343-2375 Grosse Pointe, MI	SEMCO CBBS - 300 Baud Only (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
313-344-8870 Novi, MI	Novi Wood Community School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
313-363-1890 DETROIT ZONE 5, MI	The Hole #2 (1992)	Oldman
	Dytec Member BBS
313-363-4475 DETROIT ZONE 5, MI	The Hole #1 (1992)	Oldman
	Dytec Member BBS
313-383-4520 LINCOLN PARK, MI	Pirate'S Heaven, Pirates Haven (1991-1992)
	Fusion Member BBS
313-388-7675 Lincoln park, Mi	Chaz's Place, Chuck & Laura's, Future World, Logic Control, Midnight Rider, N.I.B., N8QXP BBS, Rising Sun BBS (1994-1997)	Charles Adkins, Ken Pletzer	T.A.G.
	"WOW! I can't believe someone really remember my BBS's!!! I became involved with BBS's via Ham radio, a old friend of mine, mark N8JCF, sold me or gave me a ZOOM 2400 baud modem that he had laying around... and at the time, I was using for packet radio (which was big in ham radio back in the early 1990's) a WYSE Dumb terminal, which was given to me..... and later I used some sort of dumb terminal given to me by mike, N8NQP... anyhow... packet was become quite the bore and Mark suggested that I try online BBS'ing, something I'm sure he regrets to this day...;-P anyhow... I became "smitten" with the Idea of online BBS'ing... however It wasn't the first time I called BBS's.. I used to call them, when I lived in Detroit.. I used to call "the graveyard" a C-64 BBS back in the day.. anyhow... after seeing "Soapbox the BBS!", I decided to run my own... and the rest is history... I never did have alot of callers...as I wasn't much of a Files BBS.My system ran originally on a 8088 IBM XT, with a green screen monitor, 20 meg hard card, 640 base memory and swapped to the floppy drives, everytime the system would do something... I was running FrontDoor 2.02, Gecho 1.00 and T.A.G BBS all from this system... I picked this system up from the Sysop of "Soapbox! The BBS", basically gave me the system for nothing! I ended up selling the blasted thing for some ungodly price... funny thing, my bbs outlasted Soapbox bbs! hehehe... the Original name of my bbs was "Lighting Bolt BBS" Which made it's debut in 1993 or so... Somewhere along the line, I convinced my grandmother to get a loan for over 2K to get me a 486/66 DX2 System.. with 64 megs of Memory, a 540 meg hard drive and sound blaster 16, and a cheapy video card. man, I thought I was the king shit! (and I was for a while...) ran that system with a BBS on it for about 2-3 years. Anyhow... later I upgraded to a Pentium 1 clone machine and run the BBS from that the last name of my board was called jus that... "The Board" and I switched to maximus BBS for a while... and that, for all accounts was a BIG MISTAKE... anyhow... went back to T.A.G. and that's when the BBS scene basically Died! AOL went to $19.95 a month unlimited access and I basically got involved in the internet, and my BBS suffered... so, in or around 1994... I pulled the plug on the BBS for good. Chuck and Laura's was my idea (stupid as it was...) of getting my Ex-Girlfriend involved with the BBS'ing scene... Her handle was "Groominator" (she worked for a dog grooming shop, she was from near jackson, mi) I never did marry here... We broke up and she's remarried and living near Kalamazoo, Mi. I never was able to settle on a name to reflect my personality. I just went with something that worked... I miss the BBS days...(or daze....) and wish they'd make a come back as Telnet BBS's... Thanks for remembering me and bringing back alot of good and....not so good memories for this old Sysop!" - Chuck
313-422-0978 Livonia, MI,	Rambo's HQ, Voice II (1991)	Dale Sirkle	VOICE, Oasis, Tag
	"I was the SysOp of Voice II BBS. The system operated on an Atari 800XL on a homemade software program written in Basic. The software was written by Jim Samples, the SysOp of the original Voice BBS. Jim Samples also wrote the program Word Challenge, which was an exceptionally popular version of the word game in the newspaper. VOICE was an acronym for Voice Of Independent Atari Computer Enthusiasts. I bought his system and software directly from him. I don't remember if he shut down the original VOICE at that time or if he was just upgrading. It was a very good, original software program that was exceptionally easy to modify. I later changed the system over to Oasis software and then again to TAG. At the end of it's lifespan, the BBS was renamed Rambo's HQ." - Dale Sirkle
313-427-8755 Farmington Hills, MI	Enterprise Elite =THG=, Enterprise!, Enterprize Amiga (1986-1998)	Scott Sabo	CNET, TAG, Excalibur
	"Hello, I just found this site and noticed that the information for my BBS was wrong. I started my BBS on a C64 running C-Net, I had a Lt Kernel and 4 SFD's (A lot of space for the day) I don't remember when I switched to a pc, but I ran TAG software for a long time. I got into the AMIGA for awhile and called the board Enterprize Amiga for awhile then when I got into the elite scene, I called the board Enterprize Elite. During the early 90's my ex wife (The Not So Humble Babe) was a member of THG and then she formed USA and joined with Fairlight to form USA/Fairlight cracking group. My board was the eastern HQ for USA and a member site of THG for awhile. All of this came to an end the day that the Feds, Secret Service, and the Farmington Hills police came knocking on the door. While I ended up getting off (Since I had nothing to do with the credit card stuff that she was into)I had to quit running the elite bbs for awhile, I switched to public domain but I ended up allowing elite software after awhile (Old habits die hard)I did continue to run the BBS until I moved and even then I put it back up for a few months but the internet killed the BBS world and I took the system down in 1998. In the last few years, I ran Excalibur software, it looked cool and let me display background pictures for each area on the board, this worked well with my Star Trek theme. I don't know if he will ever see this, But I have to give credit to Vern Looney of the Looney Bin BBS (Long gone C-NET board), he gave me my start as a co-sysop and tought me all about the Detroit bbs world. Despite all we have with the internet, I really miss the good old days of running a bbs and the community that it offered." - Scott Sabo
313-441-0107 Dearborn, MI	CuLaR, CuLaR Systems (1993-1994)	Vector Vox	Renegade
	"I was the sysop. The board was part of RPGNet and was up for the above listed years. Thanks for this blast from the past." - Vector Vox
313-443-0365 Detroit, MI	Financial Users, DeFOG's RBBS-RCP/M (1986-1994)	Bill Rice
	FOG Remote System #26 -- Detroit FOG (FOG FOG Remote System #26 -- Detroit FOG (FOG
313-451-1409 Canton, MI	Cause & Effect, The Digital Underground HQ (1990-1996)	Dan Joseph, Dan Joseph / Aarzak	Telegard/Celerity/PCBoard
	"We shut down on our 6 year anniversary. Good to see these archives." - Dan Joseph
313-463-6660 Detroit, MI	Psycho Zone (1989-1990)	TMPsycho	Cnet DS2
	"The psycho zone was in Mount Clemens, Michigan. TMPsycho is...The Master Psycho. My son and I built this BBS on a Commodore 64. The main reason that I say that you have us on this list is..HORST MANN would compile these BBS numbers from an actual log on and log off. If he could log on to and log off your computer, your BBS would make the HORST MANN LIST. This list was downloadable and was a high point in the creating of a BBS if your number was on the list." - Paul LaCroix
313-464-2064	Comm Breakdown, Communication Breakdown (1992-1997)	Brian Downey	TAG
	"One of the largest boards in the suburbs from 1994-95." - Brian Downey
313-469-5805 Mt Clemens, MI	Mt. Clemens Comm. School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
313-471-6959 Livonia, MI,	PRAISE BOARD, The Praise Board (1987-1995)	Burt LeSarge	Wildcat
	"The Praise Board was the second Christian BBS to be in South East Michigan (I'd give credit to the first but I can't remember the name). In its glory days I had 4 telephone lines incoming, a satellite dish to continually receive hundreds of FIDO Mail topics. Twice daily weather reports (automatically updated via a script I wrote that logged in to what was the beginning of the internet (ALL TEXT) and get the weather info. To top it all off I had 24 CD ROM Disks of free, or shareware software utilizing 4, 6 disk pioneer drive changers on-line, pulse whatever I could cram on my 80 Gig hard drive. As far as I know it was the largest system in Michigan at the time. It consisted of 5 networked, DOS, multi-tasking computers (DeskView) to do background processing and handle live callers. The computers were located on my closet floor (grin). I averaged over 100 calls per day, and to think that was alot back then. Now my Websites receive thousands of hits per day. Those were the days!" - Burt LeSarge
313-476-6764 Livonia, MI	Tower of High Sorcery (1988-1994)	Scott Rogers aka Raistlin	TAG, Renegade, MajorBBS
	"The Elite Boards of Elite Boards, aka the board that is so private you cant call it. That and the phone # changed alot because of call fowarding. Illegal stuff? Not really, just trying to be as sneaky as possible. Had lots of pirated games and XXX files on there you know:) FOr those 75-100 people that had accounts it was an interesting blend of folks who called in on one of our fowarding #'s we had installed at my CoSysOps houses. The # listed here was the real # which only a few people actually had. I enjoyed running the BBS, but had to take it down alot unfortunately because I was still in high school at the time and didn't have a computer of my own, like now. So in an effort to relive the old days I started the Tower again online tohs.synchro.net is the telnet code. Although Synchronet is not the same as the other softwares I used to run, it enables the user do still get the feel of the BBS as it used to be. There were many Tower of HIGH Sorcerys in the country. I remember once I got the major BBS running in the later years with a few phone lines and was able to link to other systems, so I had to be called 'The REAL' Tower of high sorcery. What a battle it was in those days. Looking over this list, remembering how many of these I was a member of was unbelievable. Wishing that these people would put up BBS's online would make it all worth while. Thanks for the memories!" - Scott Rogers
313-478-7673 DETROIT ZONE 6, MI	Strawberry Fields (1993-1997)	Dan Boujoulian (Sgt. Pepper, Augie, Cereal Killer)	T.A.G.
	"Users Nostalgia page : http://www.visualnoiz.com/BBS/Nostalgia.htm Strawberry Fields Users Forum: http://www.bbsmates.com/forums.asp?gid=146904 " - Dan Boujoulian
313-478-8922 Livonia, MI	CDS BBS, CDS Mega, CDS Mega BBS, CDS MEGA BBS (1992-1995)	Burt LeSarge	Wildcat
	"The CDS MEGA BBS was operated by the owner of Custom Designed Systems, Inc. Burt LeSarge CDS built & serviced custom designed computer systems from the component level and serviced companies like Ford, Chrysler, Isuzu & hundreds of others. This gave the BBS an unusual advantage by constructing a system with the latest cutting edge technologies of the time at wholesale prices. For perspective, an 80 "MEG" hard drive was $1000 at the time. Although the BBS was established to promote the company it represented; it was in place more as a result of passion for the computer revolution that was taking place at that time than to generate new clients, although it did that too. So... that explains the "CDS" part of the name. The MEGA half of the name came from the number of free Downloads, email, FIDO NET Mail and incoming phone lines available on the BBS. Having "four" 6 disk Pioneer drive changers for a total of 24 CD ROM's live on-line plus a humongous 80 MEG Hard drive; the 2012 equal to a 3 TB Hard Drive. Callers would often spend hours just looking through the data base of names of files available. As we all know now, the power a network interface like an RJ-45 or wi-fi brings to a PC over a single user modem is enormous and is the largest contributing factor hardware wise as to the demise of the BBS revolution. Makes one wonder where we will be in another 20 years. Beam Me Up Jesus! (Date wrote: 7-26-12)" - Burt LeSarge
313-483-0070 Ypsilanti, MI	RCP/M RBBS Schooner Cove, Schooner Cove (Ypsilanti) RCP/M (1983-1985)	Michael P Wesley	RBBS, BYE
	"Ran on a Xerox 820! CP/M. Worked on ZCPR public domain version of CPM. (customizations) Distributed CPM User Group files. Helped many a user get connected by customizing MODEM software for them (written in ASM and at their homes) They wanted to experience the BBS world. Exchanged messages with Ward Christenson alot concerning status of XMODEM and other work he was doing. Shutdown when the BBS popularity was more than I could handle as a hobby in my spare time. Thanks for remembering!" - Michael P. Wesley
313-525-8575 Livonia, MI	The Electronic Miasma (1995-1996)	Thomas Ciko	Renegade
	"The board ran on an IBM 386 with 210 MB of hard disk space. File library highlights were Phrack archives, The Anarchist Cookbook, some Apogee games, and install disks for Windows 95. The doors Usurper and LORD were also available." - Thomas Ciko
313-532-8410 Redford Township, MI	V O I C E, V.o.i.c.e., V.o.i.c.e. Bbs, Voice (1983-1997)	Jim Samples, The Editor - Jim Samples	Spitfire , Highly modified A.M.I.S, A.M.I.S.
	"I picked up the free AMIS software as a 10k download that very basically allowed incoming phone calls at 300bd. When I was finished with the software it was over 200k and had to be split and loaded in as modules. It had grown into probably the first (or at least one of the few) Bbs's that was a Multi-line Bbs with MultiChat and online games. All written by me. I never told anyone how I accomplished such a large program (for that time) to load so quickly, but at the time I created three 1 meg ramdisks on three Atari SEs and that's where everything resided. Later 3 Other Bbs's ran my system as well. Big Al at The Locker Room, Don at The Boiler Room, and Dale Sirkle at Rambo's HQ. I think Dale was only 12 at the time. Good for him. V.o.i.c.e. Bbs was the of the longest running Bbs's in Michigan. Running for 13 years from '83 until '97, and multiplexed through three computers. The good old days." - Jim Samples
313-548-4754	Dark Shadows, SATAN'S PLACE #1 (1992-1995)
	Legend Member BBS
313-563-6177 Inkster, MI	Robot Factory, The Robot Factory (1982-2004)	Mr. Robot, Ragnar
	"This BBS was run by my father (Ragnar) and myself (Mr.Robot). We started with a 110bps modem and only running part of the day. we quickly realized we needed to be up 24 hours and my father had a second line installed into the house (313-563-6177) to dedicate to the operation of the BBS. I was young, early teens in the beginning. My father did most of the software writing and I did a lot of the hardware building and site maintenance. We had a short run where 2 friends tried to run The Robot Factory West and The Robot Factory East. The phone numbers escape me as this was over 20 years ago. They did not last long as they realized they did not have the drive and desire to run the sites. There are many great memories with running the BBS and being part of the Pre-Internet." - Mr. Robot
313-582-6702 Dearborn, MI	The Gate, The Gate BBS (1991-1994)	The Gatekeeper	TAG
	"I am the SysOp of the former BBS in the Detroit area known as The Gate. I think it is a great thing you are doing here. How I would love to make contact with all of the friends I made on the BBS's. Anyway, please add my name and email to my listing. Bill Lewis - mrbilluno@yahoo.com I appreciate it!!"
313-583-3231 Royal Oak, MI	Guild Grey Bandit , Owl's Nest, Guild of the Grey Bandit (1991-1992)	Sysop: Grey Owl Co-SysOp: Time Bandit
	I was the cosysop. My handle was Time Bandit. It used to be called the Owl's Nest after the Sysop John (Grey Owl) but we played D&D and formed a guild and he renamed it to ""Guild of the Grey Bandit"" in that spirit
313-585-3893 Troy, MI	Peanut Gallery (1986-1988)	Brian Mintz	Fidonet
	"Our BBS ran on and was dedicated to supporting the IBM-PCjr. PEANUTgallery was a membership organization that sold peripherals for the PCjr. The name was based on the original code name for the first real home computer - PEANUT. I remember sysop chats beeping at me late at night in my bedroom :-) Thanks for the memory." - Brian Mintz
313-663-4173 Ann Arbor, MI	Hal 9000, Hal 9000 , HAL 9000 BBS (1988-1996)	Victor Volkman, Victor R Volkman	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Ann Arbor, Michigan since 03/88. Sysop: Victor R Volkman. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 10 lines on 80486 with 2800 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $30 Optional fee. Archives of all Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) software on line. Large SciFi GIF collection. Internet, Usenet e-mail and newsgroups from around the world. Special file areas devoted to Star Trek and The Prisoner TV shows and much more.
313-668-2578 Ann Arbor, Michigan	Sounds of Silence (1995-1997)	Leviathan (Zach Williams)	Renegade
	"My e-mail address now is admin@ztnet.com If you ever visited my board, drop a line! I would love to hear from a few old friends. I enjoyed every day of running that board, and regretted the day I took it down for a long time. :( I suppose real life and everything else had to come into play someday. Thanks for all the good times." - Leviathan"
313-687-0154 Clio, MI	The Forgotten Realm (1992-1993)	Craig Buike	Telegard
	"I am surprised to see this historical record. Glad to see that someone has done this. I started the BBS while in high school. Ran it on a 12/286 with 40MB hard drive! Eventually lost interest in maintaining the BBS (became more interested in spending that time with girls!). It was a great experience. I kind of miss the BBS hopping I used to do." - Craig Buike
313-693-9257 Lake Orion, MI	Cat's Meow, The Cat's Meow (1989-1991)	Catherine Lahti (Kitty)	TAG
	"Hi, great to see the old site listed! It was a sad day when I took it down. I'm still friends with some of my BBS friends. I saw someone else commenting on missing the sense of community -- I totally agree! I still remember the first BBS party I hosted at my house and how cool it was to meet all my friends in person! The BBS was a major part of my life! I'm still around..." - Kitty
313-698-1728 DETROIT ZONE 5, MI	Mad House, MAD HOUSE (1992-1995)	Armitage
	Independent Member BBS
313-698-4824 DETROIT ZONE 5, MI	Sawblade (1991-1992)
	"Sawblade BBS started around 1986 (I was in 6th grade) on a Commodore 64 with an SFD1001 and 1541 drive running C-Net 11.x software at 1200 baud. A few hardware changes and I eventually got a 20 megabyte Lt Kernal. Eventually moved to Image software when it came out. 2400 baud, then eventually 9600 and 14,400. Later got a 50 megabyte drive for the Lt Kernal. Sawblade started in Waterford, 360-4337, and in the summer of 1990 moved to White Lake and the new number was 698-4824. During the good days of Commodore BBSs, Sawblade was rarely idle. Pretty active message boards and a good selection of files to download. Active to the point, that i had to limit time allowed online, and disallow 300 baud downloads.. I became good friends with my CoSysOp, Rad Brad, whom I've maintained a friendship with over the decades. We recently reconnected and have gone down the rabbit hole of.. a couple of young teenage boys who spent their days playing on the commodore computers. Sawblade ran until I moved out of my parents house in 1996. By the mid 1990s, the board was very slow and only got a few calls per day. What a great time to run a Commodore BBS. Thankful for the experience, and for all the people" - Shane Klug
313-721-0952 Westland, MI	Auction Pit, The Auction Pit BBS, The AuctionPit (1992-1999)	George Sanders, Queue	Renegade
	"Started out running Tag, switched to Renegade, and then switched near the end to Oblivion. Games featured were Lord, Solitaire, Duck Hunt, Poker, Slots, typical BBS games of the era, multi-line chat, warez (when warez wasn't porn and everyone knew what "elite" REALLY meant.)" - Queue
313-754-1131 DETROIT ZONE 5, MI	Tony's Corner, Tony's Corner RBBS, Tony’s Corner, TONY'S CORNER (1984-1995)	Tony Bauman, Tony-Bauman, Horst Mann
	List of BBS List Keepers: Detroit Area 313/Horst Mann ListKeeper: Detroit Area 313
313-756-6483 Warren, MI	Computers Inc, Computers Inc. Data System (CIDS), Computers Incorporated (1987-1994)	Raymond Roney (Fisherman)	Cnet 10.0 then Image 1.x
	"Started off running the BBS on two Commodore FDDs. Later added a 20MB (HUGE!) Lt. Kernal Hard Drive & we thought "We'll never fill up 20MBs!". It was one of the most popular BBS's in Metro Detroit and it even competed with some of the multi-line BBS's of the day. It was rare that it wasn't busy (which was good and bad--bad only because I needed to check E-Mail & Such). We had Online Gaming, Message Boards, and many many files for download. It was a fun and exciting time in the world of Computers and I'd do it again if I could." - Raymond Roney
313-757-0065 Warren, MI	Castle Wolfenstein (1985-1986)	Steve Reschke, Master Saboteur (Sabby)	Atari BBS, AMIS by N.A.S.A.
	"We rocked!" - Sabby
313-772-6442 SOUTHFIELD, MI	BBS Name, Skynet, Sycom Amiga, Sycom Design Software (1991-1995)	Tom Dietz
	Product: BBS EXCELSIOR! Pro
313-781-2883 Westland, MI	Hell On Earth (1991)	Michael	T.A.G., Renegade, Iniquity
	"I was the sysop of Hell on Earth. I was only in my early teens and had a lot of help from the 313 community in setting up my BBS. It went live Christmas Eve of `91 and I can still remember the handle of my first caller: Pogo. It was a great time in computing and I know we're all nostalgic for it. I'm rebuilding my original Compuadd 286 which I first used for the BBS before moving on to a 386. Thank you for maintaining this list!" - Michael
313-794-4305 Algonac, MI	Motor City Underground (1984-1987)	Motor City Madman	CNET
	"In addition to running this BBS, I was the author of Phone Man term software for the Commodore 64." - The Motor City Madman
313-828-3854 Troy, MI	The Kid Klub, TROY AMIGA (1985-1991)	Steve Kuo	C-64 C-Net and self developed Amiga A-Net
	"BBS first started off as The Kid Klub BBS running on C-64 with one floppy drive. Later an SFD-1001 (over 1 Meg!) floppy drive was added. After the C-64 to Amiga transition, I developed my own BBS software (informally named A-Net). The Kid Klub was then renamed to Troy Amiga BBS. The new BBS featured a 20 Meg hard drive. Sometime 1991 the hard drive finally quit and that was the end of my BBS hosting days." - Steve Kuo
313-839-4267 DETROIT, MI	ag0ny, Killing Fields (1995-1996)	Christopher Anderson, Azrael and Tourian, Chris Anderson	Oblivion/2, Renegade
	"I (Azrael) ran this board for a year, and made it into one of 313's two ANSI art scene boards. About half of the 750MB hard drive it resided on was filled with art packs, files which were, at best, unpopular with the 313 people, who were primarily interested in warez. Because of that, the board only lasted a year, and when I took it down in January 1996, it was getting about three calls a week. It was much fun to administer, though. " - Azrael
313-841-7546 Detroit, Mi	In the Flesh (1986-1989)	Harold Willison	TAG
	"This was a private BBS. The Community of BBS'ers in Detroit was quite large. There were quite a few folks dialing in to all the local bbs's but only a few who actually knew what was going on. Most of the public BBS's had a hidden section that you could get to if you knew one of the sysops. My BBS was where the sysops were hanging out. We had a database of all the users, the names and phone numbers they used when they filled out their registration. It was through this database that we were able to identify when a local news persona set up a BBS dedicated to hacking/phreaking as a sting operation. You want it raw? You had to call In The Flesh. 313.841.SKIN." - Harold Willison
313-858-1873 Pontiac, MI	CMS School Net, Oakland County Schools (1990-1993)
	FrEdMail System
313-881-4033 Harper Woods, MI	Over-Look Hotel, The Overlook Hotel (1984-1986)	Mr. Bad, Device Nak	Atari Amis
	"I was the SysOp.... Mr. Bad was my "original" handle, but changed when I went 24/7 with the BBS. 2nd BBS in Michigan to be 2400BPS.... (Crazyhouse was the first)." - Device Nak
313-887-7429 Highland, MI	FIDO #69 Sailboard, Sailboard, Sailboard BBS, The Sailboard (1984-1986)	Jim Kovalsky	RBBS/FIDO
	"Those were the days of fighting with GTE to try and keep my phone line working! I remember having my XT with an Amdek amber monitor, a 15Mb external drive and a TRUE Hayes 2400B modem! That was what $4,000 would get... Thanks for the memories!" - Jim Kovalsky
313-949-6745 Mt. Clemens, MI	MicroChip , Microchip RBBS, The Microchip, Microchip BBS (1986-1994)	Dave Marker
	Downloads for all computers Downloads for all computers
313-952-5624 SOUTHFIELD, MI	Project D (1991-1992)	Dan Carcone
	Energy Member BBS
313-953-8666 Livonia, MI	Adventure Source, AdventureSource (1994-1995)	Mark Williams	MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Livonia, Michigan since 06/94. Sysop: Mark Williams. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 8 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1200 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. $50 Annual fee. Dedicated to Kids of any ages. No adult files, supervised. Have your kids dial-up! Thousands of shareware titles - sci-fi, arcade, adventure, educational games. RIP fully supported. Teleconference, E-Mail, and online games. Free trial & free downloads!
313-977-3739 DETROIT ZONE 5, MI	M.C.U.G. Anchor, MCUG Anchor (1990-1992)
	"The MCUG Anchor BBS listed @ 313 977-3739 was started by me and the Michigan Commodore 64 User Group (MCUG). Initially I had to start the BBS on my own dime because our steering committee fought me about it over liabilities. This was in the 1984 time frame. We started out with the BBS 64.3 software written by Steve Punter. Besides myself, our SYSOPs were David Veatch and John Little. We had several phone numbers in adjacent calling areas pointing to the BBS main number (586) 977-3739 here in Sterling Heights so people from Roseville, Detroit, Mt. Clemens and surrounding areas could make local calls to it. As a result of the BBS our User Group grew to over 500 members (that's why I started the BBS, I knew it would drive our membership). The BBS and our group grew so popular we had many uploaded programs posted on the BBS for download. We had so many programs uploaded (written by members) that we had a "disk of the month" at our user group meetings based on the best quality uploads to the BBS. I still have hard copy lists of the program names that I am looking at as I write this that I can scan in and send to you if you would like. This was all run on a Commodore 64 and an external modem. After 1985 I left the User Group to run for Congress and before I left the group I passed along the BBS to David Veatch, John Little and the late Art Farazutti to run in my absence. As I understand it, the BBS continued to serve users through the early to middle 1990s." - Bill Osipoff
313-987-6637 DETROIT ZONE 1, MI	Wild Warez, WILD WAREZ (1992-1995)	Gazoo
	Skid Row Member BBS
313-994-6333 Ann Arbor, MI	M-Net, MNet RBBS (1983-1988)
	"M-Net is still up and running, and I still occasionally visit, though I think it's 100% telnet/ssh access now. I don't think they've had dial-in access for a few years now. I used a few BBSes here and there, over the years, but m-net was the first truly multi-user environment I came across. In it's dial-in heyday, there were something like 15 dial-ins, I think. This was before the internet took off, and before we had any kind of internet connectivity. But, we would get people dialing in from all over the world, cause, at the time, it was possible to telnet to merit.edu and "grab" a dial-out modem in Ann Arbor, and dial out to a local AA number. So, we'd get people from all over, dialing in to m-net. "FYI, several years ago, m-net merged w/ another BBS listed here, called Arbornet. As a result of that merger, m-net is reachable to this day, at m-net.arbornet.org, or just arbornet.org. "Finally, a good history of on-line conferencing in the Ann Arbor area can be found at: http://www.unixpapa.com/conf/history.html It mentions m-net, arbornet, and a few other systems as well." - Mark J. Bobak
313-996-5053 Ann Arbor, MI,	The Nervous System (1987-1990)	Rich Weinkauf	FIDO
	"What a pleasant surprise to find a reference to my old BBS out here on the net. I ran The Nervous System out of my office at Parke-Davis in Ann Arbor, providing mainly information on C programming and systems development (I was a systems analyst at the time). "I was shut down unexpectedly one day when I was called into the MIS Director's office- a "Tiger Team" hired to find system security vulnerabilities had discovered my modem hooked to a work number, and I was busted. Despite my explanations and block diagrams showing the system had no physical connection to our mainframe and network, they said I could either disconnect the modem or they would escort me to my car. I chose to continue working there and pulled the plug. "That was a fun time- when BBS sytems evoked an atmosphere while you were connected. Each was infused with the sysop's personality. And perhaps because they were text-based, the picture a user conjured up in their mind while connected was far more personal than today's graphic-intensive web experiences." - Rich Weinkauf
313-996-8336 Saline, MI	The 'Sci-Fi' BBS (1989-1996)	StarFleet (ala Lewis Donofrio)
	"I ran this two-line (line two was 313-944-0409) fidonet memeber board with tradewars online games and other applications that I thought others would enjoy. I hadda few memebers who sent in donations but it was mostly an expensise hobby but I got a chance to meet some great sys-op's from the 313/734 (they change area codes. Thanks for the thoughts though the years. Lewis (Starfleet) Donofrio going QRS....L8r $#@! No Carrier." - Lewis Donofrio
314-227-4542 St Louis, MO	Game Grid (1984)
	"I found an old calendar and it lists January 18, 1984 as the first day of Game Grid, and lists the phone number as 227-4542. At the time, the 227 prefix was probably Ballwin MO, but that's in the St Louis area. I don't recall anything else about it, but I bet it was one of my hacker buddies from Parkway West High School who ran it. I presume the name Game Grid comes from the movie TRON which came out in 1983." - Anonymous
314-240-7547 O`FALLON, MO	Mill Dog BBS, Mill Dog BBS -28.8 Only, Mill Dog BBS 28.8 Only, Skip's Doghouse (1994-1996)	Skip Attaway
	Woof!
314-257-4090 Pacific, MO	FishNet Node One (1987-1989)	FishHead	Custom
	"Ran on a TRS-80 Model IV with 4 floppies. Written entirely in assembly language by Paul Becker. Lightning destroyed its modem in 1989 and the board was retired." - FishHead
314-278-6241 St. Peters, MO	-=Inner Circle=-, -=Inner Circle=- (1985-1987)	Mike Seiler
	"Wow! This list is sooo cool! For some reason I was thinking back about The Lonely Guy BBS. This guy wrote his own BBS software, and sold it. I decided to purchase this software, and open my own BBS on my Commodore 64. I was shocked to see someone had remembered my BBS and had it added to your list....very cool. I also recognized many BBS's that I visited from your list. I also remember having a Wargames dialer that I would run throughout the night looking for other modem signals. I can't remember the software I used - might still have it - but it was written by The Lonely Guy BBS, and might be called such. A friend of mine had even created a "fantasy" WWF League and we had added it to the BBS. Those were some fun times!" - Mike Seiler
314-296-2628 Imperial, MO	Zero Hour (1994-1997)	Pitt	Iniquity
	"This was an ansi art BBS. It was the WHQ for FiRM (Freaks in Revolutionary Modding)and the WHQ for gravity (ansi art group)." - Pitt
314-296-7221 MAXVILLE, MO	Bong City, CyberSpace: 2001, Late Night and Mid-Day BBS (1993)	Pot-Head
	"You can find me at ariesgeek@ariesgeek.com if any of my old BBS acquaintances see it and want to e-mail me." - Danny
314-334-6359 Cape Giradeau, MO	Dutchie Help, Morgana, Micro Tech BBS (1988-1993)	Mike Bryeans, Micro Tech
	Support for OSIRIS Multiline BBS Software - IRIS Mail
314-343-8062 High Ridge, MO	Video Game Underground (VGU) (1992-1994)	Night Stalker, Nefarious	WWIV
	"Oh how I wish I could find my backup of those crazy ANSI opening screens I spent so many hours ripping off & modifying. After discovering my handle was not only used by someone else nearby, but the "handle" of a notorious murderer, I changed it to Nefarious. And a big "Long Time No See" to S&V, Smoldering Wig, and the sysops there with whom I enjoyed some good times in the real world. Those were the days." - Nefarious
314-391-5197 Ballwin, MO	The Mirage (1986-1989)	Blackhawk	Custom Written - Commodore 128
	"The Mirage was loosely affiliated with The Oasis... We called the group "SaharaNet BBSs", and there was one other in St. Charles whose name I don't remember [The Caravan, maybe?]. This BBS first ran on a Commodore 64 and later on a 128. Written in BASIC and lots of Machine Language, it ran on a single floppy drive. I particularly remember one gal called Mission Control, and a couple of odd fellows like Gandalf, Gryphon and a few others. I still have the old disks...somewhere... What I wouldn't give to be able to boot those and go read some 15 year old messages! Typical things closed it down... Mostly just paying that darned monthly phone bill. Wow... Those were the days, when 1200 baud was considered FAST!" - Blackhawk
314-429-2456 Saint Louis, MO	Hobby Shop BBS, New Node, The Hobby Shop, The Hobby Shop BBS (1993-1998)	Todd Young	Hermes
	"The Hobby Shop BBS was run on Hermes then upgraded to NovaLink and finally upgraded to FirstClass. It was one of only Three Macintosh BBS's serving the Macintosh Community. We have a message forum: http://www.thehobbyshopbbs.com. We also carried FidoNet, and had online games. I was the Sysop: Todd Young." - Todd Young
314-429-7863 Overland, MO	Captain Howdy's Hideout, Dark Side of the Moon - Phase II, Fresh Air BBS, Net Echo Co-ord, Network 23, The Dark Side of the Moon-PHASE II, The Hideout, Darkside of the Moon (1986-1992)	Matt Henry, Matthew G. Henry, Matthew Henry	Opus
	"The BBS was known under all of the following names: Captain Howdy's Hideout (ran under WWIV software), The Hideout (ran under WWIV software), Dark Side of the Moon (WWIV), Opus Network 23 (Opus), Dark Side of the Moon - Phase II (Opus), Fresh Air BBS (Opus)." - Matt Henry
314-464-3794 Barnhart, MO	VINET BBS, Vinet BBS (Mon-Sat 24 hrs) (1994-1995)	Mary Voss
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Barnhart, Missouri since 06/94. Sysop: Mary Voss. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 345 MB storage. Infotel at 14400 bps. $50.00 Annual fee. Vinet BBS offers a variety of information, including Classified Ad's, Internet Mail, Contests, Teleconferencing, Games, Program files, and more. Try our 30 day free trial offer and decide for yourself.
314-532-8360 Chesterfield, MO	Cooter Poker, The Cooter Poker (1993-1996)	Nivek	wwiv
	"I just still wish i had my uncomplied or even the complied version of my site, lol...." - Nivek
314-576-6232 Maryland Heights, MO	Spider's Web, The Spider's Web (1984-1988)	The Tarantula	GBBS
	"I was the SysOp of this BBS (my name's Chris Crandall). It ran on an Apple //c with a single floppy drive. Bought the software from some random guy in Colorado (I think). Always dreamed of adding a 2nd floppy drive to allow for more messages per board. My friends and I tried programming some little online games onto it but were never really successful. WWIV came to dominate BBSes in St. Louis around this time and the GBBS software kind of sucked anyhow. I did meet my girlfriend of 5.5 years by breaking into her session to chat. Not sure that was a good experience when all is said and done. The Junk Drawer was probably the best and longest-standing BBS in the area." - The Tarantula
314-579-0700 SAINT LOUIS CRE, MO	Offworld, Offworld (E-Mail to Sysop), Offworld BBS (1993-1994)	Joey Jay
	List of BBS List Keepers: St. Louis AC 314/Beth Brooks/Phydeaux Soft
314-588-0780 SAINT LOUIS CHE, MO	Fire Escape's BBS, Fire Escape's BBS (New #) (1999-2004)	Fire Escape, Beth Brooks	Wildcat Interactive Net Server
	Home of the 314 BBS Directory (Source for some BBSes on this List)
314-631-7108 St. Louis, MO	Dust in the Wind, The Land Forgotten, Tito's Disco & Tatoo Parlor, Wide World of Cheese (1993-1997)	Tito, TheTotal Package	WWIV
	"I ran this board from the middle of my freshman year of high school until I left for college in August of '97. At one time we were one of the strongest one-line boards in the St. Louis area, To this day I'm still good friends with several people from that time period. Good times I tell you." - TheTotal Package
314-721-8346 University City, MO	Sector Exchange, The Dark Tower (1983-1992)	Brady Shea	FoReM
	Hi, Jason. Site had many names. First name was "The Dark Tower" (iirc). You currently list the last name I used circa 1991/2. Started it on an Atari 400 w/ 300 baud modem in early/mid 80s. Ended on IBM compatible running C++ modded WWIV. Thanks for keeping this page up!! If you ever need hosting help, holler at me. - Brady Shea - 7 Sep 2022 - (bshea@sheacomputers.net)
314-739-5477 Maryland Heights, Mo	The Lost Resort (1988)	Cronus, Red Knight	C-Net v11.0, v12.0
	"It was My BBS. it was up for about 6 months. It had a small but loyal following. I have spotty records that can be available upon request. It was quite cool coming home from school (I was 16), and having a community waiting for you when coming home. Many factors contributed to it going down. My message base Disk Drive (my Drive 9) was an old 'Blue Chip' clunker that I bought for $50 died,(I replaced it with a borrowed 1571), the added fact that I went through 3 power supplies (because commodore computers couldn't stand the strain. ~ ironically enough, a method that worked to keep the computer from locking up was to crack open the commie's keyboard and point a regular desk fan right onto the chips! what a concept!) I have a picture of that if you'd like.. oh yeah, I even had an anti-board cousin.. some 27 year old loser (claimed he was anyway, could have been 16 like me (running a BBS up in Spanish lake, Mo.) dedicated to making my life hell.. downing my board, calling the phone company & getting my phone number changed, all sorts of things.. funny that. I have buffer logs of his BBS & not mine. :S go figure." - Cronus
314-741-9505 SPANISH LAKE, MO	Fire Escape's BBS Direct. HQ, Fire Escape's BBS Directory, Fire Escape's BBS Directory HQ, Fire Escape's Directory H.Q., Fire Escape's Directory HQ, Fire Escape's HQ (1993-1999)	Fire Escape, Beth Brooks	TriBBS
	ListKeeper: St. Louis AC 314
314-770-2342 St. Louis, MO	Show Me BBS, The Shoe-Me BB, SHOW-ME BBS, The Shoe-Me 8B (1995-1996)	Bob Patel	Wildcat , Wildcat 4.1
	SHOW-ME BBS, 314,770.2342, One of the fastest growing BBSs in St, Louis. Special discounts on CDRoms. Free access. Running Wildcat 4.1. Hayes 28.8 modems, 17+ Gigs online. Serving the Adult audience since 1992. Call today. - BBS Magazine October 1995
314-771-7300 SAINT LOUIS, MO	Affinity BBS, Affinity BBS (New #) (1999)	Aqualung	DLX
	Adult BBS, Pay System
314-831-7368 Florissant, MO	T.E.N. (Technology Education Net) (1993)
	FrEdMail System
314-831-7989 Florissant, MO	Dog Pound BBS, The Dog Pound (1987-1991)	Matt Smith	highly modified WWIV
	"Was a C64 BBS prior to WWIV upgrade." - Matt Smith
314-831-9255 FLORISSANT, MO	Above The Law (1992)	Nucleus
	Submission Member BBS
314-838-7784 St. Louis, MO	ABBS St. Louis, St. Louis Forum 80 (1980-1983)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
314-849-3171 St Louis, MO	Great White North, NET-WORKS Great White North, The Great White North (1983-1986)	The Hosehead	NET-WORKS, Network on an Apple II+ clone
	"The Great White North was based on the Second City Television program characters, Bob and Doug McKenzie, who had a faux community access program on this comedy show. These two Canadian "brothers" would sit around in toques, drink beer, and eat donuts while insulting each other as "Hoseheads or Hosers." The BBS was hosted in an apartment in a St. Louis suburb by an orthodontic resident from Saint Louis University. As the BBS was hosted on a standalone Apple II+ "clone" with a 4 Meg floppy disk changer, it was up 24/7. The mailbox would tell you if you had "beers in the cooler" and besides the typical discussions (where plenty of "hoser speak" was used), a continuing story thread permitted users to add a few paragraphs to the story and take it anywhere they wanted to go. The number of users grew exceeding fast and an excursion with the Sysop, The Hosehead, was organized to White Castle and later a picnic. Tee shirts were designed and a booklet filled with odds stuff and collected materials from the website was even created for some of the interested users. Sadly, the beloved GWN died during the first year that the Sysop had moved to Michigan (almost to the real Great White North) and began straightening teeth." - The Hosehead
314-886-2784 Columbia, MO	Columbia Public Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
314-892-0797 Mehlville, mo	Network 23, The Coliseum (1986-1988)	Russ Chott (Mr. Spock), MijaCogeo (Russ Chott)	C-net 10.0, 11.0, C-Net 12.0
	"A good BBS. it had a "Full 1/2 meg online!" Which meant 2 commie 1571's ('cause they could be double-sided) Russ also ran "Network 23" on the same phone number, It was C-Net 12.0."
314-894-5592 St. Louis, MO	RCET's FrEdMail, Regional Consortium (1993)	Barb Clements
	FrEdMail System
314-894-9271 St. Louis, MO	Deja Vu, Deja Vu BBS South (1992-1998)	ParaPsykotic, ParaPsykotic & Swami, ParaPsykotic (aka Tony Bossaller)	Color64 BBS, Color 64, Color 128
	"The system ran a highly modified Color 64 system and eventually upgraded to a Color 64 V128 setup which was just as modified. The system ran mostly independent while I was in college which is where the "South" moniker came from, but there never were any other Deja Vu systems. At the closure time, it had 16 Megs of memory, 80 Megs of HD storage but was still at 2400bps as the Swiftlink would not work properly." - Tony Bossaller
314-938-6288 Eureka, MO	The Twilight Zone, Twilight Zone (1983-1987)	Joe Wolf	Networks modified by Joe Wolf
	"One of the first BBS's in the St. Louis, MO area." - Joe Wolf
314-942-4057 ANTONIA, MO	NightOwl BBS, The Night Owl BBS (1993-1999)	Gary Johnson	Wildcat Interactive Net Server
	Used ISDN to allow 99 incoming phone lines
314-966-8653 St. Louis, MO	Tandy Terminal	Tom Wyrick	Custom
	"The first BBS I ran was "Tandy Terminal", which you have in the list, but don't have my name (or anyone else's) listed beside it. The Tandy Terminal ran on a Radio Shack/Tandy Color Computer 2, using software I wrote myself. A couple other people in the St. Louis, Missouri area purchased copies of this software and ran their own BBS's using it. I named this custom software "Dial-a-Color". Later, this board changed into "The File Cabinet", which originally ran from the same phone number as listed for Tandy Terminal, but was run on a PC compatible using Telegard, and later, the Renegade BBS package. Next, I moved into an apartment in the Spanish Lake area, and set my BBS back up as "The File Cabinet II", running VBBS software. This one is in also your list." - Tom Wyrick (King TJ)
314-997-5212 St Louis, MO	AE Line: MRH, Hollywood & Vine, Hollywood and Vine, AE LINE: MRH (1982-1985)	Mr. Hollywood, Mr Hollywood	AE (Ascii Express)
	"Apple ][+ running AE, Novation AppleCat 1200 Baud Modem, 2 Apple floppy drives + 16 KB ramdisk. Mostly kracked arcade-style games for Apple ][, but also contained a file which listed other working BBS phone numbers." - Mr. Hollywood "You already have a listing for this BBS, but I found an old calendar and it lists January 27, 1984 as the first day for the Hollywood & Vine BBS which I ran. I left town to go to college in fall of 1984, so I presume it only ran until I left, which was September 1984. The other info you have listed for the BBS seems correct, though I think the software was properly titled ASCII Express II (AE II) or ASCII Express Pro (AE Pro). I don't recall which version I used." - Anonymous
315-457-3144 Liverpool, NY	PMS - Liverpool, The Night Shift at Liverpool Public Library (1985-1989)	Jean Armour Polly, Rick Fensterer	PMS
	""The Night Shift"" came up Jan 26, 1985 and was the first BBS in a public library east of Chicago. We ran it on an Apple ][+ with several disk drives and 1200 baud Hayes modem. In those days there were few public outlets where hobbyists could experiment with telecoms, and most were run by individual enthusiasts. We thought it was time for a public entity to step in and offer online service and discussion space. We averaged about 1,000 calls a month, had an active following, and even organized an off-line picnic! We closed the board sometime in 1989 when so many other commercial offerings became available. The library had opened public computers for use as early as 1981, a circulating software collection in 1984, the BBS in 1985, and full-fledged computer lab by 1987. In 1991 we acquired a SLIP connection to the Internet, and started mediated public access to it in 1992. This was the first, or one of the first, public access Internet ""on-ramps"" in the world and changed the public library paradigm forever, making public internet access a core library service."
315-471-2970 Syracuse, NY	Midnight Auto Parts, Midnight Auto Parts BBS, N.A.S.I.X., nasix (1987-1998)	Patrick J. Gleason	Oracomm, Bulletron
	"It went on-line for the first time on October 15, 1987 and is still operating today, though in an evolved form. In 1994 we added TELNET access to the traditional compliment of dial-up modems, and in 1995, added HTTP access. In 1998, the traditional dial-up phone lines were discontinued, and in 2001, the TELNET interface was turned off, but the HTTP interface continues to this very day. This evening, I (the author of the software that runs Midnight Auto Parts BBS) am mentally debating switching back to dial-up access only, as a measure to ensure greater privacy and anonymity for the end-users." - Patrick J. Gleason
315-472-5726 Syracuse, NY	Fear (1991-1997)	dlZ	Renegade
	"This was my BBS. I ran it until I moved in 1997 and had to give up the phone number. I ran a few different BBS packages over the years, which I tended to highly modify (VBBS with homemade light bars, for example) and I wrote a few simple door programs to supplement features I wasn't happy with (a much more detailed one liners was the only one I supported for any amount of time.) Renegade was the software I used longest. This BBS was completely anonymous, not requiring any real registration other than a handle. All accounts were immediately active with a 60 min time limit and no d/l quota. Many sections of the BBS allowed completely anonymous posting. The file sections were almost all text based, and I still have an archive of a large amount of the files." - dIZ
315-492-9071 Syracuse, NY	ChipHead BBS, Chiphead's Delight (1987-1989)	David N. Junod	Fido
	"This board was Amiga Only. I still have the computer & hard-drive last used when this board was shutdown when I moved to Malvern PA to work for Commodore on the Amiga OS."
315-635-2494 BALDWINSVILLE, NY	CNSHSBBS (1990-1992)	Michael J. Bettua	RemoteAccess
	"I was the sysop of what was a high school BBS. I created it, it dissapeared as soon as I left due to lack of an operator from within the school. The actual number of the BBS had is not available. As for whether it is obtainable through more research I do not know. As for Bytronix BBS [(which is listed in your database!!! :-)], it is gone, but (much to my surprise) not forgotten. Thank you. As for the dates of operation of Bytronix (dial-up) BBS, I'll just stick with what you have on record, although I do know that the time period was longer then what you have listed. However, it was (unfortunately) frequently down for reasons beyond my control. For the record, Bytronix Dial-UP BBS will return. Old Style. When and for how long I do not know. But it will be back in one form or another with at least one dial up phone line. More if enough interest can be generated." - Mike Bettua
315-638-1528 Baldwinsville, NY	The Condo BBS (1989-1993)	Bob Troy	Colorama, CEBBS, Searchlight
	Thanks so much for compiling all this information from the golden years of home computing.
315-673-4894 Marcellus, NY	ShockWave Rider, Shockwave Rider (1986-1995)	Eric Larson	Opus, Remote BBS, FrontDoor
	"This BBS spanned the time from when I first became interested in such things until I had to relocate to NJ due to my job being relocated. It was a file intensive single line system running on Fidonet serving the Macintosh community. After moving to NJ it really never rebuilt the user community and was shut down after a couple of years. At one time the Berkeley Mac Users Group rated it the number 1 Mac oriented BBS in the country. I still have a collection of post cards from callers from all over the world that visited Shockwave Rider." - Eric Larson
315-675-8161 Bernhards Bay, NY	SuperNature, Supernature (X-ZoTiKS Home Support) (1994-1997)	Justin Yeddo	X-ZoTiKS
	"I ran a small support board for an experimental WWIV/Telegard "hack" (based on TG 2.5g and some WWIV s/c) between 1994 and 1995. I had about 20 clients of the software across the US and some in Canada. The software was called X-ZoTiKS. The BBS was open to the public as well and I had about 30 or so registered users and an open guest account where people could sign on. A lot of out of towners also called the system because I had probably the hugest collection of BBS software and source codes around. Great times, I miss it." - Justin Yeddo
315-695-4070 Phoenix, NY	Phoenix High School, Phoenix HS, Upstate NY Net2608 NEC (1988-1999)	Larry Curreri, Fred Roberts	OPUS
	"This was a High School BBS which started when Jack Crawford from the Finger Lakes BOCES started what was know as the K-12 Net. Along with the Fido net network, this BBS provided message areas in both the Fido-net network and the K-12 Network. It became the CNY hub for the K12-network and also one of the nodes for the new net2608. It was a dial up system with one line and went off line when the Internet became available." - Larry Curreri
315-732-0371 New Hartford, NY	Paridise Graphix (1994)	Tom Zalewski	Wildcat
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: New Hartford, New York since 04/94. Sysop: Tom Zalewski. Using WildCat 3.9 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 1300 MB storage. Boca at 14400 bps. $24.99 Annual fee. Specializing in Adult Graphics Featuring TIFF images, Online Adult Games. New Scans added Monthly.
315-866-8187 Herkimer, NY	The Darklands BBS, DarkLands (1994-1995)	David Maury, Terry Rivenburg, D. Maury	TriBBS, Remote Access, VBBS
	"Along with David Maury Terry Rivenburg was a SYSOP for this board. The Board was hosted at Daves house but was mostly run by Terry Rivenburg. Both guys are good friends of mine. BTW the documentary brought back so many awesome memories that i decided to start a telnet bbs so i could play B.R.E again. man i loved that game. Thanks again." - Deadbody
316-241-1250 McPherson, KS	McPherson USD #418 (1993)
	FrEdMail System
316-283-4214 Newton, KS	The Trail BBS (1996-1998)	Jason Klein	Wildcat!
	"I operated this BBS with APCi MPGS software for several years. The MPGS software allowed us to play four-person id games (Doom, Heretic, Hexen) via dialup modem instead of direct serial connection. We retired the BBS once online multiplayer gaming became a reality (ie: Quake 1)." - Jason Klein
316-284-0090 Newton, KS	The OtherBoard (1994-2002)	Travis Taylor	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"I remember using this BBS from 1996-2000, though I was told that it existed long before I was around and via conversations with Travis, know that it was online through at least 2000 because he also provided dial-up ISP services for several years. Travis moved out to California a few years ago." - Jason Klein
316-284-2562 Newton, KS	The OtherBoard (1994-2002)	Travis Taylor	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"I remember using this BBS from 1996-2000, though I was told that it existed long before I was around and via conversations with Travis, know that it was online through at least 2000 because he also provided dial-up ISP services for several years. Travis moved out to California a few years ago." - Jason Klein
316-496-2020 La Harpe, KS	Beyond Engineering, Beyond Online, BEYOND ENGINEERING ONLINE (1994-1996)	John Heard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: La Harpe, Kansas since 07/94. Sysop: John Heard. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 2800 MB storage. Microcom at 28800 bps. $60 Annual fee. Be our 144th subscriber and receive a 14400bps modem. Free downloads from Demo area. Thousands of ACAD, Engineering, Gifs, Windows, DOS Utils, Online Game Connection and more. We are on FidoNet 1:14/689 and MajorNet@BEY. BEYOND ENGINEERING ONLINE, 316.496.2020 Large file base includes Engineering, ACAD, DOS.Windows Utilities, GIFS, Games, DOOM Utilities, Amateur Radio, ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAME CONNECTION supporting DOOM, F-15 Strike Eagle and other Modem Playable Games. FidoNet, MajorNet Forums and E-Mail. Serving you from the center of the USA with High Speed Pentiums Supporting RIP & ANSI. High Quality 2400-28.8kbps connects plus voice Support Available at 316.496.2682. Dial us up and check us out-Free Downloads from our Demo library. You'll want Beyond Engineering to be your Cyberspace Home! - BBS Magazine November, 1994
316-686-8324 Wichita, KS	Red Flag, Red Flag BBS (1990-1993)	Ken Jacobs	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"Registered Tradewars 2002 door provider. FidoNet member." - Ken Jacobs
316-744-9619 KECHI, KS	Ansi Hell (1990-1996)	Fresh B	WWIV 4
	"Just a little single line BBS in Wichita Kansas that specialized in message boards and ANSI art." _ Brian Engler
316-746-2078 Wichita, KS	Forum-80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
316-772-0075 Newton, KS	Mother Board, Motherboard (1989-1996)	Martin (Marty) Sadowsky, Don Riggs	TBBS
	"These numbers accessed the same BBS. I recall spending many hours dialed up to the MotherBoard at 28.8k to access the internet. The BBS was moved from Newton, KS to Sedgwick, KS around 1994 so that they could take advantage of an SBC (Southwestern Bell) rate center loophole that allowed them to relay local calls between the NEWTON KS rate center and the WICHITA KS rate center since their lines were considered a local call from either rate center. My first year or two of dialup internet access was provided via the relay service provided by this BBS. Our only other option at the time would have been to call into the dial-up ISP in WICHITA KS via a long-distance call. Hats off to Marty and Don for their several years of service and harassment from Ma'Bell." - Jason Klein
317-251-9759 Indianapolis, IN	AmigaSource, Doomsday Dungeon (1990-1994)	Andrew Gray, Andrew gray	Transamiga, Custom
	"A BBS I ran from when I was about 13 through 17, when I had to take it down for various reasons, and shortly thereafter got on the Internet. Was run on an Amiga and started out using TAG, then Petra which I custom-coded door games into, and then ended up with Transamiga. Had great fun while running this, and learned a lot, and met quite a few people." - Andrew Gray
317-253-1573 INDIANAPOLIS, IN	Portable Hole BBS, T.A.S.T.E. - The Atari ST Exchange (1986-1994)	David McNett	FoReM ST
	"FoReM-Net Node 20"
317-271-5059 Indianapolis, IN	The T.A.R.D.I.S BBS (1985-1992)	The Doctor (Doc or Tom O'Nan), Thomas O'Nan	Prime for Apple //e
	"I ran this BBS for many years, it started out in Terre Haute, Indiana and then moved to Indianapolis. The main point of this BBS was the wonderful message system and it's e-mail. In those days the BBS community was primarily a place where IBM files were exchanged, not much interest was made on community and comversation. This BBS was outside the norm in that there were very few downloads and literally millions of messages. It ran on a single phone line with a sysop screen where I could see what was going on. At the end the system had passed over 11 million e-mail messages between the users and there were over 40,000 messages on the active system. The end came when a few BAD users found a weakness in the error correcting modem technology and began war dialing the system to lock up the modem and shut down the system, this always required the sysop to manually reset the system, the software was never upgraded to allow for the error correcting modems to work right. In the end, the system was too hard to maintain after months of the war dialing and was shut down. The children who were responsible for the shut down, in the end, were found out and did pay the penalty, but a good and fun community BBS never recovered and soon the Internet came and BBS times were over. It was fun while it lasted." - Thomas O'Nan "I'd like to add something about the TARDIS bbs. I was one of it's users and think it's a shame what happened to it, we all loved this bbs for many years as it was a community. But more than that Doc provided something different, a ladies only section that was really for the ladies only, I mean he let us run that part of his board, even he stayed out of it, he had a couple of other ladies who were cosysops who ran the ladies board. During the BBS years when a female got on a BBS it was usually a nightmare with all sorts of people hitting on you, Doc didn't allow that, he kept the peace, he also didn't allow flame wars like you'd see on many other boards. I know that you also didn't want to get on his bad side, if you did, you would loose your privileges, one user got way out of hand at one time and Doc didn't kick him off, he just restricted him to the Red Button and Logoff commands. The bbs itself was pretty neat, it was based on the Doctor Who TV show and had many references to the show placed in it, but if you didn't know anything about Doctor Who, you could still get around, there was a general bbs room, a science room, a teen room, the ladies room, an adult room and a few more. There was a little download area for those would couldn't live without one and there were a few games. He also had a strange sense of humor, like a command button called THE RED BUTTON (never push), and warnings all over the place about not pushing the red button, of course you HAD to push it, and guess what, you were instantly logged off and disconnected, no damage though. He also had an Eliza program that many thought really was The Doctor, a couple of simple games and if he was there, you could page him to chat. Because some people would monopolize the board playing games there were time limits, this helped because it was only a single line BBS, if you participated a lot in the conversations, you would be given more time. It was neat, I'd sometimes take much of my time reading everything that people had to say, then I'd have to come back again to say what I wanted to say, Doc ended up giving me two more hours of time because I was a good girl :) I don't know where Doc is now, but I've always wanted to thank him for doing what he did and putting up with us. Thanks." - Tilly M
317-285-3648 Muncie, IN	NoWhere BBS (1992-1993)	Chael Hall	ChaelBoard
	"Due to increased competition for the phone line and a waning interest in running the BBS, I took it down. I had already begun running mailing lists on the Internet. I went on to run an anonymous FTP archive, gopher site, and anonymous remailer. I still run several free mailing lists and web sites at x-philes.com." - Chael Hall
317-293-8522 Indianapolis, IN	The Midnight Flyer BBS	Scorpio	C*Base BBS
	"Ran off of a Commodore 64. Co-Sysop: Spunky, Modspak/Trivia Guru: Morgan, Game/Modz tester: Cougar. Subop of public Forum: Styles, Subop of classifieds: Apollo, Subop of Game Hints & Tips: Kanga, Supop of Arts and Entertainment: Vox, Subop of Hardware/software help and pinch, Subop of U/D forum: Disvader" - Scorpio
317-297-2260 Indianapolis, IN	INDY (1987-1998)	Dan Taylor	Virtual BBS; Color64
	"Started out as a single node system running on a C-64 using Color64 BBS software runnning in all basic. System had a 256K Ram Expander and 8 disk drives chained together...a real nightmare to keep up and running. Finally switched to VBBS, eventually runnning 2 nodes on 1 machine using Desqview, then finally 2 machines networked running Windows 95 with 15 cd-rom drives for downloads. After 11 years and an unforeseen move, it was time to throw in the towel as many users decided it was time for the internet. I learned a lot, loved running the system, and made several friends over the years." - Dan Taylor
317-359-5199 Indianapolis, IN	ClassiComputerFieds, T-CON, Traders' Connection, TRADERS' CONNECTION, Classi Computer Fieds, TCON (1982-1996)	Steven Edsall, Steve Edsall/Trader Newspaper, C. Hanrrahan	custom
	TRADERS' CONNECTION, Featuring the largest classified ad database in the world! Search over 500,000 ads from independent classified ad papers across the U.S., quickly and easily. But that's not all. T-CON also offers national e-mail, live chat, special interest groups (SIG's), tons of files, technical help and advice, and lively discussion groups covering everything from politics and religion to photography and aviation. T-CON is everything you would expect from a full-service, national BBS. National access available for as low as $2/Hr. Try us out — Free! Dial (317) 359-5199 for a free demo, to join or to find the local access number for your area. You will be impressed with all we have to offer. Call toll free 800-753-4223 voice for more information. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 Online System for Classified Advertisements
317-362-6573 ROACHDALE, IN	Mars Hotel BBS, The Mars Hotel (1992-1994)	Jay Zach	RBBS
	"I ran this bbs when I was around 21-22, from my room, in my parent's basement. I wanted to start a site themed on grateful dead fan stuff, since I didn't know of many. I ended up finding some long distance ones, afterward. It was great fun, and my first real experience with open source, which I try to use exclusively now." - Jay Zach
317-415-0602 INDIANAPOLIS, IN	Haven BBS (1992-2001)	Ian M. Shot	Citadel/UX 5.72, MajorBBS 5.505b
	Still available on the web at www.havencomm.com:2000 or telnetting to bbs.havencomm.com.
317-452-1257 Kokomo, IN	Elusive Dream =THG=, The Elusive Dreams =THG=, ELUSIVE DREAMS #1 (1994-1995)	Toy Man (THG - WHQ), The Toyman	PC-Board
	"The Elusive Dreams - The legends of legends, for over 2 years, this was the fastest bbs in the world, if your group wanted to be known and claim to have released something first, you HAD to upload it to this board to have any credit. Closed down a while back. Evidently I never got validated there. ACiD HQ. (PC-Board) (You have this listed as Indy when it was Komomo) I knew the real name of the ToyMan (out of respect it I wont let it out.) - Anonymous
317-479-1464 Indianapolis, IN	End of Infiniti (1992-1994)	Aaron Abelard	PC-Board
	"Part time as I only had one phone line for both inbound and outbound. Started at 2400, hit 9600 and 14400 before moving to the internet. I had an Indy.net account circa 1994 and switched to IQuest in 1995 when I started working there. Dave Julius was also an IQuest employee. ;)" - Aaron Abelard
317-486-9245 Indianapolis, IN	Guru Meditation, Westside Development (1991-1995)	Matt Barton	RemoteAccess
	"I started Guru Meditation in January 1991 on my first PC, which was an 8088-based system with CGA graphics. I was about 14 years old and in the 8th grade. The system eventually got upgraded a few times, winding up on a 486-based system by the time it went offline. "In early 1995, I had discovered the Internet by using a friend's shell account at IQuest, making the BBS mostly unavailable (since I was hogging up the phone line). Eventually, I took the board down in June 1995, shortly after graduating high school. "I learned so much back then and had a lot of fun doing it, especially from being a member of Net 231 FidoNet. I still have friends who I met years ago via my BBS, including the friend who let me use his shell account at IQuest. And to this day, I still have my user data files and most of the logs archived away on my file server."
317-537-2277 Paragon, IN	Martinsville School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
317-622-1240 Anderson, IN	DeepFreeze BBS, The DeepFreeze BBS (1993-1996)	Rick Schaefer	RemoteAccess, D'Bridge
	"This was my BBS during those years early in my 1st marriage. I had some very unique, 3-D looking menus in text format and also used it to distribute some of my software that I had written at the time. I shut this down in, I believe, 1996 when the internet was just starting to show up on the scene. I STILL miss running my BBS. Finding this site was a blast and seeing all those people's names that I used to hang out with during this time period was a nice flashback. Of course, we all fell out of touch over the years." - Rich Schaefer
317-644-3039 Anderson, IN	EAST CENTRAL IN NET, NET 2255 ECHOMAIL COORDINATOR, Net 2255 Treasurer, The I O Board, The I. O. Board, The I.O. Board, The I.O. Board BBS (1987-2001)	Bert Happel	Opus , Fido, Maximus
	"The BBS began as a daytime, weekdays only system running on my single phone line in my apartment. Over it's lifetime it answered nearly 100,000 calls and had a user database of nearly 500 callers." - Bert Happel
317-662-8842 Marion, IN	DOOMania! BBS (1993-1996)	Paul Johnson	WildCat
	"I started this BBS because of my love for the game of DOOM. I was endorsed by John Romero from id Software and he actually added my BBS and BBS info into the README.TXT file that was shipped with every copy of DOOM from v1.4 to v1.8. I was the only BBS at the time that was endorsed by id software. My BBS was growing so large that I had to add 4 additional phone lines to accept all the new traffic that the README.TXT file was generating. I loved running this BBS, it was a chance for me to do things that I would not have gotten to do had I not taken the steps and had such a passion for a small game called DOOM. Those were some of the best days in my entire life. I could say much, much more about my time in the BBS era but you wanted comments and not biographies HeHe! Thanks!" - Paul Johnson
317-742-2241 Lafayette, IN	N4ZDU super BBS (1992-1997)	Robert L. Gilmore ((N4ZDU)	PC Board
	"I operated this BBS for about 5 years on two phone lines,I dont remember the other phone number. Glad to see it still lives at least in spirit form ! Thanks to all that were members. I am a general class ham radio operator and that is my call letters still today! Robert (N4ZDU)"
317-758-1618 SHERIDAN, IN	The U.S.S. Stargazer BBS (1994-1998)	Bruce Scott	Wildcat
	"I Started my BBS in 07/01/1994 or thereabouts and took several test calls from a friend of mine to get the bugs worked out. I believe my first fulltime online call was on 08/01/94. I joined FIDO Net in 1995 and my FIDO Address was 1:231/15.0. I spent 2 months learning all the software to run the BBS as well as the ANSI software and other editors to make the things work. I think the batch files were the biggest thing to overcome. The hours of editing and trying to get all the batch files to work together and alone as needed was a real brain buster for someone that only had a computer for 4 months. My BBS was; The USS Stargazer BBS, sysop; Bruce Scott, BBS Software; Wildcat, modem was 28.8 USR Duel HST. I started the BBS on a 500 meg hard drive on a 33 MHz CPU in a Packard Bell I bought at Walmart." - Bruce E. Scott
317-784-2147 INDIANAPOLIS, IN	Road House, RoadHouse BBS (ASP), RoadHouse BBS (ASP) [FAX], RoadHouse,music, The Road House, The Roadhouse BBS, The RoadHouse BBS (ASP), Unicorn Software Technical Support (1991-1997)	Richard Holler	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess
	ListKeeper: ASP BBS Member List
317-788-7770 Indianapolis, IN	Central IN Fidonet, Myers Investigations BBS, The CopStop BBS (1986-1996)	David Myers	FidoNet
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Indianapolis, Indiana since 12/86. Sysop: David Myers. Using Renegade v7-17 with 1 line on MS-DOS with 3200 MB storage. Zoom at 28800 bps. No fee. Indiana's only Law Enforcement & Public Safety BBS. Open to the general public as well. Over 3.2 gigs of software. SafetyNet, PoliceNet, FidoNet. Over 30 online games. World HQ for the PoliceNet Search & Recovery diving echo.
317-839-4270 PLAINFIELD, IN	The HideOut (1989-1995)	Derek Crager	Wildcat
	"I ran a one line BBS until my good friend Guy Damlovac(Shuttle BBS), moved here. We played with PC Board on DOS. Used a memory swapping utility to get DOS to support two lines. Within the summer I switched to OS/2 and had three lines running with no problem. The internet came to town in mid 90's and I ran WildCat via IP over the internet for a short time, but the thrill died away as other internet tools evolved. Great thrills. Great times. Great Friends." - Derek Crager
317-843-2327 Indianapolis/Carmel, IN	The Forest BBS (1994-1997)	Ted E. Bear and Romana	VBBS
	"I loved BBSing and this was one way to give back to the local BBS Community. I tried several BBS packages and landed on VBBS. We held several social gatherings so local users could meet each other off-line, including the annual canoe trips. I miss the good ol' days. BTW, the phone number conveniently spelled THE-BEAR (was I full of myself or what?)" - Ted E. Bear
317-856-2087 Indianapolis, IN	PBS-BBS, Public Brand Software 1, Public Brand Software BBS, Public Brand Software Technical Support (1985-1996)	Tony Moleta	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: ASP BBS Member List/Bob Ostrander
317-862-0059 Indianapolis, IN	Internal Connection, The Dungeon, The Hollow (1992-1997)	Plower	VBBS
	"Started out on a 386 box running DOS and TRITEL/TRIBBS on a single line. Ended up as a 4 node board running a heavely modified VBBS install on a 486DX2 66 at 33.6k. Was one of the largest door game boards in the area with several registered door games including a very large Trade Wars, LORD, and Solar Realms section. Also had a large file section with multiple cd-rom changers (remember those?) and tons of HD space for the time. Was a blast, but as with the rest of the BBS world, died when the internet moved in." - Plower
317-883-5710 Russiaville, IN	The Board Of Oblivion (1985-1995)	David D Stanton	EBBS, Genesis Deluxe
	"The SysOp was 9 Years Old (Born 2nd July 1974) making him one of the youngest SysOps when the BBS was opened." - David Stanton
317-883-7510 Russiaville, IN	The Board Of Oblivion (1985-1995)	David Stanton (aka Armisis Aieoln)	EBBS Genesis Deluxe and Many Others
	"The BBS moved from time to time so the number changed, Bill And Teds was a neighbor BBS. Started on a C64 evolved and ended on a 486. Peak User count was over 275 registered and active users." - David Stanton
318-255-5233 Ruston, LA	PENUltimate, The Penultimate BBS (1994-1996)	Robert C. Bullock	Galacticomm
	"Originally ran on a 386/16 hacked together pile of parts with a single line. Eventually grew to 3 networked machines providing Usenet, 3 dialup lines, and PPP dialup unlimited connections for $19.95 a month. Ran on Galacticomm software then Worldgroup. Ruston's 1st fulltime BBS with Internet access. Main pipe was a dedicated 28.8 modem connection to Bayou BBS in Monroe via a Windows NTAS 3.51 Server. The network on the BBS side ran on Netware Lite, OS/2, NTAS and DOS for the Worldgroup machine. I, the sysop, left to become an officer in the Air Force. I should have stayed and ridden the Internet boom." - Robert C. Bullock "I had a sort of hack to get the connection from Ruston, LA to Monroe, LA. It wasn't close enough to get the unlimited 'local optional service' (I think it was called that) for phone calls. I had to dial a town in the middle that had the phone permanently forwarded to Monroe. :) Cute eh? But it was much cheaper than a dedicated line of any sort, and back then, even two people over a 33-38k connection still wasn't bad. I had a satellite feed at 19.2K of news and files from some company I forget, so that added to the content. I had a small dish on the roof that ran down to the downlink modem (there was no send capability) and the DOS software for it ran in a window on the OS/2 machine. Slick! Some days I still wonder if I could have expanded it and become more successful. The guy I left in charge didn't take advantage of the opportunities at that time, and eventually shut it down even though he only had to cover the costs of the phone lines etc. which should not have been hard to do at $20 a month for a subscription." - Robert C. Bullock
318-357-0647 Natchitoches, LA	The Barter Town (1984-1986)
	"Apple ][+, Apple //e 20 MEG Sider Hard drive"
318-387-0943 West Monroe, LA	Plain & Simple BBS, Plain & Simple SLBBS, Plain And Simple SLBBS (1986-1995)	Tim Antley	Searchlight BBS
	"Located in various locations around Monroe, LA, in the late 80's and early 90's. Initially running on a Tandy EX 256mB (with no HD) on a 1200 baud and migrated over time to a 386/66mhz with over 60mBs(!) of storage and three nodes at 9600bps. Known for extensive colorful and animated ANSI graphics and the innovative Searchlight BBS package - was a beta site and dealer for the software. Board also hosted the 'Executive Council' which met almost weekly at a pizza parlor. Missed the boat on that new 'internet' thing... but what good times those days were." - Tim Antley
318-430-0244 Lake Charles, LA	Third Coast bbs (1994-1996)	Polly Stewart	Excelsior
	"Third Coast was begun in Houston in 1993 and originally ran on an Amiga 2000; it restarted in Lake Charles in 1994 and eventually ran on an Amiga 1200. Using Excelsior software we had plenty of message bases (20-30) and a lot of great online games that were not the same old pc bbs games; including the never to be forgotten "Hack and Slash"! I believe it was the first and best (only?) Amiga bbs in southwest Louisiana. Ahhh... those were the days when we thought there was nothing better than bbs'ing!" - Polly Stewart
318-478-8109 Lake Charles, LA	Lake Charles Overboard, The Lake Charles OverBoard (1986-1988)	Dale LeDoux	Red Ryder Host
	"The first and only BBS in southwest Louisiana running on a Macintosh. Multiple message bases, on-line games and some of the first graphics available for download." - Dale LeDoux
318-555-1212 Shreveport, LA	COBB (Commodore Oriented Bulliten Board) (1983-1985)	Rick Cramer
	"Run on Commodore 64, Automodem 300 baud, 5MB Commodore Hard Disk." - Rick Cramer
318-625-3440 Sulphur, LA	JJSouthwest Louisiana (1993)
	FrEdMail System
318-686-0151 Shrevport, LA	MY SECRET GARDEN (1995)
	ISDN Line
318-688-0522 SHREVEPORT, LA	Star BBS (1983-1987)	Dale Bernell, Joseph Holland	GBBS Pro
	"This was Star-LINC BBS from 1983-1997. Dale Bernell was the original SYSOP; I became SYSOP in 1985 after Dale moved off." - Joseph Holland
318-752-1977 Bossier City, LA	On Ramp BBS, THE ON RAMP (1994-2002)	Sharon Aiken	Wildcat, WINS
	"Is now a telnet board as well as a dial up.." - Sharon Aiken
318-793-4101 BOYCE, LA	Bulldog'S Friends #1, BULLDOG'S FRIENDS (1992-1995)	The Bulldog
	Scoopex Member BBS
319-233-6719 Waterloo, IA, 50701	Realm of Shades, The Realm of Shades, The Realm of Shades BBS (1992-1996)	Mark Steel, Brian Hoag	GT, GT Power
	"Always had the latest, coolest door games. First to bring LORDnet and Solar Realms Net to the area." - Brian Hoag
319-234-0364 Waterloo, IA	The Land of Mordor BBS (1993-1995)	Luke Weber, David Wire, Jason Williams (The Dark Council)	WWIV
	"My friends and I ran this BBS when we were around 13 years old, we were the youngest SysOps in Iowa at the time." - The Dark Council
319-273-8248 Cedar Falls, IA	Area Education Agncy 7 (1993)
	FrEdMail System
319-326-3904 Davenport, IA	FOG RBBS-RCP/M #25, FOG -25 (1985-1986)	Matthew Reed
	Quad City Osborne Group (FOG AMO #102) member Quad City Osborne Group (FOG AMO #102) member
319-335-6200 IOWA CITY, IA	I.S.C.A. (1988-2001)	University of Iowa, I.S.C.A.	Citadel
	"I.S.C.A. is widely believed to be the largest free BBS ever to exist. Accessible from the Internet at telnet://bbs.isca.uiowa.edu, it currently has over 6,000 active users, 300 of which may be online at peak times of day. Over its lifetime I.S.C.A.'s file repository at grind.isca.uiowa.edu has been one of the best known FTP archives on the Internet, and I.S.C.A. made the entire file archive available to dial-up users using Xmodem, Ymodem and Zmodem. (The dial-up file service was discontinued around 1997 though the archive is still available via FTP.) I.S.C.A. stands for Iowa Student Computer Association, a University of Iowa student group. The group is currently researching ways to bring the virtual community experience of the traditional BBS to modern environments such as the World Wide Web."
319-337-6723 IOWA CITY, IA	ComputerPlumber, The Computer Plumber, The Computer Plumber BBS (1990-1996)	Art Petrzelka, Arthur Petrzelka	Wildcat
	List of BBS List Keepers: Engineering Related BBS/Arthur Petrzelka ListKeeper: Engineering Related BBS
319-355-7857 DAVENPORT, IA	Power Station, POWER STATION (1992-1995)	Midnight Maniac
	Independent Member BBS
319-557-2430 Dubuque, IA	Galaxy BBS (1995-1996)	Sean Heber	Worldgroup
	"It ran Worldgroup software, had internet access, and telnet support. It eventually turned into Dubuque's first ISP, so that is why it didn't really last too long (the internet was already coming to take over everything)." - Sean Heber
321-952-8082 Palm Bay, FL	The Slug BBS (1996-1999)	Michael Adams	Remote Access
	"Started as a Spitfire BBS, but went to Remote Access around 1997. Used it as the development platform for a number of LORD 2 IGMS, as well as the "TEOS LORD" world. Was FIDOnet 1:374/163" - Michael Adams
330-225-7485 Brunswick, OH	Rassi's Retreat (1995-1997)	Paul Bender	Remote Access
	"This BBS started when I lived in Nashville, Tn. Originally, it was a part-time BBS, and grew into a full time system. When I moved to Green Bay, WI, I kept it online. Again, when I moved to Brunswick, I brought the system with me. Sadly by that time the Internet had grown to the point where the local BBS scene just wasn't flourishing like it once did, and I took the system down. I am now online at http://www.rassi.com" - Paul Bender
330-253-9247 Akron, Ohio	Akron Connection, ECHO HUB 500 (1982-1996)	Terry Russell	Remote Access
	"I was the SysOp of this BBS. I run it non stop for 14 years. Originally it was on an Atari 800, with an Hayes 300 baud modem. At that time I was running a modified version of Amis BBS program. The name was Atari Express, and remained that way for about 6 years. At that point I want to attract more than the dewindling Atari userbase and decided to switch the name to Akron Connection when I switched over to an Atari 520ST to run it on. I run Michtron BBS software at that point with a 20 meg HD and supported Atari 8bit, Atari 16bit, C64/128, Amiga, and of course IBM compatables. Less than a year later I switched to a IBM clone and become a beta tester for Tim Purves PC version of Michtron BBS. Over the years I made many friends and met many people. Many are friends to this day. One such friend is Don Crano. He was the sysop of Rubber City Atari BBS. His BBS ran non stop for 1981 until 1997 I believe and was the oldest and longest running BBS in our area. Because of our strong ties in the Atari community we joined an Atari usergroup "Cuyahoga Vally Atari Users Group" Eventually become President and Vice President of it and I also was the newletter editor for many years. Well you have awakened many memories of a great era, thanks and I'm looking forward to reading your work." - Terry Russell
330-273-8980 Cleveland, OH	HCS BBS (1983-1997)	Al Hawker	Citadel, CNET, GAP
	"A friend of mine happened to be searching for something and came across your list. I figured I might as well give you the correct info. HCS BBS was run in Brunswick, Ohio, but was always listed as Cleveland because I relayed FIDO and several other nationwide mail packages. HCS was actually around since 1983 and started originally running Citadel on a CP/M OS, then I went to a CNET board on a Commodore, and eventually a multi-node GAP BBS running on a DOS/Windows systems. The GAP version of HCS BBS ran from 1987 to 1997 by itself. My GAP software was licensed for 99 nodes, however, the most nodes I ever ran was 9 or so. I wrote several doors for GAP and PCBoard systems. When I started the Board, I was running 300 baud (high speed for that time) and was at 56K when I shutdown. You'll even find HCS listed in the GAP BBS manuals (if you could find one). Just thought you'd like a little better detail. Thanks... Al Hawker"
330-334-4560 Wadsworth, OH	Grizzly BBS (1981-1996)	Chris Harper	Maximus BBS
	"Fidonet NET 2215 Coordinator / Founder - Started Grizzly BBS on a 3 floppy disk Tandy HX with the assistance of Dan Steil of Pegasus BBS. Soon after upgraded to a new computer with Hard drives." - Chris Harper
330-364-3669 Dover, OH	The Realm of Insanity! (1995-1996)	Damian Green, Damian Green (Peacemaker), Danyal Bayer (Zelda)	Renegade
	"Wow, I just realised that we were listed! Well.. Damian and I went to school together. Don't remember why we started our own BBS, just that we did. The Realm was pretty popular, and between our board, Illusions, Dagwood's Castle, etc, we used to have local "modem meetings" where all of us from the various boards would get together. Damian handled most of the technical end, I was the moderator/voice verifier/random sysop. We also requested some of the FidoNet echoes, which was a pretty big deal for us. We had to take it down when Damian graduated, but it was fun while it lasted!" - Danyal Bayer
330-456-0483 Canton, OH	Hall Of Fame, Hall of Fame BBS, Northeast Ohio, Stark Hub (1992-2003)	Dennis Haddox	TriBBS
	"Still online with 2 dial in lines - 330-456-0483 and 330-456-0484. It also has 2 telnet nodes that can be connected to at fame.darktech.org. This bbs went officially online in 1992 and is still online and active in 2001." - Dennis Haddox
330-488-0926 East Canton, OH	Digital Insanity, The Matrix (1990-1995)	Fastjack, Liquid Reality, Bloodbath	Telegard, Citadel, Renegade, VBBS, VABBS
	"The original matrix bbs was run out of my mothers house 10pm - 3pm nightly. It was run on a 486dx/50 with 8mb ram and a 110mb hard drive. At one point it had two lines, one being dedicated and the other being a the main phone line coming into the house. Then I moved to my fathers house in louisville, OH and the board was renamed to digital insanity and the number was 330-875-2045 on one of the two lines it had at that location. Later I changed the software to vbbs and redid all the ansi graphics. At some point a name change occured and it became mayhem and then when I moved to va it became digital insanity again. Each time the board changed names I changed names with it. "The actual bulletin board itself was primarily messages, text files, and doors as far as the public was concerned. A few people (Gatlin, Tsunami, etc) had further access to the system where various items of questionable legality were stored. The community in stark county was *great*. I miss alot of the guys from back then, some of my best computing memories were at 3am bs'ing around with other sysops and playing door games with em. "Ironically my bbs involvement later around 1996 it got me one of my first non-contract technical jobs at an ISP... i quite literally knew *everyone* that worked there from the bulletin boards in the area and had helped two of the admins to setup networking software with their bulletin board systems. Fast forward to 2005 and I started at a new job as a networking/systems guy and find out my boss and I had chatted frequently after the board moved to louisville... so in one way or another my bulletin board experience have greatly shaped my career in computers and let me meet alot of great people." - Fastjack
330-668-9815 Akron, OH	IceLord (1994-1999)	Commando - Fred Franks	Wildcat
	"I originally started this BBS in West Akron to focus on local sports and called it Sports World, but quickly determined that the door games was the focus of most end users. Many of my neighborhood friends and others would login for the gaming experience. In 1996, my family moved to Bath, and I lost many of my Kent user base, (which was fairly significant) because it was long distance at that point in time. It was still busy because LORDS II was out and I custom developed a large amount of that game for the community (both my BBS and others. The plug-in was IceLord Keep). Also at that time I started to chat with new users that were the SysOp of The Dark Portal and his sister. They both lived in Copley. Long story short is the sister (whom I had not met in real life (IRL)) introduced me to a friend of hers online, and shortly after we met IRL in January of 1997. Fast forward 11 years to 2008, we are married and have little 2 boys. I am a CIO for a fast growing company, and am only 27. The BBS experience and community has made a huge positive impact on my life." - Fred Franks (Commando)
330-745-8420 Akron, OH	Shadowlands (1995-1998)	Mark Birdsill, DarkWind	Excelsior!
	"What a honor to be listed in your archives! Thanks for your efforts. I was in the military and moved to Barbarton, OH in 1995 as an Army Recruiter and promptly set up Shadowlands. It had been Nebula in Clarksville, TN when I was stationed there. It was run on an Amiga 2000 with 4 MB of RAM and a few 235 MB hard drives. I bought out another BBS owner and got all his files and CD ROM drive. I don't remember the name of his board but he ran CNET and was tired of running a board. What a time! Shadowlands had two lines and quickly had regulars, I remember one in particular, a student from Kenmore. We chatted a lot but I can't remember her handle, she was a great user and I wonder what became of her. In 1998 I was sent to Ft Campbell in KY and never ran a BBS again." - DarkWind
334-679-9007 MOBILE, AL	The Neutral Zone (Mobile), The Neutral Zone Mobile (1993-1996)	Scott Dalgety	WWIV, Proboard
	"I miss it? Started as WWIV in 1992-1993, operated out of a University Lab, then moved off-site in 1993. At one point there were two nodes in Mobile, and one in Atlanta via WWIVnet. Made a switch to Proboard in 94, added to FidoNet, but switched back after many complaints from the users. Eventually closed its doors in 1996-1997 (can't remember) when I sold the computer. Everyone had moved to the internet as the new medium of BBS style communication. The Zone came back briefly for a while in 2000 using an OS/2 machine and a comm port/ethernet conversion utility - most of the original members signed up again. Red Dragon was defeated, etc. Eventually usage fizzled out. The zone was taken down and is just waiting for the collapse of the internet so it can come back. . ;) Great site. I took a trip down memory lane with this one. Regards." - Scott Dalgety, (Stingray) Sysop of the Neutral Zone Mobile
336-294-7189 GREENSBORO, NC	entropia, oblique strategies, The Whale Zoo (1985-1999)	IM, Insect Mother, Lynne Edel, Lynne Miller	HAL, C-Net 64, C-Net 128, Atredes, Skyline, Paragon, E-Link
	"During the Commodore 64/128 years, RLE graphics viewing was hacked into the software long before the official author (Ken Pletzer) added it to the package. Also, development of the original 'murder motel' happened here in Greensboro, 72 lines in c-net to write a game was not enough, so another sysop (Steven White, Magic Foam BBS) a BBS user (Sean Wagle) and I came up with the concept of loading modules. *somewhere* around here I still have the dev floppies and print-outs. will keep you bookmarked, and if they turn up, will contribute. "The Zoo", as it was always called despite the other names, was always a testing ground for new ideas in BBS software, hence so many different packages; Skyline for the Amiga was the most interesting because it was almost a preview of what web graphics are if one accessed it with an Amiga term prg called 'Skyterm'. a number of games and other oddities were developed on it by a user named Shane Killian. as with murder motel, his concepts still float around in various incarnations on several platforms. one of his games invited the computer to play at midnight and it ended up scaring the #$#! out of us.. there was absolutely no semblence of A.I. code in the game, but somehow the computer would take over the whole BBS after about a week of play everytime it was re-started.. spooked all of us! 14 years of online insanity and "meeting" so many wonderful people, I agree with you that the BBS is a part of computer history that should not be forgotten. (What is really odd is that I've been on the internet for the same number of years and have yet to find the "warmth" that the local dial-ins always offered. Thank you for creating this site, it sure brought back a lot of great memories!" - Lynne
336-472-2114 Thomasville, NC	Basic Connection, SPO\!BBS (1993-1996)	Paul Sullivan	propietary
	"Custom developed BBS software by the sysop (Paul Sullivan)." - Paul Sullivan
336-744-1333 Winston-Salem, NC	Empire! BBS (1991-1994)	Highlander	WWIV
	"I was the SysOp of this BBS. What a great thing to see, my old BBS listed! Kudos to you." - Michael Dymott
352-378-6403 Gainesville, FL	The Virgin Forest, The WARLOCK's Castle (1990-1996)	McArthur Sandridge, Allyson Sandridge, The Warlock (McArthur Sandridge)	Maximus
	"The Virgin Forest was seperate from The Warlock's Castle. Two completely different bbses. Mine was run on spitfire and wildcat from 1988 to 1989. His was probably self programmed and ran from 1989 until 1990 or so. I would really appreciate you separating them. My name, at the time was not Sandridge either, tho we were married - in fact, like The DragonsKeep BBS ( 352-375-3500 ) sysOp, "The Dragon" - my name was supposed to be a mystery to its users. My handle on The Virgin Forest was Dryad. We had a live party once a month at my house. The big draw was that the parties were BYOB, we had arcade games and pinball in our kitchen, a couple of computers to play games on, and we played marbles on the livingroom floor. People would bring food and the parties would go on all night. The BBS lasted approximately 8 months - as long as my marriage. The last party was my fairwell party and it was held at someone else's house. Once I left, Buddy (McArthur) started The Warlock's Castle. I don't know anything about that, I was too busy living life.." - Ally "As stated by "Ally", The Enchanted Forest and The Warlock's Castle were separate BBSes. My on-line handle was Warlock as her's was Dryad on her BBS. The computer and phone number was the same as it was my house, I paid all of the bills, so everything was mine and did not go away when she and I split up." - McArthur E. Sandridge
352-563-2809 Crystal River, FL	Black Sunday, Citrus County HUB, Citrus County Net, The Night Line BBS (1994-1997)	Bryan Gugelman	SuperBBS
	"I originally started Running my BBS after my friend Ben Marshall's Dad Bill Marshall ran The Dead Pool BBS in Beverly Hills, and I found it interesting so I did it... I started on a 386sx/16 with a 40 meg hardrive when I was like 13 years old. After a year and a half of struggling I finally figured it out and kept regular increases in callers.. Once the Internet took hold it slowly choked my callers out and I laid the board to rest..I was the 352 Fidonet Cordinator.. Email was a job during those times. Anyone that supplied FidoNet can vouch for me on that one.. The board ran Under a Odd name from time to Time Black Sunday I believe. But The Night Line is what it was regulary refered to. The name came from having to run it from 9pm-6am until I got my dedicated line 6 months after I started... Rest In Peace." - Bryan Gugelman
352-873-7485 Hernando, FL	Genesis II BBS (1990-2003)	William Keenan, II	Searchlight
	"Hosted "Crying Out" e-Zine thru the 90's." - William Keenan
360-273-8532 Rochester, WA	Chaos Inc! (1994-1997)	Brad Grandorff, Bradley Grandorff	Wildcat
	One of the first BBS in the area and for sure multiline in the small town we were in :) Tradewars and other games hosted.
360-373-9653 BREMERTON, WA	Renegade Outpost I (2002)	Douglas Moyes	MBSE Under Linux
	"The software being used was MBSE under Linux (instead of writing my own), and had limited success with getting Fidonet to work reliably, in part, due to me not being able to monitor the machine for months at a time due to submarine deployments and the fact a calling card was used for the long distant phone connections. Due to no high speed internet service in the area at the time (besides ISDN), the site was never connected to the internet. The board had two 56k dail-in lines-- one primarily for FIDONET, and not available 24/7, the other line was up 24/7 till the BBS was shut down. The BBS was a failed attempt to resurrect BBSing after it's rapid demise in 1995. It used ANSI art for a Renegade-based BBS I was developing in 1994. The ANSI art was designed to load quickly on slow modems (I used a 2400 baud modem in the 1990s), and was hand coded to minimize color changes and extra codes added by TheDraw. It ran for about a year, and then shut down. I still use the BBS name for subdomain of my company website, outpost1.stellimare.com, which is used for non-business and more personal project. I just might resurrect it some day as a telnet/ssh BBS to show people learning about computers a part of history, and mostly for giggles... I might even add a dial-in line." - Douglas Moyes
360-493-0798 Lacey, WA	Le Maison De Metal, Le Masion de Metal (1991-2004)	Larry Eggers	Spitfire
	"After going private for a short time (about 1 or 2 months) Le Maison De Metal BBS is once again open to the public 24/7. At one time (just a scant few years ago), Le Maison De Metal was one of several thriving BBS's in & around Olympia, Washington. Now, it's the sole survivor." - Larry Eggers
360-923-1892 Lacey, WA	The Mosquito Byte BBS (1992-1998)	Joe Morris	Maximus
	"Made from a lot of homegrown software. Totally free, home of the original ONLINE! magazine." - Joe Morris
401-245-6142 Barrington, RI	The Stronghold BBS (1994-1995)	Michael Donnelly, Josh Israel	Renegade
	"Created by Michael Donnelly, the board was a forum for debate and discussion of politics, religion, and music... as well as a haven for Barrington computer users. The BBS was also popular for its doors." --- Josh Israel (replacement SysOp when Michael went to college)
401-392-3341 Coventry, RI	The Void (1991-1993)	Kris Anderson	Renegade
	"This BBS was moderatly popular with BBS users becuase of its affiliation at the time with the ANSi Art group ACiD. And was a base for many Rhode Island discussion groups." - Kris Anderson
401-397-5146 Coventry, RI	IBM World II, IBM World II BBS (1992-1994)	Marcy Crossman, Marcy C/Mike M	Wildcat
	"I was a Co-Sysop on IBM World BBS with Mike Mendillo (401-272-4739) before I opened up my own, hence the II on mine. We had a lot of fun in those days and never dreamed that we would eventually have what the Internet today has to offer. I had my own Newsgroup - WinCnet - run by women. We were winking at all the guys since there were few women running much of anything back then. We did FIDO transfers and reached as far as Brazil. No men were allowed to read the group on our boards and 'most' of the other SySop's went along with it for the most part. Hard to believe it was only operational for 2 years since it felt like a lot more. One of the more interesting things that happened was that lawyers from IBM contacted me and told me I had to change the name of the board since it was infringing on their name. It looked all serious, like my little BBS was a threat. I never did change the name - posted the letter for everyone to see. In 2000 I ended up living just down the street in San Jose, CA from one of their sites. "We also had IBM World's Kitchen run by a guy who was in school at Johnson & Wales but I can't for the life of me remember his name. Mike and I were Co-Sysop's on it. As time goes by, and we get a lot older, we often find ourselves looking back at what was and how it became to be what we have now. :-) I was on a tech group the other day asking for help with a modem issue and we ended up talking about old BBS days and what we ran for software and what our background was and programs etc. Nostalgia. Good thing I got my modem answer pretty quickly. :-)" - Marcy Crossman
401-453-3716 Providence, RI	Kronos:: (1994-1998)	Mike Umbricht, Michael Umbricht	VMS DCL
	"I no longer run this system as a BBS, although I do still own the computer. It is a vintage 1980 Digital Equipment Corp. VAX-11/750 running the VMS operating system. There was no BBS software, per se; each person who logged in would get a DCL command line prompt. The system did have a message board, and there was DECnet mail and Phone for chat. It was also connected to the Internet for a while with the name kronos.egr-ri.ids.net" - Michael Umbricht
401-456-4634 Providence, RI	J&W University, Johnson & Wales University (1989-1992)	M Labbe/D Leckie, Labbe/Mcconeghy, Students, M Labbe M McConeghy	PCBoard
	"In the late 1980s I was the Chairman of the academic Computer Science Department at Johnson & Wales University in Providence. We trained programmers in FORTRAN, Pascal and COBOL, Systems Analysis, etc. I met Mike Labbe online about 1985 -- he had run a BBS from his home (Eagle's Nest) and we got him to come to JWU as IT staff. We set up the BBS first as a demo with our comp majors, and then later when I moved to the Science Dept I used it for what we would now call distance learning with students in my Environmental Science and Chemistry classes. It was a great success and I wrote a couple of articles about it for Educational Journals. Mike left JWU about 1994. We were inactive online for a couple years, and then became very early Web users at the instigation of IT staffer Anand Sampath." - M. McConeghy
401-467-3575 Warwick, RI	Towers of Camelot (1992-1996)	Jason Place (Merlin/Maerlyn)	Renegade, TriBBS
	I started Towers in my junior high school days (7th grade) on a 2400 baud modem and a single dedicated phone line I convinced my parents to get me for my birthday. It was never a huge BBS, it was perhaps 100-150 or so people at its peak around 1994-95, and was mostly dedicated to lots of board games. LORD, Tradewars, BRE/SRE/Falcon.s Eye, and a ton of others. Door.sys was a such a pain. Anyway, thanks for compiling the list, it was fun looking over it and getting nostalgic. :)" - Jason Place
401-624-3172 Tiverton, RI	Mega Drive, Megadrive (1989-1994)	Drew Dunn	RBBS
	"Wow, did this bring back memories! Megadrive was really a 286/10MHz system with an astounding 104MB of hard drive space. Back in the day, a system like that was pretty powerful. 386's hadn't quite hit the market and memory expansion came in the form of big ISA cards with socketed DIP chips. Megadrive had a 2400bps modem (pretty darned fast for the time) and was one of the most popular BBS's in Rhode Island. We had users from as far away as Russia and Australia! The BBS ran RBBS software because it was free. In 1991, we packed up shop and moved to San Diego where the BBS was reborn as Sleepless Nights..." - Drew Dunn
401-724-4410 Pawtucket, RI	Chowdanet BBS, chowdanet.com, RI (1985-2009)	Brad Shipp, Craig Healy	Wildcat
	"Chowdanet has been running continuously as a FIDO system. 1:323/120 is still in operation. Also at telnet://chowdanet.com." - Brad Shipp
401-732-3161 Warwick, RI	World Trade Center (1984-1987)	Steve Franko
	"I ran this bbs in the mid-80s mostly a C64 trading site with a medium sized community participation (~300 mostly active users)" - Steve Franko
401-732-5292 WARWICK, RI	Eagle's Nest, Eagles Nest,!, Eagles' Nest, Eagle’s Nest (1986-1996)	Mike Labbe	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Rhode Island Area 401/Mike Labbe ListKeeper: Rhode Island Area 401
401-738-1437 WARWICK, RI	Hack & Slash, The Rhode Warrior (1992-1997)	Robert Hurst	RPGBBS
	"As the story goes, I was the sysop using the RPGBBS software I developed commercially for Amiga. It would evolve later to become both a standalone BBS as well as a DOOR (Amiga CLI), which became instantly popular as "Hack & Slash" for 100s of Amiga BBSes around the globe." - Robert Hurst
401-782-4958 NARRAGANSETT, RI	Drop A Line BBS, Drop-A-Line BBS (1997-1999)	Jacques Bouchard, Jacques L. Bouchard	Renegade
	"I remember that he had problems running it, so stopped. Than he moved. He's still a good friend."
402-235-2210 Murray, NE	BeaverNet BBS (1992-1993)	Greg Gerke	DLG (Dialog) Pro BBS/OS for the AMIGA by Telepro Technologies, DLG (Dialog) Pro BBS/OS for the AMIGA by Telepro Technologies
	"This BBS ran on an Amiga 2000 with maybe a couple hundred megabytes of disk and perhaps 4-8MB of RAM - a really loaded Amiga. I didn't have many callers, mainly because it was a long distance call from nearly everybody on the planet. And those that did call for some reason were expecting adult oriented items for some reason. Dunno why that was; at the time I lived in Beaver Lake, NE which is where the name came from. Can't imagine where they got the idea there'd be porn ;)" - Greg Gerke
402-291-6164 Omaha, NB	Late Night, Late Nite (1989-1994)	John Patrick	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Omaha, Nebraska since 12/89. Sysop: John Patrick. Using PCBoard 14.5a with 10 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 8500 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $3 Monthly fee. GIFs (33,000+ HiRez Adult), ShareWare, Online Games and much more. Nebraska's #1 mature GIF source. Home of the LNxxxnnn.GIF series.
402-330-7513 OMAHA, NE	Quasar BBS, The Solar Wind (1990-1993)	Tom Kimzey, Merlin DePeel (Co-sysop), Tyler Theobald (Co-sysop)	UltraBBS
	"The story was pretty simple - once I got my first 1200 baud modem I was hooked and once I had the resources I decided I would start up my own BBS. I ran through a variety of (Free or Cheap!) BBS software as much as a learning process as anything before finally settling on UltraBBS. It was a lot of fun setting up all the various workings, creating ANSI menus with TheDraw, setting up the good door games (Operation Overkill, TradeWars, Global War, etc) getting on RelayNet and Fidonet, and even shelling out ~600 bucks for a brand spanking new US Robotics 14.4k Dual Standard under the SysOp program. I met a lot of people and had a good time - I remember chatting with a large number of SysOps listed in the 402 area code at one time or another. Those were the days!" - Tom Kimzey
402-332-4740 Gretna, NE	SPARKY BYTE'S BBS, Sparky Bytes (1994)	Jim Shepard	Spitfire
	"This board was a part of G.O.S.S.A. (Greater Omaha area Spitfire Sysops Association), a loosely organized group of sysops headed by Curt White (Abort, Retry, Fail)" - Greg Wolkins
402-339-1660 Omaha, NE	Galaxy BBS (1989-1997)	Matt Koske (Talon)	Major BBS
	"16-Line Major BBS. Was one of the most popular boards in Omaha in the 90s as far as online gaming and social interaction." - Matt Koske
402-341-5513 Omaha, NE	ABORT RETRY FAIL (1994)	Curt White	Spitfire
	"This board was sysop'ed by Curt White, founder of G.O.S.S.A. (Greater Omaha area Spitfire Sysops Association), a loosely organized group of sysops headed by Curt White." - Greg Wolkins
402-346-8281 Omaha, NE	Club Oasis (1991-1995)	Greg Wolkins	Spitfire
	"This board was a part of G.O.S.S.A. (Greater Omaha area Spitfire Sysops Association), a loosely organized group of sysops headed by Curt White (Abort, Retry, Fail)" - Greg Wolkins
402-390-0285 Omaha, NE	The Mystic Cloister BBS (1993-1995)	Troy J Lichtas	SPITFIRE
	"I miss all of my users, especially Ross Hartman. Very special thanks go out to Michael McDonald (Phantasm's BBS) and Dean (Blastoff BBS) for all your help and all the fun times. I want to thank Martech software for developing Tradewars 2002 as it was this software that inspired me, originally, to run a board in the first place." - Troy J Lichtas
402-423-7652 Lincoln, NE	StarCruiser Epsilon (1989-1992)	King's Questor	GBBS
	"Apple //e System. 24/7, 2400 baud, 60 Meg, File Xfer, Games." - King's Questor
402-436-1416 Lincoln, NE	Lincoln Public Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
402-436-1471 Lincoln, NE	Pershing Elementary School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
402-455-5555 Omaha, NE	Infomill (1989-1994)	Mark Willis	Wildcat
	"I came across this and think it's fantastic. I ran a board called Infomill and did mail relays to rivercity. Shut it down as the advent of WWW took over :)" - Mark Willis
402-474-2900 Lincoln, NB	Cyberspace, Cyberspace BBS (1987-1997)	Bill Richman, Chris Radek	MajorBBS , Major BBS
	"Ten lines, featuring our own "graffiti wall", multi-user chat with custom chat "actions", Galacticomm "Flash" games, "Galactic Empire" multi-player space war game, "door" games, tens of thousands of files for download, and thousands of (mostly) great users. We had some really good times (along with a few "not-so-good" ones) and met a lot of really nice folks." -Bill Richman, Sysop, Retired, Cyberspace BBS
402-493-2737 OMAHA, NE	Hawg Wild!, Hawg Wild! BBS, Inc. (1990-1996)	Nate Chase, Bob Savery	Wildcat
	"Hawg Wild! BBS Inc was the official name of the company and Hawg Wild! BBS was the name of the system. Nate also sold computer equipment and services and the BBS was a paid membership BBS, so it was all incorporated to legally protect us. During the time frame you have listed, Nate Chase was the sysop. I was the Co-Sysop starting back in about 1991. Nate sold the system in 1996 and I took over as Sysop. In 1995, we moved the entire system to my house in LaVista (but never changed the location so as far as anyone knew, it was still an Omaha BBS). In 1996, Nate wanted out, and the system was sold to Top.Net (The On-Line Pitstop guys). Since Rob Beagle's house was already full of equipment from their system, I was "hired" on to maintain and Sysop HawgWild. In 1998 my (now) ex-wife booted both me and the BBS out. The events were not entirely un-related! :-) Rob, Jim Logan (Co-owner/Sysop of the PitStop) decided at the time to close the doors. Much of the files and equipment were merged into the Pitstop, with the internet side of things continuing on for a while (but never developed and eventually killed off as well.) Amazing what google dredges up in it's somedays! I'd forgotten about a lot of this! Thanks!" - Bob Savery
402-498-9022 Omaha, NE	The GAM, The Glorified Answering Machine, Universal BBS (1990-1994)	Mark Thomas, JD Rhoads	Hermes
	"Started as a way for other Mac users to share information and shareware, UBBS quickly became a resource for more than 80 paying users. We had two phone lines because that is all my software and hardware could manage at the time. We used US Robotics Courier 56k modems and had a whole 2Gg Seagate hard drive. I was only 13-15 years old when I started and operated UBBS (until I found cars and girls). It was some of the most memorable times of my life, thank you everyone who supported UBBS." - JD Rhoads
402-551-5496 Omaha, NE	Blastoff BBS (1991-1995)	Dean Langholz, Jeremy Kusek	Spitfire
	"Special thanks to all out there who called Blastoff BBs and to all the other Sysops who ran Spitfire." - Sysops of Blastoff
402-553-1234 Omaha, NE	Captain Sysop and His Ship of Fools (1988-1992)	Bill Barnes, Patty Perkins	Spitfire
	We had great success with two lines. Lot's of great ansi screens.
402-553-7445 Omaha, NE	The Back Door BBS (1992-1998)	Barry Bottger, Dave Eidson	Spitfire
	"The Back Door BBS was a public board and an online access point for the Stage Door Music and Record Shop in Omaha." - Dave Eidson
402-558-3343 Omaha, NE	E.D.G.E. (1984-1987)	Jim Bayer	DRBBS
	"Edgucation, Design, Graphics, and Education. Ran on a PS2 M80 at a whopping 2400b." - Jim Bayer
402-571-8942 Omaha, NE	DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #23 (1982-1986)	John/Tom Schulte	Basic DOS Languate/Commadore 64
	"My brother and I ran this BBS system off a Commodore 64 with a single floppy storage. We had many great memories from it and now am HTML'ing is across the Internet." - John Schulte
402-592-1745 Omaha, NE	T.A.L.C-CFC#6, T.A.L.C.-CFC#6, T.A.L.C. -- CFC #6 (1982-1988)	Debbie Clement	TBBS
	"I started in the BBS world, actually back in like 1982, with a Radio Shack Computer, called the Color Computer 2, with a 300 baud modem using software called the Best BBS. The best thing about the software, was it was written in basic, so I could tweek it. I thought was really cool when the 1200baud modem came out, spent a fortune on it as well, and I thought it really 'zoomed'. I later changed computers, and software (to the TBBS system) and at the same time, changed the name of the board to Firm Foundation, and ran that board using the phone number 402-592-4840, which I ran until April of 1990 in Omaha. After that, I moved to Brookfield, IL and ran the board from there with the same gear until August of 1993. From there, I moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and ran the board for another year or two. Thought that the internet was a joke (boy was I stupid about that!), but in the end the board became too much to run and too time consuming and I shut it down sometime in 1995 or 1996." - Debbie Clement
402-675-3343 Battle Creek, NE	The Edge BBS (1993-1996)	Jason Herrick	KBBS
	"The Edge - Where reality ends; lol - it was based in a small town local to Norfolk, NE. I remember the games (doors) and users the most. I tried to bring an intergalitic feel to the BBS by offering as much MPG experience like Barren Realms Elite. Brought a real sense of community when their was common ground to gain against another BBS. I believe I added a second node in 1994." - Jason Herrick
402-734-6959 Bellevue, NE	RBBS The Meeting Place (1983-1984)	Lee David Rimar	RBBS
	"I was the sysop of this BBS, which I had completely forgotten about until Jack Winslade reminded me of it a few years ago. Once JSW tickled my memory, I fondly recalled... It ran on a heavily modified Kaypro II computer (upgraded with a 10 MHz Z80, a 1 megabyte RAM disk, and quad-density 5.25" floppy drives). Hot stuff for the early 1980's. The original reason I set up the BBS was to get U.S.Robotics' "sysop deal" on their new, amazingly fast 1200 bps modem!" - Lee David Rimar
402-734-9962 Bellevue, NE	Black Ice (1994-1996)	Ashley Morton	Spitfire
	"A long time ago, I was into cyberpunk and stole (yes, STOLE) the name from a novel that I liked a lot. My friend and partner in crime, John Costello and I put this up first on a Tandy 1000 ex :) Then later on a 286-16 we put together out of spare parts from various sources. I remember buying two 340 meg RLL drives for the board and yes they still work. Join G.O.S.S.A in the area, (Thanks Curt and Sparky) and I can't remember why it went down, but all good things have to end. My thanks to ALL who were there for us from the beginning to the end and to my friend John, wherever he may be." - Ashley Morton
402-841-5793 Omaha, NE	Files 4 Fun BBS (1992)	Timothy Norris	Spitfire
	"BBS moved to South Korea as the SysOp was deployed for 12 months, then to Shreveport, LA afterwards. The BBS came back to the Omaha area in 1998 when the SysOp was moved back into the area. The BBS has been off and on ever since: f4fbbs.com (Timothy Norris admin@f4fbbs.com) - of course, the BBS no longer uses dialup, but I added the number I believe it was listed under back then."
402-896-6050 OMAHA, NE	WizardNet (1987-1990)	Dale Botkin	Wildcat
	"When taken offline, hardware was sold to Friends BBS and software became Castle Rock. We ran Tradewars, Fidonet, too much stuff to remember. 24/7, 2400BPS, 100MB on line!" - Dale Botkin
403-235-6790 Calgary, ALBERTA	NEC, The GNW OutPost (1998-2000)	Nathan Evans	RemoteAccess
	"The Great Northern Wilderness Outpost was a labour of love and learning. I did all the ANSI animations by hand, learned batch files through trial and error, and tried not to be on it too often myself thus leaving the single phone line as free as possible. I even grabbed a list of noble titles from history to give to users, mixing eras and countries to make a list that sounded good. Hail to my Seneschal! If only phone lines weren't so expensive to have. Eventually I even had a telnet address for a second line (RemoteAccess supporting two simultaneous nodes at that time), but high speed internet spelled the doom of BBSs. FidoNet couldn't compete with the real-time updates in UseNet, and long filenames in Windows 95 were needed for the advent of mp3 files! It took forever to download a song file, even at 56k. I remember the Outpost with fondness. Thank you all." - Nathan Evans
403-239-1225 Calgary, AB	Lunatic Haven, Lunatic Haven BBS (1987-1990)	The Dreamer, Lawrence Chen	Cit68k3.27, Citadel 68k
	"Basically, you have the info right about this BBS....except that I started in 1987 and then halfway through 1990, I moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta (403-526-6957) "In 1992, I changed software to DLG Pro and continued until 1997 when I finally pulled plug....I was on Fidonet, USENET and a hundred of OTHERNETs. But, it was getting way to expensive to just be a free BBS. Plus the users were changing...they either wanted real Internet access or multiplayer games. And, I wasn't going to invest in either approach. (plus a few months later I got laid off, and most of the system disappeared). "Wish I kept records though. The only historical record I have, I guess, is a picture I took in 1996....see my website (http://www.lhaven.net). Sure wish I kept some of the various text files from those days....especially the logon banner. "Sure is a nice trip down memory lane reading the other familiar BBSs from around Calgary and Medicine Hat. Will have to read it more depth when I have more time." - Lawrence Chan
403-239-3223 Calgary, AB	The TekknoZone BBS (1991-1993)	Vis Naidu	TransAmiga, MAXs BBS
	Focused on Techno, Rave and Electronic music, the Rave scene and Amiga software.
403-239-5684 Calgary, AB	Raunchy Rubber Band Land, Raunchy Rubberbandland, Rauncy Rubberband, Sirius Paradox (1987-1992)	Evil Elastic, Richard Orr	Searchlight
	Raunchy Rubberbandland was the last BBS that occupied this phone number - and by far the one that it is remembered for. It was an idea that came up between Richard Orr (Evil Elastic) and Dan Swan (Dethimself) on a Sunday night with the goal of attracting many of the well-known (luminary) BBSers of the day in Calgary that were scattered across many boards. It was modeled after Studio 54 in some respects - hard to get in (you needed to be known) and that exclusivity drove a lot of interest across the community. Dan can be credited with both the name of the BBS and the sysop name - he was riffing on names and when this came up, there was no more discussion needed. Searchlight was used since it was fairly new at the time and gave the BBS more individuality. The other aspect of the board was the very limited number of message boards on it - the goal was to limit the number of places could segregate to drive more volume of conversation. There may also have been a few of exclusive file sections but I can neither confirm nor deny that.
403-244-0630 Calgary, Canada	Knights of the Round Table (1986-1988)	Craig Schock
	" In 1984, some friends of mine and I formed a computer group called the Knights of the Round Table (or KoRT for short). In 1986, membership in this group increased considerably when we all enrolled in first year at the University of Calgary. At one point, one of our members (Sandy Rhodes) got a personalized licence plate (KORT) and put it on her Diablo El Camino. KoRT became quite the social club and we had a lot of fantastic parties. I guess it fell apart when half of the membership flunked out of University (probably because of too much partying and hacking) and many of the members went their separate ways. "Around 1988, I started experimenting with full screen editing and a much more rich user interface using curses. My time was getting spread far too thing, and I eventually had to abandon the BBS. It's funny... at the time I never thought I would be looking back, missing the BBS scene in Calgary. But it really did represent a golden age!" - Craig Schock
403-246-1174 Calgary, AB	The Deep (1997)	Cain
	"NONAME Distribution Site" - Anonymous
403-246-4487 CALGARY, CANADA	T-80 BBS, T-8000 Info System, T-8000 Information System (1990-1997)	Brian Simpson, Stephen Decarie
	ListKeeper: Alberta AC 403
403-247-6007 CALGARY, CANADA	Badger's Hole BBS, The Badger's Hole (1991-1994)	Martin Dettbarn
	"I started the Badger's Hole in 1990 on a single line 2400baud modem, running Quick BBS and a 30mb hard drive. As time went on and file/msg boards grew, I of course had to upgrade the hardware. At the peak, I think I had several hundred megs of disk space and added a second dialin line." "The name of the BBS came from an online game I played at the time called TradeWars. During this period, I didn't have a BBS but was an active caller at the Computer Connection in Calgary (which ran the TW game). My game partner and I had a little planet which was named 'The Badger's Hole'. As time went on and I had more interest in starting up my BBS, I needed a name -- for some reason that little planet came into my mind and The Badger's Hole went online." "I believe I was just in the last year of Junior high when the BBS went active, throughout high school I ran it and really enjoyed it. In 95' when I took it offline, I was a little sad as I basically had it up and running for 5 years straight. Over that time I tried Quick BBS, Remote Access and finally PCBoard (PCB was a fantastic software package) For mailers I started on BinkleyTerm and moved to D'Bridge as part of the FidoNet network. Calgary was a great place to run a BBS, the SysOp community seemed fairly tight knit and a very good group of guys. Thanks to Bernd Bosemeyer for helping me along the way with hardware / software issues, a very good person." "If it wasn't for the cursed Internet I'm sure I'd still be running it :)" - Martin Dettbarn
403-248-4862 Calgary, AB	Mental Ward Nine (1996-1998)	Jason Nieckar	Remote Access
	"Insanity at its best!" - Jason Nieckar
403-248-9005 Calgary, AB	Hub for 121-300, Inner Sanctum, LEC, The Inner Sanctum BBS (1992-1999)	Nathan Alexander	Maximus
	"Really like what you've done here with the BBS List. I thought I'd forward in some additional info to you about the Inner Sanctum: The Inner Sanctum BBS was activated Dec 1992 and was taken down around May 1998. The first computer that ran the show was an XT (8088) with 640K ram, 20 Meg Seagate MFM HD and 2400 baud Zoltrix internal modem. Thankfully the system was upgraded from that to a 286, 386, 486 and finally a Pentium 200 with 400 meg HD. The Inner Sanctum joined Fidonet I believe in 94 but don't quote me on that. The node address was 1:134/174 and then I was reassigned a new node of 1:134/222. In the last couple years I devoted lots of time to helping new Sysops establish their BBS's or assist them in repairing it. Some of them were Gators BBS, Kitira's Revenge BBS, Little Dog on a Pillow BBS, Hog Wild, CMD BBS and a few others that slip my memory at the moment. If you were a member of my BBS or was just around back then, please drop me a line. Would love to hear from you." - Nathan Alexander
403-249-8862 Calgary, Canada	The Fourth Reich	Jim Butcher
	"Jim was once contacted by the Jewish Defense League because they thought the name of the board was anti-semetic." - Craig Schock
403-249-9009 CALGARY, CANADA	Nucleus Information Service (1992-2001)	David Berzins
	"Yes believe it or not that BBS is still alive and kicking. (admittedly via telnet only now ). BBS.nucleus.com is the current number. I was one of the original members and am now a staff member here." - David Irons (Dox.)
403-252-5119 CALGARY, CANADA	QUANTUM BBS NODE 1, The Quantum BBS (1993-1995)	Jeremy Birkett
	ListKeeper: Calgary Alberta AC 403
403-253-0659 CALGARY, CANADA	Southern Alberta, THE MESS HALL (1991-1992)	Fred Towner
	"Fred was a good friend, a gourmet, and a good soul. RIP." - Bruce Waldie
403-254-5567 Calgary Alberta, CANADA	Cannibals Anonymous (1993-1996)	Travis Chase	JetBBS
	"The first name of the BBS was the White Porcelin Drinking Bowl, then it was changed to Cannibals Anonymous a couple months later. The BBS had only 1 line and ran on an IBM PS/1 486 at first it ran 2400bps and later 14,400bps and after that 28,800bps." - Travis Chase
403-259-6341 Calgary, AB	The Dawn Patrol (1988-1999)	Kevin Kindle	TSX-BBS
	"Started off in Red Deer in 1988 running QuickBBS v1.0, then Searchlight BBS, then Lynx BBS and then Osiris XLT. In 1991 it moved to Calgary and in 1995 it was upgraded to the multiline TSX-Online. In 1997 it grew into TDP.Net, a 12-line Internet Service Provider. In 1999 it was bought by another ISP." - Kevin Kindle
403-265-1991 CALGARY, CANADA	Echo A Call On, ECHO A CALL ON (1992-1995)	Elf
	Cave Member BBS
403-270-7264 Calgary, AB	Das BBS (1984-1988)	Lana 'Stratus' Berrington	logicomp C64 beta test
	"No long essay, no narrative.. but I was amused to find my old phone number and old bbs name listed on the internet. Alas, my name wasn't there for posterity.. and I can't for the life of me remember the name of my software which was I was beta-testing for a friend who wrote it in (although he's still a friend, so I'll email him and ask!). I ran this baby on a Commodore 64 with first, a 300baud modem, then a 1200 baud modem. I had 2 X 1541 5.25" drives and 1 1581 3.5" floppy drive, running 24/7 with a big Sears fan strapped to the top to keep them cool. There were probably about 15-20ish regulars in the forums (of which there were 2-6), and I often got 60 + calls a day. We had a few meets as several of us overlapped on other boards. Thanks! I look forward to seeing my name up in lights! :-)" - Lana Berrington
403-278-0492 Calgary, AB	Grimlor, Quest To Qualivar (1984-1989)	Peter Warrick	Homegrown
	"Named changed to the Dataline at sometime (I think that's what it's called.) Also I'm not sure what Grimlor is in reference to?? I think I still have the original 5.25" disks I wrote the first version on (doubt if they still have any data on them though.) It eventually migrated to 3.5" disks and then finally to a whopping 20meg HD.. LOL." - Peter Warrick
403-280-4547 Calgary, AB	Great Galaxy of Andromeda, PartyTime! (1990-1992)	Robin Lee	RemoteAccess
	"I ran this BBS around that time frame... although I think I stopped running it when all the other Chatline type BBSes came out (and when I moved out of that house). I was part of a couple of "fidonet" type networks in 91/92, including Fidonet. I had a lot of games on my BBS (Tradewars, with others like it), and a bunch of others... all that information is probably on an old hard drive sitting at the dump... my only gateway to it is probably through my old "telix" login... Thanks for keeping that list up... its something that i hadn't thought of in ages." - Robin Lee
403-281-4608 Calgary, AB	Don't Panic, Don't Panic BBS (1986-1990)	Clinton Johnson aka Xepol, The Lost Wanderer	Minotaur, Citadel-68k
	Originally available evenings and weekends, but up and down sporadically near the end. It was a place you could almost always find the SYSOP ready to chat. In the very early days, you might even get auto-logged on based on the distinctive sound of your modem while connecting. (And did THAT ever freak a few people out ;)
403-281-9706 Calgary, Canada	Wizards Realm	Jayson Hanes
	"Without a question, one of the most successful bulletin boards in Calgary's history. Getting online was next to impossible. Jayson Hanes was a good friend of mine. Whenever I was over at his house, there was always someone connected to the BBS. When the modem would hang-up, there was less than a second delay before the next caller was connected." - Craig Schock
403-282-1051 Calgary, Canada	The Twilight Phone, Zapple Bbs	Blake Stone
	"This BBS had an interesting feature called "Smurfs". Basically, you could turn "Smurfs on". If you did, all text sent from the BBS was sent through a filter which would randomly change words to "smurf". For example: the phrase, "She went down to the bar and got smashed" might become "She went down to the smurf and got smurfed". If you were in an odd mood or just wanted some laughs (the results could be surprisingly funny!) it was worth trying out." - Craig Schock
403-287-0883 Calgary, Alberta,	The Great White North, The Great White North (TGWN)	Bill (Billy) Baird	Image BBS V1.2a
	"I noticed this pillar of Commodore 64 BBS history in Calgary was not credited with the operators' name and I felt obligated to add some details out of respect to the man and the memories this board had on a (then much) younger man. Bill was a regular at the Calgary Commodore User group meetings and ran the BBS for many years. I have many fond memories of the active message boards and rousing games of Empire. Bill and I discovered a bug in Empire where answering no to the right series of questions (where one would normally answer yes) would cause the program to re-credit you with the years' crops even though you hadn't played your turn yet. A few cycles through this and the rich would get richer very quickly. Bill had me fix this bug and patch the program, the first time I'd fixed a bug in software. 20 years later, I still write software for fun. Wherever you are Billy, thanks." - John Finlay (The Zap)
403-291-0038 Calgary Alberta	Hells Hole BBS (1995)	Sam Roar
	I loved having this BBS. I got it set up with the help of Garry Moore from Gators BBS (Also in Calgary). I found this while trying to look for Mr Moore. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
403-295-1175 CALGARY, CANADA	The Realms Of Doom (1993-1995)	Eugene So	RoboBoard, Remote Access, QuickBBS
	"This is a fantastic list and brings back many fond memories of my BBSing days. "The Realms of Doom" was originally named "Crimdrac's Bloodied Lair" after the Dracolich from SSI's Forgotten Realms game "Curse of the Azure Bonds". Later, I renamed it to "The Realms of Doom" to capture a broader fantasy world. The names I chose are rather morbid, but at the time I actually envisioned hope in a dark world where heroes would emerge, bringing their light. I was only twelve years old when I started operating the BBS. I owe many thanks to my Dad for buying the family a C-64, 300 baud modem and separate phone line to support my endeavour. Also, many thanks to Billy Baird (TGWN) who was a true pioneer and inspired me to create my own BBS. Thanks also to the operator of Infinite Loop BBS (which seems to be missing from this list) who spent many hours helping me configure Remote Access. I ran many newsgroups on the BBS (ie. MetroNet, FidoNet) and offered disk space for uploading/downloading programs. However, online games were definitely the heart of it, especially Seth Able's LORD, Dustin Nulf's Operation Overkill and Chris Sherrick's Trade Wars. My experience as an operator took me through many developments in technology. I believe I started with a 486sx/66 running MSDOS and experimented with Windows, DESQview and OS/2, as well as multiple BBS platforms such as QuickBBS, Remote Access and RoboBoard over the years. I always had to juggle providing the best experience for my users while also using the same computer for my own purposes. I shutdown the BBS when I graduated from University and went to live overseas. By this time the Internet was already taking over the world of BBSing!" - Eugene So
403-347-3262 RED DEER, CANADA	DLG HST, Telepro Technologies (1992-1995)	Tom Conroy
	Product: DLG Professionali
403-433-8375 EDMONTON, CANADA	McNAMARA SOFTWARE BBS, McNamara Software Node #1 (1988-1992)		Wildcat
	"This BBS was run by a Dave McNamara. It got to 4 lines in the final years and had very popular message boards on general computing of the times. In the late 80's there were monthly meetups near the campus of the University of Alberta where I met some of it's most frequent users in real life. By the early nineties the sysop suffered some serious health issues (neck pain) and became increasing paranoid with his postings the message boards. He alluded to so preY2K like apocalypse of computer systems (IIRC) and would kick off users if they argued with him. Longtime users choose to ignore the behaviour. For me, between heavier med school studies, moving away to residency and the rise of the web, I missed the slow decline of the board. When I returned back to the city in 1996 I dialed in again for old times sake. It still existed but was a shadow of it's former self." - Simon Ng
403-436-3059 Edmonton, AB	Athabaska BBS (1989-1991)	Stephen Downes	Maximus
	"Used to support distance education students in philosophy for Athabasca University Critical Thinking 252 course" - Stephen Downes
403-444-7511 Edmonton, AB	Chocolate Wastelands (1995-1998)	Shaun Betchuk, Snapdragon (Shaun Betchuk)	Renegade
	"Wow, those were the days. I used to be part of Fidonet and ran my own network, ChocoNet, which had 9 nodes in Edmonton. I went through about 5 phone numbers before it just ended up dying to the Internet. :( I'm still around, still using Snapdragon as an alias, going on 13 years now." - Snapdragon
403-457-6147 Edmonton, AB	A.P.A.C.H.E. (1988-1992)	Mike Amra Brown	BBS Express Pro!, Force
	"Originally "Atari Programmers and Computer Hobbyists' Exchange", Apache started on an Atari 600XL with a 30mb hard drive and 2400 baud modem. It was mostly a role-playing BBS, one user at a time. Switched (always regretted it) to the PC and Force about a year into things, and stayed that way until a lack of interest on my part shut it down in '92, almost exactly four years later. A.P.A.C.H.E. became even more role-playing oriented and so the name now stood for "Anarchy Prevails as Chaos Hoards Evil", yea, stupid now, but it was the eighties and I wanted to keep the name Apache!" - Mike Brown
403-473-1254 Edmonton , AB	The Junkyard BBS (1992-1996)	Dave Sloman	Wildcat
	"The Junkyard and The Adventure BBS were the Start of Adventurenet one of the largest gaming and Messaging Networks in the world over 170 nodes in North America as well as 170+ nodes in Australia and New Zealand The Adventure net was started By Bernie Vodovnik and Dave Sloman as a way to communicate between BBS's and grew from there." - D. Slowman
403-489-8078 Edmonton, AB	Kevin's BBS (1983)	Kevin Umbach	Punter Clone
	"Kevin wrote a fully functional BBS system that looked and felt like Steve Punter's system. It was written in C64 basic and was so large it had to be compiled in order to squeeze into the 32K of memory available for BASIC programs. A SFD1000 drive provided a whopping 1000 blocks (1MB!!) of storage space for uploads and data which seemed huge in those days. One memorable bug with the system was that it would crash on the 13th day of the month due to a single character being used to store the message day. Character 13 in ASCII is a carriage return and this caused an error when read back from the message files." - Kevin Umbach
403-526-6408 Medicine Hat, Alberta	HATCOM BBS (1983-1991)	Russ McElroy	Homebrew
	"HATCOM BBS (Yes, always in ALL CAPS) was the first bbs in Medicine Hat. The board was a TRS-80 Model 1 computer with homebrew software written in BASIC with a little Z80 machine code to push the bits through the serial interface to the 300 baud modem. The modem was connected to a homebrew autoanswer device that would pick up the line when calls came in. The line was picked up so quickly that this speed became a hallmark of the bbs once there were others to compare it with. Later the hardware was upgraded to a TRS-80 Model 3 computer and autoanswer 300/1200 baud modem. The system sported four double-sided 80 track floppy drives for storage." - Russ McElroy
403-546-4106 Linden, AB	Halo (1997-2000)	Scott Sinclair	Remoteaccess
	"This was my first and last attempt at a BBS. I fired it up when i was about 15 years old, starting with friends only, running at night, tweaking the interface, testing out different front-ends, finally settling on RemoteAccess. Version 2.52, if I remember correctly. I made a few ASCii menus and tried my hand at a few ANSi screens, which didn't work out so well, so I had a member of AciD make me a homescreen. That is about the same time I joined FiDONET. I ran this BBS starting on a 386@33MHz, with a 40MB hard drive and 1MB of RAM, and a 9600baud modem that I put together from parts that i got from my uncle who was in the IT business. I then migrated the system to a 486DX66 with 4MB of ram and a 120MB hard drive, with a 28.8 USRobotics modem that I received as a gift from a local computer dealer. At that point, I had joined FidoNet and was running a few door games. In june of 2000, my family and I moved, and shut down the phone line, and the system along with it. I credit much of my computer knowledge to the experimentation and operation of the BBS. RIP HALO, 1995-2000" - Scott Sinclair
403-556-4100 OLDS, CANADA	Compu-Farm BBS, Hub for LD Nodes (1985-1997)	Bruce Waldie
	"I was the sysop for the Compu-Farm BBS in Olds,AB (403)556-4100 from February 1985 until its demise (sometime in 1997 to 1999 when it converted to a web site). At the time that I took it over, I know that it had been in operation for at least 18 months already, so that makes its start date 1983 at least. We didn't get a lot of callers in the early days but they were wide spread because we spread agricultural information and there were not a lot of sources (BBS) for that at the time. We grew the Compu-Farm BBS to a Canada-Wide BBS System of Fido-Net based boards of over 13 BBSs that had well over 1300 callers a day! And then the Internet happened... Good thing in the end." - Bruce Waldie
403-590-1552 Calgary, ALB	Beyond Reality BBS (1995)	Dylan Orr	Remote Access
	"My god .. this BBS went up and down so many times was a direct affinity for great ANSi/ACSii graphics.. had some help earlier on with basic setup from NO Limits BBS . .I believe his name was Minh Tran; I ended up setting up another by the name of The Luxor BBS with a friend. As most sysops. Everyone started to want winsock .. running an internet connection. At the time .. I ended up having little time. And with the release of such games as AO and EQ, Netstorm and other addictive online games. BBS pages became history. I ended up frequenting several other bbs'es myself Such as 'The quantum' bbs (who's sysop (shadowmage) was named Carl Roett :) Quanum .. Genesis on and off. Then eventually made my home on Mainline BBS. Made many friends along the way.. Wish things would of stayed local and dialup .. much friendly bunch.. only rumors anymore. Still find it amusing when I found the "LEGEND OF THE GREEN DRAGON" Web page for the 'brand new' online game.. (scratches head) Bar.. a bar.. named.. umm Seth.. hey.. There's Daisy.. Think I've been here before (cough) lord (cough) :P Anyhow thought I'd post this and hopefully if yer policy permits add my email to my BBS desc and see if any old skool people would drop me a line.. perhaps we can hook up. Moved from Calgary, AB, to Compton California, Currently in Chicago Illinois USA, moving back up north soonish. :P" - Dylan Orr
403-672-8500 Camrose, AB	Tandy Computer Support Group, TCSG (1983-1989)	Brian K. Hahn	Mustang
	"That BBS moved to Millet, AB with the number 780-387-2237, and ran until February of 1994. The SysOp wrote many programs which were distributed as far away as Florida. The users of this group were from all over Canada and the US, with over a dozen from the UK. Today this BBS is being revived as both an website and dial up BBS. More information will be available at www.8bit-micro.com. This site is mastered by the SysOp of TCSG, Brian Hahn." - Brian Hahn
403-686-6226 Calgary, AB	Creo Imagonem BBS (1994-1996)	Count Von Igor/Draconis	WILDCAT, Remote Access
	"Also home of Rottweiler Software, which spat out 3 dozen games and SysOp utilities during it's time alive including Gangsta Bitch, Night Crawlers, and Time of Revolution. I was 18 when i started the BBS, and spent countless hours in front of my computer coding in Turbo Pascal for other SysOps or making game revisions. Some of the best times were the user meets though :)" - Count Von Igor / Draconis
403-778-2478 Whitecourt, ALB	W.A.C.H., W.A.C.H. BBS, W.A.C.H. BBS (Whitecourt Area Computer Hobbists) (1993-1995)	Dale Wheadon	Maximus
	Fidonet, Door Games, Shareware files
403-783-6116 Ponoka, AB	Action Net! (1991-1996)	Jack Spink, Bob Machuk	Mustang Wildcat!
	"Boy! reading thru this list brings back LOTS of great memories!!Action Net! Grew out of My Board! M Y B O A R D ! was run on an XT with a 30MB Hardcard! ActionNet! was a commercial BBS and had a HUGE 1.02 GB Full height SCSI HD. That drive was well over $2000 !! There was 2 phones lines coming in but a 3rd number in Stony Plain that forwarded to a local number. So Edmonton could call the BBS toll-free! The BBS system itself was run thru a total of 6 networked computers, making it (we believe), the largest privately owned network at that time in Alberta! We had 8 x1 speed CDROMs online and tonnes of files and lots of doors! For a while we also had USAToday!(Daily), and BBS Magazine (Monthly), and the Central Alberta Crime Stoppers case (weekly). Action Net! was quite well known right across Canada and we got quite a lot of calls from the US as well. We ran US Robotic modems and the network was Novell." - Jack Spink
403-923-0000 GIBBONS, CANADA	Universal Mind Productions (1987-1997)	Gord Morrison	WildCat
	"The most stable, longest running BBS in Camrose, featuring door games, messaging and files. It consisted of a single line connected to a 2400-14.4 bps modem and a i386."
403-923-2056 Gibbons, AB, Alberta	Sweetheart's Place! (1995-1996)	Naomi Carmack	Wildcat
	"I was a 15 year old female running a BBS, under the guidance of AdventureNet creators Bernie Vodovnik and Dave Sloman. " - Naomi Carmack
403-929-5986 Beaumont, AB	Matrix'96 BBS (1994-1996)	Sean Gartlan	Wildcat
	"Wow, this brings back memories! I ran a Wildcat BBS in Beaumont, just outside of Edmonton for about 2 years. Started as The Matrix an in 1996 changed to Matrix'96. This was way before the Matrix movies. Remember many other Sysops from that time as well. Good times playing L.O.R.D., BRE, Falcon's Eye, Trade Wars all over Fido. I remember one GIF I scanned up Called HOOTERS.gif. It was a very popular download of an Owl! It would take like 20 mins to download over the 14,400 and I got quite a few nasty messages after." - Sean Gartlan
403-939-5226 Morinville, AB	Danger Zone BBS (1994-1997)	Wayne Stevenson	TriBBS
	"The Danger Zone BBS was operated for a few years as a resource for computer gaming enthusiasts. It was a one-stop resource for gaming cheat codes, walkthroughs, cheating software, and game discussions. I started out at 2400bps, and through donations, we made the way up to 14.4, then 33.6. We were a FidoNet node, and ran several registered door games including B.R.E, S.R.E, Trade Wars, Usurper, and L.O.R.D. Our multi-BBS game leagues we were connected to made the BBS very popular. It was probably the largest resource containing well over 1GB of game-related software though no actual games for download. I remember working out a deal and sending my mom with a box of floppies in to the city (Edmonton) over to The Borg BBS and grabbing all of their files related to gaming to add to the Danger Zone file selection. Saved me a ton of download time as I was dialling in at 2400bps initially. Sadly I shut the BBS down when early 1997 when I moved away to college. Though by that time, the internet was accessble to everyone with a computer and a modem." - Wayne Stevenson
403-946-5098 Madden, Alberta	The Bard's Tavern, The Final Frontier, The Soaring Eagle (1992-1997)	Travis Penner	Remote Access
	"I'm pretty sure I took the board down back in '96. I'd moved full time in the work force by then and as of Fall that year I moved into Calgary because the commute was just so d@mn expensive for an 19 year old kid just getting started in the real world. "Anyways this is my story, if you want to post it :) "I have a lot of fond memories of the BBS age and it WAS something special. I was 12 when I first started playing around with Modems, in the 80's when 1200 baud was screaching fast and all the games out there were in CGA. EGA being a rarity. Anyways to make a long story short. My family moved out to Madden, which is 45 mins out of Calgary. Not really having a social network out there for a 14 year old kid, I decided to start a BBS on our family line. LOL - my family didn't like it much and Mom and Dad got me my own phone line. From thereon I got into BBS'ing. Started up with FidoNet on my message boards, and some obscure networks that some other adolescent friends and I kept up. Used Remote Access, Maximus, and Oracle, mostly stuck with RA. And for Mailers I had Front Door, Gmail, Fmail, and god knows what else I tried out. Good memories all. "As for the reason the name changed so much is 'cuz I'd get bored of the same old thing and want to try something different. And when you're a teen, the latest fancy of mine got reflected onto my BBS. "Wish I could find my old BBS backup files, I still got some of the old Doors on 3.5" disk kicking around, even the full version of TradeWars. One last thing, I think back in 93 or 94, Fido started a local Religious Forum in Calgary. If I recall correctly I moderated it for a short while, bad idea. "I'd love to apologize to everyone I offended on that thing, I was one cocky SOB. Being 14-16 and "on fire for the Lord" is great and all, but zeal doesn't mean you're wise ;-)" - Travis Penner"
404-214-1062 Carrollton, GA	Shadowland (Now Shadowscope) (1992-1996)	Richard Miles aka Deathknight aka Captain Obvious	Renegade/Tribbs
	"Shadowland was up off and on from 92-96 sometimes 24/7 sometimes part time which attributed to it's decline. Briefly it came back online in 2000 via telnet and has been available at rmiles.myhomeseer.com via telnet and shadowscope.com since 2012. The board is now named Shadowscope BBS and runs Synchronet BBS software." - Richard Miles
404-251-4904 Newnan, GA	Heritage School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
404-256-1549 Atlanta, GA	ABBS #X (1982-1983)	J.C. Chris Wren	Written by J.C. Wren, Basic + Assembly
	"ABBS #X ran on an Apple II with 48K, a 16K language card, two 140K diskettes, and a Hayes Micromodem II. The software was about 3000 lines of uncommented assembly, and 2000 or so of Integer Basic. It was the first BBS in the southeast to use circular message files, eliminating the usual requirement of periodically "packing" the message database and renumber all the messages. It kept a copy of the user information in the 16K language card (with a driver that made it look like a RAM disk), and maintained it as a balanced binary tree, making user name look ups incredibly fast. It supported 1 main message base of 100 messages, and 2 sub message bases of 25 messages each. Messages were 24 x 80, supported upper and lower case. Operator chat was available, along with message editing facilities, message search, etc. Most of it was written while I sat in school failing math classes." - J.C. Wren
404-271-8478 Sugar Hill, GA	Trench's Funny Farm (1990-1994)	David Higginbotham, Jr.	VBBS
	"TRENCH's Funny Farm still exists as a website (trenchsfarm.com) and a clown company." - David Higginbotham, Jr.
404-292-8761 Stone Mountain, GA	F-T-L, Faster Than Light, Faster-Than-Light, Faster-Than-Light BBS (FTL-BBS), FLT-BBS, FTL BBS (1987-1997)	Robert Vostreys, Rob Vostreys, Robert Vostreys, Will Rogers, Robert S. Vostreys	PCBoard , PC Board
	"Home for Echo and Email tossing software RNET; Space, SF, Sciences theme; One of the first BBS board to try migrating to dialup internet and full usenet; died due to problems with phone company and migration of online community to ISPs. Continues today via FTL-Alumni@yahoogroups.com." - Robert Vostreys
404-299-3828 Stone Mountain, GA	Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Southern Connection
	"I got this KKK "business" card from my grandpa when he visited Georgia a very long time ago. The number is printed on a card with the KKK insignia and other things along with the address: PO Box 466 Stone Mountain, GA 30086." - Anonymous (Note from Jason Scott: If this is false, please let me know.)
404-325-0526 Atlanta, GA	Microstuff Inc. CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
404-338-9483 Lawrenceville, GA	"V.FS BBS", ADULT BBS V. FASTSEX BBS (1994)		Wildcat
	ADULT BBS V. FASTSEX BBS, 404.338.9483 5 Hot! Adult CD's online. 4 V.Fast 28.8 lines. All our pictures are of the highest quality and hard to find! Preview your pictures before you download with WildCat 4's online thumbnail maker. Hottest pics in the Southeast! Call today.
404-339-1101 Lawrenceville, GA	SMALL BUSINESSNET BBS (1994-1995)
	SMALL BUSINESSNET BBS, 1-404-339-1101 — America's favorite home and small business BBS! Database, Point-of-sale, Invoicing, Inventory, Communication, Spreadsheet, Financial Management, Customer Tracking, Utility, etc. software to support your growing business! - BBS Magazine November, 1994 SMALL BUSINESSNET BBS, 1-404-339-1101 — America's favorite home and small business BBS! Database. Point-of-sale. Invoicing, Inventory. Communication, Spreadsheet. Financial Management. Customer Tracking. Utility, etc. software to support your growing business! - BBS Magazine March, 1995
404-354-0662 Athens, GA	FOG #27, FOG RBBS-RCP/M #27, FOG -27 (1985-1992)	Bob Herrin
	Computer User Group of Athens (FOG AMO #81) Computer User Group of Athens (FOG AMO #81)
404-361-2496 Forest Park./bbs 404-361-2496 The Blind Mans Bluff	Blind Man's Bluff, The Blind Mans Bluff (1995-1999)	Steve Keene, Ray Barbier	TriBBS
	"The Sysop Was Legally Blind and Assisted By Ray Barbier Co-sysop of Blind Mans Bluff and Sysop of Nomadic Transfer BBS" - Steve Keene
404-361-9879 Lake City, GA	SouthEastern Xpress (1990-1994)	Kelly Chaney	TBBS
	"This was the 2nd hunt group dial-in bank." - Kelly Chaney
404-361-9880 Forest Park, GA	SouthEastern Xpress (1990-1996)	Kelly Chaney	TBBS
	"This was the 1st hunt group dial-in bank, with 8 lines at its highest point. I lost touch with all my users when I moved away from the local calling area." - Kelly Chaney
404-394-4220 Atlanta, GA	Atlanta Computer Society, Atlanta CPU Society, CBBS Atlanta (1980-1989)	Atlanta Computer Society	CBBS, CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
404-428-0060 Atlanta, GA	INDEX: ISDN 56K/64K , INDEX: ISDN Lines , INDEX SYSTEM (1994-1997)	Digital BBS'ing!!, in the CC: lines!, very goofy!! , Rodney Aloia, Rod Aloia
	ISDN Line
404-432-1393 Smyrna, GA	Tombstone BBS (1991-1993)	John Koch ("Iceman")	Renegade
	I was in 8th grade and convinced my Mom to give me another phone line. Originally I was using a 1200 baud modem but had upgraded to to 56k by 1993. The BBS was mainly to trade software, but I ended up making a lot of good friends and loved to hear the sound of someone connecting. I would drop everything and run over the the PC and watch/chat with users logging in. Amazing memories of that time in my life. I had software that would change images into ASCII art so would always change the login screen with new artwork.
404-458-4886 Atlanta, GA	Atlanta CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
404-498-9646 Stone Mountain, GA	Chaos Inc..., Chaos, Inc. (1993-1996)	Philip Doolittle, Phillip Doolittle, P. Doolittle	Wildcat, QBBS, Wildcat
	"Originally on QBBS, later migrated to WildCat. 4 lines, 2 nodes. Run on DR-DOS and Netware. 3.11 540Mb HDD 5.6Gb CD-ROM Shareware, game doors, and chat. No adult content." - Philip Doolittle
404-552-7964 Roswell, GA	Roswell BBS (1989-1993)	Jason Cohen	QuickBBS
	"I was the sysop of Roswell BBS when I was 13 (in 1989) to when I was 16 or 17. I was the youngest sysop that I knew of in Atlanta." - Jason Cohen
404-577-7784 Atlanta, GA	Upanishad, Upanishad OPUS (1986-1988)	Bill Carmichael	OPUS/Fido
	"The discussion topic was spirituality and religion. We had threads on Eastern religions, Carlos Casteneda, John Lilly (Isolation Tank Research & Dolphin Communication), Druids, Early Christianity, Sikhs, and Cargo Cults, among others. Co-sysops Warren Tucker and John Miller." - Bill Carmichael
404-627-2662 Atlanta, GA	OASis PCB OAS ABBL, OASis,Sysops'Bd, The OASis, OASIS (1990-1996)	Chris Camacho, Christopher Camacho, Marshall Brown, Online Atlanta Society	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Atlanta Area 404/Online Atlanta Society ListKeeper: Atlanta Area 404
404-641-8968 Marietta, GA	Sem Ware QEdit Support, Sem Ware Technical Support, SemWare, SemWare BBS, SemWare Corp, SemWare QEdit Support BBS, SemWare Support (QEdit/TSE), SemWare Support PCB QEdit, SemWare,hm QEdit (1988-1996)	Sammy Mitchell, Kyle Watkins, Richard Blackburn	PCBoard
	"This BBS was established to support our software products, first QEdit, and then later TSE. It went online in 1988, and we did not pull the plug until 1996. We ran the PCBoard BBS software. We were amazed at the number of people that called the bbs, and how often they called. We used to run our beta-tests via the BBS, and our group of about 100 testers became a very close community. It was one of the most interesting times I can remember. We developed some long lasting friend-ships, that are still going on today, with people for the most part that we've still never met in person. Sysops were Sammy Mitchell, Kyle Watkins, and Richard Blackburn." - Sammy Michell
404-664-1075 Atlanta, GA	Star Trek Atlanta, Star Trek Atlnata, USS REPUBLIC BBS, USS Republic BBS OPUS (1989-1994)	Brian Flatley	Opus
	"I was the typical Star Trek Fan. I ran the BBS from my bedroom in my parent's basement. It was part of the Star Trek Fan club that I belonged to at the time. I still have the computer with the BBS software on it in my spare bedroom." - Brian Flatley
404-668-0412 Dunwoody, GA	The Regency (1993-1996)	Halaster, Talen
	"I was the co-sysop of The Regency. Halaster and I started it to be a pirate board, but I quickly found that I cared a lot more about keeping up good discussions in the forums, and Halaster cared a lot more about ANSI art. It was a strange art form that for some reason a few thousand kids all over the US got into. There were two dominant groups of ANSI artists out there, Acid and Ice. Halaster and I decided to start a joke group and see what would happen, so we came up witht eh self-mocking group name FiRE. Don't forget to lowercase that i! Anyway, it soon turned out that Halaster and the other guys he recruited to make joke ansi art were actually pretty good at it, and soon enough were becoming as popular as the big boys. At the same time the discussion forums, with myself as the moderator, were doing very well, making The Regency one of the most popular BBS in the ANSI scene. It was weird and dorky, but I had a lot of fun doing. Then in 1995 we went off to college, and Jesse tried to keep the board going on the internet, but with the advent of AOL and other pipelines to the web, less and less people cared about BBS's and ANSI art, so it died soon after. I think it existed from 1993-1996 in one form or another. It was so great seeing it on your list, it really brought back a lot of memories! Thank you!!!!" - Talen
404-728-0938 Atlanta, GA	Access: Earth (1993-1997)	Tony Masinelli	WWIV, VBBS
	"My name is Tony Masinelli, and I can't tell you how thrilled I was to find your list while surfing the 'Net. Talk about nostalgia! Wow. I was a sysop in Atlanta (actually inside the city limits) in the 1990's, and I ran a BBS called "Access: Earth" from 1993-1997. I started my BBS with WWIV software on a homemade 286 and one phone line, and by 1997 I had three lines and was running VBBS software on an early Pentium. (I must have been just about the only person in Atlanta running VBBS - and get this, I was running it under OS/2.) Members on my board (I had over 200 in 1997) were asked to invent a fantasy role-play persona as their online identity, and I provided a gaming area called the "Adventurers' Guild" with over 30 doors to games like Gotterdammerung, Star Trek, Legend of the Red Dragon, Dominion, etc. I also had dozens of conferences on topics ranging from story chain (users contribute to a running story, one or two sentences at a time) to religion and culture. At one point, I even had several sessions of turn-based role-play gaming going on through various conferences, with people in the U.S. and abroad participating. I brought conferences in through LavaNet, Fido, and other packet-switching services. (Members enjoyed making friends via one conference that linked them with a BBS on the U.S. base in Japan.) I never charged a user fee for any of this. The board was a labor of love. "Atlanta Computer Currents" did a feature on Access: Earth in 1994, when the culture of the board was firmly established but I was only running one line (60 users). You can find that review on page 61 of the Volume 6, Number 7, July 1994 issue. Those were the days! I miss them. My life has completely changed - I'm finishing seminary training (and a master's degree) in St. Louis and I'll be ordained as a Lutheran pastor in May. I'm toying with the idea of starting a BBS again, just for fun, when I'm out in the parish. I really enjoyed it." - Tony Masinelli
404-729-6525 Atlanta, GA	HAYES (1995)
	ISDN Line
404-739-6908 Austell, GA	Harpoon, Stormbringer (1992)	The Ringthane
	Trsi Member BBS
404-740-8428 Alpharetta, GA	Avatar Technical Support, Crosstalk, DCA Connection PCB, DCA Connx, DCA Technical Support, DCA/10 Net Communications, Digital Communications Associates BBS, Crosstalk Communications BBS (1990-1996)	Mark C. Miller, Mark C Miller, Digital Communications Associates	PCBoard
	Product Support for Crosstalk for Windows/MK4/XVI
404-789-4210 New Berlin, WI	Exec-PC (1994)
	ISDN
404-789-4500 New Berlin, WI	Exec-PC (1994)
	2400
404-835-5300 Atlanta, GA	IBM National Support Center BBS (1993)	IBM National Support Center
	IBM PC User Groups Database - Newsletter Exchange
404-876-0422 Atlanta, GA	The Stupid Computer BBS (1990-1998)	Patrick Harvey aka MrGalaxy	Wildcat!, Wildcat 4
	"The Stupid Computer BBS started off as a custom built PC running DRDOS (to allow "multitasking") and one hard drive and later grew to 2 hard drives and 4 1000ms-access time CD-ROMs. SuperStor was used to compress the files on the hard drives. We ran Wildcat! Distributing shareware was our main goal. Secret areas were available to "special" people." Over the years we switched from 300 baud to 1200 to 2400 and then finally to 9600. Wow! All night long the CD-ROMs would power up and down and make sounds like small jet engines as their yellow lights flashed their signals across the room. The hard drives would made a quiet gurgling noise as users made their way through the site. To be a Sysop was truly glorious. One night we were attacked by a hacker who utilized the Screaming Fist II virus as a weapon....Kewl!" - Patrick Harvey
404-920-8611 Whitesburg, GA	The Catacombs, The Catacombs BBS (1993-1994)	Rick Sherman, Lori Sherman (The Vampiress)	Telegard 2.7,WWIV
	"The Catacombs BBS was a birthday present to The Vampiress in June 1993 and was shut down in November 1994 due to financial difficulty." - Lori Sherman
404-924-8414 Marietta, GA	INDEX Line 2, INDEX: Line 2, Index Systems (1991-1994)	Rodney Aloia
	Excellent list of Atlanta BBS systems online
404-924-8472 Woodstock, GA	Atlanta Net, Cherokee Hub A, Index System, INDEX System, The, INDEX: Line 1, Live From Woodstock, Net133 NEC, TBBS Atlanta, The INDEX System (tm), The INDEX System TBBS (1983-1997)	Rodney Aloia, R Aloia, Rod Aloia, Rodney A Aloia	TBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Woodstock, Georgia since 04/83. Sysop: Rodney A Aloia. Using TBBS 2.2 with 32 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 5000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. No fee. This is a BBS for the Serious Modem'er! Internet, FidoNet, Games, Chat, Files Messages, on one of Atlanta's oldest and largest BBS's. Great fun. Local to Athens and LaGrange, GA. Operated by INDEX, the place to buy BBS S/W. List of BBS List Keepers: Atlanta Area 404/Rodney Aloia ListKeeper: Atlanta Area 404
404-939-1520 Atlanta, GA	Northstar CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
404-949-2582 Marietta, GA	Atlanta Net NEC, Atlanta System Net (1992-2001)	Larry Cody	Maximus, Wildcat
	"I was more than slightly surprised when I found your site and my old BBS numbers. We ran a BBS continuously from 1989 until 2001 with two major hardware changes and four BBS OS changes, but still kept an active user base of 150-200 users. ASN was originally a CNet 10.0 BBS running on a Commodore 64. We quickly outgrew the C64 and moved it to Image BBS running on a Commodore 128, added two 1541 and one 1581 floppy drives, a dual-disc 5 1/4" floppy drive (I forget the model number), a 10MB IEEE HDD and an 85 MB SCSI HDD (Lt Kernel)... I.ve been told that storage-wise, it was one of the largest Commodore BBSes in the USA (took up an entire bedroom of my house). I moved off the Commodore 128 and onto a PC in 1991, running Maximus BBS with Front Door (node 1:133/504 and 1:133/500 for message handling as Net 500 NEC) under OS/2 for nearly the next 10 years. the best BBS software combination I ever ran! Was running Wildcat with integrated Internet access for dial-up users when I took the board down in late 2001. Your sources were impeccable . I had totally forgotten the phone number of the second line when I lived in Marietta (404-988-9570)! Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!" - Larry Cody, SysOp, ASN BBS
404-969-8232 Fairburn, GA	The Realm Of Darkness (1991-1993)	Tim Powell, Dark Mage (Tim Powell), Tim Powell (Dark Mage)	Oblivion, Renegade, Telegard, Oblivion/2, Telegard, Renegade, Oblivion/2
	"I'm reachable at thedm96@zdnetmail.com." - Tim Powell
404-992-8937 Roswell, GA	JOBBS! (1988-1993)	William Griffin, Alpha Systems Inc./Bill Griffin	custom FoxBase
	Online Job Listing - 2186 Technical Pos. - 10,000 Corps.
404-993-2316 Stone Mountain, GA	Paul's Place BBS (1993-1996)	Paul Sponaugle	Wildcat
	"Fun & Gaming BBS. Great Message Board." - Paul Sponaugle
404-993-8621 Winder, GA	Dark Mirrors, The Unforgiven, DARK MIRRORS (1992-1995)	The Animal
	Energy Member BBS Paradise Member BBS
405-325-5600 Norman, OK	The Void BBS (1992-1994)	James Lutter	RemoteAccess
	This BBS was a multi-line BBS running RemoteAccess and FrontDoor for FidoNet. It was mostly put together so that me and my friends could play TradeWars and Lord of the Red Dragon. However, it grew with FidoNet and a multi-CD changer for massive amounts of Shareware Files. (remember the huge shareware compilation CD's?)
405-327-4565 Alva, OK	The Matrix BBS (1996)	John Chisum
	We had 30 online games using Wildcat! BBS, was a part of Fido Net for a short time and was Alva's first real BBS. There was a BBS that just sat on a line and really did nothing that the local newspaper ran. They didn't even post stories or have an active message board. At the high-point, I had a user base of 325 (not bad for a town with a population of 7500 with college students). I moved after graduating and went into radio. I was also co-sysop in Amarillo, TX (806 area code) for several BBS's...including Mystic Mountains (Blassingame / Rula). Thanks for the memories!" - John Chisum
405-341-9584 Edmond, OK	My Refuge (1993-1996)	Bruce McCubbin	Telegard/Renegade/FidoNet 147:135
	"My Refuge came about with much help and thanks to Michael Johnson, the SysOp of Knight Mare BBS and Hub Coordinator for the local Fido Net. It was a family base board with DoorGames and many many file sections to search thru, and several Nationl Echo Mail boards were started here. Spendings hours tweeking the s-registers of my modems and getting just the right look for my ANSI screens was heaven indeed!! Tag Lines ruled!! *Catch the BlueWave* *640K is enough for anyone - Bill Gates* *A Bug is just a Feature with seniority*" - Bruce McCubbin
405-355-9678 Lawton, OK	The DuckNet BBS (1984-1988)	Tommy Johnson	GBBS Pro
	Developer of "Swords & Sorcery" for ACOS
405-357-9769 WHEATLAND, OK	the JOiNT BBs (1988-1991)	PRiMO, Cannibal Vector	PCP, LiQUiD
	"This was one of the neatest sites dedicated to hedonism and recreational phun. Rx Required!" - Flashguru
405-359-5682 EDMOND, OK	Cantgetenough's Bedroom, Southern States BBS, SSBBS (1993-1994)	Travis D Nelson, Travis/Tania Nelso, Travis Nelson	QuickBBS
	"I am the co-sysop of Southern States BBS. I am the one and only Cantgetenough...SysopGoddess. Southern States was a free board, but our users donated to register the games, something almost unheard of :-). We ran a G-rated side, and an adult rated side (Cantgetenough's Bedroom). For a long time, we were the AdultLinks feed, until it grew too expensive. We were also a message hub for S.L.I.M.E BBS (not listed on your site, and I don't remember sysop or number), which was a WWIV board, I think, and just wasn't compatible with other message boards, but we took on the challenge! About the same time it got too expensive to hub AdultLinks, we were all in hot water for our adult content. Oklahoma is the buckle of the bible belt, and we felt the pinch. Many of the BBSs went to BBS heaven due to that fact alone, including ours. Seeing this site, and seeing all the names I once knew brought a tear to my eye. Those days are gone gone gone, and I truly miss them." - Tania Nelson
405-360-6130 Norman, OK	GOCC, Sandpit BBS (1983-2002)	CHUCK PENDLEY, Chuck Pendley	Wildcat
	"From 1983 until 1993 software was PUNTER BBS and BBS was known as the "GREATER OKLAHOMA COMMODORE BBS" It was run on a C-64 with a 20 meg HD. Overnight it turned into the SANDPIT BBS same phone same sysop (Chuck Pendley) but changed to a 386 Gateway computer and Wildcat software. Finally folded in 2002 due to lack of callers. Internet was in full swing. The BBS was always free...Never did cost the users." - Chuck Pendley
405-376-1877 Mustang, OK	HeLTeR SKeLTeR BBS, Helter Skelter (1994-1998)	Gus Ragsdale	Wildcat!
	"Originally started from a backup of The Marriot System BBS, gifted to me by it's SysOp Tom Milam when it shut down." - Gus Ragsdale
405-478-3424 Edmond, OK	Mr. Roger's Neighborhood (1995-1996)	Brian Drake (Woofie) MRN@briandrake.com	Renegade
	"I'm looking to connect up with Floater, Sunshine, Praga Khan, and others who frequented MRN." - Brian Drake
405-485-2126 BLANCHARD, OK	Fantasy Land BBS (1994)	Randy Henderson
	"Fantasy Land did only survive for about 6 months then I changed the name to Dark Ages BBS. Running Telegard 2.5 (I think) I was getting too many people logging in thinking I was a porno board, so I changed the name." - Randy Henderson
405-485-9300 BLANCHARD, OK	Dark Ages BBS, Okie Net (1994-1999)	Randy Henderson
	"Dark Ages BBS 405-485-9300 and 405-485-3450 and 405-485-2126 was a multi-node bbs from 1994 to Dec. 1999 Then we moved from the Blanchard area to a remote unknown location :-) It was was of the few Multi-nodes BBS's in Okc. There was only 2 others and they were Pay Bbs's. We were always free to dial-up and multi-game. In 1996 we started offer FIDO Net feeds at greatly reduced cost (a lot cheaper than I was paying for them) by downloading the files via the internet and using a software called GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out written in spaghetti C) Mainly FrontDoor 2.02 did all the work. We setup Doom multiplayer games, with me at the console and three dialups we had 4 person games going all the time. I had a lot of help back then and want to credit Dr. Death (David) and AcidBlackwall (Scott) for all the time and energy they helped with on the board. And to also think AcidBlackwall for teaching my how to Pascal Program to make my own Renegade Utilities. We had several Utilties published on the old Software vault BBS Cd's I miss those days of the BBS and often wondered of some way to bring it back! We moved on to Web Hosting and Domain registrations at okie.net but sure miss the interaction with our BBS users. I guess I am stuck in the "old technology" I just stumbled across your list and it brought back fond memories." - Randy Henderson
405-634-0122 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	STAR-BASE 9 BBS (1986-1996)	Doc Cowles
	"We had 6 CD-ROM drives at a time with DOOR games and warez." - Doc Cowles
405-701-0249 Oklahoma City, OK	Prizm's Place (1985-1986)	The Prizm	CNet
	"Run on a C-64, a 300 (then "upgraded" to a 1200) baud modem and 2 floppy drives. Mostly used as discussion forums." - The Prizm
405-728-2061 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	TradeWinds (1989-1994)	Mona Shaver	QuickBBS
	"If you could, I'd like to add a note to the Tradewinds BBS, it was run by the lovely Mona Shaver. The reason it went defunct is that she died in 1994. She was so well loved in the local BBS community and FIDONet community, that her FIDO number was retired when she died. Mona deserves to be remembered. Seeing this site, and seeing all the names I once knew brought a tear to my eye. Those days are gone gone gone, and I truly miss them." - Tania Nelson
405-733-9997 Midwest City, OK	Shadowland BBS (1989-1994)	Howard Vart, Nomad
	"I noticed your bbs list and saw my old bbs listed and wanted to give a update/correction. First off the location was Midwest City, OK. I also noticed the name Howard Vart listed I have no clue as to who that is. I only went under the alias NOmad. I ran the site until around November 1994 that is when my computer got stolen and couldn't afford another one right away. After that I went into Geocities since that was becoming a thing still under the alias NOmad even called it the Shadowlands as well. Now I run a YouTube Channel under the alias TheRavenquick."
405-744-2277 Stillwater, OK	Burnout, THe Mote (1992-1994)	Ben Randle	Telegard
	"I found my registration card for SRE the other day. It's dated 12/16/1992 and signed in red ink "Amit J. Patel" that really brought back some memories." - Ben Randle
405-787-2540 BETHANY, OK	Beggar's Forum IV (1993-1999)	Lonnie Johnson	RemoteAccess
	"Lonnie, Vicki, thanks for the memories. I was there until the end. I truly miss the days of the BBS. The Internet is too corporate and sterile, all I use it for is eBay." - Anonymous
405-794-9787 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	House Of Donation (1992)	Dominator
	Subzero Member BBS
405-848-1026 Oklahoma City, OK	The Caverns BBS (1982-1995)	Micheal Patterson, Dr. Dred	C=64 days, C-Net, Image BBS, PC Days, Telegard, Renegade
	"The number for the board changed a couple of times during it's lifetime due to my leaving the Military and moving around some within the city. I still have my C-Net 11.0 5.25 floppy around somewhere and look at it from time to time just to relive a small bit of my past. The Caverns at it's peak, had approx 200 users, was the first New Image BBS (similar to C-Net 12.0) that was running the Image networking and message bases. It moved on to Telegard and became part of the local fido net until it got too expensive. Then I moved software to Renegade when I moved it to the number listed and put it up on an old Compaq 386 SX with Desqview to multi node it. That way, I could log in and not interrupt the users. I remember showing Renegade to Mysteria who fell in love with it as it was the closest thing to the original C-Net BBS package that we'd been able to locate for the PC and she put it up on "The Sea of Fantasy BBS". Ah, thinking back on those days reminds me of just how far we've come. The days of a dialup bbs are long gone and have paved the way to IRC, WWW, Blogs, Web Forums and the like. But remember, it all started with a simple dial tone oh so many years ago." - Micheal Patterson (Doc Dred - aka - Dredster)
405-848-5317 Oklahoma City, OK	FOG RBBS-RCP/M #13, Constitutional Pathway (1985-1986)	Whitney Boutin
	FOG Remote System #13 -- Oklahoma CP/M Users' FOG Remote System #13 -- Oklahoma CP/M Users'
405-872-9224 Noble, OK	Camelot Command (1995-1997)	Randall Christian, Randall Christian (aka Mad Cat)	Renegade
	"I started this BBS while I was in High School and after my senior year I had to shut it down due to life in general, but now I'm enlisted into the AirForce and have more time to work on things I enjoy. But due to pressure from my wife (who I met on my BBS), co-workers, and old friends I may rebuilding my Old BBS - Camelot Command again, this time using Synchronet software and I'm only running 4 nodes (for now) that are telnet only. Here is the website that most of the BBS information is on -> www.christianclan.com ... the BBS is at - cc.bbs.us (telnet)..." - Randall Christian
405-942-4232 Fort Smith, AR	Anartica BBS, Antarctica (1990-1992)	Dawn Harvey, Robert and Dawn Harvey	Telegard
	"Hi to all our old friends!" - Robert and Dawn Harvey
406-232-6641 Miles City, MT	The London Underground, The Outpost (1994-1996)	Dan Mowry	RoboBoard BBS
	"The London Underground ran RoboBoard software (Hamilton Telegraphics) on a 486 DX2 66 system with two online CDs rotating several CD Access ROMS with emphasis on games, graphics, and shareware aps. Access started with 4800 baud and eventually upgraded to 14.4 (an expensive investment, at the time!) Eventually, the BBS added a second, rollover phone line and a six-disc CD changer and was renamed to "The Outpost" with a stronger focus on gaming. The FXTerm client software was extremely popular, however the BBS did keep a ASCII/ANSI menu system for navigation and door games as Mustang systems were still very popular at the time. Door games included fully registered: Tradewars 2002 with expansions (Borg, Pirates, etc.), Baron Realms Elite, Legend of the Red Dragon, Solar Realms Elite, Poker, Junkyard Wars, as well as a few demo door games. Popular games for download, at the time, were Castle Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Doom, Commander Keen, and many casino-related games. Packet mail was popular and nightly sends were done originally via phone line FidoNet, then upgraded to Planet Connect 12 inch satellite dish system. It was popular in the very small, Midwestern town and locla areas. However, it was always a free system with paid-subscribers only benefitting from longer session times (all features were available to everyone). The extra costs of running it were absorbed as a labor of love. But, with the small community finally getting decent Internet service providers it was decided to close down as the competition would have been too great. A special thanks goes to fellow SysOps in the same town, and friends Timothy Wagoner (Signal Butte BBS) and brother Steve Wagoner (The Dragon's Den) for really inspiring and helping me to develop my modest little BBS. Theirs were truly the "big dogs" in the area and widely respected. Great guys. Great BBS's. What a wonderful time. The charm of BBS's has never worn off and honestly, can't be replaced by the World Wide Web. I have very fond memories of the time, learning the system, and creating the RoboBoard graphical pages. Being a SysOp was a gratifying hobby during a heydey period of BBS history." - Dan Mowry
406-251-4895 Missoula, MT	Malfunction Junction (1991-1994)	Chad Payne	Searchlight
	"Malfunction Junction was started as a single line BBS in my dorm room at the University of Montana in 1991 and eventually grew to four lines by 1994. The focus was not file downloading as many BBSes at the time were, but was designed to create a local online community where people could meet and get to know each other. We had many different forums from Politics to fictitious online bars, and had regular local BBS meetings where the users would meet in person. We even had one couple who met at one of our BBS parties get married. Malfunction Junction was also unique in that it allowed the users to start new forums at any time with the subject matter of their choice and be a mini-sysop of their own forum. During its run it was the most popular BBS in Western Montana and had over 600 regular users from all walks of life." - Chad Payne
406-251-4899 Missoula, MT	Montana MediaNet (1994-1996)	Chad Payne	Searchlight
	"In 1994 after Malfunction Junction BBS had been running for three years I moved requiring a change of BBS phone number. At the time I also changed the name of the BBS to Montana MediaNET with the plan to make it a regional online information center. In addition to all that Malfunction Junction offered, I added two more lines for a total of six allowing online chatting which was a novelty back then, and added hundreds of forums from several BBS networks as well as daily network news feeds. Games and files were added and the plan was really to make this THE Online destination in the region. Unfortunately for BBSes as history notes, the Internet was discovered around the same time. Montana MediaNET was one of the first BBSes in the area to add Internet e-mail, but by 1996 the Internet was too great of a force and callers diminished. Six lines were no longer necessary so we went back to four, and then eventually the BBS shut down by July of 1996. It was a great time in history and I often lament the loss of the local BBS. The internet is great but the local aspect of the BBS is what is lost forever." - Chad Payne
406-257-2983 Kalispell, MT	Sparky's Corner BBS, Sparkyscorner BBS (1989-1997)	Hal Krause	PC Board
	"SparkysCorner started the fall of 1989 as a way for a fire department to communicate. Hence the name of the fire dog "Sparky" started the BBS. At the peak running PC Board there were 17 shareware CD's, Fido net, Usenet News Groups, 3 phone lines, 7 PowerLan networked PCs, 3 gig of online hard drive storage. Almost every month Computer Shopper rated SparkysCorner as the largest BBS in Montana based on the number of shareware files online." - Hal Krause
406-265-5624 HAVRE, MT	Benden Weyr BBS (1992-1995)	Mike Wilson	DLG
	"Benden Weyr BBS of Havre, Montana was mine way back when! I ran the BBS from around 1992-1995 but the internet "explosion" took me out with it. I was also part of FIDONet, but I don't remember any of the information from back then. My bulletin board was run on my Amiga 3000 with 5 hard drives ranging in size from 120 Mb up to a whopping 340 Mb monster, 10 Mb of RAM and used a 30 Mhz 68030 processor with 68882 math coprocessor." - Michael D. Wilson
406-273-6399 LOLO, MT	Valley Light BBS (1994-1996)	Jay Michalik
	ListKeeper: Montana Area
406-453-8162 Great Falls, MT	Addiction 680x0 (1992-1994)	Reggie Ahlfield	paragon - Amiga ; Maximus - x86 platform
	"I originally started Addiction 680x0 on an Amiga 500 with about 1 meg of RAM and at times ran it with nothing more than 2 floppy drives. After the decline of the Amiga I finally gave in around 93 or so and switched to a DOS based BBS called Maximus. I ran the BBS while stationed in Great Falls in the Air Force. After leaving MT, I got involved in the internet in 94 and have been working with it ever since. For anyone who was wondering, the name was because computers were my addiction. I got a lot of first time callers thinking the BBS was for other types of addiction. The 680x0 refers to the motorola CPU used in the Amiga, and after switching to Maximus, the name was changed to Addiction to the Max. Thanks for providing your list. It brings back a lot of memories." - Reggie Ahlfield
406-549-6325 MISSOULA, MT	Montana MediaNet (1995)	Chad Payne
	ListKeeper: Searchlight BBS Systems
406-727-2851 Great Falls, MT	OutLand, Outland BBS, The Christian Connection (1991-1994)	Tom Recke, Thomas Recke	SpitFire and Remote Access
	"WOW, I'm not exctily sure how on earth I stumbled across this bbs listing! Talk about some good memories though! Initially I started mooching from my father's phoneline, until finally he allowed me to snag my own line. I think it was for his sanity more than anything! I was only 14 when the board first went live, I was enthralled with everything RA and spitfire. I still shudder to think about the transfer rates back then with Zmodem, 1K/min! I remember when my shiny Supra 28.8k was the cutting edge stuff. Any of you guys remember the "nerd fests" that used to be put on every year or so for sysops to get together? "I remember staying up for what seemed like days on end trying to work on the ASCII graphics for that board. I have nothing but good memories about that time and that age. I remember the archaic FIDO net that would compress and send email from node to node each night, might take a few days to hear from someone in the same town! Times sure have changed. How on earth did you generate this list?" - Thomas Recke
406-756-8296 Kalispell, MT	MO's Back Door, MO,s Back Door (1989-2000)	Gregg Maroney	Wildcat
	"MO's Back Door was created in April of 1989. The software used was Mustang Software~Rs ~QWildcat~R. At its peak, a seven computer, 3 phone line system. Novell 3.12 File server, 2 gig SCSI disk. I installed a satellite system and recieved Internet News Groups from a 24hr streaming feed. Five CD-ROM drives for online search and file download capability. I provided news group mail to my users in 1990. Personal World Wide Web e-mail in 1993." - Gregg Maroney
407-242-8542 Orlando, FL	The Wall Street Exchange Game BBS (1986-1994)	Clifford Gary Dayton	WildCat
	"Hay, I did not know about this listing board. In the past The Wall Street Exchange Game BBS I started in 1984 running Commodore 128 key board with a plug in RAM. Shhha! REMEMBER those slow bits days, with 6 drives >> 1571's << Two 1581's and a ZOOM - Modem that was the fastest in town with a whopping 126 k. Hold on now! Speeds double when it connect to another Zoom modem. Maybe some of you remember my BBS board by the Wall street game with the crazy pictures of the loonies bend hospital and when you played your game money putting it into your stocks when you left that stock it gave you how much you gain/lost. At the end of 15 days the game reset and posted the winner that gain the most. Hope you enjoyed my reminiscing as much as I have telling you all. It was a sad day when I took it down put a relief to not be a slave to the board with never any help except from my brother Corey Dayton that spent hours on the phone from his ThorBBS in New York (914,changed to 845). Maybe someday when I get the time I'll make the game for the internet." - Clifford Gary Dayton
407-254-3655 EAU GALLIE, FL	The Pyrotechnic's Pit (1983-1992)	Sean Haga	GBBS Pro
	"The Pyrotechnic's Pit was the one of the FIRST Apple BBS in Brevard county. When the Internet became obtainable to us, we moved there, you can now find the remains of our website at www.cyberdeck.cc and we would awalys love to hear from the old members!" - Sean Haga
407-267-8155 TITUSVILLE, FL	Snarfs Pub (1992)	Nameless
	Independent Member BBS
407-332-6787 Longwood, FL	Apache, Apache BBS, Apache [1] (1990-1994)	David Giordano, David A Giordano	Wildcat
	"I ran 4 phone lines offering chat, games, files, fidoNet, WorldNet." - David A. Giordano
407-335-1254 Stuart, FL	Meadwood Express (1985-2002)	Donald Nembhard	Wildcat!
	"MEC BBS Provided Gateway and Dialup sevices. MEC was the home for the (TCCUG) Tri-County Computer Users Group BBS." - Donald Nambhard
407-337-2559 Port St Lucie, Florida	JumpStart BBS (1992-1995)	Sandy Dykes	PC Board
	"JumpStart BBS came about because I always needed a driver or utility when I was onsite and I couldn't carry everything with me. The first BBS system hardware was an IBM XT with 640k and a 5 Meg hard drive. When I finally took the system down I had 15 computers running Novell Netware Lite. 2-6 disc CD Changers, 3 gigs of hard drive space (that was REALLY big back then) and a satellite dish downloading over 500 megs of Newsgroups a day. I also offered the first Internet email in South Florida. Of course the Internet came along and BBS's days were numbered. At its height I had several thousand users calling from all over the world. I think the furthest distance call I got was from a user in South Africa and he called at least twice a week. The BBS's specialty was utilities and MOD music files. I also had lots of "doors" running all the greatest games and lots of users battling it out to be top dog. Every year at Christmas I would run this one door that emulated a connection to Santa at the North Pole, I wish I still had the logs from all the kids that would call and 'talk' to Santa. The program was a simple IA that would respond to keywords. But of course those were the days when we were a little more naive about what a computer could do. I had a blast running that system and it was a great learning experience." - Sandy Dykes
407-348-3365 Kissimmee, FL	AmiTrek BBS (1993-1995)	Ken Rumsey, Locutus	CNet (AmigaOS)
	"I was very happy to find this site and see that someone is keeping the memory of the BBS alive and well. I had a blast running AmiTrek on my Amigas and still cherish those days. Looking around, I even found one of the old text signatures I used to use to sign my messages. Ah, the memories... __/// Ken Rumsey (407) 348-3365 2400-31200 Files - Games - Images \\X/ AmiTrek BBS An Amiga and Star Trek Support BBS"
407-359-8922 Winter Springs, Fl	Bobby's World BBS (1989-1998)	Bobby Rubano	Wildcat
	"I am Bobby Rubano of Bobby's World BBS. Both the 359-8922 and 359-3699 numbers were mine from 1989 to 1998. I just found my name on the list and thought it was so interesting that somebody else is still interested in showing what a difference BBS's made to our lives! In any case, it would be very appreciated if you change my date span to represent how long I really busted my butt writing Wildcat Scripts and WCC files :) I even developed my own OneLiner wall and had it on Mustangs BBS for a while.. It was downloaded over 1000 times from their BBS I was so proud! :)" - Bobby Rubano
407-362-9358 Boca Raton, FL	ZAP!, ZAP! BBS (1987-1993)	Peter Brunet and Tom Brunet	Wildcat, Wildcat! 2.15s
	"I started ZAP! in the (305) area code in Coral Springs -- I moved to Boca Raton (407) around 1990. Off and on it was multi-node under DESQView and an OS/2 beta. The focus was "door" games -- especially TW2002. Toward the end of ZAP!'s life I started to enjoy Pascal and had a customized Telegard hack online -- also I started coding a new BBS system from scratch using custom ANSI display optimizations... Closed the BBS, enjoyed my last days of highschool, went to college, discovered the internet... Thanks for this site! " - Peter Brunet
407-365-8600 Oviedo, FL	The Trading Post (1987-1992)	Crack-Master (Chris Russell)(Sysop), Hammer Joe (Andy) (Co-Sysop)	Color-64
	"I see in your list another 'Trading Post' BBS listed, but to my knowledge, I was the ORIGINAL Trading Post BBS in the Central Florida area. I ran it on a Commodore-64 with an array of 1541/1571/1581 drives as well as a 4800bps US Robotics modem. It originally started with a 300bps modem then progressed up to 1200, 2400, and then 4800. My CoSysop, Hammer Joe, was a whiz with creating ASCII graphics and was well known by other local Sysops for creating the welcome screens and other graphics work for their BBSs. Running the BBS was very time consuming, but always a lot of fun! I got to meet a lot of interesting people through the years and I'd be curious to know what some of them are up to these days." - Crack-Master (Chris Russell)
407-380-1716 Orlando, FL	The Weird Orange Caterpillar (1993-1994)	WOC (Ted M.)	WWIV
	"The only reason I named my BBS this was because I begged and begged a friend of mine who was an ACiD ANSI artist to make a custom logon graphic for my BBS for about a year. Finally he made one, of a 3 page long orange caterpillar. There you have it." - WOC (Ted M.)
407-451-1984 Boca Raton, FL	Adult Info. Exchange, Adult Information Exchange, Adult Information Exchange (AIE) (1989-1996)	Alex Barenboim	DLX
	"Alex started one of the first adult-oriented BBS's out there that included instant-upgraded membership using credit card authorization. Grew popularity in the early '90s growing to 12 lines with over 4,000 members across the South Florida area." - Alex Barenboim
407-453-0079 Merritt Island, FL	Nova Niteowl	Ted Grachis	Apple II
	"The Nova NiteOwl was one of the oldest BBS's in the Merritt Island, Titusville, Cape Canaveral Area. Ted used to work at the Nova lounge as a musician (thus the name) and worked at Cape Kennedy during the day. Run back on an old Apple II (iirc), it used 6 floppy drives linked together rather than run on a hard drive." - Nova Niteowl
407-477-5756 Boca Raton, FL	Substation, Xgraphics BBS, Substation BBS (1986-1996)	Paul Blaccard	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.0
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Mentioned in Erotic Connections & Penthouse Guide to Cyber sex books. The highest quality legal BBS ready GIFs around. Sales base for Interactive Amateurs BBS Ready CD-ROMS. Since 1986. Sample GIFS on 1st call. Voice Support: 407-447-9594.
407-589-3831 MAITLAND, FL	Hangar 18 Node 1 (1992)	King Cobra
	Independent Member BBS
407-635-9590 Cocoa, FL	Outdoor Sportsman, Outdoor Sptsmn, The Outdoor Sportsman BBS (1992-1996)	John Cornelius	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cocoa, Florida since 07/92. Sysop: John Cornelius. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 2 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1200 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. No fee. Fishing,Hunting, Diving & other outdoor related activities. Quality file selection. Ripscrip support. Hayes 28.8k V.FC modem. All welcome, not just the outdoor person. Growing quickly. Plus more.
407-636-4492 Rockledge, FL	Immortal BBS (1994-1996)	Brian Wilkins	Renegade BBS
	"I started this BBS on a 486DX2 running Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22. This 486DX2 was an AST Advantage PC that was purchased from Radio Shack by my parents. It was our personal PC, but I managed to get a second phone line for the BBS and that allowed me to use a dedicated line to host the BBS for my friends. I was only 12 at the time running my own BBS which I figured out how to setup and run. It hosted games (Legend of the Red Dragon and Usurper), small chat board, and FIDONET hookups. It was a small BBS with about 30 visitors a month but it was a great learning experience for me at the time." - Brian Wilkins
407-639-3648 Cocoa, FL	RayLine BBS (1992-1996)	Raymond Boettcher	RemoteAccess (RA) 2.02
	"I must admit, I wasn't expecting to find an online list that would have my name on it. However in this interesting discovery, I would like to share a few things with you. I was a member of a network organization called Fidonet. This network distributed a master listfile that was international and responsable to handling mail from BBS to BBS before the world of Internet came around. This file however large contains all the phone numbers and BBS's at the time I took my system down. This file is still contained within the ZIP file I put into my archives over ten years ago containing the last state of my BBS. However, I haven't tested this archive in years. I also didn't start my BBS in Cocoa. That was just the last known location of my BBS before I made it an online only BBS." - Raymond Boettcher
407-639-9123 Cocoa, FL	Programmer's World, Programmers Heaven, Programmers World, Spaztic, PROGRAMMERS WORLD (1991-1995)	Ron Shaw, Spazm
	Scoopex Member BBS
407-655-3561 West Palm Beach, FL	Utopia, Utopia BBS, UTOPIA (1987-1995)	The Diskette , Coca-Cola Kid	Commodore Mania BBS, later PCBoard
	Independent Member BBS
407-657-7011 Winter Park, FL	Central Florida TDD Information, Orlando TDD (1984-1995)	Robert Colbert, Bob Colbert	Modified RBBS, VBBS
	"Orlando TDD was one of the only (if not the only) TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) capable BBS systems in the Central Florida area. If was operated as a public service to encourage the interaction between the deaf and hearing communities over a text system. The original BBS software was a heavily modifed version of RBBS running on an Osborn CP/M computer and a 4800bps/baudot modem. In late 1992, Orlando TDD was reborn using VBBS on an 386 DX-40 clone where it remained until 1995 operating as a mail hub for FidoNET, VirtualNET and many others." - Robert Colbert
407-676-4343 Palm Bay, FL	Aero III	John Krance	Apple IIgs
	"As a SysOp of Aero III (407)676-4343, it was an Apple ][gs BBS and an Apple node. It was run from 1986-1992 in Palm Bay, FL. It was originally 2400baud, then 56k later on. Watched your DefCon18 and really enjoyed the little time loop back to the day. Keep up the great work. It was during my teenage years I spent $600 on long-distance calling Alaska to get the latest and greatest files. I still remember the security settings on the BBS was set by simple flags of "XXXXXXXXXXXX" - John Krance
407-678-5171 Orlando, FL	Minus Tirith, ODIN Hub-3.6 (1992-1996)	Mark Frankenfield	PCBoard
	"I had originally set this all up as a Point Node off a another board. When that board went down in 1992, I bought PCBoard and just setup my own fido node and eventually got ask to become a ODIN node since I had originally set everything up for mail anyway. All that ended when my apartment got robbed and the computers running everything were Stolen. Friends of mine from Studio PC-Citicom in Tampa helped me get things running again, but my heart wasn't in it anymore." - Mark Frankenfield
407-684-9574 West Palm Beach, FL	ToasterLand (1992-1995)	Tom Toothman	Renegade
	"2 lines! lots of games! FIDONET!" - Tom Toothman
407-738-5183 Boynton Beach, FL	JBX Online (1995)
	SLIP/PPP/Shell Provider
407-788-6740 Longwood, FL	Invader's Castle (1985-1987)	Tracey Jackson	Color 64
	"Commodore 64 based Color/Graphics BBS system using initially running 300bd and eventually 1200bd. Leveraged twin 1541 5 1/4 floppies and eventually an SFD-1001 1-megabyte 5 1/4 inch floppy." - Tracey Jackson
407-831-6130 Longwood, FL	TREASURES-BBS (1990-1996)	Jim Daly	PCBoard
	"We were a RIME (Relay International Message Exchange) Super Regional Node. We were the Relay point for all mail in the SE-USA and Latin America. At the peak of our Relaying, we had over 75 RIME BBS's sending and receiving their mail thru us. We were the 1st to stream download Mail via satellite 24/7. Treasures and Fabulous merged to become Fabulous-Treasures in 1995. We had 48 incoming lines handled by US Robotics racks of US Robotics v.Everything intrnal modems. Using ArtiSoft's LAntastic, we had between 6-12 computers linked together, each computer servicing 4-6 incoming lines. We also had 4 additional computers each containing 8 CD players linked via LANtastic where we stored over 5000 Shareware programs for access by our Nodes and members. Our combined membership exceeded 7000 subscribers." - Jim Daly
407-856-0021 ORLANDO, FL	Infinite Space, Infinite Space Online, Infintie Space Online, lnfinite Space Onlin (1993-1996)	Herb Scherker, Buzz & Doc, Lenny Lacuy	MajorBBS
	ListKeeper: Orlando BBS List AC 407
407-859-2243 Orlando, FL	London, London BBS, The City of London Bulletin Board Service, THE SYSTEM, The System(tm) BBS, The System(tm) virtual reality (1984-1994)	Mac Druaidh, Matt Drury, Rev Matt Drury, Mayor Matt Drury	QuickBBS
	"I made London BBS public as I entered high school on a TRS-80 Model I with Exatron "stringy floppy" endless-loop-tape storage, and retired it in the mid-Nineties on a Tandy 1000EX with a real hard drive. In between, it ran on a Model III with a "Five Meg Disk Subsystem" the size of a PC tower case, and even on a Model 100 in just 32k of RAM when I was overhauling the main system. London BBS was famous for its "London Is Primarily Social" (LIPS) gatherings, often at restaurants but sometimes at Rocky Horror shows and in behind-the-scenes tours of various businesses and government agencies in town. We also pioneered ASCII animation using cursor control codes, and more than one marriage happened through our midwifery." - Matt Drury (http://mattdrury.net/bbs)
407-862-1099 LAKE BRANTLY, FL	Gigahertz (1994-1995)	Joshua Bernstein	TriTel BBS
	"The system ran on an old IBM Clone at 386 16MGhz with 8Megs RAM. I was 13, then. I had about 350 users (almost 100 of them were regular). I worked a lot to pay for all the phone stuff." - Joshua Bernstein
407-862-4741 Longwood, FL	Lassic's Realm (1993-1995)	Lassic	Tri-BBS
	"Lassic's Realm was originally run on an Emerson 286 16Mhz computer with Tri-BBS 4.02 BBS software. It had 4MB of RAM with a 40MB hard drive. Our first modem was a reveal 2400 baud external modem that made the loudest noise ever when handshaking. My paper route got us a Zoom 14.4k internal modem in 1994. Opening that computer to install it was when I became obsessed with how computers work. I tried to offer the most door games out of anyone on the OCBL. We had 30+ of the latest and most exciting door games possible. We also offered shareware files and the newest door game versions available for download. I learned by trial and error, writing batch files from scratch and learning DOS commands so the BBS would run without hanging. We also offered a lot of great ANSI art on our logon and menu screens! I had a great time and miss it!" - Lassic
407-873-3595 KISSIMMEE, FL	SunSpot BBS (1994-1997)	Michael Buonauro
	"I had fun remembering the little feuds some of us had. :)" - Michael Buonauro
407-878-6643 Port St. Lucie, FL	The Swap Shop BBS, The Swap Shop BBS! (1984-2001)	Mark Weingartner	Carnival, FOREM, Carina
	"The Swap Shop started in 1984 as ring once call back BBS as I was using an acoustic modem at the time. To look back at the now I guess I was an addict. For those who dont know what an acoustic modem is, It was the very old style reciever phone that when it would ring you would pick it up and stick it in the couple modem. It also ment you had to to it back on the hook when the user was done. I finally bought a used hayes 300 for 300 bucks and an Atari 850 interface and had auto answer...WOW! The Swap Shop kept growing until about 2001 when the cost of the three phone lines could not be justified compeating with the internet. The final numbers were. 772-878-1422 772-878-6776 772-878-6643." - Mark Weingartne
407-886-5206 Apopka, FL	Anarchy's Domain (1995-1998)	Ryan Matthews aKa aNaRaVia	TriBBS
	"I want to know if you would put a link to my web board. Most of the remaining members are on this board. It was created to take place of the BBS when it went offline. The reason I would like a link is because you are listed on google; if any of the old member do a search for my old BBS they have a direct link to the new board. It's http://www.digitaldisturb.com. Thanks!" -aNaRaVia
407-895-1335 ORLANDO, FL	City of London Public Information Service, Elven Chessboard, Matt's Friends, voxOrlando, WRCF BBS, London BBS (1985-1998)	Matt Drury
	List of BBS List Keepers: Orlando Florida AC 407/Matt Drury
407-951-4397 MELBOURNE, FL	The Realm BBS (1993-2014)	Yoel Pagan, Raymond Boettcher	Iniquity
	"System Information: The ran on MS-DOS 6.22 running Iniquity Software, FrontDoor Mailer (FIDONET: 1:374/133.2 under RayLine BBS which was 1:374/133) and Desqview for multitasking. Later the BBS was ran under Windows 95 in a DOS Prompt... BBS Information: The Realm BBS was a entertainment board dedicated to BBS Door Games and the Files Section. The Board ran from 1993-1999 and by Yoel Pagan (PuNiSHeR later changed to LostChain). The board was put back up as a website called "The Pirates Den" offering a variety of services using Nullsoft Winamp with Shoutcast for Video and Audio Streaming as well as a Flash Applet allowing Telnet access to his legacy board via the Web Page.... Since the BBS itself didn't get much activity the Telnet access was eventually discontinued. Yoel Pagan died 10/1/2014 of natural causes. His sister pulled the plug to his system on 10/2/2014 taking down the BBS Website forever..." - Raymond Boettcher
407-957-6161 St. Cloud, FL	Road to Nowhere BBS, Road To NoWhere II (1991-1995)	Dan Pitisci, OzGod	RyBBS
	"With the way the Internet is going I think it's time to bring back the BBS!" - Dan Pitisci
407-971-0141 Winter Springs, FL	NPSTN BBS (2018)
	"This is the main BBS for the NPSTN Telephone Network. (info at npstn.us) This BBS has: -Social Interactions (Private Message, Check Messages, Forums, IRC) all in the BBS! -Games (So far we have a version of 2048 & Hangman but this is a new BBS and we are adding more every day!) -Telnet, SSH, Web & more"
408-226-2889 San Jose, CA	The Pyre (1987-1996)	Bruce Webbe, Phoenix (aka: Bruce Webbe)	Virtual BBS
	"Started in 1987 running on an Atari 1200xl, upgraded there after to a modified 130xe with 1mb of ram (wow!) and an 80mb hard drive. (ooooo... aahhh...) Eventually it evolved to running on a PC using Virtual BBS, under OS/2, then DOS, then Windows95. Still have all the hardware, software, etc all boxed away in the garage somewhere. It was fun! Learned alot, met alot of neat people! [Before there was WWW, there was BBS]" - Bruce Webbe
408-227-4818 San Jose, CA	DTP Forum, Ventura ProfBd , Ventura Professional! Forum, Ventura Publishes Forum, Ventura Professional Forum (1988-1993)	Gene Rodrigues, G. Rodriques, Gene Rodrigues - Ventura Professional	PCBoard, Wildcat
	Venture Publisher User’s Group BBS
408-227-6004 SAN JOSE, CA	Tau Ceti Center (1994)	Kassad (Jay Fox)	Renegade
	"Ran it on a 386 40mhz with a Telebut WorldBlazer Modem (14.4kbps)." - Kassad
408-238-9621 San Jose, CA	RCP/M RBBS DataTech #7 San Jose, RCP/M RBBS DataTech 007, San Jose DataTech Node 007 / Piconet 003, San Jose DataTech Node 007 / Piconet Node, Servu (1983-1989)	Al Mehr	Wildcat
	CP/M80, CP/M86, Macintosh, PC-DOS, MS-DOS software. PRACSA member CP/M80, CP/M86, Macintosh, PC-DOS, MS-DOS software. PRACSA member
408-241-9760 San Jose, CA	Internet Access, Netcom Internet Guest System (1993-1994)	Netcom Online Communications Services
	Internet Access System - type “guest” at login for info.
408-244-3459 Santa Clara, CA	Moonlit Knight (1989-1994)	Allen Woolley	Wildcat
	"Went from 1 to 3 lines over the years under DESQview. I also ran Firth of Fifth in the 702 Las Vegas, NV via a Co-Sysop (Rick Cross). Developed early .QWK packed mail relaying (poor man's FIDOnet :) to toss mail between Las Vegas and Santa Clara. I eventually ended up on WildNet using Tomcat for Wildcat to automate the mail transfer. Was all good until TCP/IP killed the scene for all but the museum curator folks." - Allen Woollley
408-245-1420 Sunnyvale, CA	Zee Machine RBBS, ZeeMachine Z-NODE #35 -- RBBS/PDSE, ZEE Machine (1985-1986)	Norman Beeler, Norman L. Beeler
	Public Domain Software. PRACSA member Public Domain Software. PRACSA member
408-245-7726 Mountain View, CA	Dark Side of the moon, Dark Side of the Moon , DarkSideMn (1985-1998)	Tom Dell, T.E.Dell, T. E. Dell, Thomes E. Dell/Darkside International	Ascii Express, Waffle
	Home of WAFFLE, Unix UUCP BBS Software for DOS and UNIX
408-246-0281 Santa Clara, CA	Packaged Rebellion AKA PacBell (1994-1996)	Brian Ghidinelli	OBV/2
	"This was the first art board to have an 800 number." - Brian Ghidinelli
408-246-2805 Santa Clara, CA	CBBS Santa Clara (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
408-246-9181 San Jose, CA	Club Casablanca (1985-1986)	Willis Wong (...Bogey)	Apple Net
	"I was 15 when I started this BBS on an Apple //e. It had a pair of 128k Floppy drives (5.25") and I used a software tweak to get another 64k out of the 80-column card to use as a ramdisk. The modem was a 300 baud Zoom modem. The Apple Net software was purchased through mail order and I was always making modifications to the Basic code. We had a handful of regular callers and even a get-together (gtg). It was quite a trip to meet the faces behind the names. We were so no-budget that I had to beg my older sister to allow me to use her phone line for people to call in. Because of this, she became "co-sysop"." - Willis Wong
408-248-0675 San Jose, CA	Alternative Sexuality Information, ASI, ASI, Alternative Sexuality Information (1993-1996)	Peter Chastain	Wildcat
	"All ages: G/PG rated. Included all Wildnet conferences (except those that were adult-only)." - Chastain
408-248-2532 San Jose, CA	The Holodeck BBS (1987-2001)	Peter Woodmansee	WorldGroup
	"The bbs has moved from dialup to telnet only. Telnet address is wwcomm.com. The bbs is mainly a MUD board now." - Peter Woodmansee
408-252-1005 Cupertino, CA	Spectrox Systems (1991-1995)	Aaron Anderer	Waffle BBS
	"This BBS started as a single line Waffle BBS system with a 2400bps modem. In the 1993 to 1995 timeframe we added a second line, accommodated several downstream UUCP feeds, v.34 modems, and ran under Desqview/386." - Aaron Anderer
408-253-1309 San Jose, CA	Digikron RedRyder CP/M MAC, Digikron Systems, Digikron Systems Z-NODE RBBS/RCPM, Omicron Delta (1985-1994)	Douglas Thom	Second Sight
	ZCPR3 & Apple CP/M & Macintosh. PRACSA member ZCPR3 & Apple CP/M & Macintosh. PRACSA member
408-253-5385 Cupertino, CA	Cupertino Unified (1993)
	FrEdMail System
408-255-7571 SAN JOSE, CA	Tavern, The Tavern (1984-1998)
	"I have an archive of the messages it had on its message boards near the time of its final shutdown at http://www.ciar.org/~ttk/public/tavern.txt. That also has a BBS list, a list of its borders, a blurb about the system's history, and the Century List (a list of users who had posted or called more than 100 times)." - TTK Ciar
408-257-6115 San Jose, CA	Caverns of Atlantis (1983-1987)	Alexander of Atlantis	Networks II Modified then VoxWerks IV (homegrown)
	"I'm the original system operator. Ahh, the good ol' days. My modified Networks II software became the backbone of the re-write that was used for the Dark Side, and I actually did the first QuickScan implementation on Split Infinity, in AppleSoft Basic using a modified Networks II. If you recall, Split Infinity was one of the first BBS's to be raided by the FBI for illegally passing out freaking and hacking information." - Alexander of Atlantis
408-259-6855 San Jose, CA	Nest, Piedmont Middle School (1987-1993)
	FrEdMail System
408-262-1412 MILPITAS, CA	Digicom Systems, Inc. (1994)
	General Service
408-262-5150 San Jose, CA	D C to Light, D.C. to Light, DC to Light, D.C. to Light. (1986-1997)	Fred Townsend
	Heath/Zenith software, general interest. PRACSA member Heath/Zenith software, general interest. PRACSA member
408-262-5629 MILPITAS, CA	Digicom (1995)
	Connection Series Products
408-262-7177 Milpitas, CA	SpaceNET, L-5 SpaceNET (1986-1989)	Bill Dale
	Space Frontier SIG. PRACSA member Supporting desktop publishing for all space and astronomy organizations with source text in the public domain. Genie Spaceport sysop Launch.CTRL runs this system. Files/msgs can be sent to Genie Spaceport from here.
408-266-4553 San Jose, CA	Thunder Mountain, Thunder Mountain BBS (1990-1995)	Dave Alvarado	Oracom
	"That little computer and those modems made many friends that I still have and cherish, today." - Dave Alvarado
408-268-6692 SAN JOSE, CA	Billion boys Club, Billionaire Boys Club, City Of Thieves (1990-1991)		PCboard
	"Went down permanently after Operation Sun Devil." - Radman
408-269-6636 San Jose, Ca	HomeSpun Images (1993-2002)	Ben Pumpelly, Benjamin Pumpelly	Renegade
	"I'm the original SysOp - Ben Pumpelly - of HomeSpun Images. It was the sister bbs to RoadKill Grill, also a Renegade bbs. Sadly, the internet killed the bbs scene. We were part of an adult FIDO network called Throbnet. Enjoy." - Benjamin Pumpelly
408-292-2032 Milpitas, CA	Dating Tree, The Dating Tree BBS (1986-1994)	Robert Field, Karen Marquardt, Joyce DeLeonardo, Jean Swenk	DLX
	"This BBS system was in operation from 1986 to 1995, until PLink and AOL basically destroyed the market. It was essentially a dating bbs, and we held social parties on a monthly basis. More than 15,000 people passed through this system and more than 25 couples ended up marrying as a result of their meeting on this system, including myself (Bob Field and my wife Joyce (Deleonardo). The system was shut down in 1995. The Dating Tree had outlier forwarder systems that covered the entire Greater SF Bay area, from Santa Rosa on the north, to Morgan Hill on the south, to Pacifica on the West and Livermore on the East. It was the subject of at least one Master's Thesis and many articles and even one major radio station did a face-to-face interview with the Sysops, because it was the largest and most active in the area at that time. Later, other bbs system sprang up and became larger." - Robert Field
408-354-5934 Saratoga, CA	Oxgate Saratoga, Oxgate Saratoga, CA RBBS-RCP/M, OxGate-001 Monte Sereno, CA, OxGate-008 Monte Sereno, Ca, RCP/M Oxgate 001, Saratoga OxGate & RCP/M, Saratoga, CA, Saratoga PBBS (1983-1986)	Chuck Metz & Paul Traina
	Public domain software and technical information exchange. PRACSA Public domain software and technical information exchange. PRACSA
408-374-3974 SAN JOSE, CA	Byte Bandits, MASS STORAGE (1985-1990)	Sam Brown	Emulex/2
	"The Greatest BBS Software. (I Wrote It. :)" - Sam Brown
408-375-5455 Monterey, Ca	Hacker Heaven (1987-2001)	Mark Pickerill, Mark D. Pickerill, Robert Cabral	Spitfire
	"Ran on a Pro-Log STD bus industrial computer system. Catered to computer programmers of most microcomputers. As the welcome screen read "No games, no gee-whiz utilities". Although it was a MS-DOS based system, the operating philosophy was similar to the RCPM systems, very tech oriented. Was a member of PRACSA (Public Remote Access Computer Standards Association) for the short number of years that orginization existed (Started by Irv Hoff and others). The word "standards" was changed to "sysop's" in the last year or so of the orginization's history. I still have the "HH.COM" that was included in MS-DOS and CP/M-80 archives that, when run, advertised the BBS. It was (is) the same physical binary file, it runs under both MS-DOS and CP/M without modification! It started as a 1200 baud system, then became a 2400 baud system, and was a 14.4K baud system before the end. Unlike many other systems, Hacker Heaven did not dis-allow 300 baud call-ins - 300 bauders were welcome! It was shut down when the sysop changed employers as it was sponsered by the now defunct Pro-Log corporation." - Mark D. Pickerill "The BBS continued to serve the community under the Sysop - Robert Cabral. The BBS continued to operate until 2001. Motorola Inc. aquired Pro-Log Corp. and continued to support this system, with internet access." - Robert Cabral
408-378-7474 San Jose, CA	OxGate-012 San Jose, Ca, Potpourri BBS & RCP/M Oxgate-012, Potpourri OxGate & RCP/M OxGate-012, Potpourri RCP/M, RCP/M Oxgate 012 (1983-1986)	Wayne Masters & Irv Hoff, Wayne Masters, Irv Hoff
	Engineering applications 3/4 compilers 3/4 assemblers 3/4 disassemblers. Engineering applications 3/4 compilers 3/4 assemblers 3/4 disassemblers.
408-384-8634 Marina, CA	408-384-8634, Steel Beach BBS (1994-1997)	Ronald H. Pugh, Ronald Pugh, Ron Pugh, Jason Sinkler, Ronald pUgh	QuickBBS , Renegade, RemoteAccess
	"Steel Beach orginally was a Renegade BBS, then switched to Remote Access to better handle Fido Mail( although I tried quite a few BBS software packages) was the first fido node in its own local calling area, Pulling mail from Nightlog, the largest ( Nightlog turned into redshift internet services ) It also had 3 small local echo mail type networks. We also had many regsitered doors ( our biggest draw ). Steel beach ran on a old IBM PC 8mhz, 512K of ram and 2 20meg MFM hardrives and a US robotics 28.8 modem." - Ron Pugh
408-395-3560 Monte Sereno, CA	Excalibur (1981-1985)	Jerry Christensen	ABBS
	"This BBS was also called The Castle of Tintagel for the last year it was up." - Jerry Christensen
408-395-3721 Monte Sereno, CA	Inferno, Inferno BBS, Inferno, San Jose (1988-1992)	Jerry Christensen	MajorBBS
	"27 line chat/dating/library system. You also have this BBS listed in the 510 and 415 Area code sections... those were forwarding lines to this BBS. We were the largest system down there when we were up. The system was sold in 1992, and continued to run until about 1997 under the new owner." - Jerry Christensen
408-399-4515 Los Gatos, CA	The Ride (1987-1994)	Tex
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Los Gatos, California since 06/87. Sysop: Tex. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 14 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 30000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $.50 Hourly fee. The Ride BBS chat system offering systems in both Los Gatos and Sonora, (209)536-1555. The Ride BBS has a full file base system along with most of the popular games. See you online. Adults only.
408-429-8002 SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA	The Dark Earth	Cobalt-60 (Leo LeBarre)	Emulex
	"Back in the early 80s (when I was around 12-15, I ran a board (Pirate, definitely) called The Dark Earth, 408-429-8002 . My handle was Cobalt-60. I took this handle in 1983, so I am by far the most original of the later imitators. I was involved with various phreak/crack groups, and wrote quite a few anarchy files in my spare time. Most were, lamentably, unsigned, because I got nervous, but there are still some out there with my original name on them. Later on I ended up hanging out with Sam Brown, who was, as far as I am concerned, one of the first true internet pioneers. We used to spend a lot of time on arp a net and just basically trying to figureout how ot do distributed computing by leapfrogging local BBSes which were local, until a packet eventually made it's way to it's destination. It worked pretty well. (I know nothing of MCI access codes, however. J) Anyway, I found myself reminiscing, and thought I would drop a line, and demand recognition OR WE'LL CRUSH YOUR SKULL!! K" - Leo LeBarre (Cobalt-60), The Dark Earth
408-435-2886 San Jose, CA	Automation Central, BABBA, East Valley Hub, AUTOMATION CENTRAL (1992-1996)	Radi Shourbaji, Mark Shapiro	RemoteAccess
	ISDN Line
408-439-9096 Scotts Valley, CA	Borland (Tech Support BBS), Borland Download, Borland International, Borland Technical Support, Software Support Technical Support, Borland Download BBS (1993-1995)	Borland International/Mike Fitz-Enz
	Utilities, Macros, Programming Examples for Borland Products
408-439-9367 Scotts Valley, CA	APCUG (Tech Support BBS), Assoc PCUG, Borland (J. Moody), Borland International BBS, Globalnet, APCUG – GlobalNet (1989-1996)	Paul Curtis, Jim Moody, Paul Curtic/APCUG	TBBS
	Association of PC User Groups – Over 2000 UG officers
408-462-3832 Soquel, CA	Temple of Zuul (1986-1990)	Greg Anderson	Custom (ZuulWare)
	Additional information about the Santa Cruz County BBS scene is at http://www.tachyonlabs.com/pyrzqxgl.html. - Greg Anderson
408-559-0253 San Jose, CA	JDR Microdevices BBS, JDR Micros supp (1991-1994)	JDRMicrodevices, JDR Microdevices	TBBS
	Online Hardware Order - Catalog - 1.1 GB Files – Quizzes
408-559-8843 Campbell, CA	MicroResearch Rem Sys (1986)	Mitchell Orysh
	Software exchange. PRACSA member Software exchange. PRACSA member
408-578-1563 San Jose, CA	Merlin's Castle, Merlins Castle, Merlins Castle BBS (1982-1986)	Ross McClintock	Macro BBS
	"Wrote that BBS myself in the old days in Basic and Assembly and Blitz compiled it to run on my C64 with 12 floppies on an IEEE bus. Things sure have changed! Had a great time with those old machines and am still an avid hacker. If you remember this board leave me an email at macroeng@comcast.net" - Ross McClintock
408-637-8534 Hollister, CA	That BBS In Hollister (1984-1993)	Philip Ruiz	Wildcat
	"I'm Philip Ruiz. I was the Sysop for That BBS IN Hollister. Your list currently lists it as being in Walnut Creek But It was In Hollister. Hollister used to be in the 408 Area code before switching to 831. Building and running that bulletin board was A wonderful experience. I learned a lot about computers and made a lot of friends. What outrageous phone bills we had back then! I am not now, nor was I then able to write code but I can remember many hours spent sweating over command line programs. Remember setting up "doors" for online games, or setting up new transfer protocols like zmodem, jmodem, ymodem, etc? I don't know if most people realize what a labor of love it was to run a bbs. We spent many hours building and maintaining them and most of us never asked for a dime in contributions. Oh well, I'm rambling. Later." - Philip Ruiz
408-649-0300 Moneterey, CA	Bd Directors II , The Board of Directors (1987-1991)	Chris Adler, Plosay & Mann, Jim Plosay & Others	PCBoard
	"It was in a professors house at Monterey Naval Postgraduate School, and he didn't like us to come over and run the system, so we did it all via "remote". Even back when we switched from *.ARC compression to *.ZIP compressions (remember those compression wars?) we had to use the conversion utility over the phone lines remotely via command line. Very much a labor of love. All back when a word processor program would fit on a 1.2MB 5-1/4" floppy. Remember ZenWord? And all those ASCII animation screens? Ah... the good old days." - Jim Plosay
408-655-1096 Monterey, CA	NITELOG BBS, Nitelog Imagining, Nitelog BBS, NITEL0G BBS (1989-1996)	Karl Van Lear, Karl VanLear	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.1
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Adult files, Dos, Windows, Mac, Amiga files. Internet services: Email, news-groups, SLIP, PPP, web, domain name service, outgoing telnet, incoming telnet to nitelog.com rlogin, FTP, gopher, archie, finger, whois, rshell, rawtcp. Huge file section. Also available on BBS Direct. For info on BBS Direct dial 1-800-745-2747 - save $$ on long distance From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Monterey, California since 02/89. Sysop: Karl Van Lear. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 24 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 8400 MB storage. US Robotics at 21600 bps. $28 Quarterly fee. DOS, Win 3x, OS/2, UNIX, MAC and Adult files. Internet EMail, Usenet, RIME, ILink & Fidonet conferences. National weather maps updated 8 times daily. Online realtime CHAT. All major credit cards accepted. 600 to 700 new files added weekly. v.32bis NITEL0G BBS — 54.000+ files: Dos, Mac, Windows. Unix, Amiga, OS/2, Newton & Adull files. Email areas including Internet. Usenet, Fidonet, Rime, ILink. Local call in 100 metro areas, Call for details. 408.655.1096, 28.8k lines available. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
408-655-4218 SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA	Nitelog BBS (1994)
	28.8k
408-720-1152 Sunnyvale, CA	The Zone BBS (1993-1996)	Ron Schultz	Spitfire
	Fidonet node. One of the first “multi line” BBS using beta Spitfire and DesqView software.
408-720-9212 Sunnyvale, CA	DataFax BBS, Bizcomp BBS (1986-1991)	Judith Eisenburg, Howard Stateman	PCBoard
	Modem technical support. PRACSA member Modem technical support. PRACSA member
408-732-1814 SUNNYVALE, CA	The Tropical BBS (1991)	Ron Rauch	PCBoard
	"I was the sysop for "Tropical BBS" @ (408) 732-1814. I started it when I was 14 years old, in 1987. I used an IBM XT with a 10 meg. hard drive. I had a huge inventory of downloads and it seemed like no one would ever use up so much space! Until I was getting calls from all over the world.....I was advertised around the globe by posting messages on other BBS'." "It seemed for a very long time that there would always be someone on my machine - it only had the one line attached to it. After a while, it became tough to "compete" with other BBS' that had installed multiple nodes, allowing for capability of multiplayer games." "Eventually, the machine broke because of some kind of "line zap", and I always suspected it was a sysop of another BBS - actually "Byte Bandits' Sam Brown". He was kind of the bandit that everyone in the sysop community used to complain about. At 14, I was the youngest guy who attended local sysop meetings and it meant alot to me to be a part of that." - Ron Rauch
408-736-2607 Los Altos, CA	All Net, Sphynx (1990-1994)	Alfred John Frugoli	Red Ryder Host, First Class
	"This BBS was run on a Mac SE, then a MacII while I was in High School. When I left for college in 1993 I tried to maintain the BBS with the help of several local SysOps, however this was unsuccessful and the BBS was taken down in the summer of 1994." - Alfred John Frugoli
408-745-0127 Sunnyvale, CA	Lynns Live Wire (1991-1995)	Lynn Cadwallader	Spitfire, PC-Board
	"I'm so pleased I made history. :) Anyway, I wanted to add my 2 cents, as it were. I started the BBS in Issaquah, Washington, just to see if I could do it. My neighbor ran a BBS, software was PC Board. I was his CoSysOp for a short time. Moved to Sunnyvale, California in 1990 and continued to improve the board. Eventually got to know more computer people that helped and guided me. I tried Spitfire BBS software, but bought PC Board software. My only computer was a 286 - no multitasking and no swapping. One line. At one point I did install DoubleDOS and played a game on the other split of DOS, but the board suffered terribly. The callers that knew me kidded me about it. At one point I was carrying 5 nets. When I first starting relaying mail, I stayed awake all nite watching the callers then watching the mail event. I was very sad when I finally turned off the modem because the callers had gone to the Internet. It was all so much fun, so many wonderful people, and a very unique world that is probably gone forever." - Lynn Cadwallader
408-778-3531 MORGAN HILL, CA	THE SDI CLEARINGHOUSE , L-5 NorthCal (1987)	Bill Dale
	The L-5 Society is dedicated to the exploration, development, and ultimate settlement of space.
408-779-1254 Morgan Hill, CA	MUSHROOM, The Mushroom (1981-1985)	Jesse	Forem ST
	"I started the mushrooom in 1981 with an acoustic modem- ppl had to call the #, let it ring once and call back and if i anyone was home, we'd connect them. After a while, we connected the telephones ringing-hammer, which was supposed to hit the bell to ring, to a switch which would automatically send command thru the joystick port (Serial) and trigger the AT command to my Hayes modem to pick-up the phone and connect.. A Man named Jeff Bell helped me. This was 1st ran on a 16k Atari 400 until we upgraded to a 48k Atari 800." - Jesse
408-847-0665 Gilroy, CA	Garlique Graphics, Garlique Graphics Images, Garlique Image Center, GARLIQUE GRAPHICS IMAGE CENTER, Garlique Graphics Image Center (1990-1995)	Greg	Wildcat, WildCat 4
	GARLIQUE GRAPHICS IMAGE CENTER, 408.847.0665 Large Selection of highest quality bbs Adult Images. Featuring Proffl. Models, Some which have been seen in major adult publications Large selection of adult CD ROMS Running Wildcat & Excalibur for windows. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
408-867-6575 Saratoga, CA	Eigenware RC/PM RBBS, Eigenware (tm) (1985-1986)	Karl Remmler, Karl L. Remmier
	BBS & Database for programmers. PRACSA member BBS & Database for programmers. PRACSA member
408-929-1980 San Jose, CA	Synerchat (1991-1996)	Joe Cram, Michelle Forget	STS (Synergy Teleconferencing System), gtalk, majorbbs
	"Major, major part of my youth. I can trace back nearly every friend I have to Synerchat, in one way or another- either people I met there, or people I met through them... amazing loyalty still existed even years after the original sysop got fed up and took it down. A year or two ago, a group of us somehow got the idea in our head to find a version of gtalk and put it up again (still there: 'telnet synerchat.com'). It was scary how connected we all still were. Within 15 minutes of going live (actually went live early for testing), there were two or three dozen original members clamoring for an account... some really successfull parties commemorated the event. The original STS system was based on 3 digit user numbers, and I'll be damned if many of us not only remember our own numbers, but a large handful of close friends(or enemies) as well. Many of us consider our number to be a clear and indelible identifier, and will find ourselves using it when an arbitrary number is called for. There are countless throw-away login/password combinations out there that contain some variation on '145', and more than a few servers that listen on port 8145." - P. Gillan "I just got done talking to Michelle, who is still with Joe. I still remember my 3-digit user number, as well as numerous others. 666 will always have a special meaning to me. >:) As will 237." -M. Montgomery (Lithium)
408-942-1425 San Jose, CA	Morrill MS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
408-946-7325 San Jose, CA	CHALKBOARD, The Chalkboard, Berryessa USD (1987-1993)	Robert Wright	GBBS
	"This BBS was in San Jose at Morrill Middle School. The Chalkboard started out as a straight GBBS but later it became modified to link with FrEdMail, a store and forward Fido-like system for students and teachers developed by Fred Rogers of Bonita, California. In 1990 The Chalkboard initated a project called Notes In A Bottle which was a call for student penpals over Usenet. Responses came from as far away as Italy, Japan and The Soviet Union. The Chalkboard was one of the first three school BBS systems in Northern California. It was on the cutting edge of telecommunication education during the late 80's and early 90's." - Robert Wright FrEdMail System
408-946-8592 MILPITAS, CA	West Coast Online Mag, BABBA BBS (1995)	Mark Shapiro
	ListKeeper: San Francisco Bay Area
408-947-8038 San Jose, CA	Wild Bill's Trailbusters (1986)	Bill Strouse
	Trail Information Volunteer Center (TIVC) listing bicycle, jogging, Trail Information Volunteer Center (TIVC) listing bicycle, jogging,
408-988-4004 Santa Clara, CA	Brightwork Dvlpmnt (McAfee), Brightwork Dvlpmnt( Mc Afee) Technical Support, Home Base, HomeBase, HomeBase BBS, McAfee Assoc Technical Support, McAfee Associates BBS, McAffee Assoc (Tech Support BBS), McAffee Associates Virus (1987-1996)	John McAfee, John McAfee/CVIA	TBBS
	Computer Virus Information - VIRUSCAN and CLEANUP
408-996-9349 SAN JOSE, CA	Dimensions of Insanity (1987-1993)	TTK Ciar	Customized
	"Originally I and a High School friend wrote it in TurboPascal 3.0. It ran on an IBM XT with a 20MB hard drive and 512KB of memory. Its 25 message boards were organized under five categories, and each message board had a co-sysop, which could be assigned by me. Each co-sysop had complete sysop-like control over the contents of their sub-board, which greatly reduced the administrative load on me. In 1990 it was upgraded to a PC-AT 12MHz 286 system with 4MB of RAM and an 80MB hard drive so I could upgrade the message boards to a 500-message capacity apiece. It was also upgraded to TurboPascal 6 at this time. It had a fun and innovative wander-in-the-wilderness game, called Dangerous Realm, which was based loosly on Dungeons and Dragons." - TTK Ciar
408-997-7357 San Jose, CA	the Greenhouse, The Greenhouse (1982-1990)	Phreak Accident	GBBS, GBBS Pro
	"old school Apple ][ BBS with limited (sponsored) user access. originally ran Ascii Express, later ran CatFur, GBBS (ACOS) - eventually moved to a Mac running Hermes for a brief period before shutting down completely." - Phreak Accident
408-998-0139 SAN JOSE, CA	The Hole (1993-1995)	Sean Schluntz	LORABBS, LISA
	"SF Bay Area local node of the PODS network and other Pagan/Religious FIDO type networks." - Sean Schluntz
409-372-5511 WALLER, TX	-The Crowbar Hotel-	OMC	TcH
	"I actually have parts of the BBS hanging on the walls." - OMC
409-569-6906 Nacogdoches, TX	Redeye BBS (1989-1993)	Ralph Randall	Opus and later Wildcat
	"Opus BBS was part of the OPUS network. Message boards were uploaded each night and people could send messages but had to wait 24 to 48 hours for responce. This was an early version of todays message boards. Private messages could be sent but did not become e-mail until much later. OPUS had user groups who traveled and met to work out new ideas and create new groups. Redeye BBS was apart of a group from Shreveport, La. I made the trip regularly. Prior to Redeye BBS I ran a BBS that was hosted on a Radio Shack TRS 80 and an accoustic modem. Users would call and ask to be logged in. Floppies had to be changed depending on the users requests. 300bps accoustic modem and a few basic files. Back then it was high tech." - Ralph Randall
409-588-6965	Burning Mode, Burning Mode BBS (1992-1997)	Byron Ray
	Now being relived at www.burningmode.com.
409-740-2245 Galveston, TX	Club 386 (1988-1991)	Cooke Moore	OPUS
	"Our local Galveston and Texas City area code was Fodonet node 386, and is where the name 386 came from. After the release of the i386 from Intel, I had a few strange numbers show up on the caller ID as some people expected my site to be Intel related. Once a week, all the board operators in our area code would meet in the woods in Texas City for a bonfire and party. As a broke college student, it was a great hobby, requiring only a PC and dedicated phone line. I ran a 1 line system with some 200 registered members and about 20 regular users. OPUS linked to about a dozen door games that people could play. The favorite being Trade Wars 1000. At some point I switched from OPUS to the MAXIMUS BBS system. I also change my number to 409-740-2287 in 1990 and continued to operate until 1991 when I finished school." - Cooke Moore
409-746-3972 DEWEYVILLE, TX	The Traveler's Inn (1994)	Jeramie Hicks
	"I can't believe you have my little board on there. The board ran Telegard on an 8088 with a 20 MB hard drive. I was 17 years old at the time, and the behemoth was sitting on a crude nightstand that I nailed together using 2x4s from my father's scrap pile. Since we only had one phone line, my parents restricted it to off-hour operation only. The 20 MB drive didn't leave any room for a file area, and I wasn't much of a message person, so it was mostly just for hosting door games. To be honest, I set it up so I could play my own door games without the time restrictions of the other boards in the area. Good times. Wish life was still that simple. Keep the memory alive." - Jeramie Hicks
409-755-3715 Lumberton, TX	Grumpy D's, Grumpy D's BBS (1994-1996)	Doyle Welborn	Opus , Maximus
	"The sysop can now be reached http://usr.ijntb.net/doyle" - Doyle Welborn
409-765-5459 Galveston Island, Tx	DragonNet 386/451 (1993)	Robert Michael/Dragon Profit Systems
	Multiline MAJOR BBS with 4 GB - 64 lines Interactive Games
409-845-2066 College Station, TX	Texas RECON (1994)	Greg Keith
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: College Station, Texas since 08/94. Sysop: Greg Keith. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 250 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. No fee. Your only source of unbiased Texas real estate data. From Texas A&M University. Catalog with 300 research publications. Trends, news, real estate law updates. How to get a Texas real estate license and more.
410-247-3797 Baltimore, MD	NetWork, The NetWork BBS, Network BBS (1993-1996)	H. Michalski	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Baltimore Area 410/Brad Blase
410-256-1584 Perry Hall, MD	The Planisphere BBS (1993-1995)	Iggy	WWIV
	"I started this BBS in 8th grade after my friend's BBS, The Post Larval, failed. I also ran PlaNET network of WWIV BBSes that eventually became a national network for exchanging e-mail and message board posts. Fond memories of late nights chatting and performing "mods" to the source code to enhance and improve my BBS." - Iggy
410-257-7249 Huntingtown, MD	Hunter's Cabin (1993-1995)	Geoffrey Wilson, Hunter (Geoffrey Wilson)	Renegade
	"One day, work was slow, so I decided to do some googling.. instead of entering my name, I entered the name of my old bulletin board. "HUNTERS CABIN BBS"....... lots of junk about hunting etc, but then, there it was!!! (410)257-7249 SysOp: Geoffrey Wilson... WOW!!! I felt SO GOOD.. I feel like a part of history!!! I feel like things were so much better then.. no windows BS. A nice clean DOS Prompt, AND NO MOUSE!! Do remember when "RIP" graphics (mouse support etc) appeared? I for one said "hell no!!".. Good old ansi.. and even ascii! I remember not having the bauds' to look at ansi for a good long time.. And THE DRAW!! What a great program.. Barren Realms Elite? I was running Renegade, yea yea, I know.. a lot of people a wwiv snobs but whatever.. I hope I can dig up some old .ANS pictures from my bbs... I live in nc now, and the bbs was in so. maryland.. aww man.. I miss the freedom, comraderie, and safety of those days... we looked out for each other. Now people are sending a good thing straight to hell w/ their point and click american idol fad of the moment myspace drm "ease of use" and "instant gratification" sickness.. Thanks everyone, esp. Roddy B. for all the help. You all made it worth it. Sorry I had to goto (and fail) stupid college. At times I've even thought about going back online! Good ol' zmodem..." - Geoffrey Wilson
410-284-1066 Dundalk, MD	CENSORED (1992-1995)	Sysop: Nirvana Co-Sysops: ICE and Gerg	WWIV
	"I set up and ran this BBS while in high school. The name changed a number of time but CENSORED was the one that was used the longest and the one that was in use when the BBS was part of WWIVnet. I chose WWIV because I wanted to learn to program in C, and I did. I took the BBS down when I joined the Navy in 1995. This BBS was also part of FireLink and @1 of Sno*neT." - Nirvana
410-343-0695 Parkton, MD	The Music Express (1993-1995)	Tidal Wave	WWiV
	"One of those wonderful part time boards, AlterNETive member."
410-357-4185 Parkton , MD	The Cache (1988-1994)	DETCord, NullClaw	WWIV
	"The Cache was spawned from Excalibur BBS 410-661-4985(I think) Sysop was Nullclaw. The Cache was moved into The internet age at www.thecache.net , though it looks like they are reworking the site again. Staticzero is DetCord(me)." - DetCord
410-369-0064 Baltimore, Md	Elements Of Design (1993-1995)	Kid Ego (SysOp)	WWIV Modded through the roof
	"In order to become a member you had to be referred by another member. Also one of the first out of country mail tossers (CanadaNet, TorontoNet,) The first BBS' in the area to successfully connect to other mail platforms (WWIV/RBBS/TAG/WILDCAT/WBBS) Later, incorporated internet connection and shortly after died from lack of funding." - Kid Ego
410-379-9229 Elkridge, MD	The Mind's Eye (1993-1999)	Allan Dale, Sheila Dale	VBBS
	"The Mind's Eye BBS originated as a splinter hub of The Other Place BBS (TOP). It only grew to four lines but in it's prime received over 200 calls a day. Running The Mind's Eye was a great experience for me. I made several lasting friends and learned a great deal, hands on, about computing and networking." - Allan Dale
410-437-7017 Pasadena, MD	Devil's Courier (1988-1995)	Greg Hammond, Lord Omar	WWIV
	"Lord Omar - SysOp. One of the largest boards on the east coast for file sharing." - Lord Omar
410-444-2449 Baltimore, MD	Bird House BBS (1996-1998)	Zero Cool	VBBS
	"I can't belive I ever used that handle for my SysOp name, I had just watched "hackers" for the 1st time and thought it was cool. But that was one thing about the BBS community no one made fun of me for it. "How I miss the BBS, the internet is so imperssonal." - Zero Cool
410-477-6047 Sparrows Point, MD	The Night Owl BBS (1987-1989)	Bruce Campeggi	WWIV
	"Operated secretly from work for 2 years, with monitor turned off most of the time to avoid detection." - Bruce Campeggi
410-529-9169 Baltimore, MD	THE MIND'S EYE BBS (1988-1991)	Danzig aka The Butthole Surfer	DMBBS, CBase MODDED
	"Originally named "Misfits Only", running DMBBS (ARTI-Soft) on off-peak hours (we only had 1 line). Later, I purchased my own phone line, and switched to C*Base, running the board 24 hours a day. I would go on to switch the name of the board (as well as my SysOp name) to The Mind's Eye.. later becoming Token Entry." - Danzig
410-529-NADS Perry Hall, MD	Little Earthquakes (1996-1998)	Squiggy I	WWIV, Renegade
	"I don't know how most of you posting about your BBS remembered all the details about it (how many calls a day, how many users, networks you were on, computer(s) it was running on), but I can remember that Little Earthquakes was based on the "i can run a better board than everyone else" concept. And it certainly worked for awhile with a lot of core users that I considered my "friends" but with people getting busy, the ones that were left I saw in person a lot, and the Internet doing everything a BBS could do but better, the BBS faded away long before I did something to crash the software for the final time and decided it wasn't worth the time to bring back up." - Squiggy I
410-612-1515 Joppatowne, MD	School Days, Captain's Quarters, Mr. Weaver's Neighborhood (1990-1998)	Cool Dady, Beefstew	WWIV
	Run by Joppatowne High School. Changed names a few times, changed number at least once. Started on an Apple II with Bsider drives, was on a PC at the end.
410-638-9029 Bel Air, MD	The Dragon's Eye, The Dragons Eye (1990-1993)	Torin Baana	Renegade, TeleGard
	"Thrilled to find this listing of BBS's, and found my old board by looking up the phone numbers (yes, still remember it). The board is listed as a Renegade software BBS, but Renegade was one of a few short termed iterations, alongside TAG (both being variations of TeleGard, but both times going back to TeleGard, and would prefer not to reflect on the short time it was WWIV). The BBS was originally known as The United Federation of Planets, with me having the handle of SF Admiral, but spent most of it's time with the final name already submitted." - Torin Baana
410-653-8335 Baltimore, MD	Lair of the Love Moose (1991-1994)	Proostic the Love Moose	WWIV
	"Home of WoMbAtNeT. Keeper of the Holy Spammandments." - J. Freed
410-665-1035 Parkville, MD	Master Control Program (1992-1995)	Tronster	WWIV 4.23
	"The MCP was a member of AlterNETive, the largest local WWIV network; acting as the bridge to the internet's USENET groups via custom software written by Frostbyte (aka: "Brain", "Xenophon")." - Tronster
410-666-1035 Cockeysville, MD	The City Morgue BBS (1991-1999)	Starslayer	WWIV
	"Started part time when my mom was asleep, late night hours only -- grew into one of the bigger WWIV boards in the area. We were the originators of NuclearNet (later NuclearArmsNet and then NukeNET), AlterNETive, and functioned as a hub for WWIVLink and WWIVNet. We sponsored meets and get-togethers, and were a co-sponsor of the infamous "Big Meet" where an explosion took place. The City Morgue BBS lives on today on the web, albeit in a much more subdued version, at http://tcmbbs.siteburg.com." - Starslayer
410-666-2811 Hunt Valley, MD	Hunt Valley, MD BBS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
410-683-0300 COCKEYSVILLE, MD	Silver Streak BBS (1995)	Brad Blase
	ListKeeper: Baltimore BBS Area 410
410-745-2037 Saint Michaels, MD	HouseNet, HouseNet BBS (1991-1994)	Gene Hamilton, Katie Hamilton
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Saint Michaels, Maryland since 05/91. Sysop: Gene Hamilton. Using WildCat 3.90 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1080 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $30 Annual fee. The only BBS with expert home repair and remodeling advise and hundreds of files for downloading. 80+ conference areas. ASP, Internet, RIME, FidoNet. Full access on first call, friendly sysops, quarterly newsletter, monthly giveaway, 30 min. free a day. Home Fixup/Repair/Renovation Tips, Advice, and Articles Home Fixup/Repair/Renovation Tips, Advice, and Articles
410-788-8908 Ellicott City, MD	Grimm's Hollow (1987-1995)	Erick Reverski	WWIV
	"This BBS originally ran on a TRS-80 Model 4P with FastPlus BBS software. It then switched for a short time to TBBS before settling on WWIV. Between 1989 and 1990 Grimm's Hollow became the primary Maryland hub for all WWIV boards in the state as they began interconnecting with boards out of state to share messages and email. This was also the first BBS in the 410 area to integrate Caller ID data into the BBS software so that each caller's phone number was logged." - Erick Reverski
410-799-6996 Elkridge, MD	Other Place, TOP - The Other Place (1992-1999)	C Klausmeyer	VBBS
	"The Other Place BBS, a dialup system, was online from May of 1992 in Howard County, MD. Prior to that it ran in Montgomery County for about a year. I pulled the final plug in January 1999. At TOP's height it had 13 phone lines and was answering over 450 user calls a day from both the Baltimore and DC metro areas." - Chuck Klausmeyer
410-922-9198 Randallstown, MD	Fishbone, Fishbone II BBS (1992-1997)	Dave Broida, David Broida	Hermes II
	"Truly one of the weirdest Macintosh BBS's in the Maryland area, with the advent of the internet, it had to die. There was no place for it, and the lil Macintosh Classic II was almost ready to keel over anyway. I have a small slice of what it used to be online, on my webpages... come visit, stay awhile, remember the golden age of BBS's... or not? http://home.comcast.net/~dbroida/bbs1.html" - David Broida
410-969-2835 Glen Burnie, MD	Concert Online (1995)	Ed Middlebrooks	VBBS
	"This BBS had only 1 line and was started by an avid user of The Other Place (TOP) BBS for the purposes of Musician interaction and networking. It was my goal to have a Ticketmaster Door to allow online purchasing of concert tickets, and I would gather data from Ticketmaster and post upcoming events regularly." - Ed Middlebrooks
410-992-9132 Columbia, MD	The Tower of Curiosity [ASV] (1991-1996)	Tasslehoff, Travis Fisher (Tasslehoff)	WWIV
	"I ran this BBS out of a closet in my parent's basement, and it was my first experience with coding in C++, as I frequently took it offline to muck with the source code (I was one of the few -registered- WWIV SysOps). I had a "credits" file thanking everyone that helped me out over the 5 years I ran the board, and it took me over a year after formally taking down the board, to finally delete the files, and even then, I did so grudgingly." - Tasslehoff
412-248-3270 Blairsville, PA	The Shooting Star (1993-1995)	John Mayhue	Wildcat
	"When I stumbled upon your site, it awakened the 13 year old in me that ran this long-forgotten BBS that was more of a learning experience for me than I could have dreamed of at the time. In documenting the existence and experiences surrounding these BBS's you are paying tribute to a time/experience that we all (knowing each other or not) share. I commend you on your effort." - John Mayhue
412-262-4794 PGCZ 15, PA	Information Access Network, Quad-Tech Systems (1993-1994)	Richard Dennis
	List of BBS List Keepers: Pittsburgh AC 412/Chas Stokes
412-264-9787 PGCZ 15, PA	Zuul's Catacombs (1992-1995)	Chas Stokes
	ListKeeper: Pittsburgh AC 412
412-279-8569 PGSZ 14, PA	The Emerald City (1989-1993)	Tina Dougherty	Opus BBS
	"The Emerald City BBS ran on a single line in my old and tiny apartment in Carnegie. Running on a 386 that I bought from Larry DiGioia of NeverBoard, the BBS community helped me to get into and learn all I could about computers and communications even though "she's a girl". :) It was the BBS community in Pittsburgh that fostered my love of computers and communications and which lead to me starting my own company in 1999, which I'm still running today (2006). I can't imagine we'll ever see such a great group again, and I'm glad I was there when I was. Thanks guys." - Tina Dougherty
412-336-1104 Wampum, PA	Dungeons & Dragons BBS (1984-1993)	John Sanderbeck	WWIV 4.23
	"Originally I started theis BBS on a Commodore 64 with a 300 Baud Modem, 5 �" Disk Drive held the BBS and a 3�" Disk Drive ran the files and message bases. Later I added a second 3 �" drive for files and upgraded to a Commodore 128. In late 1989, I moved to an IBM 386 DX33 and a 20 Megabyte MFM Hard Drive. I also upped to a 2400 Baud Modem. D&DBBS was screaming. :-) By the year of it's demise, the BBS had it's own phone lines (2), two dedicated machines (each with over 100 Megabytes of storage), and a user base in the hundreds. There were people that called from all over the country for my D&D related materials. I was one of the first in north-western PA to be on the WWIV-NET network and recieved message bases such as Star Trek, Dungeons & Dragons related groups, and others... There were literally thousands of messages a day coming in from all over the country. Originally I dialed out once a day to Pittsburgh to a local hub to get all the messages. Later there were other users in the "chain" so all our messages were local calls. Oh, those were the days. Such fond memories. Sorry to see them go. The BBS's had a much more "cultish" appeal than the Internet and e-mail will ever have. I had made a lot of friends over the years through that medium." - John Sanderbeck
412-349-3504 Indiana, PA	The Electronic Zone (1990-1994)	William R. Forbes
	Specializing in Hypertext
412-349-6862 PITTSBURGH SUBU, PA	AmeriBoard (tm) - Node Two, Ameriboard (1992-1995)	DP Mcintire/Beth Spotts
	List of BBS List Keepers: National BBS List/DP McIntire/Beth Spotts ListKeeper: National BBS List
412-366-6099 PGSZ 17, PA	L-5 Pittsburgh
	The world's first L-5 BBS.
412-384-4914 Elizabeth, PA	The Trooper (1984-1989)	Sinister	C-Net
	Best warboard and zero day l33t stuff in the Pittsburgh area.
412-384-5609 Bunola, PA	AutoBoss/Atari Elite System's (1979-1992)	John Graham, John and Pam Graham	AutobossXL and later Forum ST
	"John (The Boss) and Pam Graham (The Boss's Babe) ran what was probably the most popular Atari BBS for more than a decade. John ran the board from a small room in his home, with a souped up Atari 800 in the early years, to a vamped up Atari ST in the later years. The Boss was an innovator. He always had the fastest, greatest, and latest hardware, and devoted most of his income to the BBS. In the decade that I knew him, I dont think he ever slept! John taught me everything that I knew back then. From burning EPROMS to modding the "unmoddable." To this day, remains a hero of my past." - Carbon 14
412-458-4036 Grove City, PA	Alpha Omega EAST, Alpha-Omega EAST (1985-1995)	Derrick Yohn	Collossus, WWIV, RoboBBS
	"Alpha-Omega started in Ellwood City as a single-user BBS. Through my affinity with the computer community and BBS, I was introduced to WWIV and became part of the WWIV network. In the early 90's I brought the BBS all the way to Central California where an associtae of mine took over the board and it became one of the largest in central CA. The name was reatined as Alpha-Omega WEST. In the 1990's I moved back to Pennsylvania and both EAST and WEST Alpha-Omega existed and we shared conections to the WWIV network. Alpha-Omega EAST continued to grow in Grove City where I continued to be part of the WWIV network through another member on this list (Charles Ring, W3NU) and also became a part of FidoNet. The BBS now had hundreds of channels of information through both FidoNET and WWIV and connections to the Internet. In the last year or two of Alpha-Omega's online existence, I decide to swap out the software for a Windows-based graphical software called Robo-BBS, which was very similar to the now popular Amaerica Online software and could offer opening multiple windows on the client side to permit forum browsing, "doors" and graphics/sounds. The primary audience was the Grove City College and users from the surrounding area. With the popularity and growth of the Internet - it was decided to cease operations due to costs and time in administration. Today, I am operations manager for Winbeam, a wireless ISP with offices based in Sharon, PA. I can be contacted at dirk@cybernetx.org." - Derrick Yohn, Alpha-Omega BBS"
412-478-1205 PITTSBURGH ZONE 1, PA	StrongLand / Apollo Trust, The Apollo Trust Company "B:" BBS (1994-1998)	Ray Muth, Tony Hockenberry	Wildcat
	"First Community Bank in the USA with a BBS ...later became the first Community Bank in the USA to offer ISP services [dialup service, web hosting, etc, in 1996!" - Rick Shank
412-487-5449 Pittsburgh, PA	Martin Multimedia Online (1993-1994)	Mike Martin
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania since 11/93. Sysop: Mike Martin. Using RoboBOARD 1.04 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 650 MB storage. Reveal at 14400 bps. $30.00 Annual fee. A BBS dedicated to those interested in desktop video and multi-media. Get the latest developments from manufacturers. Exchange ideas in our forums. Thou-sands of files available. View GIFs online. Free BYTE or VIDEO magazine subscription when you join.
412-495-6845 Aliquippa (Raccoon TWP), PA	Gandalf's Tower BBS (1989-1999)	Randy Lyle, David McGrogan	WWIV (Modded)
	"Was a 6-line BBS running on 3 scsi based PC's containing 19 HD's 3 7disc cd changers. This really brings back alot of memmories. the good old DOS days. Moddong in turbo pascal and c++. There was no internet access in my area in those days, so we had a fair ammount of people on the bbs. Made many friends from the BBS world that are still very close friends today!" - Randy Lyle
412-655-7038 PGCZ 6, PA	The Bargain Board, THE BARGAIN BOARD (1992-1994)
	THE BARGAIN BOARD. Deep-discount software, hardware, tapes, CDs, share- ware, and much more. Also home of the ""No-Risk Classified"" (412) 655-7038. PC Pursuitable!
412-661-6120 PGCZ 8, PA	Mac For The Mind (1992-1994)	Davin Flateau	TeleFinder
	Davin Flateau writes "This BBS ran from a Mac Plus on two phone lines in a two bedroom apartment in Highland Park. We started off using Telefinder BBS, but then moved to FirstClass. We were seen as a great resource for Macintosh related hardware and software information, and carreid all the relevant Fidonet groups and email. This BBS grew previously from my running "Camelot" and "The Endeavour Starflight Simulator" - both based on Commodore 64 machines. Thanks to everyone for all the support over the years! I'm still involfed in free dta service, although this time in music. Visit my internet radio station (http://www.auralmoon.com). Long live the BBS!"
412-667-3984 PGCZ 1, PA	L-5 Gateway (MYCROFTXXX Fido)	Jim McHale
	Supports western PA space activist organizations. Information from the Space Studies Institute, the National Space Society and the L-5 Society.
412-668-8451 New Alexandria, PA	The Throne Christian BBS (1994-1997)	Bob K Mertz, Bob K Mertz (Bibleboy)	Renegage
	"This was the first BBS in the Greensburg area to offer internet email. Hopping to the UUCP gateway resulted in about a 2 week transit time but it was an accomplishment in those days." - Bob Mertz
412-694-9701 Derry, PA	The Titanic BBS, The Titantic BBS, The Titantic BBS - Node 1, The Titantic BBS Telnet (1982-Present)	T.J. McMillen Jr., T.J. McMillan Jr., Exodus, T.J. McMillen, Jr.	Renegade
	"724-694-9701 was the phone number as the area code was changed 3 years into the bbs world, when the phone was disconnected for the telnet only access to the BBS. telnet://ttb.slyip.com is the current address and the new home of Renegade BBS software. And we are still online, with 5 nodes, just not dialup any longer as there are no more dialup callers. Feel free to telnet over sometime. Grab a copy of mTelnet from ozone.eesc.com and use it as your telnet client as it is 1000% better than the internal windows client." - T.J. McMillen, Jr.
412-695-3647 PITTSBURGH, PA	79th Trac, The 79th Trac, 79TH TRAC (1990-1995)	Damage Inc.	Amex
	God Member BBS
412-724-4454 Pittsburgh, PA	The Chatterbox Lounge and Hotel (1993-1996)	James R. Lunsford Sr	Synchronet
	"Hi, I was the original Sysop of the Chatterbox and I was THRILLED to find this listing, along with the kind comments that someone left. The information is accurate and it was a fun time and I guess back then, we thought that it would never end. We were running Synchronet under OS/2 and by the end of the run we had 2 computers networked with a 6 disk CD changer on the server computer. We actually took down the board when we purchased a new home and the cost of moving the phone lines alone would have been close to $1000 and over the last few months of the board's existence we had been receiving fewer and fewer calls. That was around the time of the World Wide Web's emergence and a LOT of people were checking out this new thing. I can remember talking about it at the semi-regular board get togethers we used to have. Sadly, I my wife and co-sysop Storm are no longer together, having gotten divorced in 2000 but we still maintain a good relationship and have a handsome and intelligent 10 year old son. Anyway, thanks for this, it's good to know that the efforts that we sysops put out and the enjoyment that the "users" got from our boards are not forgotten." - James R. Lunsford Sr.
412-775-7536 Beaver, PA	Bvara, The BVARA BBS (1990-1994)	Bud Householder, James Farkas	World War 4
	"The theme of the BBS was Amateur Radio. It was affiliated with the Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association. Started by Bud Householder, James Farkas, Donald Washburne, and Robert Demarco. Thanks!" - James Farkas
412-785-6027 Brownsville, Pa	Warrior's Realm METAL Board (1985-1993)	John Burrell	T.A.G./Renegade
	"Just came across this list and didn't see my own BBS on there and thought I'd submit it. I started out in the 80's with a Atari 8 bit and used AMIS BBS software for a few years. Made a switch to a 8088 XT setup and used various BBS software from PCboard/RBBS/Spitfire/Telegard/TAG & Renegade. The longest was the TAG/Renegade variant." - John Burrell
412-795-4454 Penn Hills, PA	The Chatterbox (1993-1996)	James Robert Lunsford, SkyRocker and Storm	Synchronet BBS
	"SysOps real name: James and Hope Lunsford. The Chatterbox was a 8 node BBS. SkyRocker(James)was the "Tech Guy", he kept the board up and running,Storm (Hope)was the "People Person" she took care of the users base, planned Bowling parties,and get togethers. In The evenings the board was always busy! At the time they were the only ones in the Pittsburgh area running Synchronet software. I'm sure alot of people have great memories of The Chatterbox BBS!!" - James and Hope Lunsford
412-835-0499 Pittsburgh, PA	The Igloo (1993-1995)	Blade, Pavelbure	Renegade
	"These lists really bring back the memories. So many familiar names on here! A big hello to anyone who remembers the board. The Igloo ran on a Packard Bell 486 DX2 66Mhz on a single node. In its heydey it would be busy from morning 'till night, mostly due to some (ahem) interesting files kept on the board and a lively message board." - Blade
412-846-5312 Beaver Falls, PA	Macalot Bulletin Board, Free Soft Co. (1992-1995)	Jeff Dripps/FreeSoft Company
	Support fort Second Sight BBS Software for Macintosh Product: Second Sight Software
412-882-2422 Pittsburgh, PA	Under Siege!, Veil of Darkness/Under Siege! (1996-1997)	Matt Perrotti	Renegade/Telegard
	"This system was originally called the Veil of Darkness (VoD), but the name changed to Under Siege! in early 1996. I ran it on my home PC, at the time I believe it was a 486, 50 MHz beast running MS-DOS 6.22. I experimented with several different software packages, but I started with Renegade, switched to Telegard for a short time, then finished running it with Renegade. It was a pet project of mine while I lived at home during high school. Although I didn't have lots of money to spend on hardware, I did invest in registered copies of games like Legend of the Red Dragon and Lemonade Stand, and I became an official distributer of MegaZeux, a ZZT-style game. Though I didn't accomplish *great* things with the board, it was linked up to FidoNet at one point, as well as some other local networks. I even think I had a CD--yes, a single one, because that's all I could afford at the time! My dream was always to have a multinode system, but getting one phone line was all that I could afford at the time, and that seemed to be better than nothing. Perhaps the reason it lasted as long as it did was to provide my friends with a good game of LORD that wasn't tainted by the top players on Frank's Place BBS. Met a lot of interesting people along the way too, and I'm sorry to say that I've lost touch with all of them." - Matt Perrotti
412-966-8272 Carmichaels, PA	Disk Mania (1993-1996)	Bob Sova	TAG
	"I ran 3 networked computers running DOS 6.2. Networked these to 3 six disk Pioneer CD Rom changers and 1 eighteen disk Pioneer for a final capability of having 36 CD Roms on line plus the hard drives. CD's were mostly the Night Owl series along with ham radio and tech CD's. Met a lot of nice people along with a couple of the early hackers. I figured one young fellow was heading for a life of crime. Spent a lot of money as the changers were around $1000 each at the time. The Internet caused the demise of the system. We taught everyone how to send emails and play online games so the migration towards the Internet was an easy step for most of the users. Yes it was fun......but now it is done." - Bob Sova
413-233-4611 Ludlow, MA	The XE-BBS (1987-1994)	Dan Ramos	Oasis Jr. / SBBS
	"Mainly an Atari related BBS but had games/doors, forums and downloads for many systems. Originally ran on an Atari 800XL, then Atari 520 ST and finally a Packard Bell 80286 based PC."
413-253-2713 Belchertown, MA	Altered Reality, Wonderland Bbs (1992-1995)	Sean Carbine	PCBoard, Telegard, Renegade, Wildcat
	"Altered Reality - The Wonderland BBS System ran on a Lantastic network with multiple access numbers. A user could select which BBS software they wanted to use at logon. When Possible, games, chat rooms, and message boards were shared between the various systems." - Sean Carbine
413-443-7623 Pittsfield, MA	Aspect BBS, AspectBBS (1995-2000)	Paul Doucette	Powerbbs
	"Hah, nice list.. good times.. those were the days.." - Paul Doucette
413-528-6938 Great Barrington, MA	Berkshires Link, Future Access BBS, Berkshire Link BBS (1987-1993)	Brett Simms	Future Access BBS
	"Wow, Long time ago.. But to give some correct history if anyone even cares anymore.. I started off with a copy of wildcat.. moved my way up to teleguard .. great software btw .. 1 of the first to have Yankee Trader and TradeWars running on my BBS and a member of fidonet.. Use to call out to springfield to deliver our mail packs.. Run off my tandy 1000 moved into ATXT style system.. Great up on a timex programing in basic.. Hosting a BBS user group at a local motel at the bottom of butternut ski mountain.. Pretty much 1 of the first BBS around beside what's his name from LEE.. Wrote a few Turbo PASCAL online games which faked out users to login into my fake c: drive.. watch for hours while they typed format C:/s I write this because I looked up my name Brett Simms and found this info of way way too long ago.. Pretty much ran Teleguard software though. and alot of pirate software of sierra games.. My True BBS name was always Berkshires Best - Telguard running system.. but anyways.. paul ran his bbs way after I started good friend.. and the only person I belive that even had roots was some old dude from LEE.. oh and had good times with old GIF video's..Was young better then HBO late nite..lol Thanks again" - Brett Robert Simms
413-536-8753 HOLYOKE, MA	The Aztec Empire (1984-1994)	John DeJordy
	"A very busy BBS that was started heavily focused on c-64, moved to the Amiga series, and ended on the PC."
413-547-6262 Ludlow, MA	StarCastle/Ultimate Exchange (1987-1991)	Tim Sliski	C-Net 128
	Any of you old W-MAers out there?? E-mail me @ tsliski01@yahoo.com" - Tim Sliski
413-567-1822 Longmeadow, MA	Top Cat BBS, TopCat PCB PRIV 160m CP/M (1987-1994)	Tracy Carman, Tracy E. Carman	PCBoard, PC Board
	"I started the BBS as a night-time thing when my office wasn't running. It was meant to be private and only had a handful of users. However, the handful were influential in the world of software and bbs' of that era. One of the authors of a primary communications program released the latest version of his software with a glitch. He fixed the problem and rereleased it, including his phone list. My bbs was on there. I went from having 12 users to over a thousand in about a week. I moved the BBS from my office to my home and ended up having thousands of regular callers. In 1994, the bbs crashed for its final time. I had spent a fortune upgrading the hardware and hanging hard drives off of the machine for massive storage. To me, this was the end. It was a labor of love, but I wasn't going to spend another thousand dollars on new drives and upgrades. Some of the components (the old drives and such) are buried under tons of stuff in an attic closet. It was fun running the bbs at the time, but that era was quickly drawing to an end as the internet was developing. Now everyone has moved from bbs' and CompuServe to websites and it's a whole new adventure." - Tracy E. Carman
413-568-4466 Westfield, MA	P.V.C.C., PVCC UG, PVCC USER GROUP BBS, PVCC User Group BBS!! (1990-1996)	Dave Orcutt	PCBoard , PCBoard Ver 14.5/E9
	PVCC USER GROUP BBS, PCBoard Ver 14.5/E9, Sysop: Dave Orcutt, 1-413-568-4466, 6 Lines, 3 USR DS-V.32bis, 2.2 Gigs, 280+ Echomail Conferences, Intelec HUB, ILink Node, 120+ Doors, Since 1983
413-585-5109 Northampton, MA	Ultra Zone (1989-1992)	Tim DiRocco, David Spencer	WWIV
	"I started this board back in high school on a Hyundai 286-10 with my brand new 1200 baud modem. Seeing as it only had a mono monitor, all the color screens/menus/etc. had to be done on an adjacent computer then transferred over. I would spend many nights chatting with the regular users, most of which I got to know very well in real life, having known such people as David Kuhns from Joe's Bar & Grill (for a while this bbs ran off a community system in the basement computer lab at Williston Northampton School, where students could log in as well), Communication Breakdown (run by Dor, better known as Purple Hair Freak Boy), and countless others. We were all one big happy dysfunctional family!" - Tim DiRocco
413-586-3713 Northampton, MA	Paradise City, Radio Room, Radio Room BBS (1992-1996)	Richard Wheeler, Richard H. Wheeler	VVWIV
	"As a long-time radio enthusiast the BBS's name "The Radio Room BBS" came easily. It started as a way for my friends consisting of scanner-buffs, CBers, Short Wave Listeners (SWL) and Amateur Radio operators to have a common base to communicate with one another. Soon thereafter the board's membership grew exponentially as word got out and both radio and non-radio people signed-on. With it's dedicated line busy most of the time, users wanted a way to better connect and keep the threads going. With that in mind, I contacted area SysOps, helped to start up a few new BBSs and launched RadioNet to connect these local BBSs allowing all our users more opportunity to connect and keep the conversations going. In kind, my board joined nets offered by other Sysops as each net offered a different take on things. Soon afterwords the board became a fidonet hub for Western Massachusetts. It was great fun while it lasted, but we could see that people were moving on to what would become...the internet." - Richard H. Wheeler
413-586-4724 Florence, MA	Communication Breakdown (1992-2000)	Eric Poulin aka Dor	WWIV
	"home of the one-and-only CBBBSBBQRSVPASAP" - Eric Poulin
413-592-4538 Chicopee, MA	cha0tic s0ciety, The Gallery (1987-1991)	Christopher Allard (Artman)	CNet 64, Image BBS, Color 64
	"I originally started as a Public Domain BBS. Gradually moved toward warez and eventually h/p as well..." - Christopher Allard
413-592-9208 CHICOPEE, MA	Career Systems BBS, CARRER SYSTEMS BBS (1991-1994)	Ed Carroll
	CARRER SYSTEMS BBS, USR/HST, 1-413-592-9208, free nationwide job listings for Data Processing, Engineering, Acctg, Intelec and U'NiNet, Member of National Association of Personnel Consultants.
413-684-0245 Dalton, MA	The 13th Floor, The Dalton Depot (1994-1996)	Kolgoria, Joel Bazonski	Insomnia
	"It first started as a basic BBS running Renegade catering to train fans and was known as the The Dalton Depot. After that, while still running Renegade, The 13th Floor was launched as one of Pittsfield's areas first H/P/A/C BBS." - Joel Bazonski
413-747-8459 Springfield, MA	The Toyshoppe BBS, Toyshoppe (1989-1996)	John Hebert	Synchronet, C-Net
	"Ran as a Commodore based system until 1993. Re-launched as a multi-line chat BBS."
414-253-7600 Menomonee Falls, WI	Over the Edge, Over The Edge (OTE) (1992-1996)	Tim Semo	MajorBBS
	"Formally known as the ExecPC Chat System." - Tim Semo
414-258-6517 West Allis, WI	Milwaukee Communications (1983-1986)	Darrell Boeck	PunterNet
	"Ran 24/7, out of a bedroom in my parents house. I was just 18 years old when it went up. Ran on a Commodore 64, at first with a 300 baud modem, then 1200. It offered a message board, and a significant amount of shareware downloads. I love your site. Thanks for providing a place for this information. It was great seeing all these phone numbers that I had forgotten." - Darrell Boeck
414-259-9475 Milwaukee, WI	BIG TOP, Big Top Games System (1981-1986)	Neal Patrick	Homegrown!
	Run by Neal Patrick of the "414's" fame. The headquarters of the 414 until they were caught. Taken down and re-appeared as a "legit" BBS. Run on a TRS-80 Model III. Neal Patrick writes "Hi, my name is Neal Patrick, so I know a fair amount (but remember less) about the Big Top system. I wrote the BBS software (lifted a lot of the code from a CP/M BBS system) by myself, since there was no s/w for a TRS-80 Model II (not III as someone else mentioned). I also had to write some assembler to handle the connects and disconnects (since the Model II didn't have PEEK and POKE to determine connect status). My favorite part of the BBS was "George, the Assistant SYSOP". He was ELIZA with a few of the phrases changed to fit the BBS better. He would show up for chats if I was not available. I remember those days when I had to enforce a 1 hour time limit on the BBS because people played games. That was a pain to code. Yes, there was a hidden sub-board for the hacker community, but it was only available if you were approved (and since the line was busy so much of the time, it wasn't used much). Nice to recall those old days! I still feel nostalgic when I hear a fax machine connect (it reminds me of the old dial-up modem connect sounds)."
414-277-1070 Milwaukee, WI,	Pixl Cafe (1995-1997)	Edwin Thaves	FirstClass
	"Pixl Cafe was among the first commercial BBS's that offered a graphical user interface. Pixl Cafe attracted both local and national media attention for requiring members to use their own name (rather than an alias) and for its focus on arts, media and culture. Pixl Cafe members were often called "pixlheads" and its SysOp was better known as "Proprietor". There have been rumors of Pixl Cafe returning to the Web at http://www.tribeware.com" - Edwin Thaves
414-291-9553 Wauwatosa, WI	The Chicken Ranch (1993-1995)	Steve Sweet, Stephen Sweet	Telegard
	"This BBS originally came from the Seattle area. Jeff Thompson & Steve Sweet formed The Underground Switchboard running Major BBS for a short time. (About 1994-1995) Jeff, Steve & Kirk Kintop from Black Sheep BBS joined the 3 BBS's together as the Tricon Network. Due to the popularity of the world wide web, Steve pulled up shop and moved to the web. The Undeground Switchboard BBS made the move to the web in 1997 and it exists today at www.stvsweet.com." - Steven Sweet
414-327-4970 West Allis, WI	Empire of the East (1985-1986)	Bryan Bigari	C-64 for Hardware
	"Ran this at night on my main line. Boy, did my parents love hearing the modem tone from people that would call at all hours." - Bryan Bigari
414-327-5085 MILWAUKEE, WI	The Castle (1992-1996)	Leon Blahnik, Mark G
	ListKeeper: Miwaukee Area 414
414-342-7060 Milwaukee, WI	BlackStar Mountain Pyroto (1989-1992)	Jeff Naujok	Heavily modified Pyroto
	"BlackStar Mountain started out as a standard pyroto board, but then I kept changing it and changing it. For a while it was really popular, but by 1992, the Internet started becoming more than just a joke, and usage plummeted. Still I have fond memories of those heady days as the Servant of TSOTL. Hmm. Maybe I should code a telnet based version...." - Jeff Naujok
414-352-5982 Glendale, WI	Pandemonium (1984-1990)	Boot Trax & The Page	Custom
	"Pandemonium started as a simple Apple II AE line, then a Catfur Line breifly. Soon after we designed a custom BBS with online code exchangers, AE, Catfur, and some 30 message boards. It got support from First Class. It attracted some of the most brightest krackers and hackers. The board actaully grew into a distributed system with other BBS's using our software in a calling pool. After being forced shut down a couple times, it was resurrected as Pandemonium Amiga for about 3 years." - Boot Trax
414-377-3129 Grafton, WI	The Cattle Kingdom (1992-1996)	Wiz	Renegade
	"The Cattle Kingdom was a private BBS that focused on the ANSI art scene. It had numerous art group affiliations, and during its time featured the largest collection of art-related files in the 414 area code." - Wiz
414-384-4703 Milwaukee, WI	Camelot BBS (1983-1990)	Merlin, King Arthur, Fine Old Lady	Hal then Image BBS for Commodore 64
	"I was 'Merlin' from this system. I ran it with my parents from when I was 12 to when I graduated from HS.(I did the programming and most of the work)" - Merlin
414-426-2110 MILWAUKEE ZONE, WI	The Natural Connection (1993-1995)	Pat O'Brien, Patrick O'Brien
	ListKeeper: North America Nudist List
414-442-0170 Milwaukee, WI	Priplanus, PRIPLANUS BBS (1990-1994)	Jay D. Jadofsky
	List of BBS List Keepers: Milwaukee Area 414/Jay Jadofsky
414-461-5121 Milwaukee, WI	The Paraphernalia BBS (1993-1995)	Rob Buck, Mike C. Jennings
	"Ran this outfit out of my parent's basement on a 286 for a few years. We had a good forum section that would update at about 2 in the morning and give us great chats for the next day. Focused on .mod Amiga music files, ascii, and forums. Frequented mostly by high school pals." -Rob Buck
414-462-8978 MILWAUKEE, WI	The World of Cryton *Elite* (1982-1985)	James Dickie
	Home of the *ELITE* Phreaker's Club in 1984. Taken down in 1985 due to national Credit Card busts.
414-465-3532 Green Bay, WI	SifSef's BBS (1992-1993)	Jim Dauer, Jim Dauer, Eric Heimerman
	"Jim and Eric met at a Green Bay area BBS picnic. Eric was in highschool at the time, Jim was going to school for Hazardous Materials handling I think. The name of the BBS came about due to a series of strange typos during an on-line conversation. The BBS was very shortlived, but a good learning experience for both of us, and a lot of fun!" - Eric Heimerman
414-476-0989 Wauwatosa, WI	Paradise Lost (1992-1993)	Access Denied	WWIV
	"The first incarnation of Paradise Lost was a public BBS that was up from Aug. 1992 until Apr. 1993. The sysop quickly got interested in the hacking and phreaking scene and made the BBS private, changed the software to Renegade, and changed the phone number. For a single line BBS that catered to the Milwaukee area it was pretty active during its short life taking 50-60 calls a day with active message boards. It was difficult for the sysop to take all of this down, but the h/p world was what was more interesting at the time. See also 414-476-3181 for the private board's entry." - Access Denied
414-476-3181 Wauwatosa, WI	Paradise Lost (1993-1996)	Access Denied	Renegade
	"Paradise Lost actually started in Aug. 1992 as a public BBS running WWIV (See entry for 414-476-0989). By Apr. 1993 it became private and switched to Renegade as the focus shifted more towards hacking and phreaking. At its peak the Paradise Lost had callers from many parts of the US and a couple regular callers from Britain and Spain. The file areas were some of the biggest in the US with over 10,000 text files, e-zines, viruses, etc. The focus was on learning how the systems worked and not how to be overly malicious. For instance trading of credit card and calling card numbers was strictly prohibited and violators were quickly kicked off. It was the world HQ for DFS magazine which in retrospect was pretty silly but a lot of fun to publish. It was also the US HQ for the infamous BoW. The board closed down in fall of 1995 and returned for a few month stint in spring/summer of 1996 but by then the Internet was taking off and BBSs were beginning to die." - Access Denied
414-499-8586 Green Bay, WI	The Realm (1992-1995)	Lord Wizard Tazmainian	Wildcat 3 (then 4)
	"3 Lines up to 28.8 at its height. The place for AD&D in Green Bay WI. Tons of Online Games, Ansis, Jpgs and Demos." - Lord Wizard Tazmainian
414-571-1626 Milwaukee, WI	CyberQuest BBS (1996-1999)	Bryan and Jeff Rakowski	MajorBBS
	"20 Lines, Awesome Gaming." - Bryan Rakowski
414-628-0667 Hubertus, WI	The Lost Ways BBS (1990-1997)	Anton Pfeil
	"I used to call this BBS and the Richfield BBS all the time back when I was younger. My alias was riddla, ridiculous as it was. We used to play MajorMud all the time on this thing. That and LORD, Usurper, The Mafia Game, Trade Wars, the Roadhouse, Trivia Chat... Anton was a cool guy, he played MajorMud with us all the time. We did a whole bunch of the quests and reached a bunch of areas to the point where we started writing our own scripts out of boredom. We also used to play Doom2 all the time. Danzing 16 was by far the best map for that game... but the dweller maps were awesome also. Sorry I digress, lots of memories about the place. It was awesome, he linked up with a few other BBS so we could chat, I remember talking to a girl in California back when that was unheard of over a computer without some kind of government nonsense." - J. Thughey
414-628-9037 Hubertus, WI	Regal's Resort (1990-1992)	Robert S. Dubinski	WWIV
	"Free BBS. Title screen had a spiffy ANSI pic of a palm tree. Had about a dozen regular callers from Milwaukee...not bad considering it was an LD call out to Hubertus. Taken down as SysOp went off to college, and took the computer/modem with him." - Robert S. Dubinski
414-633-4021 Racine, WI	End Of The Universe (EOTU) (1986-1998)	Tom Dunk	Amiga SkyLine
	"Probably one of the few that ran the point-and-click compatible BBS software, Amiga SkyLine."
414-634-7036 Racine, WI	Darkside (1990-1995)	Marcus Poplawski, Seth Bumpurs, Scott Cape	EBBS (Commodore SX-64), WWIV (286), RBBSPC (Commodore Colt), Paragon (Amiga 500), Starnet (Amiga 500/4000)
	"I remember Darkside 414-634-7036. It was a hangout for high schoolers in Racine, specifically from Washington Park High School and I believe Walden III High School. It was passed down from a senior to a junior at least a few times, perhaps more. I know the message board was very active, but I was only involved because my older brother knew whomever ran it at some point so I never really participated. I mostly remember the games, one in particular, Hack & Slash. One of those games where you get a set number of turns that rolls over at midnight. Anyway, thought I'd toss out what little I remember." - Jake A
414-672-5973 Milwaukee, WI	The Tower of Babble (1991-1998)	Glenn A. McGrew II, Scott Klement, Brian Brechlin	GBBS/MACOS
	"The BBS started on a Franklin ACE 500 (Apple compatible) around 1991 and almost entirely existed in the ACE's memory, except for things that needed to be saved. I was inspired by Scotty Klement (Far East Network aka F.E.N.) and Rick (The Keep). Scotty agreed to be my co-sysop. Later, I took on underage Brian Brechlin to keep up with things like user sign-up. T.O.B., in its heyday, was more able to produce messages in one day than multi-liner ODS, despite having only one line. The system switched to an Apple IIe a year or so later which was donated by Gary Wallschlager. Later, Glenn got his own Apple IIe and beefed it up with a hard drive, extra floppies (both types). Over the 5 or so years it was running the BBS existed on donations and Glenn's salary. T.O.B. was most famous for its message forums but also offered a library of Apple software, various online games, a jukebox (courtesy of Rick), and there were certain users who volunteered to offer counselling to other users who sought help. Sadly, this counselling service sometimes was confused with a T.O.B. game that pretended to be a shrink and would give crazy advice. It was clear that the software was out of date as the few overseas users disappeared as quickly as they arrived. There were some very dedicated users that helped by being ForumOps, such as Jim, manager of Aquatics Unltd. Facing infrequent visits by users and few messages Glenn finally pulled the plug in 1995. It was a bit tough to do that because it'd been his lifeblood, but there seemed little point in continuing." - Glenn A McGrew II
414-682-7427 Branch, WI	Spot, Up the Road (1989-1992)	Steve Weinert	Opus-CBDS
	"SPOT started as S.P.O.T. as an acronym for ""Someone Playing On Transistors."" Believe the original Node Number was 1:154/110 and then 1:154/154 and ran on a Columbia MPC-1600 Portable Computer with a Courier HST modem. Was test run from the UK prior to moving stateside, but no public node number issued as I had been communicating via FidoNet for a couple years at that stage. Did some experimenting as a point system along the way. SPOT carried on slightly past the nodelist dating without echomail as local only BBS. As an out of pocket project the system never had more than one line available. What ended SPOT was monopolization by a handful of local trolls, including a local Radio Shack franchise owner in a persistent pervasive troll campaign, which took away the fun. Add a couple of house moves and a young family and suddenly the logistics and expenses were hard to justify. Rejecting user requests to run an ""Elite"" section also reduced the caller count. An extra discussion area for users obviously smarter than me didn't last long, as not all would accept the invite or participate on a regular basis. What really matter to me was communications across the FidoNet, as I was all into netmail and EchoMail. Users were a bonus but not a requirement. Files were sent to Mystery Manor BBS nearby in Manitowoc, WI when SPOT shut down and I used an off-line message program until internet email became more solid. A modernized version of SPOT has been an on-and-off project recently." - Steve Weinert
414-764-6706 Milwaukee, WI	Network Cabling BBS (1993-1997)	D. Christensen, Dennis Christensen	Wildcat , Wildcat 5.0
	"In the early 90's, I used to frequent this BBS fairly often. In it's earlier years it had 5 nodes which grew to 8 later on. In 1994/95 it gained telnet capabilities, giving us users the ability to connect to BBSes far away that had the same technology. The BBS was infamous for allowing users to utilize the new Windows 95 GUI which became a gateway to the web at the time. It was also the first BBS I learned to hack, which became more prominent as time went by. I had originally discovered a way to steal time by taking advantage of some problematic code behind how Wildcat disconnected it's users at -1 minute. It was also a great place to socially interact with other users as it was generally full on friday night's, all 8 nodes being used. Awesome childhood memories from there..." - DoomGrin
414-789-4210 Elm Grove, WI	Exec PC, EXEC-PC, Exec-PC (tm), Joseph A. Vincent Consulting (1984-2002)	Bob Mahoney, Tracey Mahoney
	Largest BBS in US - 280 Lines -650,000 files - 35 Gigabytes Largest BBS in US - 280 Lines -650,000 files - 35 Gigabytes
414-789-4360 New Berlin, WI	*Exec PC, Exec-PC, EXEC-PC (1994-1997)		Custom
	v.32 and v.32bis
414-789-4477 Elm Grove, WI	*Exec PC, EXEC.PC (1995-1997)
	ISDN Line
414-885-0101 Albany, NY	Channel 62, Pain Amplifier (1992-1993)	Herman, CyberChrist	Telegard, Renegade
	"This was, unfortunately, a short-run BBS mostly because of financial constraints. I couldn't afford the extra phone line, nor could I afford the enormous amount of time. I offloaded some of the management onto other people, but with only one phone line, it was difficult. The most popular features were a Tradewars game, Global Warfare game, and Miss Sinful who replied to all messages with a sick and twisted sexually oriented reply. Some people were entirely in love with her, and nobody knew that she was a 50 year old woman working in a supermarket! If you're interested, I still have some of the gifs I made to advertise it. I had quite the cult following, but the management just killed me. In any case, I just bought www.CyberChrist.net and was considering bringing it back as a moderated web-chat room. Who knows. I wonder if I can find miss sinful again..... I wonder if she's still alive?" - CyberChrist
414-962-1097 Shorewood, WI	Homebase, Ryan Bulletin Board System (RyBBS) Support, They Ryco Company (1992-1995)
	Product: RyBBS
414-964-4046 Milwaukee, WI	Tele Post RB, Tele-Post RB (1981-1986)	John Spiegel	FIDO
	"DEC Rainbow 100 and other DEC oriented files and forums." - John Spiegel
415-255-2188 San Francisco, CA	RECOVERY, Recovery , Recovery (125/9), Recovery Alcoholism, RECOVERY BBS, Recovery,alc'ism (1985-1996)	Bob Kovach (First), Tim Spofford (Second), Rich Gorin (Third)	QuickBBS, RemoteAccess, Fido, Opus, RA
	"Bob Kovach founded Recovery BBS in 1986, running at possibly 2400. The Fidonet nodelist had around 5-600 entries at the time. It was one of the 2 or 3 first BBS's in the country dedicated to 12-step recovery, and some of the forums/echos/whatever that began in the early days of Recovery BBS are still active, with some of the same people, on the web. Early on, Bob ran two nodes under DESQview, on an AST 286, with a pair of USR 9600s. Throughout its history it ran USRs except for a brief period when I and alot of other sysops switched to Hayes in order to take advantage of Hayes getting 28.8 out the door first. I (Tim Spofford) took over from Bob in 1987 or '88, when his AIDS forced him to give it up (he died in 1989). After awhile I switched from Binkley/Opus to FrontDoor/QuickBBS, not because of their technical superiority (if any) but to keep it interesting. For the same reason I later switched to RemoteAccess. I ran Recovery BBS at several phone numbers in San Francisco, Marin County, and Richmond, Calif, with a tie line to San Francisco. It was never running on an Oakland as you have it listed, though I may have had an Oakland phone number at one point. Eventually, I burned out, turned Recovery over to Rich Gorin - as far as I know, the 3rd and last sysop - who ran it until the mid-90s. I continued to be in the nodelist as 1:125/99 but didn't run a public board. In 1991 I moved to Portland (503 a/c) and started Recovery Northwest, which you have listed, as 1:105/99, as tell as another BBS (also listed). I moved Recovery Northwest to Seattle (206 a/c)(also listed) in 1995 but became bored and took it down in 1995." - Tim Spofford (http://spof.org tims@spof.org ex-Fidonet 1:105/9, 1:105/99, 1:125/99, 1:362/something (don't remember), plus various points off other systems from time to time.) "
415-255-5972 Mill Valley, CA	Eye Contact, Eye Contact BBS (1992-1996)	Bill Montgomery
	22 line Oracomm - Gay Issues - Popular Chat System
415-285-2687 San Francisco, CA	KAY*FOG RBBS & RCP/M (FOG System #11), KAY*FOG RBBS-RCP/M SYSTEM (FOG System #11), KAY*FOG (1984-1989)	Bond Shands
	Novices and subject (dBASE, WordStar, MEX, etc) conferences Novices and subject (dBASE, WordStar, MEX, etc) conferences
415-323-4579 Menlo Park, CA	SMOG3 (FOG 40) (1986)	Philip A. Moore
	SMOG3 (FOG AMO #68) member supported system. PRACSA SMOG3 (FOG AMO #68) member supported system. PRACSA
415-327-5109 Mountain View, CA	The Coffee Club West (1992-1997)	Jerry Andrews	TBBS
	"This was the "continuation" of "The Coffee Club", a BBS and FidoNet node I owned in Gaithersburg, MD (FidoNet node 1:109/426; ph. 301-258-7763) from 1985 or 1986 through 1994. The A/C 415 node was 1:143/272, 1:143/501, and ultimately 1:143/500. At that point, it had 3 lines. It also had a satellite feed from usenet." - Jerry Andrews
415-332-7190 Sausalito, CA	The Well (1992-1993)	Whole Earth Lectronic Link
	Unix Conferencing System - $10 monthly plus $2.50 Hourly
415-333-5665 San Francisco, CA	The Deekoo's Lair (1995-1996)	Deekoo L.	Wildcat, VBBS, Renegade
	"Eventually became "The Compound Eye", and later vanished entirely. It started out using Wildcat, then the sysop switched bbs programs a few times, before settling on Renegade." - Deekoo L.
415-343-6575 Burlingame, CA	The Baud BBS (1994)	David Henderson
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Burlingame, California since 03/94. Sysop: David Henderson. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 560 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. No fee. Excalibur node: (415)343-5799. Online games (PCBoard). Thousands of files. News from wire services (Excalibur). Online catalog (Excalibur). Auto ads (Excalibur). Very user friendly. Free download of Excalibur terminal program. RlPscript on PCBoard node.
415-349-2623 San Mateo, CA	The Angevin Empire (1987-1988)	Aaron Priven	Opus
	"Thanks for keeping this alive. Somebody somewhere is going to get a PhD out of it. The Angevin Empire ran from Summer '87 to Summer '88. It was an 8Mhz 8088 clone running Opus. I was 17 years old, decided that instead of buying a car I'd buy a computer with my summer job money. It was in San Mateo, California (now area code 650). I was really into FidoNet echomail -- I could communicate all around the world! How many other people in my high school talked to people from Sweden regularly? Not too many. But I could. Now, of course, it's commonplace. Angevin Empire was mostly an echomail board, didn't have a lot of users, only 1200 bps. It was a good way for me to get my own echomail feed and read news locally." - Aaron Priven
415-355-9332 SAN FRANCISCO, CA	Ultimate Amiga (1992)
	Chemistry Member BBS
415-358-8641 Redwood City, CA	Telepath (1993-1994)	M&T Publishing
	DBMS/Dr. Dobbs Journal Magazone Online Service
415-359-8237 Pacifica, CA	The Voice of PHRED!!, THE VOICE PHRED!!! (1994-1995)	Gary Shelton
	ISDN Line
415-364-3739 Atherton, CA	Anatomically Correct (1986-1994)	Howard Stateman
	Adult interests. PRACSA member Adult interests. PRACSA member
415-365-2650 Redwood City, CA	Emeraid Lake (FOG 48) (1986)	Dick Worth
	PRACSA member PRACSA member
415-373-1231 Livermore, CA	LawrLivrLabSciEd (1993)
	FrEdMail System
415-376-1929 OAKLAND, CA	Pandemonium (1984-1987)	Christopher Stone	Wildcat II
	Basically it was an Apple ][ hacker/phreaker BBS, was mentioned on the Spy Hunter crack screen for apple ][, and became immensely popular. I was getting over 150 calls per day when running off of two floppy drives, and it got worse when I added a 10 meg sider, so it eventually went private. - Chris Stone
415-376-8060 Moraga, CA	Skeleton Crue BBS (1988-1992)	The Black Avenger	WWIV
	"Engineered a fairly large tfile dump between east coast and west coast WWIV BBSes around 1989. Shut down temporarily in 1990 due to an alleged connection with Illuminati Online in Austin, but came back online some weeks after the SJG raid. Was in 510 after 1991 due to the SF Bay Area area code split." - The Black Avenger
415-383-0473 Mill Valley, CA	RBBS of Marin County, RCP/M RBBS Marin County, RCP/M RBBS Mill Valley, Marin RBBS (1982-1986)	Jim Ayers
	CP/M and Otrona Attache. PRACSA member CP/M and Otrona Attache. PRACSA member
415-447-2503 Austin, TX	sOFTWARE lIES (1992-1993)	Reese and Tolver Johnson	RA
	"OMG, it even took me a while to remember the name of our old BBS. Four telephone lines at its height! Thanks for the memories!" - Tolver Johnson
415-456-9843 Marin County, CA	The Digital Towers (1985-1991)	Ken Brierley
	"We pioneered on-line gaming in ANSI format. System offered over 40 games to users and once a day e-mail." - Ken Brierley
415-479-7218 San Rafael, CA	Marin 80 TBBS, MARIN-80 TBBS (1983-1990)	Will Gortner	TBBS
	"Started with a TRS-80 and a 5 MB external HD, later two 5 MB external HD's, all running TBBS. Then jumped to an Intel clone PC (egads, I forget the brand, but will surely remember in two weeks or so) with 20MB of storage. Will died sometime around 1990, while undergoing heart bypass surgery. Great guy, good users, and fantastic software (TBBS, that is)." - Abuzavi
415-479-8328 San Rafael, CA	Stonehenge, Stonehenge BBS (1985-1995)	John Chipps
	"SYSOP looked like Ernest Hemingway. Was part of a small network of boards in San Rafael to grow out of Marin-80, and to federate message boards. Machines would, in sequence, push data around during the night. Forget the software -- wasn't FIDO, that much I know. EBBS, I think. Anyway, Stonehenge kicked off when John got pissed that he couldn't get on to Marin-80 when he wanted, so he opened his own. Little to no files (unlike Marin-80), but gobs of message boards." - Abuzavi
415-489-9005 Fremont, CA	The ZCPR3 BBS/Z-Node Central (1984-1986)	David McCord
	Source of ZCPR3 software & support. PRACSA member Source of ZCPR3 software & support. PRACSA member
415-495-2929 San Francisco, CA	Studs, STUDSNet (1987-1996)	Spuds McKenzie
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: San Francisco, California since 07/87. Sysop: Spuds McKenzie. Using WildCat 3.91 with 24 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 8000 MB storage. Microcom at 28800 bps. $10 Monthly fee. STUDSNet Central - The worlds largest exclusively gay computer network. Add value to your system, connect to 50,000+ men and wimmin world-wide. Daily mail transfers, net-wide matchmaker and 50+ forums to choose from.
415-512-9108 San Francisco, CA	Environet, Environet 1, Greenpeace Enviroment, Greenpeace EnviroNet, Greenpeace – Environet, Greenpeace Environet (1988-1996)	Dick Dillman, Dick Dillman/Greenpeace	TBBS
	Ecological and Peace Issues - Disarmament/Toxics/Wildlife
415-572-8219 San Mateo, CA	Hints BBS, KAYFUN HINTS BBS, Kay*Fun (1986-2000)	Ernest Hintz	PCBoard
	CP/M software and messages. System supported by Kayfun CP/M software and messages. System supported by Kayfun
415-574-3663 San Carlos, CA	RCP/M RBBS DataTech #15 San Mateo, TOAD HALL, Toad Hall, TechNet (1984-1994)	J. Thaddeus, J Thaddeus, Eric R. Daniel	PCBoard
	MS-/PC-DOS software, communications, engineering, AutoCAD & ham radio MS-/PC-DOS software, communications, engineering, AutoCAD & ham radio
415-574-7684 San Mateo, CA	San Mateo User's Group, SAN MATEO USERS GROUP (1986-1991)	Robert Hunter, Unknown
	San Mateo TRS-80 User Group BBS (8/N/1) San Mateo TRS-80 User Group BBS (8/N/1)
415-591-6259 Belmont, CA	Fog #4, FOG RBBS-RCP/M #4, FOG - 4 (1985-1988)	Roy Robinson	Wildcat
	CP/M & MS-DOS support. PRACSA member CP/M & MS-DOS support. PRACSA member
415-595-5079 San Carlos, CA	TechNet (1986)	Eric R. Daniel
	MS-/PC-DOS software, communications, engineering, AutoCAD & ham radio MS-/PC-DOS software, communications, engineering, AutoCAD & ham radio
415-598-0398 San Jose, CA	The Micro Foundry (1992-1995)	Thomas Nelson/Clockwork Software
	2.2 GB Downloads - Your Online Software Source - Boardwatch
415-598-0898 Redwood City, CA	INTIMATE IMAGES ONLINE (1994-1995)	Fred Austin
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Redwood City, California since 02/94. Sysop: Fred Austin. Using WildCat 3.60P with 10 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 1200 MB storage. US Robotics at 16800 bps. $35 Half Year fee. Specializing in scans of our own original adult photography. Video for Windows Clips from our own original videos. Home of the Women of PBG. Custom adult image production services available for your BBS. No recycled magazine scans! INTIMATE IMAGES ONLINE 415.598.0898. Specializing in our own adult photography. Video for Windows clips from our original videos. Home of the famous Women of PBG. Male pics also available. 1000s of erotic images. Free samples downloadable on your first call. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
415-615-9525 San Francisco, CA	Swizzle Stick ISDN, SWIZZLE STICK! (1994-1995)	Richard Bollar
	ISDN Line
415-634-8735 Discovery Bay, CA	NCC-1701 (1986-1988)		BBCS (Bulletin Board Construction Set)
	I used to run the NCC 1701 BBS in North Cal. (It wasn't very big.) 415-634-TREK.
415-651-9496 Fremont, CA	Earth-Rite, Earth-Rite BBS, EARTH-RITE RBBS , EarthRite, EARTH RITE FORUM (1984-1990)	Robin McCain	Wildcat, RBBS, PBBS, Wildcat!
	"Some historical content is now up at earthritebbs.org. The first system ran on an Ampro Little Board with CP/M and ZCPR3 with a 1200 baud modem and 2 floppy drives. Initially the software was BYE5 and RBBS, but RBBS took too long to login when the user list got over 30 names, so it was switched to PBBS and a 6 meg hard drive added in 1986. The BBS was hit by a trasher in 1989 who poisoned the user interaction and was briefly resurrected with Wildcat! on a PC-XT." - Robin McCain
415-655-1206 Oakland, CA	FOG - 33 (1986)	Kenji Nakadegawa
	East Bay FOG (FOG AMO #3) member supported East Bay FOG (FOG AMO #3) member supported
415-656-2873 SAN FRANCISCO, CA	Zero Visibility (1992)	Trigon
	Independent Member BBS
415-657-3430 SAN FRANCISCO, CA	Future Warez (1992)	Tallis
	Independent Member BBS
415-668-4246 San Francisco, CA	San Francisco CBBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
415-686-4536 SAN FRANCISCO: CENT, CA	Harmonic Convergence (1992)	Venmeister
	The Silents Member BBS
415-689-7039	Warehouse (1992)	Warehouser
	Independent Member BBS
415-691-0954 Mountain View, CA	The Travel Connection! (1994)	George Ourts
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Mountain View, California since 01/94. Sysop: George Ourts. Using WildCat 3.9 with 1 line on MS-DOS 80486 with 500 MB storage. Multitech at 14400 bps. No fee. Travel news and information; travel partners; several online travel data-bases including Bed & Breakfasts; travel photo library; post, download postcards; share travel experiences; travel advisories, warnings; tourist information; more.
415-692-1406 Burlingame, CA	FOG RBBS-RCP/M #31, MEBBS (FOG 31) (1985-1986)	Jim Switz
	FOG support, customer support FOG support, customer support
415-692-1861 Millbrae, CA	WestWind BBS (1986)	Yati Sahae
	Support of WestWind customers. PRACSA member Support of WestWind customers. PRACSA member
415-695-0759 San Francisco, CA	Inter-Network Coord, KUMR, Late Night Software, Late Night Software 125/555 (1988-1995)	Tim Pozar	FIDO
	Home of UFGATE - Software to connect PCs to UUCP/Usenet
415-721-0680 Sausalito, CA	Autodesk Foundation (1993)
	FrEdMail System
415-734-0444 Pleasanton, Ca,	Quasatron Systems BBS (1989)	Kenneth C. Mazie	Wildcat
	"Hi, I just found your list on the web. I ran the Quasatron BBS for about four years. I have all the old files stored and if you like i can look them up and give you any statistics about the system you like. It ran on on 2 386sx 16 MHz systems and had 150 megs of disk space. It had two dial up lines and used Microcom Ax9624c modems that would do 9600 baud if connected to another microcom ax9624c. I ran it as a hobby and never charged for access. that was the reson i wound up shutting it down, lack of funds to keep it up. I was never linked into FIDOnet or any other link service and my message base was never very busy. It was a lot of fun though while it lasted." - Ken Mazie
415-755-2030 Daly City, CA	First Osborne Gp #1, FOG #1, FOG RBBS-RCP/M #1, FOG - 1 (1984-1994)	First Osborne Group, Gale Rhoades
	Distribution of FOG Disk Library. FOG or PRACSA Distribution of FOG Disk Library. FOG or PRACSA
415-755-2284 Daly City, CA	PC Hackers Nest BBS (1988-2000)	Ben Gordon	Wildcat!
	"Started out with one line and freeware DOS BBS Software, added two lines, switched to Wildcat/DOS then Wildcat/OS2, finally the 32bit Windows version on the web as pchackersnest.com closed in 2000 due to an almost total lack of interest from the public." - Ben Gordon
415-755-8315 Daly City, CA	FOG #6, FOG - 6 (1986-1990)	Jack Brown
	Technical information and FOG uploads Technical information and FOG uploads
415-771-1788 Russian Hill, SF, CA	Midi Exchange, MIDI-Exchange BBS, San Francisco MIDI Users (1986-1994)	Walt Perko	WWIV, Excalibur
	"I was the owner/operator/sysop for "the MIDI-Exchange BBS, P.O. Box 640608, San Francisco, CA, 415-771-1788" I think I started the BBS about 1986 and ran it until about 1994 when HTML certainly had taken over. I don't remember the first software I started with, but was using "WWIV" for a long time and then "Excaliber" near the end. I actually have a .zip file of the BBS with all the messages 'n files still if you want a copy let me know, I'll dig it out of my back-ups. When I ran the BBS I was living on Russian Hill in San Francisco. There is a write up in book on MIDI . I have that book packed away here . I forget the name." - Walt Perko
415-792-3481 Newark, CA	FOG - 38 (1986)	Gerald Wright
	PRACSA member PRACSA member
415-792-8753 Fremont, CA	Electric Shock BBS (1987-1990)	TWeRKiNaLo	Renegade
	"Had almost 300 users at one point. Flame board was most popular. And image download and file trading system." - TWeRKiNaLo
415-824-7603 San Francisco, CA	Compact Disc Exchange, Compact Audio Disk Exchange (1993-1994)	Wayne Gregori
	Buy/Sell/Trade Compact Audio Disks Online
415-830-4616 San Ramon, CA	Guardian's Gateway, The Guardian's Gateway, The Hideout BBS (1988-1993)	Brent Johnson, Snipe, Brent Johson aka Snipe	Telegard
	"Telegard Beta Site specializing in that software's support and distribution." - Brent Johson
415-845-2164 Berkeley, CA	Berkeley Mega-Monster (1986)	Tony Adams
	CP/IM and MS-DOS public domain software. PRACSA member CP/IM and MS-DOS public domain software. PRACSA member
415-851-7732 Woodside, CA	FOG RBBS-RCP/M #12, Kings Mountain FOG #12, King's Mountain (1985-1989)	Troy Soult
	FOG #12 - mainly MS-DOS software. PRACSA member FOG #12 - mainly MS-DOS software. PRACSA member
415-854-4696 Atherton, CA	Heebner's Hotel (1991-1992)	Jim Heebner	Hermes
	"This was an "elite" Mac BBS, one of several in a small network at the time (the other prominent ones were The Buzzard's Nest and SPaM, both in Southern California). All of these BBS's including my own would be busy 24/7 because people would call them from all over the country, and because they contained pirated software, sometimes uploaded by the software developers themselves." - Jim Heebner
415-856-2771 Palo Alto, CA	Desktop Publisher, TeleTech (1986-1994)	Freeman Bradford
	Hobby. PRACSA member Hobby. PRACSA member
415-863-2739 San Francisco, CA	Fido Software, FidoNews, Fido Software BBS 1:125/111 (1990-1994)	Tom Jennings	FidoNet
	The first Fido BBS and home of Fido BBS 12s
415-863-9697 San Francisco, CA	FOG City, FOG CITY BBS, Fog City Fido, FOG City BBS 125/10 (1986-1995)	Bill Essex	FidoNet, TBBS
	Gay Community BBS - AIDS Info - Desktop Publishing - MACs
415-864-3675 San Francisco, CA	The New Dork Sublime (1988-1995)	Demented Pimiento	Searchlight
	"A NIRVANAnet(tm) node, text file based, linked with other Bay Area NIRVANAnet BBSes." - Joe
415-938-9470 Walnut Creek, CA	Walnut Creek RCPM/SBBS, Co-Ed Associates (1985-1986)	Werner Gumpert, Werner L. Gumpert
	Software exchange. PRACSA member Software exchange. PRACSA member
415-948-1474 Palo Alto, CA	CONFERENCE-TREE Palo Alto, Stanford Conference Tree, Homebrew Computer Club, Conf.Tree (Anti-Nuke) (1980-1994)		CONFERENCE-TREE, ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue). (Was a Part-Time BBS initially running 7:15am-11pm)
415-948-2513 Los Altos Hills, CA	PRACSA RCPM, PRACSA RCPM HBBS 85mb (1986-1992)	Irv Hoff
	PRACSA-member only system. PRACSA member PRACSA-member only system. PRACSA member
415-964-1576 SAUSALITO, CA	Thunderdome (1992)	Master Blaster
	Alpha Flight Member BBS
415-965-1525 Mountain View, CA	The Sound Mind BBS (1990-1995)	John MacWilliamson	Hermes
	"Macintosh Files, Message Boards, FidoNet connection."
415-965-4097 Mountain View, CA	Game Masters, GameMasters BBS, Mad Mac's Used, MAD MAC's used BBS, NiteLite Remote BBS, North Valley Hub, RCP/M RBBS Piconet Oxgate, Mt. View RCP/M (1982-1995)	Byron McKay
	CP/M 80, 86 and 68k Emphasis. PRASCA Member CP/M 80, 86 and 68k Emphasis. PRASCA Member
415-968-7369 Mountain View, CA	Sig Sig, SigSig, SIGSIG BBS (1989-1994)	Jim Switz	Auntie
	"Hi. I found your entry for my old BBS whilst Googling myself. I don't know where you found my old info, but I was impressed! I don't think I could have told you my old BBSs lifespan myself if asked - it's been a while. Anyway, thought I'd drop you a note about the origin of my BBSs name. Back in the late 80's there were a number of offshoot SIGs (Special Interest Groups) spawned by any other number of computer clubs, BBSs, GEnie forums etc. But around that time, some company or organization (I wish I could remember who it was - maybe your sleuths can dig it out) was claiming exclusive trademark rights to the term "SIG" and was threatening to sue anybody else using it. Being a rather-younger curmudgeon, I got all outraged and thought "f 'em - let's call their bluff", so when naming my new BBS I figured I'd use the term *twice* to see if they'd take the bait and tussle. Never heard a peep. Dammit. It would have been a fun fight. For the record, "SIGSIG" stood for "Switz's Information Gathering Special Interest Group". But in my mind, it simply stood for "f*** you". And that's the poop on that." - Jim Switz
415-968-9548 San Jose, CA	The Cave (1986-1995)	Roger Lee	Spitfire and very early versions of Linux
	"Mainly catered to my local group of friends, providing a place to trade software, programming environments, and BS. I also was a node for the RIME Network." - Roger Lee
416-231-9392	Inner Sphere, The Phantasmagoria (1987-1999)	Mark Hennyey	TAG, BBS-PC, Xenolink
	"The Inner Sphere began as a BattleTech-related BBS and became world famous as THE place for BattleTech support. After I got sick of the way FASA was handling the game, 1991-1992, we expanded coverage to Horror and SF/Fantasy and changed the name to the Phantasmagoria. I fought the Web long and hard, but eventually succumbed to the lack of interest. And a major hard drive failure." - Mark Hennyey
416-233-5410 Toronto, ONTARIO	ComputerLink, ComputerLink Online Incorporated (1992-1995)	Bill Campbell	MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Toronto, Ontario since 05/92. Sysop: Bill Campbell. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 66 lines on Pentium Network with 15000 MB storage. US Robotics at 19200 bps. $8.90 Monthly fee. Canada's largest graphical BBS. Featuring over 120,000 files with unlimited downloading, new files daily via satellite feed, Internet and Majornet, Tradewars 2002, adult files, online conversation, FREE new user seminars, Free trial memberships. Voice:233-7150
416-237-0308 Etobicoke, ON	Generic BBS, Generic, pro-generic, pnet91/Generic, Pnet 91, Pro-Generic (1987-1991)	Matthew Montano/Ram Chip	WWIII, GBBS, pro-line, pnet, SCO Unix Sys V, Pro-Talk
	"Ran on a Mac SE, through a Apple IIe and IIg and finally a 386/20 with 4MBs of RAM (wow!) running real SCO Unix System V and connected to the Internet (as it existed at that time) through UUCP! Users had real xxx@pnet91.cts.com Internet email accounts, back in 1989. Those were the days..." - Matthew Montano
416-242-7746 Toronto, ON	The Wall (1987-1996)	Roger Waters	RATSoft ST
	"...although not always at that number (that was the last one). Ran on several Atari 8-bit and ST systems, on several storage/modem/software configurations. Alas, internet killed the BBS star - not to mention that "B!ll G@t#$" killing the Atari community. But they were fun times." - Roger Waters
416-248-1525 Weston, Ont	The DarkHorse BBS
	The DarkHorse BBS - (416) 248-1525 - Weston, Ont - On-Line Games - Files - Messages - 14400 v.32bis Over 125 Megs of files online.
416-253-5900 Toronto, CANADA	SMARTalec (1989-1994)	Glenn Menzie	PCBoard
	"Renamed to the Port Credit Bulletin Board (905-278-9495) after moving from Toronto to Port Credit." - Derren Whiteman
416-266-9010 Toronto Ontario,	The Forbidden Zone (1987-1996)	The Terminator (Barrie Jones)	Customised version of Forem
	"The software was radically rewritten over time, running on an Atari 130XE, with a 1 Meg MIO Card and at that time, a huge 32 Meg hard drive!!! Eventually, it was ported to a PC and ran on a 486, in DOS, the software in Quick Basic 4.5, with a 6 CD changer and various hard drives... The theme of it was a post apocalyptic future... Many of the screens simulated a 3d windows look...." - Barrie Jones
416-276-0552	Sonic Interzone (1990-1992)	Ken Chase
	Sonic Interzone 416-276-0552 / 416-966-???? and others. (moved 4 times in 416.) The BBS was originally setup in 1987 to discuss music and counterculture, and originally started as the name Quicksilver and then Alternate Diversions (which attracted an interesting userbase, which opened up my 16y old eyes to subcultures most kids my age didnt know about back then before the net, and maybe even still not, due to internet narrowcasting...). While running modified Dircon software on my C64 (mods added by myself,Chris Lang, Wayne Ogaki and others), we added board<>board netmail (like punter) with our own protocol including filesharing et al. Not gaining enough popularity, we caved and went to punternet. "Eventually the purchase of an Amiga (with 880k Floppies!) moved me to PCBBS where it was most active (200 msgs/day or more, pretty active for a single line/single msg rea BBS with one line and no mail download), it ran for a year on amiga until the donation of a 286-AT with an 80 meg (!) drive moved me to use PC software and eventually fall into fidonet. Furthermore my university exposure to the internet in 1988 made me seek out a UUCP-mail capable extension to the board via Waffle. "After running the board on various PC software BBS packages, it went entirely Waffle around 1990 or 91, though various BBS doors were hacked onto it such as Empire, Risk and Tradewars (for which I wrote TWMAP, the first tradewars mapping aid program, won a competition on a major multiline TW BBS with it, admitted to using it, was disqualified, and then a dozen versions of the same idea came out). "The board changed numbers in Jan 92. (Dont remember the #). In May 1992, a serial line to my new Linux machine was installed to allow people to login to it for UUCP mail as it had taken over the job. In fall 92, the board was moved entirely to Linux, and UUCP mail and newsgroups. This was the beginning of the end, due to the internet and the deluge of email and newsgroups which drowned the unique community out entirely that was on my board. Only some small satisfaction can be gained via realising my newgrp Usenet msgs made it out to the internet and a few sizone.* newsgroups floated around for years on bigger usenet feeds. "The popularity of the internet, and flagging calls to the board and contributions to local groups kinda slowly killed the board. People could read what they wanted on the internet, thinking this was a great thing, not realising that communities are made up of people with differing opinions and interests from all walks of life, instead of those people that share exact same backgrounds, opinions and interests. I kept it running through 1998, though from 97 onwards it was really a ghost of its former self, only serving to give people who were too cheap or couldnt afford internet access some access to internet mail. Eventually the cost of the extra phoneline wasnt worth it, and a year later high speed cable modems were out, and that was the end of that. I have copies of various chunks of the BBS on 5.25" and 3.25" floppies from the C64 and Amiga days, as well as the entire Linux version still on my linux box now (but non operational of course)." - Ken Chase
416-287-0234 Toronto, CA	CAP/CANADA Support BBS (1993-2001)	Derren Whiteman	PCBoard
	'Created to service the users who were going to be abandoned once CAP/Analysis relocated to the USA as CAP/USA (708-854-0255)." - Derren Whiteman
416-288-1767 Toronto, ON	Magic (1990-1998)	Mark Windrim	FirstClass
	"The existing list shows two entries called MAGIC, both were actually the same system after he changed phone numbers IIRC. In the 90-91 time frame it was known as Digital Spectrum, and it had another name briefly in '90 that I don't remember." "The system was one of the most popular in Toronto. Trying to keep it growing led to a number of stories of internal battles in Bell, as to whether or not he should be allowed to get more phone lines into his house. At the time they had a rule that you could only get two, and they weren't terribly interested in changing it for a BBS'er! However it turned out that large numbers of Bell people in the Toronto area were MAGIC members, so eventually they installed a new pole in his back yard with 50 lines." "MAGIC was the premier FirstClass system, and was eventually sold to form the backbone of an ISP. That killed it when they went pay, and the plug was eventually pulled a few years later." - Maury Markowitz
416-294-3826	Razor Edge (1992)	High Energy
	D-Mob Member BBS
416-298-1527 TORONTO, CANADA	The Legend Supp. BBS (1992)
	Legend Member BBS
416-322-7876 Toronto, ON	ZOOiD (The Zoo of Ids), ZOOiD BBS (1987-1992)	David Mason, Lyn Fincham, Marc Moorcroft	Custom - M1 (C64), Xenix, UNIX
	"The system was called ZOOiD and started in 1987 until 1992, when it merged into Internex Online (io.org), Toronto's first IAP for individuals. zooid.org is still serving shell access to individuals." - David Mason
416-333-1279 Burlington, Ontario	Milo's Meadow BBS (1983-1990)	Michael Hier / John Stevens	Pocket Modem BBS / By Julius C. on Atari
	"Inspired by the wonderful scribblings of one Berkley Breathed and the stories of Bloom County, we ran a fun (and VERY busy) BBS out of the corner of a bedroom in Burlington, Ontario. There were many characters on this board from all walks of life. Some noteables: Hank!, 7 foot Dave, Sheila & Dan, Julian & Shirley-Mae, the ever-so-cute Nicole, Wendy & Carcass (Marcus) It was a way for all to unite in a common interest... ...the parties were awesome too! If only I could find the time to port the software... Cheers!" - Michael Hier
416-338-8651 Oakville, ON	The Far Side/Downloaders Anonymous(DA) (1987-1991)	Neal Bhatt	Fido, Opus
	"The Far Side was part of CyberNet and was a PD (Public Domain) board. Later became a pirate warez board with 0-day elite warez called Downloaders Anonymous (DA)"
416-345-9415 Toronto, ON	Planet X BBS (1992-1998)	Ray Morrell	CNet Amiga BBS
	"Forming a reunion page at http://groups.msn.com/PlanetXBBSReunionSite. This site operated under different phone numbers, the listed one was the most recent, although it was a 4-line BBS when it finally closed for good. At its peak it had 200 members, mainly from the Greater Toronto Area and 519 areas, but when it shut down it was just under 100 members." - Ray Morrell
416-356-8007 Niagara Falls, ON	Valhalla BBS (1988-1992)	Damian Rogers	Opus
	"Run on an IBM system (cheaper hard drives), the BBS was largely a source of Amiga shareware. Text-based games such as TradeWars were also popular. As a member of FidoNet (1:247/202), carried a number of FidoNews groups." - Damian Rogers
416-443-9616 North York, ON	Robohack (1990-1994)	Greg A. Woods (VE3TCP)	UUCP Mail and Usenet News (UNIX System V R3.1 on an AT&T 3B2/500)
	"I also provided dial-up shell access for friends and colleagues. The 3B2 is in storage in the garage and probably non-functional, but the name lives on in robohack.ca. Originally it was actually a 3B2/400. There was a lengthy down time after a major lightning storm took out half the electronics in the house one night. After fighting with Allstate for months about why I'd have such an expensive computer at home I finally won and got it replaced with a used 3B2/500 for less money than an exact replacement would have cost, the /400 having been so long out of production that even used units were hard to find. I once published a UUCP map entry with "abnormal" costs and almost managed to suck all of Toronto's mail through my Telebit until one of my upstream neighbours also carrying too much of the load convinced me that my understanding of the cost numbers was way wrong and we got the maps fixed." - Greg Woods
416-463-9360 Toronto, Ontario	Micro/Access (1983-1993)	Max Southall	Custom by Bob Kamins and Max Southall
	"The Micro/Access BBS system grew out of the need to service the product line of the JLS/Vidtek Big Board project. The JLS Big Board was a reincarnation with hardware and software enhancements of the original Ferguson Big Board Z80 single board computer system sold to hobbyists. Redesigned by Joe L. Sutherland, with input from Bob Kamins, with later hardware, firmware and software fixes by Max Southall, it was a solid CP/M-80 based system which also was the basis for the Xerox 820 series. Customers (or any others) of the Big Board were charged $50 a year for access, which eventually included email access to the then research-oriented internet. There were hundreds of paying customers. The BBS software based on Bob Kamins' work was written in Microsoft's BASIC, and compilation was with Microsoft's M80 compiler. "Eventually Max Southall completely rewrote Stuart Lynne's (yes, the later ICANN chairman) UUPC program and incorporated an email program interface, all in assembler, which connected the Micro/Access BBS users via UUCP to Unix-based internet-based communications. "Prior to 1985, the system was known online as the Vidtek system, which grew out of manufacturing video and CP/M boards for the Apple ][ clone systems. SCSI hard disk subsystems were manufactured and sold for the Big Board and sold all over the world, and the BBS used the same hardware as was sold to customers." - Max Southall
416-465-2331 Toronto, ONTARIO	MetroHUB 3, PN Junction, Toronto North East (1986-1991)	Jim Nikolich
	"The name PN-Junction came from the last names of myself and the buddy who helped create and maintain the BBS throughout it's lifetime (Al "P"ayne, Jim "N"ikolich), and seemed clever since we were both studying electronics at the time and a PN Junction is the basic building block of diodes, transisters, and ultimately CPUs and other ICs. Throughout most of that era, the BBS ran the DOS-based Fido BBS software, starting with Fido 11J. During 1992-1993, Al and I rented a house together, and eventually got quite a networked lab going (all based on ARCnet and PowerLAN) in our basement - I think we may have had 6 machines ganged together at one point. It was Al's idea to name the nodes after the Pleiades (sisters of greek mythology), and hence the name "Pleiades Systems - Pleione Node". Throughout this time we ran mainly the DOS-based PCBoard software as well as a front-end called FrontDoor. It was also at this time when Al and I were, respectively, the NetCoordinator and NetEchomailCoordinator for Net 250, covering the Greater Toronto Area. At the end of 1993, Al and I went on to find our own separate apartments, but kept our respective BBSes running throughout. t was at this time that my BBS changed its name to CompEuphoria (which I just thought was a cool name). It was also early-on in this time when Net250 obtained a gateway to the USENet newslists, which I took immediate advantage of. Since the BBS has always free for public use throughout it's ten-year lifetime, CompEuphoria became one of the earliest BBSes that I know of to make USENet mail available for free to the BBS community at-large. It was in 1993 that I registered my first Internet domain name, "euphoria.com". My contact-ID at Network Solutions was "JN13", indicating that I was the thirteenth person/entity in the world with the initials J and N to register a domain name. I'm pretty proud of that, but I gave up the historical contact ID when I got fed up with NSI and moved my domain name over to Register.com a couple of years ago. It was with much regret that CompEuphoria ended it's BBS days at the end of 1996, but by that time I had moved to New York City, and found it very difficult to administer the BBS from remote. I now have two domain names - "euphoria.com" and "compeuphoria.com", and one of these days I will reincarnate CompEuphoria, preserving as best I can the original look-and-feel of the BBS, offering people a chance to experience the 80's version of the Internet." - Jim Nikolich
416-466-5141 TORONTO, CANADA	Sanctuary BBS (1995-1999)	Michael Hainsworth	FirstClass
	"Toronto-based Sanctuary BBS initially sprung-up as a free-access and somewhat-underground alternative to "MAGIC (Macintosh Awareness Group in Canada)" following its move to pay and subsequent self destruction over politics and money. Like MAGIC and most other Macintosh-oriented BBSs, Sanctuary used the "hobbyist" version of FirstClass, a GUI based package actually designed to be a collaborative office product. As the Internet became more popular, Sanctuary abandoned dial-up in 1998 in favour of TCP/IP based access on port 510, permitting dozens of users to simultaneously chat, transfer files, and send email. Like many BBSs that shut down over a lack of SysOp dedication or squabbling amongst its members, Sanctuary went offline December 31st, 1999 at 11:59PM because of both. The last message posted read, "BBSing is dead. Long live the World Wide Web." - Michael Hainsworth
416-466-9110 TORONTO, CANADA	Iron Dragon, Iron Dragon BBS (1993-1997)	Albert Lee, Stephen Lee, Andrew Woolner	Wildcat 4.x
	Primarily a message board. Will soon be on-line again, complete with Doors games at irondragon.2y.net. - Albert Lee "We were primarily a messageboard (focused on RPGs and SF) with some games (TradeWars, Solar Realms, Legend Of The Red Dragon, etc...). We're actually thinking of bringing the board back up, complete with the old messages we archived all those years ago, and allowing people to telnet in." - Andrew Woolner
416-487-4339 Toronto, Ontario	NTC (North Toronto Connects) (1990-1993)	HOBART (Matt Yanchyshyn)	Telegard, Renegade
	"NTC was your typical single-line "neighbourhood BBS" with about 500-1000 members, probably 100 of them actually active at any given time. We had all the goods, from active local message boards, our own ANSI/AVATAR artist, to Tradewars and FIDONet. "There were two other NTC's in the Toronto area, one run by Dimitris Stubos and the other by Adam Fine. We ran auto messsage and file swaps at night, boasting the largest (a whole 3 nodes) 12-14 year-old self-run network in North Toronto (as far as I know!)... not that anyone actually knew our ages. :) As it happens, all three SysOps now live in Halifax, Nova Scotia." - Matt Yanchyshyn
416-493-9260 Toronto, Ontario	Sithicus, Sithicus RPG BBS (1990-1997)	Lord Soth	Telegard
	"Wow, the things you find surfing the web. I randomly searched for my old BBS name on the off chance somebody remembered it and posted about it, and came about your list. (Just as a note, you have another entry for Sithicus, at 416-466-6972 - this is the same BBS, just changed phone numbers around approximately 1997 when I moved. It only lasted a few months after that before the computer it was running on died. The original number, as best as I can determine, ran from 1990-1997 (but 1990 might be a little early, I'm not certain - I'm going off the 'user created' field of the sysop on a copy of the user database... although the majority of the files and such are gone, I do have a few stray elements, including the old ANSI graphic login screen) Anyway, Sithicus RPG BBS was designed around various message board RPGs, and we had a number of good ones, including a Marvel Superheroes game that spawned two spinoffs. I made a lot of friends there, although I'm only in touch with one of them now." - Lord Soth
416-497-2124 Toronto, Ontario	The Gamers Guild, The Gamers Guild 2 (1991-1994)	The Guild Master	PC Board, Renegade, Telegard
	"About a year after getting my first 2400 I wanted to be The Guy(tm) and have my own board. A 14.4 upgrade inside a Tandy 1000 and The Gamers Guild was born. Followed up a year or so later by it's predicesor, The Gamers Guild 2 (The 2 was actually a squared 2 though when I learned Alt codes) Gamers Guild 2 was shut down when the user base dwindled and I got busy programming for the demo scene and other sysop's anyway :)" - The Guild Master
416-497-5263 Willowdale, ON	Computing Canada Online (1992-1993)	Computing Canada Newspaper
	Adjunct to Excellent Canadian PC Newspaper
416-533-5532 Toronto, ON	Rock I, The ROCK BBS, WaterDeep (1987-1997)		BBS-PC, Renegade
	"A Social BBS with relaxed ideals. Everyone was welcome - leachers were actually forced to write emails and play online games to regain file download points. The ROCK BBS spawned THE ROCK NET which enhanced the social environment and brought together a bunch of Sysops friends on a regular basis. A few BBSes were even long distance and checked in for messages from Vancouver, Calgary and Halifax. Sysop Note: I was stunned to find someone actually retained a lost of old BBSes running in the 416 area. Still I'm glad these system and the individuals that ran them are remembered. It was a major part of my social life back then. We held events and even had about 50 T-shirts made up. I wish I kept it going. But my life afte a bad breakup was not stable enough to keep the BBS running in any one place. The ROCK NET kept running for a few years after. Without my own BBS I lost interest and by 1998 as the internet had taken over I was out of the BBS scene in Toronto. Pity!" - Robert Kennedy
416-538-1628 Toronto, Ontario, ON	Warp Six (1985-2001)	Various	Proprietary
	"Originally, self-written software on an Apple II, now an Internet newsgroup at warpsixbbs.homeip.net" - RadfordR
416-548-4117 Toronto, CANADA	MMN (2017)		Wildcat
	MMN was started in 1996 in the basement of a Brunswick Ave house. It moved along with me ever since. Now based in Paris, France with dial-up via a Toronto number, it's still going 21 years later.
416-609-2250 Scarborough, Ontario	SoftArc Inc, SoftArc Inc Technical Support, SoftArc, Inc., SoftArc,lnc (1993-1995)
	Product: FirstClass
416-615-8530 Mississauga, ON	Ten Forward, Ten-Forward (1988-1992)	Peter Holowatenko	BBS64
	"I was the SYSOP of the BBS at 416-615-8530 (Ten Forward.) One of my former SYSOPs and good friend, Jeff Goebel, sent me your list and I was pleased to find my old BBS listed. If you're amenable I'd love to give you a small synopsis of it for your file. Additional comments about this BBS you'd like me to know: "I started up Ten Forward as a place for fans for the new STAR TREK : The Next Generation television series to meet, chat and share information about the series. The name Ten Forward came from the bar on the fictional starship of the series, NCC-1701-D USS Enterprise, which was located at the forward most point on the 10th deck of the ship, and so the writers of the show named it Ten Forward. I ran the BBS on one of my Commodore 64 computers on a 2nd line in my childhood home in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada at the time (OK so I'm sure plenty of guys were doing this too.) I was using a "state of the art" USRobotics Sportster 19.2k modem so that visitors could have speedy access (I had started with 1200 baud modem and changed up quickly.) The BBS software I was using was Steve Punter's BBS64 (then his PC version I believe) it was part of the small and definitely busy PunterNet BBS network. I tried my best to make the screens all look like the ST:TNG LCARS computer screens, except that I did it all with extended ASCII/ANSI characters and not with graphic files. Man what I could have done with HTML or Flash today. I have very fond memories of running the BBS, of the late night chat requests from folks that logged in to checkout the latest news (I had a 15ft satellite dish and recorded the ST:TNG episodes a week in advance of actualy broadcast.) And I often gave synopsis of episodes to come (with all the spoiler alerts I could put in at the time.) And of course the download zone was visited often for the early GIF format picturs of the stars of the Star Trek universe. I beleive that I had over 300 registered users that dialled in regularly (from across North America) when I finally shut it down. It was quite popular at the time." - Peter Holowatenko
416-628-1709 Toronto, Ontario, CANADA	Unlimited Power	Raider of PAW
	"PAW (Pirate Analyze Warez) Sute. DrekkNet MBR.
416-649-3691 , Claremont, ON	The Moss BBS, The Sky High BBS (1987-1988)	William Goosman	FidoNet
	"After learning CBM and getting my own Commodore 64 I finally got an IBM clone with a 2400 baud modem running fidonet with it's own dedicated line. I found it amazing being able to communicate, share and develop early applications with what felt like a very exclusive club. We were always wondering what was around the next corner and this BBS was unfortunately ended by a lightening strike that destroyed the modem." - William Goosman
416-691-0357	Castle Quest, The Adventurer's Pub (1986-1990)	Michael Hainsworth	Fido, PC-Board, Custom
	" "The Adventurer's Pub was dedicated to fans of everything from "Adventure" to "Zork" and all in between. I had hex-edited some of the hard coded elements of Fido to give the BBS a unique look, such as changing (M)essages to [M]essages, etc. I switched software several times, even running PC Board's quasi-public domain version. I recall spending countless nights designing ANSI graphics-based login screens on my monochrome green monitor. One false move in an ANSI animation, and you virtually had to start over. Nothing was more disappointing than showing off a screen on someone's EGA monitor only to realise I had used a horrific colour combination that *looked* great, but only in monochrome. The main screen looked like a castle with the various towers representing the different forums. In the late 80's I found myself programming my own BBS software in compiled BASIC on my new Amiga 2000. "Castle Quest" was designed to be what would now be considered a MUD, a virtual world where the visitors would wander through forests and mazes picking up objects and fighting off monsters. While I went as far as having the necessary tools such as map editors and log scanners, Castle Quest never made it out of public-access beta 'cos I could never really get the serial port I/O stable enough to keep the machine from locking up. I eventually abandoned SysOping after my first real girlfriend expressed her displeasure at the amount of time I was spending in front of a screen, only to return as an "Admin" in the late 90's running FirstClass for Macintosh as a GUI-based BBS called "Sanctuary." Needless to say, my girlfriend at the time was more understanding..." - Michael Hainsworth
416-747-7203 Toronto, ont	Deep Space, Deep Space BBS (1991-1995)	Dark Shadow	VBBS
	"Doors, chat, game demos, over 1050 users at its peak. 3 Nodes" - Dark Shadow
416-751-3775 Toronto, Canada,	The Mortuary (1983-1987)	The Undertaker / Dr. Abyss	TeleCat - AppleNet - GBBS - CatFur
	"Over the years the software changed as the BBS grew. Starting as AppleNet and Telecat slowly modified to include a decent gambling casino and catfur Section until it finally blew up in 1987." - The Undertaker
416-756-4591 Scarborough, Ontario	ATI Display Adapters, ATI Technologies (Tech Support BBS), ATI Technologies BBS, ATI Technologies Inc, ATI Technologies, Inc BBS, ATI Support BBS (1991-1993)	Derrick Hammett, ATI Technologies	PCBoard
	Support for ATI Modems and Video Cards
416-759-5359 Toronto, Ontario	The Echelon BBS (1994-1995)	Benjamin Ho	Renegade, FrontDoor
	"The Echelon BBS was run on a 486DX50 tower with a triple boot DOS, Windows, OS/2, one of the first 28.8kbps Hayes modem, 3 hard drives totaling 700MB, and one backup tape drive." - Benjamin Ho
416-762-2898 Toronto, ON	Liquid Suicide (1996-1999)	Cold Fear	Renegade
	"Was pretty popular in the 416 area code. Was a part of many networks and had a great user base with a busy message board. Had great times! Miss it :P" - Cold Fear
416-773-6109 Toronto, CANADA	CAP/AnalysisSpt (1986-1996)	Jeff Gerschkow	PCBoard
	"Became CAP/USA after moving to the USA (708-854-0255)." - Derren Whiteman
416-782-1980 Toronto, ON	Underworld ]I[ (1990-1999)	Richard Veto, Richard Veto aka Mortician	Telegard/RA
	"Seems ages ago running with a 2400 baud and 4 megs of ram ($54 each!). Actually, it was ages ago! Ah yes, the 52 meg Quantum drive ~V good ol~R faithful!! Started with a 386-16sx, 386-dx40, then I got 8 megs - woohoo! Got to 100k calls in total history and then buried it - actually, it burnt out :)" - Richard Veto
416-785-8999 Toronto, ONT	ELITE BBS (1983-1987)	admiral jameson	darkstar v2 (c-64 colour)
	"One of the first colour BBS for c-64, written by Alan Peters, many elite meets (captain colgate of terminal velocity was 1st)."
416-798-4713 Mississauga, Ontario	Canada Remote Systems (1992-1993)	Neil Fleming, Jud Newell
	23GB/400000+ files, 3500 Conf’s, USENET, IBM/Amiga/Mac 23GB/400000+ files, 3500 Conf’s, USENET, IBM/Amiga/Mac
416-854-0148 Campbellville, ONT	Halton Fido (1986-1987)	Trevor McPherson	FidoNet, Opus
	"Funny what you find when you Google your own name on the Internet. In any event, much of my "SysOp" days are a blur. I was really just a kid at the time - but it was certainly an interesting time. I remember thinking "Wow"...I can send a message to someone running a system in California and it will get there overnight...(through all of the FidoNet hubs, etc.). By the time I was about half way through grade nine I found *other* interests and our family moved back to Oakville. That was it for BBSing." - Trevor McPherson
416-889-1994	Blues Brothers BBS, The Blues Brothers BBS (1989-1991)	Simon Rucker
	"The Blues Brothers BBS was a short-lived BBS running only a little over a year. I ran it on an IBM PC Model 30 with a 20Mb drive and a 2400 bps modem my parents had bought for my 13th birthday. I did it mostly as a challenge to myself since I didn't know much about computers when I started. I downloaded and set up QuickBBS, painstakingly built my ANSI screens, got listed in Toronto Computes and waited for the phone to ring. Not a lot of activity at first but then things got good once I added some online games. Just as I joined Fidonet the BBS got trashed. First the hard drive had a hiccup and trashed the FAT table. I got it all fixed up but capped it off by doing an accidental del *.* in the QBBS directory. The did it in and I never put it back together again. Sorry no screens to send you since it's all long gone. It was fun and it gave me a lot of enjoyment and skills I still use today in my IT job." - Simon Rucker
416-892-4689 Fonthill, ON	Zeus II (1988-1991)	Michael Zanussi	Wildcat
	"Run out of my parents' attic on a CompuAdd 286 with a full-height 10 MB Miniscribe hard drive and a 2400 baud modem, single dedicated line. My site acted as a FidoNet hub, traffic typically between St. Catharines and Welland. I remember working hard to scrape up the $100 or so it cost for the Wildcat software. Site was shut down when I relocated to San Diego in 1989." - Michael Zanussi
416-896-1446 Mississauga, Ontario	PSI-WordPro (1981-1997)	Steve Punter	Custom PET, BBS64, PC-PunterNet
	"I wrote all of my own BBS software, as well as a transfer protocol use primarily by Commodore users that became known unofficially as "Punter Protocol". My first BBS ran on a Commodore PET and used a 300-baud acoustically-coupled modem. In order to have it answer the phone automatically, I built my own circuit for that purpose. The original phone number was 416-624-xxxx (I can't remember the last 4 digits) until 1985, at which time the BBS moved to a new location and got the phone number 416-896-1446. After the area code split in the early 1990s, the number became 905-896-1446. I also create the PunterNet BBS network, and although it was quite small compared to FidoNet and others, it had Nodes throughout North America (including one in Hawaii) and a few in Australia." - Steve Punter
416-967-7665 Toronto, Ont.	The POOL (1984-1994)	Michael Inman
	"I started it as an ArtCulteral BBS representing the Toronto Art Community." - Michael Inman
417-581-0267 Ozark, MO	Starlite Social Club, The Starlite Social Club (1998-1999)	Randall McAfee, Randall Mcafee (Nomad)	Remote Access V2.02
	"Adult Non pay covering ham radio also ran the bbs in Milwaukee,Wisconsin was up and down from like 94 till 98 when I went down by my mom's and set it up there was fido-net node 1:154/405 in Milwaukee." - Randall Mcafee
417-854-2175 Arvin, California	The Horizon BBS (1991-1999)	Chris Crash / Neon	Synchronet
	"I thought I was loved, but they all just wanted my warez!!!" - Chris Crash
417-864-8546 Springfield, MO	DGS EXPRESS, DGS EXPRESS BBS, The DGS Express (1986-1991)	David Stern
	XModem Uploads and Downloads XModem Uploads and Downloads
417-886-3530 Springfield, MO	Buck's Place (1993-1995)	Doug Durrington	Spitfire
	"This is a BBS that was popular with file downloaders in the early - mid 90's. It also featured the popular doorgames of the time and full Ripscript graphics. I ran this and really enjoyed it. It operated until the popularity and access to the internet effectively killed the BBS for all practical purposes." - Doug Durrington
417-887-7005 Springfield, MO	Hard Rock BBS, The Warpzone BBS (1992-1998)	Jeff Morrissey, Jeff Morrisey, Jeffrey Ryan	Remote Access
	"The Warp Zone and Hard Rock BBS were run by me, they are the same BBS, new name. So if you could update both this record and the 417-725-8003 record, that would be great. Hard Rock was the only BBS on the 8003 number. Also, if you could remove the Jeffrey Ryan, that would be great. That was an alias when I was brand new and freaked out about running a bbs. Go figure, huh? Oh the good old days." - Jeff Morrissey
417-895-2721 Springfield, MO	Southwest Missouri Consort (1993)
	FrEdMail System
418-839-0242 St-Jean-Chrysostome, QC	The Other Side Node 1 (1995-1996)	Mortal Cyclone	Pc Board
	"Moved from the 514 to 418 with a full hard drive of new warez. I started to upload on other board in 418 to get ratio. Once I got another line and was calling 514 and usa to get new stuff. This is one of my best experience in the BBs, a great souvenir of my teenage time. I was making money out of it! Thanks The Snake, Kodiac for beeing good friend and co-sysop. god bless you all!" - Mortal Cyclone
418-839-8261 St-Jean-Chrysostome, QC	The Other Side Node 2 (1994-1996)	Mortal Cyclone	Pc Board
	"With the coming of internet and a travel to british colombia, I stopped the board but keep great souvenir of that time. I would like to if someone still have a ascii or ansi of my pub added in the zip file to send to me: wallgod2000 at hotmail com thanks the snake, kodiac co-sysop thanks all registred user. peace." - Mortal Cyclone
419-241-4600 Toldeo, OH	The Ebony Shack Collection (1996)		Worldgroup, Excalibur
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: The World's largest collection of exotic women. Call the E-II BBS @ 419 241-7501, IP 205.148.211.3 Excalibur, or TSDI BBS @ 419 241-4600, IP 205.148.211.2 Worldgroup, with FULL Internet services, real time Worldgroup chat. 18 CD's, 150k files. Major credit cards, 900#, BBS Direct. If you love variety call one of these BBSes today. All adult BBS.
419-289-8392 Ashland, OH	Balloon Works (1986-1990)	M. G. Brown	BBS Express!
	"Atari 6502 User Group BBS. Part of Z-Net information network." - MG Brown
419-475-2241 TOLEDO, OH	EchoMaster, Maumee Valley Net, TACS/TBBS Call Forwarding, Toledo's TBBS (1990-1995)	Jim Dunmyer, Ryck Zarick
	ListKeeper: Toledo Ohio Area 419/313
419-524-6418 Mansfield, OH	Kork Board, Kork Board 160m, Kork Board/96 meg, The Korkboard (O.I.S.T.) (1982-1994)	Warren Walker	RBBS, SELF-RBBS
	"In 1982 I originally coded the KorkBoard in Basic running on an Ohio Scientific C4P-MF with dual floppy drives and a USR 300bps modem. In 1987 upgraded to PC with RBBSPC. and a single 160 meg drive. Added second hard disk and phone line in 1988 using DoubleDos. In 1992 added a CDROM." - Warren Walker SYSOP, 843 997-2592, Now living in SC.
419-599-4878 Napoleon, OH	Bob's Micro, Bob's Micro BBS (1995-1996)	Bob Weitzel	Renegade
	"Loved running that BBS. Made a few friends and had a ton of fun. Its been so long I forget all the game programs I might have ran. BRE for sure." - Bob Weitzel
419-823-1005 Bowling Green, OH	Tony's Toy (1994-1999)	Anthony J. Wenig	TriBBS
	"MY BBS was run on a 80486 DX 50 w/32MB RAM. It was a DOS based BBS software running under OS/2 Warp 3.0." - Anthony J. Wenig
423-690-3778 Knoxville, TN	Restricted Access (1995-1996)	Carl Koresdoski	Galacticom
	"I wish I would have found your site long before this. Boy, could I have shared with you. I was always known as having the girls from the Mouses Ear online (adult girls) 24/7 all adult all the time and the things I saw WHOOHOO! And the adult party we gave hehehe for our folks I had 14 incoming lines and got up to 24 at 1 time. Was running Boca boards and Anyway I am sure i am not really any importance to this but it was alot of fun! GOD I HATED THOSE GUYS WHO RAN that OLD ASS MUSTANG SOFTWARE! hahahah! Anyway I really enjoyed reading your site. Those were wonderful days!" - Carl Koresdoski
423-698-3298 Chattanooga, TN	Chatta-NET METRO, Levity Ball Hub (1993-1997)	David Grimes
	"Levity Ball began as a point system under Phil Thatch's PTC BBS, and before long opened to the public running Remote Access 2.0 on a 286/12 running DesqView with 2 megs of RAM. The name originally derived from a song by Alice Cooper. The entire system loaded on a ramdisk and was quite speedy, even when the connection speed ramped from 2400 through 9600 to 14.4 and finally 28.8. The board centered around doorgames and gamers and featured 33 games, many set up with "expert" level settings. In addition to the staples like Legend of the Red Dragon and Barren Realms Elite, there were many other intriguing and popular games such as Ultimate Universe and Iron Ox, almost all of which were registered by the player members. It also featured twelve rotating ANSI menu sets with eye-bleeding graphics and a special "speed-mode" menu for those with slower connections. Since the user interface was the primary distinction among most BBSs I tried hard to make Levity Ball as unique in that respect as possible, and I think was mostly successful. ANSI wasn't really designed with round shapes in mind but judicious use of shading principles put the "ball" in Levity Ball's graphics." - Tao Jones
423-894-6441 Chattanooga, TN	The Gates Of Hell (1991-1994)	Arkayne, Black Plague	Telegard
	"Over 100 Active Users." - Arkayne
423-922-0252 HALLS CROSS ROADS, TN	Black Water (1994-1998)	Bob Weaver	PCBOARD
	"These BBS were up when the Internet was just a $ Sign. Telnets and Gophers roamed the net. No one knew what a Browser was in 93'. 9600 14.4 28.8 how fast can this thing go? Good old days Thank you!" - Anonymous
435-865-0437 Cedar City, UT	The Night Hawk (1992-1996)	Tonie Witherspoon (Tazmaniac)	Telegard/Renegade
	"Ran FishNet (a Denver based net), FidoNet and some other smaller nets. I was one of only a very few female sysops in Utah at the time, and had a ball running the board :) Great project you have going here! Reminiscence: I was part of a Barren Realms Elite league, and my users would gather at my apartment once a week to plan our strategies, and play our turns in a specific sequence to try to beat the Canadians. We never did beat them, but sure had a good time trying. The Night Hawk ran on a 10 mhz "turbo" Victor XT with a 10 meg hard drive and a 14.4 USR modem (which was the one that wasn't compatible with every other 14.4k modem made at the time? I can't remember the model name)." - Tonie Witherspoon
440-257-7919 Mentor, OH	The Bridge / Time Zone (1989-1991)	Scott Pasternak (The Tank) & Mike Batt (The Bounty Hunter)	SearchLight (#0816)
	"It was a pleasure running this BBS with Mike... Indeed, there were friendships formed among the users that are still recollected to this day. I would like to personally thank Mike Batt (CoSysOp), Eric Doubler (Klousher), Chris Zunic (Swank), Mike Richner (SysOp of Mystic Mountain BBS), Steve Hiner, Rob Coulter (The Bard), Doug Norenberg, Ed Stange (SysOp of Firehouse BBS), Dan Greathouse (SysOp of City Limits BBS), Dave Drzewiecki, Andrew Metzler (Nightcrawler) and Kirk Lesiacsek (Notcher). These were the users that mattered most, made the BBS a success, and actually formed the individual I have become. While those days of copy sessions, phreaking, and warez seem distant, all of these individuals still remain very real and important to me. I wish I could do a better job at keeping in touch with all of them." - Scott Pasternak
440-646-9573 Mayfield Heights, Ohio	Tentacle Nation BBS (1995-2000)	Purple Tentacle (J.R. Raith)	Searchlight 4.5b
	"I dearly miss my board. I ran Tentacle Nation and it was never very popular. I had a 1-line SL registration and I still have the harddrive with all of the information for the system on it. I had lots of games... I was a LoRD addict, heh. It's a shame that I eventually had to get rid of that computer. I still have my SearchLight disks and manual. I, one day, intend on setting up a telnet BBS, but who knows if I ever will. I've got the 486 to do it, though... "Anyone searching for me (for whatever reason) can e-mail Jafit@Hotmail.com." - J.R. Raith"
440-779-1593 North Olmsted, OH	Altered States/Ganja Mountain (1987-1992)	The Boss	C-Net
	"Started off as an underground wares site. Was changed a couple years later to a pure message board system, with no online games to play or software for people to download. It started off running on a Commodore 64. It ran its last two years on a Commodore Amiga, with a 40 megabyte hard drive. It was the first Commodore BBS that strayed away from piracy and pushed forum activity." - The Boss
440-967-4391 Vermilion, OH	Dark Worlds (1993-1996)	R. Kingsboro
	Wildcat 1993-1994, Searchlight (RIP 2.0) 1994-1996. As far as I know, and as far as I was concerned, I had the best GUI I had ever seen, including page transition animations, pop-up windows, and scripted everything. It's a sad shame that the RIPscrip protocol never took off with more systems, and it wasn't long after RIP 2.0 was released that both dial-up and telnet BBS'ing died off. Things may have been different if BBSes had used RIP to keep up with HTML's user-friendly functionality..." - R. Kingsboro
450-679-7599 Longueuil, Qc	Firefield BBS (1995-1999)	Demolition Man	Renegade, Renegate
	"FireNet Host: 80:844/0"
450-778-9398 Saint-Hyacinthe, QC	Henri BBS (1995-2001)	Henri Allaire	Wildcat
	"It was run by Henri, who was also the SysOp for 'Papou BBS', the server of the still-existing regional association of PC and Windows users (Club Les Amis du Compatible or 'CLAC')." - Roberto Bobengo
450-966-0697 Mascouche, QUEBEC	Crazy World Bbs (1992-1997)	John F Kennedy, Setzer	Renegade 05-11
	"Host of The MegaNet Network." - John F. Kennedy
501-224-1605 Little Rock, AR	Deserted Island, The Deserted Island (1994-1996)	Mike Nestrud, Mike Nestrud aka Gilligan	Synchronet w/ Portal of Power
	"I'm so pleased to have stumbled across this site. You already have me listed, but I thought I'd add a little more information for you. I'm also pleased to see you interviewed Rob Swindell -- Synchronet is great software. I ran both lines multitasked first under desqview with very fragile success, then went to OS/2 Warp with the native 32bit executables, and when Win95 came out it, extremely surprisingly to me, multitasked two lines very well. Line two: 501-224-8234 Fidonet 1:3821/6" - Mike Nestrud
501-267-1111 Strickler, AR	Genesis Project, Genesis Project Node 2, The Genesis Project (1992-1995)	John Morano	Remote Access
	"This BBS (along with all of the things John Morano did) were in Prarie Grove Arkansas not Farmington. John worked for the Prarie Grove Telephone Company and used that to help with connectivity. John was the Net 391 Coordinator for many many years until he went web based." - Christopher C. Pitts "I have to admit it was nice to see my father's name listed on your list...I know we put in many, many, many hours. The Genesis Project was by far the largest BBS in NW Arkansas. At one point there were 10 nodes, plus the usenet/fidonet mail system." - Adam Morano
501-329-0368 Conway, AR	ADAP Online BBS, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention, Alcohol/Drug Abuse Prevention (1994-1996)	Tim Stone, T Stone	Remote Access Professional
	"Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention Online BBS was sponsored by the Arkansas Dept. of Health, Bureau of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention. They contracted with our computer club to set up and run the BBS so their offices throughout the state could keep in contact with each other. It had files and message boards related to alcohol & drug abuse prevention. For a time it even had a nationwide toll free phone number. After the first few bills came it, it was limited to just in-state toll free. We ran 2 486dx2/33 PCs running OS/2 and RA Pro with 2 lines. The BBS never really caught on within the bureau. The various offices didn't really understand the concept. Since it was sponsored by the state I was required to register EVERYTHING. So I actually owned registered copies of PKZIP, Qmodem Pro, FrontDoor Pro and LIST.com among other items." - Tim Stone
501-329-4576 Conway, AR	Arkansas Online, Private (1991)	Tim Stone	Remote Access
	"My first attempt at running a BBS. I ran it on my buggy Commodore Colt XP 10 mzh. with a 40 megabyte HD with a 2400 baud modem out of my 2 room apartment in college. I was a member of FidoNet and had message boards and a small files area and of course, Trade Wars. With a name like "Arkansas Online" I had great ambitions, just not much knowledge or cash! After hardware failure I closed the BBS and took over the CPCUG BBS." - Tim Stone
501-329-7227 Conway, AR	C.P.C.U.G. BBS, Central Arkansas Net, Conway PC Users Group, Conway PC Users Group BBS, Conway PCUG (1989-1998)	Tim Stone, Jim Smith, Zachary Sidebottom, Gerald Hogue	QuickBBS , RBBS, Phoenix, Remote Access
	"This BBS was operated by the local PC Users Group in Conway. We were "The Best Users Group Between Pickles Gap & Toadsuck". It was originally set up by Jim Smith running RBBS, but after a short time he switched to Phoenix. They added FrontDoor and joined the FidoNet (1:399/4). Gerald Hogue took over operation of the BBS and after a hardware crash he brought the board back up running Remote Access. Later Tim Stone took over the BBS and the club expanded its offerings upgrading it to over 100 megabytes of storage and a Zoom 14.4 modem. Eventually we switched ot OS/2 and ran 2 computers peer-to-peer and added an additional line. We added a Planet Connect satellite receiver and provided Fidonet for most of the other BBSs in town. It was a fun time! After a few years I got too busy to devote time to the board so I passed it on to Zach Sidebottom who continued to run the board until the UG dissolved around 1995." - Tim Stone
501-329-9419 Conway, AR	Thunder BBS (1989-1995)	Jerry Fulmer	Phoenix
	"The single line BBS was run on a 286 with an 80 mb hard drive. Jerry added a 9600 baud modem that he got though the U.S. Robotics Sysop Program. The board had an active message base including Echomail along with a good size file area (for the time). He was a founding member of FidoNet 399 and active in the local computer users group. He was always ready to help other sysops with their boards or mail systems. Jerry passed away in 2010." - Tim Stone
501-336-9661 CONWAY, AR	Courts Of Chaos, Prayer Gate (1992)
	Lsd Member BBS Lsd Member BBS
501-444-8420 Fayetteville, AR	Blue And Gray, Blue And Gray BBS, GasLight BBS, Gaslight Mail, The Blue & Gray BBS, The Gaslight BBS, The Blue & The Grey (1989-1996)	Bob Underdown, B Underdown	QuickBBS (87-92) SuperBBS (92-95)
	"Nice Project! I ran the BBS on a 10 Mhz Epson XT Clone. I had a 1 Meg RAM drive with all the menus, graphics etc. It made the thing run a lot faster. People used to tell me I had the fastest system in town. I had to laugh since it never ran on anything faster than an XT and at the time every other system in town was at least a 386. The Gaslight BBS was up from 1987 to 1992. The name came from the Movie Gaslight and also from the term "to Gaslight" someone. I got a love of practical jokes from my step grandfather who used to play them on me when I was a kid. It was the first QuickBBS system in NW Arkansas. It went to The Blue and Gray BBS when I became a Civil War Reenactor in 1992. I pulled the plug in 1995 when I got married and couldn't afford the extra time and money for the board anymore." - Bob Underdown List of BBS List Keepers: Arkansas Area 501/Bob Underdown ListKeeper: Arkansas Area 501
501-569-3268 Little Rock, AR	Univ of Arkansas (1993)
	FrEdMail System
501-575-2224 FAYETTEVILLE, AR	Godzilla's Tree (1992-1993)	Lynn Gray	Hermes II
	"One of the ONLY Macintosh BBS's in Northwest Arkansas, it ran on a Mac Classic." - Christopher C. Pitts
501-575-3333 FAYETTEVILLE, AR	Dr. StrangeBrew's Tavern (1992-1994)	Christopher C. Pitts	Remote Access
	"One of the last "old style" text file bbs's in Northwest Arkansas I still have some of the ANSI graphics I used for the board." - Christopher C. Pitts
501-636-2281 Rogers, AR	DMC Online, A.I.M. Online BBS (1986-1989)	Jerry Hunter
	Software Exchange, real-time catalog of HW and SW Software Exchange, real-time catalog of HW and SW
501-636-9270 Rogers, AR	The DarkSide of the Moon (1993-1995)	David Leflett	RemoteAccess 2.50+
	"This was a single line BBS that had about 80 users. They would call one right after another. I was just a teenager in High School at the time and just getting into the whole bbs scene. At the end of 1994, I lost my job and couldn't pay the phone bill so the rest is history. I really miss those times! Long live the BBS!" - David Leflett
501-648-0944 Fort Smith, AR	The Roman Empire BBS (1993-1997)	William Turner, William Turner (The Emporer)	Telegard/Renegade
	"This was the premier online hangout for the under 30 crowd in Fort Smith... before the information superhighway. This was more the information dirt road. This place had by far the best online gaming in the city." - Kaiser
501-663-3343 Little Rock, AR	The Cutting Edge! (1992-1996)	Gene Billingsley, Alan Tetkoskie	MajorBBS
	"This BBS was truly awesome -- it was one of the first multiline BBSes in Arkansas. It started out as a 2-node BBS, upgraded to 7 nodes, then 50. When "the Internet killed the BBS star" the owners partnered with Snider Telecommunications to turn it into a PPP/SLIP service, where the BBS itself was only accessed through telnet. There's so much history, in fact, that there's a webpage dedicated to some of it -- http://www.rickwyatt.com/tce which was compiled and is still hosted by a dedicated member of the BBS community. If any BBS in Arkansas deserves an entry on your list, it's this one." - Freshman
501-666-0471 Little Rock, AR	Freshman Dorm BBS, Mind's Eye BBS, The Mind's Eye (1992-1995)	Crissy Grice, Crystal Grice, Freshman, Wildfire	WWIV, Renegade
	"I was probably the youngest SysOp in Little Rock -- I started Freshman Dorm at age 12. Most people assumed due to the name of the BBS and my handle that I had to be a Freshman in college, but I chose the handle to indicate that I was new to the BBSing world. Started out running WWIV, and was lucky enough to get assigned a Fidonet node. About a year and a half later, I became disappointed in WWIV's lack of expandability if you weren't a SuperCoder... so I switched to Renegade, renamed the BBS, and chose a different handle, Wildfire. I kept quite a large selection of Renegade patches, add-ins, and door games -- they were relatively hard to find in Arkansas. Thanks for compiling this list!" - Freshman
501-753-8575 Little Rock, AK	The Rock BBS, The U.S.A. BBS (1993-1996)	Tony Winfrey, Jason Chandler, Jeff Johnson, Robert Durham	TBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Little Rock, Arkansas since 02/93. Sysop: Jeff Johnson. Using TBBS 2.2 with 16 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 10200 MB storage. AT&T at 19200 bps. No fee. Most popular computers supported. DOS, Windows, & OS/2 files. Many games. One of the largest collections of Adult GIFS as well as scenic GIFS. Large adult area. Also many other sections including Religion, Kids, Business. Contests with v32bis modems
501-772-BBSM Texarkana, AR	Max Megabyte (1987-1993)	Clifton M Billingsley	MajorBBS 1.0
	"650MB of files on a Magneto-optical WORM Drive Max Megabyte 4 - Us Robotics Courier V32 9600 baud modems. Free membership Supporting the 4 states area Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Home of TUG "Texarkana Computer User's Group". Support thru contributions including Microsoft, WordPerfect. Corporation, Union 76, and BTI. Max Megabyte thru a partnership started 1994 - 1997 Cloverleaf Technologies, Inc. a regional tier 2 Internet Service Provider. Cloverleaf provided Internet access to the Northeast Texas, and southern Arkansas areas. Cloverleaf Technologies, Inc. was sold to USA Connect, Inc. in June 1997. Max Billingsley later developed for GTE's Technology Solution Center in Dallas, TX and died in 2008. Max Megabyte was the gateway to knowledge to a lot of budding computer geeks in the early 1990's." - Clifton M Billingsley
501-782-1367 Fort Smith, AR	Anartica BBS, Beyond Insanity BBS (1992-1995)	Kevin Brandenburg, Robert and Dawn Harvey	Telegard, TriBBS
	"HI to all our old friends." - Robert and Dawn Harvey
501-785-2517 Fort Smith, AR	Jackalope Junction, PseudoCode (1988-1998)	Steve Prado	GBBS (Apple II), PCBoard (PC)
	"I was the Sysop of these BBS's. Was just cruising and found this list. I started BBS'ing around 1987 when I got my Apple IIe. Called a couple of boards in town for awhile and got the fever. Started PseudoCode with a 1 mhz IIe and 4 floppy drives. (two 5 1/4, two 3 1/2). I started getting calls and bought a $800 60 meg hard drive for the system. I ran that board till about 93 or 94. When I shut it down I had two IIgs's and 180 megs of space. I then got the fever for a PCBoard which a friend was using. Loved those online games. I started Jackalope Junction and ran it till 1998. At the end I was running 2 nodes, had several gigs of space and was the Fidonet NC/NEC for the area. Also ran a Planet Connect dish for the Fidonet echos. Not bad for a small town like this." - Steve Prado
501-835-3634 Jacksonville, AR	R.E.M. BBS (1986-1989)	Brian Wolters	Ivory Joe
	"Ran on a Commodore 64 with 3 1541 Disk Drives and at one time ran on CNET but mostly Ivory Joe. The first BBS in the LR area to have a section dedicated to Woodson Lateral." - Brian Wolters
502-228-3381 Goshen, Ky	TSFi (1992)		Renegade
	"The Search For iNsanity. One of the few and longest lived 'scene' bbses of 502. Affiliated in some way or another with most every local artgroup that was started in the area during its lifespan as well as Mistigris from 1994-1995 and CIA for a short time in 1995. Member of New Jersey based EvilNET from 1993-1994 along with other local bbs Satan's Lair. The board was shut down and never reopened after the sysop moved out of the area code." - Jas Osborne
502-228-7538 Goshen, KY	PAN-AMERICAN, The PAN-AMERICAN (1988-1997)	Mike Powell	GT Power
	"This board started out as a part-time board called the Night Shift. It was renamed to the Derby City GT, then became Moe's Tavern, when it came online full-time in 1989. It was located near Lyndon, outside of Louisville. In 1993, I moved to Goshen and eventually changed the name (and number) to the one in the listing. It was still a local call from Louisville. The board was GT 010/022, and also carried AFSN & Intelec. In 1997, I moved to Frankfort, and the board came with me. It is celebrating its 20th year online this Spring (2008). See Listing for "Capitol City Online."" - Mike Powell
502-237-3157 Scottsville, KY	Equinox, The Equniox BBS (1995-1996)	Craig Emmitt	GT Power
	"This is Craig Emmitt and I was the SysOp of The Equinox BBS, "Scottsville's First and Finest BBS". On a whim today I plugged it into Google and found your page, awesome! Take care and thanks for helping me reminisce :-)" - Craig Emmitt
502-241-4109 Louisville, KY	FOG RBBS-RCP/M #24 (Land of OSZ), SoftStone, Softstone, Soft Stone (1985-1994)	Curt Edwards
	FOG Remote System #24. PRASCA Member FOG Remote System #24. PRASCA Member
502-258-7301 Louisville, KY	Night Fall BBS (1994-1998)	Kurt's Spirit	Renegade
	"Night Fall bbs was a modded (shrug i mean i didn't go all out with the hex thing, but it was nice) renegade bbs which i loved very much. For a period of time approximatly from 1994-1998 it was for the most part up and running. I'm not sure why dante's list doesn't have it , and this site didn't get it but it was there. I'd sometimes wake up and go to my PC and see 300+ local messages had been posted in a single day. I think the popularity grew because i tried to be as friendly and helpful as i could with all my users. I'd add things, and change the look constantly. I lived and breathed that bbs for a few of those years, but heck i was a young teen at the time who didn't? :) I really miss those days, and would encourage anyone who feels the same to support textfiles.com and there affiliates, and also check out the new bbsmates to meet up with all our old friends!" - Kurt's Spirit
502-267-7422 Louisville, KY	Deckmann's Exchange, Deckman's Exchange (1991-1994)	Dennis Deckman, Dennis K. Deckmann	GT Power, WildCat!
	"GT Net/Node 010/007. Operated dual lines for a short time. Dropped BBSing when I started building my house due to time constraints. Tried to revive BBS in the (502)477-xxxx area (Taylorsville) when I moved in to the new place but only got two calls in 3 months... and then there's the internet..." - Dennis Deckmann
502-281-0582 Owensboro, KY	The Pirate's Chest (1988-1990)	Jason Hunt	TAG, Telegard, AfterShock
	"The Pirate's Chest was the first p/h/a/c BBS in the Owensboro area. It was a single line system ran on a 8088 xt 10mhz system. The BBS software mainly used was AfterShock, which was an Emulex clone. Additionally, it was a beta test site for T.A.G. BBS software. I ran this system when I was in high school." - Jason Hunt
502-352-5054 Radcliff, KY	Exile BBS, L.I.A. (1994-1997)	Patrick Sorino	MajorBBS, WorldGroup
	"Heh, stumbled on this site while searchign for somethign completely unrelated. This was my BBS while I was stationed at Ft Knox KY. At its largest, it was 15 lines with about 100 paying members." - Patrick Sorino
502-413-6130 Louisville, KY	DERBY CITY BBS (2007-2009)	Allen Prunty
	"In 2009 we had a house fire and I lost the BBS system… when I put it back online we did not bother with a dialup after that and we operated telnet only at derbycity.us which is now a social networking project that I was working on and have not launched due to a traumatic brain injury. The BBS Still operates to this day at livewirebbs.com you can telnet in http://livewirebbs.com we run both ELEbbs and Wildcat v7 now." - Allen Prunty
502-425-8046 Louisville, KY	Black Diamond BBS (1995-1998)	Lonnie Robitzski	Wildcat!
	"The Black Diamond was one of the more popular in the area because of the door game Red Dragon.. I had 10 versions up at any given time.. any add on I could find to make each game different from the other I used.. We also carried Wildnet mail and 30 other door games which were all registered.. Plus we had a live chat area.. The Black Diamond went offline for good in Febuary of 1998 due to cost of the phonelines involved.. when we shut the doors the Black Diamond was still very popular at any given time all 10 lines were in use." - Lonnie Robitzski
502-439-5809 Oak Grove, KY	Midnight Serenade BBS, NET 3621 HOPKINSVILLE LINK (1992-1995)	Andrew E Allen, Drew Allen	Renagade BBS
	"I began running Midnight Serenade BBS while I was stationed at Fort Campbell in the early 1990's. It offered several messaging networks, multi-player online games and file download areas for users to enjoy." - Drew Allen
502-447-4323 Louisville, KY	The Odyssey (1993-1995)	Steven Shaggy Quaack, Tony "Shaggy" Hildebrand	Renegade
	"The time the Odyssey was around the BBS scene was growing. I wanted a modded BBS that stood out among the rest and had plenty of things to do. The Odyssey had ScorchNET which was a popular message net and several games to play including 3 different version of LORD. The BBS ran off a 486 running OS/2 Warp 4 and was later switched over to a BBS software called Iniquity in 1995. I'd like to thank Shadowlord (7th Gate) and Kurt's Spirit (Night Fall BBS). The BBS wouldn't have been a success if it wasn't for the help these guys gave me and helped me get things setup." - Steven Shaggy Quaack
502-447-8648 Louisville, KY	Great Big Dog (1993-1994)	Ray Dittmeier, Mike Neagle	Renegade
	"The whole thing began when I gave up on a home-based business. There I was, with a second phone line going to waste and an extra computer in the house, and Renegade was free... what the heck? We had quite a busy -- and strange -- message board section with some very dedicated "regulars." We even developed our own terminology; for example, logging in was called "petting the dog." Also had the best Trade Wars game in town. At least, that's what I was given to understand. I didn't play, myself, but the game was very active, and the players chipped in to pay the registration fee, telling me they were willing to because it was becoming the best TW game they knew of. "Started with a smallish hard drive on the computer. I put a few shareware programs in the file section but didn't set it up with an upload/download ratio. "Conventional wisdom," of course, was that no one would bother to upload files if you didn't require it. And I didn't want them to because the hard drive was so small. But they uploaded. And uploaded. And one day I came home and found the BBS wouldn't work because the hd had gotten packed full of uploaded files. I desperately scavenged around trying to find stuff to delete so as to buy time until I could get a bigger hard drive. Found a 40 meg (fairly big for those days, as you probably remember) for $170 and had a torturous time getting it in and working. I mean, geez, now you can buy a hard drive, take it home, plug it in, and it pretty much just works. But Mike and I must have played around for four or five hours to get this one going. "I finally closed The Dog down when the burden of paying for the extra phone line got to be too much." - Ray Dittmeier
502-448-6887 Louisville, KY	Eternal Vortex (1991-1993)	Jeff Bruce (Phaze Vector)
	"I am submitting this because he passed away some time ago and I think it belongs on the list in case one of his many friends goes on a nostalgia trip as I am. His real name was Jeff Bruce his handle was Phaze Vector. He ran an Amiga bbs from 87 to 93 called Eternal Vortex and switched to PC in 91 but kept the name and ran it until 93 when he was killed in a car accident at the age of 23. Wow, so damn long ago now. Long story short. We met a ton of cool people trading warez and he was the hub for a large group of close friends that all met due to him selling warez in the local bargan paper. People I still hang out with today. I thought perhaps someone that knew him or his BBS might get nostalgic and go hunting the web for info. I want to make sure they find something. It was a big BBS back in the day. He had multiple phone lines which wasn't cheap back then. HE felt all the free games he could play was worth the price. Dirty pirates!!" - Mark Whobrey
502-456-4292 Louisville, KY	Atari Scene BBS, Atari Scene! (1986-1992)	Rich Link	BBS Express
	"The system was set up for the Atari Exchange of Louisville user group. It ran on an Atari 800XL with 256k upgrade and 60 megs of storage with Hayes 14.4 modem during the last few years online." - Rich Link
502-458-1222 Louisville, KY	Satan's Lair (1993-1996)	evildream	Renegade
	"I ran this board out of the attic in my parents' house... I can't even remember what the exact dates were now but it was around 93 - 96. Member of New Jersey based EvilNET from 1993-1994 along with other local bbs TSFi. Thanks for all the memories on this page, now I'm a high school biology teacher in California and this former life seems so long ago... :) My, how cyberspace has changed!!!!!!" - Evildream
502-459-5531 Louisville, KY	NET-WORKS Assembly Line, TAL The Assembly Line, The Assembly Line (TAL) (1982-1986)	Jeff Kibbey	Custom
	"My name is Jeff Kibbey, and I ran The Assembly Line (with my brother Mike) from 1982-1986 in Louisville, using custom software. We were the first BBS in the 502 area code, and in 1986, we moved to Houston, Texas and then to Hartford, CT. In 1987, the site was located in New Orleans until it went down when I went to law school in 1990. Thanks - I enjoyed the trip down memory lane with your site!" - Jeff Kibbey
502-646-3281 Glasgow, KY	Falcon BBS (1995-1998)	Curtis & Eric Smith	RemoteAccess
	"The Falcon BBS treated local users to many (2 pages full of) popular door games including LORD, Planets, and Falcon's Eye...(mostly full registered versions). Custom ANSI graphic menus. The BBS had all kinds of users, but mostly Barren County and Glasgow High School students (I even met my future wife on there). I also wrote a couple of doors for this BBS in Pascal (a graffiti wall, and a Trick Or Treat game). My brother and I were the teenaged SysOps and ran the BBS on an IBM 486 25MHz...started out on a 2400 baud, went to 14.4 and then 33.6. BBS folded when my brother and I went to college out of town, but the internet would probably have ended it at about the same time anyway. Those were the days!" - Curtis Smith
502-678-5292 Glasgow, KY	Better BBS of Glasgow (1984-2004)	Larry Stell	Hal's BBS
	"This BBS is still running, but the area code in Glasgow has changed to 270. It runs Wildcat! now. It was originally the "official" BBS of the Glasgow Commodore User's Group. I know for sure it was around in 1984, not sure when it started. When I used to log on as a kid, it ran on a Commodore 64. I know that Larry moved it to a C128 for a while and then to an Amiga. After Commodore went under, I lost contact." - John Retronerd
502-684-7022 Owensboro, Ky	The Hermits Cave (1994-1997)	Charlie Payton	Excalibur BBS
	"The Hermits Cave was the first and only Windows based BBS system in the Owensboro area. It ran the Excalibur BBS software on a Win 95 machine. It had two lines, one 28.8 and one 14.4, both using USR Sporster modems. It featured message boards, chat, plugins (games), a multi CDROM rotating shareware file base, and user contests. The Hermits Cave was a GUI based BBS and users could choose between several visual "themes" from simple quick menus to highly animated graphical menus. At the time it was the busiest BBS in the area with the largest user base." - Charlie Payton
502-875-8938 Frankfort, KY	Capitol City Online , The Pan-American, CCO/Moes BT (1997-2020)	Mike Powell	GT-2000, GT Power
	"This board moved from the Louisville area in 1997, and is celebrating its 20th year online this spring (2008). It may be the only dial-up GT Power BBS left in the US. It is also available via telnet at cco.ath.cx. See the entry for "The PAN-AMERICAN" for more details. GT 010/022, FIDO 1:2320/105." - Mike Powell
502-877-6490 Vine Grove, Kentucky	Gold City User's Group BBS, Gold City Users Group BBS/South of the Border (1994-2000)	Patrick Greene	CNET 4
	"Charles Van Tuyl was running the bbs when I got to Fort Knox from Panama in 1994. It was an "Amiga Only" bbs for the Fort Knox area Amiga Users Group (Gold City Users Group). I quickly became co-sysop, and in 1995 when Charles when to Europe, I took over and installed the BBS on my Amiga 2000 Tower (heavily hacked - hardware and software). The bbs was up, night and day, without failure, from that time until I was sent to Korea in March of 1998. I have the bbs archived on a harddrive somewhere here. I did not set it up again when I returned in 1999 due to marriage problems. The key things I would like you to know is that the Amiga was an amazing computer, it ran, night and day, without rebooting, for years! (That Amiga still works) I had callers from all over the planet, paying big telephone bills, just to log in! What an amazing time!" - Patrick Greene
502-893-6360 LOUISVILLE, KY	Shiva Systems Inc Technical Support, Dance of Shiva BBS (1995)	Tim Arnold
	ListKeeper: Louisville KY and South IN
502-895-8866 Louisville, KY	Pikinu's Pampered Pomeranian Paradise, Pikinu's Paradise (1989)	Charles Taylor	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"Charles wrote a shareware program called the Online Scrabble Player's Dictionary, and he ran his board as a gathering place for scrabble players and other miscreants. The OSPD was just a database containing the "legal" words allowed in Scrabble. He typed all of these words in manually into RBase, which must have taken months. He and his wife raised Pomeranians, and Prince Pikinu was the Top Dog of the lot, so he named his BBS after that Prince. He had callers from all over the world, who dialled in to takepart in his online scrabble tournaments. Good times ..." - RVhead
502-933-4725 LOUISVILLE, KY	-=* LiveWire Online! *=-, Derby City Net, Kentuckiana LiveWire, Live Wire, LiveWire Advanced Communications, LiveWire BBS, LiveWire Information Systems, Net 2320 File Safe (1986-2009)	Allen Prunty	PCBoard , Wildcat, QBBS, TBBS, RemoteAccess
	"We ran QBBS for a time from1986 to 1987 when we switched temporarily to TBBS. I was in high school and could not make enough money to continue to run TBBS so I sold the TBBS modules to Sal Lizard who ran the Mailbox BBS in Charleston South Carolina to increase his line count as TBBS just released their multi-line version. We were growing and switched from TBBS to RemoteAccess. This was pre-Jam message base and we were very popular. We ran two lines and was growing even then. The main # rolled over to the second number and our phones were completely paid for by user donations. We were a message base BBS primarily and we also had a few files and our main game door was the Scrabble door… we had some very good scrabble players. We switched from Remoteaccess to PCBoard when we outgrew the capabilities of the Hudson Message base. There were kludgy utilities that allowed us to do internet e-mail and fidonet. We ran PCBoard for a very short time as we operated as node 1:11/60 in Fido region 11. We were the ONLY fido node in town for a long time and transitioned to wildcat 3.0 for even better fido support when others wanted to join fidonet. Wildcat 3.0 had a better tosser than Fidonet and we ran wildcat for the rest of our time until about 2009. We had the e-mail domain of livewire.org from 1988 through 1992 when somehow someone bought it out from under us and used it for their personal webcam for unreal tournaments… unfortunately that address is not used anymore and we can’t get it back. Domains were NOT cheap back then it cost $75 a year and as a high school student cutting grass I did not get my payment in quick enough to renew it. I was running 4 lines by then. I then was gifted tbolt.com by a friend who was a pilot we ran the BBS uing that for e-mail and news for some time. Until about 1997 when the DSL modems came out. We were one of the first BBS’s on the net who opened up more nodes via telnet and our dial up lines were very popular as we allowed people to surf and FTP over our connection for a small donation each month. At this time we were on Wildcat 5 – Winserver. When We moved our BBS To telnet ONLY we switched our domain to the derbycity.us and went by the name online as Derby City LiveWire. I had a few people who requested a dial up so I returned the BBS online as a dial up using one of the early VOIP services." - Allen Prunty
502-935-6710 Louisville, KY	Louisville's Commodore Connection (1983-1986)	Bob Myers (Computer Critter)	Custom
	"LCC began on a 300 baud modem and later moved to 1200 baud. It was run on a Commodore 64 and used two Commodore CBM 5-1/4 inch dual drives - a 4040 and 8250 for storage. I wrote the software in Commodore BASIC and compiled it to machine language. It was part-time in the evenings and later went full-time to a dedicated line: 502 933-5479. Around 1986 or 1987 it moved to an Amiga 1000 system and the name was changed to Louisville's Amiga Connection." - Bob Myers
502-935-8954 Louisville, KY	Starfleet Command BBS (1988-1995)	Admiral Kadrak - Michael Priddy	WWIV
	"Starfleet Comand BBS was a WWIV BBS. It provided several Star Trek related message threads, and games. It provided its users with a total of seven registered games including, Tradewars. During the late 80's it maintained a averqage of 80% usage rate throughout the day. After AOL started in our area, this dropped to less than 20%. Shortly after the BBS was decommissioned." - Michael Priddy
502-937-6143 Louisville, KY	Valley PC Clone (1991-1994)	Earl Albin
	"Earl Albin ran his BBS from his home in Valley Station, a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. He sold and still sells US Robotics modems as a hobby, and the BBS was his advertising medium." - Earl Albin
503-221-1777 Portland, OR	Combat Arms, Combat Arms BBS (1992-1996)	Richard Bash	Wildcat , Wildcat v3.50M on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/68), Subscription system ($25 to $40 per year). Focus is on firearms, law, aviation and science. Formerly located in Castro Valley, CA.
503-223-1966 Portland, OR	techbook (1992)	James Deibele	Unix System V, Rlease 4.0 on 80486 system, Waffle v1.65
	(multi-line) 1200/2400 bps. 24 Hrs. (Uucp: techbook), (AlterNet 192.108.254.10), Sysop email: (jam...@techbook.com), TECHbooks (the booksore) has gone out of business and the techbook hardware has been sold to InterCom. The system name may change, but James Deibele will continue as SysAdmin at hte new location. Not yet online at the new location because of phone line problems when I went to press. Fee based system ($5/month for shell & usenet: $10/month for Internet). also operates a free BBS called 'pdaxs' using Waffle v1.65.
503-223-4504 Portland, OR	The Freak Scene (1992-1995)	Lisa Kleinman, Reynelda	WWIV, WWIV v4.21a on 80386 system
	1200/2400 bps, Lots of GIFs and music related files.
503-226-4228 PORTLAND, OR	JUST SPORTS ONLINE (1995)
	JUST SPORTS ONLINE 503.226.4228. A new national, sports information service. We cover Pro and College Sports, Las Vegas odds, Sports chat, stats, real-time game scores, full text news articles, custom fax service, lop 25 polls, college recruiting hotline, schedules and more. Free trial. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
503-228-0807 Portland, OR	Powell's Technical Bookstore BBS (1992)	Fup the Cat	RemoteAccess 1.11+ on XT clone
	300/1200/2400 bps, Callers have access to the bookstore inventory using Doorbase v1.95.
503-228-5618 Portland, OR	NAG, NAG BBS (1992-1994)	William J. Coldwell	BBX 0.1200 on Amiga 2000
	(multi-line) 1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (Uucp: nagbbs), The BBS is operated by The Northwest Amiga Group (NAG) at the club offices in The Galleria. A second phone (228-5845) is restricted to club members. Selected usenet newsgroups and uucp mail is available to club members. Internode CHAT.
503-228-5866 Portland, OR	Barristers', Barristers' BBS, Rick's Law BBS (1991-1997)	Rick Samuels	Maximus v2.0 on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/31)
503-228-7599 Portland, OR	LINC BBS (1991-1994)	Rick Rickards, Kevin Williams, Rob Bloodgood	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/75), LINC is a commercial voice mail service.
503-229-0822 Portland, OR	O.M.S.I. BBS (1992-1993)	Ken Clark, Magician	WWIV v4.20e on IBM PC/XT clone
	300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32/V42b] bps, (WWIVnet node 5315), (FidoNet 1:105/25), Games available 5 PM - 8:30 AM only.
503-230-1041 Portland, OR	Backwater II, Backwater Message System II (1992-1994)	Mike Day	Homebrew on Sanyo 555
	300/1200 bps
503-231-1196 Portland, OR	Junk Monkey BBS, The Raven (1992)	Technodude (Christopher McCluskey)	Hermes v1.9 on Macintosh SE
	1200/2400 bps
503-231-5555 Portland, OR	KATU Weather Center (1992)	Jim Little	Homebrew on IBM PC/XT
	300/1200/2400 bps, Special purpose system operated by KATU (Channel 2) to provide current local weather information, road reports, etc.
503-231-8841 Portland, OR	Exclamation, Exclamation! (1994-1995)	Cabel Sasser	Hubris
	"About the software: Hubris? Yeah, Hubris! It was a piece of custom BBS software I wrote (for no good reason) on the Amiga. Obsessed with scripting languages -- even to this day -- the BBS software was actually written in the AREXX scripting language, and basically just "controlled" a terminal program, using the terminal program for input and output and all that. It was awkward, but it worked, somehow. (Hubris was a word I had recently learned in English class, of course.) Thanks for the amazing list. :)" - Cabel Sasser
503-232-0332 Portland, OR	The Club Portland, The Club, Portland BBS! (1992)	Gary Seid, Gary ""The Kid"" Seid	Maximus v2.00 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/98)
503-232-2803 Portland, OR	Hot Pockets (1992-1994)	Daniel, Zung	DLX on IBM
	(multi-line) 300/1200/2400 bps, New all gay BBS. Subscription multi-line CHAT system for adults (at least 18 years old).
503-232-5783 PORTLAND, OR	Banished CPU, Banished CPU Node #2 (1992-1994)	Dan Gannon	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess v1.10, Waffle 1.64 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-232-6085 Portland, OR	KIS Keystone Info System, Keystone Information System (1992-1994)	William Haase	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/53), Free access. Home to 10,000 book reviews, new book listings, and other selected sectinos from the Library of Congress database.
503-232-6213 Portland, OR	Enigma, Enigma! (1992-1994)	Ken Barratt	Wildcat 3.01S on 386SX
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-232-6566 Portland, OR	Banished CPU, Banished CPU Node #1 (1992)	Maynard, Maynard Erikson	RA, RemoteAccess v1.10, Waffle 1.64 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, Choice of two separate BBS. One runs RemoteAccess v1.10. The other runs Waffle 1.64. Supports freedom of speech.
503-232-8903 Portland, OR	The Dark Caverns BBS (1992)	CTHULHU, COOSHEE	C-Net 64 (DS-2) v2.5 on Commodore 64
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-232-9302 Portland, OR	Bentfender BBS (1992)	Bentfender	Color 64 on Commodore 64
	300/1200 bps
503-233-0087 Portland, OR	Charlie & Jacks' Trading Post, Point-to-Point BBS (1992)	Roger Bacon	Maximus/2 v2.01 (beta) on 80386 [OS/2]
	1200/2400/[HST/V32b/V42b] bps, Special interest in CAD and OS/2.
503-233-0730 Portland, OR	Central Hub, Eastern Hub, The Computer Zoo (1988-1993)	Mike Botkin	Opus v1.72a on Compaq DeskPro 286
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/27), Net 105 EchoMail Coordinator. BBS available to dialup callers from 8 AM to midnight PST only.
503-233-0850 Portland, OR	Big Larry's RBBS-PC (1991-1995)	Larry James	RBBS-PC 17.3d on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[14.4 HST/V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/72), Subscription fee for CD-ROM library privileges. File access and EchoMail are free. Big Larry's is the Portland host for most of the Filebone File Echos [SDS, SDN, WINNet, etc.]
503-233-2116 Portland, OR	Imladris BBS (1992-1994)	Phil Beeble	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/78), An adult BBS. Callers under 21 years of age have limited access.
503-234-4535 Portland, OR	PC-FORUM! (1992)	Aesop	Spitfire v3.2 on 80286 system
	1200/2400 bps
503-234-9250 Portland, OR	The Theater of Battle (1992)	James White	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, Specializes on online games.
503-235-5070 Portland, OR	The Grizzly's Den (1992)	Alan Kennedy	Maximus v2.00 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/78.1)
503-236-0074 PORTLAND, OR	Heartbeat of Portland (1994-1996)	Bernie Richards
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps
503-236-0281 Portland, OR	P.A.U.G. BBS, PORTLAND USERS GROUP, Whispering Pines BBS (1990-1992)	Steve Overton	BBS-PC v4.20 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, Special interest in Tandy computers, including CoCo.
503-236-4233 Portland, OR	ThoughtCrime BBS (1992-1993)	Ryan Dripps, The Spin Doctor	Telegard v2.7 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/39)
503-236-4945 Portland, OR	Heartbeat, The Heartbeat of Portland, Heartbeats (1992-1996)	Bernie Richards, CUDA	DLX, DLX on 486/33 system
	(multi-line) 300/1200/2400 [MNP] bps, Adult chat BBS with 21 phone lines. GIF library, general purpose and sexually oriented message areas, frequent parties and gatherings. Limited to callers 21 and over. Subscription system ($20/3 or $35/6 mos) with free trial period. Voice 239-4510.
503-238-6284 Portland, OR	Nuclear Danger BBS (1992-1993)	William Marquette, Adric (William Marquette)	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 80386 system
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/24)
503-239-4032 Portland, OR	PEGBoard 4 BBS (1992)	David Robinson	TBBS v2.2M-16 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[HST/V32] bps, BBS for the Communications Group of Portland. File area restricted to club members or subscribers. Special interest in MS-DOS programming, unix, and telecommunications.
503-240-1851 Portland, OR	Robison Data Systems, Robison Data Systems BBS, Robison Data Systems Corp, The Democrat's CBIS (1990-1995)	Jim Robison	QuickBBs v2.75 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/84), Focuses on political discussion and services to clients.
503-240-1943 Portland, OR	The Universal Joint, Paramount BBS (1992-1997)	Daniel Holmes, Sharlikran	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Formerly a Commodore 128 BBS.
503-241-4982 Portland, OR	Gnome Hollow (1992)	Gnome, LadyKat	Color-64 on Commodore 64
	300/1200 bps, Limited to callers 18 or older.
503-241-9641 Portland, OR	PMUG BBS (1992-1994)	Karen Hale	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 386/40
	1200/2400 bps, (FieoNet 1:105/67), Official BBS of the Portland Macintosh Users Group.
503-243-1150 Portland, OR	Smothered Hope BBS (1993-1994)	Jim Harrison	WWIV
	"At one point had the largest collection of Doom .WAD files." - Jim Harrison
503-244-0977 Portland, OR	Dialogues BBS, Jon & Judy (1991-1993)	J.A. Griffin Jr.	Maximus v2.01 (beta) on 80286 system
	(Line 1) 300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/97), focus on dialogues of various types, with a particular interest in the outdoors, ecology and the environment.
503-244-3254 Portland, OR	Portland Express BBS (1992)	C.K.	BBS Express on Atari 65XE
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-244-5711 Portland, OR	Sherri L Knobel Memorial, Sherri L. Knobel Memorial, Sherri Lynn Knobel, Sherri Lynn Knobel (105/87), Sherri Lynn Knobel Memorial BBS (1990-1995)	Dick White	RemoteAccess, RemoteAccess V1.11+ on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/87)
503-244-8535 Portland, OR	On-Line Mutual Fund News, On-Line Mutual Fund Newsletter (OLMFN) (1991-1995)	Lowell Herr	RemoteAccess 1.10 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/32), Special interest in investments, education (K12Net, IIMSE, Saturday Academy).
503-245-2135 Portland, OR	QuarterFlash, The QuarterFlash BBS (1992-2000)	Russ Skjeie, Russ Skjeie (pronounced Shay)	Spitfire v3.2 on 80286
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/49)
503-245-4961 Portland, OR	HI TECH TOOLS / Librarians, Hi Tech Tools/Librarians (1990-1997)	Janet Murray	Opus v1.13 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/23), For librarians in school or public libraries who are implementing electronic information access. Hosts the PDX.LIBRARY and LIBRARY Echos. Founder and regional hub for K12Net (educational echos).
503-245-6156 Portland, OR	Fly By Night BBS (1992-1996)	Richard Muller, Nightmare (Richard Muller)	DLG Professional v0.9856 on Amiga 500
	2400/[16.8K HST/V32b/V42b] bps
503-245-7256 Portland, OR	21-XXX (1992-1993)	Norman Leveille, Norman Levielle	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[HST/V32/V42b] bps, Subscription system ($10/3 mos, $25/year) for Adults (18 or over) only. (Fidonet 1:105/89)
503-245-8735 Portland, OR	The BBS Enterprise (1992)	Ken Nakatsu	OMNI 128 on Commodore 128
	300/1200/2400 bps, BBS has a STAR TREK theme.
503-245-9673 PORTLAND, OR	Dialogues BBS II, Dialouges BBS II (1992-1993)	J.A. Griffin Jr., J. A. Griffin Jr.	Maximus v2.01 (beta) on 80286 system
	(Line 2) 300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/79)
503-246-3684 Portland, OR	Wandering Wolf's Den, Wandering Wolf's Den BBS (1991-1996)	William Dale Allen, Shadowtreader	QuickBBS v2.75 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/96), Amiga, support, plus interest in RPG and SF/Fantasy. Member of the local RPGNet. FurNet echos.
503-246-9712 Portland, OR	3cpu (1989-1992)	Ed Drury	STadel3.3b, Citadel/Xenix r1.00 on Xenix/386 v2.3 system
	300/1200/2400/[HST/V32/V42b] bps, Use BREAK to autogaud. Type 'citadel' (no quotes, lower case) at the 3cput!login: prompt to access the bbs.
503-252-0063 Portland, OR	Sma2 Pro-Gun BBS (1992)	Fred Brooks	LogicTek Unix on unknown hardware
	1200/2400 bps, (Uucp: sma2), Sysop email: (...!m2xenix!sma2!root), Use 8N1, vt100 or ANSI terminal emulation. Type 'guest' (lower case; no quotes) at the login: prompt to apply for a shell account.
503-253-5249 Portland, OR	The Mind's Eye (1992-1993)	Robert Stites	Maximus v2.00 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/47)
503-254-0695 Portland, OR	R.V. BBS, The.R.V. Test Center (1990-1994)	Don Cockrell	Searchlight BBS 2.15M on IBM
	1200/2400 bps, (WWIVnet node 5309), BBS is the Searchlight BBS Sales & Support system for Oregon.
503-254-6011 Portland, OR	Jim's Room (1992-1994)	Jim Taylor	Color-64 on Commordore 64
	300/1200 bps, Semi-private BBS for adults (over 18) only.
503-254-7094 Portland, OR	Maker BBS (1992)	Maker	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-254-7369 Portland, OR	Missing Persons League (1992)	Zakureth (Michael Blake)	WWIV v4.21a on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, (WWIVnet node 5304)
503-255-0734 Portland, OR	EIT Online (1992)	John Eells	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[HST/V32b/V42b] bps, One time membership fee of $20. Non-members have limited privileges.
503-255-1806 Portland, OR	Raw Power (1994-1995)	Greg Dunbar & Andre Vriesman	MajorBBS
	"Internet mail and Usenet over UUCP, 6 lines @ 14.4, Chat room links to other MajorBBSes, Files, RIP/ANSI" - Greg Dunbar
503-255-2733 Portland, OR	Basement BBS (1991-1993)	Ed Wolf, Ed ""Rogue"" Wold	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Host of RPGNet. 23+ online games.
503-255-9657 Portland, OR	Benjamin's BBS (1992)	Bravo Sierra	UBBS v2.1b on Atari ST
	300/1200/2400/[V32b] bps
503-256-2574 Portland, OR	Computer Wizard, Computer Wizard BBS, Computer Wizard BBS! (1992-1996)	Vladimir Bratkov	RemoteAcess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/57)
503-256-2715 Portland, OR	A.C.E. (Amiga Center Exchange) (1992)	Greg Cox	Wildcat 3.50P on an IBM LAN
	(Node 1) 1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, System is dedicated to the Amiga. The 256-2715 phone trunk hunts. RIME (Amiga conference) coming Aug-92. Maintains the Portland Amiga BBS List [Bulletin #1].
503-256-7758 Portland, OR	Medical Education BBS, Medical Information BBS, SLP Computer Systems, The Amusement Park BBS, Medical Education BBS Plus (1992-1995)	Jerry Donais	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Offering medical files, online games
503-256-8451 Portland, OR	Overworked Dragon, The Overworked Dragon BBS (1992-2003)	Katherine Stewart, Starguard (Katherine Stewart)	QuickBBS v2.76 (Gamma-2) on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[PEP] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/56)
503-256-8598 Portland, OR	Incoherent (1992)	Brian Miller	Coherent v3.2 (Unix) on 80386
	300/1200/2400 bps, (Uucp: beaker), Sysop email: (...!m2xenix!yoyodyne!beaker!brian), Invited access system (no BBS). New users login as 'guest' (lower case, no quotes). Send a BREAK signal to make the system autobaud.
503-256-9712 Portland, Or	The Overworked Dragon BBS, The Paw Hoof and Talon (1986-2003)	Brian Newman, Katherine Stewart	QuickBBS
	"I know because I'm Katherine Stewart! My BBS first went online on 4/20/1986 and was online with only short breaks usually because of computer problems. until July 2003. I'd still have it up, but I was down to less than 5 calls a day from the same 2 or 3 people. In it's heyday I had over 500 users and had 2 phone lines." - Katherine Stewart
503-257-4823 Portland, OR	CryoCafe (1992)	William J. Coldwell	BBX 0.1098 (beta) on Amiga
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (Uucp: cryo), Sysop email: (r...@cryo.rain.com)
503-257-6590 PORTLAND, OR	A.C.E. (1990-1992)	Terry Sparks	Wildcat
	(Node 2) 1200/2400 bps
503-280-7811 Portland, OR	Jefferson BBS, Realm of the (K)nights (1992-1994)	Jesse Means, Deathknight	QuickBBS v2.75 on PS/2
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/66), Sponsored by Jefferson High School, but open to all. Special interest in RPG and creative writing.
503-281-6808 Portland, OR	CHEZ KEN, JOBS BBS, Jobs BBS (1989-1995)	Ken Zwaschka	Maximus v2.0 on IBM PC/AT
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/54), Special purpose BBS focusing on employment, business and related topics . . . and scouting.
503-282-0154 Portland, OR	Heath/Zenith, Heath/Zenith BBS (1990-1995)	David Moeser	Opus v1.03b on Zenith (IBM compatible)
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/26), Special interest in H/Z computers, particularly the Z-100 and H-89.
503-282-0882 Portland, OR	MOB BBS (1992)	Jeffery Wood	TriBBS v3.0 on IBM laptop
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-282-0893 Portland, OR	On Target BBS (1992)	Mike Lynch, Walt Milford	Wildcat v3.00M on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Operated by Citizen Safety Committee (CSC) Inc. as a service to it's members.
503-282-1928 Portland, OR	Funky Ass Enterprise, Maximum Carnage, Tiny Tim's Big Access (1992-1994)	Tim Zagelow, Tiim Zagelow	Renegade, RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/21)
503-283-1358 Portland, OR	Acacia, Acacia BBS (1990-1993)	Ted Rolle, Catherine Rolle	SuperBBS v1.16 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps
503-283-5547 PORTLAND, OR	The Great & Secret Show, Tje Great & Secret Show (1994)	Kenneth Sorrels, Kenneth Rougeau (DarkStar)	Renegade
	"First board in Portland to have Barney Splat ;> Later (and currently, occasionally) reincarnated into the telnet BBS, Setec Astronomy (setec.darktech.org when it's running)" - Darkstar
503-283-7620 Portland, OR	OutBack BBS (1992)	NO SYSOP LISTED	MajorBBS (Galacticomm) on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Subscription system ($8.50/month, $20/quarter).
503-284-5130 Portland, OR	CFS BBS, Christian BBS, The Catacombs (1988-1992)	Carl Townsend	Wildcat, Wildcat 3.01S on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Occasionally offline for local use, generally on weekdays.
503-285-4417 Portland, OR	A.C.E. of America BBS (1992-1994)	Shadow	Carina II v2.5 on Atari 8-bit
	(ACE-Net #21) (ICN-Net #24) (mutli-line) 300/1200/2400 bps, Three (trunk hunted) phone lines on a homebrew MUX. Operated by Shadow Software as the support BBS for Carina II BBS software.
503-285-6615 Portland, OR	Moe's Place (1992)	Jerry Wilson	Spitfire v3.1 on 80486/50 system
	1200/2400/[HST/V32b/V42b] bps
503-285-7103 Portland, OR	Two Rivers BBS (1992)	David Tweed	PCBoard v14.5a/E3 on 80286 [Lantastic] LAN
	300/1200/2400/[HST] bps
503-285-8399 Portland, OR	Shymouse's Lair (1992)	Shymouse	C-Net 64 (DS-2) v2.5 on Commodore 64
	300/1200 bps
503-285-9907 Portland, OR	SMI's 3X/400 BBS (1990-1996)	Joel Leatherberry, Curtis Lefebvre, Scott Shepler	RemoteAccess, RemoteAccess v1.11/Professional on IBM
	1200/2400/[14.4 HST] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/34), Sponsored by Systems Management, Inc. of Portland, a service bureau offering timer sharing on IBM System 38 adn AS400. Special interest in IBM midrange computers.
503-286-0931 PORTLAND, OR	Sea Breeze BBS (node 1), Sea Breeze BBS I (1990-1994)	Ted Meyer	Wildcat 3.02M on 80386 LAN
	(Node 1) 300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps (FidoNet 1:105/45)
503-286-1334 Portland, OR	The Southeast Sector (1992)	John Nelson	Spitfire v3.1 on 80286 system
	(Node 2) 1200/2400
503-286-2802 Portland, OR	Eastern Hub, Lost Mailman, Sea Breeze BBS, Sea Breeze BBS II, The Lost Mailman (1990-1995)	Ted Meyer	Wildcat, Wildcat 3.02M on 80386 LAN
	(Node 2) [14.4 HST/V32] (FidoNet 1:105/44)
503-286-7593 Portland, OR	The Southeast Sector (1992)	John Nelson	Spitfire v3.1 on 80286 system
	(Node 1) 1200/2400/[14.4 HST/V32] bps, (CircuitNET node)
503-286-9367 Portland, OR	Big Bob's BBS, Main Street Annex (1992-1993)	Bob Moffatt	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/94), Primarily games and FidoNet echomail. All ages welcome. No subscription fees.
503-287-9698 Portland, OR	Dr. K's Office (1992)	Ken Kaetterhenry	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Online games.
503-288-0800 Portland, OR	BBS Connection, The BBS Connection, The Record Collectors BBS (1992-1994)	Trisa Banks	Spitfire v3.1 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (CircuitNET 503004), Files, trivia, netmail, music talk, recording search service.
503-288-1386 Portland, OR	Gates of Creation (1992)	The J-Man Jory Earl	C-Base v3.0 on Commodore 64
	1200/2400 bps, Online games, files, upload/download section.
503-288-3218 Portland, OR	Recovery Northwest (1991-1993)	Tim Spofford	RemoteAccess 1.11+ on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/99), Focus of the BBS is recovery from alcoholism and other addictions.
503-289-2236 Portland, OR	Electric Sheep (1992-2001)	Jeffrey Thorns	FirstClass
	"You currently have a listing showing 1991-1994 with Karen Hale as the Sysop. PMUG had a BBS run by Karen from 1991-1994, but it was just called the PMUG BBS and it ran on a DOS-based command line and was open to the public. In the Fall of 1992, I started Electric Sheep for PMUG, running FirstClass software on a Mac. The system still exists and has about 350 members. It is not open to the public, only to PMUG members, but that's one of the things members like about it - they know who they're gonna bump into." - Jeffrey Thorns
503-289-4872 Portland, OR	North Keep BBS (1992)	Cougaress, Swordsmith	QuickBBS V2.75 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Message oriented system with a special interest in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronisms).
503-289-5257 Portland, OR	Reg 17 EchoCoord, Sea Breeze BBS III (1991-1992)	Ted Meyer, Tony Wagner	Wildcat 3.02M on 80386 LAN
	(Node 3) 300/1200/2400 (Main BBS line), (Adult Links 69:2901/2), (FidoNet 1:105/44), Sysop is the Regional HUB for Adult Links. Node 2 is the restricted to 9600 bps callers.
503-289-9429 Portland, OR	Puddle City BBS (1992-1997)	Martin Crommie	FoReM ST v2.8w2 on Atari 1040 STe
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FoReM-Net Node 670), Message area for Portland Atari Club (PAC).
503-292-6543 Portland, OR	Sir Toby's Den (1993-1995)	Brandon Allen (Sonic), Sir Toby	WWIV
	"Started in 1993, closed for 2 years and reopened in 1995. Ran WWIV on 1 line. The BBS ran for about a year and Sir Toby took it down because of financial trouble." - Brandon Allen (Sonic)
503-292-7772 Portland, OR	Catlin Gabel School, The Catlin Gabel School BBS (1991-1994)	Lowell Herr	RemoteAccess v1.10 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/29), Special interest in education (K12Net echos, IISME, Saturday Academy). The sysop teaches physics at Catlin.
503-293-1772 Portland, OR	agora (unix), Agora (1992-1994)	Alan Batie	Intel Unix V/386 4.0 Vers 4 on 80386 system
	(Uucp: agora) (RAINet 147.28.17.33) (multi-line; trunk hunts) 300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, Four dialup phones. Public access, fee based Unix system. Type 'apply' at the agora login: prompt to apply for an shell account [$6/month + $5 per MB of disk usage]. RAINet is an experimental, local TCP/IP network.
503-296-9834 The Dalles, OR	FireHawk Online Services, NET 3419 NEC, NET3419 NEC, The NightLife BBS (1991-1995)	Cliff Emberg
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: The Dalles, Oregon since 05/91. Sysop: Cliff Emberg. Using SpitFire 3.5 with 8 lines on MS-DOS with 3500 MB storage. Microcom at 28800 bps. $50 Annual fee. 2 week demo period. Featuring both The NightLife BBS & NightFire Adult BBS. Beautiful ansi & the best RIP in the NW. Games, messages (8 mail networks & growing), files, chat & fun. Friendly sysops, custom programming, graphics & more for everyone.
503-297-0278 PORTLAND, OR	1st Choice Communications, 1st Choice Communications II (1992-1996)	Tony Wagner	Wildcat 3.51p on 386/486 (LANtastic) LAN
	(Node 1) 1200/2400/[HST]/V32b/V42b] (FidoNet 1:105/2)
503-297-0279 Portland, OR	1st Choice Communications 2, 1st Choice Communications III, D'Bridge Support West (1992-1994)	Tony Wagner	Wildcat 3.51p on 386/486 (LANtastic) LAN
	(Node 3) 1200/2400/[TPEP/V32b/V42b] (Fidonet 1:105/3)
503-297-0626 Portland, OR	Land Of The Gypsy's, Land of the Gypsy's (1992-1994)	Nancy Porter	Spitfire v3.2 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, (CircuitNET 503006), (RelayNet GYPSY)
503-297-0935 Portland, OR	m2xenix (1992)	Randy Bush	SCO Xenix/386 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32] bps, (Uucp: m2xenix), (RAINet 147.28.0.33, 192.83.230.1), Sysop email: (r...@m2xenix.psg.com), Invited access Xenix system (no BBS). Partial newsfeed, special interest in Modula-2. For shell access, inquire via uucp mail or ask on DawgGone Disguested. RAINet is an experimental, local TCP/IP network.
503-297-2911 Portland, OR	Death Lord's Realm (1992-1996)	Trevor Macy, Death Lord (Trevor Macy)	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/91)
503-297-4070 Portland, OR	Trade Winds, TradeWinds (1991-1995)	David Lutjen	Wildcat , Wildcat 3.02P on 80386 System
	(Node 1) 1200/2400 [MNP], Special interest in international trade, business practices, finance, and culture.
503-297-6542 Portland, OR	Step, Step BBS, StepBBS FoReM/ST ATARI FNET, STEP (ST Enthusiasts of Portland) BBS (1990-1994)	J Gerber, Russell Schwartz, James Williams	FoReM-ST V2.8w2 (beta) on Atari 1040ST
	300/1200/2400/[H96] bps, (FoReM-Net Node 72), BBS dedicated to users of Atari ST/TT computers. Non-members have limited access.
503-297-8528 Portland, OR	Hal's Haven, Hal Haven's BBS (1991-2000)	Hal Davis	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/88)
503-297-8667 Portland, OR	Central Hub, Trade Winds (1991-1996)	David Lutjen	Wildcat 3.02P on 80386 System
	(Node 2) 2400/[14.4 HST/V32] bps (FidoNet 1:105/60)
503-297-9043 Portland, OR	Bink of an Aye, PC Support Advisor - US (1989-1995)	Randy Bush, Ruby Tuesday	Opus v1.72a on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[PEP/V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/42), Portland host for DVNet. FidoNet mailer answers the phone as Bink of an Aye.
503-297-9073 Portland, OR	Ship To Shore BBS (1992)	John Laurin	Wildcat v3.01S on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (S2SNET node), Special purpose BBs for sailors and boaters. Carries RIME, FidoNet, Usenet, and S2SNet conference and boating. Networked with other S2S BBs in British Colombia and Toronto.
503-297-9145 Portland, OR	Africa Gate, Asia Gate, DawgGone Disgusted, DawgGone Disgusted NEC, Dutchie Help, Euro Gate, Europe Gate, European Gate, Fido Tech Stand, Latin America Gate, Oceania Gate, OZ Gate, SudAmerica, VanPort Net, DawGone Disgusted, DawgGone Disgusted BBS (1987-1995)	Tin Man, Randy Bush, The Curmudgeon, R Bush, Ruby Tuesday, Lisa Gronke	FidoNet, Fido v12t on 80286 system
	List of BBS List Keepers: Portland Oregon BBS/Lisa Gronke 300/1200/2400 bps, (Uucp: dawggon), (FidoNet 1:105/6), Sysop email: (r...@dawggon.fidonet.org), DawgGone is Net Hose for FidoNet NET 105 (VanPort Net) ListKeeper: Portland Oregon BBS
503-335-0686 Portland, OR	Specifically Modemers (1992)	Wonderboy	C-Base v3.0 on Commodore 64
	300/1200 bps
503-335-9600 Portland, OR	Experimenter's Anonymous, Experimenter's Anonymous (CFN), Joyful Noise, Joyful Noise/New Life Forum, New Life Fellowship 1, New Life Forum (CFN), New Life Forum 1 (1991-1994)	Dale Weber	SuperBBS v1.16, Maximus v2.00, Waffle v1.65. on 386/40 system
	2400/[PEP/V32/V42b] bps, (Uucp: twiki), (FidoNet 1:105/55), Sysop email: (d...@twiki.pdx.com), Choice of four separate BBS. Experimenter's Anonymous runs SuperBBS v1.16, The New Life Foum and Joyfull Noise run Maximus v2.00. Wafflemania runs WAFFLE v1.65 featuring uucp mail and usenet news.
503-341-4570 PORTLAND, OR	Digital Forest (1995-2000)	Darren Daily, Rick Ramsey (Co-Sysop), Russ Johnson (Co-Sysop), Richard Soderberg (Co-Sysop), Darrin Daily
	"Digital Forest was the evolution of Universal Joint into an ISP, and was round from 1995 to 2000 - 1995 to 1998 with dialup access at (503) 341-4570, 1999 to 2000 with internet-only access at "bbs.digiforest.com" - Darrin Daily
503-343-9724 Eugene, OR	Blazer BBS, The Ladder, WEBE BBS (1984-1992)	Bill Ruddick, Carla Ridenour	Vortex (modified) Commodore 64
	"First Commodore (TRS folks called: Commode - odor). Vortex source code - heavily modified to support extravagant features like ascii file tranfer and later Xmodem for binary files. Thanks for the help Ward! The entire BBs was written in executable basic. I managed about 1500 lines of codes." - Bill Ruddick
503-357-2647 Portland, OR	DAN'S BBS, Dan's BBS (1992-1994)	Dan King, Daniel King	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[14.4 HST/V32b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/308)
503-357-4669 Portland, OR	Milliway's (1992-1993)	Ford Perfect	WWIV v4.21 on IBM PC
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (WWIVnet node 5311), Speical interest in kites and juggling.
503-359-5111 Gaston, OR	The Digital Amateur (1992-1994)	Jerry Gaiser	Maximus and Waffle, Maximus v2.0 on 386/25
	"Choice of two separate BBS at login. One rans Maximus and was a typical FidoNet BBS focusing on Amateur radio. The other ran Waffle v1.65 and offered uucp mail and a small number of usenet newsgroups" - Jerry Gaiser 300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/380), Focus on Digital Amateur radio and Shortwave listening.
503-359-5268 Forest Grove, OR	32-BIT BBS (1994-1997)	Rob McGee	Spitfire
	Still running today @ http://x-bit.org/ftelnet/32bit_bbs.html
503-389-3810 Bend, OR	Radar's Lair (1996-2000)	Jerry Kenyon, Brian Hicks	TriBBS, TriBBS 5.11
	"Jerry Kenyon my stepfather ran this BBS up until around mid 98 when he handed the reigns over to me. At its peak (97-99) Radar's Lair had two nodes and at any given time both were in use. I kept Radar's Lair running as long as the BBS scene in Bend remained active. On a side note: My mother actually met my step father via Radar's Lair." - Brian Hicks
503-389-5404 Bend, OR	Metropolis (1988-1996)	M. Gerlicher, Michael Gerlicher	Metropolis
	"I wrote the software that this BBS ran, it ran from 1988 to 1996 continuously. The 503 area code at the time covered the entire stated of Oregon, the 382, 388 and 389 numbers were all in Bend OR. I wrote a module for the software called "AIMY" that would occasionally send emails and correspond with users as well as welcome them to the system, tell them happy birthday, etc. I spent many hours talking with users via chat." - Michael Gerlicher
503-412-5051 Brookings, OR	Artik Breeze BBS (1993-1997)	Artiken	Synchronet
	"In Feb of 1993 I started a bbs using Synchronet v2.0. The BBS Name was 'Called Crystal International Telecomunications Group BBS'. 8-line, multi-node. 386 then 486. The BBS's original plan was to host a pay/per access Antique/Collectable Car, Parts - Serial Number database. (my ex-business partner had grandios ideas. [he didn't take his meds regularly]) When he had spent the money. I ended up taking over the bbs and continuing the subscriptions until they ran out. In October of 93 Crystal Int. Tel. Group BBS died and changed ownership and name. In November of 1993 I changed the name to Artik Breeze BBS and went 2 node, as a general access BBS (503-412-5020/503-412-5021) After my Other business name. Artik Computers. (Robin, Tim, Ken (RTK) to help spelling/pronunciation we added an A & I. Hence Artik.) In December of 1997. Artik Computers went bust. The BBS was closed down. In July of 2003, I reupped Artik Breeze BBS Telenet only DNS=artikbre.synchro.net. Cable Modem @ 256KBps recieve/128KBps send. I am currently using v3.11g beta, and updating via CVS source tree. The BBS is currently in operation. Network messages include Fido-Net, Dove-Net, AdvancedComputers(AC)-Net, Synchsupport-Net, VideoGame-Net, and NNTP newsgroups (Aquarium, Linux, Windows, Game) related. Email, Online games, 20,200 files in various file areas. Access via http, ftp, telenet, pop3/smtp, nntp, & includes IRC server. http://artikbre.synchro.net." - Artiken
503-440-9032 Roseburg, OR	AwSoMe, Jaffar's Dungeon, Virtual Insanity (1992-1994)	Jeff Day, Jeff R. Day	RemoteAccess
	"When I first started this BBS I was only eleven years old. I owed a lot of my enthusiasm to Al McJunkin of Gizmo's Clubhouse BBS 503-673-1658 and also to Paul Singleton of Digitally Mastered. I remember learning how to use a terminal program to connect the first time, I think I arrived upon the QModem software fairly quickly, and Al was able to help walk me through modem init strings on the phone. Once I was on, I got hooked, and I immediately started drawing intricate ANSI artwork, and soon had my own BBS, probably at the extreme confusion of my parents who probably didn't understand what was so cool about it. As the BBS era was coming to a close, I had been working in Turbo Pascal 7.0 on a new BBS package software called Predator. It was a conglomeration of the things I had learned from using RemoteAccess and Renegade. Looking back today, I have no idea how I did what I achieved with this software. The only things lacking were message bases, although I had a library in place to handle the common file formats, and the implementation of the file transfer protocols (ZModem, XModem, eh?) But everything else, user databases, a complex menu system, drop files, chat, ability to run door games in several compatibility modes, it was gorgeous. And, the configuration program was easy and beautiful. Unfortunately, only a few friends saw it, as BBS's declined in popularity before I could make an official release. In high school I won several programming competitions, and made that my main hobby, with Marching Band being my other, in which I played Trumpet. I stayed in touch with a few people from the BBS times throughout the years. Things have changed a lot. I moved into Delphi programming, and then into ADO/ASP and then into PHP/MySQL which I currently use, it being January 2006 as I write this. I have never found anything since that provides the sense of community and fun that the BBS's permitted." - Jeff R. Day
503-452-4986 Portland, OR	PCC BBS (1992)	Terry allan	Fido v12p on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, Operated by students and staff of Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus.
503-461-1852 Eugene, OR	Digital DataBits, End of the Last Inn, Eugene Info BBS (1989-1997)	Steve McMahon	Remote Access, InterMail
	"End of the Last Inn (1989), Eugene Info BBS (1992), Digital Databits (1994). 1:152/37 was the FidoNET Address. BBS was shut down due to Internet." - A. Jener
503-520-0494 Portland, OR	Phil's Toy (1992-1993)	Philip Vassar	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/93)
503-520-9125 Beaverton, OR	Tim's Board (1991-1992)	Tim Ashman	QuickBBS v2.75 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (PODNet 93:9600/6), (FidoNet 1:105/316)
503-524-0670 Portland, OR	Key 880 BBS (1992)	Steven Frank	Falcon CBCS v1.00u on Amiga 500
	1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/97.88), Key 880 is the official programming/technical BBS of the Northwest Amiga Group. Operating as a FidoNet ""Point BBS"" and getting several FidoNet backgone echos.
503-524-8613 Portland, OR	Swamprat BBS, The Swamp Rat BBS, The SWAMPRAT BBS (1992-1995)	Jerry Alexander	Wildcat, Wildcat v3.51M on 80386 system
	1200/2400/[14.4 HST/V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/352)
503-526-8810 BEAVERTON, OR	The Love Connection (1992)	Mike Summers
	(Node 2) 300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/371)
503-526-9668 Beaverton, OR	Alternative Realities, Alternative Realties (1991-1993)	Brant Katkansky	Maximus/2 v2.0 on 486/33 [OS/2]
	(Line 1) 300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps (FidoNet 1:105/366), Primarily a message and games system. Free access for all areas.
503-538-0761 Newberg, OR	Metalland (the Original) (1984-1986)	The Metallian
	"The Original Metalland BBS (eventually called Metalland West Systems) was the origination of Metal Communications, and a Neon Knights board as well. It had AE and Telecat and was one of the first Apple II boards with a Hard Drive. It died at this number in 1986 after the Sysop discovering women and a little problem with the phone company, and returned at a different number for a brief time in 1987." - The Metallian
503-538-0777 Newberg, OR	Metalland West Systems (1987)	The Metallian
	"The return of the original Metalland BBS as Metalland West Systems, a Metal Communications and Neon Knights BBS. By its return there were several Metalland BBS's around the country, ran by other Metal Communications and Neon Knights members." - The Metallian
503-538-3609 Newberg, OR	Cave of the Wolf (1995-1996)	Eric Wheeler, Eric Wheeler (Jackyl)	Spitfire
	"CotW received a FidoNet poll feed from Chris Dowing's BBS, Second Street Station. Perhaps Chris can fill in the old Fido address..." - Eric Wheeler
503-579-0619 Portland, OR	The Love Connection (1992)	Mike Summers	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on IBM
	(Node 1) 300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b], (FidoNet 1:105/372)
503-582-4860 Rogue River, OR	Net 349 Host, Southern Hub, Southern Oregon, System Three R's, Three R's (1986-1998)	Steve Lea	FidoNet
	"A hub for southern oregon fido net at one time.. a pioneer in the area, Fido, Colossus, Opus, and for many years a beta tester for RemoteAccess." - Steve Lea
503-590-0209 TIGARD BULL MT, OR	Mirage #3 (1992)	Big Boss
	Independent Member BBS
503-590-0288 TIGARD BULL MT, OR	Mirage #2 (1992)	Big Boss
	Independent Member BBS
503-590-0532 TIGARD BULL MT, OR	Mirage #1 (1992)	Big Boss
	Independent Member BBS
503-591-0236 Aloha, OR	ATC BBS, ATC II (1991-1997)	Dave Teters
	300/1200/2400/[V32b] bps, (ATC II) (FidoNet 1:105/344), ATC II is a Games Only node.
503-591-5103 Aloha, OR	Sunset Hub, The Bare Bones BBS, VanPort Net (1989-2003)	Dave Emory	QuickBBS v2.75 on XT clone
	1200/2400/[V32/V42] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/360) (NetWork 8:77/14), System may be offline using PC Pursuit on Mon, Wed, Fri evenings. Sysop will search around the country for requested programs/files.
503-591-7542 Aloha, OR	A Byte of Aloha (1991-1997)	Michael Wagoner, Micheael Wagoner	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/331)
503-591-7882 Aloha, OR	Aloha Trade Center, ATC BBS, Aloha Trade Center BBS (1991-1995)	Dave Teters	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (ATC) (FidoNet 1:105/343)
503-591-8803 Portland, OR	The Data Fortress (1992)	Steven Facker	Spitfire v3.2 on 386/33
	300/1200/2400 bps, (CircuitNET node)
503-598-0692 Portland, OR	Spectrum BBS (1991-1994)	Wade Norton	Wildcat v3.51P on 486/33 system
	300/1200/2400/[14.4 HST/V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/220), The BBS focuses on MS Windows software.
503-620-0307 Portland, OR	Bitter Butter Better BBS, The Bitter Butter Better BBS (1992-1994)	Tom Almy	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on 80486/33
	1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, Specializes in text files of various sorts -- electronic magazines/newletters, literature and reference works, text adventures.
503-620-5910 Portland, OR	NW Computer Support, NWCS, NWCS Online, The Noise, The Noise,nets, NorthWest Computer Support, After Hours BBS (1987-1996)	Randy Voshell, Skip Guyer	Wildcat , Wildcat v3.02P on IBM 286/386 LAN
	(multi-line) 1200/2400/[HST/V32b] bps, (SmartNet, IntelecNet, WestNet UN'I-Net node), Technically oriented BBS operated by Northwest Computer Support in Tigard. 10 phone lines [trunk hunted] with a variety of modems. NWCS After Hours BBS [same phone numbers] is an adult system offering ThrobNet conferences, adult GIFs and games.
503-620-6642 Portland, OR	Info/PDX (1992)	Rick Goldsmith	PC-PunterNet v2.3B on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[HST] bps, (PunterNet Node #25), Using the MS-DOS version of Steve Punter's BBS and networking software. Special interest in Commodore.
503-621-3746 Portland, OR	Omen Technology Inc, Omen Technology Technical Support, Omen Technology, Inc BBS, Pro Yam, Pro-YAM system, Pro-YAM,HomeDSZ, Professional YAM, ProYam, Telegodzilla - ZMODEM, TeleGodzilla Omen Tech DSZ, Forsberg's PRO-YAM (1984-1996)	Chuck Forsberg, Chucks Forsberg, Chuck Forsberg/Omen Technology Incorp.	Pro-Yam (Host) on IBM PC/XT
	Home of Zmodem File Transfer Protocol/Ymodem/YAM 1200/2400/[HST/V32] bps, TeleGodzilla is the home of Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, DSZ, and YMODEM/ZMODEM official protocol documentation.
503-624-4966 Portland, OR	Electronic Publishers BBS, Electronic Publishing Service (1992-1994)	Brian Cash	TBBS v2.2m on IBM
	News-Finance-Sports-Games-2GB File Library (multi-line) 300/1200/2400/[CSP/V32/V42], (FidoNet 1:105/355), Subscription system ($35/year with free trial period) featuring USA Today, Sports Network, stock reports, multi-player games, PC-SIG library. Hosts ""Computer Bits: The Online Edition"" [free access] with selected sections from Computer Bits magazine. ANSI is necessary. Five phone lines (truck hunted) with a variety of modems.
503-624-5677 Portland, OR	Death's Door (1992)	Blackjack	WWIV v4.21 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (WWIVnet 5302)
503-624-7904 Portland, OR	Digital Interface Software (1992-1994)	Karl Stober, Digital Mouse (Karl Stober)	Wildcat v3.02S on IBM
	300/1200/2400/9600 bps, Formerly ran Omni 128 software on Commodore 128. Supports IBM and Amiga.
503-624-9522 Portland, OR	IPERA Data System (1992)	Splat (Ed Drury)	Color-64 on Commordore 64
	300/1200 bps, IPERA is an acronym for ""The Independent Planet Earth Research Alliance.""
503-625-2370 Portland, OR	Northwest Sportsman BBS (1992)	Jerry Namchek	Wilccat v3.51S on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-625-2371 Portland, OR	Fear of Failure, Fear of Failure BBS (1992-1994)	Charlie Brown	Hermes v2.0 on Macintosh IIcx
	300/1200/2400/9600 bps
503-625-2421 SHERWOOD, OR	ET Scribe/PPCUG (1992)	Dennis Newton
	(Line 2) 300/1200/2400 bps
503-625-2547 Portland, OR	Micro-Chip Classifieds (1992)	Mike Aaron	Wildcat v3.51S on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, An advertising BBS, both for businesses and individuals.
503-625-7306 Portland, OR	Artesian Labs BBS (1992)	John Olsen	Homebrew on Commodore 64
	300/1200 bps
503-625-7752 Portland, OR	ET SCRIBE, OBSOLETE USE 1:105/201, ET Scribe/PPCUG, Portland PC User Group BBS (1991-1993)	Byron Windhorst	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	(Line 1) 300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/201), Official BBS of the Portland PC User Group.
503-626-0121 Portland, OR	Ground Zero BBS, Sorcerer's Den (1992)	Tasslehoff	C-Base v3.0 on Commodore 64
	300/1200 bps, ANSI screens and menus.
503-626-7156 Portland, OR	Silicon Forest Systems (1992)	Ben Grey	GT Power v16.00 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, (GT-Net node 056/000), Supports MS-DOS, CPM-80, and ZCPR. Subscription fee, $25/year. Non-subscribers have limited privileges. Online 3 PM - 5 AM weekdays, 24 HRS weekends.
503-626-8953 Portland, OR	The Adventurer's Inn, The Adventurer's Inn BBS (1992-1998)	Russell Schwartz, The Innkeepr	Transcendence v2.0720 on Atari 1040STe
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps
503-629-5473 Beaverton, OR	The Chess Board (1991-1994)	Greg Maddox	QuickBBS v2.76 (Gamma-2) on 486/25 system
	(Node 1) 1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/367), Three nodes with inter-node CHAT and multiplayer games. 150 message areas including K12Net echos.
503-629-5611 Portland, OR	Buchanan's Pub (1992-1994)	Gary Seven, Esquire	WWIV v4.21 on 80286 system
	1200/2400/[HST/V32/V42b] bps, (WWIVnet node 5322)
503-629-8758 SOMERSET WEST, OR	The Chess Board (1992-1994)	Greg Maddox
	(Node 3) 300/1200/2400 bps
503-629-9238 Portland, OR	Cascade Echomail Server III, North Beacon (1992-1994)	Chris Bradley	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 486/33 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/374), (FidoNet node, 1:105/375), Former phone number [531-0715] is online as a MO (Mailer Only)
503-632-7891 Portland, OR	bucket (unix) (1992-1994)	Rick Bensene	UTek 3.0 (4.2BSD Unix) on Tektronix 4132 workstation
	300/1200/2400/[PEP] bps, (Uucp: bucket) (RAINet 147.28.16.97), Sysop email: (r...@pail.rain.com), Invited access Unix system (no BBS). Full newsfeed. For shell access, inquire via uucp mail. RAINet is an experimental, local TCP/IP network.
503-635-1443 LAKE OSWEGO, OR	Information Anxiety node 2 (1994)
	(node 2) 300/1200/2400 bps
503-635-3712 Portland, OR	The Computer Room (1992-1997)	Carl Montante	RemoteAcess v1.11 on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (CircuitNET 503910) (RelayNet node)
503-635-4386 Portland, OR	Information Anxiety, Information Anxiety BBS (1991-1994)	Mike Gebhardt	RBBS-PC 17.3A on IBM
	(node 1) 300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/208), Features public inter-node Chat, files for IBM, Amiga and Macintosh.
503-636-0199 Portland, OR	The Liberty Express & Video Warehouse (1992)	Jim Maxey, Martin Niemeyer	TBBS on IBM
	(multi-line) 300/1200/2400 bps, The Liberty Express is a free BBS dedicated to intelligent conversation. Six-line TBBS with internode chat. Video Warehouse [GIF images, image utilities] charges $5/hr.
503-636-4947 Portland, OR	Disk Jockey BBS, Disk Jockey Online, DiskJockey, DJO (1990-1996)	Mike Gottlieb	QuickBBS , MajorBBS , Galacticomm v5.30 on 80386 LAN system
	(multi-line) 1200/2400 bps, Supports IBM, Amiga & Macintosh. Four phone lines, trunk hunted. Call the main number unless you have a 9600 bps modem.
503-638-9331 Portland, OR	The Finer Things BBS (1992)	Dan Rumbold, Fine69	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/240)
503-639-0917 Portland, OR	Pacific ProLine (1992)	Todd South	ProLine 1.8 on Apple IIgs
	300/1200/2400/[HST] bps, (Uucp: pro-pac), Sysop email: (tso...@pro-pac.cts.com), Networks with pro-freedom in Vancouver as well as with crash.cts.com.
503-639-5839 Portland, OR	PC ZONE, PC Zone (1992-1995)	Norman Leveille, Norman leveille	GT Power v17.00b on IBM PC/AT clone
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/373)
503-640-0278 HILLSBORO, OR	COM-DAT BBS, COM-DAT I (1992-1998)	Mike Jordan
	(Node 2) 300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps (FidoNet 1:105/317)
503-640-4467 Portland, OR	EpiscoBoard (1992)	Tim Hoyt	BBS-PC v4.20 on IBM PC/XT
	300/1200/2400 bps, (Uucp: episco), Sysop email: (...!agora!episco!timo), Special interest in Amiga and Commodore 128. Also serves the needs of Episcopal Church co-workers.
503-640-9337 Portland, OR	NES BBX (1992)	Bill Seymour	BBX v0.1098 (beta) on Amiga 2000
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, Operated by NES for beta testing and product support of Steve Tibbett's BBX (BBS software package for the Amiga.)
503-641-0741 Portland, OR	The Daily Crisis (1992)	Greg Peek	QuickBBS v2.64 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps
503-642-5548 Aloha, OR	Mostly Mail, Points R us, Points were US, Sunset Hub, Points R Us (1991-1995)	Jon Griffin	Maximus v2.0 on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/319), Sysop encourages callers to become points or to use an offline mail reader/editor.
503-643-1084 Portland, OR	Sanitarium BBS (1992)	Sir Psycho Sexy (Bob Clay)	WWIV v4.21a on XT clone
	1200/2400 bps, (WWIVnet node 5309), Special focus on local bands, concerts and musical discussions.
503-643-6536 Portland, OR	The Improbability Drive BBS (1992)	Slartibardfast	Color-64 on Commodore 64
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-643-8334 Portland, OR	Portland Technoids BBS (1992)	Tom Popp	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32] bps
503-644-0900 Beaverton, OR	CyBorg Remote, CyBorg Systems BBS (1991-1994)	Terry Pinto	QuickBBS V2.76 (Gamma-2) on 386SX system
	300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/340)
503-644-4722 Beaverton, OR	Digital Distortion (1994-2000)	Eric Oulashin	RemoteAccess
	"Occasionally taken down due to hard drive space limitations." - Eric Oulashin
503-645-6157 Beaverton, OR	C.A.D.D.A.Y.S., CAD-DAYS (1991-1994)	Leon Hixon	RBBS-PC v17.3B on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/322), Specializes in CAD oriented files. No FidoNet features.
503-645-6275 Santa Clara, CA	INTEL, Intel Corporation, Intel PC Enhancement Operation, Intel PCED BBS, Intel PCEO, Intel Product Support, Intel Support (Tech Support BBS), Usenet Express, Intel Corporation BBS, Intel PCEO Support BBS, Intel PC Enhancements Division Product Support BBS (1991-1995)	Chris Bradley, Intel Corporation PCEO Division, Jim Willing	TBBS v2.1m on IBM compatible
	Support for Intel PC Products – Inboard 386/AboveBoard 286 (12 lines) 300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, For customer questions about Inboard 386, Above Board, EMM 4.0, Intel 9600EX modem and other Intel PCED products.
503-645-9583 Portland, OR	Midi Thru Box (1992)	Ken Cregger	WWIV v4.20 on XT clone
	1200/2400 bps, Heavy emphasis on music performance software and information aobut music performance in general.
503-646-0868 Portland, OR	PC Point, PC Point BBS (1992-1994)	Brian Woodworth	RemoteAccess, RemoteAccess v1.11 on 386SX
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps
503-646-2407 Beaverton, OR	Keep BBS (2008)		Worldgroup
	The KEEP BBS has been online and operational since 1983, now we are a 32-channel MULTI-USER Worldgroup 3.13 system. The KEEP is still here. And we will endeavor to remain here for you, regardless of what new trends the Internet may follow.
503-646-4853 Portland, OR	Hardware Wars (1992-1996)	Mark Letni	RBBS-PC v17.3B on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/327)
503-646-5510 Portland, OR	CBBS NW, CBBS/NW, Northwest CBBS (1980-1994)	Jim Willing	CBBS, CBBS-V v1.0.0a [XBBS] on 80386 [ESIX 5.3.2 Rev.D]
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
503-648-6462 Portland, OR	Outlet BBS, Sunset Hub, The Outlet BBS (1991-1994)	Scott Losli	QuickBBS 2.76 (Gamma-1) on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[16.8K HST/V32b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/333), Sponsored by The Computer Outlet in Hillsboro.
503-648-7145 Portland, OR	HellBound BBS (1992)	The Jaff	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	1200/2400 bps, Member of the Electronic Dungeon Alliance
503-648-9253 Hillsboro, OR	Electronic Quest, Electronic Quest BBS (1991-1993)	Sean Murphy, Seany Murphy	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/313), A gaming BBS
503-649-2438 Portland, OR	Atarian BBS, Atarian BBS I, Atarian I, Atarian Multi-Line (1991-1995)	Mehdi Attaran	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on 80386 box
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/10)
503-649-4322 ALOHA, OR	Atarian BBS II, Atarian BBS Line 2, Atarian II, Southern Hub (1991-1995)	Mehdi Attaran
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/20)
503-649-7915 Portland, OR	Realm Alternate Eternities, Realm Of Alternate Eternities, Realm of the Alternate Eternities (1992-1998)	Max Denebian	Turbo Board ST v2.2.0 on Atari 520 ST
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FoReM-Net Node 734)
503-649-8006 Portland, OR	Woodchuck's Treehouse BBS (1992)	Vaughn Lee	Wildcat v3.01S on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-650-5022 Oregon City, OR	AfterBurner!, Eagle MicroComputers, Prgmrs Wkshp, Prgmrs Wkshp , Programmer's Workshop, The Programmers Workshop, AfterBurner! BBS (1991-1994)	David Stults, David Sults	Wildcat 3.51S on AM386/40
	1200/2400/[16.8K HST/V32b/V42b] bps, Specializing in aviation- and programming- related files and messages.
503-654-5054 Milwaukie, OR	Real Estate NW, Software Labs (1991-1994)	Raymond Keith	RBBS-PC v17.3/0227 on 80286 system
	1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/224), Affiliated with Professional 100 Realtors. Real estate database available.
503-654-5943 Portland, OR	Addicition
	Number found from BAAL+6, Commodore 64 game into, cracked by IKARI in 1989.
503-656-7934 Portland, OR	The Aftermath (1992-1995)	Rich Grimek, The Unforgiven	Remote Access v1.11 on IBM
	1200/2400/[14.4 HST/V32b] bps
503-657-4719 Portland, OR	Blue Lake System II, Blue Lake PCBoard (1992-1994)	Mark Adkins	PC Board v14.5a/E3 on LANtastic LAN
	300/1200/2400/[HST/V32b] bps, (RIME node), Regional HUB for RIME (RelayNet).
503-657-5298 Portland, OR	Alpha Centauri, Alpha Centauri BBS (1992-1994)	Scott VanHoosen, Arioch	Spitfire v3.2 on 486/33 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, Special interest in RPG and SF. Member of the Electronic Dungeon Alliance.
503-657-5412 Portland, OR	A.W.O.L. BBS (1992-1994)	Alan Lynch, Alan ""Hacker"" Lynch	Virtual BBS v5.52 on 486/33
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/280)
503-657-6578 Portland, OR	N.W. Family History BBS, Southern Hub (1991-1999)	Wayne Silsbee, Norma Drebin	RemoteAcess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/222), Special interest in genealogy
503-657-8955 Portland, OR	That BBS (1992)	who	COCONET HOST/4 3.2.9 on 386SX (SCO System V/386 Rel. 3.2)
	(multi-line) 300/1200/2400 bps, Three phone lines with trunk hunting. Use BREAK to autobaud. Graphical interface for MS-DOS callers. Type 'cocotext (no quotes, lower case) to access the BBS.
503-657-9069 Gladstone, OR	The Cuckoo's Nest! (1989-1993)	Darrel Waller, Darrel Waller aka Cuckoo Bird, Cat Keeper	Remote Access, RemoteAcess v1.11+ on 80286 system
	"House on Park Way on top of the hill. Actually started the BBS in 1989 but joined Fidonet in 1991 which is where, I suppose, you got your current data. Damn, looking over the list sure brings back some memories..." - Darrel Waller 300/1200/2400/[CSP] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/241)
503-658-4309 Portland, OR	Arcane Lore (1992)	Wolf	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	1200/2400 bps, Special interest in fantasy, role playing games and science fiction.
503-659-9691 Portland, OR	Mad BBS, MC3 BBS (1988-1995)	Gene Strejan	Wildcat, RemoteAccess v1.11+ on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/203), Supports Amiga and IBM.
503-661-6755 Portland, OR	Again & Again BBS (1992)	Damon Lehr	Wildcat on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-661-7403 GRESHAM, OR	Integrated Media Services II (1992)	Jasmine
	(Node 2) 300/1200/2400 bps
503-663-0222 ORIENT, OR	Axe Tax 'N More BBS, Axe Tax Private BBS (1992-1994)	Jim Hintz
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/450)
503-663-1459 Portland, OR	Eastern Hub, Et Cetera, Et Cetera BBS (1990-1995)	Don Zirk	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/405), Special interest in education & educational files. K12Net node.
503-663-2070 Portland, OR	Wings BBS (1992)	Mark Roberts, Linda Roberts	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/412), Special interest in aviation and education. K12Net node. 1200/2400/[H96/V32] bps, Special interest in HAM radio and short wave listening.
503-663-6272 Portland, OR	Axe Tax 'N More (1992)	Jim Hintz	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	1200/2400 bps, Partially sponsored by Executive Tax Service, a division of H&R Block. (CircuitNET 503007)
503-663-9212 ORIENT, OR	Pale Rider (1992)	Angel Eyes
	Quartex Dist. Member BBS
503-664-2945 Portland, OR	Castle of the Gods (1992)	E-Man	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/365)
503-666-2574 Portland, OR	Reason's Retreat (1992)	Steve Severance	Wildcat 3.00S on IBM PC/XT
	1200/2400 bps
503-666-4039 Portland, OR	R.E.B.E.L. BBS (1992)	Randy Moody	Soft-Span BBS v1.1 on Amiga 1000
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-666-7634 Portland, OR	Wonder Works BBS (1992)	David Weyerman	Spitfire v3.1 on Acer1100-16
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (CircuitNET node 503903)
503-667-2649 Portland, OR	Eastern Hub, Integrated Media Services, Integrated Media Services I, The Post House BBS (1992)	Bill Taylor, Jasmine	Maximus/2 v2.01 on 80486 system [OS/2]
	(Node 1) 300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/469), 100+ FidoNet echos, gated usenet newsgroups, PixNet, AdultNet, DoorNet, Paul Revere Net.
503-667-3800 Portland, OR	The Amiga Connection (1992)	Aaron Morris	Falcon CBCS v1.00u on Amiga
	1200/2400 bps
503-667-4409 Portland, OR	The Abomination (1992)	Ben King	Spitfire v3.2 on 80286 system
	12/2400/[V32/V42] bps, (CircuitNET 503008), Offers FAX access from the BBS.
503-668-9224 Portland, OR	The City (1992)	The Mayor	C-Net 64 (DS-2) V2.5 on Commodore 64
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-671-0912 BEAVERTON, OR	Alternative Realities II, Alternative Realties (1992-1993)	Brant Katkansky	Maximus/2 v2.0 on 486/33 [OS/2]
	(Line 2) 300/1200/2400 bps (FidoNet 1:105/368)
503-671-9372 Portland, OR	Asgard BBS (1992)	Trebor	Skyline BBS v1.3 on Amiga 2000
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps
503-671-9717 Portland, OR	The Silver Falcon (1992-1993)	Joe Stein, Joseph W. Stein	RemoteAccess V1.11+ on 80486 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/377)
503-681-0543 Hillsboro, OR	Com-Dat, COM-DAT BBS, COM-DAT III (1988-1997)	Mike Jordan	Wildcat, Wildcat 3.02P on IBM
	(Node 1) 300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32b]] bps (FidoNet 1:105/314), Northwest HUB for V-Net (Vervan's Gaming Net)
503-682-3212 Portland, OR	The Oops Master BBS (1992)	Joe Lloyd	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-682-3976 Portland, OR	Odyssey BBS (1992-1995)	LeAnn Battern	Wildcat v3.02P on 80486/33
	300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32b], (FidoNet 1:105/230), Focus on Global Wars & software for Windows & OS/2.
503-682-4172 Portland, OR	OATC CAD/CAM BBS (1992-1994)	Scott Branscum, Ty Trabosh	RBBS-PC v17.3B on IBM
	(multi-line) 300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, Operated by Clackamas Community College, Oregon Advanced Technology Center in Wilsonville.
503-684-0931 Portland, OR	900 Support Help Net, 900 Support HelpNet (1992-1994)	Jim Chapman, Ken Haynes	Wildcat 3.50M on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Operated by 900 Support, Inc. in Lake Oswego for Novell Netware (tm) support. (FidoNet1:105/325)
503-684-5516 Portland, OR	The Matrix (1992-1994)	Subhuman	AmiExpress v2.20 on Amiga
	300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32b, Will be changing BBS software to DLG Pro about 05-Sep. Some downtime is expected.
503-690-4387 Portland, OR	Hawk's BBS (1992)	Hawk	RemoteAccess v1.10 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-690-6650 Portland, OR	Central Point BBS, Central Point Software (Tech Support BBS), Central Point Software BBS, Central Point Software Inc, Central Point Software, Inc., Central Point Technical Support (1990-1995)	Central Point Software Inc., Sam Guidice	The Major BBS (Galaticom) on 486/25
	PC Tools - Central Point Anti-virus support board 300/1200/2400 bps, Sponsored by Central Point Software in Beaverton, OR. Product support for Copy II Plus, PC Tools, Mac Tools, Anti-Virus, etc.
503-690-6776 Portland, OR	Electronics Unlimited (1992)	Terrill Jarvis	Spitfire v3.2 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-690-9791 Portland, OR	OrCAD Technical Support BBS (1992)	Technical Support Staff	TBBS on IBM
	1200/2400 bps, Operated by OrCAD Systems Corp. in Hillsboro for technical support of their C.A.E. products.
503-691-1958 Portland, OR	Palomar's Halo BBS (1992)	Brennan O'Brien	RemoteAccess 1.11 on IBM
	1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/302), A Sci-fi theme BBS, featuring online games, RPG and messages.
503-691-5199 Tualatin, OR	Datadesk/Prometheus Technical Support, Prometheus Prod Tech Sup, Prometheus Products Inc, Prometheus Products Technical Support, Prometheus Products, Inc., Technology Concepts Technical Support, Prometheus Products Technical Support BBS (1992-1995)	Steve Rogers	TriTel BBS v2.11 on IBM PC/AT
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, Operated by Prometheus Products Inc. in Tualatin, OR, for technical support of their modems and other products.
503-691-9702 Portland, OR	The Lost Cause, The Lost Cause BBS (1992-1993)	William Driscoll, Quazar	Spitfire v3.2 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/265), Online games, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, RPG. Member of the Electronic Dungeon Alliance.
503-692-0872 Portland, OR	The Observatory BBS (1992-1993)	Bruce Alexander	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/255), Special interest in science, particularly astronomy.
503-692-0927 Portland, OR	NorthWestern Genealogy BBS (1991-1997)	Gary Roth	RemoteAccess v1.11+ on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/212)
503-693-0442 Cornelius, OR	The Omega Quadrant (1991-1993)	Gary Weber	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 80486 system
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/309), Special interest in ray-traced graphics using the PV Ray Tracer software.
503-693-6913 Portland, OR	PUNN BBS (1992)	Duane Goodman, Ron Mayer, Al Kinney	Homebrew on Texas Instruments 99/4
	300/1200/2400 bps, This is the club BBS for the Portland Users of Ninety Nines (PUNN).
503-693-9262 Portland, OR	Crushed Destiny BBS (1992)	Deathboy	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps, Member of the Electronic Dungeon Alliance
503-695-3250 Corbett, Oregon	RAIN, RAIN , Random Access Information Netw, Random Access Information Network, Random Access Information Network (R.A.I.N.) (1992-2004)	Mariel, MARIEL, Janice Stevens, Ms Mariel	Wildcat , Wildcat 4, Wildcat 5, Wildcat v3.02P on IBM
	"Run on 20+ lines. Started in 1988 by Janice Stevens. In 1992, she was #13 on the Boardwatch Top 100 list. Janice ran it until she was diagnosed with cancer in February, 1994. She then had two different people help her. Skipper (Skip) Burch and Bob ?. I do not believe that Skip should be memorialized as a Sysop. These two men basically ran RAIN into the ground and totally destroyed its' reputation. August 1, 1994, Janice took the board back to try and ressurect it, but was too sick to do so. She shut it down again on August 31, 1994. She died on December 18, 1994. I had been looking for a BBS to buy, thinking it would be a good business. (HA) On September 1, 1994, I discovered RAIN in the same small town I lived in, and made arrangements to buy it. I got the board up and running on September 12, 1994, but it never recovered from the damage done by Skip and Bob. I am still running it, but just as a hobby now. My own health problems have prevented me from doing much with it." - Mariel From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Credit cards available online. Demo users 15 m. daily, subscribers 90m. Extensive file areas (45,000) files for all operating systems. Latest shareware & GIFs. 600+ conference areas including Usenet & all RIME conferences. Satellite feed, CDRoms, Timedoor, games, chat areas. Adult areas. (10 lines; trunk-hunts) 1200/2400 bps, (RIME node), Subscription system ($35/year, visa and MasterCard available) with extensive MS-DOS file area. Also has Macintosh, Unix/Xenix, Amiga, Atari, and GIF file areas. RIME (RelayNet) conferencing added [12-Feb-92]. Carries the complete list of RIME conferences.
503-695-3267 CORBETT, OR	Random Access Information Network (R.A.I.N.)	Janice Stevens	Wildcat v3.02P on IBM
	(2 lines) [V32/V42b] bps
503-697-0845 Lake Oswego, OR	FuNny FaRM, Realm of Eternity, The Funny Farm, The Wild Side BBS (1991-1996)	John Luong, Mingh Luong	Spitfire , Spitfire v3.1 on 80486
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (CircuitNET 503005) (FidoNet 1:105/250)
503-697-3522 LAKE OSWEGO, OR	Atomic Cafe (1990-1991)	Speed Demon	AfterShock
	"Advanced Pirate Technology (APt) Magazine World Headquarters"
503-697-5100 Lake Oswego, OR	Event Horizons BBS, World's Most Expensive BBS, 800-466-6336 (1992-1996)	Jim Maxey	TBBS, TBBS v2.2m on 80486 system
	64 Line Digitized Graphics Image Library - Adult .GIF files (multi-line) 1200/2400 bps, This is a commerical service ($12/hour; 9600 bps $48/hour) specializing in digitized graphics. 64-line TBBS with trunk hunting. 1--800-466-6336 access for LD callers for an additional $8/hour. Voice phone is 697-7700. (9 AM - 9 PM).
503-735-0537 Portland, OR	Time Corps Headquarters (1992-1993)	Lazarus Long, Tom Truxtom, Tom Truxton	RemoteAccess v1.11 on an AT clone
	1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/92)
503-735-3074 Portland, OR	Garden Pond BBS, The Garden Pond (1992-1996)	Jack Honeycutt, James Honeycutt	Maximus 2.0 on IBM
	1200/2400/[16.8K HST/V32b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/52)
503-735-9059 Portland, OR	Big Bob's BBS, Main Street (1991-1992)	Bob Moffatt, Little Sheba	DLX v5.51 on 486/33 system
	(multi-line) 300/1200/2400 bps, Adult chat BBS with 4 phone lines. Limited to callers 21 and over. Subscription system with free trial period. Voice phone, 240-8283.
503-749-3752 Aumsville, Or	Net 3406 EchoMail Coordinator, The Dragon's Lair (1994-1998)	Patric Michael, Patric Michale	QuickBBS
	"Hello Jason Scott! If I werent the lazy sot that I am, this WOULD be an essay or a long narrative, but suffice it to say, for now at least, I have come full circle: Tonight Nov. 15th, 2004, I stumbled across some old files while correcting a networking error on one of my machines. Found a few capture files from a BBS I ran. As I was reading them, I remembered an old interest in converting that BBS to the web, so I googled "quickBBS" which was the software I ran. Eventually, I found textfiles.com, which sounded familiar for some reason. Suspicious, I found a listing for my board, AND I found the name of the person behind textfiles.com. Jason Scott. Jason, who once ran a box he called "cow.net" from Boston if I recall correctly. On that box ran a MUSH called "Living Fiction" which was taken over by a fellow who later renamed it to "DelphiMUSH". The same fellow who once ran a BBS called "The Dragon's Lair". :) He even registered his board name as a domain, and ran smack into someone complaining about copyright infringement, but thats a whole other essay. :) Jason, I am glad to see your world is still doing well, and thank you for building this list! P.S. Dragon's Lair went down for a short time in 1997, then came back up again when the local library board got shut down for lack of funds. It went back up in June of 97 as a place for those displaced users to get back together. It lasted for about a year until the internet became so popular that BBS's died in general. Take care!" - Patric Michael
503-752-6299 PORTLAND, OR	Maxxed Out (1992)	M.Bison
	Cytax Member BBS
503-753-8431 Corvallis, OR	Fun Connection (1993)	Vincent Reece
	Multiline Entertainment - 8 Lines Games/Chat/News
503-754-1376 Corvalis, OR	Microtext (1986)	Chuck Gee
	$$$$ For Profit System $$$$ For Profit System
503-760-0344 Portland, OR	Pirate's Cove BBS (1992)	Matt Green	Spitfire v3.2 on IBM
	1200/2400 bps
503-760-3764 Portland, OR	The Game Room Plus B.B.S. (1992)	Randolph B. Warneke	WWIVv4.20 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-760-3777 Portland, OR	Mike's Mansion (1990-1997)	Michael Pierce, Joann Pierce, M & J Pierce	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess v1.11 on XT clone
	300/1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/81), Special interest in cooking, with large collection of recipes, mostly in Meal-Master format.
503-761-3003 Portland, OR	CENTRAL HUB, EastSide Data, Eastside Data Services #2, Eastside Data Services I, Eastside Data Svcs. I, Insomniac's Paradise, VanPort Net, EastSide Data Services BBS (1989-1998)	Jim Montgomery, Bill Taylor	Genesis, Maximus v2.0 on IBM
	300/1200/2400/[14.4K HST/V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/61)
503-761-3043 Portland, OR	The Alternative BBS (1992-1994)	Matt English	BBBBS.baud v5.1 on Amiga 2000
	1200/2400 bps
503-761-3965 Portland, OR	The Iron Wall (1992)	White Wizard	Telegard v2.7 on IBM
	300/1200/2400 bps
503-761-6109 PORTLAND, OR	Nirvana (1992)	Psycho
	Independent Member BBS
503-761-6432 Portland, OR	Dave's Free for All (1991-1994)	Dave Schooler	Opus v1.73a on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/86), Macintosh message and file areas.
503-761-7462 Portland, OR	Mind Game, Mind Games, The High Forest (1992-1994)	Gavin Guffey, Shadow Dancer	VBBS, Virtual BBS v5.42 on IBM
	"Ran from 1992-1994, in various incarnations. Was a WWIVNet and VNet (a specialized network for the vbbs software) node. Later added a couple of USENET groups. Went down when I left for college in the middle of 1994." -Gavin Guffey 300/1200/2400 bps
503-762-0786 Portland, OR	Flight of Inspiration (1992)	Friar Mossback	QuickBBS v2.75 on IBM PC/XT
	1200/2400 bps, Dedicated to ideas, debates and creative writing.
503-771-4773 Portland, OR	Busker's Boneyard, Busker's Opus, Busker's OPUS (105/14) (1987-1994)	Hal Nevis	Opus v1.14 on 80386 box
	1200/2400/[PEP/V32] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/14) (Uucp: busker), Sysop email: (n...@busker.fidonet.org), This BBS is medically oriented and was created to serve the needs of the Kaiser-Permanente community.
503-774-4528 Portland, OR	The Begotten One BBS (1992-1993)	Mark Copeland	RemoteAccess v1.11 on IBM
	1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/80)
503-774-5604 Portland, OR	-= * Another Pothole * =-, -= * THE WARZONE * =-, -= * THE WARZONE 2 * =-, N I G H T S H I F T, Night Shift, The Warzone 2 (1991-1994)	Gramps Kiersarge, Jim Kiersey	QuickBBS v2.76 (Gamma-2) on 80386 system
	1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/65), Focus of the BBS is online [doorware] games. Subscription system (fees start at $1.50/month). NorthWest host for DoorNet.
503-774-7330 Portland, OR	Down Home Funk BBS, Inc. (1992)	The Registrar	DLX on 386SX
	(multi-line) 300/1200/2400 bps, Subscription 16-line CHAT system open to teens and adults. Non subscribers have limited privileges. Databases, libraries, contests, trivia, matchmaking, parties. Voice phone, 788-9864.
503-775-0374 Portland, OR	Extreme Dreames All Text BBS, Extreme Dreames BBS, Extreme Dreams (1992-1993)	Thing One	WILDCAT, Wildcat 3.02M on IBM
	1200/2400/[V32b/V42b] bps, All Text BBS.
503-775-1554 Portland, OR	Landing Zone, The Landing Zone (1992-1995)	Ed Brant	Osiris SE v3.01 on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[9600 HST] bps, (VETLink #7), (FidoNet 1:105/12), BBS with a Christian viewpoint, dedicated to helping Vietnam veterans.
503-775-3291 Portland, OR	Key Connection (1992-1994)	Ron Patton	Searchlight 2.25M on 386/25
	300/1200/2400 bps, (FidoNet 1:105/90), Where people go to make friends and have fun. Online games, messages, file areas for Commodore, Amiga and IBM, internode CHAT.
503-775-4296 Portland, OR	MICROBITS (1992)	Willie Love, Bob Parrish	Wildcat 2.15S on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, Special purpose BBS dedicated to ham radio.
503-777-3595 Portland, OR	Catel's Shire (1992)	Asa Grant	RemoteAccess v1.11 on 80386 system
	300/1200/2400 bps, Special interest in fantasy, science fiction and online games.
503-786-0458 Portland, OR	THE KEEP, The Keep (1991-1996)	Jeff Davis	PCBoard , PCBoard v14.5a/E3 on 386 SX
	(Node 1) 300/1200/2400 bps
503-786-2869 Milwaukie, OR	Wally World (1991-1995)	Larry Coon, Patrick ""Wally"" Walsh	RemoteAccess 1.11+ on 80286 system
	300/1200/2400/[14.4 HST] bps, (FidoNet 1:105/225), Global Wars game is a prominent feature.
503-786-4178 Portland, OR	The Organ BBS (1992-1994)	Lennie Kesterson	Maximus/2 v2.0 on IBM [OS/2]
	300/1200/2400/[V32/V42b] bps, Special interest in organ transplants and related medical problems.
503-883-8197 Klamath Falls, OR	Multi-Net, Multi-Net Communications (1993-1995)	Paul Breedlove
	Product: Multi-Net
503-924-3972 Albany, OR	Dark Citadel BBS (1994-1997)	Matt Jackson	Wildcat v5, WinServer
	"BBS was always in Albany, OR. Went from a i286 part time board to an eight line system with multiple networked systems." - Matt Jackson
504-261-6244 MANDEVILLE, LA	Circle of Deception (1996-1997)	DeCEiVeR	OBV/2
	"One of the most popular underground bbs's in its day with users all the way from Canada." - Deciever
504-272-1710 Baton Rouge, LA	CyberNet 504-1 (1985-1991)	JR/NCC (David Jackson)	Emulex
	"CyberNet started off as "The Sprawl", which was an attempt at a warez BBS, and then turned into CyberNet, a hacking/phreaking/textfilez BBS (we called them "underground" BBS'es back then). In the end, we became a pure "free speech" BBS, because we were in the middle of Operation Sun Devil, and we were all over 18. Boy, we were crazy kids." - David Jackson
504-282-5753 New Orleans, LA	P. C. S. The Dungeon, The DUNGEON, The Dungeon FIDO 1:396/21 (1979-1995)	Mike Perry	Net-Works and Various Others, Custom software written by Mike Perry, and other systems over time
	"This is one of the earliest and oldest operating BBSes in the nation. It started out on an Apple running net-works, then later I custom-wrote software for the Tandy TRS-80 Model III in interpreted basic - in those days I didn't have an auto-answer modem so when a call came in, I manually flipped the answer switch! I also had the BBS set as an alarm clock to call me on my other line in the morning to wake me up to go to school! Later the system evolved to the IBM PC and ran a wide variety of different software and eventually became part of Fidonet. It was a lot of fun participating in the early days of the BBS community." - Mike Perry
504-288-6502 New Orleans, LA	High Tech BBS, The Apple Seedling (1989)	Andy Anderson, Sir Newton (Andy Anderson)	GBBS
	"You have 504-288-6502 listed as High Tech BBS. Andy Anderson started High Tech BBS as part of his business in 1989. It may have used the above number for a short while, but it moved to another which I can't remember. The 288-6502 number was used for many years as the home of The Apple Seedling BBS which Andy ran as Sir Newton. I believe it ran from 86-89, but I'm sure I'm off a bit on the dates. The Seedling was a very popular Apple BBS in New Orleans. High Tech has a website: http://www.high-tech.com. I was the sysop of Terminus (504-454-7834). In addition, I ran a BBS called The Digital Reef as Mr. Barracuda. I believe I ran it from 87-89. It was a 504 system, but I can't recall the phone number at present. I'll see if I can dig it up. Thanks for all the work you're putting into this and the textfiles site. It's great to see all the stuff I grew up with being preserved!" - George Kocke
504-345-4041 Hammond, LA	The Lion's Den (1990-1993)	John Dias	Wildcat
	"I ran this BBS while a college student out of our small apartment in Hammond. Having another phone line was an expense my wife and I could hardly afford, particularly with a baby to care for. But it was well worth it and I learned so much and met so many people! I was a Fido hub site for local Hammond boards and participated in a few other smaller networks (names escape me at the moment). I actually started getting into the BBS scene while I was in the Army around 1988. To me, these were the golden years - the Internet doesn't hold a candle to the good old BBS days!" - John Dias
504-347-2443 Marrero, LA	The Right Number (1992-1993)	Van Allen, Sondra and Van Allen	Quickbbs
	"I started this BBS in Houma, LA. I ran it in Des Allemands, LA and in Rogers, Arkansas. I used an IBM AT with 640 KB of Ram and a 120 MB hard disk. My wife's ex-boyfriend ran a BBS that he called the Wrong Number, so we called ours, the Right Number. I still have a tape backup of the BBS in a safe!" - Van Allen
504-348-1309 Gretna, LA	The Sleeping Bag (1985-1986)	Wizkid/JTR/ Doug Castell	homegrown BASIC
	"Home of the BABBYs, the Sleeping Bag was primarily a war board (popular in New Orleans at the time) along the lines of the Assassin's Guild, Cat's Cradle, Ravenloft, etc. etc." - Doug Castell
504-364-8743 Harvey, LA	Alcatraz (1990-1995)	Inmate (Jay Crutti)	Ivory 3.5, WWIV
	"File transfer section was the highlight."
504-366-9380 Gretna, LA	::retroactive::, Project: Antarctica (1995-1999)	Polar Phantasm, Tical, Violent Green	WWIV
	"I was one of the sysops of this board (Violent Green). Although its listed as beginning in 1995, P:A was actually up (but not very active) for 2 or 3 years before that. The users were a great group made up of many exiles from The Point, Cyberbase, and Exoticonn (yuck). Its really great to think about the BBS and all the great ideas and times it produced." - Violent Green
504-394-1067 Gretna, LA	Politically Incorrect BBS (1994-1999)	Tony M Robinson, Jr.	RBBS
	ee you list the Politically Incorrect BBS in zip 504 for 1994. They guy that ran that RBBS system handed the software and files over to me in 1995 (He was running bungee jump locations at the time and was too busy). I continued it until the end of 1999, at which time I moved from New Orleans to California for a new job. The phone number that may have been used was 504-394-1067. I had two lines for a while, but I don't remember the other number. If I run across it in old records, I'll update you. Tony M Robinson, Jr."
504-454-3323 Metairie, LA	Fear And Loathing (1993-2000)	Dead Air, Vincent Macaluso (Dead Air)	WWIV
	"I ran Fear and Loathing for 7 years, also under the name Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers. It was a popular board among the message-base users and had a good following until 1998 or so, when after a few phone number changes and a successful hack attempt I lost a great deal of activity. In the last two years I had gone from 100+ a day to maybe one or two a week. The last year it was up it was so dead I didn't even have a monitor on the system anymore. I took it down January 2 2000, after it survived the Y2K bug. :) Lately I've been playing with a few telnet BBS systems, considering putting it back up - but I just don't think it'll be the same. Thank you for having this list up and for working on the documentary. It brings back memories!" - Vincent (Dead Air) WWIVnet @5413
504-455-9488 NEW ORLEANS, LA	The Southern Belle BBS (1994-1998)	Darin Celino	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: New Orleans AC 504
504-525-7932 New Orleans, LA	THE SOUTHERN STAR (1995)
	ISDN Line
504-528-0480 New Orleans, LA	SPORTSLINE New Orleans (1992)
	SPORTSLINE New Orleans, 3 lines, cur-rent scores, odds, rotations, touts, FidoNet echos, Mac files, USAToday + more: TeleFinder System - Call 504-528-9666, 522-4060, 524-0480(HST).
504-528-4060 New Orleans, LA	SPORTSLINE New Orleans (1992)
	SPORTSLINE New Orleans, 3 lines, cur-rent scores, odds, rotations, touts, FidoNet echos, Mac files, USAToday + more: TeleFinder System - Call 504-528-9666, 522-4060, 524-0480(HST).
504-528-9666 New Orleans, LA	SPORTSLINE New Orleans (1992)
	SPORTSLINE New Orleans, 3 lines, cur-rent scores, odds, rotations, touts, FidoNet echos, Mac files, USAToday + more: TeleFinder System - Call 504-528-9666, 522-4060, 524-0480(HST).
504-529-5576 New Orleans, LA	Greater New Orleans Free-Net (1996-1999)		SunOS
	"GNOFN was a Freenet that ran on a Solaris machine that allowed people in the 504 and 985 area codes to access the Internet for free through the Lynx web browser, Pine for email, and had Tin for UseNet access. Also it hosted closed IRC chat sessions with the ircII software." - Anonymous
504-594-5171 Houma, LA	The Rainbow BBS (1985-1989)	Darrin Martin	RBBS, OS9
	"TRS80-Color Computer 2, 32bit, dual 5.25 Single Side Density Disk Drives and Cassette Storage running RBBS for Basic and OS9 with a Jcat 150/300 Manual Connect Modem spliced to the serial port of the CoCo2. Modem upgraded in 1987 to Tandy 300/1200 baud Auto Answer Modem. Notable Highlights: FidoNet .089, Youngest Sys-Op (14), Ascii Art Downloads, LocalNet message node. Note about The Rainbow BBS: This was the first BBS in 504 area code to run on OS9/Basic on a Color Computer 2 @ 150 Baud. The SysOp (Darrin Martin) was at the time, the youngest SysOp in the state at 13/14 years old and one of the youngest in the United States. Through trial and error, He successfully hard wired a Jcat 150 baud modem to the serial port on the CoCo2 with out instruction or support and quickly was elevated to Vice President of his Local Computer Club. He then established the 2nd Node in his local dial area to FidoNet, and assisted many of the other BBS SysOps in the area in establishing their systems. His mentors were; Rick Luquette, Ray Barns, and Tim Burchman. R.I.P." - Darrin Martin
504-657-7462 Buras, LA	CastleRocks BBS (1995-1998)	CastleRock	Spitfire / Iniquity
	"I started with Spitfire but switched to iNiQUiTY six months later. Boy, those were the days. I enjoyed it so much that i decided to fire the old board back up. But this time it runs Mystic under Linux. Catch us on efnet in #bbs or #mysticbbs." - CastleRock
504-738-0495 Metairie, LA	W W W A BBS, W. W. W. A. BBS (1995-1998)	Jake Krieger	Renegade
	"Originally known as "The Protoculture Factory" (Robotech Reference), I changed the name to WWWA (after the Worlds Wide Welfare Association from the Dirty Pair Anime Series). WWWA BBS was the premier source for Japanese Animation in the New Orleans metro area. In addition to over 800 megs of anime images, sound files, and fanfics; we also hosted the fido-compatible network known as "Animenet" in the New Orleans area. The BBS was also the origin of SF&ANIME_RPG, the Sci-Fi and Anime RPG Echo, which was a play by Echo-mail forum to discuss RPG's online and pass game turns to and from players. No matter how advanced the internet gets, my fondest memories of my computing history will always be my BBS and the Fidonet Echo that I founded and moderated." - Jake Krieger
504-738-1967 New Orleans, LA	Digital Cable BBS; Vieux Carre BBS, Hometown, USA (1985-1997)	Carnage aka Krato aka DJ Ragas III, Dennis Ragas	VBBS, BBS Express\!
	"I followed my dad's footsteps as a SysOp. I was 14 when I set up my first BBS and loved every minute of it. I was connected to several Networks - VirtualNet, NawlinsNet, and Sn00kNet. Then the internet took over. I really miss the days of BBSing! Thanks for the memories!" - DJ Ragas III
504-738-2681 Harahan, LA	HIOC BBS, Holy Innocents Odx Ch BBS, Holy Innocents Orth. (1996-2002)	Fr. Lee Mc Colloster, Archbishop Paul, Fr Lee Mc Colloster, Fr. Paul	Wildcat
	"The BBS is still up and running at telnet or http://www.reu.org Current SysOp is Fr. Paul, still in FidoNet 1:396/45." - Fr. Paul
504-766-8962 Baton Rouge, LA	Redstick RCP/M (1983)	Phil Cary	REDSTICK
	"System listed in RCPMLIST.036, dated April 15th, 1983. Message system, "REDSTICK" written by sysop."
504-827-5523 New Orleans, LA	Pyroto Mountain (1987-1991)	David Snowdy	Pyroto
	"Pyroto Mountain was started after Mike Perry in New Orleans stopped hosting the same software. Pyroto Mountain was a single phone line, one user at at time, online game based on answering trivia and skill-testing questions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroto_mountain). The more questions answered would give you more power over other users. Very addictive and battles crossed over into real life. The line was often tied up 24 hours a day." - David Snowdy
504-832-2166 NEW ORLEANS, LA	Diamonds & Denim, Diamonds and Denim BBS (1992-1999)	Carla (Snookums) Wilder	VBBS
	"I created a network called SnookNet ...and at its peak had over 100 other BBS systems connecting to us nightly ... including Canada and UK .... Some of us old die hards still hang out together even today on a mailing list.... you can access this info from my website ... www.snook.com which has been online since 1995 ... I just read over your list and a few of the systems you have listed were part of my network ... none of course lasting as long as Diamonds & Denim ... we had 6 lines and in 1995 ...right before the InterNet broke loose we logged over a 150 calls a day 7 days a week..." - Snookums
504-833-5800 Metairie, LA	The Metropolis BBS (1986-1989)	Chronos	WWIV, WWIVnet
	"I had run the Gates of Time BBS at this number from a Commodore SX-64, but later ran Metropolis from a PC. Later switched to WWIV and joined WWIVnet." - Chronos
504-847-9547 SLIDELL, LA	Alien Rendezvous, The Holodeck (1993-1997)	ARTAP	Virtual BBS, Virtual Advanced
	"The Sysop's Mom (Mouse Potato) actually let him use their only phone line for the BBS 24/7. She was my hero." - Jaeger
504-851-7291 Houma, LA	The Black Hole BBS (1989-1992)	Darrin Martin	Custom, TBBS
	"486/40mb hdd running TBBS for Dos in 24bit ascii, with a US Robotics HD/FD AA External Modem @ 300/1200/2400 baud. Notable highlights: FidoNet 1:384/10 Node .089, Trade Wars, Never Ending Story, Image Database and various Message Groups with additional user based Advanced Applications. Note about The Black Hole and SysOp: This was the last of the dialup BBS systems that he Sys-Op'd before moving on to Webmaster/Technical Support Manager of his local ISP's internet connection." - Darrin Martin
504-885-3419 Metairie, LA	Pirates Disk, The Pirates Disk (1981-1984)	Kevin Nardelle, Headhunter (Kevin)	FoReM 7.0
	"Wow a long time ago for sure! We had a blast, the message boards were the popular thing here. We were a bunch of Atari nuts - remember the doubler? This BBS was written by Ricky Moose in basic (Atascii)." - Kevin Nardelle (Headhunter)
504-885-5928 New Orleans, LA	Asia Gate, Europe Gate, Latin America Gate, N O Tech Board, N.O. Tech BBS Fido 1:396/1, N.O.Tech Bd, New Orleans Area, New Orleans Hub, New Orleans Tech BBS, Reg 19 EchoCoord, So. Star, 8a-10p, Soouthern Star, Southern Star BBS, The OA Southern Star, The Southern Star (1989-2000)	Zonegate 2, Zonegate 4, Zonegate 6, John Souvestre, J Souvestre, John Souvestic	Opus , TBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: New Orleans BBS List/Jeff Jones
504-895-5259 New Orleans, LA	New Orleans PCG, NOPC RBBS ( New Orleans Personal Computer), NOPL (1983-1991)	Pete Smothers	PCBoard, RBBS-PC
	"Put into service on 8/21/82 running Russ Lane's Orginal RBBS-PC basic code Version 1.0 Beganing using the Capital PC Users group improved version of RBBS-PC in 1984. Started out at a wooping 300 baud. Should down in 1991 after a smart ass programer type hacked the system. We were all trying to help other users "In the spirit of goodwill." This was the first time a user successfull crashed the system. If only we could have seen what this all has come to: the good, the bad, and the ugly. This project is "In the Spirit" that we had in those days. kudos to ya." - Pete Smothers
504-897-6006 New Orleans, LA	Internet Gateway Net396, New Orleans Area, R19 Internet Gate, Sursum Corda, Sursum Corda BBS, Sursum Corda! BBS (1994-2007)	Marc Lewis, Postmaster, UUCP	Maximus, Maximus/2 (OS/2)
	"FidoNet 1:396/45, 1:396/3, 1:19/5. Still on line via telnet (bbs.sursum-corda.com) Still the FidoNet distribution hub and the Region 19 internet gateway. It's been a long, strange trip. Thanks to Katrina, operations were moved to Meridian, MS, with hopes to return to New Orleans sometime in the future! Not as many calls now, but it's STILL a better, safer place than the Internet." - Marc Lewis
504-897-6066 New Orleans, LA	Sursum Corda! BBS (1994)	Marc Lewis	Maximus/2 (OS/2)
	"Sursum Corda! BBS line #2. FidoNet 1:396/45, 1:396/3, 1:19/5. Still on line via telnet (bbs.sursum-corda.com) Still the FidoNet distribution hub and the Region 19 internet gateway. It's been a long, strange trip. Thanks to Katrina, operations were moved to Meridian, MS, with hopes to return to New Orleans sometime in the future! Not as many calls now, but it's STILL a better, safer place than the Internet." - Marc Lewis
505-294-5675 Albuquerque, NM	DataSafe Publications, Garbage Dump, The Garbage Dump, THe GaRBaGe DuMP BBS!, THE GARBAGE DUMP BBS, The GaRBaGe DuMP (1991-1996)	Dean Kerl, Dean Kerl/Datasafe	MajorBBS
	THE GARBAGE DUMP BBS, 505.294.5675, 110 incoming lines, nationwide local access available. Huge system featuring realtime chat, message forums, massive shareware file library with 12 CDs, online dating registry, online trivia, casino style games, multi player adventure games, Adults Only! - BBS Magazine November, 1994 THE GARBAGE DUMP BBS, 505.294.5675. 110 incoming lines, nationwide local access available. Huge system featuring realtime chat, message forums, massive shareware file library with 12 CDs, online dating registry, online trivia, casino style games, multi player adventure games, Adults Only! - BBS Magazine March, 1995 Online Chat Service - Adventure Games - National Chatlink
505-296-3000 Albuquerque, NM	Albuquerque ROS, AlbuquerqueROS (1984-2002)	Steve Fox, Steven Fox	Worldgroup, MajorBBS
	"Yup, we've actually been around for 17 years . Not much going on there with everything on the Internet, but I just can't see shutting it down." - Steve Fox
505-299-5974 Albuquerque, NM	Albq. ROS Home Of ROS CPM, Albuq ROS, Albuq ROS,PCSIG+, Albuq.RCPM, Albuquerque RCP/M, The Albuquerque ROS (1984-1994)	Steve Fox, Steven Fox
	36000 files/USA Today/Tradewars/Online Games
505-434-0258 ALAMOGORDO, NM	MDC Computers BBS! (1994-1995)	Dan Kiehl Jr.
	ListKeeper: New Mexico Area Code (505)
505-463-6679 Santa Fe, NM	Anarchy BBS (1993-1994)	David Massey	Excalibur
	"I setup and ran this BBS part time with a friend of mine. He ended up getting co-op credit for it. It was a 14.4 BBS with at most 2 incoming lines. It was a fun learning experience in computer communication right after I got my first dx2-66. I had 8250 serial ports and had to get an ISA upgrade to 16550 so I could run without a lot of uart overflows. " - David Massey
505-473-9765 SANTA FE, NM	Selective On-Line (tm) (1990-2000)	James A. Hill
	"Going down a rabbit hole tonight I came across your web site and found my BBS listed on the site. I would like update you and have you make a correction. The BBS was on line from 1990 to 2000. Exactly 10 years, when I hit that mark and calls were down to maybe 2 a day I knew the time had come to give it up. I took it down in March 2000. With the Y2K uproar, at midnight the BBS system changed the date from 12/31/99 to 01/01/100 the BBS software did not understand the date and just incremented 99 to 100 and displayed the date as 01/01/100. Those were great days, sometimes I miss getting out of bed at 1am to answer a request from a user to the SysOp! Wow that brings back memories. I am still in IT to this day. I am the IT Infrastructure Manager for a medical company in New Mexico. I still have a copy of the entire system in my backups to this day. Thanks for the nice flash back and seeing my system on your site. As well as some of my friends and fellow SysOps, Matt McCleary, John Farrell, Pam Trexler, Bob Maxwell and Bill and Kathy Christison just to name a few. BBS ran on a extra tall tower Intel P3 DOS 6.22 with QEMM and 1Mb of RAM with 4 SCSI Hard Drives (40 to 60meg) and 6 SCSI CD Rom Drives, with 2 16.8k HST Dual Standard Modems, it was ThinNet BNC connect via IPX network to 2 other support systems, each with 2 IDE hard drives." - James Hill
505-672-9021 Los Alamos, NM	Sky City BBS (1993-1999)	Stuart Gibson	Telegard 2.7
	"This BBS was victim of the Y2k bug. It would have been fixed but the SysOp went to college and decided that it was better just to shut it all down. At its peak, this BBS had about 50 users a day, with about 600 users total. Tradewars and Seth Able's Legend of the Red Dragon were the most popular parts of the board. At its end, it only had about 3 regular users (including the SysOp himself). The phone line was left active for two years more, and the machine itself was finally deactivated early this year (2003)." - Stuart Gibson
505-678-8948 Las Cruces, NM	Cyberpunk Cafe, Ground Zero BBS, The Wolf's Den (1991-1994)	Keith Shinkle, Robert Argetsinger	Paragon / Starnet BBS
	"The BBS was actually located on White Sands Missile Range. It ran on an Amiga 2000 with 2 x 100 meg SCSI hard drives 8 megabytes of RAM and an HST Dual Standard modem. I had to close the BBS when I got orders to go back to Germany." - Robert Argetsinger
505-864-7676 BELEN, NM	Tom Sanderson's RCP/M (1984-1985)	Tom Sanderson
	"My simple old system is now the VirtualAltair RCP/M (2016-2???) in Los Lunas, NM. Telnet: altair.loslunasnm.net:4667. Run Mail for Mini-RBBS." - Tom Sanderson
506-450-6837 Fredericton, NB	SitComm BBS (1991-1992)	Derek BIllingsley, Derek Billingsley and Andrew Miller	Searchlight
	"This BBS was the pre-cursor to Derek and I starting our own successful ISP. Cheers!" - Andrew Miller
506-451-1615 Fredericton, NB	Dargaard Keep (1992-1994)	Dave Profit, Dave Profit & Robert Trifts	RoboBoard
	"Atlantic Canada's First GUI BBS" - Robert Trifts
506-453-2925 Fredericton, NB	Wills Dungeon (1994-1995)	Evil	VBBS
	"Wills Dungeon had, at it's peak, 30+ online games (doors) running. "It was run by Will, a 14-15 year old, out of his parents basement, for a little over a year; the phone line and hardware were funded by a 2 mile long news paper delivery route for the Daily Gleaner. "It had one phone line, and averaged one call per hour, though occasionally exceeded 40 calls a day. "Wills Dungeon shared a messaging forum with GateWay (operated by Trevor Rivet), using the VNet technology that was part of VBBS. Every morning around 3am, Wills Dungeon would call GateWay and transfer email and forum messages destined for other VNet users. In this way you could send an email from Wills Dungeon (or GateWay) to anyone on the planet (provided they were hooked up to VNet). "Some of the most popular games were Legend on the Red Dragon, Barren Realms Elite, and TradeWars 2000 (all registered). "While not a warez site, Wills Dungeon distrubuted a lot of custom made applications written by Will, and some of the other younger programmers in the Fredericton area. Two of the more popular were 'VGADraw' and 'VSCRIPT'. A BBS member eventually added mouse support to VGADraw, which was kind of cool back then, making it an 'open source' collaboration. lol "VGADraw was a bitmap drawing program, and VSSCRIPT was a vector based drawing program. "One of the applications on the site got the BBS in to a bit of trouble with the local police. Will had written a program to create 'ANSI Bombs' and posted it on the BBS. Essentially, the program would let someone embeded character remapping in to an ANSI file/animation they had. In this way, you could remap the keyboard so that the key 'a' would go 'dir c:\'. "Someone, we'll call him 'Bob', downloaded the program, and used to it to create bomb that would format the primary hard-disk. Bob was having trouble with someone else from school, and sent him this 'bomb'. Long story short, someones hard drive got formatted. The police got involved, and 'Bob' told them he used Wills program to create the 'bomb'. The police called Will and had a rather lengthy, but surprisingly nice, discussion with him about such things. The program came down shortly there after, with no hard feelings. "The BBS eventually met it's demise once the Sysop got his drivers license." - Evil
506-454-3034 Fredericton, NB	Genfab BBS (1994-1996)	Totty & Mighty Mouse	VBBS
	"A great little BBS that had probably the busiest line in town. We tried to expand to a 2nd line at one point, but things fell apart when one of our main hard disks died on us. Guess it was never meant to be! It was fun while it lasted." - Totty
506-455-1073 Fredericton, NB	Meganet (1988-1997)	Face	Renegade, Iniquity
	"When i first started it, there were many BBS's around town. though, hey yeah I want to try it to. I was hooked, nothing like staying up all night drawing new ANSI graphics for your board =) .. Ran many multi-bbs door games, and joined FIDO net. LORD was the most popular door game, and was really great in multi-bbs gaming. In my opinion there is nothing that can compare to a bbs today. A bbs was more intimate, it was poeple from around your community calling in, you would get excited if someone from out of province/state happen to dial up your board. At the high point of things, late 1989, i had 5 lines going. In the end, I only kept one line going and slowly slowly the users dropped away. Then I decided to archive the whole bbs on cd-rom and pack it away." - Face
506-548-9248 Bathurst, NB	N.T.P.A. BBS (1989-1996)	Louis Arseneau	Wildcat
	"I see that I'm listed twice. I suspect it's because of the Phone Numbers; I could have been listed 6 times because I had 6 phone lines coming into the house, and grew to 600 members, in the early 90's. I had a donation of a Pioneer 6 pack (6 cd's) and had tens of thousands of shareware files online for downloads, I can't rememebr how many Online games we had, L.O.R.D was one of the most popular, it was a great time, and I really enjoyed it.... working with Desqview to do multi tasking hehehe, and Qemm for memory managment, a friend of mine would cut traces on internal modems and go get other IRQ's before that was standard option. As far as I know I was the first in the Province to get a 14,400 baud modem it cost me $1,200... ouf ... I could go on but I won't :)" - Louis Arseneau
506-652-9662 Saint John, NB	NB PEI Canada, Node 2001 BBS, Node 2001 BBS POTS, Node 2001 RBBS, node2001.dynip.com, node2001.inetcam.com (1992-2009)	Terry Davies	Synchronet
	"Hi... This is a great record of the BBS systems... A wonderful, wonderful job... I ran RBBS 8:990/801 for the first ~24 months in 1992.... then joined fidonet as 1:255/28, I have maintained both addreses to this date, I am sure family net may have got zone 8, but can't use the RBBS numbers, cos a few, still use them... Neat stuff.... I ran RBBS with the cdor addons and Binkleyterm until almost 1998, changed to maximus with binkleyterm and in 2001 changed to Synchronet... I had to maintain an old 486 machine way past its time to continue to run that dos stuff we use to call fossil drivers Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Level.... Take care and thankyou.. I looked at various old nodelists... wow... I have shared this website with others.. I did not know.... Thanks again." - Terry Davies
506-735-3188 Edmundston, NB	CompuBBS (1990-1997)	Paul Cormier	Wildcat
	"One of the largest and longest running BBS in the province, with four lines, satellite feed and multi-disc CDRom files online. Those days were fun!... :)" - Paul Cormier
506-832-7115 Hampton, NB	DarkSide BBS (1992-1997)	Phantom aka:Frank Black	Renegade
	"Helped set up DeepSpawn, Buckshot, GST (GreenStone Towers), and several other local BBSs" - Frank Black
507-281-6858 Rochester, MN	The Techno Shack, The Temples Of Syrinx (1994-1996)	Andy Nolting	Major BBS, Wildcat!
	"Great selection of elite software and pictures for download. Had an option for $2.50/mo unlimited download of files. Only 1 paying customer ever." - Andy Nolting
507-289-8452 ROCHESTER, MN	FIDO #61 RAMS, Mid West, RAMS (1984-1988)	John Pritchard	FidoNet
	"RAMS was a 4-line chat system run on MajorBBS. John Pritchard shut it down, I would assume, 1988. The computer in his basement simply stopped working. He was completely anonymous at that time, he never logged in, he just ran this thing in his basement for some reason. We were all deviated, because this is how we (I was a kid at the time) kept in touch. Many of us didn’t even know each others real names. I was running a crappy little pirate BBS at the time, but kind of bored with it.. I asked around and someone knew John, and I got his phone number. I called him one day and asked if I could run the system for him. He was an older guy, retirement age, he had worked at IBM (Rochester MN). But my idea was, he would own the software, I would own the computer and pay for the phone lines, and I would run it. He first just dismissed me, he didn’t know who I was. But some time later (I don’t remember, a week or two maybe), he called me back. Asked me to come over to his place, and met me.. he agreed to let me do it. I remember him having a huge smile and said, “you’re going to have the best BBS in town!” He had already paid for the latest release or Major BBS, and handed it to me along with a box of 4 2400 baud modems. It was huge – The MajorBBS software at the time came with 3 ring binders for each “feature”.. like the BBS, and another for a game pack, another to add more “lines” to it, etc." - Tyler K.
507-634-4392 Kasson, MN	MiSKaToNiC UNiVeRSiTY (1993-1996)	Cthulhu (Derek J. Hunt)	OBV/2
	"I ran several different softrware packages, including JetBBS (which I ran on the Dunwich Horror BBS in Seattle), OBV/2, PC Board, and Finally Wildcat. This was the home BBS for AoD - http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/ADS/aod2.txt . We were constantly fighting with the other BBS operators (507), it was a marvelous time indeed. I still need to find a bunch of the old text files and BBS lists. This was the only textfile board in 507 which made it much more interesting, we were psuedo-invite and we would post the number on other boards, at Software Etc (where Rob, another bbs operator was the sysop), Barnes and Noble." - Derek J. Hunt
507-931-5879 St. Peter, MN	Xanadu BBS (1986)
	Love Connection, Used Equipment, Messages, News. Love Connection, Used Equipment, Messages, News.
508-222-6329 Attleboro, MA	King's Castle, Kings Castle BBS (1986-1996)	Ray King, Ray King	Amiga C-Net
	"I was suprised to find my old BBS listed. I am thinking of starting it again over the internet and did a google search for kings castle and was suprised to find it listed here!" - Ray King
508-226-2612 Attleboro, MA	Ye Old Cookie Shoppe, Ye Olde Cookie Shoppe (1986-1994)	Rebecca Gaitonde
	"This BBS was originally started on the Atari 800XL and eventually evolved through to the Atari ST-1040 and finally to the PC before closing down. It was founded as a way to get legal freeware for the Sysops sons and their school, and eventually integrated "other" software as a means of increasing traffic. Eventually there were 3 dedicated lines, and Ascii multi-player games, as well as network forums that ranged from tech help to Star Trek discussions. The Cookie Chef made many friends in her time as the sysop, and even had people flying in from different parts of the country just for a visit. Rebecca "The Cookie Chef" Gaitonde is deceased as of April 24 2008. (This is posted by her son Corey Gaitonde handle "K'rlokatau")"
508-226-6368 Attleboro, MA	Spy's Network BBS (1985-1993)	Paul Allen	Cnet, Ribit
	"First run on a Commodore 64 with two floppy drives and a 1200 baud modem running Cnet software and Ribit BBS (intermittently), then added two whopping SFD-1001 drives for a total of 2 megabytes or so of storage total...and upgraded to 2400 baud. Went through the stages of a Commodore 128 with the same storage. A few years after that stepped up to a Commodore Amiga and a 20MB hard drive along with a US Robotics 9600 baud modem....and of course the coup de gras was a 60MB hard drive. Woo hoo! Sadly the buffons at Commodore blew the mothership up and we were without a platform in the early 90's. Never did switch to the IBM platform, although we were tempted to. Man those old warez parties were fun :) Would love to hear from you old users still out there!" - Paul Allen
508-234-2150 WHITINSVILLE, MA	Panic Zone, PANIC ZONE (1992-1995)
	Lsd Member BBS
508-234-7062 Whitinsville, MA	SportBike BBS (1992-1995)	Suzuki GSXR, Flipper	Maximus BBS
	"Wow - I was surprised to see my old BBS listed! What a great time that was - thanks to all who visited!!" - SuzukiGSxR
508-251-9812 Chelmsford, MA	Omega, Omega BBS, OMEGA BBS [GSA/ASV/PIN/JASSOL] (1989-1994)	Omicron	WWIV
	"[GSA/ASV/PIN/JASSOL] WWIVnet@5809 This was originally a neo-pagan oriented BBS. I now admin http://askawitchcommunity.org along the same lines." - Omicron
508-263-6135 Acton, MA	HomeNet (1993-1994)	Matthew Handelman
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Acton, Massachusetts since 11/93. Sysop: Matthew Handelman. Using TBBS 2.2 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 100 MB storage. Supra at 19200 bps. $60.00 Annual fee. Focuses on issues of concern to homeowners and home buyers. Connected to Internet newsgroups and e-mail. When should you plan your rose bushes? Should you lock in your interest rate today? And what the heck is a 'soffit', anyway? Call HomeNet now!
508-264-9100 Acton, MA	Middle Earth BBS (1986-1998)	Isaac A(simov)	Greene Machine / VBBS
	"This BBS started on a TRS=80 Model 4, with what became a heavily reworked Greene Machine program. At the end, on VBBS, it was known for Tradewars, The Pit, Global War (Risk), Camelot, LORD, and an assortment of other games. In the DEC belt, it got a lot of traffic in the 80' and early 90's, dying off as AOL and the WWW rose in popularity." - Issac A
508-343-4008 Fitchburg, MA	Total Access (1986-1991)	Scott Lagos, Chris Leger, Chris Leger / Scott Lagos	QuickBBS
	"Wow, what a blast from the past! Here is some updated info for you. I remember so many of the Sysops on the list from my area. Some fond recollections of my days running Total Access: * 2 computers in my bedroom - all running Trade Wars and other various "door" games. * 2 ~noisy~ hard drives chugging away and 2 beeping pc speakers in the middle of the night (after I'd gone to bed at 3am, that is) - followed by 2 snipped wires. * ANSI graphics - who hoo! Animations even. * Summer "member" parties. * Boxes of T-shirts for new members - yes, I still have 1 or two hanging around... * Scott and Tom picking up the bill for me - thanks guys! (it was a store front after all!) That led me to a career as a software engineer / web developer." - Chris Leger
508-368-7139 Clinton, MA	Software Creations (1993-1995)	Dan Linton	PCBoard
	ListKeeper: Apogee/ID/Software Crtns List
508-368-8456 Lancaster, MA	CyberScape, Cyberscape Online Systems! (1992-1996)	Dave White, David White	TBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Lancaster, Massachusetts since 12/92. Sysop: David White. Using TBBS 2.2M with 3 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1500 MB storage. Hayes at 28.8k bps. No fee. Cyberscape Online Systems specializes in the design, development and support of high quality TBBS-Based Online Systems. We also stock a large collection of high quality shareware with 25 or more new files per day. Call today for Free D/L's.
508-394-1181 Dennis, MA	The Deacon BBS (1994)	Joe D'angelo, Joe D'Angelo	TriBBS
	"Wow this is cool i just get up one morning and do some wierd search outa the blue and i find this talk about some memories.. anyway my name is Joe D'Angelo i now live up in Gardner now iw as about 12-14 when i ran that BBS it taught me alot.. and i enjoyed it i did resist the internet for awhile for i thought it to be the deveil (i know know it is not the devil..it's worse!!) i loved BBSing i was helped and started along by Jay Galvin of the Seagull BBS and owe any success in running my BBS to him.. thanks for the Mems.." - Joe D'Angelo
508-425-4094 Shirley, MA	DeadMoon BBS (1989-1994)	Brett Crowe	Wildcat!
	"Single node BBS - concentrated on game downloads, Apogee game support/distribution, general conversations and online DOORS. Legend of the Red Dragon, The Pit, Melee and Space Dynasty (Space Empire Elite clone.) Great learning experience - gone but not forgotten. The name 'DeadMoon' came from Heavy Metal magazine (british fantasy/sci fi.)" - Brett Crowe
508-429-1784 Holliston, MA	Cul De Sac, Cul-De-Sac, CUL-DE-SAC BBS, G W Associates, G.W. Associates, GW Associates, Cul-de-Sac Bar & Grill, G.W. Associates. (1985-1997)	Pete White, WA1YDL	TBBS
	Multiline Service - Ham Radio - Humor - TDBS Applications
508-443-9396 Sudbury, MA	Software Price Connection (1992-1997)	Mike Segal	TBBS-TDBS
	"Used a On-line computer store where products could be purchased and drop ship. Also Developed / Sold the Direct On-Line Shopping System (DOSS) that let you build a on-line store and manager it." - Mike Segal
508-465-3198 Newburyport, MA	/XAss Hysteria BBs, MASS Hysteria, MASS Hysteria BBS, MassHysteria, The MASS Hysteria BBs, The MASS Hysteria BBS, Mass Hysteria (1989-1996)	Mark Warnat, Brian Tardiff	QuickBBS , QBBS
	"Wow. It is so great to see someone keeping a historical record of all the BBS in the area! Today's average internet user has no idea about the BBS world of the past! I wouldn't trade the years of running this BBS for the world. Mark and I had a lot of fun running the BBS and developing the HysteriaWare Software. Anyone rememeber the online games Q-DOG, Fowl Play, and Chain Reaction? Hard to believe that animated ANSI graphics were cutting edge technology! Great to see the names of some old online pals on this list. Thank you for everyone who made this time in the online world so memorable!" - Brian Tardiff
508-473-1479 Milford, MA	Gamer's Guild BBS (1992-1998)	Amalgamation & Udainius	Amiga CNet BBS
	"Gamer's Guild BBS was run out of the Gamer's Guild retail game & hobby shop, certainly one of the most unique and popular gaming BBS's in central Massachusetts during the mid '90s. With 6 dial-up modems and 4 in-store terminals, as well as allowing telnet sessions from what was at the time an infant Internet, we stretched the capabilities of an Amiga 3000 far beyond that of which any mortal SysOp was capable!"
508-477-8211 Mashpee, MA	CCS World (1993-2004)	Joe Cronin	MajorBBS/Worldgroup
	"Started as a local BBS. We added internet email (UUCP) then a 56K line. We turned into the first ISP on the cape. The BBS is still up now under the name Retro BBS Games (telnet://bbs.retrobbsgames.net). The Sysop started running BBS's in the late 80's with Spitfire." - Joe Cronin
508-478-9200 Hopedale, MA	Creative Media Productions (1993-1994)	Jay Appell
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Hopedale, Massachusetts since 09/93. Sysop: Jay Appell. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 2 lines on WINDOWS with 3200 MB storage. Motorola Codex VFAST at 24.4 bps. $10.00 Quarterly fee. Automobiles, Business, Finance, Comm, Education, Police, Fire, Games, Geneology, Graphics, Health, Medical, Hobbies, Home & Real Estate, Scanners and Shortwave, Doom, Multimedia, Trial 30 free files @ 1 HR per day. Computer consultation available online!
508-562-2483 Bolton, MA	The Flying Duck (1993-1995)	Jeff Budzinski	Renegade
	"I was the sysop of that board back in the day. So funny that I came across this list." - Jeff Budzinski
508-568-0775 Stow, MA	The Blazing Sun BBS (1991-1995)	Mike Veazey	PCBoard
	"A fun endeavor at the time. Isn't it amazing where online services have gone!" - Mike Veazey
508-584-0155 West Bridgewater, MA	Bushido BBS (1983-1989)	The Warlord, The Shogun	Proving Grounds
	"Proving Grounds was a BBS program that doubled as an online RPG. In addition to that, the Sysop ran a game called "Battle for North America (later "Battle for New England") that was a play by mail game involving ~20 people that he spent 8 hours a day updating in a massive spreadsheet. I spent many hours on this board :)" - The Warlord "I was the SYSOP and just happened to Google "Bushido BBS" and arrived here much to my surprise. Ran this in the office of my roller skating rink. And, no, I did not spend 8 hours a day on it! Running BNA was great fun. One of the original players is now a game programmer and we are talking about bringing back an automated version of the game. " - The Shogun
508-584-9832 Brockton, MA	Strategic Warez Command (1985-1987)		6485, Ivory BBS
	"Run off 3 floppy drives on a C64. Mostly for trading games. I ran it out of my bedroom when I was in High School."
508-587-7669 BROCKTON, MA	ponyXpress BBS (1995)	Ruben Melo
	ListKeeper: PCBoards on Internet
508-620-1178 Framingham, MA	Network World Bulletin Board (1993)	Network World Magazine/CW Communications
	LAN and WAN Issues and Technology
508-643-6990 North Attleboro, MA	The Dragon's Lair BBS (1989-1994)	Vincent Chapman	RBBS, Telegard
	"I ran this BBS through HS until I left for the Army. I think the number is right, but it's been defunct 20 years so I can't verify this was the exact number. I started as the American Dream 89-90 and switched to the Dragon's Lair in 91 when I switched to Telgard. I had a swashnet node number, but have no idea what that was at this point." - n1qj
508-653-9628 Natick, MA	Zorro the Malamute, Zorro the Malimute (1989-1997)	Ken Levitt	UFGATE
	"For many years this BBS acted as the email gateway between Fidonet and the Internet for Eastern Massachusetts. Each night the system would pickup and drop off messages on both networks. This was at a time when there was no Internet email access for people who were not part of a university or large corporation. I managed to talk my way into getting access to a machine at Harvard University in the medical department. I had no prior connection with Harvard and I'm sure that the person who set up the account must have exceeded their authority. I continued the service until it was possible for the average person to get internet email through other sources and Fidonet had outlived its usefulness." - Ken Levitt
508-663-4221 Billerica, MA	Nite-Lite (1983-1989)	Paul Swanson	Nite-Lite
	"1983: Nite-Lite B.B.S. goes on the air. (Was it running A.M.I.S. ?) It is called "Nite-Lite" because the computer monitor casts an eerie glow about the room. 1984: Paul Swanson writes his own BBS hosting software for the ATARI 6502 8-bit computer. He names it "Nite-Lite". The Nite-Lite BBS hosting software goes on to be the most successful commercial BBS software ever written for the ATARI 6502 8-bit computer. 1989: Nite-Lite BBS puts in a second line at 508-663-2885. (MichTron boards eventually take the place of all of the ATARI Nite-Lite boards.)" - Winston Smith
508-667-5669 Billerica, MA	XyQuest Inc, Xyquest Technical Support, XyQuest, Inc., XyQuest Support BBS (1993-1995)	XyQuest Inc. - Christine Madsen
	Support for XyWrite Word Processor – Custom Keyboard Files
508-675-6584 Fall River, MA	NightShift BBS (1991-1998)	Peter Banville, Peter Banvile <===Fairlite===>	DTJBBS C=64, C-Net Amiga
	"Wow, I am surprised to see this listed. I miss the good old days of computing. I started this BBS on a C=128 with 2 1541 Disk Drives and a 1200 Baud modem. It evolved to an Amiga 3000/30 with 1/2 a GIG of storage with a 28.8 Baud Modem. Brings backs a lot of good memories." - <===Fairlite===>
508-681-1196 Methuen, MA	V.A.S.T., VAST (1989)	Al Juknavorian aka Junka
	"I am positive that this BBS was run by Al Juknavorian. It was all B & w and Ansi. There were 4 lines and it was all about the chat room. Initially founded as a support board for ATARI ST's hense (V)alley (A)tari ST I met my first girlfriend on there. Thanks for doing this list." - Scotty Bliss
508-686-5994 Methuen, MA	GRYPHON's Lair, GRYPHON's Lair BBS (1993-1998)	Mike Dube	Wildcat
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Methuen, Massachusetts since 03/93. Sysop: Mike Dube. Using WildCat 3.91 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 5000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. No fee. Something for Everyone. LinkUSA, IOMAGnet, YankeeNet, Wildnet, Rocknet, Dist Site #1588 for Apogee, Parole & T&J software, classifieds, lotto, raffles, 5 CD's online, games, adult, file D/L 1st call, add'I access @ year. & much more.
508-693-6279 West Tisbury, MA	Cape & Islands, Over Board (1994-1998)	Andrue Carr	Searchlight
	"Hah, I loved that. I learned so much from doing that BBS. Sad to put it to bed in my attic. It was killed by the internet, not so much that everybody went to the internet, but that I found it myself one day. after that, the board ran by itself for about 6 months, then when I turned the monitor on one day i found it just sitting there with a hard drive error. 1 of the hard drives crashed and I just didn't have the time to fix it then. I put the whole thing up in the attic for my child to fix whenever she becomes computer savvy in about 15 years perhaps. I miss it, as well as many of the people that frequented it as they see me on the street." - Andrue Carr
508-695-3420 North Attleboro, MA	Dark Realms (1992-1996)	Steve Lesser	TAG
	"The BBS gained a lot of success from its online games. It was one of the larger gaming BBSes in the area. When the board started, the SysOp (me) was 13 years old and the majority of the users were significantly older. By the time the board shut down (shortly before I went to college), the majority of the users were teenagers. It felt like this board was around for a transition in the general age of the BBS user." - Steve Lesser
508-746-6010 Plymouth, MA	Adult Hangout, ADULT HANGOUT BBS (1993-1996)	Tom Whynott	MajorBBS
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: A bbs devoted to adults. Over 100,000 ADULT files online. Matchmaking, chat, adultgames, national netmail, adult flowershop, adult CD-Store, adult service directory, adult classifieds, voice personals and much more. Local access in 1510+ cities worldwide. Call and join in the fun. Must be 18 or older to call. ADULT HANGOUT BBS, 508,746,6010, an adult only bbs v/ith over 65,000 xxx adult files online. Adult online games, adult classified ads, adult services directory, huge matchmaking database, live teleconference. National mail, adult CD-store and much more. Over 40 high speed lines with local access numbers, - BBS Magazine October 1995
508-752-1348 Worcester, MA	Full Moon (1988-1992)	Sysop: STeve Rider	FoReM ST
	"FNET Node #204 (FoReM network) It was a Worcester-area BBS. Run by a guy named Steve Rider (who called himself STeve Rider because he used Atari ST's). Steve, at some point, became the person responsible for selling FoReM ST (after the author, Matt Singer, stopped wanting to support it, I think). Full Moon had decent file areas and games. I think I used to play tradewar-type games on here (forgot what they were called). I'm pretty sure one of them was written by a guy from Northboro named Jon Radoff (who ran Middle Earth in Northboro, wrote some Amiga BBS software, and later started NovaLink)." - Ford Prefect
508-752-1991 Worcester, MA	Suspended Animation (1995-1997)	Jeff Grant	WWIV
	"This brings back memories.. Since I shut down Suspended Animation, I have graduated HS, gone to College, and now have a BS degree in Computer Science.. I probably have my BBS to thank for it getting me into programming." - Jeff Grant
508-754-6512 WORCESTER, MA	Miwok Village, Miwok Village BBS (1995-1996)	Jim Metzler
	ListKeeper: Worcester MA AC (508)
508-756-6133 Worcester, MA	ADULT-RANGER BBS, Ranger BBS, Adult-Ranger BBS (1993-1995)	Stephen Hopkins	Wildcat, WildCat 4.01
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Worcester, MA since 11/93. Sysop: Stephen Hopkins. Using WildCat 4 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 2000 MB storage. ZOOM at 14400 bps. $28.00 6 month fee. The FASTEST growing Adult Board in the Northeast. Adult LIVE Chat, 58 conferences including "Talk Dirty To Me". On-Board psychologist, computer store, tech specialists. Thousands of gifs from TAME to BIZARRE, games. 5 sysops! FREE ten day trial!!!! !!
508-760-2147 Yarmouth, MA	Cape & Islands, Mid Cape Hub, NightSoft VideoTex BBS, Your Bbs Name (1983-1998)	Andrew Wyatt, Andrew Wyatt Sr.	Wildcat
	"NightSoft begain in Falmouth Ma. in 1983. Was the home of the ISG (International Sysop Guild) and Cape Link, ( The frist bbs network on Cape Cod ) Move to Yarmouth Ma in 1991, part of Fido for many years, NightSoft went down in 1998 due to the user base drop with the onset of the World wide Web." - Andrew Wyatt Sr.
508-788-6951 Framingham, MA	)(evious BBS, Xevious (1988-1996)		PCBoard
	"This BBS is still *technically* on air. When I was about 11, in 1991 I used to download many flight simulator add-ons that where available. This BBS evolved into what is presently www.flightsim.com. Imagine that! After all these years! I remember trying to find as many files as I could so I could beat the download ratio system!" - Badgeman
508-791-3303 Worcester, MA	Minority, Minority BBS (1988-1996)	Bob Mckeegan, Sysop: Bob McKeegan	TBBS on Kaypro in early days, FoReM PC on 386 later
	"Minority BBS - Sysop is listed correctly (Bob McKeegan, aka Delay). I was one of the co-sysops some time in the early 90's. The first version of the BBS was running on a Kaypro CP/M machine. I'm pretty sure that early software was TBBS (The Bread Board System). Some time in the early 90's, he upgraded to a 386 (when they cost a fortune). Eventually he settled on FoReM PC for the BBS software, running under DesqView for multitasking (so he could still use the PC for other stuff). I have copies of what are the files for some version of the FoReM incarnation of the BBS. Stuff like login screens, menus, etc. http://www.gweep.net/~prefect/retrocomputing/bbs/minority/ This would have been from 1989-1990 time frame probably. The files came from my Atari, and I was using that Tandy 1000EX for BBS'ing from early 1990 until I bought my first 286 PC in the spring of '90." - Prefect
508-791-6903 WORCESTER, MA	GweepNet (1992-1996)	Josh Brandt	UNaXcess
	"I was the sysop of the GweepNet BBS. It ran on a Convergent Miniframe running UNaXcess BBS software. The software stunk, but by the time we finished hacking stuff on top of it, it could read and post to usenet and play NetHack and all kinds of things...Steve Richardson (one-time roommate of the guy who ran Mithril Hall, although I forget his name) had ethernet in his dorm room at WPI and took over, got us the domain name, and so on. At that point, we moved the dialup BBS to a telnet-only shell machine and stopped giving out accounts to anyone who asked. And, as you can see, here we are five years later. www.gweep.net has some of the story as well." - Josh Brandt
508-791-8456 Worcester, MA	Call Again Soon, Call Again Soon (Node 1) (1992-1998)	Joe Johnson	Magpie , TriBBS
	"Tribbs Registration #32 when it was stil called TriTel. I added second line line in 1995 and brifly ran three nodes in 1996. World Message Exchange HUB and SYSOP Joe Johnson was the Chief Moderator of the WME and member of the CoTeam. Hope to write more about it as it is a treasured memory. Keep up the good work." - Joe Johnson
508-797-0461 Worcester, MA	OS/2 Exchange, OS2XPlus, The OS/2 Exchange (1994-1996)	Steve Consolmagno	Wildcat , Wildcat!
	"I was the SysOp for this BBS. Dial up was the only way to access to the BBS - it was via USRobotics Dual Standard / HST (big dollars back then). The BBS had had a large file area mostly from the Walnut Creek CD ROM OS/2 Software collections to which I subscribed. New disks came monthly. The CDs were made available via CD-ROM changer connected to a 386/DX2 66Mhz based PC. The BBS machine had a 400MB drive (again, big money) and 8M RAM, if I recall the time frame correctly. LanTastic connected the BBS PC to the SysOp's PC. There weren't a lot of callers, only several a day really, but they came from all over. OS/2 files were not widely available, so my BBS was a great source as the collection was as complete as any other and constantly updated. My interest in OS/2 (apparently for everyone else too) eventually waned and the BBS went away. It was an enjoyable, though brief ride." - Steve Consolmagno
508-829-5465 Holden, MA	Base Technologies (1989-1992)	Stix, Sysop: Stix, Co-Sysops: Ford Prefect & Rock(o)	PCBoard
	"I was a co-sysop on this BBS for a period of time. I was friends with (and went to high school with) the Sysop. Ran on a 386 PC. The number spelled out "LINK" (508-829-LINK). I did an ad for the BBS in my ill-fated .GIF-zine, based on the album cover for the Rush album _Roll The Bones_. The ad can be seen here: http://www.gweep.net/~prefect/retrocomputing/hackerware/hacktronics_gazette_11_91/HG1191-4.GIF" - Ford Prefect
508-832-8002 Auburn, MA	GifLand (1993)	D. Dewar	Wildcat
	"Usually ran after 10pm." - D. Dewar
508-840-6589 Leominster, MA	The Cannibal Cafe (1988-1991)	Jody Burchstead	Wildcat
	"The BBS actually started as The Bat Cave in 88, was run by Bill Labaire in Fitchburg MA when I briefly moved out of town in 89, and then when I got back I rebuilt it as The Cannibal Cafe from 89 to 92." - Jody Burchstead
508-842-2172 Shrewsbury, MA	The Crystal Dagger (1991-1993)	Cheryl Dowling, (Rya Nightshade), Cheryl Dowling (Rya Nightshade)	WWIV
	"I started this little one line BBS on my old 286 in my bedroom. It was a place for friends to gather and write stories, poetry, and other pieces of collaborative fiction. I ran it for my last 3 years of high school before heading to college in Boston in 1993. It's kind of trippy to find information on it still kicking around the net today. It mainly catered to writing and bulletin boards. I didn't have any games and files were mostly just text backups of stories and other pieces. I miss that old board sometimes!" - Cheryl Dowling (Rya Nightshade)
508-845-9817 Shrewsbury, MA	The Z (1996-1999)	Andrew Rondeau, aka GWBasic	Iniquity, VBBS
	"The Z opened in 1996 running VBBS, however, I later re-did the BBS in iniquity. It tended to cater to hackers and programmers. At times The Z was very busy, other times virtually no one called. I closed the BBS when I went off to WPI for college. I've been wanting to re-open it as a telnet board, but I do not have time at the moment. When I closed it, I only knew of one other operational board in the area, although the list seems to show some dinosaurs still remaining." - Andrew Rondeau
508-852-4641 Worcester, MA	The Gamemasters Sanctum, The Gamemasters' Sanctum (1993-1995)	BLOK (Chris), Doomslayer, Chronis	VBBS
	"BBS run by gamers, for gamers. Timespan Approxamate. :-) ran-multiline for a while also."
508-852-4807 WORCESTER, MA	MITHRIL HALL (1992-1994)	Jamie Bozza	MajorBBS
	Multiline pay BBS. Ran until sysop moved to Florida, where he established a similar multiline board in Fort Walton Beach called The Nucleus.
508-856-0598 Worcester, MA	Darkside Moon, DarkSide of the Moon (1992-1996)	Metallic Eagle, Gowd DeLaMorte	Telegard , Mystic
	"I'm the sysop of this BBS. I've actually brought it back up after a few month break when a HD crash killed the origional copy. Sadly due to TeleGard no longer being supported I've had to move onto a compatible software (Mystic). I went by the name of Metallic Eagle back then, now it's Gowd DeLaMorte. Some of the old staff members are still staffers to this day (Atilla and Purged User).The BBS is still up and running now as DarkSide of the Moon 2: Electric Boogaloo over at telnet://dsom2.thebbs.org. Our website it http://www.darksideofthemoon2bbs.com." - Gowd Delamorte (Metallic Eagle)
508-872-8461 Framingham, MA	Middlesex News, Fred the Computer (1992-1994)	Dave Funkhouser, Linda Eldridge, Adam Gaffin, Middlesex news-Adam Gaffin
	Newspaper BBS. Wierdnet Newswire. List of MA Libraries
508-875-8009 Framingham, MA	Microsystems Software BBS, Microsystems Software Inc, Microsystems Software Technical Support, Microsystems Software, Inc BBS, MSI S/W BBS, MSI SW BBS, Microsystems Software Inc. (1990-2003)	Reed Lewis, MSI – Reed Lewis
	HandiWare Software for Handicapped - CodeRunner C Utilities
508-879-4086 Framingham, MA	The Gater Bowl (1982-1988)	Mitch Cohen	TRS-80 Color Computer (custom software)
	"The Gater Bowl BBS was was run on a TRS-80 Color Computer (original revision E) with 32K RAM, two (later four) DEC RX-180 floppy drives, and a Novation CAT 300 baud auto-answer modem. The software was based on something I bought, but I don't remember the name, and was heavily customized. It was written in BASIC. I ran it in my parents' basement while in High School starting in 1982 if memory serves. In the fall of 1985 I started college and left the BBS running at home, but simultaneously ran a second copy from my freshman dorm room (Clark University in Worcester, MA). That one had a fancy 1200 baud modem. The college changed their phone system for my sophomore year and I could no longer get a second phone line, so that ended the second setup. Eventually running the home BBS remotely became a hassle, and I started playing with the BitNet connection at school, so the Gater Bowl was retired in late 1987 or early 1988. The hardware and disks are now in my basement and eventually I'll see if it all still boots. I still occasionally hear from former users. What a fun experience. The name The Gater Bowl came from the message ending "Later Gater" used initially by a high school friend, Bart, which caught on. When I see the football "Gator Bowl" game written out I still think THEY spell it wrong! The BBS was one of two BBS's run by members of the Framingham Color Computer Club. I don't remember the other's name or number, but if I can dig it up I'll add its info. One interesting story was as I was setting it up, and only one friend had the number, some random person dialed into it. Chatting with him I learned he was from far away (another state) and he'd come across the BBS while war-dialing. A very strange experience, the first stranger visiting the system. Another was being found by the local newspaper, the Middlesex News, and was interviewed for a story on BBS's and hacking (when hacking just started to be a big deal). The title of the story, "Enter the World of the Hacker." I was 16 at the time. I was considered a "good hacker." The Middlesex News later ran their own BBS. Since the BBS only had one line (as most did back then) the only interactive chatting was done between the dialup user and myself. I had friends visit all the time and we'd sit in the basement for hours chatting with whoever was there at the time. What fun. The BBS had no private messages (other than to the Sysop) - everything was public. It held, if I remember right, 30 messages total. One text file upload I remember well was a large Ferrari picture, which I printed on my Okidata microline 92 and had above the desk." - Mitch Cohen
508-892-3688 LEICESTER, MA	D.O.T.U. II, DOTU II (1995-1996)	Agent Green, Questor Thews, Dot	WorldGroup
	"A 4-line multiuser system running Galacticomm's WorldGroup platform, with internet connectivity and email at dotu.com. Attempted to fill the void left when Mithril Hall shut down in May 1995. Remained up through 1996 when the popularity of the Internet started taking a toll on BBS activity." - Agent Green
508-946-5205 Middleboro, MA	Late Night BBS (1985-1990)	Aqualung, The Fugitive Guy	Cnet 64, Cnet 128
	"Popular BBS run throughout 2nd half of 80's. First on a c-64 then on a C-128 running different versions of C-Net. We had a few hundred users, held several successfull 'real world' get togethers. I can honestly say running this BBS through my late teens and early 20's changed my life :)" - Scott Creesy
509-326-3238 Spokane, WA	Legal Ease (3 node rd), Legal Ease BBS, LegalEase, LegalEase PCB 44M, LegalEase PCB SMUG# 516 Legal (1989-1996)	W J Sorcinelli, WJ Sorcinelli, Wm Sorcinelli, Bill Sorcinelli	PCBoard
	Legal issues/Forms - Law BBS List
509-334-2083 Pullman, WA	Shadow Fire (1992-1993)	Katherine McDaniel
	"Thank you so much for putting together this site. It brings back so many good memories. I am just sending along additional information for Shadow Fire--the sad little BBS I ran in high school, which nonetheless gave me a lot of joy and, which somehow made it on this list. All the best, Katherine (aka illusion) McDaniel"
509-452-5859 Yakima, WA	Ether BBS (1990-1993)	Sub-Zero	WWIV
	"It was all about salamandar and poncho." - Sub-Zero
509-487-3970 Spokane, WA	The Blockade BBS (1992-1996)	Guy Stancliff (Cutter)	Renegade
	"I'm unsure of the exact dates of when it went down, but this BBS was ran by a close friend of mine, and I ran The Razor's Edge, and we tended to logon to eachothers systems fairly frequently. =) The sysops brother, Eclipse, also served as a co-sysop. The name came from a reference to Star Wars (I believe)."
509-525-0388 Walla Walla, WA	SE WA Eastern Hub, Wally World Wacky Hackers! BBS, Wally Worlds Wacky Hackers (1989-1994)	John Masoner	Wildcat
	"Wally World Wacky Hackers! BBS, started October 1989, and morphed in to Blue Mountain Internet (BMI.Net) June 1994. BMI continues to go strong, and is a nationwide ISP. Lets here if for all of those BBS's that paved the way for the Internet we love today! Cheers!" - John Masoner
509-534-2904 Spokane, WA	Camelot BBS (1987-1988)	Frank Cronin The Iron-Clad Knight	WWIV Custom
	"It's been so long, I'm not even sure of the old phone number used! Running this board was the most fun I've had with an in-door hobby in my life. I purchased the source for WWIV and created some of my own games such as my "Pick 6 Lotto", in where each week users simply picked six numbers, and at the end of the week, the winner won a bunch of download points... simple, but fun. I created the BBS simply to enjoy the friendships created with the users and other sysops in my area, playing simple games like TradeWars, and the joy I felt just watching others enjoy something I was providing... it was just a kick!" - Frank Cronin
509-582-0684 KENNEWICK MAIN, WA	Crystalline Dreams (1993-1996)	Ryan Wright	CNet/3
	"The BBS had 7 incoming phones lines on an Amiga 3000/025. I sold that Amiga & boxes of hardware & software for ~$700 a year after I shut the board down and I've regretted it since. Now, I've got a dedicated 1Mbps Internet connection, and I wish I still had the BBS so I could resurrect it as a telnet system. (sigh)" - Ryan Wright
509-922-1535 Spokane, WA	The Razor's Edge (1991-1998)	Will DeWitt (Edge)	Renegade
	"I originally ran VBBS (purchased the 8-node copy, even though I only ever ran one node), and November 22nd, 1995 I switched to Renegade, which is what I stuck with through till the demise of my on June 5th, 1998. "I still have the BBS and userfiles in a zip-archive that I haven't looked at until just recently (to get my facts straight for this submission), and my total number of users reached 1108. I was the support BBS for "Village of the Phoenix" (VOTP), an add-on for Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD), and I was also the support BBS for "Dawn of the Hunted" (DOTH), an action door-game similar to LORD. (This is why I had so many callers, in part, besides being a good BBS and all. =)) "The Razor's Edge also went through a few co-sysops; I originally started out with Rhune, and eventually added Eclipse (a good friend of mine, and author of DOTH) and my to-be wife Nirvana/MoonShadow (interesting to note, as mentioned, I met my wife on my BBS in November/December of 1995)." - Will DeWitt (Edge)
509-937-6008 Spokane, WA	The Temple of Cheezewhiz (1982-1985)	Nuclear Waste
	"Nuke's house was the location of the very first (to my knowledge) Spokane hacker party in around 1983 or so. About 30 people came over to his basement and brought their systems and stereos. People would go from machine to machine swapping programs all night long. Some dorks attacked all of our cars with pancake batter." - Anonymous
509-943-6415 Richland, WA	ACP BBS (1992-1997)	Gerald Richter	WWIV
	"It was fun while it lasted, but was overtaken by the internet ferver. I did keep it up a bit past it's peers in the area, but that was basically a doomed exercise in futility." - Gerald Richter
509-967-2158 West Richland, WA	Desert WasteLand, Desert Wasteland BBS (1990-1994)	Hellfire	WWIV
	"No comments really. It was just another semi-popular BBS of the area hosting a myriad of door games and files. It was shut down due to something called the Internet. Just so you know, it was my BBS, and I was quite surprised to see it compiled into a historical listing. Shows that I left my mark in the BBS community." - Hellfire
510-228-0813 Martinez, CA	The Time Warp (1994-1995)	Doug Clark	WWIV
	Wow - never expected to see it here. What a trip. Interesting facts: * This BBS ran in my teenage bedroom on our second phone line that I snaked around the outside of the house without my parents knowing. * I had the wrong power adapter for the 19200 baud modem which caused it to run hot - so I took the cover off and hung it out the window to keep it cool. * At one point the BBS had over 30 online games, 12 download protocols, and four message networks including WWIVnet. * Wayne Bell (the author of WWIV) is the reason I learned to program in C at a young age. After starting to hack on WWIV, I never went back to PASCAL. The Time Warp enjoyed a brief revival in 1998 during my college years when I found that my NCD 16e X-Terminal would connect telnets to the administrative port through to it's serial port. I had a linux box on SLIP to the campus network at the time so... I forwarded ports on the campus host to my linux box, created a linux login that would invisibly launch a hacked telnet to the X-terminal, which patched through to a 386 with 20MB of memory running OS/2 Warp and WWIV. WWIV was hacked to accept any character as a modem connection. Later I added a second node (thanks to OS/2 and the second serial port) through another PC. Multi-node WWIV! I posted a few flyers and before I knew it, strange people were logging in through my convoluted setup. It was short lived but fun." - Doug Clark
510-228-7993 Pleasant Hill, CA	Castle in the Attic, LaMerD00dz BBS (1990-1996)	Cobra & Stingray, Sir Mikey, Stingray	WWIV, Mod'ed WWIV
	After about a year of Running the and changes in Area code, the name was changed to Castle in the ATTIC, Also a WWIVnet host for Hawaii, and @1 for LamerNet." - Sir Mikey
510-228-8614 Martinez, CA	Tropical Heatwave, Tuna Land (1993-1997)	Tuna Master	WWIV
	"Tuna Land only lasted about 10 months. It was brought back shortly as Tropcial Heatwave which also served as the home of HeatLink. Tropical Heatwave boasted 12 chains and 10 networks." - Tuna Master
510-253-0914 Orinda, CA	The Reflection Nebula (1995-1997)	Brian Crews	Hermes II
	"This was one of a handful of early Macintosh based BBS' in the bay area. CPU Hardware was generally based upon a Macintosh LC II and later a Macintosh LC III. Our modems were ordered from the US Robotics SysOp program. We ran dual US Robotics Courier class 56k modems, flash ROM upgradable. I wired the extra phone line from the drop box to the bedroom with a staple gun and alot of cord tracing along the roof line, dropping from the attic, into the closet, through the wall, and terminating into a standard phone jack. Software was based upon Hermes II. We tried to keep the software running off of a memory disk to speed access, but frequently reverted to hard drive. Thanks to all the users who stopped by. If you have any thoughts or comments ask to have them appended to this description." - Brian Crews
510-268-0102 Berkeley, CA	Tiger Team Buddhist I.N., Tiger Team Buddhist Info, Tiger Team Buddhist Information Network, TigerTmBuddhist, Tiger Team Budehist Information Network (1992-1996)	Gary Ray, Gary Ray, Jeff Macko	Wildcat , WildCat 4
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Berkeley, California since 06/92. Sysop: Gary Ray, Jeff Macko. Using WildCat 3.91 with 6 lines on MS-DOS 8088 with 2000 MB storage. Zoom at 14400 bps. No fee. America's Buddhist Online Service. Buddhist conferences, texts, translations, GIF artwork, programs and national event listings. BodhiNet & UseNet conferences, INTERNET e-mail. Connect with BUDDHIST MASTERS, monks/nuns, scholars and lay practitioners.
510-276-3822 San Lorenzo, CA	POX (1991-1993)	Rich Stephenson	QBBS
	"CP/M ZCPR3 files, message board. Ran on Kaypro 10 with a modified ZCPR3 operating system and a 10 meg hard drive." - Rich Stephenson
510-339-1045 OAKLAND, CA	Bay List,!, Bay List BBS (1992-1996)	Julie Mcgrew	Wildcat
	List of BBS List Keepers: San Francisco Area 408/415/510/Julie McGrew
510-426-0470 Pleasanton, CA,	161 Echo Hub, ImagiNET, Pleasanton Hub, Records Department, Records Dept , Records Dept BBS, SF EAST BAY, The Records Department (1983-2002)	Bill McCauley	TBBS , TBBS Multiline
	"In almost 19 years of operation, this BBS handled over 753,000 calls, uncounted millions of pieces of echomail and was one of the first BBS systems anywhere with a live TCP/IP connection to the Internet. (As well as an earlier UUCP connection.) At it's peak, the BBS had 18 incoming lines and a subscriber base of thousands. The BBS was a fun and lively community with a little something for everyone." - Bill McCauley
510-426-6962 Pleasanton, CA	ARCH-VILE'S DOMAIN BBS (1995)	Arch-Vile	Renegade BBS
	ARCH-VILE'S DOMAIN BBS, 510.426.6962. Pleasanton, CA. Sysop; Arch-Vile, using Renegades BBS. 28.8 access. Doom 2 and Heretic wads and utilities. Dn-Line games, a small but friendly BBS available 24 hours. - BBS Magazine October 1995
510-429-9989 Union City, CA	Dimension 99 (1993-1995)	Tim Campbell - Alison Campbell	FidoNet
	"This was a teen oriented board that participated in the FIDONET experience. We had echos and games for the teens only. A family friendly board so my daughter could communicate with the world." - Tim Campbell
510-462-9752 Pleasanton, Ca	Dragnet, Jester's Realm, The Writer's Block (1986-1991)	Silver Dragon, Giggler, The Professor, Cassandra	Custom WWIV
	"One of the few systems with an internet news feed/email. addressed with woodowl!theblock!username@llnl.gov." "What began as a single BBS in 1986 (The Jester's Realm), expanded to 3 unique BBSs by 1988. The systems featured games, chat, text files and downloads. They also had local and shared forums and e-mail that were networked by nightly dumps between the 3 systems, using the ImagiNET network created especially for these 3 BBSs. ImagiNET eventually fed other local systems. This network of BBSs was also uniquely connected to the Internet, providing e-mail and news feeds through a hub at LLNL." - Diana
510-532-6248 OAKLAND, CA	Baby Brain, Babybrain (1992-1994)	Walter Alter	Mustang
	"BBS was run from converted furniture factory artist loft on Fruitvale Ave., Oakland, CA, near Fruitvale Bart Station. BBS was running Mustang BBS software with Dos on IBM 286 box with 1200 baud modem. Thanks for keeping the memory alive." - Walter Alter
510-596-9977 OAKLAND, CA	CALIFORNIA INTERNET (1995)
	CALIFORNIA INTERNET 510.596.9977 Telnet california.com. We have over 7.000 game files, over 12,000 shareware files, California Wine Online, shopping, public access real estate, cruise only travel agency, custom forums, parapsychology online, live chat, multiplayer games including DOOM. Rip graphics plus more. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 CALIFORNIA INTERNET 510.596.9977 Telnet california.com. We have over 7,000 game files, over 12,000 sharev/are files. California Wine Online, shopping, public access real estate, cruise only travel agency, custom forums, parapsychology online, live chat, multiplayer games including DOOM. Rip graphics plus more. - BBS Magazine October 1995
510-609-1123 Concord, CA	The GIFt Shop Image Center (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: World reknown images. Largest, most up-to-date GIF file library. 50 Gigs online. FREE downloads on first call. home of the PET, EAST, DARK, DCUP, and GSGUY gifs. Straight & Gay users welcomed. To get the best images in the world, you just need to dial the right numbers. Visa MC Discover. Free sample GIFs and utilities.
510-656-0442 FREMONT, CA	Cheetah Online (1995-1998)	Gary Robson	Wildcat
	Technical support and customer chat for Cheetah Systems, Inc.
510-672-1274 Concord, CA	The CompuShare Network BBS (1992-1994)	Patrick Carroll, Brett Burnes	VirtualBBS
	"Ran on a 286 Intel CPU, EGA display, 40MB hard drive, MSDOS 5.0 and then 6.x (and all of the various versions and patches Microsoft came out with during the drive compression hoopla days), ran over a MosesLAN network to my other computer in my bedroom. Computer was located in my parent's garage. Ran Wildcat for awhile in the beginning with FrontDoor. BBS held all kinds of files, shareware, freeware, etc." - Patrick Carroll
510-676-2919 Concord, CA	Worldview, WorldView BBS, Worldview BBS (1992-1994)	Bill Gram-Reefer	TeleFinder
	Reformed Protestant Topics; Telefinder Host
510-682-7006 SAN FRANCISO OA, CA	T.A.P., The Accipiter Project (T.A.P) (1991-1993)	The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing	WWIV
	"This BBS started out in the late 80's early 90's as The MicroLine BBS. After that it enjoyed other names such as The Klone Xone, BARGLE, and more. It was a constant evolution that pissed most people off. It is still running to this date under Permanent Waves (bbs.permethius.com) I took a year or two off in the mid-90's but have been back in the same on again-off again fashion ever since. The BBS was/is located in the East (S.F.)Bay Area city of Concord and has the same dialup number (925) Which will be back online soon. I ran just about every BBS software created and even tried to make a few of my own. My BBS was not known for having a large user base, due to my love of expermenting with different BBS software packages."
510-704-1058 Berkeley, CA	HoloNet (1992-1995)	Information Access Technologies, Inc.
	National Access,INTERNET,USENET,CHAT,GIFS,FILES
510-704-1472 Berkeley, CA	Genesis BBS (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: The Small & Home Business Support System! 5+ Gigs shareware, Internet e-mail & newsgroups, many local forums to help you start or run your business, daily news, Electronic Business Yellow Pages, Special interest videos & CD-Roms, and much, much more.
510-724-7123 Pinole, CA	Club California (1993-1994)	Joseph Miller
	"At one time this BBS had as many as 15 lines. It was hosted on an Amiga 3000. It was a chat/message/file up/download BBS. They also had an internet email feed. Later on they were able to do telnet and ftp, but not at any great speeds since they were limited by dial up speeds." - SargenW
510-736-8198 Danville, CA	Second Foundation (1992-1995)	Anirvan Chatterjee	Hermes II
	"A one-line politics/scifi discussion oriented BBS, running off a Mac IIcx. Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) was an acquaintance who used to live in the area; I remember him dialing in, and taking part in the Dilbert board." - Anirvan Chatterjee
510-736-8343 SAN FRANCISCO, CA	Windows On-Line (tm), Windows Online IDS, Windows OnLine(tm) IDS, WindowsOnline, WindowsOnline(tm, WINDOWS ONLINE (1991-1996)	Frank Mahaney	PCBoard , PCBoard vl4.5a
	WINDOWS ONLINE, Your best source for Windows files, 1 700+ Win3 Files, over 7000 total. Featuring 25 new files per day, WOL News, Windows Tips, Commercial and Shareware reviews, Staff writers. 9 lines with USR D/S and CompuCom modems, PCBoard vl4.5a. Call Today (510) 736-8343.
510-778-2722 Antioch, CA	Antioch District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
510-799-9180 Rodeo, CA	Ferrari's Pit Stop (1993-1995)	Ferrari	ViSiON/2 0.72 & 0.84b
	"I ran this board while I was in the middle of high school. I can't remember the exact years but probably 1993-1995. It normally had about 50 registered users of which maybe about a dozen would call regularly. I took it down after a bit and put it back up as FPS2 but never drew ansi so it remained FPS. Before it went down, I had LoRD and Tradewars 2002 running. I had also made a few real life friends from running the board and met a few other people. I still own the 486dlc/33 and 486dx/2 66 that it ran on. The upgrade to the Intel processor cost $250 for the CPU alone. Today the computer hardware has virtually no value at all and I still have it in parts in a drawer at home and believe it will still work. This board used a 14.4 baud Zoltrix internal ISA modem." - Ferrari
510-823-4888 San Jose, CA	PACIFIC BELL (1995)
	ISDN Line
510-829-0981 San Ramon, CA	5:30 Departure (1991-1993)	Andrew Cohen	Hermes
	"I was 13 when I began the 5:30 Departure. Now, 15 years later - I feel like I was a part of the internet in it's infancy. I used to run Tabby with Hermes on my Macintosh. Then, I was a die hard Mac fan, but have since switched to PC. I remember getting the sysop deal through USRobotics - that 14.4k was the ferrari back then, and it was such a steal too at only $600! I'm now a die hard programmer and have since had the oppurtunity to be a sys admin at a few companies, both volunteer and otherwise. Thank you all who supported my generation back then. At such a young age - I never envisioned the power of such humble beginnings. I want to spend a special thanks to Euborn Chiu, Thomas Edrington (sysop of The Other Side), and Mike Folkes (my guru back then). My mentor - Bill McCauley who ran the Records Dept. deserves many congratulations at the success of his bbs and the strength of his character. Thank you all." - Andrew Cohen
510-829-6062 Dublin, CA	ATT-PAC (1988-1997)	Young&Gardner, Randy Young	Auntie, Auntie BBS
	"This started out on an old XT, running DOS and a single node, 2400 bps Hayes modem. Through a number of upgrades it ended up a multi-node system (510-833-7274 was the second line) with OS/2 as the OS, still running Auntie-BBS software and one Hayes 28000 bps modem and one USR 28000 bps modem. This was one of the first systems to over Zmodem for file transfers. My site was the first new system running Auntie, after I had convinced Wes Meier to let others run his home brew BBS software. Mostly a technical system, very few games on the board. Many utilities which I did reviews on and had those posted in a bulletin you could read from the main menu page. I ran it until I retired from Pacific Bell and moved to Olympia, WA in October of 1997. The old system still resides on my old 486 and I boot it up occasionally just to bring back memories." - Randy Young
510-829-7627 San Ramon, CA	Easy Access BBS, EASY ACCESS BBS (1985-1996)	Tony Waddell	PCBoard , PCBoard 14.5a
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: San Ramon, California since 05/85. Sysop: Tony Waddell. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 1000 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. $5.00 Monthly fee. Free access to Internet e-mail. Free access to Usenet. Thousands of Win, WinNT, DOS & OS2 Files. Adult GIFs, games, utilities, free access and low-cost memberships. Call today. 200 Free subscriptions to be given away. EASY ACCESS BBS (510) 829-7627 San Ramon, California since 1985. Sysop, Tony Waddell. Using PCBoard 14.5a on MS-DOS 80486, 2 lines including Hayes Ultra96. Free access plus subscriptions for $4.00 per month. Featuring the latest in MS-DOS and MS-Windows shareware. Access to 130+ SmartNet Conferences.
510-834-2636 Oakland, CA	Oakland USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
510-837-6029 Danville, CA	Armageddon BBS (1993-1995)	Eryk Bateman	VBBS
	"I was 12 years old when i started running the bbs out of my room on a 286 10mhz machine with a 20 meg hardrive running VBBS on a 14.4 modem. I made many modifications to the source code (written in virtual basic) and ran MANY online games (like, 50 or something). The BBS eventually shut down because I grew up a bit and didn't have time to keep it running smoothly." - Eryk Bateman
510-849-2684 Berkeley, CA	Planet BMUG, BMUG BBS (1992-1999)	Berkeley Macintosh Users Group	First Class
	Support for Macintosh owners - files - conferences
510-849-2688 Berkeley, CA	Pirate's Hollow (1989-1993)	Powerful Paul	TAGS, T.A.G.S.
	"Originally sysop'ed by Doctor Murdock in Richmond." - Powerful Paul
510-849-3945 Berkeley, CA	Reverend Atman's, the ashram, Reverend Atman's Ashram & Wild Safari (1990-1995)	Jerry Leach	VBBS, GBBS
	"Raytracing software, Povray, Adobe bootlegs, Fractint, Anything neato. Doom downloads, Photoshop 1.0 on floppy disk images, a few Linux distros, Slackware, Yggdrasill. actual name Reverend Atman's Ashram & Wild Safari. Owned the domain name ashram.com for a couple years. Offered free email and Usenet message bases. Started on Apple IIc, ended up on 30386 windows box."
510-886-6513 Castro Valley, CA	Exodus BBS (1995-1997)	fuzz	Renegade
	"Single-node board Exodus BBS began life as a way for local friends (who were generally too young to drive) to easily communicate. Its most celebrated feature was an extremely active message board, which on two occasions produced over 1100 messages in one day. Sysop was fuzz, a teenager with a phone line to waste. Co-sysops were Jethrow Q and *8), who acted as moderators of boards and users, respectively. Excellent ANSI art was provided by a teen from Fremont, and sysop edits of the regular features provided a truly unique BBS experience. Toward the end of its days it became something of a game level exchange -- the most meaningful files were things like Doom PWADs, QuakeC, and other similar mods. Shut down in 1997 after the responsibility of taking care of a BBS became too much for the sysops, who were all on their way to college." - Fuzz
510-895-1785 San Leandro, CA	San Leandro USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
510-933-9676 FREMONT-NEWARK: OLI, CA	DesignLink (1994)	Ash Mehta	FirstClass
	"Was a BBS for graphic designers, etc." - Ash Mehta
510-934-5041 Pleasant Hill, CA	Contra Costa County Office (1993)
	FrEdMail System
510-939-8344 Walnut Creek, CA	The Warped, The Warped BBS, Warped (1992-1996)	Max Baker (Sir Real)	WWIV , WWIV421A, WWIV - Highly Modded
	"I ran this board from a mishmash of home-made computers and leftover parts from the ages of 13-17. The board started w/ a 386-DX40 and a 14.4k modem and ended up running NetWare Light and Desqview over a coax network to a variety of cobbled up machines and my pride and joy : an external Practical Peripherals 28.8 LCD modem. I once bought a 500Mb drive for $1/MB ! I still have the board running on a big full-tower machine in the closet that I never turn on. The board was a hub for many local boards on a variety of Networks such as WWIVNet, ICENet, WWIVLink, WarpNet and others. I helped start many local boards, setting people up with the WWIV source code and a C compiler and showing them how to 'mod' it, and then having them network to me. At peak usage The Warped had over 400 users, at least half of which were active. At the ripe age of 16 I called up the cable company and got rights to run a 5-pair through their conduit and then had the phone company drop me a few more lines. A second phone line was added (510-906-WARP) for users who donated and for network traffic when the main line was 95% busy and would register 60+ calls a day." - Max Baker (Sir Real)
512-241-8358 AUSTIN FIRESIDE, TX	Treasure Island (1994-1995)	James Cordani
	ListKeeper: Corpus Christi
512-243-0077 AUSTIN CREEDMOO, TX	Camel's Back BBS, The Camel's Back, Camel 's Back BBS (1992-1996)	John Foster	R A
	ListKeeper: Austin Area BBS List AC 512
512-255-6805 Austin Round Ro, TX	Castle Treldon, NetWork 23, Network 23 (1991-1993)	Nicodemus-ratt	B-Ware, Wildcat
	"NetWork 23 was written in IBM basic and compiled to run (coustom code) Castle Treldon, and ran Wildcat." - Suzanu NoMiko
512-258-9553 AUSTIN JOLLYVIL, TX	-=ACE*BBS=-, Ace, ACE BBS, -=ACE*BBS=- (1992-1994)		WWIV
	List of BBS List Keepers: Austin Area BBS List AC 512/Gordon L. Garlan
512-263-2293 Austin, Texas,	Round Table, The Round Table (1993-1996)	King Arthur, Dragon Fighter, & Silver Fox	VBBS
	"Hey buddy I was looking at your webpage textfiles.com and saw my old BBS on there. (Round Table BBS 512-263-2293) Looking back at a couple middle school kids (My little bro was in elementary) we had a pretty kick-ass BBS! We didn't realize it at the time but it was our first REAL look into the business world and I feel like we helped invent the internet. (Along with Al Gore) We had multiple lines which allowed users to play multi-player games and interact with each-other. Users would send us money and modems to help us expand our peon empire. (It was pretty cool!) Anyways the Sysops of The Round Table were; Nick Spannaus, Seth Spannaus, and Matt Spannaus. We were pretty proud of our little vbbs and had about 200 users a day! I wish 200 users would visit my webpage today!!!" - Matt Spannaus
512-285-5028 Elgin, TX	Colorama HQ, Game Street BBS, GameST, GameSt,windows (1982-1996)	Peter Banz	Wildcat , Colorama
	"We wrote the Colorama BBS software and sold about 500 copies world wide. We offered the first color graphics available on any online system (Featured in Texas Monthly in 1983)." - Peter Banz
512-302-0223 Austin, TX	Amer. Atheists, American Atheists OnLine, American Atheist Online Sv, AMERICAN ATHEISTS ONLINE (1994-1996)	R Murray-O'Hair	Wildcat
	AMERICAN ATHEISTS ONLINE 512.302.0223, Resources and information for Atheists. Files on Atheist thought and history, religion, state/church separation, the religious right. Home of the echo TheisLWatch. Sponsored by American Atheists, P0 Box 21 17, Austin TX 78768. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 AMERICAN ATHEISTS ONLINE 512,302,0223, Resources and information for Atheists. Files on Atheist thought and history, religion, state/church separation, the religious right. Home of the echo Theist_Watch. Sponsored by American Atheists, PO Box 2117. Austin TX 78768. - BBS Magazine October 1995
512-448-3562 AUSTIN HICKORY, TX	After Hours ln 1-18, After Hours BBS (1992-1993)	Tombob	MBBS, Major
	2400 bps
512-453-3046 Austin, Tx	The Machine, W.o.W. (1983-1988)	Bill Mobley	Atari 800/ MPP1000c/HomeBrew BBS in DOS, Atari ST emuIBM running TBBS
	"My first BBS when I was 15, was mainly Phrack and Phreaking files." - Bill Mobley
512-454-6026 Austin, TX	The Computer Exchange (1982-1987)	Charles Lancaster	TBBS
	"Mainly tech talk, but a powerful system at the time with 60Meg space." - Bill Mobley
512-459-1088 Austin, TX	Klingon Empire, Klingon Empire BBS (1986-1996)	B0b OM Mosley	WWIV, WWIV 4.xx
	"One of Central Texas' first and longest-running Bulletin Board Systems, KE was extremely popular as one of the few systems in the 512 AC, a BBS where Freedom of Speech was *guaranteed*. It was also one of the first local BBS to feature a WWIVNet-Usenet gateway -- before Cat Yronwode caused the UTEXAS gateway to be shut down! -- and was a popular spot for young and old alike to speak their minds without retribution from a power-tripping sysop. KE ran exactly ten years, from 11/1/86 to 11/1/96, with OM shutting down the system in order to dedicate his BBS lines to Internet access for his business. Within two years most BBS in Central Texas were also gone, so KE went out at the top of its game!" - Bob Mosley
512-459-3351 AUSTIN HOMESTEA, TX	Connect America, CONNECT AMERICA (1992-1994)		Wild Cat
	CONNECT AMERICA — Big, Fast, Friendly.... 5 Gigs + IBM/ Amiga/Mac, PC-Pursuitable, Fred Fish Disks, 10 Lines, 100+ Conferences, 50+ Games, USAToday, CDRoms, Gifs, Adult 1-512-459-3351, CompuCom's,HST, V.32
512-471-9420 Austin, TX	UT Micom Network, UT Library Online Catalog (1991-1993)	University of Texas at Austin	DECnet
	Online Library Card Catalog Listing 3.5 million entries
512-472-1921 Austin, TX	WoW! Models Online (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: WoW! Pictures world famous glamour models are now online. Our studio produces all original, high-resolution JPEGs of our beautiful models. Send private email and chat with them! Attention Sysops: our photographs have millions of downloads and we create new material all the time. Internet using FirstClass Client 198.6.201.230 port 3004.
512-592-1283 Kingsville, TX	The Decal BBS (1996-1998)	Darrel Decal	WWIV
	"The Decal BBS ran WWIV software written and authored by Wayne Bell who ran a bbs called Amber in CA. I purchased WWIV BBS software due to it was a good way to learn to alter source code in C++. I can recall alot of recompiles with Turbo C++ trying to make The Decal BBS looking different than most others. The Decal BBS was connected to WWIVnet and Fidonet for the purposes of email users of other boards and Group Message boards. I initally started the BBS under another name can't seem to recall what I called it around 1993-1995 then changed the name to The Decal BBS between 1996-1998. Keep in mind these are the years where modem baud rates of 1200,2400,9600,14440, 28800 then finally 56K modems finally emerged. I met many people online through my BBS and exchanged many files with other BBS's mainly programs and some adult files for those late night callers. What was very popular back then was JPG, GIF and .MOV files of what I rather not say, but I assure you all were adults. The other popular thing was Online games to competing with other users for the highest score in games such as the Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD)it was fun operating a BBS. Thanks for the add on the list brings back memories." - Darrel Decal
512-620-1019 AUSTIN (CHOICEC, TX	Quark, QUARK BBS (1990-1992)	Bryan Curry
	"Wow, I was surprised when someone showed this list to me. It brings back great memories. I cut my computer teeth on this BBS and have not stopped learning since. This BBS started on a Tandy 1000 SL/2 6MHz box that was upgraded to 640K of RAM and 1200baud internal CompuAdd modem. It ended up on a homebuilt 286 with 1MB of RAM a hodgepodge of tiny hard drives and a full height 40MB ESDI drive rigged up externally using an old shelled out IBM PCJunior as an external hard drive chassis. That drive sounded like a DC10 when it was starting up... I got a half price SysOp deal on an external 9600Baud HST USrobotics modem for ONLY $450. I was living large... I even had to upgrade the serial port UART chipset to handle that blazing speed.... I ran this BBS on a CELL PHONE. Since New Braunfels was small and the large city of San Antonio was next door but a long distance call I had a problem. I discovered that the newly introduced cellular bag phones came with a local number for both New Braunfels and San Antonio. I also found that if you put the cell phone on "unconditional call forwarding", that it incurred zero air time. I put the cell on "unconditional call forwarding" to my data line number, threw the cell into the closet, then published the cell's San Antonio number in San Antonio. It worked GREAT. I was a FIDO hub since I was the only New Braunfels area BBS that could handle the long distance. I received mail that was pushed from the main San Antonio mail node then I tossed it to 4 other local BBS's and allowed 2 other small town BBS's call and poll for mail (long distance on their nickel). My BBS was Wildcat! My Fido mail tosser was D'Bridge. D'Bridge would not talk to Wildcat!, so I also had to run a QuickBBS shell to be middleman mail tosser between Wildcat! and D'Bridge. We had quite a few door games (some of which I just now found licenses for in my files....), and an active FIDOnet mail system. We did have some shareware files for download and accepted legal uploads but I thought watching files transferring was boring so I tried to keep doors and mail as our main thing to do.. I spent an amazing amount of time on massive conference calls with other SysOps using three way calling (everyone had it and linked in another sysop when called). We'd get as many as 10 to 12 SysOps on a single call and keep it going for hours while playing around with our systems. Those were the days..." - Brian Curry
512-641-6813 San Antonio, TX	Cutting Edge, The Cutting Edge (1987-1989)	Greg Bassett	GT-Powercom
	"Thanks for keeping this list. I read about your documentary and I'm anxious to see it. I ran a GT-Powercomm BBS back in my 'larval stage' in computers. I learned an awful lot about technology, telecom, e-mail and customer service during the time I ran the board. It brought back a lot of fond memories for me seeing this listed." - Greg Bassett
512-648-3874 San Antonio, TX	The X-Factor BBS, X-Factor (1991-1995)	Joe Pyland	Searchlight , SuperBBS, EzCOM
	"The X-Factor Nodes 1 and 2 are public Beta test sites for Austrilian Peter Davie's EzyCOM. The X-Factor focus is mainly on netmail distributrion. ANSI based online gaming, message boards, and file downloads via a state of the art pioneer 6-CD changer. Allowing connection speeds from 1200 -14400 baud. 210-648-3874 (Node1) 210-648-3875 (Node2)" - Joe Pyland
512-657-0779 San Antonio, TX	Appleseed ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
512-707-3167 AUSTIN HICKORY, TX	After Hours ln19-24, After Hours BBS (1993)
	14.4 bps
512-776-2330 Ingleside, TX	The UnderGround (1994-1996)	Jason Rosalez	Wildcat!, ViSiON-X
	"I have plenty of great memories from this time. I would like to give a shout out to Steven Wood, Chris Cashman, James Wehmeyer, and Vernon Anderson for all the great times we had during the BBS days." - Jason Rosalez
512-776-7210 Ingleside, TX	The World of Illusions (1996-2000)	Steven Wood, Jason Rosalez	TriBBS, WildCat!
	"I was the SysOp for World of Illusions......awesome site you have....just wanted to make sure you had correct info. :) Also had 2 additional nodes Node 2 Phone Number: 512-776-9612 Node 3: 512-776-0507. SysOp: Steven Wood, Co-SysOp: Jason Rosalez. 1996-1997: WildCat! 1998-2000: TriBBS. Just FYI! Thanks!" - Steven Wood
512-778-6246 Liberty Hill, TX	Auto Control BBS, The Auto Control, The LH Express (1988-1996)	Ray Cole	QBBS, Wildcat, RemoteAccess, SuperBBS
	"Mostly just updating the software entry. This is a really impressive list you've got. Brings back a ton of memories. Anyway, additional info: Home of ACFiles, a BBS file transfer program. First known BBS in Liberty Hill. FidoNet / FileBone membership. Originally ran on 286 machine, ended on a 386 under OS/2. Files were stored on an optical WORM drive." - Ray Cole
512-779-8311 Austin, Texas	Austin Software Exchange BBS (1989-1997)	Tim Garland	QBBS, Fido, Forum-PC
	"BBS was also known as ASE BBS. For a time being, was one of the first in Austin to utilize ISDN to provide highspeed access to it's users." - Tim Garland
512-834-9016 Austin, TX	Austin Yacht Club (AYC) (1983-1991)	SysOp: James T. Kirk (JTK) Co-SysOps: Tremain and Byte Myte
	"The Austin Yacht Club was one of the first theme-oriented boards. It went up in Austin, Texas on Halloween of 1983 after a year-long stint as 'The Black Cloud' BBS (part of a network of 'elemental' BBSes that never went anywhere). The AYC included the following features: * Message Bases that were unlocked as the user's contribution escalated (as noted and granted by the SysOp and Co-SysOp). * A full D&D-type 100 x 100 room/level dungeon where users could fight other users who had logged off in a certain location - or monsters or whatenot. * A full casino (blackjack, roulettte, poker, baccarat, etc.) to earn money for the Dungeon. * A hacking game (which granted access to some of the more nefarious message bases for which the AYC was famous in certain circles). * Text files on the origin of computers, BBS-lore and various amusing standards. * Austin BBS list rigorously maintained for accuracy at the time. * Macros, text-wrap in the message bases and other innovations for the time. It was taken over by Shiva of SMOF in 1989 (the first sci-fi fan site) when the SysOp, JTK, moved out of the country. It permanently went down a year and 1/2 later after Shiva's house was hit by lightning and the Apple //e fried. The site had two main audiences: * people who were into conversation * people who were into hacking/cracking/piracy/phreaking/etc. The former group was not aware of the latter due to the access restrictions." - James T. Kirk
512-837-0953 Austin, Texas	Elgin Area, Jim Net, JimNet , Jimnet BBS, JimNet UPN:30220, Klone d'Jour, TX Capitol City, Vacant Hub5000 (1982-1999)	Jim Westbrook, Not Yet Huh, Vacant Hub#2, WA5VLZ?	QuickBBS , QkBBS
	"FidoNet 1:382/29.0. FidoNet mail hub. FidoNet files hub. TIPC download area. Extensive MS-DOS utilities collection. Originally ran RBBS-PC (1982-1985) Changed to QuickBBS (1985). Ran on DOS 6.22 and Novell Netware Lite. Sysop moderated FidoNet QuickBBS echomail 1986-1999. Sysop moderated FidoNet RTKBA echomail 1996-1999. Sysop was Pres. of Central Texas Sysop Assn. 1988 and 1994" - Jim Westbrook
512-850-8255 CORPUS CHRISTI, TX	C.C. ONLINE, Corpus Christi Online, CORPUS CHRISTI ONLINE (1994-1996)		TBBS
	CORPUS CHRISTI ONLINE 512,850.8255, Real Estate w/photo5, business, international trade. fed/state/local jobs. Largest info source for south Texas includes business directories, Free trade news, PC Magazine, classified ads. SIGs, Nafta files. Limited free access to jobs and real estate. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
512-852-8194 SMITHVILLE, TX	Amsat RBBS
	For amateur radio operators. Orbital elements for amateur satellites/space shuttles. Non-radio operators welcome.
512-873-1900 Austin, TX	Actual Reality (1993-1995)	David Slimp (Rock)	Major BBS
	"I was the Sysop of Actual Reality BBS which ran in Austin from Jun 1993 to Nov 1995. We ran Galacticom's Major BBS software, and had 26 incoming lines. I also ran the "Amber BBS" and "Gator Park" BBS from 1991-1993, which I see you have listed too." - David Slimp
513-236-1229 CINCINNATI, OH	J&J BB, J&J's, J&J's BBS 3 (1990-1995)	Joe Caplinger, JoeCaplinger, Joseph Caplinger & Son	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Selected BBS
513-276-4158 CINCINNATI, OH	Stairway to Heaven, Star Base, STarbase ST (1990-1995)	Aaron Freed	ExpressBBS, SuperBBS
	"One of three BBSes that was an Atari ST Board. Later switched to an IBM. Was one of the co-founders of a packetmail network called TeenNet. Was affiliated with FidoNet, SigNet, and some other small packet networks. Trafficked the best online games such as Axolotl Football." - Aaron Freed
513-323-6009 Springfield, OH	James' BBS (1982-1995)	James Marous	Wildcat
	"James is still around, http://www.erinet.com/jamesm" - James Marous
513-424-1474 Middletown, OH	SHADOWlandS (1990-2002)	Mike Huddleson
	"BBS is still up and running.. quite possiably the longest running BBS in the 5i3 area.. however its Telnet only now." - Mike Huddleson
513-444-4929 Mt. Orab, OH	CommLink (1987-1999)	Gordon Duncan	GT Power, RemoteAccess
	"CommLink started out with Searchlight BBS but soon switched through several other software packages. It next ran GTPower version 12 through 19, and after GT Power support went away it went to RemoteAccess as HIGHWAY BBS (444-4929). It was also in the 937-446-xxxx exchange as CommLink after Verizon split the 513 area code. The bbs also ran as a full time telnet board from late 2000 to mid 2001 using Synchronet software at TheOldPC.Net." - Gordon Duncan
513-574-7805 Cheviot, OH,	Golden Oldies (1993-1994)	James R. Baird	GTPower
	"Previously, James ran The Wall BBS using CoBBS on a CoCo (TRS-80 Color Computer)." - John Eicher
513-624-0552 Cincinnati, OH	ACS Inc Online, ACS Onl,autos , Automobile Consumer Services (1990-1996)	Tarry Shebesta, Automobile Consumer Services Inc.	TBBS
	New Car Pricing Reports - User Card Value Reports
513-662-9757 Westwood, OH,	The Information Exchange (1993-1994)	John and Michelle Eicher	GTPower
	"John also ran an earlier board from Delhi, OH called The Sewer. It was CoBBS on a CoCo (TRS-80 Color Computer)." - John Eicher
513-732-6306 Batavia, OH	Ladmo's Last Resort (1993-1994)	Scott Ladrigan	Spitfire BBS 3.6
	My brother in law (TowneHouse BBS) and I went to a spitfire convention in Des Moines in 93 I think it was. Got drunk with a lot of other sysops and complained about the scourge of the earth. Windows! - Scott Ladrigan
513-746-4532 FRANKLIN, OH	Mystic Places, MYSTIC PLACES (1992-1995)	Bassmaster
	Vertigo Member BBS
513-751-9854 Cincinnati, OH	GENEALOGY CONNECTION (1992)	Benjamin Randolph
	GENEALOGY CONNECTION, Cincinnati, OH. Sysop, Benjamin Randolph, featuring the latest in MS-DOS genealogy shareware and offering 15 international genealogy conferences. 24 hours/day. 513/751-9854. $30.00 per year.
513-861-7170 AVONDALE, OH	Overdose, Prime Time (1992)	Dr. Feelgood , Rich & Dennis
	Paradise Member BBS Independent Member BBS
514-332-8273 Montreal, Quebec	The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (1995-1998)	HardDisk of RiSC	Renegade BBS
	"This used to be a "warez" bbs where pirated software was traded via a ratio system. HSLink protocol was used since it allowed both uploading and downloading at the same time. This bbs was run by an Egyptian, not just Americans had the knowledge and power hehe ;) Approx number of users were about 50-70 There was a war between this bbs and a rival bbs in the area, and the sysop of the other bbs tried to shut this bbs down by spreading rumors that HardDisk was an RCMP officer and The Light At The End Of The Tunnel was said to be a ruse to catch users dealing in pirated material. A user called "Green Merlin" was a member of a demo scene and wrote a demo file and uploaded it to many boards and msg'd it to TLATEOTT users to show good faith and to prove the bbs wasnt run by RCMPs. The board ended 1998 because HD (18 years old at the time)had to go back to his home country Egypt due to family problems between his mom and dad." - The Hard Disk
514-337-8844 Montreal, QC	Eagle-Eyes' Emporium (1989-1996)	Derek Fong	AppleNET
	"It ran on a system called AppleNET, a BBS program I wrote for the Apple II that was initially based in AppleSoft BASIC and, later, METAL. It ran off FirstClass for the last two years of its existence." - Derek Fong
514-345-8654 Mount Royal, Quebec	!?, Pinnacle Software (1989-1995)
	Product: Sapphire
514-354-9078 Montreal, Quebec	Hydromet (1986-2000)	Bruce Wilson, Arsenio Novo	RA (remote access)
	"4 nodes messages doors chat files and always no fee" - Bruce Wilson
514-374-4118 MONTREAL, CANADA	Nashtip BBS, Thunder Zone (1988-1995)	Patrick Bernier
	Now located at www.tzone.org.
514-441-0642 St-Bruno, qc	Mount Olympia (1993-1995)	Zeus (mortal cyclone)	Pc Board
	"I started my own bbs at the age of 14. I worked hard in the summer to pay me a 14.4 kps modem witch was fast in 1993. I had lot of fun running my own telephone line at 14 y old. Later I moved to Quebec city (418) and opened a new 2-nodes system and becomed one of the fastest warez board in the 418." - Mortal Cyclone
514-481-5440 Montreal, QC	Crazy Al's Outhouse (1985-1995)	-= Crazy AL =-	GBBS PRO
	"Crazy AL's Outhouse, also known as C.A.O., originally came to life as a BBS (Bulletin Board Service) in 1989 and ran until 1995. With over 20 bulletin boards, a dozen or so games, adeventures, and all kinds of quirky amusement, C.A.O. was ranked within the top 3 in Montreal and top 20 across Canada in Onset Magazine Vol. 1 Issue 5. Unfortunately, due to the internet's gradual yet rapid migration, the world of the BBS became a weak industry eventually dieing out. After all, who wants to dial into a computer where you find no one else there than yourself. On the other hand, dialing into a BBS was something everyone looked forward to, anxious to find out what there was of new since their last call: new messages, game score status in any participation, or news of whatever nature. Computer communication was something special and not taken for granted as it is today. Too bad it's gone, but it will remain a page in our history." - Crazy Al
514-486-8959 Montreal, PQ	Quebec Online, MAC-LINK (1992-1994)	Louise Nadon, Mark Smith
	Macintosh Oriented Support BBS - 6 Lines - Infomat/BIX
514-488-0018 Montreal, Qc	Digital Cafe (1993-1997)	Noah Gitelman, Shawn Mativetsky	Renegade
	"Interesting site! Your current listing for the Digital Cafe in Montreal (514)is correct, but incomplete. After running the BBS from 1993 to 1996, I passed on the BBS to Noah Gitelman (whose name you have), who continued to run the BBS from 1996-1997. I was also a co-sysop of the Vanier BBS for a couple of years (1994-1995)." - Shawn Mativetsky
514-489-0445 MONTREAL, CANADA	XBR Communication (1995)
	Product: hi-BBS
514-597-2409 MONTREAL, CANADA	*S-TEK*, S-Tek, S-Tek (Gay & Lesbian BBS), S-TEK BBS (1990-2001)
	List of BBS List Keepers: List of Gay/Lesbian BBS/Eric Blair
514-622-4945 Laval, Quebec,	Super 88, Super 88 Enr. (1985-1990)	Francis Joannette	PC BOARD
	"The first BBS in Montreal to have a 2400 bauds modem in 1986." - Fracis Joannette
514-622-6024 Auteuil, Laval, Quebec	Super 88 Enr. (1985-1990)	Francis Joannette, Marc Mathieu	RBBS-PC, TurboBBS, PCBoard
	"We were amongst the first few to setup echo mail between systems and we also offered tons of Doors, including the famous TradeWars. We also had contacts with Estonia, which was rare in the 80's. We'd echo-mail once every month, month and a half. Around 300 users. The BBS was then sold, moved and renamed." - Marc Mathieu
514-623-7561 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, QC	SBE OAQ BBS (1989-1996)	Claude Frgeau, Claude Fregeau aechitect	several, Varies but mostly Wildcat.
	"This bulletin board system was the first attempt by the Ordre des Architectes du Quebec, (OAQ), to put together a virtual place where architects would be able to discuss projects, problems and solutions, via their modem. At that time, word processing was already well established for specification writing as well as the 16 construction divisions. The action was more toward drawing exchange files (mainly AutoCad *.dxf) and to standardize a set of layers so everyone could easily exchange a drawing with other architects or manufacturers or engineers. Being on a non watts line, the BBS was not easily reachable by architects outside the Montreal area. The BBS was finally closed with the explosive arrival of Internet, accessible from everywhere, and the OAQ decided to stop paying for the phone line. The BBS was solely and completely supported by Claude Fregeau Architect. He received a letter, a few years after, from the Bureau of the OAQ, as a grateful recognition." - Claude Fregea
514-624-5900 Lle Bizard, QUEBEC	Coder's Pixel (1994-2000)	Jean-Ren� Auger (aka: Cyri>< )
	"The BBS ran from 1994 to 2000 with 2 nodes. The BBS was mainly oriented towards programming and graphic art tools. Thanks for bringing back memories!" - Jean-Rene Auger
514-626-8668 Montreal, Quebec	United Alliance BBS, United Alliances BBS (1988-1999)	Eric Belec	Renegade, Renegale / E-BBS
	"United Alliances hosted several BBS software during the early 90's such as WWIV, Telegard, Renegade and E-BBS. It also was a place many BBS'er called home." Wintermute (Eric Belec) "Montreal, Quebec, Canada (April 20, 2008): United Alliances was born one winter night in January 1988. My father gave me an XT computer with my very first 1200 bps modem considered the standard way back when. I used up my personal phone line later on only to realise my personal life would be affected. Two months later, I invested in a phone line and ran my BBS under the name of Devil's Disciple ][ on Telegard 2.5G. In 1990, I decided to change the name to something more sophisticated and came up with ?United Alliances?. I later on installed and converted my user list to Renegade. I finally reached 500 users and opened my doors to hosting some of my Area Codes groups. In 1991, I hooked up with Paul and began writing E-BBS also known as Project Enigma. E-BBS was based on the famous forum code with hundreds of modifications and thousands of hour?s worth of work. My BBS was taken down in 1999. I've since then begun programming a new interface in attempt to revisiting my favourite hobby. Paul and I have since re-started project Enigma in 2003. April 2008 marks the month of our Pre-Beta Testing private release. You can visit us at: http://www.scodenet.com Would be nice to see some familiar faces. Cheers." - Eric Belec
514-630-7430 Beaconsfield, MONTREAL	Black Silver BBS (1992-1998)	Vic Olivier Labrosse	WWIV
	""It's a Franch BBS and at this time My brother have a bbs to, so we are making a network for Toronto to Sept-Ile. My brother was in toronto, Comucate to me and this other frand, and d'an to the reste on the network to Sept-Ile." - Vic
514-667-1617 Laval, QC	Eureka BBS (1988-2000)	Billy The Kid	Renegade
	"8 lines Multi-player support (Doom, Doom2, Heretic) Files/messages/Doors One of the first BBS to offer Internet access." - Billy the Kid
514-683-1765 ROXBORO, CANADA	Phonex BBS, PHONEX BBS (1990-1996)	Dr. Brain (Noel Jesuratnam)	Renegade
	BBS content: Games, GIF, Softwares, Educational tools, Message base, Live Chat, Classifieds, and more.
514-684-0015 Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC	Solar Eclipse (1994-1995)	Marcus Hamaker, Marcus Hamaker (Cyberman), Bryan Hamon (Monkey Boy)	Renegade
	"Shut down suddenly, unexpectedly and unplanned when the phone line was cut." - Bryan Hamon
514-684-4922 Roxboro, Quebec, CANADA	Fraternal Osborne Group, Ozzie's Fido, Ozzie's Fido (FOG-47) (1986-1996)	Rene Champagne	FidoNet
	FOG Remote System #47, PRASCA Member FOG Remote System #47, PRASCA Member
514-684-9045 Montreal, QC	Fluxland BBS (1993-1996)		Renegade
	"Fluxland was mostly a music themed BBS trading in .MOD, .IT and other tracked files. It was also WWHQ for Dynamic Noise: an art and tracking group." - Ice MC(2)
514-723-6029 Montreal, Qc	Concept Blazer, FidoNet Hub 167/200, NEC, NEC NET167, Ouest Quebec West NC (1993-2002)	Jesse Dooling	FidoNet, RemoteAccess, ELEBBS
	"I'm open since 1993. Only difference now is that I don't have any phone line for the BBS so all I do is NC and NEC for Fidonet in Montreal. But the system is still open for mail and file transfers." - Jesse Dooling
514-746-5604 Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, CAN	FLETS, FLETS BBS (1991-1997)	Charles Cordeau	PCBoard
	"100% French, several Doors, FidoNet, QuebecNet, FrancoNet, 4 lines with ringdown system. The BBS began with a 1200 baud modem, floppy drive and finally with 4 56k modems, 6 CD-ROM Drive and 2 hard disks SCSI 91 megs." - Charles Cordeau
514-931-8076 MONTREAL, CANADA	Dawson College (1993-1997)	Mark Karam, Julian Herten-Greavan, Julie Martin, Jonathan Knight	Renegade
	"Run at Dawson College. The Sysops changed as each graduated." - Julie Martin "While I was the SysOp of Dawson College BBS, I made some Radio Ads for our station to run. You can read some history and hear the ads at http://juliemartin.org/dawson/index.html." - Julie Martin
514-963-2318 Montral, Qubec,	L.U.C.I.D. (1991-1993)	Jacques Morel	WWiV
	"French, friendly BBS with some GTs, some doors such as Trade Wars, WWiV 4.21 completely modified and tweaked. Was on the Montreal WWiV BBS network in the 1992-1993." - J. Morel
514-964-1005 Terrebonne, QC	Deep Space Nine (was Star Base 4) (1991-1993)	Martin-Pierre Frenette	Telegard
	"It was a Star Trek themed BBS, with a mean game of Trade Wars with customized factions, each one having a planet reachable only via custom edited sectors. Originally called Star Base 4, it was renamed Deep Space Nine after the initial announcement of the future DS9 series, but the BBS was shut down before the DS9 premiere." - Martin-Pierre Frenette
514-964-5684 Terrebonne, Qc	4Ever's BBS (1999-2000)	Steve Rousseau (Didyman)	Renegade
	"FidoNet and Net4Ever, a lots of Doors and Warez." - Steve Rousseau
514-966-0697 Mascouche, QC	Crazy World BBS (1992-1997)	John F Kennedy, Setzer	Renegade 05-11
	"HQ of MegaNet Message Network Had over 50 doors. over 1000 user.. Was running only with 1 phone line but was busy 23hrs/24hrs." - John F. Kennedy
515-225-8496 DES MOINES, IA	Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek Software Technical Support, Buffalo Creek's BBS , Buffalo's Creek, BuffCrk, BuffCrk,hm Spitf, Spitfire Support And Files (1988-2004)	Mike Woltz	Spitfire
	Product: SpitFire BBS
515-245-9663 Des Moines, IA	WoodNet, WOODNET — THE WOODWORKERS BBS (1995-1996)	Gordon Gaippe	MajorBBS
	WOODNET — THE WOODWORKERS BBS 515.245.9663. New BBS devoted totally to woodworkers. Forums, teleconferencing, helpline, GIFs, project plans to download, databases of plans, techniques, tools, and sources. First month free. S1 9.95/6 months or S29.95/year for full access. Special forums for woodworking clubs. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
515-255-2601 DES MOINES, IA	Pirates Ship #1, PIRATE'S SHIP #1 (1992-1995)	The Skeleton
	Independent Member BBS
515-255-3212 DES MOINES, IA	Pirates Ship #2, PIRATE'S SHIP #2 (1992-1995)	The Skeleton
	Independent Member BBS
515-282-1915 Des Moines, IA	The Apple Hide-A-Way (1989-1998)	Scott Johnson	Warp Six
	"I'm located in Des Moines, Iowa. It ran from late 80s to mid 90s. It was mainly just a little local board. Very little file transfer action. Had a fairly active forum section and a few games, some of which I wrote. I had a trivia game that was kinda popular, and a never ending story that was pretty stupid but people kept on adding to it. It was just a text file that people would add one line at a time to once a day (per user)." "One thing that was a little different. one of the users on the Hide-A-Way decided to start his onw BBS running Warp Six and after about 6 months of late nights, his wife was ready to shoot him. Instead of shutting it down, we added it to my hardware and had a prompt for which BBS you wanted when it answered. Not multi-line, but multi-board. He was more able to resist the late nights when the computer wasn't humming away in the bedroom 24/7. ;) A compromise his wife could live with." - Scott Johnson
515-964-7401 Ankeny, IA	Prisoners Of Reality (1989-1996)	Night Stalker , Chad Kovac	CNET, Tempest, Ami-X
	LSD Member BBS. "I'm Chad.. I ran POR for several years, helped run about a dozen of the other's you have listed as well. Beta tested for CNET, Tempest and Ami-X. "Amiga 500 running 2 lines and 52 meg HD with 2.5 megs of ram (Supra 500xp drive). LSD US HQ for a short time. Started on a C64 and ended on the Amiga. Ah, memories ;)" - Chad Kovac
516-223-5180 NASZ 6, NY	SunShine II BBS (1988-1999)	Mark Gendell	Wildcat
	"Loved running a BBS. The had a life of its own. I would come home from school or work and find how many new callers I had and what kind of files were uploaded. I Had online games like tradewars up there too. I moved out of my parents house in may of 1998, the BBS computer had a modem problem and was not answering the phone for over a year before I shut the phone line. I still have that computer in tact and I would love to set it up again to take BBS calls again. If you were a SunShine II BBS user please feel free to email me at mgendell@hotmail.com" - Mark Gendell
516-271-5303 HUNTINGTON, NY	Long Island Exchange (1995)	Harold Stein
	ListKeeper: AC 516 Free Shareware BBS
516-273-8047 Brentwood, NY	Darren Stevens Agency Hotline (1991-1998)	Dane Lepson	PCBoard
	"Long Island's FIRST typesetting services bureau. we took text files transmitted to our pcboard bbs...and converted them to typeset output. this was BEFORE the LASER Printer and MAC were popular...we imported files into "PageMaker" before there was a version number...We were also a beta test site for Quark Xpress among others...."I told my partner about this thing called the internet...she thought I was crazy...and later divorced me...this was in the early '80's." - Dane Lepson
516-293-3666 Farmingdale, NY	DoomsDay (1993-1994)	Mortacan	APCi DOOM
	"Multi-player doom throgh the BBS! The phone number was 516-293-DOOM" - Mortacan
516-295-1364 Valley Stream, NY	High Society (1984-1989)	John Z. John	C-Net 20
	"2.2 Megabytes stored on 5 1/4 inch floppy drives. 1200 Baud modem. Custom software with gambling for download credits. It really was fun in my highschool years! - Johnny Z.
516-295-9052 Suffolk, NY	The Frayed Ends of Sanity (TFEOS) (1994-1996)	Euphoric / Treni / Waste	PCBoard
	"Listed purely for nostalgia, a rather unique BBS for the few local users who received access. Serving as the best of the best during its timeframe, while exemplifying a clear benchmark for quality and prestige. I sincerely hope all is with our past sysops and members, and would love to hear how all of you are doing." - TR (treni516@yahoo.com)
516-338-8595 NASZ 5, NY	Long Island BBS (1995)	Wilton Virgo
	ListKeeper: 516 AC, 800 numbers, Freenets
516-364-4450 Woodbury, NY	Substation, Substation BBS, The Substation, The SubStation BBS (1986-1994)	Paul Cangialosi, Paul Blaccard	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Woodbury, New York since 04/86. Sysop: Paul Blaccard. Using PCBoard 15.0 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 9000 MB storage. US Robotics at 16800 bps. No fee. Dependable quality BBS system. Featuring loads of DOS shareware files with one of the most exciting adult areas. Mentioned in the book "More Joy of Cybersex" for its innovative adult scans. Voice support (516)921-8312
516-364-6257 NASZ 7, NY	Nirvana #1, NIRVANA #1 (1992-1995)	Lost Religion
	Crack Inc Member BBS
516-364-6259 NASZ 7, NY	Nirvana #3, NIRVANA #3 (1992-1995)	Lost Religion
	Crack Inc Member BBS
516-364-6261 NASZ 7, NY	Nirvana #2, NIRVANA #2 (1992-1995)	Lost Religion
	Crack Inc Member BBS
516-374-5071 Woodmere, NY	The Dragon's Lair (1984-1987)	Jason Abrevaya, Adam Abrevaya
	"1984 is the right start year, but I'm not sure when we closed it down. My brother and I had a great time running the BBS. We were really innovative at the time, with features that included: word wrap (yes a great mod at the time), casino games, adventure game, matchmaking service, etc. Can't remember the base software, but run off our Apple 2e and one of the first 10MB hard drives." -- Jason Abrevaya
516-385-4017 Huntington, NY	The Eclipse! (1986-1989)	Hackerette	Telegard
	"Made a lot of good friends while the site was up. We offered a little bit of everything - something for everyone. Shutting the site down was hard for me, but it was time for me to move on to the next stage of my life. I pretty much dropped out of the scene completely when I got married and would love to hear from anyone who remembers The Eclipse!" - Hackerette
516-385-7882 HUNTINGTON, NY	The Long Island Exchange BBS (1992-1994)
	List of BBS List Keepers: AC 516 Free Shareware BBS/Harold Stein
516-393-7500 NASSAU ZONE 5, NY	Point Blank (1996-2004)	Kathi Livornese	MajorBBS
	"Point Blank began in 1992. I remember the years because I was a high school student at the time. It was a large BBS and had a live chat that was usually well populated during peak hours. It had weekly or monthly meetups as well (it varied). Many of us are still in touch." - Iciaccio
516-423-9803 Huntington, NJ	The Alternate Reality (1984-1986)	The Riddler	AMIS
	"An Atari BBS running on the Atari 800, Atari 1050 and Indus GT disk drives. Also an Amdek dual drive. Blast from the past. :)" - The Riddler
516-434-8712 Brentwood, NY	The Black Hole (1982-1994)	David Finkelstein	Custom, TBBS
	"Initial BBS run on TRS-80 Model 3 with a single 512Kb floppy drive. Upgraded during the timespan to run on TRS-80 Model 4 with dual 512Kb floppy drives and 128Kb RAM." - David Finkelstein
516-437-0793 Franklin Square, NY	WWAR, W.W.A.R. BBS (1989-1996)	Mike Zmuda, Chazz, Dr. John Reddy	T.A.G.
	"The name of the BBS stood for Wet, Wild, And Rabid. (The name of a band two of the SysOps were in.) Hosted files, doors (games) and later a FIDOnet message system. Initially ran off an IBM PS2/50z, and eventually, a 486. Had about 2 Gigs worth of storage, of which, about 400Megs were online at any given time." - Mike Zmuda
516-437-6749 Bellerose, NY	The Master Computer (1991-1994)	Master Com, The Necromancer, Sojourner	Telegard, Renegade, Oblivion/2, OpticNet
	"Chris (Master Com) had already been running his BBS out of his basement bedroom for several months when I first met him in 1991 or so. The circumstances around meeting him were a bit odd. A mutual acquaintance had given me the BBS number, but at the time I was only running a cheap 1200, so I was actually too embarrassed to call. Instead I gave the number to my friend John (Sojourner), who called up right away, became friends with Chris, and soon after became co-sysop. It wasn't until several months later that I managed to upgrade my modem and got on the board. By that time, Chris knew who I was, and it wasn't long before I was co-sysop as well. At first the board wasn't affiliated with anyone, we just soaked up as many pirated games from other local boards as we could. I joined GRiM in 1992, and then GRiM merged with iCE, so the board became an unofficial distribution site, by virtue of me putting up iCE releases in the Files section. Chris also worked on an early version of what would eventually become iCEView. Several years later, the board became an official distribution site for a local demo group Renaissance, though Chris never programmed anything for them, preferring to work on his own projects with no deadlines. Chris was notorious for ignoring chat requests, even from his co-sysops. One thing we took advantage of was the fact that at the time, his PC was running with a very noisy 65MB Seagate hard drive, so John wrote a batch file that ran 'dir /s' from the root directory, and we would login to the board, drop to a DOS prompt and run the file, and the noise was enough to wake Chris up at 3am to chat. When he finally replaced the drive with a new (and quiet) 150MB Western Digital, we edited the batch file to echo a bunch of ^Gs to the screen, and the continuous beeping would do the trick. Chris started out running Telegard, and used that for most of the time the board was up. Later on, he experimented briefly with Renegade, but was thoroughly unimpressed with it (his opinion was that it was basically just Telegard 'with a few things tacked on'). We tried Oblivion/2 for several months before Chris got it into his head that he could write a better BBS program than what was already out there. The result was OpticNet, which if I recall correctly he actually got up and running for a few months before getting bored with the whole project, and with BBSs in general. By this time, the internet was gaining popularity, so the board didn't stay active for too much longer." - Ben Morgan
516-466-1674 Great Neck, NY	Novus DirectMkt, Novus Online Services/ChatLink (1987-1990)	Wagner Bucci	PCBoard, PCBoard and Galacticomm
	"Novus Online Services and ChatLink were sister companies of New York City record company, Novus Records. The BBSes were subscription based services that provided forums, chat rooms and third party services like legal services, air travel reservations and shopping. The BBSes started using PCBoard and 6 IBM AT computers and later expanded to IBM 286 and better systems running Galacticomm and mimicking the CompuServe menu style." - Wagner Bucci
516-471-8625 Ronkonkoma, NY	America's Suggestion Box, American’s Suggestion Box (ASB), America’s Suggestion Box, American's Suggestion Box, SuggestionBox (1992-1996)	Joe Jerszynski, Joe Jersznski, Joseph G. Jerszynski	TBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Ronkonkoma, New York since 02/92. Sysop: Joe Jerszynski. Using TBBS 2.2 with 16 lines on MS-DOS with 13000 MB storage. PPI at 14400 bps. $25 Quarterly fee. 110000+ files, ASP approved, Shareware Showcase, Board-watch, USAToday, Internet E-mail, Usenet. Full Internet Access. Local Access in Nassau and Suffolk. BBS Devoted to Collecting and Distributing Consumer Feedback
516-473-8229 Port Jefferson, NY	Fallout, Summer Fun BBS (1990-1994)	Erika Sherman (The Cat), Erika Sherman (Pallas Athena)	Telegard, Searchlight
	"Summer Fun (1991), Fallout (1992-1994)...It went through a lot of different software, and a couple of names. Cosysop was Atlas. Those were the days..." - Erika Sherman
516-475-0890 Medford, NY	Murphy's Law BBS (1984-1987)	Murph, Haxx, Kyle Murphy	CNET64, C-NET
	"I ran this BBS to trade cracked games for the C64. I had 4 x 1541 5.25 Disk drives, 2 x 1581 3.5 Disk Drives and an SFD drive. My co-horts were the sysops from the Friendly Cave BBS, The Misty Mountain BBS and the Lions Den BBS all in the 516 area code, (witch is now 631 area code). Back then I was a member of several crack groups, I often think back to the hilarious crack group wars we had going on." - Murph
516-485-0650 NASZ 5, NY	No Carrier (1992)
	Energy Member BBS
516-520-1845 Levittown, NY	The Watering Hole (1982-1994)	George Bleck, George W. Bleck	TBBS
	Implemented custom written extensions and DOORs using PowerBASIC.
516-541-9468 Massapequa, NY	The Vortex (1992-1996)	Michael Gold	Renegade
	"Somewhere on the internets there is a mod of Wolfenstein 3d I made that I distributed through this bbs. All of the nazi soldiers were replaced with yellow smiley faces." - Michael Gold
516-543-0240 Commack, NJ	Network-USA (1995)
	SLIP/PPP Provider
516-561-6590 Long Island, NY	CBBS LICA LIMBS, L.I.C.A. Limbs BBS, Lica Limbs BBS, LICA Limbs BBS (1979-1996)	Dave Minott, WA2EXP, Harvey Fishman, Mark Zeiger	PCBoard , CBBS, Original CBBS software
	"One of the FIRST CBBS systems in the country! The CBBSBIOS.ASM was written for us by Bobby Dale Gifford dated 9/1/79, specifically for our hardware and Ward & Randy's software. I have all the original logs, paperwork, manuals and most hardware still in my basement! The original logs are on 8" floppy, but I also have Teletype hard copy back as far as 10/1980. On 2/20/81, I came up with something I called "InstaPoll", which was a CBBS add-on that allowed polling our users on a particular question, or subject, and then displaying the results of that poll, much as you now see on C/Net, etc. The code was written by me, Harvey Fishman and Mark Zeiger, who also wrote an XMODEM derivative. The CBBS was sponsored by the Long Island Computer Association, and was called the LICA Limbs (Long Island Mailbox System) I can supply further information and documentation, if needed. I shut down the system when the users migrated to the Internet, and can supply a more accurate date (the final phone bill is somewhere in the pile.) By 12/81, we had logins from over 15 states and Canada." - Dave Minott
516-579-9738 Levittown, NY	The Gods' Playland (1984-1993)	John Quinn	Several (including customized)
	"This BBS ran on an Atari 8-Bit computer. It started out with an Atari 800 48k with a single 1050 drive and running at 300 Baud with a genuine Hayes modem. It expanded to an Atari 800, a 1050 drive and an Indus GT drive. Later it was running on an Atari 130XE w/ Ram Disk along with those two drives. Eventually it ended up running with a modified 130XE with 512k memory, 40 megs MFM drive (formatted as an RLL drive to get 60 megs out of it) with the 130XE ram drive, a 256k MIO ram drive, and the two floppies mentioned above. In the old days it would answer the phone by a device I rigged up to plug into the joystick port and the phone system, since the 1030 modem didn't have an auto-answer option. The interface was changed to an 850, and then finally to the MIO. Ironic that back then when I got a 1200 Baud modem it felt like I was flying. When the 2400 Baud came out it was something of a miracle. But then again back in the early days if you had 300 Baud modem you were supposed to report it to the phone company. How times change. If anyone used to be a member of the BBS I'd love to hear from you. Contact me via zx6er93@hotmail.com if you wish to discuss. Please mention BBS in the subject line." - John Quinn
516-581-6540 Brentwood, NY	Captain Jack's BBS (1988-1995)	Brett Hager	Renegade
	"This was a great hobby for me and it gave me the opportunity to make some good friends and meet some great people. The BBS actually started back in 1985 as a private board for some friends and worked it's way up to a full fledged system. I had started with AMIS on the old Atari, then moved up to WWIV, then Telegard and finally to Renegade. We had decent turnouts for our BBS meets and great times. Since shutting down the board, I have moved off Long Island up to Westchester. Thanks alot and keep up the great work." - Brett Hager
516-643-0747 Melville, NY	The Campus BBS, The Campusst (1991-1996)	Philip Alloca	Searchlight , Searchlight BBS
	"This BBS started out on a 1200 baud modem and ended with three 14.4 modems. When I shut it down in '94 it was running on 3 phone lines and was receiving about 80 calls a day making it one of the busiest BBSs on Long Island for that time. It was a joy to run this BBS and seeing all these other BBSs on this list brings back great memories. If any of you remember The Campus BBS and would like to send me email feel free to at campus@grummite.com." - Philip Alloca THE CAMPUS BBS. Over 5000 programs to download, 100's of GIFS. Running on the EASY to use Searchlight BBS software. EXCELLENT sub-boards including GREAT adult and music sections. FUN Online games. CALL NOW! (516)643-0747.
516-676-0741 Glen Head, NY	Alternative Insights (1994)	Celia Varga
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Glen Head, Long Island, New York since 03/94. Sysop: Celia Varga. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 341 MB storage. Practical Peripheral at 14400 bps. $60 Annual fee. New Age & Science- Ephemerides, atlas, weather, skywatch, online magazines, birthinfo database, FidoNet, PODNet, RelayNet- Files, games, 100+ conferences, chat New Callers first month FREE access! Entertainment and enlightenment.. Check us out!
516-689-3105 Stony Brook, NY	The Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist (1986-1988)	Sanford Barr	Amiga BBS
	"The Long Island hub of Amiga (Commodore) information and files. Much to our surprise it routinely attracted international and national callers. This was run in the offices of 'The Working Computer', a computer store based in Stony Brook, Long Island that specialized in Amiga and PC sales. The site started operation in 1996 and lived on until sometime in 1998." - Sanford Barr
516-694-3623 Farmingdale, NY	Expressway BBS, The Expressway BBS (1991-1998)	Stan Schwartz	Cit286, Citadel
	"I started this BBS with the help of Carolyn from Generic BBS and Farukh Irani from Electronic New York. At one time, we used to do some primitive networking and I was able to pull in some national 'newsgroups'. The BBS went away just as the internet became more commercially available. This beast used to run on an old Packard Bell 386sx16 with an 80 MEG hard drive. Somewhere, in a box, in a closet, I still have the hard drive with the last image of the BBS. We had quite a bit of fun running the BBS in its day, and I got to meet all kinds of interesting people." - Stan Schwartz
516-737-1429 Ronkonkoma, NY	The Cat's Den III, The Courtroom BBS (1983-1986)	Boot Zero	Networks ][, GBBS, NetworX
	"20MB of warez, g-Files and message bases. Underground area for phreaks, codes and hacks, accessible through one of the text based online games." - Boot Zero
516-754-1114 Northport, NY	Metallic Dreams (1990-1994)	The Dark Man	C-Net Amiga
	"When it first started, it was running off of two 880k floppy disks! Initially, people used the board (one of the few Amiga BBSes on Long Island) for file-trading, but as time went on and 2400 baud became obsolete, the board became a very active social arena, filling the hole left when legendary C64 board Gardiner's Island fell off the map." - The Dark Man
516-757-0210 Long Island, NY	Hi-Teck's Place (1991-1995)	Hi-Teck Pete	PCBoard 15.0
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Long Island, New York since 07/91. Sysop: Hi-Teck Pete. Using PCBoard 15.0 with 10 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 23000 MB storage. US Robotics at 19200 bps. $40 Annual fee. BBS for Graphics Scans and Shareware. Over 60,000 Quality GIF & Hi-Color Scans Online, also DOS, WINDOWS & ADULT files. Register and Credit Card Membership Online. One of the Largest and Fastest growing BBS in the Northeast. Come and Teck Us Out for FREE
516-757-6600 Northport, NY	sysop, BUFFTUFF (1994-1995)	wafter partridge, Walter Partridge	MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: northport,ny LI since 06/01. Sysop: wafter partridge. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 8 lines on MS-DOS with 2,000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $10,25 900 service fee. HOTTEST GAMES, TONS OF ADULT DOWNLOADS, 24 HOUR WORLDLINK ACCESS, FREE ACCESS TO ALL NEW USERS!
516-781-5431 levitown, NY	Bloom County (1987-1990)	Spydor & Peter Ace
	"Oh Wow! Just googled my own site for fun. Bloom County BBS was started out as a small game swapping BBS site until Peter ace joined in and wanted to work on some programming. (He even donated a Meg drive and we became a User Forum. Who ever wrote the dates got it right. Spent my career building web sites and now a digital project manager. Would love to hear from anyone who used the site." - Spyder
516-791-1427 NASZ 3, NY	The Demon's Crypt =SoC= (Society of Chaos) World Headquarters, =PHX= =PHRACK =B.A.D.= (1988-1992)	Stalker (A.k.a. The Cryptkeeper)	Telegard, Renegade, Aftershock
	"Hey to all who remember such a great part of my history. The BBS ran on an 80286 With a 1200 baud modem eventually going to 2400 WoW! The board consisted of H/P/A/V/C for those of you who dont remember it is Hacking/Phreaking/Anarchy/Virii/Carding :P ahh the good ole days :) It was affiliated with numerous groups. The board itself was Telegard/Renegade/Aftershock I switched them up every now and then. I remember spending hours studying the Telegard manual to bring the best content to the bbs doors/games/messaging and as a reward I had a 99% busy bbs! If you were lucky enough for me to think you were leet enough to become a member (LOL I was such a prick back then :P) then email me I would love to hear from you. Shout outs to: Killer Beast -What Up dude email me! Mak-Attack, Surak, Shadow Demon - DUDE email me! Professor Charles Xavier - SUP MAN! Email me at: movieguy_1629@hotmail.com" - Stalker/Cryptkeeper
516-797-5376 Long Island, NY	Nuthin Fancy, Nuthin Fancy BBS (1994-1996)	Rob Kern
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Long Island, New York since 02/94. Sysop: Rob Kern. Using Power BBS 3.5 with 2 lines on WINDOWS with 2000 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. $25 Annual fee. A BBS dedicated to Adult files. No InterNet. No doors. No FIDO. Nuthin Fancy. We concentrate on what you want. Quality Adult GIF's, scans and text files. Plenty of DOS and Windows shareware. We are small but, so are our fees. Free Adult trial membership.
516-822-7396 Hicksville, NY	Power BBS, Power Computing Technical Support, PowerBBS Support Line, The World BBS (1989-1995)	Russell Frey	PCBoard
	Product: PowerBBS
516-826-0412 Wantagh, NY	Velvet Underground (1993-1996)	Vigilante	PC Board
	"Can't make much money programming PPE's these days :) Long live -PWA- !" - Vigilante
516-826-7866 Long Island, NY	Wizards' Vale (1980-1999)	Disk Wizard	C-Net (Commodore 64 then 128, then Amiga)
	"At its peak, The Wizards' Vale had over 1000 users from all over the world utilizing three phone lines. It started on a measly Commodore 64 in the early 1980's and eventually upgraded to a Commodore 128 and then a Commodore Amiga with over a gigabyte of data and files (which was quite a feat back in the 80's and 90's). The Vale was also the first BBS on Long Island: (i) to upgrade to 2400 baud (yes, it even started on a 300 baud modem and had users logging on at 110 baud); (ii) to run the C-Net Amiga BBS program; and (iii) to run a hard drive on a Commodore 128 BBS." - Disk Wizard
516-829-1620 Great Neck, NY	Ender, Ender BBS (1993-1994)	Tom	Firstclass
	"I was the SysOp of Ender BBS. I ran it out of my bedroom when I was a teenager, around '93-'94 on a series of Macs. I don't remember what software I used at first, but I did start out with a Hayes 2400 baud modem. Eventually I decided I needed a faster modem and took up a collection. Amazingly, people contributed - I got a couple of checks from people I didn't even know personally, which was a great feeling! I remember being very proud to share my new modem. And somewhere along the way I got a copy of First Class, which was a GUI-based BBS system that required client software. I would stay up all night working on the environment and exploring other local BBSes, and would basically fall asleep in school the next day. Several friends had BBSes too, and we had little rivalries. Ender BBS wasn't about warez; it was just a place for people to exchange messages and b.s. Sometimes we talked about cracking and phone phreaking but none of my friends really had any skills in that area! Definitely met some colorful people through that experience though. I miss the good ol' days when the only people on the Internet were the ones smart enough to figure it out." - Tom
516-829-8564 NASZ 1, NY	L.I.P.S. (Long Island Pirate Society) (1982-1983)	Zev Silverman
	Ran on my Apple ][e with AppleCat 1200 baud modem. I first had my Hayes Smartmodem 300; it switched between 300 and 110 baud!!!! Hahahahahahaah - Zev Silverman
516-864-1387 Commack, NY	NuclearSite, The Nuclear Site (1990-1996)	Harm Toren	PCBoard, PC Board
	"This was my first BBS which seldom had an "unbusy" line. At that time I worked at the Shorham Nuclear Station (The Nuclear Site) and was hoping to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Long Island had several BBS's and at one time Greg Carmen and I thought about putting together a single "Mega BBS" but for whatever reason (time) it did not happen. The amount of information that would pass through and/or reside on the system was amazing for the time. Mail was sent around the world through a relay system of networked dial ups, uploads, and downloads. The system and software stays intact on a PC which has not been started since 1996 when it was replaced and spare time became a scarce commodity." - Harm Toren
516-867-2644 Merrick, NY	The Operating Room (1992-1999)	Seth Goldberg	TriBBS
	"I am the SysOp of this BBS -- it was a very small BBS when I started it and I intended it to be a cool place to talk about medical-related stuff and swap files (of couse) :). It's great that you're maintaining this historical list -- it really brings me back to the old days :)." - Seth Goldberg
516-873-8903 NASZ 5, NY	The Comic Strip, The Comic Strip/The Crime Scene (TCS)	Killer Beast & Cyborg	Renegade
	"It was a textfiles only board. Since everyone knew us as TCS and we were getting more into free speech textfiles, we thought it was too "mellow" for what we had, so we changed the name to The Crime Scene while still holding our TCS name. Those were the days." - Killer Beast
516-877-1095 Mineola, NY	Nassau BOCES (1993)
	FrEdMail System
516-883-5508 Port Washington, NY	PitStop BBS (1992-1995)	ElScotto	PCBoard, Renegade
	"Initially ran as a single node sharing a phone line with my parents' fax machine (using a fax/phone switch). It grew quickly to 3 nodes (with one phone line shared with our main voice line for priority access and Fido transfers overnight). It was donation-funded (which is to say my dad paid the phone bill), and offered FidoNet, various games, shareware/freeware downloads, and public boards. The BBS was disbanded shortly after I started high school and began using my POTS lines for internet/web hosting." - ElScotto
516-883-7016 Port Washington, NY	Port PC RBBS (1981-1985)	M Krieger	RBBS-PC
	"Originally launched on an Atari 800, and moved to RBBS-PC on an IBMPC in 1981. Huge (12MB) hard drive was on loan from Charles Wang, founder of Computer Associates, in return for consulting on his computer retail store on Long Island. This board was taken down in 1985 after a hacker deleted all files from the disk." - M. Krieger
516-932-6949 Long Island, NY	Spectra I.M., Spectra Information Management (1993-1996)	T	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Long Island, New York since 01/93. Sysop: T. Zorn & S. Brohman. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 3 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 7500 MB storage. ZyXel at 16.8 bps. No fee. DOS, OS/2, Windows shareware with 7 CD-ROMS. One line supports ZOOM 24K. Small monthly fee allows access to all areas, including adult, and Internet E-mail and Usenet Groups. Voice mail support for newcomers.
516-938-6722 Hicksville, NY	Big Jim's House Of Files, H-O-F, House Of Files Online, P.D.S.L.O. BBS, PDSLO-BBS, HOUSE OF FILES BBS, House of Files, House of Files BBS, PDSLO,! (1985-1996)	Jim Toro	TBBS , TBBS 2.2
	HOUSE OF FILES BBS, 516-938-6722. New York's Largest file download system. Over 23 Gigabytes of software. Now in our 9th year of operation. No charge to look around. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 HOUSE OF FILES, 516,938,6722, King of the shareware bbs systems. Over 40 different cdroms ahvays online. Full internet, ftp and telnet access, - BBS Magazine October 1995
516-979-4450 Smithtown, NY	GRAPEVINE ON-LINE, GrapeVine On-Line (1994-1995)	Kimberly Robinson a.k.a ""Becca""	MBBS 6.2, MajorBBS 6.21
	GRAPEVINE ON-LINE, 516.979.4450 Smithtown, NY Sysop: Kimberly Robinson a.k.a ""Becca"" Running MBBS 6.2 with four lines-all US Robotics 28.8 Over 3 gigs of storage. ChatLink and teleconferencing, Internet, games-including multiplayer Doom, over 50 forums, and thousands of files available for download.And more added daily!!! Get 1 month FULL ACCESS absolutely FREE! ! ! Say you ""Heard It Through the GrapeVineM!"" - BBS Magazine November, 1994
517-263-3590 ADRIAN, MI	The Ghetto (1990-1996)	John Crouse, John A. Crouse	Wildcat
	"1 line—286; 426MB running WildCat 3.9M with Zoom at up to 14400 bps. Estab. 04/90; no fee. Roughly 1000 files online. FidoNet. WyldNet world headquarters. 426MB. ModemNews newstand." - Computer Shopper
517-349-8886 Okemos, MI	The (Guillaume) Gazette, The Gazette (1989-1991)	The Guillaumes, Sharon, Peter and Jeff Guillaume	T.A.G.
	"First called The Guillaume Gazette, then shortened to The Gazette. Member of FidoNet. The BBS ran on a Tandy 1000SL with 2400 baud modem from beginning to end. Up 24 hours on its own phone line (which strangely later became the number of a local pizzeria)." "It was really my mom's BBS, and she later admitted she had a serious addiction problem to computers/BBS'ing. She would get up hours before work (5 a.m.) and be on in the evenings running The Gazette and calling other BBSes. I was nine then, and I remember just watching her on the computer. I honestly believe I learned to type by watching her so much." - Jeff Guillaume
517-394-4874 Lansing, MI	Beam Rider, Mid Michigan Net, The Beam Rider, The Beam Rider, Mid Michigan Net (1984-1995)	Kevin Craft	Cnet, Tag, Maximus
	"The BBS originally started as a CNET system on a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem and two single-sided floppy drives. After a couple of years a fellow Sysop in the area (Andy Zink) talked me into buying a 8088 IBM compat system. The day it arrived he came over, installed DOS, installed TAG and then went home. I had never been on a IBM compat before so the next few weeks were a hectic crash course in learning DOS and keeping the BBS up and running on TAG...I can laugh about it now! The years running the BBS were a real joy! I met many wonderful people through the BBS and had many good times. The internet will never replace the sense of community and sharing that was such a part of the BBS years....." - Kevin Craft
517-484-7286 LANSING, MI	Cent. Nervous System, Wild Space (1992)	Wolverine
	Nemesis Member BBS
517-536-5263 Napoleon, MI	The Flying Machine (1992-1995)	Charles Sheldon	Spitfire
	"For the Flight Sim Crowd." - Charles Sheldon
517-646-9114 Lansing, MI	Fletcher Memorial Home BBS, Magrathea (1984-1988)	Randy Pearson	Nite Lite
	"I was the President of the Modem Support Group, of Lansing Michigan. We were an organization that got the BBSers together for picnics and awards shows (we'd have people vote online in various categories and we'd hand our awards) as well as keeping the Lansing BBS List. We were together from around 1982 until around 1994. We even compiled and handed out a "Beginning Modem User's Guide." - Randy Pearson
517-647-7474 Portland, MI	Oakwood Elementary (1993)
	FrEdMail System
517-681-4168 St. Louis, MI	Royal Cattery, The Royal Cattery (1991-1993)	Danny O'Shay	Wildcat
	"You already have it listed, but I wanted to fill in the detail of what software it used. I remember it very well. Danny and the other users were really friendly to me when I was just a geeky kid who was crazy about computers. First time I ever really felt accepted as a nerd. Spent crazy amounts of time on Trade Wars 2002, too. When I got confused Danny would sometimes type hints on the console!" - Bogglesnatch
517-695-9952 Freeland, MI	Wolverine, Wolverine BBS, Wolvering BBS, wolverine BBS (1988-1996)	Rick Rosinski, Rick Rosinski/SAMM	Searchlight , PCBoard , PCBoard 15.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Freeland, Michigan since 07/88. Sysop: Rick Rosinski. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 7 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 14000 MB storage. US Robotics at 19200 bps. $35 Annual fee. Mid-Michigan's Largest BBS with over 100,000 files. Files for Windows, Amiga, Mac, IBM, more. Official Support BBS for SkyGlobe. Apogee, Eipc, MVP, Software Creations, MoraffWare Distribution Site. FidoNet, RIME, USPoINet. 13 CD-ROM's. Subscribe online. List of BBS List Keepers: Area Code 517 – Mid-Michigan/Rick Rosinski/SAMM ListKeeper: Area Code 517 - Mid-Michigan
517-725-7602 OWOSSO, MI	The Dragon's Den (1994-1997)	David Smith
	At one point, the largest Tradewars 2002 Game in Shiawasee County. - Brad Bennett
517-774-7704 Mt. Pleasant, MI	Central Michigan University (1993)
	FrEdMail System
517-789-8608 Jackson. Ml, MI	AAG BBS, almost anything goes BBS (1994-1995)		Major BBS, The Major BBS
	AAG BBS, almost anything goes BBS: Located in Jackson, Ml, running Galacticomm's Major BBS, is an 8-line system with 15 gigs. Yes that's right 15,000 Megs of files. Supporting 8 Gigs of Adult files, and 7 Gigs of IBM, Unix and Amiga files. Over 700 online adult stories, Online Chats, Games, Forums, and Daily Lotto. There is absolutely no file ratios, and no time limits on the system. The price is right, only .08 cents/hour, or $30/year. Come see for yourself, and enjoy all we have to offer. 1-517- 789-9826 (2400), 1-517-789-8608 (9600). - BBS Magazine November, 1994 AAG BBS, almost anything goes BBS: Located in Jackson. Ml, running Galacticomm's Major BBS. is an 8-line system with 15 gigs. Yes that's right 15.000 Megs of files. Supporting 8 Gigs of Adult files, and 7 Gigs of IBM. Unix and Amiga files. Over 700 online adult stories, Online Chats, Games, Forums, and Daily Lotto. There is absolutely no file ratios, and no time limits on the system. The price is right, only .08 cents/hour, or S30/year. Come see for yourself, and enjoy all we have to offer. 1-517-789-9826 (2400). 1-517-789-8608 (9600). - BBS Magazine March, 1995
517-789-9826 Jackson. Ml, MI	AAG BBS, almost anything goes BBS (1994-1995)		Major BBS, The Major BBS
	AAG BBS, almost anything goes BBS: Located in Jackson, Ml, running Galacticomm's Major BBS, is an 8-line system with 15 gigs. Yes that's right 15,000 Megs of files. Supporting 8 Gigs of Adult files, and 7 Gigs of IBM, Unix and Amiga files. Over 700 online adult stories, Online Chats, Games, Forums, and Daily Lotto. There is absolutely no file ratios, and no time limits on the system. The price is right, only .08 cents/hour, or $30/year. Come see for yourself, and enjoy all we have to offer. 1-517- 789-9826 (2400), 1-517-789-8608 (9600). - BBS Magazine November, 1994 AAG BBS, almost anything goes BBS: Located in Jackson. Ml, running Galacticomm's Major BBS. is an 8-line system with 15 gigs. Yes that's right 15.000 Megs of files. Supporting 8 Gigs of Adult files, and 7 Gigs of IBM. Unix and Amiga files. Over 700 online adult stories, Online Chats, Games, Forums, and Daily Lotto. There is absolutely no file ratios, and no time limits on the system. The price is right, only .08 cents/hour, or S30/year. Come see for yourself, and enjoy all we have to offer. 1-517-789-9826 (2400). 1-517-789-8608 (9600). - BBS Magazine March, 1995
517-797-3740 Saginaw, MI	Delight the Customer, Delight The Customer BBS, DelightCustomer (1992-1995)	Dennis Hauser	TBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Business/Professional BBS/Dennis Hauser
518-356-2606 Guilderland, NY	Rainbox BBS, Rainbow BBS (1983-1987)	John Molnar, Jack Molnar	Color64 v7.32, Color 64, Network 64
	"It was one of the few Color 64 boards that had hard drives (40mb scsi)rather than floppy disks; was also a part of the Network 64 system (Color 64 boards with software that could transfer data between them autonomously overnight). When the sysop closed the board, all the equipment was donated to The Drive Inn BBS. Both sysops were close friends." - Jack Molnar
518-359-8179 Tupper Lake, NY	The Glitch 2	Steven Crate, James Christian	Wildcat!
	"I'm not sure what years this BBS ran, but it was easily several years, from the late 1980s to the early 90s, and was Tupper Lake, NY's longest-running BBS. As far as I know, they were listed in years' worth of Computer Shopper's BBS listings. Additionally, the sysops are still alive, and can be found in the same area (so I'm sure they an be contacted for more info, especially Steve). Also, this is a good time to tell you that there was another BBS (besides my own, which I will list separately) in Tupper Lake during the early 1990s. I believe it only lasted a year or so, and would have been '94 or '94. Other than that, I can't tell you much, except that I believe the sysop's first name was Matt. If I can think of more, I'll let you know! Thanks for doing what you do! I miss my BBS, and the small sense of community they fostered; each one was vital and thriving in it's own unique way. This makes me want to try to recreate my old one online, via telnet! Cheers!" - John Daily"
518-370-3245 SCHENECTADY, NY	Destiny, DESTINY (1992-1995)
	Quartex Member BBS
518-377-0888 Schenectady, NY	The Drive Inn BBS (1987)	Bob Morrison	Color64 v7.32
	"The Drive Inn was a popular Commodore BBS for many years that had an annual picnic features the famous "Oldies vs. Youngsters" softball game. Many Commodore users, especially from the local TCCUG user group, frequented this BBS. After many years of operation (ten?) the BBS eventually closed. Sadly, after suffering with declining physical health for many years, the SysOp tragically killed his wife and then himself not long after." - Anonymous
518-383-1369 Albany , NY	AWOL {Another Way of Life} (1990-1994)	S: Substance C: Young and Wasted	Vision-X
	"AWOL - where the 9x crew chilled b4 internet daze. PAiN distribution site, 9x distribution site. All h/p/a/v/c, nuv. had a mad active msg base, over 20,000 tfiles. Currently you can find 9x files at: http://9x.tc" - Substance
518-383-3156 Clifton Park, NY	CoFFee Clutch BBS Node 1, The Coffee Clutch (1993-1999)	Mike Phlipsak	ProBoard
	"My father ran this board, first with one node, later with two. It was his pride & joy for a long time, and for a while was one of the only ways to send e-mail locally, here in Clifton Park. Regrettably, he made the decision to shut it down when the Internet became too popular, sometime in 1998." -Alex Phlipsak, co-sysop
518-393-7934 SCHENECTADY, NY	Divine Ultimatum	Chameleon, Burglar, Moren
	"This BBS was named during a four hour phone conference between Solar, Moloch, and Chameleon. The name is a song title from one of Moloch's tapes. The BBS was previously called Black Rain. It ran on a very fast cyborg modded c*base with ramlink and cmdhd. The last year or so the board was up, it changed owners from Chameleon to Grazer." - Anonymous
518-459-3240 Loudonville, NY	The Basement of the Perverted Tuba (1993-1996)	Andrew Burke, Randy Symanski, Philip Fibiger, Jeremy Muhlich, Dana Reid-Vanas	WWIV
	"It was the small town everyone moved away from in preference to the big city called 'The Internet'." - Andrew Burke
518-462-5953 Albany, NY	Plain Vanilla, pro-vanilla (1989-1998)
	"Apple II, Source: Computist magazine 72, p. 5"
518-562-9452 PLATTSBURGH, NY	ONLINE ELECTRONIC CLASSIFIEDS (1992)
	ONLINE ELECTRONIC CLASSIFIEDS, Easiest to use BBS devoted 100% to classified advertising, large National audience ""online"" looking to buy or sell most anything. No charge to browse, No sign up fees. 1-518-562-9452.
518-583-7790 Saratoga Springs, NY	The Apple Programmers Den (1991-1993)	ShepH Boy RD	GBBS
	"The area's premier interfacing between wanna-be programmers and fly-by-night hacker types. Of primary focus was deviant electronic circuits that would ideally inject meyhem into the general populace (but usually served only to fry the SysOp's own equipment), reading and discussion of chemical equations and spy/countersurveillance equipment, how to download software (wareZ) for free, and busting on local e-personalities (Disk Muncher, Einstein, Cubic Zirconnia, Daimler_Benz, and ShepH Boy RD/The Ultimate Hacker were favorite contributors)." - SepH Boy RD
518-587-7943 Saratoga Springs, NY	The Kingdom of Possiltum (1990-1997)	Skeeve (Greg Harrison-Howe)	WWIV
	"We were one of the longest running single line BBS's in the 518 area code. We were a text (message base) only board with few games (later in the boards life) and no downloads. The earliest machine to run the BBS (In December of 1990 (Beta, we went public in January of 1991) was a Tandy 1000 with a 2400 baud modem and a 20 Megabyte MFM type Hard Drive. It's final incarnation was a 386 with a 14.4 modem and a 255 Meg Hard drive (Shut down in august of 1997). I still have this drive in my possession, and I am planning a kingdom comeback on the web in short order... (A sort of where are they now...) All the original staff (save one) will be providing bits and peices. I am still in touch with all original Co-Sysops which are Ace (Not Diamonds)(Mike Richie), Nobody (Eric Hausgaard), Amergin Styles (Calvin Young) and have in fact served as best man in all of thier weddings. We were a bit unusual for a BBS... We frequently had live meetings in public places, and got to know each other face to face as well as online. I maintain contact with many people who logged onto the Kingdom back in the day." - Skeeve (Greg Harrison-Howe)
518-587-8209 SARATOGA SPRING, NY	Starlight	Rita
	Only call during the above hours. Astronomy magazine posted. Use Denver Astronomy and magazine (name/password).
518-639-4354 Fort Ann, NY	The Roundtable (1993-1998)	Anthony Blair	RA
	"The Roundtable itself only actually existed between 1996-1998 but from 93- I had run 3 BBS systems under different names. LineWars was one people might remember as it ran for about 1.5 years. BBS was mainly for gamers, connected to FIDOnet for InterBBS gaming and message board sharing. Downloadable files came off NightOwl CDs (remember those silly things? :) ) This BBS ended it's time very happily with the dawn of the internet. To all who visited I thank you again, I enjoyed every moment of it." - Anthony Blair
518-639-4546 Fort Ann, NY	The Roundtable (1993-1998)	Anthony Blair, Peter Soules	RA
	"The Roundtable itself only actually existed between 1996-1998 but from 93- I had run 3 BBS systems under different names. LineWars was one people might remember as it ran for about 1.5 years. BBS was mainly for gamers, connected to FIDOnet for InterBBS gaming and message board sharing. Downloadable files came off NightOwl CDs (remember those silly things? :) ) This BBS ended it's time very happily with the dawn of the internet. I have moved on very naturally to server and web design. Try my new sites at http://www.trippinlikegod.com and http://01enterprises.homelinux.net. To all who visited I thank you again, I enjoyed every moment of it." - Anthony Blair
518-642-5572 Fort Ann, NY	LORD Connection (1998-1999)	Robert Rolleston	Remote Access
	"My bbs was up for about 1 year but bought a home and got married didn't really have the time for it anymore. But now i'm starting it up again as a telnet bbs. lordconnection.bbs.us." - Robert Rolleston
518-725-2921 Gloversville, NY,	Mystic Gate (1994)	Richard Cassarini	CNet
	"Rick ran this BBS mostly as a community resource. There was dating service, free software and plenty of online games. The BBS originally started on a Commodore 64 with (4) 5.25 inch drives. It was then upgraded to an Amiga 500 with a Bodega Bay expansion chasis. The Amiga also doubled as his work computer for a short time till he purchased an Amiga 2000. Rick took the BBS down to focus more on his DTP business." - Mobster
518-725-7974 Gloversville, NY,	Speedy's Trading Post (1993)	Brett Hayes	WWIV
	"This BBS was run off of a 486 DX 66."
518-725-9701 Gloversville, NY,	The Liquid Sky (1994)	Robert Blayzor	CNet
	"This evolved from 2 other BBSes that Robert ran in the mid to late 80's while in high school and then later in Colorado while in the Air Force. The first name was Twilight Color Lab, after a factory his Dad worked at. The second was The Amber Monolith. The monlith was up for a few years, but moved out west with Robert while serving in the USAF. After returning, he started his BBS up again with the Liquid Sky name. After some personal matters that took the BBS down for an extended time, Robert started a local Internet Service Provider (Superior Net)." - Mobster
518-767-3832 SOUTH BETHLEHEM, NY	The Big Experiment (1979-1994)	Kevin and Nancy	Home Grown
	"Kevin and Nancy were fun people. Kevin built this ever growing BBS out of TRS80 scraps. Parts were screwed into and laid across several tables. Wire, solder, and a miniture screen with only a 40 char. width.. Genius or mad scientist, either way cool people." - Hegeman
518-785-1715 Albany, NY	Pain & Pleasure BBS, Pain and Pleasure, The Three L's BBS, Three L's BBS Node 2, Wizard's Workshop (1986-1997)	Bob Norvik, Bob Norvik & MaryAnn Kochanko, Bob Norvik & Ronda Hegeman, Kimberly Ryan, William Hegeman	RemoteAccess, Stonehenge then WWIV
	"Philosophy, Religion, Mysticsm, Paranormal and the Occult. The 86, 386 above aboard and Disks got virus'ed to death. Got divorced and left, and 3 L's or PPP ran thereafter." - William Hegeman
519-245-6166 Strathroy, Ontario	DRURY LANE BBS (1995-1999)	Don Foster	TriBBS
	"Hello, I just wanted to point out that the owner of this BBS was named Don Foster. He was a quadraplegic, and a good friend of mine. He passed away, hence why it was shut down. Thanks for the memories by making this list." - Steve Apthorp
519-254-8849 Windsor, ON	Abyss BBS, Abyss BBS going down, The Abyss (Line 1), The Abyss BBS, Line 1 (1987-1999)	Dennis Faas	Amiga TAG, Cnet Amiga
	"Dennis operated his first BBS back in 1983 (when he was just 8 years old!) with a C=64 and Cnet BBS 11.1a software. Cnet for the C=64 was considered by many as the most popular bulletin board system of all time. In 1987, the Commodore Amiga replaced Dennis' ailing C=64, and "The Abyss BBS" was born. For a period of 1-2 years, The Abyss operated under TAG software, but was quickly set aside when Cnet Amiga was released in (around) 1991. In fact, Dennis was the first person to register Cnet Amiga directly from Ken Pletzer (who lived only a short distance away). And as with the C=64 version, Cnet Amiga BBS was incredibly popular. In 1993, The Abyss BBS changed hardware platforms to IBM, and ran under Maximus BBS software. Dennis enjoyed Cnet Amiga so much that he configured Maximus to look and act almost identical to that of Cnet Amiga. In 1999, The Abyss officially closed its doors when Internet access in the Windsor area became increasingly widespread (as did broadband access). In 2001, Dennis opened infopackets.com, a blog-style website geared toward MS Windows, Internet, and Computing genre. Infopackets.com is read by 250,000 email subscribers world-wide, and enjoyed by over 20,000 unique visitors daily." - Dennis Faas
519-256-1968 Windsor, ON	Imagination Factory (1995-1997)	Ryan Iler, Kevin Renaud	C-Net Amiga
	"Home of the 3D Animator's Guild, Elite Traders."
519-256-9906 Windsor, Ontario	A BBS Odyssey (1988-1991)	Jim Lacey	C64 CNet64 BBS
	"This board origianlly ran on a Commodore 64 computer, standard commodore disk drive and a 300 bps modem. Then a bus board connected to a Commodore PET dual drive and a USR V.everything modem was added." - Jim Lacey
519-258-4960 Windsor, ON,	The Tower BBS	Mike Benson, Chris Brown	T.A.G
	"After getting into other BBSes, we decided to set up The Tower. We got a hold of the TAG software, and got it running. We recruited a couple of testers, and soon, it was running smoothly. I will never forget the time when Weasel's World moved to Kingsville, and we had to set up Front Door, and FidoNet (if I recall correctly), so that Kevin could get to Jamie's BBS for messages. It was long distance from Kinsville to A'burg. funny. I can't remember the timespan, but it was in the early nineties." - Mike Benson
519-264-9262 Mount Brydges, Ontario	Atomic Distortions BBS (1993-1998)	Gandalf	Renegade
	"Atomic Distortions was one of the HQs of the locally-based Renegade Sysops Association (RSA) (the other being the Canadian Bacon BBS in Strathroy, Ontario)." - Gandalf
519-354-0897 Chatham, ON	FiNaL IMpaCT BBS (1994-1998)	Steve Wickwire, Steve Powers (Co-Sysop)	WildCat! 4.20
	"It was a small BBS that carried the local mail net .. (KentNET) I (the SysOp) was a member of a local organization, the Kent-County Association of SysOps (KCAS). I had ~80 users. Most of them called just to play LORD (Legend Of the Red Dragon), BRE, and FE... My personal favourite game was FE! The BBS was more about message posting then anything.. the message groups were bustling with chatter all the time..." - Steve Wickwire
519-363-0051 Chesley, ON	Anarchy Online (1993-1994)	Bugs, Mark Driedger	Renegade
	"Small one line BBS operated for a couple years. Eventually became a forwarding node for 'The Fix', aka Wingham Online, aka SOS (Stephan Open Systems)." - Mark Driedger
519-372-0333 Owen Sound, Ontario	SOS, Stefan Open Systems, The FIX (1994-1997)	The Wiz, Coach, Stefan
	"First internet/BBS in the Owen Sound area. Was a BBS and a internet provider (just dialed up via trumpet winsock and went to PPP mode for that). Had VERY active chatrooms at the time, as it was the largest multi-line mutli-city BBS around (stretched across most of the 519 area code, had local ports everywhere). Also had LIVE door games, a large file selection and active message boards. As well offered internet e-mail via the BBS interface. One of the founders was Stefan (couldn't remember his handle) whom apparently was trained/hired by Bell Canada as a kid for climbing up a telephone pole and got caught playing with the boxes. At some point he started this large BBS/ISP. In late 97' (to my knowledge) the system was sold off to another company and converted completely to an ISP." - Trackzero
519-372-1583 Owen Sound, Ontario	The Underground (1994-1997)	Calvin, Treach, Napalm, LoUP-GaRoU	Wildcat
	"Popular BBS in the Owen Sound area, was run out of a small computer store in downtown Owen Sound. Decent selection of door games and active message boards. The main pull was the file section, as it did have quite a few 0-day items. BBS closed when the computer store did." - Trackzero
519-442-1740 Paris, Ontario, CANADA	The Other Side (1992-1995)	Steve Larin, Stephen Larin	VBBS
	"FidoNet Node: 1:221/1508. Hours of operation: 8:00pm to 8:00am daily (I was a teenager and wanted to use my phone line during the day). Thanks for all of your work maintaining this list!" - Stephen Larin
519-452-2090 London, Ontario	The Meeting Place (1994-1997)	Rocky	OBV/2, Spitfire and Renegade
	"Developing and running my own BBS was one of the most rewarding experiences of my childhood. Starting to participate in the local scene when I was in grade 5, in only became a natural evolution to run my own system. Through The Meeting Place, I got to meet many people both in the electronic world and real life - the memories of whom I will never forget (for both good and bad reasons I might add)! Working on your own BBS is very much akin to the love and attention one pays to their classic car. It's the same concept - you put in all kinds of time into the project with little monetary reward, but it doesn't matter because the more intangible benefits make it all worthwhile. Thank you to everyone who participated in my board. I thoroughly enjoyed your company and quite frankly, given the impersonal nature of the internet, I really do miss the good ol' days. Best Regards." - Rocky
519-453-4686 London , Ont	The Byron Connection BBS (1990-1996)	Tim Gibson	Spitfire
	"This BBS started in January of 1990 in the area of London Ontario known as Byron (519-471-XXXX). About mid 1993 it was moved to the eastend of London, but kept the name to avoid confusion. The Byron Connection grew to 3 lines before Tim Gibson started Fastlane.ca in May of 1995. Fastlane.ca ran on PCBoard with doors to a BSDI box for internet connectivity for the year of 1995. In 1996 Fastlane.ca (at this point the Spitfire based BBS was shut down) Was moved again and increased to 24 lines. Around mid to late 1997 Fastlane.ca was sold (48 lines). Tim Gibson now works with developing high speed wireless data networks in lower income countries such as Russia, Cuba and China. (2001) His current email is manet0710@hotmail.com or timandmary@sympatico.ca" - Tim Gibson "Sadly, Tim took his own life last year and is no longer with us. The emails no longer work." - D. Gahling
519-461-0178 Thorndale, ON	The HMS Botany Bay (1985-1994)	Brett Leuszler	Wildcat, T-BBS (c64), Wildcat!
	"Originally founded using a Commodore 64 + SFD1001, it was eventually moved onto a PC running Wildcat BBS in 1989. That was later folded into an ISP (Botany Bay Enterprises) in 1995, which then folded entirely when DSL came along circa 1998." - Brett Leuszler
519-471-6595 London, Ontario, CANADA	AnARChY iNc., AnARChY, Inc. (1993-1994)	Kris Foster	TELEGARD
	"This was just one board in a string boards that I created in the early 90s. There were maybe 50 subscribers and it was pretty much just collections of 2600 and Phrack." - Kris Foster
519-472-1350 London, Ontario	The Altered Reality (1996-1999)	Greg Marles	Telegard
	"Strictly art pack (ANSi) based, had downloadable copies of every art pack released during the time period. Heavily modded Telegard installation, with custom art done by local ANSi artists." - Greg Marles
519-538-2004 Meaford, Ontario	The Dragon's Horde (1992-1998)	Ticker
	"Also operated on 519-538-4081, and had a 3rd port for a short time (though I don't remember the number). Was connected to FidoNET and was a HIGHLY used board in the Collingwood-Meaford-Owen Sound area. Had at least 10 door games going all the time, VERY active message boards, but was a little short on files (always legal files)." - Trackzero
519-538-5702 Meaford, Ontario	Burning Psychosis, The Ravenloft BBS (1996-1998)	FrOStByTE	Renegade
	"Local BBS. Fairly popular (for one port), main draw was the very active file section with lots of 0-day items and cracks. Also active door scene. Also had commissioned ANSI artwork done. Was mainly visited by the Reaver Communications (an ISP, at the time www.reaver.com) userbase. Was shut down in 1998 when the SysOp moved off to college." - Trackzero
519-539-2784 Woodstock, ON	Liquid Poop (aka The Kore) (1994-1995)	dreech	Renegade m0d.
	"Running Modded Renegade on a 286 w/ 12mhz, 640kb ram and a 44MB HDD. This board owned, even if it was just experimental and not a fulltime board. Those that came knew it well." - Dreech
519-621-5011 Cambridge,	Tri-City Online Classifieds (1996-1997)	Martin Johnson ('Silent Knight')	Renegade
	"Following its demise as a BBS - Tri-City Online Classifieds was eventually re-born again as Kastle Archives Productions Inc. which is still highly active today as one of the most successful (ma-`n-pa owned)commercial adult fetish websites on the big bad `ole internet." - Martin Johnson
519-623-6116 Cambridge, Ontario	Sanitarium BBS (1987-1992)	George Kirkaldie	BBS Express, RatSoft
	"Atari BBS that first ran on a 130XE, then a Mega4, then finally on a TT030." - George Kirkaldie
519-633-3884 St. Thomas, Ontario	Computech Support BBS, Hades Junction BBS (1995-1999)	Jim Hendriksen	TriBBS, PCBoard
	"Hello Jason, I was a little surprised to find this information tucked away online. Since you have taken the time to make these listings I figured the least I could do was give you an update. I originally started the CompuTech Support BBS to lend support to my customers. My BBS was primarily local because as you know the cost of long distance telephone service kept most BBS's that way. Hades Junction BBS was actually run by me on phone number 519-633-6336 and was completely separate from the CompuTech Support BBS. I started with TriBBS because it was extremely easy to setup and use but eventually switched to PCBoard as my own skills developed. Both BBS's have been shut down for years and the phone numbers no longer belong to me. Take care Jason." - Jim Hendriksen
519-651-0513 Cambridge, Ontario CANADA,	Masters of Reality (1993-1995)	Cybernetic Soul	Renegade
	"Co-Sysop: Blade 14.4k USR 400 Megs of Files " - Cybernetic Soul
519-660-8819 London, ON	London Net Hub#4, System Four (1995-1997)	John Roesner	Maximus/2
	"System Four... ahh what memories. I ran it with the help of a great bunch of people, (Brent Pranger, Andrew Lozier) and countless others, most of which are on your list. The BBS started at 519-660-8819, and then moved to 519-680-3383. It was an interesting time." - John Roesner
519-748-1794 Kitchener, Ontario	Cerebral Meltdown (1995-1997)	Vidman	Renegade
	"The area's largest sound & music BBS.. offering 1000s files free to d/l. Vidman can now be found @ Vidman.ca" - Vidman
519-753-9359 Brantford, ON	Snake Mountain BBS (1990-1996)	Skeletor (Heidi Hassenstein)	TAG
	"Largest registered online games section. Also had fidonet." - Heidi
519-759-1817 Brantford, ON	InSTigate (1989-1990)	Jeff Brand	MichTron 2.0
	"Run on an Atari 520ST off a floppy disk using MichTron 2.0 Eventually added the MegaFile 30 ($600 then dollars) Hard Drive 30 Megabytes to run off a Mega 4 ST Catering to Atari 8-Bit and 16-Bit computers, primarily the Brantford InSTigate Atari User's Group." - Jeff Brand
519-759-5187 Brantford, Ontario	Private Heaven II (1985-1988)	Jason Gambacort	Syd Bolton Custom Code
	"Private Heaven II was a "message only" board that ran on a Commodore 64 computer, suited with a 300 baud Pocket Modem and a single 1541 Disk Drive. Although there was no files section the board software featured "Special Interest Groups" or "SIGS" and a "Make Story" section that allowed for the compilation of a story, written in segments from different users. PH II was a proud member of the "Brant County Sysops' Asscociation." - Jason Gambacort
519-821-1673 Guelph, ONT	Square Heads, Square-Heads, Square-Heads BBS (1987-1994)	Drew Hamilton	WWIV (Mac) then QuickBBS
	"I had my first BBS back in 1987 when my Dad found an old 300bps acoustic coupler from somewhere and I got a copy of the Mac version of WWIV from a shareware site. Whenever the phone rang, I had to pick it up and put it into the modem, and if I wasn't home, that meant the BBS was down. I saved up for a whole summer to get a 1200bps Smartmodem that would answer itself, meaning my BBS could go 24-hour. In the early 90s, I worked with another Guelph SysOp, Mike Clemens from The Fouth Dimension, to write a front-end echomailer for FidoNET in QuickBASIC." - Drew Hamilton
519-837-0204 GUELPH, CANADA	Radio Free Boonieville (1989-1995)	Jason Ewing	Color64
	"System was first up and running October of 89 under the name Middle Earth on a Commodore 64 running "Color64". It was later run on PunterNet, then moved over to the clone platform and ran FidoNet. The name changed somewhere around 92-93 to RadioFree Boonieville. The system closed it's lines (there were two near the end) sometime in 94-95." - Veedub
519-846-6509 Elora, ON	The Inner Sanctum (1986-1992)	Mark Morell (Astinus)	C-64
	"It was a role-playing BBS that mostly focused on home-made adventures where participants described their actions and the game master worked through the outcome in the story. It ran at 300bps (until a 450bps modem showed up) on a Commodore 64. Highlights included in-person celebrations at Christmas and Halloween as well as many, many online friendships! Good times!" - Mark Morell
519-850-9929 London, ON	Dark Knight BBS (1994-1999)	Micheal Cross, Michael Cross	Renegade
	"Dark Knight BBS started in St. Catharines, ON in 1994, but moved to London ON in 1995. After a brief hickup in service in 1996, it continued without a number of message boards like FIDONet and others. Due to the growing popularity of the Internet, and dwindling participation in other message boards, there seemed little point in keeping them. Actually, at one point, I was approached by FIDONet in London to merge my message board KnightNet (which was available on boards in North America and the UK) with FIDONet, because mine had more activity! Dark Knight BBS officially shut down in 1999 when I moved from London, ON." - Michael Cross
519-862-2894 Corunna, Ontario	Druids Keep (1992-1995)	Len Waugh	Remote Access
	"Provided the free trade of all types of software and media." - Len Waugh
519-882-1062 Petrolia, ON	Ku-Hi and the Bacon Thieves (1992-1993)	Mason Vye, Michael Morgan	RemoteAccess
	"Heavy emphasis on paper and pencil role-playing games." - Mason Vye
519-882-4574 PETROLIA, CANADA	Leif at Night, Music Odyssey, Phyte! (1993-1998)	Leif Madsen
	"Those were the days and I wish I still had the code to it :). At the time I was only about 12 or 13, but worked MANY hours and had very understanding parents who helped me out. I quickly became one of the more prominent Sysops in the area and still talk to a couple of the other Sysops around here. Those were the greatest times in computers for geeks. :)" - Leif Madsen
519-888-6614 KITCHEWTRL, CANADA	The Crazy Train (1990-1995)	Dana Burns	PCBoard
	"The site first started out as Telegard 1 Node system back in 1990 on an old 486 25MHz.\ running DOS A year or so after the system switched to Renegard it soon became a beta tester for Cott Lang (Renegade) as well as online games and antivirus software." - Dana Burns
519-928-2148 Grand Valley, Ontario	AOU (Ash Ock Underground) (1992-1997)	Dave Kratky (Marauder) co: John Lawson (Joshua)	Renegade BBS
	"AOU started out in Toronto and moved to Grand Valley in 1993. It was one of Dufferin County's longest running BBS. 3 lines @ 14.4, 2x 4cd changers for software. STEALTHnet WHQ. The BBS was shut down in late 2007 due to financial and time constraints. Also with the internet getting popular and BBSs fading out, it was time to call it a day while we were still riding high. A hard decision and I miss those days. In 2011 I'm still friends with many of the people that used my board. Memories last forever. Thanks to everyone who supported us over the years." - Dave Kratky (Marauder)
519-942-3839 Orangeville, Ontario	Megabyte BBS (1990-1991)	Steve Pytlik, Mike Pytlik, co: Marauder (Dave Kratky)	Renegade BBS
	"Quote from planetmaruader.com: Megabyte was the first BBS I co-sysoped.(Dark Lord Edmund (Ed Howard) and I were going to start one, but never got around to it, before that.) The guy who ran Megabyte, Steve Pytlik, (Who also helped me put together my first clone, a 286/16) was killed in a car accident in 2000. He was my age at the time (26).... Makes you feel your mortality." - Frootloop
519-969-5392 Windsor, Ontario	Armageddon (1994-1995)	Darrin Pastorius	TAG 2.6
	"My first BBS attempt, sadly started late in the BBS lifecycle. The board was fairly popular, prompting me to add an additional node, though I cannot remember the phone number for the life of me. Eventually it devolved into a leecher's paradise and a lot of adult oriented files. The board was renamed (or re-invented) as Permanent Vacation, named after the Aerosmith song, under the same phone number. I have many fond memories of setting up, customizing and running those BBSes and I was delighted to see one of them listed here!" - Darrin Pastorius
520-342-5170 Yuma, AZ	CACTUS PATCH, The Cactus Patch TBBS (1980-2001)	Larry Wall	TBBS MultiLine
	"This BBS originally started out with software written by myself on a TRS-80 Model I at 110-300 baud. The 1st commercial BBS software used was the InfoEx-80 Software, Then we put the Greene Machine online. Finally after looking over the TBBS software and its abilities in 1984 we went to the TBBS software because of its lightening speed. Our TRS-80 Model III at the time started to fail. We then switched to the TBBS-PC software and became a beta test site for the TBBS software. Sometime in 1986 we started testing the MultiLine TBBS software. This labor of love lasted until the great interest of the InterNet struck. People had a hard time supporting the local hobbiest BBS' but they surely had no problem migrating to the InterNet. Finally, after a thunderstorm came through the area, the CPTBBS' computer would not come back up. With no support, after 21yrs, September of 2001 the Cactus Patch TBBS surrendered its telephone lines. There were a great number of super BBS Sysops around the country. In 1988 Phil Becker had the 1st TUG (TBBS User's Group) converge on a motel in the Denver area. It was a power charged meeting of very knowledgable people..." - Larry Wall CPTBBS - Sysop -RET
520-529-3917 Tucson, AZ	Armageddon IV (1993-1996)	Douglas Hill	WWIV
	"Armageddon was a popular BBS that started originally on an Atari 130XE by a SysOp known as "Rodney" and then was handed over to a SysOp known as "Crazy Eddie." During that time he started a tradition among the users by reserving tickets to the closing show of a local theatre known as "the Gaslight theatre" 5 times a year. I took over the BBS aorund 1993, and after a bad electrical storm, converted the BBS to WWIV and called it Armageddon IV (after 3 Sysop's and 1 computer change) I also took over the Gaslight tradition, and handled the GTs from there on. Fond memories of those times of BBSs..." - Dracos
520-888-2290 Tuscon, AZ	SBBS/Tucson (1992-1998)	John Holden	DLX
	"Tucson's "largest" multiple-line BBS, with a dozen modem lines allowing live chat (one-to-one, or groups) in the days prior to Yahoo Messenger. Boca serial RS-232 interface boards are now available at a reasonable price, if someone really wants to try and resurrect a BBS for their own! Ask me nice, and I can probably un-crate a bunch or 14.4 and 28.8 modems, too! Thanks...John Holden, former owner and SysOp."
525-665-1016 Mexico City, DF	Nirvana BBS (1993-1997)	Bloodbat, KillerByte	WWIV, TriBBS
	"Quite an experiment, back then most mexican BBSs had strict filters on message content and language...not us. We were all about freedom and anarchy (and still are)."
530-534-5329 Oroville, CA	TDEC West BBS , The TDEC BBS (1989-2010)	John Young	TriBBS, Magpie , Spitfire
	"Continuous operation since 1989. 24/7. Telnet Node: tdecwest.dyndns.org (limited to messages only for now. Other doors not working yet.)" - John Young
530-743-1858 Marysville, CA	Frankendata's Castle (1989-1991)	Wild Willy	Various
	"Only up at night. Used various software. was run on an 8088 system with no hard drive installed. Frankendata's castle was originally started because I was told I could not run a BBS without a hard drive." - Wild Willy
530-878-8927 Meadow Vista, CA	WORMWooD (1988-1998)	David Canfield, Richard Hoopes	Opus v1.03
	"Originally run on a Packard Bell 8088 purchased from Price Club, now known as Costco. Computer came with a 30MB hard drive. After a year, purchased a second 60MB hard drive to host as many files and Fidonet message areas as possible. Seemed to only be limited by my 2400 baud modem! Home base before David took over the BBS was on a desk in our bedroom next to our bed. When the first child was born, I recall my wife laying on the bed playing with our infant son and saying, "Get to know the back of that man's head, it's all I ever see--That's your father". 25 Years later, we're still married! Hosted a MUPT (Modem User Pizza Thingy) a few times at Mountain Mike's Pizza in downtown Meadow Vista. After I turned the BBS over to David in 1991 and moved to the big city of Sacramento, I continued to use the Packard Bell for the kids until the 8088 fell out of favor even for them. It sat around as a doorstop for awhile. I'm a pretty big pack rat when it comes to computer parts, books, disks, etc, but the wife finally gave me the stern, "It has to go" speech. Feeling lazy, I didn't even try to resurrect the beast, connect a null modem cable and siphon off all the data... For that I have felt bad for years!" - Richard Hoopes
540-297-8458 Moneta, VA	Kerry's Palace (1989-1995)	Kerry Mitchell	Telegard
	"The BBS started out using an XT 8086 on campus (using WWIV BBS) at Virginia Tech using their internal datakits. It was switched over to Telegard in 1990 on a 286, and moved off-campus to a local number in Blacksburg on a 386 DX-40. It moved to Moneta, VA in 1993 and remained up until 1995. Throughout most of it's life, it was a member of FidoNet, etc." - Kerry Mitchell
540-298-2835 Elkton, VA	Orion's Palace, Orion's Palace Online (1994-2002)	Larry Meadows	Excalibur BBS
	"Orion's Palace is still currently running, and I have no plans to shut it down. I am running Excalibur BBS software, so you need Excalibur BBS client to call through the internet. Simply put @orionbbs.tzo.com in for the phone number in the Excalibur client calling directory editor. (include the @ as written). We still are averaging 20 - 30+ calls per day(most playing scrabble) from around the world. Check out the OPO webpage for more info at http://www.fastclik.com PS! Since the internet offers 'free' dialing for our out of state/country callers, the phone lines have been disconnected, and I run 4 nodes accessible via internet. (24/7)" - Larry Meadows
540-322-2529 Bluefield, VA	The Outer Limits (1992-1996)	Mark Turner	Synchronet, WWIV
	"The BBS was in West Virginia initially and run on an Amiga computer using MetroBBS. Then in moved a few miles across the state line into Virginia. The complete phone number changed. Later, the area code changed, too. So, it went through three different phone numbers. It also jumped from the Amiga to an IBM clone, so the software changed to Synchronet." - Mark Turner
540-328-8416 Wise, VA	Files -N- Forums, Files-N-Forums BBS (1996-1999)	Scott Sanders	TriBBS
	"This BBS was started on an IBM clone 286 with a 9600 modem, it then was expanded to a 386, then 486 and at its peak had 3 phone lines running 28.8k modems. When I first decided to start this BBS, I made a decision that people would steer towards bulletin boards and not that other online service... the internet. At the time we had ANSI graphics and they only had ftp, gopher, and a text based mosaic browser. I was very wrong, but had a great time with it!" - Scott Sanders
540-328-8865 Wise, VA	Et Cetera Unlimited (1995-1998)	Jim Blackburn	Warp Six
	"This BBS was run on an Apple IIe, one of a very few BBSes to run on that platform at the time." - Jim Blackburn
540-582-6015 Spotsylvania, VA	The Wood Pile BBS (1993-2005)	Elwood Morgan	Wildcat!
	"I started my BBS in 1993 when I built a 486 computer with a 9600 modem. I upgraded my modem every time they came out with a faster one. My first software was a script in Telix which worked OK. It was hard to add games but I figured it out finally. I then switched to Wildcat software and things got much easier. I had every decent online game available set up and working. There were more than 110 working games and 7 CD's of files online. LORD was the most popular game and it was funny watching the player's strategy. I did not play, just watched. I then built a Pentium computer with Windoze 95 but could never get the new Wildcat Windoze version working. Years later I found out it was a bug in Windoze that caused the problems. Meanwhile, I had all maintenance functions automated so the BBS ran without my help. Because of this, I left it up. Finally turned off the computer in 2005 after being online with the SAME hard drive for 11 years and no failures. Can't beat Western Digital. I enjoyed running the BBS and I hope that others enjoyed it too." - Elwood Morgan
540-676-1189 ABINGDON, VA	Abingdon Online (1992-1997)	Jason Lester, Peter Martin
	"We even made a "Treading the Boards" column in Computer Shopper several years ago. Moved to the web in 1996 and eventually disconnected our phone lines. Now at http://www.abol.com, though it is almost dead now. I run Ford-Diesel.Com, a web BBS for owners of Ford diesel trucks that is very active." - Jason Lester
540-989-4991 Roanoke, VA	CrossRoads BBS (1994-1998)	Harmony (aka Lady Venicity or Amanda Ackley), Harmony aka Lady Venicity	Renegade
	"I had probably one of the largest list of callers in the Roanoke area near the end of my board's lifespan. I'd learned to design websites and had made one for my system. By the time I had to take mine down I was getting calls from all up-and-down the east coast as well as several outlying islands! I used many softwares, but once I found Renegade, that was it. That software rocked. I still have my BBS, in hopes of one day having the equipment and time to make it tel-nettable like Dave's Diamond Mine up in Fredericksburg, VA. I never upgraded the software for Y2K though, so if I log back into my old computer (DOS/Win3.1) I have to tell the computer it's 1999 or the BBS won't function!" - Amanda Ackley
541-382-7903 Eugene, Oregon,	The Hangout (1983-1993)	Johnmichael Monteith	Custom Programmed
	"The Hangout BBS operated under various phone numbers and locations in the Eugene/Springfield area between 1983 and 1993." - Johnmichael Monteith
559-348-9699 Clovis, CA	StarDoc 134 (1992-2010)	Andrew Baker (AKA Ram Man)	WWIV
	"Still Running. Telnet/SSH only. P. Now running modified ELEBBS." - Andrew Baker
561-795-2900 West Palm Beach, Fl	After Shock (1994-1998)	Acid Rain	Renegade
	"Anyone from the old 407 still around? Happen to remember me? Drop me a line. acidrain@techie.com" - Acid Rain
561-964-4018 West Palm Beach, Fl	The Sanitarium BBS (1997-1999)	Rick Zinser	Doss 6.22 ; Desqview ; Renegade
	"5 nodes of madness... which kept ringing for 3 years after I shut down :)" - Rick Zinser
561-964-9308 West Palm Beach, FL	ElecStrawbry, The Elctric Strawberry, The Electric Strawberry, The Occult BBS II (1990-1996)	Andrew Fuller	Searchlight BBS, Searchlight
	Member of Fidonet (1:3609/3) until its demise. - Andrew Fuller
570-343-7604 Scranton, PA	The Heart of Hell BBS, The Hearts of Hell BBS (1993-1998)	Hades, Sean Connolly	WWIV
	"The Heart of Hell was a WWIV based BBS and ran in the town of Scranton for years while I grew up. The BBS has been semi-resurrected in the State College (Penn State!) area. It is currently not setup for dialing in. (there appears to be no demand for dialup BBSes, but if it occurs, I will make dial in lines available) ... you can reach it by telneting to nl.neplug.org" - Hades
570-344-6095 Scranton. PA	The Devil’s Den BBS (1992-1996)	Demon Master	C-Net Amiga
	Board ran on an Amiga 1000 for the first 2 years and on an Amiga 4000 for the last 2 years.
570-476-3115 East Stroudsburg, PA	Prophecy BBS (1996-2001)	East Stroudsburg PA, Bill Wehrkamp	VBBS (Virtual BBS)
	"I moved a few times while running this BBS; started in 1996 in East Stroudsburg PA, then spent a year in Swiftwater PA, then the rest of its life in Effort PA from 1998 through mid-2000. The phone company was always kind enough to forward calls from the old number to the new one, at least for a few months. At its peak in 1998, had three incoming phone lines, hitting over 70 calls a day. Not bad for my area at the time. Thanks for maintaining this information." - Bill Wehrkamp
570-689-3760 Sterling, PA	Planet Earth BBS (1995-1998)	MrWizzard	Renegade
	"Ran the board on 486DX/33 with 4mb ram($2100) at the time and 2 lines with the CyberSpace Transporter,...Goodtimes...Hades, I remember your board!" - MrWizzard
570-836-8017 Tunkhannock, PA	AYAK Online (1994-1998)	Tim Robinson	WWIV
	"The weird name was a name based of a baseball card business I ran as a kid called "Any Year, Any Kind" A.Y.A.K. and it just kind of stuck. I had one phone line and then added a second for dial-up. Then I started the BBS and ended up adding another line. At its peak I had 2 phone lines, at least 5-10 full time paid monthly users and 2-3 CD drives that contained "shareware" CD's that I would rotate out. This was all run out of my bedroom! Most people would post to the boards, some would login at the same time to chat, I'd then login locally so 3 people could chat at once! WOW! Most would play the WWIV games, often at all hours of the day!" - Tim Robinson
570-868-3766 Mountaintop, PA	911 (1996-2000)	Phoman	Iniquity and Renegade
	"The best art board to have existed in the 570 area code." - Phoman
570-876-5731 Archbald, PA	Archbald Pothole (1985-1989)	Jennifer Hutchey	HBBS
	"My brother John got me started with BBSs several years before I had one of my own (he ran N.E.P.A.T.S. and wrote an Atari BBS program called HutchBBS or HBBS). His first Atari modem was one of those acoustical models that couldn't answer the phone, so he built a ring detector. ;> My BBS had a few names over the years as it evolved, but the Archbald Pothole was its final incarnation. When I was in junior and senior high school, the BBSs were something of a social connection. I made a lot of friends online, and we ended up forming a county computer club where all of us traded software. Usually the sessions involved computer wars where everyone would tout why it was better to have an Atari, Apple, Commodore, etc. At its height, my BBS setup was running off an Atari 800XL with 2 Indus GT disk drives, an Atari 810 drive, a Hayes 2400 baud modem, and a stable of printers which I always seemed to wear out. I can still remember the screeching of the modem and the tat-tat-tat of the printer whenever someone logged on in the middle of the night. I never quite got the BBS bug out of my system, and have been the webmaster of archaeologyfieldwork.com for 10 years. I still have the Atari and hook it up to the TV every so often for old times sake..." - Jennifer Hutchey Palmer
572-339-0034 Fenton, MO	Yellow Submarine (1982)	Bill Galloway AKA William Tell	Wildcat
	"I was a frequent user on all the St. Louis BBS through the 80's. This wildcat BBS in Fenton MIssouri has message boards and Tradwars game. If you ever hit sector 666 in trade war you will remember my alias Clove God :)" - Bill Galloway
580-762-0758 Ponca City, OK	Shadow Lands BBS (1993-1996)	Drew Taylor	Wildcat
	"Was a free access system with four phone lines, 15 CD's available online. They had 15+ Door Games and offered Internet E-mail and FIDO-NET. The system was started and run by a thirteen year old and financially supported by his father." - Drew Taylor
586-582-9429 Warrn, MI	The Bearrsville BBS (1996-1997)	William Dobiesz	T.A.G.
	"In September 1996 we moved from the apartment in Chesterfield to the house in Warren. I gave my users lots of advance notice and over 80% were still local to my new number. Unfortunately less than 20% followed me, sometimes I'd go 3 or 4 days without a call. In November 1997 I pulled the plug, but it is all backed up on QIC-80 tape." - William Dobiesz, aka Huggy Bear
601-264-6672 Hattiesburg, MS	Hub City BBS (1990-1994)	Jim Brolaski, Charlie Reyer, Keith Solomon	PCBoard
	"Morphed into Hub City Area Access, Hattiesburg's first local ISP in 1994"
601-372-6211 Jackson, MS	Mos Eisley, Mos Eisley Cantina (1992-1994)	Thomas Head	Variable
	"Wow. Thanks so much for compiling this list--this is amazing stuff! I'm Tom (formerly Thomas) Head; ran the BBS part-time (7pm-7am, I think) during 1992, and went full-time in the Summer of '93, sometime around my 15th birthday. The BBS became the Theater of the Absurd sometime in 1994, then went defunct when my parents split in September '95. (Your list currently has Mos Eisley starting in '92 and ending in '95, then TOTA starting in '95 and ending in '97.) The FidoNet domain for Mos Eisley/TOTA was 1:3632/37. I used 13 (!) different pieces of BBS software, including WildCat! (generally my favorite), Remote Access, RBBS, and TriBBS. If it was out there and not prohibitively expensive, I got it." - Thomas Head
601-372-6992 Jackson, MS	Theater of the Absurd (1994-1997)	Thomas Head	Variable
	"This was basically the same BBS as Mos Eisley Cantina, run on a full-time number. I'd started doing my college work around this time (started young) and was double-majoring in literature, so I wanted something highfalutin'. If you list Co-SysOps, I'm pretty sure mine were Charles Patterson and Anand Thakur, with James Gibbs also on the list from time to time." - Thomas Head
601-372-6998 Jackson, MS	Electric Dreams, Electronic Dreams, Net Echo Coordinator, UltConnx II, Ultimate Connection (1985-1996)	Jim Head	Wildcat , WildCat! (mostly)
	"This was my big brother's BBS. He might have used software other than WildCat! prior to 1988; not sure. Computer HeadQuarters was a brief, experimental thing he did in his early teens; for most of the duration it was Ultimate Connection II (never Ultimate Connection plain; that was Neal Buckley's BBS) or Electronic Dreams. Great BBS, and very, very popular. Jim was one of the main fixtures of the local BBS community, and the second or third question I hear in personal computing circles is usually "Hey, are you any relation to Jim Head?"" - Thomas Head
601-372-9109 Jackson, MS	Xanadu, Xanadu BBS (1990-1994)	Chris Brown	RBBS, Searchlight
	"Thanks to whoever was thoughtful enough to add my little board to this list. My BBS started in Clinton, MS and then moved to Jackson in 1992. Although I dabbled in using Wildcat and RBBS software, the primary board used Searchlight software from beginning to end. At one time, I carried FidoNet, EchoNet, Brigadoon Weyr, and several other echomail nets. I also had as many as 30 to 40 door games active at any one time. There are times I miss it, but then I remember the huge amounts of nicotine and caffeine that it took to keep it running." - Chris Brown
601-856-0979 Madison, MS	Inconsistent, Inconsistent BBS, The Inconsistent BBS (ICBBS) (1992-1999)	Robert Keane	TriBBS
	"Wow! I am completely floored by this amazing collection of data. Reading through the website and the BBS listings is a blast from the past that has left my head reeling. As soon as I saw "Yankee Trader" and "Doors" I just started laughing. I remember what a pain in the a** it was to get some of those things working. I still miss TriBBS's message board format. I remember once how the ICBBS had over 100 messages sent back and forth during a single day. This was truly amazing to me at the time (this would have been around 93). I should get back to work but I've bookmarked this page so I can come back and stroll memory lane again soon. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THIS!" - Robert Keane
601-875-7684 OCEAN SPRINGS, MS	The Maxximum BBS (1993-1996)	Max(x) Kennerly	VBBS
	"SysOp was 13 when he started it." - M. Kennerly
601-957-0470 Clinton, MS	The Inner Sanctum (1991-1997)	Daniel Gibbs, Rob Hutson	C*Base
	It was originally launched as a Commodore 64 BBS running C*Base in 1991. Around 1996 we upgraded to a PC based system running SuperBBS 1.17. Although we never officially changed the name, the PC version was referred to as the Inner Sanctum 2.0, or the IS2 but the phone number remained the same. Rob Hutson was the sysop/owner. Also unique to note: we had an original door game on our board based on the C*base version of Empire/Super Empire called Sempire. I wrote that game over the course of a year in Turbo Pascal. Sadly, it was only online for a month or two. We "went down for maintenance" in 1997 and have been down ever since. :)" - Daniel Gibbs
601-957-3016 Jackson, MS	Cont'l Divide, Cont'lDiv., Continental Divide, Continental Divide BBS.., The Continental Divide (1991-1996)	Mike Seal	Auntie, RBBS
	"This is Mike Seal, the SysOp of this BBS. What days those were, before the Internet took over. I see a lot of names on the MS BBS list I recognize. Wonder how many are still around? Haven't heard from Jim Head, Jack Ridgeway, or Richard Vaughan in years...or really any of the others. Many of the local SysOps and users would occassionally meet for pizza somewhere in Jackson. I made a number of friends through BBSing over the years. Lots of fun. The info you have for the BBS looks correct. Thanks for putting this up. Very nostalgic." - Mike Seal
601-992-4111 JACKSON, MS	Bo's Houseboat , Bob's Houseboat (1987-1994)	Bo Trotter	PCBoard
	"This was what I consider the KING of Jackson BBSes. 4 nodes in 1989 (!), had 9600 when 9600 was fast as hell and brand new." - Don Jr.
602-242-2675 Cordes Junction, AZ	Ranch and Cattle, Ranch and Cattle BBS (1991-1995)	Steven Fischer (aka) Farmer Fischer	Spitfire, Linux Waffle
	"Ranch and Cattle migrated from relayNet to the Internet and the UUCP Newsgroups in 1995 and briefly became cattle.com That same year cattle.com was desolved and bunkhouse.com was born. bunkhouse.com is still active and very sucessful as the oldest adult website still in operation." - Steven Fischer
602-246-6285 Phoenix, AZ	Tim's, Tim'S 386, Tim's,Maxihost (1991-1994)	Tim Gimber	Maxihost
	"I got the bug to run a BBS right about at it's height in the early 90's. Because of it's popularity, and so many busy BBS's about, it didn't take long for my user base to grow to over 1000. It was one of the more enlightening processes for me as I was still a fledgling in the world of IT. But I had a great time doing it. Made many new friends, and had lots of great conversations. Unfortunately it was the loss of my job that forced me to shut it down a short 2 years later. By the time I was back up on my financial feet, my 386 (which I was running the BBS under Double DOS) had turned into a Pentium Pro, and I was anxious to get back into it, but the Internet reared it's baby head and pretty much closed the door for most BBS'. It was a great time in my life. Also extrememly time consuming as I was doing a lot of Beta testing for Maxihost. At any rate thanks to all of those who my experience with BBS'ing a pleasure." - Tim Gimber
602-247-1036 Phoenix, AZ	Iron Horse (1992)	Scooter Trash, Leather	BBS Pro! v 3.2c
	"Atari-based BBS on an international network via ExpressNet. Iron Horse was node X_381. Originally text-only but in later days accommodated ASCII art." - Clara Listensprechen
602-278-1651 PHOENIX, AZ	Majestic Royalty BBS, MajesticRoyalty, MajesticRoyalty,, The SPITFIRE Connection (1990-1995)	John Mendivil, John Mendivel	RemoteAccess, Spitfire
	ListKeeper: Phoenix AC (602)
602-279-0793 Phoenix, AZ	Cheese Whiz, Cheese Whiz BBS, Cheese Whiz Wildcat! BBS, Cheeze Whiz (1990-1998)	Sue Widemark	Wildcat 3.1
	"This BBS was designated "Keeper of the BBS list" by Boardwatch Magazine! I have a memorial website up for CheeseWhiz BBS at: http://healthread.net/cw.htm Also we have a mailing list to substitute for our famous "forum magnam" community area: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cheesewhiz" - Sue Widemark ListKeeper: Phoenix AC (602)
602-293-8065 Tucson, AZ	LANtastic BBS (1993)	Artisoft Inc.
	Support for LANtastic local area network
602-404-264 Phoenix, AZ	The Dismantled Paperclip (1994-1997)	Brian Quinn	Renegade
	"I wish I could find people that were on this board when I use to run it. those were some good times :)" - Brian Quinn
602-452-0587 PHOENIX, AZ	The COMMO Shack, The COMMO Shack BBS, The Commo Shack BBS (1992-1995)	Kevin McCrory, Kevin McCroy
	ListKeeper: Cochise County Arizona
602-491-3494 Tempe, AZ	Craftman's Models, Craftsman's Models, Doug'sFarside, Craftsman's Workshop (1990-1994)	Doug Klassen	Spitfire BBS
	Correct name for the first BBS was "The Craftsman's Workshop" which morphed into "Doug's Farside BBS." Later, when the web became more accessible, about 1995 or '96 that became an early political web blog satire in the form of "The American Royalist Party" in which I nominated myself to be American's sovereign. In time I switched to a motorcycle history and reminisce site entitled "Motorcycles - A Life Long Passion" which now exists as "Forty Years On Two Wheels"." - Doug Klassen
602-589-0667 PHOENIX, AZ	Excentric Hideaway, The EXCENTRIC Hideaway (1992-2000)	Nicholas Estes	Renegade
	"I am reachable at bbs@nickstoys.com." - Nick Estes
602-622-0383 PHOENIX, AZ	L-5 HQ BBS
	Preregistration required. Call the HQ office at (602) 622-6351 for an account.
602-627-9303 PHOENIX, AZ	The Timelords BBS (1987-1998)	Timothy Phillips, Andy Phillips	Renegade, WBBS, Searchlight
	"Hi. I happened across your site in my quest for something else. I wanted to submit some additional info (corrections) for this BBS that is already listed in your database. My name is Andy Phillips. I attended DeVry Institute of Technology in 87/88/89 and started this BBS in my home in Phoenix while in school as a hobby project. My brother, Timothy, helped me as Co-sysop while I was in school, then, after I finished school, he took it over and ran it until it closed in 1998. We had an awesome time, as there were many BBS's that came up since that didn't enjoy as long a run as we did. Especially since we were thriving years after the Internet came on the scene." - Andy Phillips
602-641-8414 Mesa, AZ	East Valley Portal, The Treasure Hunters BBS (1989-1994)	Richard Rector	Telegard/Renegade BBS
	"Hi, I was the Sysop of the East Valley Portal. The BBS first went online in October 1989 using Telegard BBS Software. The BBS evolved by word of mouth until December 1990 when I decided to Join Fidonet. Dave Bell was my contact on this. I changed from Telegard to Renegade when Cott Lang started programing it from the old Telegard Source Code. It wasn't until the middle of 1994 that I changed the format of the Board to The Treasure Hunters BBS. It seems that the unwelcome change plus the fact that the Internet was gaining popularity, The board went from over a 1000 regular users down to less than 50. So I decided to take the BBS down. I have no regrets about ever running the BBS, And I really Enjoyed the users that I had. I really think it's Great what you are doing, Keep up the good work!" Richard L. Rector - Gatekeeper, The East Valley Portal.
602-644-9923 Mesa, AZ	Infinite Improbability Board, Over There! (1995-1996)	Dave Bell, David Coburn	Wildcat
	"Founder & HQ of MetroNet, taken over by Peter Raymond of the Ranch & Cattle Metro." - Clara Listensprechen
602-730-9105 Phoenix, Arizona	Digital Deli BBS (1991-1996)	XTreme Dream (Art Pitcher)	Wildcat
	"Famous for the "Deli Meats" section of original adult photography, and the commercial arm of A&G Photography (a partnership between Greg McLeod of 'The Bistro' and Art Pitcher). Began on VBBS Software and then migrated in 1993 to Wildcat." - Art Pitcher
602-731-9538 Tempe, AZ	Smash The State (1993-1994)	refugee	Public Access Messaging Service
	"Very political and very very busy; run on a Commodore. Besides the politics it was also an online get-together for fans of Black Adder and Red Dwarf. Also discussions about shortwave radio (my primary interest) and good place to find shortwave radio schedules." - Clara Listensprechen
602-820-7192 Tempe, AZ	The Assylum (1984-1989)	Brian Bradley
	"A good friend of the Owner of The Secret Service BBS. Brian ran his BBS off an old Apple iie. Was the greatest he had a friend back in high school that had a modified version of a ZORK type game running online for him that had been rescripted to fit his Assylum theme."
602-820-7861 Tempe, AZ	BBSouthWest, Conceptual CAD, Conceptual Cad Design, Conceptual CAD Design BBS (1992-1996)	Michael Masters	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Arizona and Southwest U.S
602-833-9216 Mesa, AZ	Magrethea (1985-1994)	Lee Whiteside
	Originally ran on an Atari at 300 baud, eventually was on an Atari ST and also co-hosted the SEVAC BBS in the mid-90s.
602-876-0013 PHOENIX, AZ	SherwoodForest, The Sherwood Forest BBS (1988-1998)	Little John Myers	Wildcat
	"Additional Numbers - 602.876.9735 & 602.876.9739 + www.sfbbs.com (now offline) The Sherwood Forest BBS, founded by Dr. John A. Myers, was one of Phoenix's largest and most successful BBS's, and the home of the extemely successful Door Game, Stardock Loco. The day it was taken off-line to merge with JCCS BBS and Ranch & Cattle BBS to create az-jccs.com, a Phoenix area ISP, Sherwood had 1400 users that called in at least twice per month, 172,000 files and one of the most active gaming sections anywhere. During the years when BBS's and the Internet were peacefully coexisting, John also operated the Internet site, Little John's BBS Doors Archive, maintaining a single, definitive source of BBS Doors for SysOps around the world. The Archive was taken off-line in 1998, around the same time the BBS was shut down. At the time of its closure, the Archive contained more than 2gb of catalogued and linked files. While Sherwood, JCCS and R&C are now gone, as is az-jccs.com, "Little John", is still active in the computer community. Sherwood Computer Systems (www.sherwoodcs.com), an off-shoot of the BBS, is still in operation and providing the same quality service that is synonymous with the name. In addition, John is the Chair of the Technology Department of Arizona Institute of Business and Technology, West Valley, and the owner of several online businesses." - Little John
602-878-3982 Glendale, AZ	Data West (1984-1990)	Data Master	Color 64 & 4DBBS
	"Hello, I ran the Data West BBS from my room for several years. It actually started it's life as CandyLand but was only up form 10pm-7am. WHen I could finally afford a phone line (I was only 14 when I started...) it went online 24x7. It ran on a Commodore 128, Color 64 BBS, a 1750 Ram Expander, 2 1571's, and 1 SFD 1001. I used to "advertise" the most games of any BBS, but I never really got all the game modules working correctly. WHen I bought an Amiga 1000, I switched to running 4DBBS software. I still have my original 4DBBS software, and I believe it loads up on my Amiga 500 w/ 50mb HD. I no longer have an external modem that works, nor the 500 plugged in. Ahh, it was fun though!" - Todd Shannon, aka Data Master
602-893-2526 Phoenix, AZ	The Secret Service (1983-1985)	Cory Schlag a.k.a. George JeTsON	AIMS
	"Original set-up ran on a an Atari 800 with 1 dual and 1 single floppy and a 300 baud modem. Later Changed versions of AIMS and upgraded to a Atari 1200xl and a 900 baud modem. The BBS was realativley short lived, but had a great local following and killed some time in those early high school years." - Cory Schlag
602-894-2438 Tempe, AZ	YoyoDyne, YoYoDyne BBS, Yoyodyne Technologies, TARDIS / Yoyodyne BBS (1985-2010)	Mark Firestone, Laurence Starks, John Lorance, The Doctor	Top Quark, TopQUARK, Quarkware
	"The BBS was origionally (and mainly) called The TARDIS BBS, and was started by John Lorance when he was 15 as a project to write "a RBBS clone that didn't crash every five minutes". He suceeded. QBBS and WBBS (by Wayne Conrad) fought it out for most popular BBS software in Phoenix for a while. Mark Firestone took it over -- it later mutated into Fear, the BBS and then YoYoDYNE BBS. It has been reincarnated as a web page and email list. The URL is http://tardis3.netfirms.com"
602-894-6526 TEMPE, AZ	The Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr BBS (1983-1997)	Thane Smith, Dave Scott, Steve MacLeod-Calabrese, Thane Smith et al.	Custom
	"The famous Zephyr Magazine archive can be found at: http://tardis3.netfirms.com/zephyr/zephyr.html" - Thane Smith
602-915-0506 Phoenix, AZ	The Jester's Court (1993-1994)	Slick	Renegade
	"2 lines, 24/7, Crossover and Wacky Nets, 40+ Online Games." - Slick
602-917-3387 Chandler, AZ	The ODAAT BBS (1993-1994)	Steven Swift	Wildcat
	"Recovery theme BBS." - Steven Swift
602-922-0035 Scottsdale, AZ	Dr. Kevorkian's Place (1993-1994)	Ron Huie	Remote Access/ Roboboard FX
	"I ran this BBS as a kid on a single line. It was a small BBS.. I think I had not quite 200 users at the most. I had tradewars 2002, shareware files, text files and of course a few "other" files for adults." - Ron Huie
602-934-5857 GLENDALE, AZ	The Unknown BBS (TUBBS) (1980-1996)	David Rankin, The Unknown Sysop	MajorBBS
	"TUBBS first went up on an Apple II with two floppy drives (110K each) and a 300bd modem running a BBS written in Apple Basic. In 1983 it moved to an IBM XT clone with a huge 10 meg hard drive and a 1200bd modem. We ran a few different software packages before finding WWIV, written in Pascal with source code. In 1990 we went to running Major BBS and added 6 2400bd modems. We were never a download BBS. It was more of a neighborhood bar where people chatted and hung out." - Devin Rankin
602-937-7780 Glendale, AZ	INFO Zone, Info Zone, The, Pinky's Soul Kitchen (1994-1998)	Jerry Bursztyn, Palladium Knight (Jerry Bursztyn)
	"Originally, I was only going to make a comment about the name of the BBS and the actual years of when the BBS was up. I decided to give a little background of the board. Pinky's Soul Kitchen is the name of my BBS before I redone it from scratch using a fresh install of Renegade and with Portal of Power for my mailer. I started with Telegard and used a small utility to switch to Renegade (since when I started using RG, there was not really that much difference between TG and RG). The mailer I was using at the time was FrontDoor. I also messed around with a few other front ends including InterMail, Binkley, and one I just can't remember due to the fact it only ran for about 45 seconds before I figured I really didn't like it. I was a member of a local net called BootyNet. This was an ANTI-BARNEY the Dinosaur net, basically. After that, I joined LoveNet, ITCNet, RGSNet, Infinet, and Infinet II. All of this running on a stable shared space within DesqView Pre-emptive shell. For one month, it was run on DesqView/X, but proved to be fatally slow. (I was running a 386/20 at the time) PSK was taken down in 1996 for small renovations on the menus, OS change, hardware upgrade, and a little rest. But, a costly error on my part, and loss of the integrity of the backup tapes, I lost the menus and message bases, permanently. This virtually forced me to redo the BBS from scratch. That is the time I also wanted to rename my board. INFO Zone was the new name. "Insanity Never Follows Order" Zone was the full long drawn name. At this time, I switched to Portal Of Power for my mailer. I continued running the BBS, but with new hardware and OS. It ran under OS/2 Warp 3, a 486DX2/66 and a 340 meg Maxtor drive. A few months later, it jumped up to a 1 gig Seagate SCSI drive (for some scary reasons, but that 340 meg Maxtor still lives! Not as a 340 anymore... more like 300 megs left in someone else's house). INFO Zone started serving files from shareware CD's (ATAPI drives and Warp 3... who knew?) and also files I found on my sporadic use of my dial-up connection to the internet. At this point, I also found a new mailer that I instantly fell in love with. T-Mail. T-Mail allowed all the same netmail transfers as PoP, but cleaner looking and more customized format of configurations. (It actually used TXT files for the configuration files. T-Mail was more like a Binkley-X derivative that had a very streamlined way of routing mail). INFO Zone lived through some really major times. In the life of two years (96-98) I upgraded to a 5X86/100, 24 megs of EDO, and a whopping 4 gigs of SCSI-licious drive space sharing 4 CD's at a time. Then, IBM made a decision that I believed was the worst decision they ever made since they decided to make OS/2 port for PowerPC. They shelved OS/2. This forced me to make a decision. Stick with an OS that just died, or move on to a bleak horizon of Microsoft. Don't get me wrong, Windows is nice, but I was an OS/2 freak. I switched to Windows 95 Nashville edition. Yes, this is the unofficial, non-released edition of OSR2 (OSR2 without FAT32) I ran INFO Zone for a little while. Problem, it didn't work too well. IZBBS just had too many problems with the fossil driver I tried to use (BNU Fossil). I even tried X00, which was minimally better with the Win32 shell. Then I got my hands on ADFossil. Worked wonders within Win95. It even worked in Win98. But, I made a decision. At this time, I was becoming more and more a netizen. I had at this time on average 5 calls a day, 1 post a day (that was not mine), and the doorgames were empty. I let everyone know... the last few people who logged on) that I decided to close the board. I messaged in every net I was on (At this time, I was on ITC, FIDO, and CrossoverNet) and let everyone know I will be closing. After a really cold reception of my decision on ITC, ("Whatever" "Cool") a very empty reply from FIDO, ("Thanks for being the Phoenix Hub. We will miss you" form letter), and a surprisingly warm goodbye from in Crossover, ("What? and I was hoping to make waffles!") I ran my backup program for the last time. My last QIC-80 tape to be filled. INFO Zone is placed on the shelf. The name remains in the computer (INFO Zone Breakthrough Technologies) and on the net (INFO Zone Information Systems) and in my mail (INFO Zone Consulting) And the SysOp name will live on. Palladium Knight." "Now, it is at the end of the year of 2001. 2002 is upon us. There are times I look at my QIC-80 box. I now have a Travan 3G in my secondary computer. There are times I just say, "Wouldn't it be great to just download the last backup and run IZBBS in a telnet session on my WinXP station." I really doubt it will be Renegade. I don't know of a Fossil driver that will run as a telnet session in WinXP. Under OS/2, I had Ray Gwinn's SIO with VMODEM. Now that the Internet has stepped away from Gopher, Telnet, and MUDs as the mainstay of the net, and now affectionately called the WEB, will there ever be a reason for someone to make a FULL Fossil Rev 5 for WIN32? With the rampant mix of viral threats, Trojan horses, and worms galore plaguing the internet, maybe the father of computer networking will become once again as a safe haven for the technically gifted." - Pall
602-953-3391 Phoenix, AZ	The Forum BBS (1988-1990)	Magic (Shane Watson)	Color 64
	"Was originally "Hit Man's Alley" run by Hit Man (later known as Magic) beginning at age 13. Run on a commodore 128 with ram expander and two disk drives. Originally run at 300 baud, then 1200 and eventually 2400. Shane Watson can now be found at http://www.silverladder.com" - Shane Watson
602-962-7698 MESA, AZ	Silent SID	Chris Mitchel
	Sub-board for the Saguaro Astronomical Club, which posts club announcements and newsletter extracts.
602-967-0498	ASU Underground (1986-1991)	Conal Garrity (Aka Metalhead), Jonathan Gillies, Andy Woodward	PCBoard, Forum (Customized)
	"Conal Garrity (AKA: Metalhead) 1986-1988, Jonathan Gillies & Andy Woodward (Flying Circus BBS) 1988-1991. We played around with net mail and network file transfers long before Fidonet became the norm. We were the #2 Phoenix Area BBS Behind Samuel Smith's Tool Shop BBS because he distributed excellent software. We also maintained the AZ BBS list from 1986 to 1988." - Conal Garrity
602-967-7532 Tempe, AZ	Genesys, New Tempe BBS (1983-1992)	David Johnston, James Taranto (JT)	Searchlight, Genesystem written in TRS-80 Level II BASIC by JT in 3 days
	"This board, the 300 baud "fastest BBS in the West" was the scene of lively political discussions, flame wars, inside jokes and puns. The SYSOP James Taranto (JT) was an aggressive opponent of the original "SYSOP's Charter," which he felt was a form of censorship. At one point JT lobbied his friends not to use the Apollo BBS (602-246-1432) because he felt Apollo SYSOP Cliff Kolostow didn't allow free speech. "JT went on to study journalism or something. With help from the ACLU, he sued a professor who suspended him from the student newspaper for publishing a cartoon making fun of affirmative action. As of May 2007, he's editor of the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal and author of its "Best Of The Web" page (a Genesystem), found here: http://opinionjournal.com/best "Other users of Genesys included Frank Lopinto, Nick Ianuzzi, Head Quasar,Keith Frost, Keith Gregg, Peter Cervelli, Joel Genesys, Rae Ackerman, and the late Paul Savage. I (Head Quasar) also used Apollo and BLAX-80." - Head Quasar
602-968-1082 Tempe, AZ	American Cybernetics, American Cybernetics BBS (1993)	American Cybernetics
	Multi-Edit Product Support BBS
602-971-4594 Phoenix, AZ	PV-80 (1980-1982)	Mark Fogle	Custom
	"This was less a BBS than an attempt to timeshare a TRS-80 Model I. I wrote the software myself, hooking into the TRS-80 Model I BIOS (such as it was) and replacing all of the in/out calls with calls to read/write data from a 300 baud modem. Dial-up users could chat with me sitting at the console or play the currently loaded Scott Adams Adventure (which, over a 300 baud modem wasn't a particularly compelling experience). Each user also received his/her own virtual filespace, which they could use to write their own TRS-80 Basic programs. This, of course, meant that I needed to disable any BASIC function that would allow writing directly to memory, as this would have allowed enterprising users to take over the machine for nefarious purposes. The project consumed most of my spare time during my sophomore, junior and senior years of highschool. Once I got into college and gained regular access to a PDP-11, the PV-80 project, not surprisingly, languished. I can't remember when I finally pulled the plug, but I suspect it was sometime in late 1982. For at least a couple of years afterwards, however, people continued to call, having found the number on some outdated BBS list and deciding to give it a try." - Mark Fogle
602-992-5636 North Phoenix, AZ	The Wall, Wall (1987-1994)	Matt Smith	WBBS
	"Sysop - Warped reality (Matt Smith) Co-Sysop - Neon Knight (Jim Boniface). Thanks to everyone for so many great years, I had a blast with not only this BBS but so many others." - Matt Smith
602-995-2142 Scottsdale, AZ	The Doctor's Office BBS, The Doctors Office (1991-1994)	Brian Baribeau, Brian Baribeau ( aka The Doctor )	Spitfire / Synchronet
	"I started this BBS in Scottsdale & took it with me to Flagstaff for school. Ran on a 386/25 with a 89mn HD and 2 TWO cd roms! ( 1 shareware, 1 porn ) HA! It was later eclipsed by the BBS at the End of the Universe run by Don Freed. A great guy who ran a great BBS." - Brian Baribeau
602-995-8182 PHOENIX, AZ	Ghetto (1992)	Andeveron
	Independent Member BBS
602-996-3464 Phoenix, AZ	Black Knight's Citadel (1986-1997)	Shawn Kupillas	WBBS, Celerity, Wildcat!
	"I started BKC back in 1987 on a PC/XT 4.77/8mhz dual floppy system. BKC progressed from a message forum using the WBBS software to being a messaging/gaming/file transfer platform running Wildcat! at the end of its run. It, like BBSes in general, died as a result of the advent of the wide use of the internet." - Shawn Kupillas
602-996-8002 Phoenix, AZ	Temple of Doom, The Temple of Doom (1988-1990)	Indiana Jones	WWIV
	"It was a lot of fun running a BBS in the days before the internet." - Indiana Jones
602-997-5115 PHOENIX, AZ	Traveller BBS, The Traveller (1981-1983)	John Groseclose	GBBS
	"Ran on an Apple ][+ with twin Corvus 11.5MB hard disks. At the time, the operator (John Groseclose) was the youngest sysop in the world at eleven years old."
603-224-9262 Concord, NH	Samaritan BBS (1990)	Nick Cassavaugh	OmegaComm
	"I was the first to get OmegaComm (by Larry Loiselle) on FidoNet, thanks to Mark Sawyer's feed from the Recovery BBS. Initially the board ran on a Radio Shack Tandy 1000Hx that I had added a 32MB hard drive to. Eventually, the board ran on an old 8086 PC clone and a 1200 baud modem; eventually upgraded to a 2400, but I could never afford a decent USR HST modem. I eventually shut down the board because I didn't have the money to invest in it and make it decent in the way the Nor'Easter BBS was. I had a large collection of available protocols for file transfer too. In addition to standard x/y/zmodem I was running things like BiModem and Puma; pretty much anything that came down the pike. Nobody ever did much transfer though! Maybe I will share what I can remember in an essay format later. /\/ick (oh and I started using the /\/ when i saw one of my users named Mike using /\/\.)" - Nick Cassavaugh
603-226-0467 Concord, NH	Mario's Birdhouse, Marios Birdhouse (1991-1995)	Mike Maggi	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: New Hampshire BBS 's
603-335-8586 Rochester, NH	Depth Perception BBS (1995-1997)	Ryan Apac	Spitfire
	"From the start, the Depth Perception BBS was a "serious" operation (keeping in mind that I was only 16 at the time). The BBS was operated on a 486 DX2/66 system with 8MB RAM, 420MB hard drive, 4x CD-ROM and US Robotics 14.4K Sportster modem. It was founded in August, 1995, around the time of my 16th birthday, at my parents' house in Rochester, NH. I had been an active user of local BBS' for some time and had always had a "dream" of sorts of being a sysop. After turning 16 and getting my first part-time job at a local grocery store, I was able to make my dream come true after having my own dedicated phone line installed in my parents' house. Having set up several "model" bulletin boards in the past using shareware copies of Spitfire, Wildcat and other software packages of the time, I embarked on my journey of being the next local sysop. Upon completing basic ANSI welcome screens and menus and setting up the basic features of my BBS, I advertised it on all of the local bulletin boards and waited for the calls to start coming in. Upon waking up the next morning, I discovered that my board had already taken in a small handful of calls! Undoubtedly, it was enough to maintain my interest! Over the following months, I poured hours upon hours each and every day into the BBS, adding a collection of CD-ROM shareware archives, registering my copy of Spitfire and several of the more popular interactive "door" games, creating a "comprehensive" collection of downloadable shareware files (within the limits of my 420MB hard drive, which, at the time, was a fairly worry-free limit) and automating many of the BBS' processes with several programs I authored and compiled using Microsoft's QuickBasic v4.5. Next came the addition of Frontdoor and my BBS' subscription to several of the more popular net-mail networks of the time, including FidoNet. From this point on, it was not abnormal for my board to some days answer up to 50 calls (depending on the amount of time individual callers were remaining connected)! Seldom was there a moment when it was not in use, even very late at night. I was very active with my users, breaking-in frequently to chat with whomever was "online" at the moment, "shooting the breeze", getting more ideas on how to improve my operation, even starting a small drive for cash contributions to put toward software upgrades and registrations (my thanks go out to those who helped!). The board became well known in the area. At a time when other BBS's were declining, Depth Perception was on the rise and only getting better!" "The demise of the Depth Perception BBS came unexpectedly in late 1996, when I migrated its files to a new NEC 1.6GB hard drive, which had accidentally incurred magnetic damage after being exposed to unshielded computer speakers built into the case of my computer (my thanks go out to Western Digital, maker of the previous hard drive, whose quality outer shell resisted the effects of the strong magnetic field). Any data written onto damaged portions of the hard drive was permanently lost, and though, in fact, less than a megabyte of the drive's storage capacity had been affected overall, the small amount of damage was widespread over the drive and caused the loss of a great many files -- too many, especially in an age of increasing Internet popularity, to warrant the long hours of work it would have taken to restore the BBS to its original form. It was at this time that the BBS was nobly retired, after answering some 8,000+ calls and entertaining hundreds of dedicated, local subscribers." - Ryan Apac
603-433-1859 Portsmouth, NH	Quagmire , Quagmire BBS (1983-1995)	Paul Shoop
	"Started out with an atari 800 and a 300 baud modem that I had to build the ring detector for and a heavily modified atari basic program to run the BBS... moved up to a 1200 then a 2400, added a (if not the first on the east coast then one of the very first) 10meg harddrive to the atari before getting serious and upgrading to a 80286 10mhz 80meg 9600HST system running whatever was the bbs OS de'jure was until 1995 and the web started taking over... knew it was time to go." - Paul Shoop
603-436-6793 Portsmouth, NH	Gandalf's Magic Box (1993-1994)	Michael Heyse	Renegade
	"This BBS was located at Portsmouth High School. I went to Portsmouth as a foreign exchange student (I'm from Germany) and had the honor of setting up running the BBS during my one year stay. I don't know what happened to it after I left in 1994." - Michael Heyse
603-647-4340 Manchester, NH	The DeadZone BBS (1986-1990)	Rob Hoitt (Wolverine, Starscream)	RCIBBS, Color 64
	"The first and second incarnations of The DeadZone were launched when I was in high school. Originally, purchased my BBS software from Randy Prothero who ran the RCI BBS in Merrimack, NH. (I once asked Randy what RCI stood for, he said "Really Cool Initials" although later he told me "Randy's Computer Incorporated." Never did know which was right.) The DeadZone BBS ran from a Commodore 64 with a 1541 hard drive. As the board grew, the 1541 was inadequate for the upload/download system so I bought a 1581 floppy drive which offered a cool meg of storage. (Which was darn big back then.) I also was given Ken Beinvenue's (aka Uncle Hogram's) old Color 64 software (Which he ran the Center Of Eternity BBS from) as he had recently upgraded to an IBM PC and didn't need the license anymore. In the spring of 1990 I took the BBS offline for a six month hiatus knowing I would be off to college in a couple months, where it got a new phone number." - Rob Hoitt
603-668-2983 Manchester, NH	EveryBaudy's Online BBS, Jon's Bus Stop, EveryBaudy's BBS (1993-2001)	Jon Gross, Edward Lennon, Ed Lennon	MajorBBS 6.21
	"EveryBaudy's Online still operates and can be reached from the original phone number for Jon's Bus Stop 603-668-2983 (BYTE). EveryBaudy's Online is a telnetable BBS that is included with an Internet account at GroLen Communications and still runs WORLDGROUP with various games and modules!! The BBS has been up non-stop since 1994 and even has a drop down terminal mode that includes the old ANSI screens!!!" - Jon Gross, GroLen Communications, Inc.
603-669-9149 Manchester, NH	The Dead Zone, The DeadZone BBS (1990-1993)	Bob Hoitt, Rob Hoitt, Rob Hoitt (Starscream)	Searchlight
	"The third incarnation of The DeadZone was launched when I was in college. The trusty Commodore 64 was finally upgraded for an IBM PS/2 386SX running MSDOS 6.2 and working off of Searchlight BBS. The DeadZone was the only source of UUCPnet (A Fidonet clone) for the Manchester-Merrimack area. (We got the feed from Mark Tetrault up in Allenstown.) In 1992 the DeadZone discontinued network mail, and was reduced to running part-time, until it was finally taken offline in early 1993." - Rob Hoitt
603-742-9812 Dover/Somersworth, NH	The Round Table (1986-1990)	Steve Noel	WWIV
	"This BBS started as a 11pm to 7am board on another number, then got a dedicated line and at some point was renamed to Garrison BBS." - Steve Noel
603-881-8977 Nashua, NH	The //otherboard (1991-1993)	Chris Marko	Renegade & Remote Access
	"The site went through a few different iterations of BBS software, though it always remained a mecca of both chat and a fairly significant collection of useless files to download." - Larry Laffer
603-895-4382 Raymond, NH,	The Tower	Keith Jameson
	"Early 1990s. Mostly night operation." - Keith Jameson
604-224-5775 Vancouver, BC	John's Jukes Tech, John's Jukes Tech BBS (1993-1996)	John Robertson
	"The BBS only ran at night and weekends as that phone line was used for the fax machine during business hours. The BBS information was moved over to my web site www.flippers.com in 1996/7." - John Robertson
604-264-7812 Vancouver, BC	Excellence BBS (1990-1994)	Mike North	Maximus
	"I started this BBS under another name, originally (can't remember what it was, though) on my family's first computer. A brand new IBM PS/2, which was a 286 with a 30MB hard drive and 1MB of RAM. I remember when DesqView first came out, and all of a sudden I could actually USE my computer at the same time as running the BBS! I was in awe. "Multitasking!!!" It was a very pleasant surprise to find that my old BBS is not forgotten, and it's existence has now been imortalized on the web. I have many fond memories of late-night chats with callers, and of Tradewars and other online games. One final memory: I was 12 years old, and my parents didn't want me to use my real name. "Mike A. North" was an alias I made up." - Telfer Maynard
604-266-1977 Vancouver, BC	Acting NC, BandMaster, BandMaster BBS, BandMaster Postie, Central BC/Yellowhead, District 100 Coord, GUNN Data Systems, Mid Atlantic, North West, Pacific Rim Host (1986-2009)	Dallas Hinton, DE Hinton, Brent Shellenberg, Temp RC13 Dallas Hinton	Max, Squish, Binkley
	"I now have 2 telnet connections (bandmaster.tzo.com) and 2 modem lines (604-266-1977 and 604-266-5271). I'm the former FidoNet Regional Coordinator of Region 17 (Pacific NorthWest)." - Dallas Hinton
604-270-6475 Richmond, BC, CANADA	Airspace Non-smokers' Rights Society BBS (1985-1995)	Dale Jackaman	Heavy Metal, Opus, Maximus
	"The full name was Airspace Non-smokers' Rights Society BBS. This BBS was in fact up and running around 1985 on a Kaypro 10 cp/m (ZCPR1 and later ZCPR3 actually) machine running Heavy Metal BBS software. The BBS was private for the first year or so and used only as an organizational tool for the Province wide Airspace organization. I made it public for the public relations value and it caused quite a stir due to its, at the time, controversial topic. I think we must have invented flame e-mail because we sure got a lot! It was later moved to a PC clone running Opus 1.1 on DOS/DesqView and later again migrated to Maximus running on DOS/DesqView and later Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and some short term flirtations with OS/2 and even an early beta of Windows NT 3.1 I got directly from Bill Gates and the senior management at Microsoft. The BBS was also on FidoNet with Binkley as the front end for the most part. I pulled the plug in the fall of 1995 as we migrated our systems to e-mail and the web. The organization is still very much active, makes the front pages regularly, and has a web site at http://airspace.bc.ca and http://safework.ca. "The Kaypro Users Group BBS (VKUG) was also active in these early years. (pre-Airspace in fact) When I first got the machine from a gentleman who ran the Vancouver Portable Computer Club BBS, who's name I unfortunatly forget, it was on an old cp/m Osbourne One (running ZCPR version 3) with a 5 meg Trantor hard disk and a 300 bps modem. It was also running Heavy Metal BBS software which I converted to Opus/Binkley and Maximus/Binkley. Kaypro donated an new 4.77Mhz Kaypro XT clone for the Opus software conversion which firms up the dates pretty well I should think. Jay Siegel and I shared SysOp duties for those years. I think it was shut down finally in 1995 but can't be sure. "The VPCC BBS I believe was one of the very first BBS's in British Columbia if not Western Canada. There is some reference of the old organization at http://www.pccfa.org/whoweare/ but no mention of the BBS unfortunatly." - Dale Jackaman
604-272-0908 Richmond, BC	Eagle Communications (1994-1995)	Marty Anstey	Remote Access
	"This was the official BBS for the Richmond Christian School." - Anonymous
604-274-9167 Richmond, BC	Manslaughter (1993-1994)	Robert Evans
	"I was 12 years old and knew nothing about anything; it amazes me today that I somehow managed to put a BBS together and people called!" - Robert Evans
604-294-4688 Burnaby, BC	Talk Spot (1988-1991)	Albert Addante	BBS-PC
	"Basic 1-line message board BBS, up to 200 users." - Albert Addante
604-362-5484 Rossland, BC	Star Flight BBS (1988-1993)	Joe Piche	Home Grown
	"Wow.. This took me back. I was searching for my hometown name just for fun. I wrote this BBS in QuickBasic, and ran it all through highschool. It started out as simple ascii scrolling text. Next email, games, ANSI graphics, & Fidonet. Started on a loaner 1200 baud, and upgraded to a 2400 baud for most of its life. In its last year, I went to (high speed) 14.4k. Most of its life was spent on an old 8086 PC, with a 30Mb HD I got for free from my dad. I had a number of online games, including Tradewars, an online tetris where players could compete for the highscore, later on VGA wars, and full fidonet support. I had to call kelowna to get my fido feed (aka fix). I have a copy of the software, somewheres on a disk. I just wish i could find it. Relive the dream :)" - Joe Piche
604-370-2404 Victoria, BC	Nevermind BBS, The NeverMind BBS (1995)	Jonathan Lomas	RemoteAccess
	"Bahahaha... I can't believe someone actually knows about this. That was so long ago. Good work - most of the names in the Victoria area bring back a weird range of memories. :)" - Jonathan Lomas
604-380-0297 VICTORIA, CANADA	Ivo Andric Memorial, Ivo Andric Memorial BBS (1988-1991)	Gwen Barnes (The Bulletin Broad)	Wildcat
	"I turned off the BBS in 1991 and went to work for Mustang Software Inc., makers of Wildcat! BBS. Nearly 10 years later I'm still here, though the company has changed ownership twice and is now part of Avaya Inc." - Gwen Barnes
604-381-3934 Victoria, BC	Farwest, Farwest BBS PCB4 240m (1986-1998)	Ren L'Ecuyer, Ren L’Ecuyer
	Large Western Canada Galacticomm Info System
604-430-8987 VANCOUVER, CANADA	Datalink, Datalink BBS (1993-1996)	Daryl Salisbury, Sysops: Daryl Salisbury, David Brokenshire	SuperBBS
	"Hi, I co-sysoped Datalink way back when with my best friend Daryl. We started up in 1993, but we didn't get listed until early 1994 (On Roxanne Spear's BBS list to start with). We underwent a brief outtage in late '95 when Daryl moved, and finally shut down in late '96. We started the board when we were both 13 years old, on a 486sx 25 with a 14.4 USR. We were always single line, but we managed to have about two hundred registered users at our peak, and about 30-40 regular (every day or so) users." - David Brokenshire
604-431-4569 Various, BC	PowerHouse Point (1986-1998)	Doug Shields	Various
	"You have 3 listings for Powerhouse Point in Vancouver BC... they are all one and the same. They all also happen to be mine... :) The life history... Powerhouse Point was started by Doug Shields of Chetwynd BC in 1986 as simply "Powerhouse". Its history parallels the history of BBSing in general and the technologies available in publicly accessible network technology of its time. It began as a jr. high school project on a 300 baud modem using Red Ryder for the Apple Macintosh and was allowed 1Mb of storage on the shared 10Mb network storage device. Originally it was little more than a messaging board with only a couple users on an irregular basis. It was maintained after the project ended and over the years it grew more and more useful with each new software release. Eventually it ran on the best Mac for its time, with a dedicated 10Mb external dedicated hard drive. Chetwynd is a small town however so the number of users remained limited. In late 1990 it moved with Doug to Coquitlam BC. It had grown to 2400 baud and was using Maximus for OS/2 on a state of the art 386 PC with 105Mb of disk, and 4Mb of RAM. It joined the FidoNET network as a point node, and became "Powerhouse Point". Expansion of the BBS world was hot, and so was that of Powerhouse Point. Maximus was much more than a simple messaging program and Powerhouse Point made good use of this with online games, file repository, and a wide range of messaging topics geared toward game enthusiasts, PC hardware, and OS/2. In 1992 it moved to Burnaby BC and expanded to 2 phone lines at 14400 baud. As network technology became more accesible Powerhouse Point became a full FidoNET node, and added ibmNET, and Internet network connections. In 1995 Powerhouse Point expanded beyond the BBS world and became a computer consulting company and retail PC hardware supplier. Later that year the technology used to power the existing BBS was duplicated and sold to a group of Richmond BC entrepreneurs for a new commercial BBS business venture. The new system was built, tested, and ready to go however financing and technical issues ended the venture prior to the new system being publicly available. It had become clear that the BBS world had reached its peak and that the Internet would soon dominate. The revenue potential was too risky to justify the business startup costs in capital for the new phone lines, modems, multiport serial hardware, and related infrastructure. The failure of this venture had no negative effect on the original Powerhouse Point BBS, but rather the new technolgies for the commercial system were largely developed on and already incorporated into the original. By late 1996, Powerhouse Point reached its peak at 2 28.8kbps lines in Burnaby, a third 33.6kbps line in Vancouver, and an almost unlimited number of Internet users over a 128kbps ISDN Internet link providing SIO and Telnet connectivity. Powerhouse Point was being powered by the latest versions of Maximus and OS/2. Surprisingly it ran on the same 386 PC it used in 1990 though it now ran with 32Mb of RAM, 13Gb of hard disk, 4 CDROM drives, and supported LAN network server code over a 10mbps Ethernet network. The BBS now supported dozens of games, over 1000 repeat user accounts, over 30 local message topics, 100 FidoNET topics, 200 Internet newsgroups, dozens of local file areas, over 100 FidoNET file areas, and the entire contents of the ibmNET network. Its main target remained the online gaming, PC hardware, and OS/2 communities. Behind the scenes it was also providing dial-up LAN and Internet access via SLIP and PPP, as well as faxing services for the growing list of Powerhouse Point business requirements. In early 1997 Powerhouse Point moved headquarters to Calgary AB. With almost no public users in the Calgary area, a growing requirement to focus on business needs, and the continued growth in the Internet, it was clear the BBS was in decline. In April 1997 the FidoNET network was dropped. By June the other networks had been dropped, and the public dial-up line was disconnected. In June the BBS software was officially shutdown for the last time. In mid 1999 the last known backup of the Powerhouse Point BBS was destroyed. Rumours persist that two other backups may still exist. One was almost certainly destroyed in 1997. The other cannot be found but is not believed to have been destroyed. The Powerhouse Point name continues to live on. The computer consulting company formed in 1995 is still owned and operated by Doug Shields in Calgary AB. It can be found on the Internet at http://www.powerhousepoint.com. The company also is known to occasionally run public servers for popular Internet games such as Half-Life, and Counter-Strike using the Powerhouse Point name. The company still services OS/2 and PC hardware, and has expanded into the Windows NT/2000/XP environment with custom application and web site development, network management, deployment, and related services. The original 386 computer that powered the BBS most of its mature life is still in production use at Powerhouse Point as an OS/2 file server. It sits right next to the much more powerful systems that succeeded it and now provide the backbone of web, e-mail, database, and other operations at Powerhouse Point's Calgary AB location." - Doug Shields
604-432-7477 VANCOUVER, CANADA	D.I.R.A.C. BBS (1989)	Iain McFetridge
	"D.I.R.A.C. stands for Doesn't Incidentally Relate to Anything Consequential. My system at the time was a 12 mhz 286 with 640 K of ram with a 1 megabyte extended ram board and a 70 meg hard drive. I wish I had pictures of it." - Iain McFetridge
604-477-1536 Victoria, bc	Enter The Dragon, Enter the Dragon II (1993-1995)	Mark Lise	Remote Access + Frontdoor
	"It was called "Enter the Dragon ][", not "Enter the Dragon". Holy crap - can't believe this stuff is online.. haha." - Mark Lise
604-477-5163 VICTORIA, CANADA	Island Net (1994-1995)	Mark Morley
	ListKeeper: VictoriaNancouver AC 604
604-479-1247 VICTORIA, CANADA	Dragons Lair, DRAGONS LAIR (1992-1995)
	Chemistry Member BBS
604-526-3676 New Westminster, BC	Country Owl BBS, CyberStore, Cyberstore Systems, West Coast Music Review, CyberStore - a COCONET BBS (1993-1996)	Jim Walsh, CyberStore Online Info. Systems Inc.
	All lines to v.32bis/v.42/v.42bis. Cybertools for BBS’es
604-533-2312 Vancouver, BC	The Mind Link! (1989-1996)	Frank I. Reiter	Custom
	"This was a large, fairly famous multi-user BBS at the time, even despite requiring paid access. The years above are the minimum range; I do believe it started earlier and lasted longer, though I don't have proper dates for it." - Curt Sampson
604-534-7268 Surrey, BC	Surrey Morgue (1987-1992)	Lorna Appleby	Blue Board
	"One of the most common software systems on the West Coast of Canada was the Blue Board, a great message based software system for the Commodore 64. An actively updated system it was always on the top of the game. It provided the sysop a choice of votes or file systems. It also contained one liners, as many message sections as you could think of, a passworded message section. It was one of the first non-IBM BBS's that supported 2400 baud, 80 columns, and word wrap. It's design was copied for a Mac board (which unfortunately I no longer remember the name of) and was originally created in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Surrey Morgue was launched when my brother, SysOp of "The Highway to Hell" wouldn't let me play with his set-up. We both started modeming in 1986 on a Commodore 64 at 300 baud. The first BBS I called was a Blue Board called "The Streets of California" and I soon found myself calling all the boards of the other users. The Blue Board was cheap, incredibly easy to run and customize, and phone lines were even cheaper. The best part was it came with a built in terminal so when no one was on *your* board you could call other ones. The Surrey Morgue, which averaged between 30 to 40 calls a day (A decent rate for a Blue Board) for five years was eventually shut down when I moved out of my parent's house. I still have friends today from friends I made from that board. The Vancouver area Modemmers (what we called ourselves) that are still active have a telnetted STS BBS they log into and a mailing list I run which is accessible via http://www.backtalk.org/mailman/listinfo/modemmers" -Lorna Appleby
604-535-6189 White Rock, BC	Over the Edge (1995-1998)	Michael Chu	RemoteAccess 2.02
	"One of the largest collections of images in a Vancouver-area BBS -- all free, but based on a credit system to encourage uploading. Image files (adult and non-adult) were by far the most popular and Over the Edge was a trading hub. Was a member of FidoNet and CrystalNet (based out of Crystal Gate BBS), and was also popular for LoRD and BRE game tournaments. For much of the BBS' existence, and right up to the end, the single line was jammed 24 hours a day. Had to be closed down when the sysop entered university and nobody was left to maintain it." - Michael Chu
604-536-5885 White Rock, BC	Deep Cove BBS 2400, Deep Cove BBS CANADA, Doppler/Deep Cove TBBS 2400 (1992-1995)	Wayne Duval	TBBS
	16 line TBBS, 3500 Mbytes files for IBM, MAC, Amiga
604-575-1183 Surrey, BC	The Establishment (1986-2003)	Beowulf (Peter Anderson)	Vision, QuickBBS
	"The Establishment was first established in 1986 in North Vancouver, running Vision BBS software on a Commodore 64, donated by Steve Hooper, Sysop of .38 Special (after that board was taken down. In 1992 the BBS was relocated to New Westminster, still on a C-64, though it was later moved onto a PC platform running QuickBBS software when the C-64 finally died. Later, in 1999, the board was relocated to Surrey. Many users did not make the transition to New Westminster, and many more did not make the transition to Surrey. The BBS suffered a hard drive failure in 2003, and I decided to not re-Establish it (by this point in time there were only a handful of die hard users still calling the board). Along with The Milky Way BBS, The Establishment was one of the longer running boards in the lower mainland, at just under 17 years. The phone number listed (575-1183) is the last one used (after the relocation to Surrey)." - Beowulf
604-581-1417 Surrey, BC	Saint Drake College, Saint Drake High, Saint Drake High BBS, St. Drake College BBS (1989-2000)	Lea Brown	Telex
	"Our BBS (mentioned above) also spawned "The Saint" Which was run by Cameron Gardiner (who, believe it or not, I ran into after not seeing for MANY years at a ballroom dance lesson!). I am unaware of his details but I will pass along your website address to him. Thanks so much for allowing me a few minutes to live in the past. I still have my old 586 in my closet with the entire BBS still intact." - Lea Brown
604-589-7698 Surrey, BC	The Scorpion's Den, The Scorpions Den (1991-1994)	Steve Heer	CNet 3.05c Amiga
	"Originally ran on a C63 with a Xetec SCSI HDD controller with 5 - 50MB Seagate Harddrives. Implemented/swithed to Amiga version (Amiga 500 for the first 6 months then I purchased an Amiga 3000 to do the job) of CNet and a second phone line in 1993. Supported Amiga, IBM and C64 downloads, Online Hack'n'Slash RPG and loads of other online games, Fido/usenet News Feeds, user messaging. At the time of shutdown there was 971 users in the database. Last of all - WOW!!!! Didn't expect to see this page here. Nice to see there are people who believe in preserving every little bit of history. I sure miss those good 'ol BBS days!!" - Steve Heer
604-591-2467 Surrey, BC	The Pharcyde (1992-1995)	Dareck Faichuk	Maximus
	"My sysop alias was "Xenohack"... ahh the good old BBS days!!" - Dareck Faichuk
604-598-9953 Victoria, BC	Capoeira Circle ST BBS (1991-1994)	Morgan Stewart
	"Sweetest Atari ST BBS in the West." - Morgan Stewart
604-627-1096 PRINCE RUPERT, CANADA	JunkYard (1992-1997)	Keith Woodworth	Wildcat
	"I started it end of Nov '92, went public in Jan of '93 and I ran it till my first child was born in Jan '97. Acutally Feb 28th/1997 was when I offically turned it off. It ran Wildcat through several versions as well I was the first in this area to offer internet email. Even grew it to 2 dialup nodes! What a mess of computer hardware I had! (still have a mess of hardware its just newer and goes faster than what I used for the BBS) I looked at starting an ISP here but because of where Prince Rupert is in relation to bandwidth getting an upstream was almost impossible here and would have taken more money,time and energy that I was willing. Was a blast running that board. Started calling BBS's in 1984 and knew at some point that I would probably run my own. Eventually did." - Keith Woodworth
604-655-4616 Sidney, BC	MSG Overdrive (1990-1995)	Scott Nunn	QuickBBS
	"Hi, what a blast from the past finding this listing. I see my old BBS listed here and it brings back some great memories. The sysop is listed as Scott Nunn and/or Scott Dunn, there is/was no Scott Dunn. A couple things that I remember is becoming a member of Fidonet and ultimately creating EvilNet. Conversing and meeting people through the net message boards, many of whom are still good friends to this day. Also running the Barren Realms Elite (BRE) game through EvilNet. It was so much fun. My BBS was busy 23 hours a day, (1 hour in the dark of night for maintenance and net traffic), hard to get on myself to check up on things! Thanks to all the old BBS crowd for making my BBS experience great. I really do miss it." - Scott Nunn
604-681-4741 Vancouver, BC	Ram Chip, Ram Chip BBS, Ramchip BBS (1991-1995)	Bruce Feuchuk	FD, Remote Access and Robo BBS
	"I originally started the BBS as I bought a new PC (386) and found that I couldn't sell my old one (286) for much. So a friend (Steve Brooks of Brooksie's Place BBS) suggested I start a BBS then. This I did with my first modem (7200k). I became a member of Fidonet. And eventually ran a local network called Usernet for about 3 years (which, if I recall correctly, hit 100 or so nodes). I upgraded the modems to USR Robotics 28.8k/56k and had 2 PC's running flat out as I eventually started a 2nd line for my BBS. I was getting an average of over 75 user calls per day. I also started to use Robo BBS software which was more of a graphical type BBS than the good old ANSI/ASCII format. I closed the BBS (simply because it was becoming a full time 'job' and no longer a hobby)." - Bruce Feuchuk
604-734-5800 Vancouver, BC	CARDZ BBS, Cardz Computers, Cardz BBS (1990-1993)	John Smith	TBBS
	Customer Support for Cardz Computers and Fracterm,Inc.
604-737-8334 Vancouver, BC	Vancouver Wildcat BBS (1987-1989)	Ken Pachkowsky	Wildcat
	"This was my BBS. It was the first Wildcat BBS in British Columbia. The serial number for the software was 008. It was large for its day in terms of storage capabilities. I used Perstor disk controllers that effectively doubled the capacity of MFM drives used at the time. The bbs had 156 megs of storage. I started my first BBS in Regina Sask back in 1983 on a TI994A Computer with a 300 baud modem. I had alot of fun over the years running a bbs and could not have imagined it would grow into the WWW we see today." - Ken Pachkowsky
604-747-2373 Sechelt, BC, CANADA	Play Time Boutique (2016)		BBBS
	Board with dial for local menu not linked to any networks and basic menus in Sechelt BC.
604-749-4554 LAKE COWICHAN, CANADA	Xanth Gate (1995-1997)	Rickey Parrish	Shotgun PRO, Maximus
	"If you want to reach me, I'm at manning@yifan.net, and my current homepage is now www.mannsoft.ca." - Rick Parrish
604-852-8365 ABBOTSFORD, CANADA	Facination Street, Fascination Street OIS, Holistic BBS, The (1992-1996)	Darren Harkness, Darren James Harkness, Brian Bell	SuperBBS, Renegade
	"The BBS was actually up from '92 (started in February), and passed away quietly in the night in '96, after being taken down one too many times so I could access the 'net... We had a small but very faithful crew of regulars on the board, many of whom I've fallen out of touch with." - Darren James Harkness
604-865-2182 ELKFORD, CANADA	Vendhya (1984-1985)	Matthew M. Rouse	Atari BBS+
	"This was my BBS in Elkford, British Columbia, Canada. It was a large resource of Dungeons and Dragons, Car Wars and Marvel SuperHeroes Roll Playing Game Information." - Matthew M. Rouse
604-874-8066 Vancouver, BC	Mortuary, The Mortuary (1992-1994)	Mortician	AmiX
	"This was an Amiga Warez BBS in the Vancouver area. I ran this for a while and when I moved I couldn't get a second line due to old wiring (not enough wire). Everyone thought I got arrested or something, but nothing happened, I just moved and never started it back up." - Mortician
604-876-2487 Vancouver, BC	Streets of California (1986-1990)	Streets watchman	blue board
	"I ran this board in eastvan while living in my parents home. was a blast from the past!" - SOC
604-879-0361 VANCOUVER, CANADA	Celestial Sanctum BBS (1993-1994)	Richard Heaton, Philip Cavanagh	Renegade
	"In 1994, the name of the Celestial Sanctum BBS was changed to TEMPLE OF INNER LIGHT, and the sysops were Richard Heaton and Maiya Ra-El. It ran under that name in Vancouver from 1994 to 1997, then moved to Victoria BC where it ran under the name Temple of Inner Light, Sysop Maiya Ra-El, until 1998." - Audrmm
604-882-9155 Langley, BC	Cybernetic Degeneration (1991-1995)	Toby Kliem, Toby Kliem (Nicodemus)	RemoteAccess
	"BBSes were what got me interested in computers in the first place. My uncle gave me a 1200 baud modem and a list of phone numbers and nothing more then that. Desperate to figure out how in the world a computer could "talk" over the phone I quickly became immersed in world of BBSes. "I started the BBS as an escape from highschool at the age of 13. While I couldn't compete with the business BBSes with their multiple phone lines and storage space in the hundreds of megabytes (!!) I was able offer my users 3 different email networks (Fido being the largest) as well as 50 different online games. (The PIT, TW2002 and BRE being the biggest hits) "The system was a 286 pc/AT clone with 1 meg of ram and a 40 meg HDD. It arrived on Boxing Day of '89 and was touted as being the "Top of the Line." (It was soon dwarfed by the 386's that emerged the following January.) The Hummingbird HDD eventually crashed midway through '92 but I was able to keep the board running for a year using a system of 2 ramdrives, a 5.25" and a 3.5" floppy drive. I finally saved enough to buy a new 50meg hdd (which was half the size of the 40). "During the board's peak it maintain over 600 active users (purged monthly). I can't remember the daily usage rates but I can honestly say it was busy at all hours. "By 1995 the Internet was starting to take root and the lure of the chat boards was irresitable. Unable to afford the hardware, or multiple phone lines required, I retired the BBS - letting it fade quietly into obscurity like so many others. "I just want to say "Thank you.." it was a fun and wild ride..." - Toby Kliem
604-923-2963 Campbell River, BC	Waveform (1992-1993)	David Cross	MACOS/HyperBoard
	"I ran this BBS, and used the handle Winston Smith back then. I knew a lot of the other Vancouver Island BBSes in the Campbell River-Courtenay area and often met with people who called those BBSes. I knew a couple of the sysops as well." - David Cross
604-930-6240 Surrey British Columbia, BC	The Crap Shack (1994-1998)	ERASER, MeatLocker, Ace!, Rash	Renegade
	"Been so long i forget what got me into Building a BBS, I was pretty damn young sysop [12] and got a lot of help from other more experianced sysops, and my board was starting to look pretty pro near the end, I dont even remember why I shut it down think my Hard drive crashed or something." - Raw Metal
604-940-2962 Ladner, BC	Home Solutions (1992-1998)	Brad Marsh
	"Strange, someone just sent me this link and I guess my son, at the age of 13, ran a Bulleton board, which I didn't and don't know what it is. My son is dead now. But he loved his computers. http://members.shaw.ca/cteboekhorst"
604-948-2580 Delta,, BC	Maria & Derek's BBS	Derek Bailey	Remote Access
	"Maria & Derek's BBS is back in operation. After Years being down I have decided to put the system back up. Things are looking pretty good now, but are getting better every day. This BBS is active as of Feb 2013. YES you can call today!" - Derek Bailey
604-951-8501 Surrey, bc	C:, c: => pccc, PCCC (1993-2000)	Gary Coleman, gary coleman	DLG Pro
	"Started out named c:, became the Port Coquitlam Computer Club's BBS 604-942-0947 in 1994. 604-942-0947 was call forwd' to 604-951-8501 until 1998. Ran DLGPro on an Amiga, with Fido, uucp, and fido Filebone of the Amiga libraries. www.pccc.mlnet.com" - Gary Coleman
604-988-4442 Vancouver, BC	Ed-Net (1993)	Barry Macdonald
	Vancouver School Board Multi-Line Educational Network
605-331-1023 Sioux Falls, SD	The RoadKill BBS (1996-1997)	Nathan Kull	Searchlight BBS
	"BBS was established primarily for its door games and included national league Door Games. The BBS also had a couple of messaging feeds including FidoNet. It ran on 486 in a big ass, heavy, rackmount case that sat on the floor. Most remembered by me about the system is the loud ass fan and the yellow monochrome monitor that started burning in the waiting for call screen and console status bar. I also had one tournament that I don't think I ever got the winner of the game his Lasertag voucher that he had won. The board closed and I think I just kinda forgot about it. --- It was fun while it lasted." - Nathan Kull
605-331-5831 Sioux Falls, SD	YEBB, YEBB/Youth Education BBS, YEE BBS, YEEB BBS, YEEB,christian (1992-1996)	Ray Christensen	RBBS
	"I used to be a user on YEBB way back in the day, and it was definitely *not* a Christian board. Also, while it was indeed run by Ray Christensen, it didn't run RBBS if I remember correctly. My memory is that it originally ran PCBoard, and at some point he switched to TSX-BBS. I'm not sure which should be listed - the PCBoard days were probably YEBB's heyday as it was free then, and thus had a lot of users, but that was a short period compared to the later, longer TSX-BBS era where it cost money, but offered a lot more functionality (including, eventually, Internet access). In addition, YEBB has been around later than 1996. I know we were using it at least in December 1997, and I think we stopped somewhere in 1998 - by this time, YEBB had primarily become an ISP, although the BBS functionality still existed (although it was no longer well-used). A Google search for yebb.com (this was YEBB's domain name) turns up a number of articles, message board posts, etc. from YEBB users in 1999. The search even turns up one message board post claiming to come from a yebb.com address in 2002, but I do not know if this is accurate (the user may have just forgot to update his/her e-mail address on the message board). However, 2002 *was* the year that Ray retired as the SD Secretary of Education (http://www.augie.edu/news/pressrel/general/2005/sep/gen2_25.htm) so perhaps that was the year that he closed down YEBB - I'm not sure as we had all moved on well before that time. For more specific information, you could probably still call Ray Christensen - he seems to still be operating in Sioux Falls, and would probably be in Switchboard. It would probably bring back old memories for him of the times when I used to relentlessly harass him via the "Contact the SysOp" feature, as well as when other users used to complain of the various antics I pulled, such as sending messages to people with "^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G" in the subject header, causing the receiving computer to start beeping wildly, even when the victim went into the Mail interface to delete the messages, and forwarding error messages sent by the TSX-BBS system and various daemons to people, while changing their texts to spin a little story about the BBS's various systems conspiring together to overthrow the humans and take over the world. It's really a wonder that I never got kicked off that board." - Anonymous YEBB User
605-348-5522 Rapid City, SD	Phantom BBS (1995-2003)	Jim Williams
	"The BBS was run on a variety of software during its existence eventually setting on Wildcat which it ran for the majority of its life. It had a number of doors including Legend of the Red Dragon, Tradewars and Usurper. It had a Fidonet feed and towards the end also connected to an internet email gateway." - Jim Williams
605-697-6047 Brookings, SD	The "What it is" BBS, What It is, The What it is BBS (1990-1994)	Matt Johnson	Wildcat
	"The system operator lived In Brookings, SD until about September, 1992. He then moved to Sioux Falls, SD and started another BBS there. The second BBS was named Omega Place, also on Wildcat, but the phone number is not currently known (remembered)." - Matt Johnson
606-233-8801 Lexington, KY	BBS-TRANSY (1985-1991)	R'ykanar Korra'ti, R'ykandar Korra'ti	IS/TU (written by the operator)
	"That was mine! You've got an entry for it that's incomplete. It actually had six phone numbers, any three of which could be used for the BBS at once. (These were Transy's original/old dialup lines for their IBM mainframe.) I started it as an exercise in learning Fortran IV, and it kind of got out of hand. Somewhere, I still have the source code! It was all in FORTRAN IV, and ran under MUSIC/IUP and later MUSIC/SP. We did three releases to the MUSIC Users Group - Release 1 was v4.0, Release 2 was... I forget, v7.2f or something? Release 3 was v14.mutter. We had extensive messaging systems, private mail, group-limited message boards (via ACLs), RPG areas, and what have shortly thereafter been called a hypertext section as well, with some scripting. We also had file transfer, but it was very, very lame - it was overwhelmingly a social BBS. Typical userload throughout the evenings was 10 - three on the dialup lines, seven or so students logged on via at-school terminals. Some other people at Transy started work on a parody BBS system called 'SNOT (get it? ar ar ar ar ar ar) but it never got very far. (note that you have my first name spelled wrong in your current listing. BTW, my nickname is Dara. ^_^ )"
606-254-6199	Lefty's Bar & Grill (1993-1994)
	"I believe this was tied to an actual Bar in Kentucky that people would meet up at. I remember getting on here and playing games like Legend of the Red Dragon with others there." - Anonymous
606-261-2971 Newport, KY	Jolly Roger, JollyRoger, The Jolly Roger BBS (1989-1996)	Jeff Kidwell	Wildcat , WILDCAT!
	"Hi, my name is Jeff Kidwell and I ran the Jolly Roger BBS from 1989 to approx 1996. I also wrote many "Door" games used on my BBS and others. I very much enjoyed my time as a "Sysop" and I acutally still have both systems that the Jolly Roger operated on. I had 3 "Nodes" with a hunt pattern that operated from 606-261-2971. I opened my computer store in October of 1993, and offered the BBS to my customers. After a few years, interest in BBS's waned and we decided to retire the "Roger". Star Computers is still in business and going strong! www.starcomputersinc.com Many of my customers that were kids when my BBS was up still remember the cool ANSI pirate flag that scrolled across the screen when you logged on... :) (It took me forever to create that!)" - Jeff Kidwell
606-271-1451	Kentucky Explorer (1995)	Jon Hagee
	ListKeeper: Kentucky AC (606)
606-278-2002 Lexington, KY	Infinity World (1993)	Daniel Diachun
	8 line Galacticomm System - Many good text publications
606-282-7531 Covington, KY	The Night Owl Network (1983-1992)	Marvin & Norman Huff	RyBBS, Wildcat!, TAG
	"The Night Owl Network started off a very humble board in the midst of many great ones in this area. We first started the BBS using "RyBBS" which was an interesting piece of software however due to the authors schedule he didn't have much time to work on upgrades to the software so we decided to run Wildcat! for a while. This worked for a little while but we soon grew tired of looking like every other Wildcat! board in the area. So I discovered the TAG BBS software and that's what we stayed with until the end. We were quite popular during the late 80's and at one time held a place on the area's favorite BBS list for quite a while. After my brother Marvin moved away from home, he left the board to me. Then I and my friend Todd May took over the reigns. This was rather short lived as finances did not allow much for an extra phone line. And so, sometime in early 1992 The Night Owl Network faded into darkness. Now, It's almost 20 years later, my brother Marvin has unfortunately passed on, and I still miss those days of repeat dialing my favorite boards at 12am to get on to play my online games. And to all of our users who may remember calling our board and having as much fun as we did, Thank You. I miss hearing from all of you." - Norman Huff
606-331-1442 Lakeside Park, KY	Rhapsody in Blue (1993-1994)	Mark Seifried	GT
	"Was a Kentucky corporation as a non-profit library to allow file sharing." - Mark Seifried
606-356-5350 Independence, KY	Dragon's Keep (1991-1996)	Brian Smith	Spitfire
	"The board started off being called "The Scaramouche", for about 6 months, then was called "Buddha Bros. Phantasy Emporium", until I finally decided on "Dragon's Keep". We had very lively games of Legend of the Red Dragon with monthly winners of semi-fabulous prizes. At our peak, we had over 1000 members." - Brian Smith
606-371-6337 Florence, KY	Magic$oft BBS!, MagicSoft BBS, Magicsoft BBS! (1986-1997)	Tem House	Wildcat , Wildcat!
	"Magic$oft BBS was up 12 years and featured 4 dial-in lines and NEVER charged a fee. Magic$oft featured downloads, email, chat rooms and online games. When this BBS was finally turned off it had over 700 ACTIVE members and a total of over 3600 members in it's lifetime. In addition Magic$oft BBS hosted slightly over 500,000 dial-up connections in 12 years on just 4 incoming lines." - Tem House
606-832-2185 Jenkins, KY	Jenkins High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
606-886-9014 Prestonsburg, KY	The DarkForce! BBS (1992-1999)	DarkLord, Ronald J. Hall	BBS Express! ST, BBS Express ST! v1.98a
	"Atari based BBS, running on Atari ST hardware and software. DarkForce! is no longer available by dial-up, however it is accessible by telnet at "bbs.darkforce.org". We just came back online this year." - DarkLord
607-257-7421 Ithaca, NY	Not Just Another BBS (1991-1995)	Zaphod Beeblebrox (Jacques Frechet)	RemoteAccess
	"We had the usual message boards, downloads, organized TradeWars tournaments, and an online game I developed myself that was never distributed: N-Space. You could move your little red asterisk around on a near-infinite plane and build walls, pushable blocks, pipes, and fancier things. The world persisted across sessions, so you could interact with other peoples' stuff, though of course only one player could play at a time. Heavily inspired by Dan Egnor's IggyBBS. Both N-Space and IggyBBS were written in Turbo Pascal, as I recall." - Jacques Frechet
607-272-4060 Ithaca, NY	Total Perspective Vortex, TotPersVtx (1985-1999)	Jim Laux, Illya Kuryakin, Mr. Zarniwoop	QuickBBS , Homebrew, C-NET, QBBS, RandomAccess
	"I actually started this BBS on April 22nd, 1985 when I was 11 years old, and it even ran completely automatically for a couple of years after I left home. Those were fun times!" - Jim Laux
607-272-7395 Ithaca, NY	Rainbow Bridge (1990-1992)	Seth Cohn
	"This was the sole 2-line BBS in town for a while and allowed people to chat with each other live... (I had 3 phone lines installed, one for my voice use) except I used to steal one of the lines for my own outgoing use since I was into the Internet already. These days, I'm General Manager of efn.org, a large ISP in Eugene, Oregon." - Seth Cohn
607-347-4118 Freeville, NY	The Color Connection (1991-1995)	Jonathan Wanagel	Remote Access
	"The most popular BBS in the greater Ithaca area during 94 and 95. Sysop hosted monthly "Geekfests", large gatherings of the areas BBS'ers." - Jonathan Wanagel
607-648-9377 Port Crane, NY	S.T.A.T.E.S. (1985-1987)	David Zembek	AMIS
	"Stood for Southern Tier Atari Telecomuunications Exchange System" - Anonymous
607-732-4565 Elmira, NY	Sugar Mountain, Sugar Mountain node 1 of 4, SUGAR MTN (1987-1997)	Bill Wereley, Bill Wereley (Mister Bill)	Wildcat , Wildcat and Opus
	"Sugar Mountain was one of the earliest and the longest running family oriented BBS in the Southern Tier of NYS, featuring 4 nodes of multi-node chat, over 80 on-line games, a huge upload/download section, a cd-rom software base, and nearly 300 FIDO echoes. Providing technical support for the modeming community, Sugar Mountain was a regular stop for nearly every modemer around. The Mountain also supported the business and educational communities with a huge educational database, support for home schooling and the K-12 echoes. 100% family oriented and squeaky clean, Sugar Mountain set the pace for BBSing in the area, and was as regular as sunrise: It was simply always there to serve as a basis for the entire modeming community - and, best of all, for most of its existence, it was FREE. Vociferous in his efforts to keep smut off line, Mister Bill had no qualms about directly interfacing with porn oriented area SysOps and users and taking them to task for their lack of fiber. He recognized that the System Operator occupied a unique and powerful niche in the community, and used that role in person and in print for the betterment of all. All in all, Sugar Mountain and its SysOp was an experience that never will be forgotten!" - Bill Wereley
607-733-5745 Elmira Heights, NY	The Lost Chord BBS (1986-2004)	Raymond Sirois	Searchlight, Searchlight 5.02b
	"Originally run on a C-64, The Lost Chord BBS has been in (more or less) continuous operation for nearly 20 years. Always free, the board continues operation in the Twin Tiers of New York State." - Raymond Sirois
607-754-3420 Owego, NY	OFA-PC (Owego Free Academy) (1984-1991)	Michael Hickman, Osw.FreeAcad	PCBoard, RBBS
	"The BBS was a fun project and helped me get a programming/sysadmin job later on. I wrote a grant request and got funds from IBM for the equipment, got to lead a team of sysops, the school district asked me to speak at a state teachers' conference. I used more of the skills I learned running the BBS than most things I learned in school! :)" - Michael Hickman
607-786-0589 Endicott, NY	Salamandra, The Spanish Galleon, theoretically (1993-1996)	Andy Avery	Renegade/Iniquity
	"Just a correction to a couple entries in the 607 area code bbs list. Prior to 1993, I ran "The Spanish Galleon" at another phone number, and that entry is correct. From late 1993 until mid spring 1996 I ran theoretically, at which point I shut it down. Currently, "Salamandra" is listed as being run from 1994-1996, but in truth Salamandra ran only for 1 month (June 1996) before I moved out of town and no longer had time to do the bbs thing. I am currently running theoretically on a telnet connection at theoretically.net, now running Mystic." - Andy Avery
607-797-7201 Johnson City, NY	Infinatus (1992-1994)	Admiral John	Renegade
	"Infinatus was a part-time BBS I ran for about two years... because of the ANSi art theme I chose (rather dark and foreboding) I used the moniker "Ahrimanes" rather than Admiral John as a SysOp but all of my users knew we were one in the same. My co-SysOps were Suede Condom, Scorpio and Spectrocity. " - Admiral John
608-222-9253 Madison, WI	Network XXIII (1992-1994)	David Douthitt	Waffle 1.65 for MSDOS
	"I started Network XXIII to provide enhanced file access without restrictions. At it's fullest, it provided access to files over UUCP (direct), through FidoNet file transfers, through downloads, and via FTP-by-mail. It also did not have the restrictive upload/download ratios that had been common in those days, and provided access to UseNet and Fidonet both. The software used to connect the system to Fidonet news (Amanda) was entirely of my own design, and can still be downloaded from various sources."
608-233-1798 MADISON, WI	Mac Line, MAC LINE (1993-1995)	John Allen
	MAC LINE, 608-233-1798 FirstClass system at 14,400bps. Mac files, messages, news, chat etc. Playmaker Football league. Mac Guru Conference. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 MAC LINE, 608-233-1798 FirstClass system at 14,400bps. Mac files, messages, news, chat etc. Playmaker Football league. Mac Guru Conference. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 MAC LINE, 608-233-1798 FirstClass system at 14,400bps, Mac files, messages, news, chat etc. Ptaymaker Football league, Mac Guru Conference, - BBS Magazine October 1995
608-233-4828 Madison, WI	Bee Line (1986-1996)	Bee	Honeycomb
	"Madison's first chat line. For the first five years, The Bee Line ran on an Apple II+ using custom 'Honeycomb' software written in 6502 assembly. It grew from five 300 baud modems to eleven 2400 baud modems (thanks to 4-port serial cards handmade by Raist, founder of Sonic Foundry). The last five years, the Bee Line ran on a DOS PC with a 17 ports, message boards, etc. It still used custom software (a mix of C and assembly), including several multiplayer ANSI action games. It was a real challenge convincing the phone company that a 17-line hunt group deserved residential rates. Bee Line was a subscription service. Non-paying users could chat for a bit, but were generally at the mercy of the paying users. It was a very social system and the user population was mixed and varied over the years. There was no emphasis on tech, and many users only learned enough skills to be able to type "ATDT2334828" on the surplus dumbterms from the local university. One unique aspect was that chat attracted women. At one point I calculated that even though women were only 15% of the user population, they represented about 30% of the minutes online. Memorabilia and reunion info at http://beeline.org" - Bee
608-233-9487 Madison, WI	MAC Line (1994-1997)		FirstClass
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Bulletin board for Macintosh users. Running FirstClass software at 28.8Kbps. Mac files, messages, and chat. 3 CD's with tons of shareware. Macintosh news and Apple press releases. Internet e-mail and usenet newsgroups. For more info email: info@ macline.com
608-238-7595 Madison, WI	Devious' Realm BBS (1993-1996)	Devious, Slick Willie / Codeblue	Renegade
	"'Hippest in 6o8' was my motto (how cheesy is that now? I was only 19 at the time so whatever) A lot of SD][ers hung out at the board and played PimpWars, The PIT, LORD, Kannon's and Katapults and TradeWars. We had a lot of graphic demos that the Finland demo groups made. Plus had some fun message boards that were only around from midnight - 4am. Was occasionally a 2 line BBS, but for the most part was just the single dedicated line (since I was on the other one all the time). The madison BBS scene was very cool at the time." --Matthew Apps
608-255-2755 Madison, WI	BITS, Bits BBS, Bits II (1983-1997)	PondScum (Brian Goldsworthy)
	"BITS was run under the auspices of the Madison Apple User's Group, and continued to run even after the user group suffered the loss of all of the Macintosh users, and even outlasted the user's group itself." - Brian Goldsworthy
608-273-2186 Madison, WI	Unicorn Point BBS (1994-1997)	Lori and Hugh Van Duyn	Wildcat, MajorBBS
	"Lori (Lilah The Demoness) and Hugh (Thantos) started the BBS with only one line, and before they moved to GA they were running 5 lines and MajorBBS." - Hugh Van Duyn
608-274-1904 Madison, WI	NineJackNine (1988-1991)	Ed Almasy	Opus
	"I started NineJackNine (9J9), 608-274-1904, in 1988 as an antidote to all of the techie-oriented BBSes that were in operation at that time. It carried nothing but non-technical Fidonet conferences, plus a game or two (a modified version of Pyroto Mountain was the most popular). 9J9 also had a strong bent toward material of more interest to women, who I believed were very under-represented in the online world at that point. In 1991, after attending Fidocon in Colorado and hearing the Gospel According to Jack Rickard and Phil Becker, I moved 9J9 over to TBBS (and to 608-256-5697), bumped it up from two incoming lines to four incoming lines, and added a dedicated Internet connection that allowed people to use telnet, gopher, and to (eventually) browse the web using Lynx. I believe 9J9 was the first BBS in the area to offer live Internet connectivity." - Ed Almasy
608-274-5476 Madison, WI	Lunar Software, Selene (1987-1990)	Ed Almasy, Jim Roberts, Pat Splinter	Opus
	"Selene, 608-274-5476, was started in 1987 while I was working at Lunar Corporation, as a BBS focused on the profession and practice of Software Engineering. Initially it offered file areas with C and assembly language source code for an array of MS-DOS and Unix software packages. In late 1987 I ran across John Galvin's 1st Circle BBS, which was the first Fidonet hub in the Madison area. John was also part of the group working on UFGate, the first software package that allowed BBS sysops to carry Usenet newsgroups and RFC-822 e-mail traffic on their Fidonet system. UFGate caught my interest and I added various Fidonet programming-related conferences and Usenet newsgroups to Selene over the next two years, and further expanded the collection of source code and programming utilities. In late 1989 I was hired away from Lunar by Persoft (makers of SmartTerm), to build a new product that was intended to be a ProComm-killer. Since Selene was running (unofficially) on a computer and phone line owned by Lunar, I had to move Selene to a computer and phone line in my home (608-273-1406). After I left Lunar, Jim Roberts and Pat Splinter ran the "Lunar Software BBS" on the same phone line and computer that I had used for Selene. After relocating Selene to my home, I switched it from Opus 1.03c to Maximus, and then in 1992 Selene was subsumed into another, larger BBS that I was running, NineJackNine (608-256-5697)." - Ed Almasy
608-274-6294 Madison, WI	Broken Toenail BBS (1994-2004)	William Norman, Hanger 18	Renegade
	"The Toenail has stayed in operation for over 9.5 years now, and can be currently accessed at telnet://brokentoenail.mine.nu The Toenail is one of the world's most active BBSes, with a heavy emphasis on message base debates and discussion. A Wisconsin institution survives!" - Hanger 18
608-752-7840 JANESVILLE, WI	J.A.D.E. (1982-1996)	Dennis Adams, Peter Melan, David Wendt	TBBS
	"J.A.D.E., 608-752-7840, was started in November of 1982, by myself (Dennis Adams) and Peter Melan on a Model I TRS-80. We wrote the software ourselves in BASIC. We had to optimize the heck out of the word-wrap algorithm, which we thought was really needed back then with the wide disparity in display widths (VIC-20 @ 22, many various computers @ 40, TRS-80 @ 64, serial terminal @ 80). The final optimization ran in real-time even on the new *fast* modem we bought (a USRobtics 1200 baud ). It initially used 5 1/4" drives and the messages were stored on an 8" driver we modified to work with the TRS-80. Later, we bought the very first version of Phil Becker's "TBBS" (from a handwritten ad!) and then later added a hard-disk. We "beta tested" TBBS through many versions. It only every had a single phone line when we ran it, and got hit by lighting twice. It was Pete's computer. I came up with the name "JADE" -- it stands for Janesville Area Data Exchange. When Pete moved out of town, I took over JADE, where it languished on a PC XT clone until Dave Wendt took it over when I went to college, and grew it even larger, with multiple lines and internet access." - Dennis Adams
608-755-1147 Janesville, WI	Castle Rock BBS (1995-2007)	Kevin Goebel	MajorBBS, WG 1.01 (MBBS), WorldGroup 1.01 (DOS)
	"I am still running my BBS with a few dial-up lines. They are in a hunt group keyed to the 608-755-1147 number and some of the alternate numbers listed on http://bbslist.textfiles.com/608/ are no longer owned by me. I added Vircoms TCP/IP software so my bbs can be telneted to (casrock.com). I have a few dedicated MajorMud players, and a couple of people who play CrossWords, Backgammon, and BBSopoly almost every day. I started my own BBS in 1995 (great timing, eh?) after being a Co-Sysop for The Connecting Line BBS in Beloit Wisconsin for several years." - "Kevin Goebel" "Still running as a 32 "line" Major BBS, telnet access only, at casrock.com I dropped my last dial-up line in May of 2008 when I bit the bullet and slapped my DSL connection on my voice phone line. I still have several MajorMud players and a couple people who play Backgammon and Crosswordz." - Kevin Goebel
608-783-2240 Onalaska, WI	Fifth Deimension, The Fifth Dimension (1992-1995)	Ryan Reister	Remote Access 2.0
	"Sysop: Ryan Reister ; ANSI: Michael Peplinski. Single line dialup, 14.4k bps - Zoom external modem. Games, Doors, FidoNet, Downloads SysOp also wrote a few custom doors using Turbo Pascal." - Ryan Reister
608-822-2000 Fennimore, WI	GAMES PLUS, Games Plus BBS (1993-1996)	Tim Brown	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Fennimore, Wisconson since 09/93. Sysop: Tim Brown. Using MajorBBS 6.21B with 32 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 10000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. No fee. The hottest new games, from chariots to chessboards, dungeons to deep space. Tradewars 2002. 9 CD-ROMs, trivia, interlink chat, forums. Now offering RIP graphics. Internet mail and network newsgroups coming soon. We are free.
608-837-1923 Sun Prairie, WI	JW-PC DataFlex.HST, JWPC Dataflex, Madison NEC, JW-PC Dataflex-HST (1990-1995)	Jim Wargula	RBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Wisconsin 608 ListKeeper: Wisconsin 608
608-845-9693 Verona, WI	Doomsday, The Land of Sinners (1995-1997)	Phil Van Houten, Peeble, SiNTaX	Searchlight
	"Devious (Devious' Realm) and I were just reminiscing about the good ol' days. I was pretty heavy into the BBS scene in Madison, called around to most of the boards. Gandalf from Middle Earth BBS got me interested in starting one myself. Went through several different kinds of BBS software including RoboBoard, Renegade, Sterling and finally settling on Searchlight. Ran the typical doors. Lots of fun memories." - Peeble
609-219-0055 Lawrenceville, NJ	Fireball, The , The Fireball BBS (1993-1998)	Pheonix	WWIV
	"Hi, my name is Michael J. Milberg, aka Pheonix, and I ran the Fireball BBS for all the years it was operational. It started out on a 286 8/mhz, but was soon moved to a 486 dx2/66, which it stayed on until it was finally shut down. I met many great people, and had a great time running the Fireball, and I'll always remember that time in my life with a certain idealism and warmth." - Pheonix
609-228-3052 Blackwood, NJ	New Graphics Array (1993-1994)	Todd Hurd, Michael Cerquoni	PCBoard 14.5
	"New Graphics array running at 14.4kbs on a compaq motherboard without a case and 80 gig ST4096 POS eventually we added another PC & line, using Parallel Port pcanywhere network IPX/SPX." - Todd Hurd
609-234-9240 Maple Shade, NJ	Penguin Shop (1983-1986)	Bob Applegate	Custom
	"I wrote all of the Penguin Shop code in BDS C, but Tari-Board used Tari-Board software; a product of Bob & Bob Software (I was the second Bob). Host: Ferguson Big Board, ACE-1000 running CP/M(I worked for Franklin), and eventually an Atari 800. SysOp: Bob Applegate (me). The board later moved to Marlton when I moved into a house but I've got no idea what the phone number was. A bit of info about the local BBS community back in the 80s. There were many local boards and we all got to know each other, so someone suggested a one-time get-together at a local restaurant. We had so much fun that the group starting meeting every couple of months, and eventually was dubbed the Bulletin Board User Group... BBUG ("bee-bug"). No formal membership, no dues, just a dinner every now and then. Most of the local sysops and many users came out. Info on another board: Cloud 9 II in Moorestown, NJ (609 area code). I can't remember his name anymore, but the sysop was a high school kid who wrote his own BBS on his Apple II. His younger sister was active on it and other local boards, doing some of the sysadmin work for him." - Bob Applegate
609-235,5297 MOORESTOWN, NJ	THE LIVEWIRE BBS (1995)
	THE LIVEWIRE BBS 609.235,5297 (v.everything), support board lor BBS Magazine both the print and online version. Home of Livewire Door Colleclion. Internet. Fidonet, Throbnet, ILink, Usenet. Register Livewire Doors online using your Visa/Mastercard, Support and home for Doorframe (door vv^ritlng kit) available for Quick Basic 4,5, BasCom and Visual Basic, - BBS Magazine October 1995
609-235-5297 Moorestown, NJ	Live Wire, LiveWire, Livewire BBS, The, Livewire, The [$] , The Livewire BBS, The Livewire N1, THE LIVEWIRE BBS (1990-1996)	Richard Paquette, Rich Paquette, Richard Paquette	PCBoard , PCBoard vl4.5a/E6
	THE LIVEWIRE BBS, 1-609-235-5297 - PCBoard vl4.5a/E6, Sysop: Richard Paquette. Support BBS for: LiveStore, Facts, Feud, Lottery, SexQuiz, Races, TvTrivia, Songs, Wordplay and CD-Sub. Home of ""BBS Callers Digest"", international messaging via RelayNet, SmartNet, Intelec, ELink, AfterDark and FidoNet. We have special access for writers, columnist, cartoonist. Subscription board accepting Visa/MasterCard for immediate upgrades, door registrations and subscriptions to BBS Callers Digest. Free Access for a look around. Some free downloadable files listed in Bjulletin 29. THE LIVEWIRE BBS, 609.235.5297 (v.32bis/v.42bis) Support BBS for ""BBS Magazine"" both the print and online editions, also support BBS for Livewire Doors including CDsub, LiveStore, Feud, Facts, Famous People, Years in History, Lottery, SexQuiz, TvTrivia, Lucky-7, Songs, Clues, Outburst plus others. Internet, Fidonet, I Link, AfterDark, Usenet newsgroups. Sysops can order Online Edition or any Livewire Door using Visa/MC and get instant registration numbers. Direct source for ordering a subscription to BBS Magazine. Special access for writers, editors, publishers etc. Feel free to call at your earliest convenience. Upload your article marked private in text format using ZIP. Stop by and visit with suggestions to improve the BBS Magazine or just to say hello to us. All messages replied to within 24 hours. Free Limited Access. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 THE LIVEWIRE BBS 609.235.5297 (v.everything), support board for BBS Magazine both the print and online version. Home of Livewire Door Collection. Internet, Fidonet. Throbnet, ILink, Usenet. Register Livewire Doors online using your Visa/Mastercard. Join and receive a 6 month subscription to BBS Magazine as a gift. Support and home for Doorframe (door writing kit) available for Quick Basic 4.5. BasCom and Visual Basic. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
609-273-1733 Mount Laurel, NJ	Shadow's Pawn AE (1988-1991)	Lord Shadow	GBBS
	"The name of the board is really "Shadow's Pawn". SysOp was Lord Shadow, aka Neal David Saferstein. He lived right across the street from Matt Bockol of the Iconoclast BBS. I was a friend of them both in Middle School until Matt kicked Neal's ass one day. I was the Co-sysop of Shadow's Pawn for a while - Leech Master. We also knew Michael Faust of The Ocean Side Bar. I went into business with Neal doing software and hardware repair and we closed the board. It was running on a Franklin Ace 2100 with (I think) a 20 Meg Hard Drive. We modified the hell out of the poor ace and it contained EVERYTHING internally. A first for the time in Apples. I never really liked the Franklin, but it proved to be one HELL of a workhorse.. I run a small company, still doing computer service, called Reactive Computer Services.com." - Leech Master
609-296-6630 Mystic Islands, NJ	The Circuit Board (1985-1988)	Darren Fonseca	Deadlock BBS
	"Home of the Weekly ASCII Animation." - Darren Fonseca
609-392-5953 Trenton, NJ	Polymath One 1 Public, Polymath One PCB REL, Polymath One EIS (1986-1996)	Dalaye Gabriel, Dalaye Gabriel	PCBoard
	"I'm known as Gabe, and was Sysop of Polymath One for the 10 years it was around - PM1 was featured in book "Erotic Connections", as by 1992, half of its 5 GB online files were adult oriented, along with adult chat, etc. PM1 was known for some online security firsts at the time, and shared/sold 2ACT security software to schools and other BBSs. The main phone line (6 lines total) was part of its logo.. "Try it... (609) EWA-LYKE it!" - Dalaye Gabriel
609-426-1618 East Windsor Township, NJ	Event One BBS (1990-1994)	Fenric (Harlan Landes)	WWIV / Hall
	"Event One BBS became Heartbeat of Pompeii when the number changed to 609-443-6164. The software was originally WWIV but I puchased and modified the source code throughout the years and provided my revisions to local registered BBSs (Bob's Taco Hut, Ten Forward, maybe some others at different points) and called the software "Hall." The board originally ran on an Epson Equity II (8088) and I believe I upgraded to an 80386 at one point." - Harlan Landes
609-426-4472 Hightstown, NJ	Space Station One BBS (1984-1991)	Rambo	A.M.I.S, Forem, ForemST, PCBoard
	"The Space Station One BBS opened in 1984 on an Atari 800XL with a 300bps modem but over the years it migrated to an Atari 1040ST at 9600bps then finally to the PC at 16.8kbps running PCBoard. The board varied from full-time to part-time and back again during the transitions between different hardware and software versions. The SysOp changed his handle from Rambo to Bumzy somewhere around 92-93. The Space Station was shut down for good when the SysOp started running an Internet point-of-presence site for NetK2NE who also used to run The Jersey Devil BBS." - Rambo
609-435-5131 Pine Hill, NJ	TRAIN YARD BBS - TRAIN YARD SOFTWARE (1980-1995)	The Engineer - ConRail Kid	CNET 10, CNET 12, Deadlock
	"Commodore 64, 2nd BBS in NJ running 2400 baud I really miss my BBS days. We have www.trainyardsoftware.com now offering hosting, dedicated servers and colocation." - The Engineer
609-443-8230 Windsor, NJ	Amigatized, Amigatized BBS, Amigatized Elite BBS (1992-1995)	Scott Sobel, "Cool"	C-Net-Amiga , Cnet-Amiga
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: East Windsor, NJ since 06/92. Sysop: Cool. Using Cnet Pro 3.0 with 2 lines on AMIGA with 2000 MB storage. US Robotics at 16800 bps. $25 Annual fee. 2 lines on an Amiga 4000/030 with 1 gig and 2 cdroms on-line. USR Dual Standard 168 and Supra 288.$15 a half a year/$25 for full year.Clink Network and Tradernet. Thousands of recent MS-DOS and Amiga PD/Shareware files. Doors, chat, Conferences, Rip Graphics
609-482-1336 Maple Shade, NJ	The Next Generation BBS, The Next Generation N2, THE NEXT GENERATION BBS (1992-1995)	John Carcione	PCBoard
	THE NEXT GENERATION BBS 609.482.1336, Home of Trek Trivia, 750+IVlegs of the latest adult GIFs, Throbnet, Fidonet, Couple CDRoms online, Gigs of files, nev,/sgroups etc, - BBS Magazine October 1995
609-482-7345 Maple Shade, NJ	Next Generation BBS, The Next Generation BBS, The Next Generation N1, THE NEXT GENERATION BBS (1991-1996)	John Carcione, John Carcione	PCBoard , PCBoard 14.5a/E3
	THE NEXT GENERATION BBS, PCBoard 14.5a/E3. Home of Trek Trivia Online. 1.5 Gigs files, 750 Megs of the latest adult Gifs. Message Networks; RelayNet, Intelec and After Dark Adult Network. Visa/MasterCard accepted online. Sysop: John Carcione. 1-609-482-7345. THE NEXT GENERATION BBS, PCBoard 14.5a/E3. Home of Trek Trivia Online. 1.5 Gigs files, 750 Megs of the latest adult Gifs. Message Networks; RelayNet, Intelec and After Dark Adult Network. Visa/MasterCard accepted online. Sysop: John Carcione. 1-609-482-7345. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 THE NEXT GENERATION BBS 609.482.7345, Home of Trek Trivia, 750+Megs of the latest adult GIFs. Throbnet, Fidonet. Join and receive a 6 month subscription to BBS Magazine as a gift. Couple CDRoms online, Gigs of files, newsgroups etc. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
609-485-2380 Northfield, NJ	Casino BBS , Casino Bulletin Board, The Casino BBS N2, The Casino N2, The Gasino BBS (1986-1996)	Dave Shubert, Dave Schubert, Dave Schubert	PCBoard
	ListKeeper: New Jersey AC 609
609-530-9747 Ewing, NJ	Area 51, Tazmania (1992-1996)	Louis Dorio, aka Taz, aka Phoof, Louis Dorio aka Taz	WWIV, PCBoard
	"Mainly message boards. I was the sysop, and I'll be the first to say it was a horrible BBS." - Louis Dorio
609-538-1347 Lawrenceville, NJ	Lawrence Township Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
609-561-3377 Northfield, NJ	Casino BBS, Casino Bulletin Board, PCBoard BBS, The Casino EBBS, The Casino N1, The Casino PCB2 REL, The Casino PCBoard (1990-1995)	Dave Shubert, Dave Schubert	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: New Jersey AC 609/Dave Schubert
609-582-4753 Sewell, NJ	Prgmng Lynk, The Programming Link, The Programming Lynk (1991-1995)	Gregory Arena, Greg Arena	PCBoard, PCBoard 14.5
	"Nice to see my old BBS mentioned somewhere! I shut it down because I was getting ready to leave for college; I would have put it back up after graduating except the Internet pretty much killed the whole BBS concept, at least in NJ. The BBS was the home of ProgNet and it carried FidoNet & the Intelec network at different times. It ran without a case for a while sitting on my desk with leftover equipment that I cobbled together." - Greg Arena
609-584-7662 Hamilton Square, NJ	Bodily Harm, Slaughter House (1990-1994)	FusioN	QUiVER
	"Originator of ToxicNeT (fido network). FusioN was a member of the art group ACiD." - FusioN
609-628-4311 Petersburg, NJ	Info-Net BBS, InfoNet, InfoNet BBS (1990-1996)	Bob Fehn, Bob Fehn	Wildcat
	"Hi, my name is Bob Fehn and I was SYSOP of this BBS. InfoNet actually started in Wildwood NJ in 1990 as a Fire Service information system at the Wildwood Fire Department. After RalayNet Mail Exchange was added in 1992, the BBS needed more lines and SYSOP time so it was moved to my home in Petersburg where 6 additional phone lines were added. RelayNet allowed BBS systems to exchange email worldwide, during the night, so users could read new mail every morning. Quite advanced for it's time. The BBS was somewhat famous for games and I wrote my own trivia game, "2151" that ran on most major BBS software. Over 100 copies sold before the Internet burst on the scene and made BBS systems obsolete. The board started life on an IBM PC with a 30 meg hard drive, 1 5.25 inch floppy and a 1200 BPS modem on one phone line. My how times have changed...." - Bob Fehn
609-667-5652 Cherry Hill, NJ	Liberty Bell BBS, Access Solutions Corporation (1991-1994)	Lynn Graves	PCBoard
	Computer Sentinel
609-683-4422 Princeton, NJ	Corporate Data Exchange (CDX) (1993)	LaFountain Research Corp/Tad LaFountain
	PR Newswire/Business Wire. Logon: hello user.cdx
609-723-4428 McGuire AFB, NV	Second Home Electronic Cottage (1985-1989)	Andrew Bernhardt (aka Rodney the Roach)	DTJ-BBS
	"Flagship system for DTJ-BBS. I ran this out of my barracks room. Later the BBS moved to Beatty, Nevada (702 area code)." - Andrew Bernhardt
609-748-8827 Absecon, NJ	Hard Rock BBS, The Hard Rock BBS (1994-1999)	Sean Hickey, Sean Hickey	TriBBS
	"This BBS was my life for a couple years. I had to beg my mom to get a seperate phone line so I could run it. I started off with a 2400 baud modem and I think ended with 56k, but it might have been 14.4k. Everything I did to my computer revolved around making a better BBS. I ended up shutting it down when I discovered the world wide web." - Sean Hickey
609-753-1549 BERLIN, NJ	Pics On-Line(sm), Pics OnLine, Pic OnLine (1994-1995)	Terry Rossi	PCBoard
	HST & v.32bis
609-753-2540 Atco, NJ	Pics On-Line(sm), Pics OnLine, PICS OnLine!, PicsOnline!, Pic OnLine (1989-1997)	Terry Rossi	PCBoard
	HST & v.22 HST & v.22
609-753-2605 BERLIN, NJ	Pics OnLine, Pic OnLine (1994-1995)
	HST & v.23bis HST & v.32
609-753-9521 Atco, NJ	Temple of Doom BBS (1990-1993)	Dave Verna	WWIV
	"I was the SYSop of Temple of Doom BBS - I got the source code and a buddy named Ken Klien ( Onmishient-1 ) helped me add mods to it at the time. I met alot of friends through it at the time and became part of 2 networks, one from weasel, and one from John Gault ( Promethus Net or PRO NET)." - Dave Verna
609-786-7812 RIVERTON, NJ	Dawns End (3 Nodes) (1992)	Master Copy
	New Wave Member BBS
609-795-4935 Cherry Hill, NJ	God's Domain BBS, God's Domain BBS (also The BBS, Lord's Realm BBS, SJR BBS) (1991-1995)	Dave Lauer, God , "God", Dave Lauer, God, TheLordX	Virtual , VBBS
	"Nothing special here - just a bored kid who discovered that his modem could connect to other modems. I was surprised that anyone remembered it, and pleasantly surprised when I found my listing on your site. This is a great project!" - Dave Lauer
609-829-8257 Cinnaminson, NJ	Wolf Lair BBS, Wolf's Lair (1986-1994)	Chris Zelek, Grey Wolfe , "Grey Wolfe"	AABBS/ARB BBS/Deadlock/WWIV, SW Unk
	"This listing exists already, but it's very incomplete. I'm Chris, the SysOp of this old system, which I ran originally on a C=128 at 1200 bps, and over time, switched to an IBM-based platform. The system finally went down when a chkdsk /f decided to turn my entire c:/bbs directory into garbage files (even though it was working fine and I just ran it to retrieve some lost clusters). Only had backups on floppy disks, and it was old. I had been running it remotely from college since 1990, so I decided just to scrap it." - Chris Zelek
609-858-2033 Collingswood, NJ	Lankhmar (AKA Mirage East), Mirage East (1986-1994)	Grey Mouser	Image
	"The BBS was always Lankhmar - towards the end it was also Mirage East, but I'd rather have it remembered as Lankhmar. It was also a NISSA Associate board, NISSA standing for New Image Software SysOps Association - or something like that. I'm guessing on the timespan, but I've seen SIDs that I did with a date of 11/1987 advertising the site that came out about a year or two after I started it. If you'd like more stuff, let me know." - Jerry Landers AKA Grey Mouser
609-858-8679 COLLINGSWOOD, NJ	Fire Starter BBS, K.I.S.S. BBS, Western Camden Co (1995)	Paul Laughlin, Dave Lamont, Dave LaMont	PCBoard
	K.I.S.S. BBS, 609.858,8679, Recovernet, Pathnet, Fire/Police/EMS conferences v/ith tons of Doom, Doom II and Heretic files. Cheap membership rates v/ith USR 28.8's on all lines. - BBS Magazine October 1995
609-861-0827 DENNISVILLE, NJ	Ducks Pond (Node 1) (1993-1999)	Duke Hamann	TriBBS
	"My BBS Ducks Pond BBS (Node 1 & 2) is listed. Originally ran on a Packard Bell Legend 10CD 486/dx33 with a 200meg hard drive. I had upgraded it to a Pentium overdrive before upgrading to a dual Pentium pro 200 server. This BBS is what started business DuxPond Communications and WISP Jersey Shore Wireless." - Duke Hamann
609-883-5868 Ewing Twp, NJ	Nick At Night, Nick At Nite (1992-1994)	Nick McNellis
	"Nick At Nite ran from an 80486 processor, 20 mb disc and 2400 modem from my bedroom at my mothers house. Was in my early 20's at the time, had a lot of fun and dedicated considerable amount of time working on it. The internet was in it's infancy and us BBS'ers were leading the way with birthing rights to modern day social media. Who could forget the sound of a dial up modem spooling up to dribble a few bits of data. Just as life has become more complicated, so has the internet. Much simpler times back then with fond memories. Jason, thank you for your hard work and effort in capturing this bit of technological nostalgia."
609-893-4076 Browns Mills, NJ	Wicca Citadel (1987-1996)	Michael L Cottie, Michael L. Cottle	K2NEv5.0, CitK2NEv5.10, Citadel:K2NE
	"I started with a 300 baud modem. Towards the end when the internet was catching on, I had 3 phone line available, and online chat, something unheard of at the time. Anyhow, my site was VERY popular, at least equal if not more than the originating bbs, the programmer, Vince Quaresima, my Physics teacher in high school, who developed Citadel:K2NE and talked me into hosting a BBS. I did and will never forget the experience. I met LOTS of people! If any of my old users see this and remember Wicca Citadel/Crystal Well, please email me mlcottle@yahoo.com. I am still alive and kicking!" - Mike (A.K.A.-A long time ago, "The Wizard" and now "Computer Mike"
609-896-3691 Lawrenceville, NJ	Detour BBS, The, The .DETOUR.> BBS, The Detour BBS, The DETOUR BBS (1992-1996)	Bill Roman, Bill Roman	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.1
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Lawrenceville, New Jersey since 11/92. Sysop: Bill Roman. Using PCBoard 15.1/100 with 15 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 22000 MB storage. US Robotics at 38400 bps. $45.00 Annual fee. New Jersey's Largest PCBoard BBS. Over 220,000 FILES! 29 CD's ON-LINE! 1800+ E-Mail conferences, Continuous Satellite Feed of files and E-Mail. 4 Gigs. of Adult Material, Monthly Contests, FREE Trial Membership, rates as low as $12. Give us a call TODAY!
609-927-2059 Linwood, NJ	LinCAT, LinTBBS , Linwood TBBS, Linword TBBS (1988-1997)	Dick Soucy, Richard Soucy, Dick Soucy	TBBS , TheBreadBoard, Wildcat
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Linwood, New Jersey since 08/88. Sysop: Dick Soucy. Using TBBS 2.2 with 1 line on MS-DOS 80386 with 550 MB storage. Hayes at 28.8K bps. No fee. MS Dos files, most current from the largest BBS's in the country. Files updated weekly with new, virus-checked and verified files available on your first call. No fees, no restrictions. On-line games, and more.
609-953-0769 Medford, NJ	Praedo BBS, Praedo BBS, The, Praedo Genl Store, Praedo Systems , Praedo,hm GenSto (1990-1996)	W.R. Morton, Wayne Morton, Wayne Morton , Wayne R. Morton	Searchlight , RBBS, RBBS-PC
	List of BBS List Keepers: New Jersey Area 201/609/908/Wayne R. Morton ListKeeper: New Jersey Area 201/609/908
609-953-2726 Medford, NJ	Pixie Moss BBS, PixieMoss BBS, The, The Pixie Moss BBS (1992-1997)	Bart Hanig, Bart Hanig , Bart & Carole Hanig	Wildcat , PC-Board
	"I found your site by searching on Google. It located my old BBS when I lived n NJ. I had 3 nodes. The BBS was shut down in August 17th,1996 because my 1st wife passed away so the BBS was also taken down the same day that she died." - Bart Hanig
609-953-9663 Medford, NJ	MMS-BBS (1989-1990)	Ryan MacMichael	New Vision (homegrown)
	"The MMS-BBS ran at Memorial Middle School in their computer lab (a trailer out behind the school). I wrote the BBS in 8th grade and ran it that year on an Apple IIGS with a 1200 baud modem. I was only allowed to have it online in the evenings, when school wasn't it, but somehow I managed to avoid administrative intervention thanks to the legendary Mr. Henkel. :)" - Ryan MacMichael
609-983-5970 Marlton, NJ	Jonathan's Apple Store ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
610-323-4763 Pottstown, PA	Barnyard BBS (1995-1998)	COWgod	Renegade
	"An retrospective and historical archive of the BBS can be found at www.barnyardbbs.com." - Cowgod
610-326-3308 Pottstown, PA	Stratosphere, Swirl's Thunderboard (1992-1994)	Swirl (aka Earl S. Zeiner)	WWIV v4.21
	"Greetings! I created Swirl's Thunderboard (which on some BBS lists showed up as Stratosphere) on May 5, 1992. It's been over 10 years, and the memories of that time in my life are as vivid and fresh as ever. I'd be profoundly appreciative if the updated information above could supplant what is presently in the database when your time permits. Thank you ever so much!" -Swirl
610-409-0400 Philadelphia, PA	SOCIAL.NET (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Meet hot guys & sexy ladies online now. Hot nationwide chat, 100's of local personal ads many with phone numbers, 1000's nation-wide Internet personal ads, singles, couples, swingers, all lifestyles, adult GIFs, 15GB file library, member GIFs many adult, 32 lines, never busy, games, raves, dating registry, Internet access and more. Free for ladies.
610-454-7396 COLLEGEVILLE, PA	Black Bag (273/701), Black Bag BBS (1988-1996)	Edward DelGrosso, Ed. Del Grosso, Edward Del Grosso	Opus , MAXIMUS, TBBS
	ListKeeper: Medical Issues BBS
610-488-9194 Bernville, Pa	Excaliber, Excalibur BBS (1986-2000)	Tony Talarigo	OASIS, VBBS
	"Excalibur BBS began March 11, 1986 running on an Atari 800 w/twin Floppy drives and a 1200 baud modem using Oasis 4.1 BBS Software. It evolved to an IBM system in November of 1990, running VBBS on a 286-20mhz and using DesqView multitasking software to enable 3 concurrent nodes on a single system with at the time a huge 120meg harddrive for storage. Over the course of the next ten years, it continued to evolve to newer systems. By 1996 however, users logging in had dropped from its high's of 45-60 per day, to only 1-2 per day. The BBS's last caller was logged on April 10th of 2000, even though it remained available for another year, it recieved no calls. I retired the BBS and turned the last remaining line into a fax line in June of 2001. Over the years, I've had calls from as far away as Australia, Japan, and all parts of Europe. The script capability of VBBS allowed me to create scripts that became popular with VBBS sysops worldwide, whom would call in just to download my packages. Thanks for having a site dedicated to the memory of all these great BBS's, the true forerunners of the Internet should always be remembered." - Tony Talarigo
610-544-8001 Swarthmore, PA	Files&, Mad ASCII, Tales from the Asylum, Dataline Rave, I Forget, Operation Mindfuck (1990-1997)	ASCII Express (Austin Seraphin)	Telegard, WWIV, VBBS, JetBBS
	"Many names and almost as many software changes *g*..keeps users on their toes you know.. lots of fun times too, some of the most fun using a computer ever.. have scientists proved that BBSing attained perfection in 1994 yet? then and in its other peak as Operation Mindfuck running Telegard in 1996, many people called because of the game Barneysplat! and so it then had a large body of drug-using long-distance posters/gamers. ah the memories. then AOL and the graphical net came along and things went to shite." - Austin Seraphin)
610-566-9435 Media, PA	CrafTech BBS, Craftechs Corner, GRAFTECH'S CORNER BBS, CrafTech's Corner BBS (1994-1996)	Antonia Rocha, Antonio Rocha	Roboboard/FX 1.04
	GRAFTECH'S CORNER BBS 610.566,9435. RoboBoard/FX with 2 lines. Over 1200MB of great games, apps. and GIFs. Check out the cool ROBO GUI. Online shopping Mall with computer Periph., supplies, Music CDs, and more. Home of the Auto Repair Manager, Trim Shop Manager, and CrafTech Business Manager. No Fee (really!) - BBS Magazine March, 1995
610-582-2346 Birdsboro, PA	VMF-214 (1990-1996)	Tony Pisarek, Tony Pisarek AKA Pappy Boyington	Celerity
	"At its peak, VMF-214 boasted 2 lines (Main Number rolled-over to the second). We had a membership in the hundreds, most were from out of state. It ran on a 386 platform with 3 Gigs of on-line disk space, an off-line storage capacity of 5 Gigs. 2 USR HST, V.Everything Couriers. Ran on Celerity running on Desqview/386." - Tony Pisarek
610-869-2813 West Grove, PA	Mod City (1993-1994)	Brian Heller	Wildcat 3.9
	"Mostly MOD music files with some Door Games and Online Shareware CD's." - Brian Heller
610-873-7170 DOWNINGTOWN, PA	Online Opportunities (1995)	ward Christman
	ListKeeper: Job Search and Inet hot list
610-954-7653 Bethlehem, PA	Town Square BBS, TownSquareBBS (1992-1996)	Dave Ross, Tom Ostrosky	MajorBBS , Worldgroup
	"First free Internet email in the Lehigh Valley via Lehigh University UUCP feed. First multi-player Doom service in LV (up to 8 players). Started with 2 lines; 14 simultaneous phone lines at peak using two 8-port Galacticom serial cards. This service is great! Brings back wonderful memories. Thanks!" - Dave Ross
612-222-5217 St. Paul, MN	Forbidden City Bbs, The Forbidden City (1992-1996)	Steve Bertsch, Vega, Steven Bertsch (Vega)	Renegade
	This BBS was running with telnet/4 dialups recently (1Q2001). It was taken down recently, possibly only temporarily. It's web address is: http://www.tfcbbs.com/
612-251-2511 Saint Cloud, MN	Alliance (1995)	Conal Garrity	Synchronet
	"Rockin Alliance and International Information Retrieval Guild (IIRG) Distro Site." - Conal Garrity/Metalhead
612-291-0567	Amateur Fair Online, Digital Newsletter (1984-1991)	K0TG
	Supports space and amateur radio news. Space: Soviet space news, NASA/USA space news, space shuttle audio information. Radio: GEARVAKF news, W5YI report, ARLL newsletter, packet radio newsletter. During space shuttle missions up-to-the-day schedules and general info.
612-293-3922 St. Paul, MN,	Limited Access, Limited Access/Open Windows, Open Windows (1985-1994)	Susan Bush, Susan Bush , BitWitch / Susan Bush	Wildcat, FidoNet, The Net, Wildcat, TBBS
	"LA/OW started out on a Sperry 8086 in 1985. It ran under various softwares and hardwares until about 1992. I, BitWitch (Sue Bush) was the sysop. At that time, many BBSes were up and really popular. I recognize many of the names on this list with really fond memories. Social clubs sprung up from the communities on the BBSes, I remember a games group where we played role-playing games on Sunday afternoons once a month at someone's house way before RPG got hot. BBSers were hobbyists on the bleeding edge. In fact, I even got a really good job once BECAUSE I was a BBS hobbyist to build a BBS network for a commercial eye-glasses manufacturer! We knew we were cool and it was a very close community that was very important to those involved. When my BBS was up, my mom would come visit and stay up all night watching the users leave messages for each other. It was mystery, magic and when CHAT arrived, we suddenly had the means to meet people from all over. At one point there was a telephone "club" that gave us the ability to dial long-distance for free, or almost free. What a deal! I called all over the US all the time. CHAT BBSes got big in the late 80's and CHATting became a lifestyle for many. People moved from one end of the country to the other to be with those they met in CHAT rooms! My sister was filmed for TV in San Fransico for doing just that. When I traveled for Sperry 1984-1986, I met people for dinner in most states I traveled to. It was fun and for me, a huge part of my social life. I remember Hue Jr., Songbird, Jimbo, Our Father, Phluffy, Fuzzy and many many more. I miss the people and that interaction, terribly. The web ain't the same. I hope the documentary does well and I applaud your efforts! I now run www.solarcook.com plz stop by and say hi! BitWitch. Sue Bush, Tucson, AZ 10/2002"
612-321-0212 MNPZ 1, MN	Bit Stream Underground (1997-1998)
	Now an ISP (www.bitstream.net)
612-331-7827 Minneapolis, MN	One World (1984-1989)	Eric Svedberg	GBBS, FidoNet
	This BBS ran on an Apple //e initially using GBBS software. Went down, then was revived on a PC-AT in 1988 running as a FidoNet node.
612-338-8666 Minneapolis, MN	Millennium Communications, Inc. (1994)	David Macey
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Minneapolis, Minnesota since 06/94. Sysop: David Macey. Using UNIX 4.1.3 with 15 lines on UNIX with 3000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $15.00 Monthly fee. Full unlimited access to the Internet. Begin traveling the information highway without the worry of time limits or surcharges. E-Mail only account $50 year. Shell, full, partial slip available. Rochester data line 507-282-1004. Voice is 612-338-5509.
612-340-2486 Minneapolis, MN	KIMBERELY BBS (1993)	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
	Prime Rate-Fed Funds-T-Bill-Discount Rate-Economic Data
612-423-1055 Rosemount, MN	The Inn (1982-1983)	The Innkeeper
	"I ran this BBS in the evenings and on weekends. I was a teenager heavily into the Apple II+ that lived in my bedroom for this time hooked into the family phone line. The disks were two 5 1/4 floppies, with the one disk I used for email 'hole-punched' so I could flip it to hold more email. Users would 'page the sysop' if they couldn't find their email and I would flip the disk. Occasionally email got lost this way. It was common back then on alot of systems to have to log in on a schedule for getting your email. Lots of fun. On a side note, I am the son of 'The White Knight' or 'The Conductor' of Terminal Station. His BBS's ran on the full time number that you already have listed. :)" - Ray
612-423-5048 Rosemount, MN	Terminal Station (1984-1985)	The Conductor	Citadel
	From the Twin Cities Citadel History: "About a week after Dog House went up, the Terminal Station joined it, hosted also on a Z100 on the CP/M-85 side. It instantly became a rather dichotomous system, hosting both highly serious discussions of Theology, SDI, School Prayer, etc., as well as incredibly ruggish subjects, and digression became a raging plague on the system, leading to a room named Digression. It followed Dog House in getting 300/1200 access, and has the honor of being the only system that ran a disk so long that when it failed, you could see through it completely! Terminal Station is an open system."
612-431-1107 Apple Valley, MN	Citadel-86, Free Lunch, Super Comp II, SuperComp II (1984-1994)	Hue, Hue Sr., Supercomp User Group , Hue, Sr.	Cit86v3.27, Citadel, Rbbs, Cit86v3.32, neoCit
	From the Twin City Citadels History: "SuperComp, a Sperry personal computer club, originally ordered Citadel 2.10 from CUG through the instigation of Ray Schneider (aka The White Knight aka The Conductor). Brought up on a 1655 with an embedded Z80B with 8" disks on Thanksgiving of '83, the system experienced instant success and quickly became difficult to get on, despite the fact that the number was never advertised on local boards. Despite the fact that it was always run on an "open" basis, serious topics were usually the order of the day, and the digressive, silly rooms that appeared were actually viewed with relief!" "Test System, running under MS-DOS 2.13 on a Zenith Z100, came up in the fall of '84. True to its name, it's a System that one and all are invited to bang away at, and it frequently crashes, due to programmer incompetency and strange compiler bugs and the tricks of the gremlins. Nearly functionally equivalent to the 8 bit TC Citadels, it has not been in heavy use until lately due to the extremely erratic hours it keeps (Hue, Jr. uses the computer for his own BBSing and programming). Furthermore, someday it will come down when the sysop gets a job and moves out, and it's doubtful that he'll bring it back up. But he might."
612-432-7668	Dog House BBS, Doghouse, DogHouse BBS, Dog House BBS, The (1984-1987)	Lucifer	Cit86 V3
	From the Twin Cities Citadel History: "The Dog House came up about a month after Test System came up, and is also hosted on a Z100, although this time on the 8 bit CP/M-85 side (8085 chip). While suffering a number of disk problems due to the unclean environment it was run in, Lucifer's BBS became very popular for mostly light talk. In January of '85, Dog House became the first TC Citadel to have both 300/1200 access. In about February of '85, it went 'controlled' (for lack of a better word) -- new users were still welcome, but they now had to provide names and voice #s before they could use the system."
612-432-8870 Apple Valley, MN	Dissent (1995-1998)	Daedalus Rising, Big Teebo	Renegade
	"http://dissent612.com. We're all still around. You just have to look. If you have things to add to the website - archives, memories, special requests, etc., just email one of us. We're not dead - just busy doing cool projects. ;)"
612-438-3223 Hastings, MN	Rotation, Used Camalot (1990)	St. Jarna, Annelise	Citadel-86
	"stjarna and i ran rotation during the summers, on weekends and in the evenings. we'd both been calling bbses for several years, and it was a great addition to the social activities available to high schoolers in small cities in minnesota. (look; an understatement!) we decided to put it up, and were unable to decide on a name. (used camelot was a suggestion from our mother, actually.) so it eventually settled into being known as rotation, but for a while, every time you logged in, you got a different name for the board. (we let stj's pet guinea pig name one of them; i believe it started out asi08924'klkl and got worse from there.)" - Annelise
612-439-1064 Bayport, MN	Stillwater High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
612-439-3916 Stillwater, MN	The Dark Domain (1986-1989)	Jim Haase	C-Net 12.0
	"Hardware was C-64, 5 Meg HD (which was huge at the time), SFD-1001 (1 meg floppy), 2 1541 Floppies, 1200 Baud. Software was C-Net 12.0 with all the mods. At its peak I had about 250 users and was dabbling in the 0 day warez scene. Started my lifelong love of computers." - Jim Haase
612-439-6516 Stillwater, MN	RPG Connection (1989-1991)	Rocker	DMBBS
	"This BBS was setup using a Commodore 64 and a 2400bps modem. Was exclusive to RPG games that were popular at the time like AD&D and GURPS." - Rocker
612-455-1155 South St. Paul, MN	Liquid Death (1995)	Neon	WWIV
	"Liquid Death was run by a 13 old boy (me) when I was still living at home with Mommy. It was run on a 2400 baud modem on a Packard Bell 468SX. The site was run on only a partially dedicated line, and it was eventually taken down. A new site eventually emerged called The Dragon's Cove, which was much more successful." - Neon
612-459-8095	Just Another Citadel, ThePhoenix, Phoenix, The (1985-1988)	Jay Johnson, Stallion	Cit68K 2.14
	From the Twin Cities Citadel History: "Just Another Citadel went up on about 85Apr12, and was instantly welcome due to the fact that SuperComp and Terminal Station were down, and Dog House was unstable. It seems to be off to a fine start, and is an open system, being run on a Digilog 1500 under CP/M-80."
612-470-9635	Citadel-86 Test Sys, Citadel-86 Test System, Test System (1984-2001)	Hue, Jr., Hue Jr., Hue, Jr.	Citadel-86, Cit86v3.31, Cit86v3.33
	"Second Citadel in the Twin Cities, last one down, I suspect." - Hue, Jr.
612-471-0060 Navarre, MN	Radio Waves BBS (1987-1990)	Metalhead, The Unknown Soldier & The Sensei	Forum, Forum BBS, Forum (Customized)
	"Rockin' Alliance and The Syndicate Report Distribution Site. This site was named after a Roger waters song called Radio Waves." - Conal Garrity
612-474-7350 Excelsior, MN	Double R Diner, The, The Double R Diner (1994-1997)	Raymond Morse, Dale Cooper	WWIV Custom
	The Double R was started after Dream World (also mine) blew up after I made the mistake of being on air on WCCO radio and giving the number out. The Double R became more of a home for me to tinker with the software and it was during that time that I wrote a ton of modifications and a couple of apps for WWIV. It was really always just a place to encourage good discourse and for people in WWIVnet to come get access to the stuff I had written. Was good fun until the actual internet came calling in the form of Winternet in the Twin Cities and then I was off to explore that crazy world. The Double R was run off OS/2 Warp and I do not remember the PC specs but it was some custom built rig I am sure. Thanks so much for this list.
612-483-6077 TWIN CITIES, MN	Hell Frozen Over (1997-2000)	Mahomad, Far Side, Scavenger	Remote Access Pro, Citadel-86, Citadel-UX
	"HFO opened it's doors in October of 1997, ran until mid 1998, closed in August of 1998, then opened back up and ran for a few months in 1999. In 2000 a new system came up that was internet only, a telnet board running Cit/UX (Citadel for unix). It was a completely new board, but still used the HFO name. Sometime between 1999 and 2000 there was an NPA/NXX split in the Twin Cities (of which there would be 2 more, as we are now finding out), and the number changed to 651-483-6077. On January 1 of 2000, US-West disconnected service for 483-6077, at my request. Caller ID still showed a few calls each day, even with the board being down for almost a year.... The correct spelling of my handle was Mahomad (which is actually incorrect, but damnit that's how I spelled it). My real name is Adam Maloney, which you can feel free to put on your site. My cosysops were Far Side and Scavenger...... I had a legitimate, registered copy of Remote Access Professional 2, licensed for 250 nodes. HFO started on a 286 running DESQView with a USR Sportster 14.4. Later it ran on a 386 (with a 486 overdrive) IBM PS/2 system with a USR Sportster 28.8 modem. I switched to Windows, but it couldn't multitask well enough to answer the modem in the background, so I went back to Desqview. Eventually I moved it to a Pentium 133, and a 33.6 Sportster..... My claim to fame was through three 7-disc CD changers, with 15 shareware and 6 adult CD's online. I had one of the largest filebases, both by size and number of files, in Minnesota. I also had the usual collection of the popular games like tradewars and LORD. HFO was also the U.S. distribution site for Crow Software, makers of fine BBS utilities...... Even after investing $1000's in hardware and software, Hell Frozen Over always remained completely free, running on donations only (of which, I eceived exactly 1). The original harddrive with the entire BBS, userbase, messages, files, games, and game states is still preserved. At it's peak HFO had some 400 registered users, 200+ of which called regularly.... " - Adam Maloney
612-484-3636 St. Paul,, MN	Gambit, GamBit Unison (1983-1987)	AEK, Albatross, Eadgbe,Speedy,Typo	AEK custom QNX 16-port multiuser
	"GamBit MultiSystems offered e-mail, interactive chat, interactive games, and discussion forums from 1983 to 1987. The platform was an IBM PC-XT running QNX on a 16-port Hostess card with 300 BPS modems. Its most popular interactive game (or MUD) Scepter of Goth, was AEK's adaptation of his popular "Milieu" game that ran from 1978-1982 on the State of Minnesota's educational computing mainframe (MECC)." "Scepter of Goth was migrated to a Charles River Data Systems minicomputer and rewritten into the "Screenplay" program. This program featured programmable, learning automatons, scripted games, and a powerful set of internal programming languages for game wizards ("Hi" and "Lo")." "GamBit franchised its operation to 12 cities in the U.S. and Canada, and was sold to a Virginia company named "Interplay" (now defunct -- no relation to existing companies with that name)." "AEK's Milieu, Scepter of Goth and Screenplay programs are some of the earliest historical MUDs. Many of the features of the software (i.e. learning/trainable automatons) did not appear in general MUD/MUSH/MOO programs for another decade." - Albatross
612-488-5112 St. Pail, MN	P.C. Megamall, P.C. MegaMall Systems (1990-1995)	Wheelie, Michael Wielenberg, M. Wielenberg
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Saint Paul, Minnesota since 12/90. Sysop: Michael Wielenberg. Using MajorBBS 6.12 with 6 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 900 MB storage. Digicom at 14400 bps. $1 Hourly fee. Many features include: Ripscript, Chat, Online Games, Large file Library, Internet, E-mail, Local Forums, Doors, and much much more to see. Multiple membership packages available. Call for a limited free trial offer!!
612-489-7983	Abiogenetic, Abiogenetic BBS (1991-1994)	Barry Watson
	List of BBS List Keepers: Minnesota Twin Cities AC 612/Bary Watson
612-494-9254 Maple Grove, MN	Biohazard BBS (1994-1996)	Matt Janssen (aka. PcLover)	Excalibur
	This graphical BBS was my main hobby throughout middle school. It ran on our living room PC with three phone lines (four when no one was using the main line). Subscriptions started at $1.00 per month for 40 minutes of access and 1MB of downloads. I still have most of the screen files, but haven't tried to spin it up again. Anyone have a Window 3.11 or Windows 95 emulator running Excalibur software?
612-535-9425 Minneapolis, MN	AirStrip One, Airstrip I (1983-1986)	Mad Canadian	NDC BBS Software (co-written by Sir William), Self written
	"Hi, Just for a lark, I googled the phone number of the BBS that I ran back in high school, and found this site. The Software was written by myself. The modem driver, and email system I 'borrowed' from a guy out in California. I can't remember his name. I would get home from school, verify new members, and put in various updates. I had all sorts of stuff on there. Casino, dungeon, (and not some lame 'hallway of death', but a three dimensional maze), goofy games, you name it. All this on an Apple //e, with FOUR disk drives. Count them, FOUR disk drives! Back in the mid-80's, I was living large! My biggest pet peeve was that Computer User would print the BBS numbers in alphabetical order, and mine was on top. I would get EVERYONE calling my BBS. Christmas was the worst. I would get Commodore 64 users logging on wanting to know where they could get games for their new C-64... Ugh... I parlayed that love of programming into a 12 year career as a computer programmer starting with the USAF right out of high school. So the site pretty much went down on 15 Jul 86. :) I think my brother has that old Apple //e. I wonder if he still has it..." - Mad Canadian/Thought Police
612-537·8659	ProBoard International (1995)
	Product: ProBoard
612-552-8169 west st paul, mn	Tower of Destiny (1995-1998)	Aaron Gelner, devious / aaron gelner	oblivion/2
	"This was a name game bbs. Started out as the dragon's lair, then moved onward to grey cloud, then the inner sanctum and then finally the tower of destiny. Then ultimately it hit imperative deception, and immaculate deception. Names were deceiving. Then I got blacklisted from the 612/651 BBS scene and thus disappeared into the void onto the net and made a name for myself here. I was accused of hacking BBSes locally, oddly enough. Sure, I have become a security expert, however, I had never gained unauthorized access to BBSes in my area, and was greatly disappointed in my scene when suddenly the ADK (anti-devious klan) was formed. Amusingly, my name stayed around, and I had gained a famous status in the scene no thanks to the Confetti Factory. So, alas, I am here, online, searching through what I can find on the past from FidoNet, and whatnot. I surely, had one of the better boards as I devoted all my time to running it since I had nothing better to do. It was always fun looking and seeing who was currently logged in. :) But alas, that scene is dead, and I am still alive and well - online! Beware, devious still exists, and he probably has his presence on your computer. *evil grin* " - Aaron Gelner
612-566-5726 Minneapolis, MN	Friendship Express, The Freindship Express, The Friendship Expres, The Friendship Express, THE FRIENDSHIP EXPRESS BBS (1988-1998)	Toni/Glen, T & G , Glen Williamson	Major Bbs, MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Minneapolis, Minnesota since 12/88. Sysop: Glen Williamson. Using Major BBS 6.03 with 32 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 450 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $ 1/hr Hourly fee. Best kept secret in North America! Part of Majornet, with 1000's of members in ALL 50 states and Canada! If you're interested in swinging, gay, lesbian, bi, straight, leather, Xdressing, B&D/S&M, etc, then this board is for YOU. FREE swinger's magazines! THE FRIENDSHIP EXPRESS BBS 612.566.5726. since 12/88. 54 lines best kept secret in America, nternet newsgroups, email, telnet address 204 96.28.2. Members in all 50 States and Canada. For swingers, gays, lesbians, bi, straight, leather, Xdressing, B&D, S&M. etc.. free swing mag. A top 100 BBS. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 THE FRIENDSHIP EXPRESS BBS 612,566,5726, since 12/88, 54 lines best kept secret in America, Internet newsgroups, email, telnet address 204,96,28,2. Members in all 50 States and Canada. For swingers, gays, lesbians, bi, straight, leather, Xdressing, BSD, S&M, etc, free swing mag. Atop 100 BBS. - BBS Magazine October 1995
612-595-0801 Golden Valley, MN	The Optical BBS (1993)		Wildcat!
	Wildcat! Gold
612-595-0802 Golden Valley, MN	Digital Publishing Company, The Optical BBS (1993)		Wildcat!
	Wildcat! Gold
612-627-2170 Minneapolis, MN	Minneapolis School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
612-633-0509 Arden Hills, Mn	Smash Palace North (1985-1989)	RadRick	GBBS, NEXUS
	"Smash Palace originated in Kearney Nebraska with a SysOp Steve and his wife. Eventually there was a Smash Palace South in Texas, a Smash Palace East in New Jersey, and I also think there was one in Canada. Smash Palace North was about messages, files, and phreaking. Frequently visited by LoD/H members, and cDc (Cult of the Dead Cow) members." - Shado
612-683-6832 Eagan, MN	Rosemount Apple Vally Eaga (1993)
	FrEdMail System
612-722-3814	8088: "The BBS That's As Good as a Doorstop!" (1995-1999)	Xaroth	Citadel
	"This BBS now resides at http://www.bebs.net." - Geoffrey Benson (Xaroth)
612-724-7066	BBS The Safehouse, RBBS IBM PC Safehouse, Safehouse, Safehouse BBS, THE SAFEHOUSE (1983-1987)
	"I can still recall THIS NUMBER from over twenty years ago and its bbs - The Safehouse. It was the only time I paid for online access (5$). By 9th grade (1984) I was well into the legendary 612 BBS scene. I even found a post archived by my young self somewhere on the internet - insane. Anyways, the famous SuperPirates home base as it were was the Safehouse BBS. Remember "the Burglar" and his infamous crack of the famous zero sector copy protection scheme used for Flight Simulator I - recall how it would reboot 3 times on the copied disk? Crazy stuff. The Safehouse had an awesome series of text files on phreaking and whatnot, and one of the earliest two-modem "Chat with other user" features I'd ever seen. Another mpls bbs was called "The Curse BBS" run by an asian guy who was adopted. It was famous because it had the ever impressive reverse moving twirling cursor which no one seemed to be able to figure out how that bit of software had been written. Oh those were the days - free long distance phone calls, the FBI trying to figure out how kids were using credit cards to order stuff, etc etc. We used to attend parties to swap disks - how quaint. 1200 baud going to 2400 was a giant leap. And how about when I used Turbo Pascal on my CP/M card to blow away the poor fools using the apple compilier in programming class...Those were the good times hmm. I became a specialist physician, but still love screwing around on computers. Thanks for bringing back some pleasant memories." - Rolic
612-754-0266	Unlawful Entry 5 Node (1992)	Major Theft
	Skid Row/Tdt Member BBS
612-770-0874 Maplewood, MN	Renaissance, Renaissance Fair (1986-1990)	John Barleycorn	Pseudodel, Pseudodel (Apple // port of Citadel)
	"I ran this BBS during high school and briefly into college, on a second phone line in my parents' house. The software was written by Todd Murray aka "Shadow Warrior" of Second City BBS and distributed for $20. "I have the original 5.25" disks and actually fired up the Apple //c last night (August 12, 2002), and it still appears to work after laying dormant for over a decade. I've networked (serial cable) the Apple //c to an old Mac IIci on my home LAN and I'm migrating all of the data over to my modern Windows and Linux PC's for archival purposes. "We held occasional user meetings at a pizza joint in Dinkytown near the University of Minnesota, or at the Minnesota amusement park, Valley Fair. "I bought that computer before I bought my first car, with my own funds, and paid about $500 for the Apple Personal 300/1200 baud modem as I recall. "In the late 1980's and early 1990's the University of Minnesota's Gopher really took off. I remember getting online with it very early, and securing a copy of winsock.dll and Mosaic for my Windows 3.1 PC, and the world opened up. I wrote one of the earliest web pages in Minnesota, and now work for the University of Minnesota myself. The local dialup BBS seemed so limited in comparison, and so I discontinued it around 1990." -Paul Bramscher
612-773-4984 North Saint Paul, MN	A Final Unity (1997-1999)	Josh Gramenz	Proboard
	"I do not have any additional comments about my old bbs but I just wanted to say that this is a pretty incredible database of old bbs listings. It sure brings back memories seeing all of the old bbs's that I used to dial in to. It's a shame that the Internet pretty much was the downfall of all of the excellent bulletin board systems that used to exist. Great job on the site!" - Josh Gramenz
612-774-8454	Abiogenetic, Abiogenetic BBS (1992-1995)	Barry Watson, Barry Watson	Custom
	ListKeeper: Minnesota Twin Cities AC 612
612-783-7160 Minneapolis, MN	Hub, The, The Hub (1992-2000)	Deb & Loadmaster, Deb Powell, Loadmaster & Deb, Loadmaster/Deb	Citadel, Citadel-86
	"Hi. I'm Deb, former sysop of The HUB. I just wanted to correct the information you had about the timeline of my BBS. The HUB went up in May of 1992 and ran non-stop, though with a few phone number changes, until March of 2000. "Loadmaster (Andy Powell) was the original sysop until we hooked up (after meeting on local Citadels, the in person at a BBS run!) in the fall of 1992. We were married 4 years later, and ran the board together until 2000 when we both just got tired of it. "If you're interested, I have a few pages about The HUB and its sub-board, The Seamy Underside at http://www.heavenlyweb.com/hub" "Thanks for a fabulous site!" -Deb
612-784-4481 Minneapolis, MN	Ed's Room (1993-1998)	Death Reaper, dea3per	Citadel, Unknown, EDadel, Webadel
	"I originally put Ed's Room up to impress a girl I met in college. While that relationship never went anywhere the bulletin board system managed to flourish, grow and simply fail to die. Sometime around '98 or '99 I shut down the dial-up system and convert everything to a web-based system running mine own custom software (lamely titled "Webadel" - the UI is based on the sparse conversation-focused design of Citadel-86). It's still running, as of 2005, with many of the original users at http://edsroom.com." - Death Reaper
612-788-2714 Minneapolis, MN	Bad Sector (1984-1991)	Biko Mack	Citadel
	Now located at http://www.visi.com.
612-866-5673 Richfield, MN	Sa'Shir (1986-1992)	Little John	Litfal
	"A fine RPG-BBS back in the day, using Shawn (Starrelyte) Stanley's software in Sa'Shir's final incarnation. Had a good core cadre of players. Great fun. BBS was unplugged when I sold my Apple IIgs - I had moved to the Amiga. The phone number 866-5673 spelled "Too Lose", so the BBS motto was "Play Too Lose", which fit in well with Shawn's Paranoia-esque software. I still run across some of the old regulars, on World of Warcraft. And keep in touch with some of the old crowd from Grapevine, Revelstone, Images at Twilight, Wintermute, Safehouse." - John "Eljay" (Little John) Love-Jensen
612-879-0268 Minneapolis, MN	Gormenghast (1995-2002)	hypochrismutreefuzz	Citadel
	"Currently up and boasting a userbase of well over three people." - hypochrismutreefuzz
612-884-3210 Bloomington, MN	City of the Damned (1986-1989)	The Spirit	RockTalk
	"This BBS also had other names. I can't remember all of them, but a few were Infinite Dreams, The Moriarity Hotel (many people told me I spelled "Moriarty" wrong), and there was a backdoor when you went to Infinite Dreams. If you typed "USAPHREAKCO" as your username it would take you to "The Sanctuary" BBS where it had all of the neat0 k-k00l pirate stuff. I don't remember the name of the software I used. It was made by Lord Winterstar and was based on another system. I think the other system was TPro. Anyway, it was up in different incarnations from the time I was in 6th grade until 8th grade when I got caught by MidAmerica for phreaking. A whopping $250 fine for my parents." - The Spirit
612-884-7951	Images At Twilight, Images@Twilite, TWM's MTHboard, Images at Twilight (1984-1999)	Sy_Borg, Sy Borg, Sy Borg	Cit68k3.27, Citadel, Cit68k3.31, Cit68k 2.14
	"Images was first known as TWM's MTHboard and started 4/8/1984, it then quickly changed over to Images at Twilight in 1985 and ran more or less continuously on a variety of hardware until late 1999. Which means I was a BBS sysop for around 14 years. Phew! When the hardware was new, my uptime was pretty good but as it aged the system started failing fairly predictably. Images had been running unnattended at my mothers house (she had passed away in May of 1998) and since I was the executor of the estate something needed to be done - my wife and I actually decided to move into the home since we were apartment dwellers at the time and I ran Images a little bit more, but the hardware was dying and I wanted DSL for my own machine so I had the line disconnected. The Amiga 1000 that ran Images is currently intact and sitting in the basement, resting peacefully. At shutdown, I'd had something on the order of 80,000+ messages posted on the system and was networked with similar Citadels all over the country. Now, here's the kicker: much of the old Twin City Citadel BBS community moved to a text-based Citadel that runs on Unix based machines. If you telnet to anansi-web.com and type BBS, you will find a world-wide text-based Citadel BBS. Much of the old BBS community congregate here. I'm considering putting one up on my current box but you know how it is, you can't go home again right?" - Todd Madson
612-920-5566 Minneapolis, MN	L5 Minnesota, Mn Space Frontier, MN Space Frontier Society, Minnesota Spacenet, L5 MN Space BBS, L-5 Minnesota (1986-1994)	Jim Cran, Scott Shjefte, Ben Huset, Ben Husset, Scott Shjeffte	RBBS 17.2
	Minnesota Space Frontier Society - NASA News. Color/graphics supported. Conferences. Many space bulletins. Sub directories: L-5 Minnesota, NASA press releases, AP news, ESA & Ariane space press releases, satellite info, shuttle status reports and more. Files intended from Genie Spaceport can be sent from here.
612-935-0163	Terminal Frost Node 1, TERMINAL FROST #1 (1992-1994)	Laviathon
	Crack Inc Member BBS
612-939-0031 Minneapolis, MN	Comsic Watermelon, Cosmic Watermelon, The Cosmic Watermelon (1994-1996)	Robert LaPrise	Remote Access
	"The board started on WWIV software Over time I tried Telegard, Renegade, Concord, and just about everything else. But the RA software was registered and I always ended up going back to it. In a lot of ways the board was a turning point in my life. I learned to program while writing utilities for myself and for others. I learned that I had a lot to learn about other things, and generally started getting my life together during this period. I met some really wonderful people during my time running the system. I wasn't always the easiest person to deal with so I thank everyone who put up with me to drop by, hang out in chat, and leave things to ponder in the message areas. In many ways there was something in the land of BBS that we lost when we "graduated" to the internet. Nice to see someone is remembering us. Thanks." - Robert LaPrise
612-939-0653	Terminal Frost Node 2, TERMINAL FROST #2 (1992-1995)	Laviathon
	Crack Inc Member BBS
612-943-0072	Hard Wired (1992)	Phosphyre
	Independent Member BBS
612-949-0996 Eden Prarie, MN	Abattoir, Abattor (1992-1993)	Bob Peterson	C-Net, CNet Amiga
	"I ran this board on an Amiga 2000. My dad ran Amiga Tech using Tag software." - Bob Peterson
612-949-6655 Eden Prairie, MN	Live Wire (1995-1999)	Nick Johannes	Remote Access, VBBS
	"I pretended to have a 'files' section, but due to the hard drive on the BBS machine only being 85mb, I'd have to delete everything people uploaded." - Nick Johannes
613-226-6030 Ottawa, ON	Shockwave (1989-1998)	The Gatekeeper / Evil Clown / Judge Dredd	Precision BBS, CNet
	"Originally a homebrew software written in Basic on a Commodore 128, between 1989 and 1992. Eventually moved to CNet on the Amiga."
613-228-0282 Ottawa, ON	Club Las Velas (1993-2000)	Diamond Dave	Maximus
	"Hi There. I was the sysop of this BBS for it's entire life. It is listed under two different phone numbers in your list, the one above and 613-728-7050 (which is the number it had for the longest period of time). I figured I should add that I used Maximus for the most part and that the date period was 1993 to early 2000. Thanks for the list!" - Dave
613-231-2426 Ottawa, ONT	Digital Connections, Pubicity Stunts, Publicity Stunts (1992-1994)	Dan, Dan Cherry, Dave Delage	FirstClass
	"One of first Ottawa BBS to offer individual folders that local businesses could control to advertise products and services." - Dave Delage
613-231-7144 Ottawa, ON	Amiga Help, AmigaTronics, AmigaTronix, AmigaTronix Line 1, Hysterics' (1989-1993)	Russell McOrmond, Russell McOrmand
	Amiga File Distribution Network 1:163/109
613-234-0975 Ottawa, Ontario	Myles' Games Extravaganza, Myles' Games Extraviganza (1993-1999)	Myles Bunbury	Maximus v3.01
	"The BBS changed phone numbers in May 1997. The old phone number was (613) 825-9016. Launched in September 1993. Shutdown in December 1999. Started off using Maximus v2.01 (or maybe v2.02), and upgraded when new version came out. Although BBS was in the Ottawa area throughout, technically, prior to the move in May 1999, it was in the suburban Ottawa city of "Nepean". BBS ran under the name of "Myles' Games Extraviganza" (not a typo) for a while before it was corrected to "Myles' Games Extravaganza". Ran the "League 116 InterBBS Gaming Network" from January 1994 to December 1999." - Myles Bunbury
613-354-1388 Napanee, ON	Cybertron BBS, Napanee Online (1993-1995)	Rob Babe	Maximus
	"Nothin much, it was a standard Maximus BBS at the time but one of few in the Napanee area. It was the place to meet for anyone that was on the local DOOM ladder. Remember that Keith? Good times." - Rob Babe
613-376-6397 Sydenham, Ontario	The Dark Tower (1991-1995)	Jeremy (Pennywise) Campbell	Maximum 3.01
	"Was the first 'Stephen King' based BBS. Stephen King and his secretary Shirley Sondregger were both aware of it. Primary node of the original IMS (International Mailing Systems) email network. Home of over 10 Maximus based software addons that were installed on thousands of other BBS's around the world." - Jeremy (Pennywise) Campbell
613-389-8315 Kingston, Ontario	Fowl Weather Post MK ][, FWeeP [Maximus Athletic Support], FWP [Maximus Support], Greater Kingston Net, Quinte Net, SCI Communications, Seaway Net, The Fowl Weather Post, The Fowl Weather Post HST (1989-2000)	Scott Dudley, Scot Dudley	Maximus
	"Please add: Scott Dudley is the author of the Maximus BBS package (sourceforge.net/projects/maximus); this board largely existed to support Maximus, the related Squish mail tosser and the corresponding MUFFIN and TUB support echos on the FidoNet backbone." - Carl B.
613-549-2048 Kingston, ON	The Praetorian Assembly (1993-1996)	Don Smith	Maximus/2
	"My fanatical support of OS/2 lead me to do this. I had a few online doors, but mostly I was for OS/2 files and support. I finally shut down when I moved away for work and my then girlfriend also moved (had the system running at her place for months)." - Don Smith
613-592-8147 KANATA STITTSVI, CANADA	Screaming Euphoria, Spies Like Us (1988-1992)	White Spy, Abraxas	C-Net, VisionX
	"Spies Like Us first started on a standard C64 with two 1541 floppies and a 1670 modem." - White Spy
613-724-6637 Ottawa, Ont	Terpsichore's Inspiration, Terspichore's Inspiration (1994-1999)	Johnathon Roy	Wildcat v4
	"This BBS started in 1991 back in richmond, but in 1994 it moved to the city of ottawa & continued to grow & change & it became at this point one of the 1st fully automated bbs's in ottawa. The sysop became involved in other interests & the entire board was run by the computer. this bbs was a musician's forum for music files, music related message boards, poetry, song writing, top 20 countdowns, the ottawa jazz blues site by Jim Roy originated as a local jazz & blues bulletin weekly updated on this site (by the time it reached ottawa he moved it off this bbs & created his own internet site). There were online games, and absolutely anything music related on this bbs. We supported Fidonet, Internet, Wildnet, & other net message systems. Towards the end of it's run Johnathon & other local ottawa sysops on the Wildcat software created the C.C.L.A.W.S. group (Canada's Capital Local Area Wildcat Sysop's Group) cclaws because it was a cat. WILDCAT! get it?" - Johnathon Roy
613-726-1100 Ottawa, ONT	DATA OPUS, DATA/SFnet, Pagan/SFnet, DATA/SFNET (1984-1987)	Farrell McGovern, Peter Liem	Fido, Opus
	"First Pagan BBS in Canada, as far as I know. We also hosted the Science Fiction Writers echomail conference, which had people like Diane Duane, Joel Rosenberg (And the rest of the Minniappolis writers group). First international electronic writers discussion group, again, as far as I know. Later, I moved it to my house, and it became Solsbury Hill BBS." - Farrell McGovern
613-727-5272 Nepean, ON	Microstar, MicroStar Software BBS, NAPLPS Graphics BBS (1991-1996)	Ken Holman, Tariq Hasan, MicroStar Corp.
	NAPLPS Graphics Terminal and Editor Software
613-728-5215 Ottawa, ON	The X BBS (1994-1996)	Wolverine	Renegade
	"Ran this personally from 94 (I think) until 96 before passing it off to another SysOp who ran it for another year or so before it became obvious that the Internet wasn't a fad and the X went offline for good. Glory days eh... I think I've still got the backup of it somewhere around here..." - Wolverine
613-729-1662 Ottawa, ON	Badlands BBS, The Devil's Den (1990-1993)	^єґ, Spazm	Telegard & Renegade, Maximus CBCS
	"The Devil's Den: Elite board. Passwords required: Blueboy and Shellfish. These were coded in MECCA, the Maximus CBCS built in language (which ran the public domain board at the same number). I am sure it could be easily hacked, but surprisingly wasn't too often. Badlands BBS: "Member of Ratio-Free Net Node of FidoNet (dont remember the coordinates, and in fact this was for a very short period) Member of a couple of other Nets Many door games Eventually got separated into 2 BBSs at the same number: one public (Badlands) and once "elite" (Devil's Den)." - Tyson
613-825-9302 JOCKVALE, CANADA	Tumbler's Tavern, Tumbler's Tavern BBS, Tumblers Tavern (1991-1997)	Paul Nusbaum	Maximus CBCS
	"Paul Nusbaum of Tumbler's Tavern should be given credit for maintaining the biggest and most up-to-date BBS lists at the time. He was the go-to guy for lists." - Jason Lavoie
613-829-5488 Ottawa, On	T.M.O.D.I. (1992-1996)	Subterfuge, Green Hornet	Renegade
	"Concise: Small warez board I had an amazing time running. Pretty much no record remains that it ever existed except I wrote in to a warez Magazine called Inquisition in 95, so i'll forever be enshrined in their first letter to the editor collumn :) http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/INQUISITION/inq-02.txt -from that txt file "Subterfuge ( 613/819 ) Sys TMODI. P.S. Amazing Documentary, if only it had a small sample of Future Crew's Second Reality demo!" - Subterfuge
613-838-3676 Richmond, Ont	Terpsichore's Inspiration, Terpsichore's Inspiration BBS, Terpsichore's Insprtin. (1991-1996)	Johnathon Roy	Wildcat, WILDCAT v3
	"This BBS was a musician's forum for music files, music related message boards, poetry, song writing, top 20 countdowns, the ottawa jazz blues site by Jim Roy originated as a local jazz & blues bulletin weekly updated on this site. There wre online games, and absoulutely anything music related on this bbs. We supported Fidonet, Internet, Wildnet, & other net message systems." - Johnathon Roy
613-841-0508 ORLEANS, CANADA	The Devil's Doorway BBS (1988-1996)	Dan Charron
	"The BBS ran for the years of 1988-94 I should know I paid for my 10 lines cascading it was on an AMIGA 2500HD and a Backup AMIGA 3000 It was all setup in a big 7 foot tall fridge with 21 Hard drives. Can you add a note for me, on that list and add "still looking for Shorty I got a Vowel for you" I had a game of wheel of fortune going on, and shorty was amazing but life was a mess back then. - Dan Charron
614-224-1635 Columbus, OH	The Wizard's Gate, the Wizard's Gate BBS, The Wizards Gate, Wizard's Gate, Wizard's Gate BBS, Wizards Gate, WizardsGate, The Wizard’s Gate (1991-1996)	Joe Balshone, Joseph G.Balshone, Joseph G. Balshone	SHS
	Multi-Line Toally Free BBS-Multi Player Games,Files,Message
614-237-0773 Columbus, OH	Short Circuit (1993-1995)	Andrew McClung	GT
	"We played a lot of VGA Planets on this BBS" - Anonymous
614-253-4566 Bexley, Ohio	JapAnimation Station (1987-1991)	Sean O'Connor (Hoke To No Ken)	WWIV
	"Back in the day before Japanese animation was cool we used to translate whole scripts into English from pirated Japanese satellite broadcasts. Now everyone and their mother has got on the bandwagon. About darn time! :)" -Sean O'Connor
614-253-4568 Bexley, OH	Gerbilz Unite (1989-1990)	Trojan, Sean O'Connor (Hoke To No Ken)	WWIV
	"If you need to ask then you don't want to know about it! Am I right, Trojan?" -Sean O'Connor
614-258-1811 Columbus, OH	Anything Goes BBS (1994-1997)	Yama	WWIV
	"I was 13 years old. Grew up on computers and they always came second nature to me. With my parents second phone line I ran this WWIV BBS for about 3 years. Amazing looking back.. The big one around the area was Heartland BBS with 16 lines.. i would play doomII Multiplayer every day.. up to 8 at a time.. that was unheard of to me at the time. soon enough i remember some WEB portal opening on their.. something called the internet... things changed after that for sure." Yama
614-272-2227 Columbus, OH	Columbus CBBS, RCP/M CBBS Columbus (1981-1985)	Ben Miller	CBBS
	"The last four digits spelled CBBS." - Jason Scott
614-382-6886 Marion, OH	Deafened Psychosis (1991-1995)
	"DP began in 1991 under the name CyberLink BBS, but I soon found out that it was taken already. I changed the name to Weird Al.s Place (the handle I used), but eventually came up with the DP name in 1992, during a creative session with another local SysOp. The meaning of DP centered around the theme of the BBS, to let go of your inhibitions and just have fun; be yourself and don.t let others tell you who you should be. I was blessed to have an amazing user base. The Marion, Ohio BBS scene was very active at the time (1992-1994). Anderson Computer hosted regular computer club meetings where SysOps and users alike would come together and share. On a regular basis, I visited many of the local SysOps in their homes, where we hashed out new ideas and talked shop. Quicksand Jesus of Cerebral Intoxication, another local SysOp in Marion, became an ANSI art creative partner. We would get together often and work on a piece together, passing the keyboard back and forth. I still have all of our work. QJ and I, along with another art group, got together and formed the art group Evil in 1993 and released our first art pack (EVL_0693.ZIP), which can still be found on multiple BBS/ANSI related websites to this day. I shut down DP in 1995, when it was evident people had migrated to the internet. DP lived on as a website at deafpsych.net off and on from 1995-2005, where I hosted music 6000+ files from the demo and music scenes. I have always wanted to bring back DP in BBS form. Several times over the years, I.ve considered it and it was until recently that I got serious about it. I am now (as of 04-07-19) working on a new BBS (albeit possibly under a different name, haven.t decided), which can be accessed at telnet address deafpsych.ddnsfree.com:2323. It is a work in progress, but it is up and accepting connections. I also have a website page that will put the name DP back in search circulation, so that users can find the latest news on all things DP. I would like to reconnect with my user base, so please meet me at my BBS." - Weird Al (Stephen Perry)
614-421-0111 Columbus, OH	The Santa Maria BBS (1985-1990)	The Red Pirate	GBBS ][ v1.7
	"This was an off-hours BBS that ran on an Apple //e with three floppy drives. It initially ran on a 300bps Hayes Micromodem IIe, then moved to an Apple Cat 1200 modem. It generally was online between 9pm and midnight most evenings and stayed up until 3pm the next day. The peak years for the BBS were 1985 to 1987." - The Red Pirate
614-436-4846 Worthington, OH	Way Out, way Out (1993-1996)	Mike Shecket
	ListKeeper: Apple II BBS
614-471-8559 Gahanna, OH	A.C.E.C. Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus, ACEC BBS (Atari) (1983-1993)	Brent Borghese, Frank Seipel	AMIS, Carina
	"Originally run on A.M.I.S. (Atari Message and Information System), then Carina I. Originally with Percome disk drives in Brent Borghese's basement, then later, run by Frank Seipel under Carina. Upgraded to an Atari 800 with a whopping 10 MB (haha) hard drive, which was the size of an entire PC itself. Hard drive plugged into joystick ports. Probably had 30,000 or 40,000 callers over the approximately 10 year lifespan." - Frank Seipel
614-471-9209 Gahanna, Ohio	Pandora BBS, Pandora's Box (1989-1994)	Frank Seipel	Carina I
	"Run on an Atari 800 with Corvus hard drive, attached to joystick ports 3 & 4. With a whopping 10 MB hard drive :) I learned to program on the Atari, and made many friends. I experimented with networked message bases with several cities and the "PC Pursuit" service." - Frank Seipel
614-476-4058 Columbus, OH	ASA BBS, ASA Compucom, ASA CompuHelp BBS (1992-2001)	Jeff Binkley	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Columbus, Ohio since 05/92. Sysop: Jeff Binkley. Using PCBoard 15 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 3600 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. $30/60 Annual fee. Central Ohio's fastest growing BBS. FidoNet, StormNet, full UseNet Feed, Internet E-Mail, CD-ROM drives and more. Featuring full Usenet feeds for low low prices. Known for our newsletter and great technical support. Check-us-out.
614-575-2224 Pickerington, OH	SIS Student Information Service (1990-1992)	Zach Goldsmith	VirtualBBS, WWIV
	"Had craploads of fun! Started this BBS when I was 12 years old." - Zach Goldsmith
614-593-1025 Athens, OH	Baron's Nightline (1990-1992)	Rob Robitaille	WWIV
	"Was a diverse BBS in Athens, Ohio (Ohio University). You could play games online like PIT or Tradewars. Also, there were many message bases you could contribute too. Almost forgot the upload/download section!!!!" - Rob Robitaille
614-681-1154 Lancaster, OH	Nitemare Cafe (1992-1998)	Wintermute	WWiV
	"This BBS was a member of WWIVnet and FILEnet, and was very heavily modded." - Wintermute
614-781-1760 Columbus, Ohio	The Mindway (1995-1997)	Erin Grooms	WWIV
	"The Mindway BBS (RIP) was dedicated to everything evil in the world, from goth and industrial music, to drugs, satanism, the occult, and Star Trek. The sysop was Erin Grooms, who went by the handle of the Electric Messiah while she was sysop. At one point, the mindway was probably the only BBS in central ohio with an all female sysop staff (Erin + 3 cosysops). Ummm... that's about it. After a brief switch to the PowerBBS GUI to try to keep up with the Internet, the Mindway finally was cut in May of 1997 so that Erin could actually get on the net every once in a while without some 12 year old whining about the BBS being down. Jeezz... some people." - Erin Grooms
614-798-9946 Dublin, Ohio	Night Life (1992-1997)	Eugene Perry	DLX, TBBS
	"I helped put this BBS together - it started out as a 3-line BBS running DLX and expanded to a 16-line BBS running TBBS. It had chat, SIG boards, online games, and towards the end, the owner even got a link to internet email somehow. We used to have get togethers, borrowed from other BBSes - we called them Breakfast Clubs, where we would hang out at the all night bowling place (Columbus Palace). I made a lot of good friends on the boards here in town - in fact, three of my best friends." - Patti German
614-852-2384	Arsenal, AMUSED DEATH #2, ARSENAL (1992-1995)
	Lsd Dist. Member BBS
614-855-0337 New Albany, OH	Armada BBS	Big Al	AlBBS
	"Run on a TRS-80 computer with software written by the SysOp." - Big Al
614-877-3845 HARRISBURG, OH	Virtual Society (1994-1998)	Jimm Crawford	Wildcat!
	"Virtual Society, Where Cyberspace and Reality Meet. Weekly GTs (Get Togethers) where 100-250 members would attend. Our favorite place was "Precient 99" off of Morse Rd. 8 dedicated dial-in lines, 1 additional non-dedicated dial-in connection and 2 terminal connections." - Jimm Crawford
614-880-9203 WORTHINGTON, OH	The Tusk (1988-1994)	Mike Dissinger
	"The Tusk was probably one of the very first BBSs I got on when I lived in my hometown of Lancaster. There was a newspaper article in the Intelligencer Journal in 1988 about BBSs and that's where I got it's phone number, which allowed me to get more Lancaster-area BBS phone numbers since the first telecom software I had, called Talk-Is-Cheap, wasn't much use at all and what use it had was like being tortured. I'm digressing for a few, but Talk-Is-Cheap was "only" $20 as advertised by Epic Modems, located I believe somewhere in California, of course, which was the brand of my first two modems, first a 1200 internal and then an external 2400. I used them both on my Apple IIGS that I bought that year. I had actually owned a 300 baud modem that would have worked with my Apple IIc if I had enough patience before I possibly fried it about three years earlier. I went to a BBS Christmas or New Year's Eve Party in 1988 and met Randy Carney who got me a job at RAM Motors and Controls, and perhaps a year later took me with him to Mike Dissinger's house, who occasionally hosted little computer get-togethers. It was there that I was wowed by the power of the Commodore Amiga. I had already sold my Apple IIGS (for less than half what I paid for it) in late 1989 after being disillusioned/disgusted/bored (take your pick) by the Apple II scene and in the meantime had bought an extremely advanced $650 VCR with some of the money, plus I was of course a bachelor so by the time I was ready to purchase another computer, I couldn't afford much. I bought an Amiga 500 and I loved it (and the Amiga 2000 my brother later gave me after he got a 4000). I used them (with various upgraded hardware and hard drives) up through sometime in 2000. I will end this story here because anything further has nothing to do with Mike Dissinger, but I just wanted to get his name on record as the SysOp, and also note that I know The Tusk was up and running at least until around 1994, possibly longer like 1995 or 1996." - Kevin Eckenrode
614-882-2091 Westerville, Oh	Lost Brain Connection (1993-1995)	Robby Devoe, Robby DeVoe and Gill Thompson	RemotAccess 2.0 and custom code
	"What a blast we had...Drinkin our asses off...tryin to figure out how to run RA2!!! Hey all to all you other sysops who spent this heyday of the early connected universe developing all of your terrible sleeping habits we still have to this day! Shout out to Robby too...hope life is treating you well!!!!" - Gill Thompson
614-889-9593 Amlin, OH	64-MESS (1985-1988)	Eric Floehr	Custom
	I programmed a BBS in BASIC on my Commodore 64. It had a SYSOP chat and messages. I was in sophomore in high school and my Dad was an early employee of CompuServe, so we had a spare phone line that he would use to dial in when he was on-call and there was an issue. So when he wasn't using it, our dual-floppy C64 was a BBS (we had just gotten an Amiga 1000 so the C64 didn't get much use otherwise). It lasted until I went to college. I remember the sound of the modem picking up a call and would run to see who was on. I advertised it at a few local computer shops that had BBS lists. I made a few friends... wish I would have stayed in touch with them but ended up going away to college. 64-MESS officially stood for MESSage board, but really I named it that because the code was such a MESS of BASIC :-D. I no longer have the source code unfortunately.
614-891-0255 Columbus, OH	Twilight Zone, TWYLIGHT ZONE BBS (1991-1995)		PCBoard 14.5a/E3
	TWYLIGHT ZONE BBS, PCBoard 14.5a/E3 HST 14.4, 2.9 Gifs huge adult conference. Download on first call 614-891-0255. Distribution site for PC & Pbc CD-Rom.
614-895-2553 Westerville, OH	Ham, Ham BBS (HBBS), B8EMR (1991-1994)	N8EMR, Gary Sanders
	login:hbbd HAM Radio/AMSAT Unix System – Satellite/Packet
615-226-0532 NASHVILLE, TN	The 13th Floor (1987-1991)	Hoy Brothers (Jay Campey)	Image v1.3
	"Thanks for your service, and keeping these records alive. I had an addition to your record for The 13th Floor BBS, which has 3 listings already, but I found my data backups that showed my first phone number used from 1987 to 1991. Also, not sure if you mention whether or not boards are still in existence, but this one is. 13th Floor BBS on Commodore 64, running Image v1.3 software. Still online via telnet at bbs.hoyvision.com:6400 or 13th.hoyvision.com:6400, and website at www.imagebbs.net." - Jay Campey
615-227-5223 Nashville, TN	The Chill Factor(y)!, The Chill Factor-y! (1992-1996)	James Tinsley, James & Judy Tinsley, James K. Tinsley, Jr.	Maximus
	"Multi-line Fido-Net BBS that was primarily used for shareware/freeware distribution. The system ran open-source Maximus BBS, using Squish as the mail processor, under QuarterDeck's DESQview multi-tasking software. The hardware included an Intel 486-50DX2 processor with 8MB RAM and a 250 MB hard drive. The system had three Practical Peripherals 28.8Kbps modems. Thank you for doing this. It is a nice trip down memory lane." - James K. Tinsley, Jr.
615-227-6155 Nashville, TN	The 3rd Eye Electronic Erotic Magazine, The Third Eye, Third Eye (1986-1998)	Michael Vetter, Guru Chev, Michael Better	TBBS, TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Nashville, Tennessee since 05/86. Sysop: Guru Chev. Using TBBS 2.2 with 12 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 2000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $39 Annual fee. Serving open-minded free-thinking couples with an interest in the responsible swinging lifestyle. Personal Ads (all lifestyles). Digitized photos of members. Multi-user chat and multi-system chat linkups. Organized Socials. Lifestyle support. Much More.
615-264-2484 Goodlettsville, TN	My Second Home (1994-1997)	Robby Minick, Scott McCormick	Wildcat 4.10 M10
	"I started this BBS when I was 14 years old. I had fallen in love with BBS's, and just had to run one of my own. I mowed a bunch of lawns and saved up and had my dad order a copy of Wildcat from Mustang Software for me, and that's where it all began. The bbs originally ran on a 386/25 with 4 mb of ram and a 320mb hard drive. I got daring and decided to get a couple computers and set up a BNC lan, running Novell Netware Lite, along with DesQview 386. Then, the multi-line side was born. I then joined FidoNet, and with the help of John Meeks, I was able to get InterMail working correctly, and was then able to offer my users full blown internet email. I had LORD, Tradewars, and all the games that where the craze at the time. I shut 'er down in March of 1997 due to lack of caller volume. I hated to do it, but to this day I still have my BBS backed up on a tape, and archived on a CD as well. I had more fun running the BBS, and I walked away with many memories from SysOps helping each other, and the get-togethers we had at Centennial Park, and the awesome people I met." - Robert Minick
615-288-6502 MOUNT JULIET, TN	E.T.A.C.E. (East Tennessee Atari Computer Enthusiasts) (1983-1994)	Hal Dougherty
	"In May of 1983 I started the E.T.A.C.E. (East Tennessee Atari Computer Enthusiasts) BBS. The phone number was 423-288-6502 and it cost a box of donuts to the lady at the phone company to get her to assign the 6502 number to my bbs. The system was on an Atari 800 with 48K of ramdisk for all bbs files to make the system run faster. I also adapted 4 IBM 360k floppy drives to the Atari 800 using a Percom drive controler. But how fast did it need to be on a 1200baud modem. Those were the days. The system was operational for a number of years till 1994. I sold the equipment to the computer club a few years before it was shut down. The last sysop was Don Burgin." - Hal Dougherty
615-292-0710 Nashville, TN	FOG-23 (1986)	Ernie Dryden
	$$$$ Fee System unless member of MidTOG or $$$$ Fee System unless member of MidTOG or
615-292-6557 Nashville, TN	THE NASHVILLE EXPRESS, The Nahville Xpress (1991-1993)	Pat Fitzhugh	Wildcat 4.1
	This is a correction of the existing entry, ""The Nashville Express,"" which was incorrect. My BBS featured shareware downloads, bulletin items of local interest, and lots of door games. For a while, I put on a Nashville Xpress BBS users' meetup breakfast at local eateries on Saturday mornings. The BBS ran on a Northgate 486 PC w/200MB hard drive and 4MB of RAM.
615-320-1820 Nashville, TN	S&H TSX-BBS, S&H TSX-BBS , S&H Computer Systems, Inc. (1995-2002)	Steve Gregson
	Product: TSX-BBS
615-321-8801 Vanderbilt, TN	Island, Island, The (1987-1988)	Ross Lindell, Tom Lake	Cit86 2.12, Citadel
	"Briefly we connected to two other Citadel BBS in NY, but turns out people in TN did not have much to say to people in NY, and vice versa. Being students the long distance phone bill was too high, so we stopped, and kept it local!"
615-327-2270 Nashville, TN	NASHVILLE EXCH. #2 (1995)
	ISDN Line
615-331-0178 Antioch, TN	The 13th Floor (1988-1992)	Jay Campey	Image 1.2
	"Commodore 64 based BBS with online games, file transfers and message boards. One of the last C64 boards running in Nasvhille. Capable of 9600 baud in 1992." - Jay Campey
615-337-4628 Sweetwater, TN	CritCondition, Critical Condition, Critical Condition BBS (1987-1996)	Greg McCulloch, Greg McCullough, Greg McCulloch (Zapper)	Telegard, Renegade
	"2nd BBS in Monroe County, TN (Silver Bullet being the first), area code for Sweetwater was 615 at the time, it has since changed to 865, and now 423." - Python
615-356-8801 Nashville, TN	COMPUTER SOLUTIONS (1995)
	ISDN Line
615-360-8365 Nashville, TN	New Frontier, The New Frontier (1985-1987)	Rebel (Paul T. Garrett)	Cit2.26a, Citadel 2.26 (CP/M)
	"This BBS was originally set up on a heavily modified Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4. The software came from Jon Lusky who first intro'd Citadel to Nashville by way of his BBS, "The Final Frontier". The board was later changed to "Beta Mountain"." - Paul T. Garrett
615-367-4410 Brentwood, later Nashville , TN	Promises...A Recovery BBS, Promises...A Recovery Board, Promises..a Recovery BBS and The Homestead, The Homestead and Promises..a Recovery BBS (1983-1997)	Marge Clark	First Cnet/Commodore 64, then Fidonet, OPUS
	"The Homestead ran on a Commodore 64, using Cnet software from 1983 until 1989. In 1989 it became a Fidonet member, later on a Fidonet Mail Hub. Promises went online in 1990, both BBS's ran until 1997. The only real change to the listing below is the timespan. I'm a bit proud of being Nashville's first female sysop, and would love to see a more accurate timespan." - Marge Clark
615-373-5243 NASHVILLE, TN	The Cocktail Lounge BBS (1987-1989)	Brien Blumen	Wildcat!
	"Small BBS run on an original Tandy 1000." - Brien Blumen
615-377-3419 Brentwood, TN	Genesis BBS (1990-1994)	Jason Bennett	QuickBBS
	Jason is available at jasonab@acm.org.
615-383-0727 Nashville, TN	Nashvle Xchg, The Nashville Exchange, THE NASHVILLE EXCHANGE (1988-1996)	Ben Cunningham, B. Cunningham	TBBS
	THE NASHVILLE EXCHANGE, 1.8 Gigs, 12 lines, 1-615-383-0727, Support IBM, Mac, Amiga, Apple, Unix, Atari. One of the largest GIF collections in USA, over 100 echomail and UseNet message areas, Online Games, Classified Ads. 12 line TBBS - Games/TDBS Software Development 1.8 GB
615-385-4268 Nashville, TN	#1 BigBoard, Canis Major , Canis Major ANSIClub , DAWG BYTE, Dawg Byte (ANSI Club Hq), Dawg*Star Systems: SirIus & ANSI Club HQ), the Dawg Byte, Dawg Byte (ANSI Club HQ) (1989-1995)	Kevin Snively
	ANSI Art Club 1:116/29
615-434-2551 Johnson City, TN	Infolink for Upper East Tenn. (1993)	John Williams
	Space Database - Online Store - Chat
615-443-0852 Lebanon, TN	Centrifuge BBS (1994-1996)	Pete Navarra	Remote Access
	"When I was 15, I learned how to run a BBS. Using a 286 with about 4 megs of RAM. I started off on a 1200 BPS modem, but quickly upgraded to 2400BPS. I became a hub for FidoNet and soon started my own mail network called StarNet. It was a great experience, one that I will always remember." - Pete Navarra
615-444-4779 Lebanon, TN	The Realm of Lost Hope (1997-1999)	Bruce Bly, Bruce E. Bly	Renegade
	"Had over 200 online games, with over 50,000 files online. Completely modded." = Bruce E. Bly
615-446-1976 Dickson, TN	The Lab, The Lab (V32/ISDN), The Lab (V32/ISDN-V120), The Lab BBS, THE LAB (1989-1997)	Les Wade	Frontdoor, RemoteAccess
	ISDN Line. Ran OS/2 Warp for the PC software. Frontdoor and Remote Access connected to Fidonet via a Ku band sat dish at 19,200 baud from Planet Connect in Kingsport Tn and distributed in Tn Fidonet nodes by ISDN line. The Lab BBS is still running today by telnet to bbs.dicksonlabs.net port 2325.
615-446-5295 Dickson, TN	Computer Connection(V32/ISDN-V120), COMPUTER CONNECTION (1994-1995)	Bob Payne
	ISDN Line
615-446-9355 Dickson, TN	THE QUAGMIRE (1995)
	ISDN Line
615-539-6252 Knoxville, TN	Knoxville Ed Computing (1993)
	FrEdMail System
615-577-9342 Sevierville, TN	Other World (1993-1996)	Joe Passmore	MajorBBS , Major BBS
	"The BBS supported Amiga Shareware and was named the #1 Amiga website by Amiga Times 2 years running, with 6 phone lines. Closed up after being sold out to a company in ARK, whose first thing to do was to shut it down." - J. Passmore
615-622-6099 Chattanooga, TN	SYSTEM/TEL, TEL, TEL BBS/Cybercide/CSCAT/TTAPNet (1991-1995)	Oliver Jenkins	OPUS, Maximus CBCS
	"This BBS functioned as a 'medical informatics' resource designed to assist individuals searching for support groups and information relating to all aspects of health care. This site also for a time provided a doorway for access to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) system. In addition it served as an extremely large repository of FidoNet echomail archives for the local sysops channel, directly and indirectly covering said transmissions from 1992 through 1996. The site was later replaced by/phased into Cybercide Computer Services about 1995 which eventually was taken down about 1997. In addition to this BBS a second one was setup and run by me and later Joel Davenport and Larry Stophel. CSCAT -Chattanooga State Center for Assistive Technology (Later TTAPNet- Tennessee Technology Access Project Network) BBS, both run initally from the campus of Chattanooga State Technical Community College. In addition to FidoNet, nearly all of these bbs' were members of such groups as FishNet, MedBizNet, and several others. During my BBS years I had the priveledge of having a wide cast (including 2 Network Echomail Coordinators) of the local bbs circuit sharing apartments and homes with me. The cast included 'Mad' Harry Hartwell (MHI, Gentleman Loser), Craig 'LongShot!' Joel (CoolWorld!), Phil Thach (PTC) and John 'DungeonMaster' Aldrich (The Dungeon). At times the apartments and houses may have looked more like wiring closets than domeciles, but boy do I miss those days now.....sometimes." - Oliver Jenkins
615-623-4816 Newport, TN	PLANET SYSTEMS (1995)
	ISDN Line
615-626-1619 NASHVILLE, TN	MICRONET PCBOARD (1992)	Ted Freeman	PCBoard vl4.5e/E3
	MICRONET PCBOARD, 1-615-626-1619 PCBoard vl4.5e/E3, Sysop: Ted Freeman. We are back online in Tennessee. Home of DoorFrame, DoorBill, Real Time Chess, Real Time Checkers, Real Time Othello, Eliminate, Total Recall, Pegjump, 4-Square and Quizard Mtn. Member of RIME Network. New versions of all door programs now available along with updates to DoorFrame for programmers.
615-634-7098 Chattanooga, TN	JOHN FINNEY (1995)
	ISDN Line
615-646-9481 Nashville, TN	Middle Tennessee Area, Rx Shop, Rx Shop 1 ISDN V.120, Rx Shop 2, Rx Shop 2 ISDN V120, Rx Shop ISDN V120, RX SHOP (1993-1996)	Jerry Dunlap
	ISDN Line
615-662-0403 NASHVILLE, TN	DIFFERENT DRUMMER (1992)
	DIFFERENT DRUMMER, The On-Line Alternative Bookstore is coming (on May 1, 1992)! Dial 615-662-0403 on your computer to browse through descriptions of 1000+ alternative, fringe, obscure, controversial, and always interesting books/magazines. Order on-line! Conspiracies, manipulation, fiction, insanity, alternative healing, subcultures, hallucinogens, spirituality, unexplained, bleeding-edge science/technology, sex, oppressed groups, more! Huge range of subjects and viewpoints.
615-662-7649 Nashville, TN	TSI BBS (1995)
	ISDN Line
615-674-6265 White Pine, TN	Fortress BBS (1992-1994)	Joel Davis, Valentine	WWIV
	"Core group was very literary-minded, whether via poetry or serial role-play stories online or story-telling via DM-ing & gaming offline. Yearly picnics at Panther Creek State Park. :)" - Lady Phoenix
615-681-3647 Maryville, TN	Castle Reyhmier (1992-1994)	Nathan Sloan	Renegade
	"Had private downloads section but public door games like TW2002." - Nathan Sloan
615-756-7808 NASHVILLE, TN	TurBoard Support BBS (1993)
	The WORLD’S 1st NAPLS BBS
615-756-7810 Chattanooga, TN	PC Chattanoga, PC Chattanooga, TurBoard Support BBS (1992-1994)	Shawn Rhoads, Software@work
	The WORLD’S 1st NAPLS BBS NAPLPS Graphics BBS System
615-824-4938 Hendersonville, TN	CAD/Engineering Services *CAD*Net*, CAD/Engineering Services CAD*Net (1990-1993)	Stan Bimson
	Computer Aided Design File Distribution Network 1:116/32
615-831-1725 Nashville, TN	The Digital Rodent, THE DIGITAL RODENT (1994-1995)	Doc Wynne
	ISDN Line
615-832-1541 Nashville, TN	Common Wavelength (1993-1996)	Dave Parsons	Renegade
	"CW was a casual BBS for its users, and a consuming experience for the sysop (me). It was at the height of the BBS experience, and was more fun than any Internet community could ever hope to be. From late 1993 to late 1996, CW ran continuously (except for the couple of times I had my voice phone cut off and needed to make a call!). A victim of the World Wide Web, I still pine for the days of 14.4 and Legend of the Red Dragon. I burned what I thought was the original, final iteration of CW to CD, only to find out later that I'd burned the wrong directory structure and had nothing but a clean install of Renegade. I wept at all the lost posts & ansi art." - Dave Parsons
615-832-5656 NASHVILLE, TN	The Bandit's Hideout (1982-1988)	The Bandit (Chris Faulkner)	C-Net
	It was a commodore 64 based BBS run on C-Net. It was a heavily modified version of C-Net by me and was a very popular mainstay of the C64 BBS community for several years. It ran from 1982-1988, Ran on a Commodore 64, 2 1541 Disc Drives (170k floppies each drive) and at the end had a whopping 1 meg floppy (SFD-1001). I also brought The Bandit's Hideout back up in 1992 on a T.A.G. BBS and started a local FidoNet type structure called "AquaNet" which was used for Underground Hack/Crack/Phreak text files from CDC and the local chapter of 2600. It ran for a very short time, as I was the Hub for Aquanet and could only run the BBS from 8pm til 8am. I, since then, have disappeared from the BBS scene altogether in pursuit of Linux Happiness to where I am today at Covad as a Unix Admin." - Chris Faulkner
615-842-5709 Hixson, TN	MAXSPEED (1995)
	ISDN Line
615-855-9082 Goodlettsville, TN	Hourglass, The Hourglass (1992)	Y & D Rogers, Yvonne & Dennis Rogers, Dennis & Yvonne Rogers
	"A little bit of an update and I'll try to get you another one in the future. This BBS was actually run by my parents. It evolved from a C64 based BBS in the late 80's to a PC based BBS in the mid 90's. I'll try to get you an exact timeframe soon. Another thing I noticed was that it is listed as being in Goodlettsville, TN. This isn't the case. It was located in Chattanooga, TN. I forget exactly when it happened but at one point all of eastern and middle Tennessee were under the 615 area code. When there were enough people that the area needed more phone numbers, 615 was made strictly for middle Tennessee and 423 was made for eastern Tennessee. Thus the phone number once used by the Hourglass BBS overnight became a middle Tennessee phone number instead. So yeah, The Hourglass was east TN and in Chattanooga. ;) Much appreciated!" - Jeremy Rogers
615-872-8589 Nashville, TN	Black Falcons Domain (1992-1995)	Jason L Brainerd a.k.a. Black Falcon, Jason Brainerd (Black Falcon), Ryan Van Hoozer (Daffy)	Renegade
	:I started this BBS in my parents basement when I was 15. Ran it on a 286 on a 2400 baud modem. I'm pretty sure it started on Telegard software. About a year later I bought a US Robotics 14.4 from Sams Club for around $100 and just couldn't believe the speed I got from it. I was actually more impressed with how much cleaner the connections were. Around 93 Daffy offered to co-sysop with me and we really did some cool stuff with the site. I still have the ansi screens on some 5.25 floppys in my garage. We were a member of Fido net, though I don't remember our number. I'm sure it's on one of those ansi screens. Wow, how awesome to find my name on this list. Reading all the other bbs names is like traveling back in time. It was an experience that will never be around again, and I'm so glad I was able to be a part of it. Daffy, if you're out there, my wife has a site at www.homeschoolshare.com. you can reach me from there." - Jason Brainerd (Black Falcon)
615-876-5020 Nashville, TN	Quantum Leap, Suzy's Playhouse (1989-1992)	Steve Conzett	Remote Access
	"Years open: from 1989 - 1992 (Suzy's Playhouse, Quantum Leap, and a few other names) - Software: Remote Access - Most played game: Fantasyland - Number of users: 400+ (70+ modems) - FidoNet Node: 1:116/39 (Last node number; node dates - 89? 90?-93?) - Usenet node -- one of the few cabals (full Usenet feed) in Nashville - Free 1 hour BBS access. Usenet access $20 month." - Steve Conzett
615-883-9622 Nashville, TN	Beta Mountain (1985-1990)	Paul T. Garrett (Rebel), Marge Clark (Marge)	Citadel v2.26 (CP/M)
	"Run on a TRS-80 Model 4 modified for 2 DSDD drives and 2 DSDD-80 track drives. Operating system was Montezuma Micro CP/M 2.2. The modem was 300/1200 only. Was up from April 1985 until Sept 8, 1990 and had over 180 users. The users of the BBS had a social group called BiMBoS (Beta Mountain Benelovent Society) that met weekly at various local resturants for fun, food, and drink." - Paul Garrett
615-885-5810 Nashville, TN	The Orphanage RCP/M - FOG 103 (1990)	Ernie Dryden, Joe Foster, Paul T. Garrett	BYE510 shell
	""Orph" was originally run by Ernie Dryden for the Nashville CP/M Users Group & the Nashville Osborne Users Group (FOG). I (PTG) took over physical operation of the BBS in February 1989 and gave it back to Ernie in September 1990. I don't believe he set the board back up after I left Nashville. The BBS was run on a HIGHLY modified Kaypro 10, with 2 hard drives totalling 110meg (HUGE for those days!), a 1meg Advent RAM drive, and an Advent TurboROM. It was the library board for the CP/M & FOG groups. The backup for the system took somewhere around 100 floppy disks. If it was CP/M software, it was probabally on The Orphanage." - Paul Garrett
615-889-3611 Nashville, TN	Blue Moon, Blue Moon BBS (1989-2004)	Edwin Hinson	Citadel
	"Basically, I was just writing to inform you that the sysop was Edwin Hinson. The telephone listing was Ijotpo, Fexjo - he just went one letter further into the alphabet for each letter of his name. Thanks... thought he deserved the credit." - Hosing down the Dog
615-890-4077 Murfreesboro, TN	The Crossroads (1993-1994)	I/O ERROR	Citadel-86
	"I ran this board for a while in my apartment on my one and only telephone line. It came down occasionally when I wanted to play with the new Internet feed that MTSU had gotten, or when I was experimenting with gatewaying Usenet newsgroups into the board. I also experimented with adults only sections and file sections, but I wound up discovering that the thing people really wanted to do was get together and talk. Most people never knew the board ran on an 8MHz XT-clone with a 2400 baud modem. If you called my board please e-mail me at error@canandstring.com."
615-892-0097 Chattanooga, TN	Rose & Crown BBS, The Exchange BBS, The Exchange HST (1985-1994)	David Ellison
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Chattanooga, Tennesse since 06/85. Sysop: David Ellison. Using PCBoard 15 with 6 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 70000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $33.00 Annual fee. 100 Disk CDROM Changer on line, 70 GIGABYTES, no limits no ratios, my callers are never asked to upload! 30 minutes per day free, DOWNLOAD WITH FIRST CALL, RIME Echomail. NO byte limits, NO file limits. This may be the perfect BBS for you.
615-892-6768 Chattanooga, TN	The Apple Barrell (1986-1988)	Elwyn Dobbs
	"I operated this BBS for about 3 yeare, moved to Huntsville, Al due too my work in 1988. It was run for members of the Chattanooga Apple Users Group. I was a member of the Fido Network and the members could get their email messages received from my hub after midnight day to day. there email was polled about 11:00 each night and incoming messages from Fido was received available to be picked up next day. My personal computer was an Apple IIE but the BBs was run on a Panosonic Business Partner (386)using dos with a 30Mg hard drive. I do not recall the name of the BBS software but it used a Penguin graphic (looked like Linux)." - Elwyn Dobbs
615-896-5668 Murfreesboro, TN	The Haunted Castle, STarship BBS (1984)	Dana Holt	Ivory BBS, Michtron BBS
	"C64 / 300 baud / Single 1541 drive" - Dana Holt
615-896-5975 Murfreesboro, TN	Triskelion BBS (1986-1988)	Lord Baphomet (Tom Hines)	RBBS, EBBS
	"This BBS ran on a Commodore 128 with two 1571s and one 1581 drive."
615-896-9473 Murfreesboro, TN	The Gut's Grand Buffet (1992-1994)	Scott Neese	Telegard
	"Dedicated to text-based modem RPG's. Also hosted one of the many FreeNet's that existed back then. FreeNet linked several local BBS's to run over-the-modem RPG games. There will never be anything quite like the era of the BBS!" - Scott Neese
615-922-5895 NASHVILLE, TN	DIGITAL ENCOUNTERS (1995)
	DIGITAL ENCOUNTERS 615.922,5895, Adults only BBS. Offering Matchmaker, Adult files, Adult forums. Adult Chat. Star Trek and X-Files. Forums and the latest shareware. First 30 days are FREE. 900 service available for instant access. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
615-926-8602 Johnson City, TN	Sector BBS BBS (1989-1991)	Correct & Fred V	WWIV
	"I helped sysop this board in high school, and we got it on WWIVnet as @6555, to the eventual displeasure of the sysops' mom. (It was making a long-distance call to Knoxville every night.) My favorite part was when we hosted an "alternative music" message board and actually had people from all over the country swapping new music news." - Robey Pointer
615-938-6477 NASHVILLE, TN	Elite Xchange, Infinite Illusion, ELITE XCHANGE, INFINITE ILLUSION (1992-1995)	Xavier Madison
	Independent Member BBS Nemesis Member BBS
615-952-5638 WHITE BLUFF, TN	Anomalous BBS, Anomalous Info Nexus, SpaceDrives, SPDA Info Service (1993-1996)	unknown
	ListKeeper: Tennessee AC 615/901
616-342-4062 KALAMAZOO, MI	Kalamazoo RCP/M, Stars & Static RCP/M, International Halley Watch BBS (1984-1985)	Eric Schreur
	IHW amateur observer's bulletin and astronomy-related programs posted. Lists local planetarium show times and ticket prices. New users run HELP.
616-345-3018 Kalamazoo, MI	The Institute BBS (1984-1986)	Tony Gaudio	C-Net
	"I ran this board on a Commodore 64. 2 years in Kalamazoo, then 2 years in Paw Paw." - Tony Gaudio
616-345-6892 Kalamazoo, Mich	The Ultimate Insanity BBS (1990-1992)	Don Worden, David Bryant	BBS EXPRESS PRO, Telegard
	"It started out as one of two atari 8bit BBS's In Michigan. it was busy pretty much 24 hours a day. I couldn't have had more fun than when I ran it." - Don Worden
616-363-6378 Grand Rapids, MI	Great Lakes BBS (1981-1986)	Robert Shroll (The Magnetic Pope)	Telecat
	"The first Apple ][e board in West Michigan. It had a 20 MB external Corvus drive attached at one time (which was way ahead of it's time). I went through every BBS software you could run on the Apple at the time. Came up with a hybrid version that was shared with several other boards in town (Dave Ziebarth's Apple ][GS board and others)." - Robert Shroll
616-383-0989 Kalamazoo, MI	����� The Eclipse BBS۲��� (1993)	Eric Severance (Alligator)	Renegade
	"I ran my BBS off a 386 computer with a 2400 baud modem, my SysOp name was Alligator, I was running the Renegade BBS system, with Front Door for exchanging message on the Hot Air Network (a local message base network), a couple of door games, and a Night Owl shareware CD for batch downloads via zmodem, ymodem, and xmodem." - Eric Severance
616-399-3594 Holland, MI	TELE-STAR BBS! (1992)
	TELE-STAR BBS!, Holland, Ml 616-399- 3594 - 2400 baud .42/.42 bis, 616-399-8174 - 19.2K baud HST DS. Both 24 hours. Operating with Cnet Amiga. Supporting Amiga & IBM PC's. 315 megs of HD space, 1000's of files. Dozens of online games (doors). Public access Usenet. Fidonet conferences and very active message bases.
616-399-4818 Holland, MI	Virtual Technologies, Virtual ComTech, Virtual ComTech Int, Inc, Virtual Reality (1992-1995)
	Product: Virtual BBS
616-399-8174 Holland, MI	Tele-Star, TELE-STAR BBS! (1992-1996)	Kelly Wright
	TELE-STAR BBS!, Holland, Ml 616-399- 3594 - 2400 baud .42/.42 bis, 616-399-8174 - 19.2K baud HST DS. Both 24 hours. Operating with Cnet Amiga. Supporting Amiga & IBM PC's. 315 megs of HD space, 1000's of files. Dozens of online games (doors). Public access Usenet. Fidonet conferences and very active message bases.
616-429-0569 SAINT JOSEPH, MI	Memory Lapse BBS, Utopia BBS (1995-1996)	David Norris	Renegade
	"The first BBS (Utopia) the BBS in its original form. After a total hardware failure we rebuilt the BBS into a 2-node system under a different name (Memory Lapse)." - David Norris (danorris@uiuc.edu) and Louis Helm (lhelm@unmich.edu)
616-453-0263 Grand Rapids, MI	Home BBS (1992-1997)	Dan Champion	VBBS
	"When I first started HomeBBS, it was to offer a wholesome place for Home Schoolers to meet, share thoughts, experiences, resources. Parents would come and share with each other in the forums, and the kids could come and play educational games. By the end it was a 2 line and one console bbs. I can attribute my current job as IT director to the skills I learned writing scripts, tweaking harware, and keeping that boat floating. I remember my first upgrade, a 20 meg HD for $195 what a laugh. I had subscribed to fido net, so the board could have lots of opportunities to share. Eventually the dream of getting on the world wide web is what caused me and I believe most others to close down." - Dan Champion
616-453-7875 Standale, MI,	Metropolis (1991-1994)	Janet Beyer, Monte Beyer	Telegard
	"Metropolis was initially a telegard system that was upgraded to REnegade. Hopes and dreams of a multi-node systme with Renegade, as well a divorce, ended the future hopes of Metropolis." - Monte Beyer
616-458-8767 Grand Rapids, MI	Afterworld, Afterworld BBS, Afterworld BBS, Netherworld BBS, PleaseJustShootMeWorld (1988-1996)	Kendall Jung, Joker	Ebbs, New Image, Renegade, easily hackable kuh-rap
	"Started off as a Commodore 64 BBS (Netherworld) running Ebbs64.. Then switched to New Image 1.0 software. Then changed name to Afterworld and ran on Renegade BBS software." - Kendall Jung "Memories of crashing this BBS still give me tingles of joy." - Anonymous
616-468-8817 Coloma, MI	Shingle Diggins (1995-1997)	Ken Schneider	Wildcat
	"2x7 disc Nakamachi CD-Rom Changers online Novell Server 2x528mg HD's Single Line USR 14.4 Courier DS > USR 28.8k Courier v.everything > 33.6 V.everything" - Ken Schneider
616-662-0393 HUDSONVILLE, MI	"Delight The Customer" (1994-1995)	Dennis Hauser
	ListKeeper: Business/Professional BBS
616-665-7063 Galesburg, MI	The French Quarter BBS (1995-1997)	Claudia Lancourt, Dreamer	Renegade
	"A BBS set up for those of us who liked forums. File downloads limited to local user photos (mostly from The Golden Unicorn BBS). Dreamer and I were paying members of The Golden Unicorn BBS and we were active GT attendees. At the time there were a lot members and we spent a lot of weekends and evenings driving around Southwest Michigan to meet and hang out with various characters. Lord Vader created my graphics and helped me with programming, Tree taught me how to make my DOS have color, and Mdk helped me determine my board was hit by lightning. :)" - Claudia Lancourt
616-691-8575 Belding, MI	The Grave Yard BBS (1993-2004)	The Reaper and Challenger	Renegade & iNiQUiTY
	"This bbs had a brief "rebirth" from 2003-2004 as a telnet only system however it seems to have vanished once again." - The Reaper
616-724-5638 MUSKEGON, MI	Power Net, Power-Net BBS, PowerNet (1991-1994)	Lynn Herder
	"Sysop was Lynn Herder (deceased). We both worked for SPX (formally Sealed Power Corp) until the company was sold." - Jim Swineheart
616-774-2992 Grand Rapids, MI	Dr Doom's Neighborhood, Dr. Doom's Neighborhood (1988-2000)	Michael Smith	Telegard
	"We ran our own network , well before fidonet called DoomNet Between Me and The University. the bbs stated at College (GVSU) with call voice frist then we'll turn it, of any time after 11Pm. ran our custom software for a few years before we gave up coding and switched to Telegard. Keep up the great work." - Michael Smith
616-784-4179 Grand Rapids, MI	Blase, Blase BBS (1984-2001)	Bill DeBlase	Fido, Opus
	"Started bbs using a pc-jr with 2 aditional 720K 5.1/4 inch floppy drives. In 1984, got a 30 meg xt and it wound up using 2 4disk cd rom changers with shareware overload disks. Enjoyed offering bbs service till 2001 when after a week no one called I pulled the plug and went to the internet full time." - Bill DiBlase
616-842-1471 Grand Haven, MI	FireRight BBS, FireRight BBS Warner Instruments Technical Support, Warner Instruments Technical Support (1995-1996)	'Skip' Warner	Wildcat
	This was mainly a tech support board for this company, but also had some l3Et hAX0rZ t00lz, door games, and message boards." - W. Lafayette
616-847-7133 Grand Haven, MI	The Cafe, Tri Cities Connection (1992-2000)	Brian Kuipers, Terri and Rick Stricker	Wildcat
	"This board was run by Terri and Rick Stricker who did computer consulting work locally. It had lots of door games, but the message boards were the highlight. I remember a few political debate threads that ran for years. It eventually was shut down when the sysops started a dialup ISP in the mid- to late- 90's." - W. Lafayette
616-866-1151 Rockford, MI	Homebrew BBS (1985-1991)	Zack the Hack
	"I can't for the life of me remember the BBS software I used. But the hardware I do. It was on an old Apple II Plus for the longest time, then eventually a Apple IIe I believe. I bought a 10 mb SIDER hard drive that served pretty well. It was struck by lightning shortly before I left Michigan for New York in August 1991. Possible Interesting fact: I met my future wife on my BBS before I met her in person. The name of the BBS came from a book I read called "Hackers" which described Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates etc. Homebrew was the original computer club where Woz showed off his Apple I and Apple II." - Zack the Hack
616-866-3717 Rockford, MI	Black Horizon, Black Horizons (1988-1998)	Aaron Tiensivu, Aaron Tiensivu (A-Bomb), A. Tiensivu	STadel then Telegard then Renegade
	"Originally started out on a 720k 3 1/2 inch disk running the Atari ST version of Citadel. Later migrated over to the PC platform running Telegard with DesqView. Renegade came along and the BBS moved to it, now running under OS/2. It spent the final years on a tweaked out 286 with an original IBM PC XT green monitor while I was away at Michigan State." - Aaron Tiensivu
616-892-4692 Allendale, MI	Windows ++, Windows++ (1994)	Todd L. van Klaveren	VBBS
	"Also known as "Trust No One". Was the "@6" support site for VBBS." - Todd L. VanKlaveren
616-894-5909 WHITEHALL, MI	The Far Side BBS (1993-2000)	Steve Carlson	Searchlight
	"I built and ran that thing on my first computer when I was 15, a 386SX/33 with 8 megs of RAM." - Steve Carlson (steve@stevesapartment.com)
616-895-3202 Allendale, MI	Grand Valley State University (1993)
	FrEdMail System
616-895-5302 Allendale, MI	Siute 16 BBS, Suite 16 (1990-1995)	Paul Brandt	Maximus
	"The Suite 16 BBS started on a Packard Bell 8088 PC, with 512k of ram, and a 10 megabyte hard drive. The hardware of the site grew over time, eventually running on a 386, with 2 20 megabyte MFM drives hooked to an RLL style card for a whopping 60 megabytes. Thanks to the magic of DesqView and QEMM, I was able to host 3 lines simultaniously, as well as a local terminal, which allowed me to chat with callers, and edit the site. Because using an MFM drive on an RLL controller was so unstable, it caused the system to go out of service frequently, until I got a Pioneer 6 disk CD changer, which lowered the need for drive space, and I converted back to an MFM controller. Does anyone besides me remember G=c800:5? The 6 disk changer was a huge addition to the system, as I was able to find shareware CD's cheaply. With 6 disks online, it was such a huge shareware collection that searching could last for hours. Looking for greater functionality for the site lead me to joining FIDONET, which was a huge challenge, and loads of fun. I remember working for hours to build the batch files that would load the FOSSIL (Fido-Opus-Seadog-Serial-Interface-Link) drivers, send/receive/parse the mail, and ultimatly load the BBS. But collecting mail over the telephone line was a costly and time consuming affair. The next step was purchasing a satellite receiver that transmitted the FIDONET national mail, as well as daily updates of shareware. The satellite receiver ran on a second PC, and twice daily the BBS computer would drop out of the local terminal session, gather and parse the mail from the satellite receiving PC. All in all it was alot of work, and much of the hardware was secondhand, found in a dumpster and wrapped into the system...or traded up for other parts. (Hats of to Jake Brim at Brim Computers for having mercy and taking my parts for trade! - He's still in business today.) "The advent of the internet eventually took my interests away from running a BBS, and I closed it. I feel very proud and lucky to have lived at a time between the beginning of home computing, and the internet as a global experience. The thousands of BBS operators made many contributions to the home computing experience, and raised awareness of the technology. The Internet has replaced the local BBS, which might seem sad, except that the people who ran BBS's have gone on to bigger and better things, and now almost anyone can build something like a BBS of their own as a web page. As for bigger and better, my brother and his wife, who ran the White Castle BBS, started out on a 286, knowing practically NOTHING about PC's, and have both gone on to receive degrees in IT, and help administer a network at a fortune 500 company...pretty good stuff! Other friends in the BBS world have similar stories, and as for me, I work in temperature control, and have a side role of IT. Cheers to Paul Bussa, Dave and Lori Brandt, and the Ottawa County 227 Fidonet Gang!" - Paul Brandt
616-895-5651 Allendale, MI	The Joint (1987-1992)	Cheech	Tag
	"For reasons clear to anyone who dialled in, I took this board down on my 18th birthday. It was a great time, though, directly responsible for many lifelong friends/acquaintences and a fun career. My only regret is the Zip disc I archived it on died due to the infamous "click of death". " - Cheech
616-949-0696 Grand Rapids, MI	London Blitz BBS (1988-1997)	Lord British, Hallzer, and Striker	A2C-BBS (Apple //c BBS), Renegade
	"London Blitz BBS had its genesis when I received my first modem - a Hayes 300 baud Smartmodem valued at $399.00 - for my 16th birthday. Two years later, I had completed work on A2C-BBS (Apple //c BBS), written in a hybrid of Applesoft Basic and 65C02 assembler. For its first four years of existence, London Blitz BBS ran on this homebrewed software (since no BBS software was available for the Apple //c machine). The last five years featured a Renegade system complete with numerous popular door games, such as Trade Wars, Legend of the Red Dragon, and a home-made stock exchange game called the Exodus Stock Exchange. All throughout, London Blitz BBS was renowned for its active message bases (as "forums" were called back then), a legacy that lives on today at London Blitz's web-based BBS, Blitzweb.org." - Lord British
617-232-0919 Brookline, MA	B.C.S. Kaypro, B.C.S. Zitel, Castle, BCS Kaypro (1984-1998)	Don Hinds, Jay Sage	R CP/M, TP-Board, PC-Board
	"The BBS of the Kaypro Users Group of the Boston Computer Society; The BBS of BOSKUG, the Boston KUGEL Kaypro Users Group. 1984: board runs R_CP/M in Brookline, MA. 1986: board moves to Sommerville, MA, at new number 617-776-1332 . 1987: board's new number 617-776-6029. 1988: a crisis emerges as BOSKUG breaks up, Don Hinds steps in to rescue the board. The board moves to Dorchester, MA at a new number, 617-288-6477 . The BBS switches to TP-Board host software and goes by the name -- Wyzard's Castle, CP/M Castle, or BOSKUG Castle. 1989: board moves to 617-825-3135. 1990: A new era begins as CP/M guru Jay Sage takes over the Kaypro Group. The board moves to 617-965-7046 in Newton, MA, and runs PC-Board as the B.C.S. Zi/tel Z-Node. 1992: second line at 617-965-7785 . 1994: third line at 617-965-7259 . 1996: third line dropped. 1997: line 617-965-7785 dropped." - Winston Smith
617-237-1511 Wellesley, MA	Heath Users Group, Heathkit RCP/M, Heathkit Users Group of Wellesley, Wellesley BBS (1983-1994)	Dan Gentile, Heath Users Club	PCBoard, R CP/M, RBBS
	"One of the Boston First Wave boards, the Wellesley HeathKit Users Group BBS became a "beautiful people's board" that was highly exclusive. It had the following history.... 1983: Board starts as 300 BPS, R_CP/M (Remote CP/M). 1986: the board replaces R_CP/M with RBBS. 1988: the board replaces RBBS with PC-Board and begins FidoNET networking as Fido node 1:101/196 . (NOTE: Early Boston boards have node numbers that start in the 100's.)" - Winston Smith
617-237-3750 Wellesley, MA	BCSnet Host, Boston Computer Soc. (1984-1987)	Doug Chamberlin, D. Chamberlain	RBBS, TBBS
	"This was a 6-line installation running on an IBM PC XT machine using an Alloy Computer Products extension system unit that contained 6 different computers. Each computer was a single board containing CPU, memory, serial ports, etc. (What were later to be called "blades".) All the comuters shared the same hard drive and message base. "This was one of the earliest multi-line BBS systems in continuous operation. It supported a community of IBM PC users for the Boston COmputer Society which had approximately 42,000 members at its peak. "Most of the time the system was operational it ran out of a closet in a dormitory at Wellesley College. This was my residence at the time. "It took some convincing to talk the phone company into installing 6 residential phone lines into one location. They thought I was running a bookie operation. It then took some doing for the technician to find 6 spare wire pairs running through thr campus that he could use for these lines. We spent several hours tracing through the basements of buildings until we found the connections we used. "While running the BCSnet Host BBS using the Alloy Computer Products blades we were using RBBS, not TBBS. We switched to TBBS when we moved the system to Cambridge, MA into the Boston Computer Society offices near Davis Square. The system was later moved to Waltham, MA when the entire BCS offices moved there." - Doug Chamberlin
617-252-9988 Cambridge, MA	Mount Kailas BBS (1994)	Lobsang Tashi
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cambridge, Massachusetts since 03/94. Sysop: Lobsang Tashi. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 540 MB storage. Intel at 14400 bps. $40 Annual fee. Virtual Dharma Center featuring a calendar of teachings and events from the Buddhist Centers in the New England area. Usenet newsgroups, teleconference, special interest groups, file library and more. Come, find your virtual-self on Mount Kailas BBS.
617-262-9167 Boston, MA,	Mac Boston, MacBoston (1984-1986)	Steve Garfield	RBBS-PC, Wildcat, Lazarus
	"I worked at Northeast Computer Stores in Boston and went to the Macintosh Rollout in Boston with Steve Jobs in 1984. After the meeting I signed up to be a founding member of the Macintosh Users Group of the Boston Comnputer Society. As a salesperson in a retail store I purchased a Macintosh under Apple's Own-A-Mac program." "The manager of the computer store allowed to to run MacBoston 24 hours a day out of the store. It started off running on a PC and then moved to a Macintosh with a General Computer Hyperdrive." "People from all over the United States dialed in to the message boards. We even had a MacInTouch message board moderated by Ric Ford." - Steve Garfield
617-266-7789 Boston, MA	BULLET-80 BOSTON, BULLET-80 Boston, MA, Bullet TBBS I (1982-1996)	Marshall Goldberg	BULT, TBBS, BULLET-80
	"One of the Boston First Wave boards, the Boston Bullet-80, a.k.a. the Boston Bullet, a.k.a. Ye Olde Boston Bullet, this board lasted almost as long as Xevious BBS, the record holder for Massachusetts. 1984: Boston Bullet expands to two lines. Line #2 placed on 617-267-7751. 1988: Line #2 is removed and Boston Bullet reverts to one line running at 2400 BPS at 617-266-7789. 1993: Boston Bullet moves from Boston, MA, to the town of Waltham, MA, at the new number of 617-893-1753." - Winston Smith
617-272-1911 Burlington, MA	Ampro Exchange (1984-1985)		R CP/M
	"AMPRO of Burlington, MA, was a company that sold computer kits and motherboards. They were famous for their AMPRO 'little board' Z80 CP/M systems." - Winston Smith
617-273-3262 BOSTON, MA	99BBS (1984-1987)		TI-BBS
	"Location: Burlington, MA, U.S.A. The 99 BBS was an early BBS in Burlington, MA, around the time that Bill Cosby and the Texas Instruments TI 99/4A micro-computer was at its height of popularity. The 99/4A was an interesting microcomputer in that it's built-in B.A.S.I.C. had no PEEK or POKE command. TI-BBS, BBS hostsoftware written specifically for the TI 99/4A, was one of the first BBS programs to sport an online BBS list database." - Winston Smith
617-274-0109 Bedford, MA	B.C.S. Victor, Victor Bug (1984-1986)		MBBS
	"The Victor Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs TeleSys-V host software, a version of MBBS that runs on The Victor, a computer of Morrow Computing. (The Victor was a computer that competed with The Osborne. The Osborne won against The Victor, but lost against the IBM PC, i.e. The Victor was the loser!)" - Winston Smith
617-279-3561 Stoneham, MA	Atomic Dog BBS (1995-1996)		MajorBBS , Major BBS, WorldGroup
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: WorldGroup Windows and Win95 access. Shareware and games. Member of ASP and AOP. SLIP, telnet, ftp, Internet e-mail. Multiplayer DOOM/Heretic/Descent & others. Online games and chat. 7 CDROMS & growing. Online shop-ping - home of Atomic Dog Software. No fee for basic access. Stop by and have some fun. Telnet: atomicdog.com (ANSI/ASCII/RIP supported)
617-288-4667 Dorchester, MA	B.C.S. Osborne/Zitel, Boston F.O.G., FOG RBBS-RCP/M #29, Bar-Ken (FOG 29) (1984-1998)	John Kinsella	R CP/M
	"The Osborne Users Group of The Boston Computer Society, The Boston (F)irst (O)sborne (G)roup, B.C.S. Zi/tel. Before the ThinkPad... before the PowerBook... (before the TRS Model 100, even...) the most successful little "portable" computer of its day was Adam Osborne's marvel of a machine, The Osborne. How "portable" it was was debatable, since you had to be a weightlifter to lug the "suitcase" around, but as it could run for an hour or so off of batteries, it made it the most successful "on the go" business machine of its era. 1984: board begins service in Dorchester, MA, running R_CP/M (Remote CP/M) Heavy Metal BBS host. 1986: First Osborne Group of Boston is merged into the B.C.S. Osborne board. 1994: the Boston FOG archives are merged into CP/M guru Jay Sage's B.C.S. Zi/tel Z-Node PC-Board to join the Kaypro archives at 617-965-7046." - Winston Smith Boston Osborne Group (FOG AMO #122) member supported Boston Osborne Group (FOG AMO #122) member supported
617-321-2886 Malden, MA	Visions of Chrome, The Dark Side (Visions of Chrome) (1993-1997)	Chris Scovil, Chris Scovil aka Jedi/JediChrome	Renegade
	Originally the site ran on my parent's line from 12 am-6 am (thus the Dark Side name) and eventually I got my own line. It was then I renamed it to TDS: Visions of Chrome and eventually just Visions of Chrome. We had local boards, door games, files, fidonet, etc.
617-323-3841 Boston, MA	AOS Boston (1995-1996)	Andrew Cencini	Wildcat
	"AOS == AlphaCom Online Services, a board I used to run with one node and a copy of Wildcat! This was my first real foray into running a BBS, and I had the pleasure of meeting many new people as the board grew. Tom Reed, a really good friend of mine, was someone who I met through AOS and he was the assistant sysop practically from the start. Had plenty of fun setting up LORD, etc with him and others, but things had already peaked shortly before hand in the BBS world." - Andrew Cencini
617-326-4812 Dedham, MA	BINEX II Systems, Castle Island T-Net (1983-1991)	Bob D'Amelio	PCBoard, T-Net, R CP/M
	"Castle Island T-Net was one of the more interesting of the Boston First Wave boards. Bob D'Amelio wrote the custom T-Net software for his Apple-][ system. Although it never caught on in the Apple-][ market, when his Co-Sysop appropriated it and converted it over for the Commodore 64, it became a success as C-Net. The board was renamed and became line #1 of the Binex-II system. In 1984: Binex-II T-Net was moved to 617-326-0259 as line #2, and R_CP/M was placed on 617-326-4812 as line #1. 1985: The end of the T-Net experiment, RBBS is placed on 617-326-0259. 1986: New experiment, Bob starts the earliest UNIX BBS in Boston -- Binex-II UNIX-Chat Line#1 at 617-354-8604 and Binex-II UNIX-Chat Line#2 at 617-354-8605 in Cambridge, MA, USA. 1987: PC-Board replaces R_CP/M on 617-326-4812. 1988: All lines are now PC-Board. Third line added: 617-326-4676." - Winston Smith
617-331-4181 Weymouth, MA	B.C.S. #-1, B.C.S. TI99 BBS, BCS TI 99er's BBS Line 1 (1984-1996)	Tom Ward, Tom Ward	TI-BBS, Telegard
	"The Texas Instruments Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. The 'TI Twins' as some called them, were twin TI99/4A's that ran TI-BBS on two separate lines in the town of Weymouth, MA, in the 1980's. 1984: twin TI-BBS systems begin operation in Weymouth, MA, Line #1 is at 617-331-4181 and Line #2 is at 617-335-8475. (Wonder Twin Powers... Activate!) . 1990: Line #2 is dropped. (Wonder Twin Powers... Deactivate!) . 1991: board at 617-331-4181 switches to Telegard host software, the only software at that time that could support the forty-column TI99/4A. 1992: board begins FidoNET networking as node 1:101/610, sharing the B.C.S. echomail message bases. (The TI99/4A had quite a nice little graphics chip co-processor. If you tried to print to the screen the CPU was slow as molasses; write to the buffer with a graphics call and zap!)" - Winston Smith
617-331-7642 Boston, MA	Barritone Max (1994-1996)	Jim Barrett	Opus , Maximus
	"My family couldn't afford a computer in the 80's so I didn't discover BBSes until the 90's. I bought my first computer in 1991. It was a Packard Bell 386sx with 1mb of memory and an 80mb hard drive. I dove into it learning how it worked and eventually teaching myself how to program. I bought my first modem (2400 bps) around 1992 and started calling BBSes. I was hooked! I would stay up late chatting, reading FidoNet and playing games. I started my own BBS in 1994 and eventually registered my own FidoNet address. Odd working hours and my financial situation eventually led to the BBS shutting down. I've often thought about starting one up again for nostalgic reasons but never got around to it. I was very lucky to have been involved before it all went away." - Jim Barrett
617-334-2020 Lynnfield, MA	Diversi-Dial 16, 2112 Chat Line (1985)
	$3 month for the password.
617-334-6369 Lynnfield, MA	DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #18, DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #18 Lynnfield (1982-1985)	Robert Oppenheim	DIAL-YOUR-MATCH
	"Came across this site through BBS Documentary. I ran this BBS while I was in high school after my sister went to college and we had extra phone line. It was a blast chatting with people and meeting a few along the way. Afterwards, I majored in Computer Science (thanks largely to this experience). Later went to medical school and am currently an ophthalmologist in Chicago area." - Robert Oppenheim
617-351-7077 BOSTON, MA	Channel 1 (1993)
	2400 bps
617-352-7505 Georgetown, MA	Demon's Lair, The Deamon's Lair (1983-1988)	Reed Savory	TBBS
	"I ran a BBS out of Georgetown, MA in the mid-80s called "The Deamon's Lair" (and later I learned how to spell, "The Demon's Lair"). Original system went online in approx. 1983 (on an Apple II+ clone [Franklin Ace 1000], using software I wrote myself in Apple BASIC of all things!), with an Anchor Automation 300bps modem. Entire system was replaced in 1985 by an IBM XT clone (Kaypro PC) running TBBS. The later system was distinguished by having two lines, and I also hosted five or six of the old Infocom text adventure games (like Zork, "Leather Goddess of Phobos", etc.) which users could play online." - Reed Savory
617-353-3137 Cambridge, MA	Channel 1 (1987-1992)
	HST HST HST
617-353-9312 Boston, MA	B.C.S. IBM PC User's Group, Boston Computer Soc., Computer Society, RBBS IBM PC Computer Society, BCS IBM (1983-1997)	, Dick Rohrdanz	RBBS, Fidonet, Opus
	"The BBS of the IBM Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs RBBS in Boston, MA. 1986: board switches to Fido software, begins networking as FidoNET node 1:101/122 . 1987: board moves from Boston to Newton, MA, at 617 -332-5584. 1988: board switches to Opus software to share B.C.S. echomail bases. 1989: board switches to TBBS and adds another line at 617-964-2544. 1992: A third line is added at 617-964-2546. 1994: board moves to the town of Waltham, MA. Line #1 is now at 617-466-8730 and Line #2 is at 617-466-8740. 1995: B.C.S. tries for the "super-board". The IBM Users Group forms an alliance with the main board and is renamed as a sub-node of FidoNET node 1:101/121. 1996: the board drops FidoNET cold switching over to the internet and talking UUCP protocols. 1997: last gasp, board runs a few months at 781-466-8724." - Winston Smith
617-354-3230 Cambridge, MA	Channel 1, Channel 1 (R), Channel One BBS, CHANNEL 1 ONLINE (1987-1995)		PCBoard
	v.32bis v.32bis CHANNEL 1 ONLINE, 617-354-3230 — Using PCBoard. ""The Best Files in the USA"", 90 lines, v.32bis support. 96 IBM file libraries; Amiga; Macintosh; Unix; Adult. Massive Windows, .GIFs, sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo Nets. InterNet. Over 2,500,000 calls and growing. Come Join us! - BBS Magazine November, 1994 CHANNEL 1 ONLINE, 617-354-3230 — Using PCBoard, ""The Best Files in the USA"". 90 lines, v,32bis support. 96 IBM file libraries; Amiga; Macintosh; Unix; Adult. Massive Windows, .GIFs, sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo Mets. InterNet. Over 2,500.000 calls and growing. Come Join us! - BBS Magazine March, 1995 CHANNEL 1 ONLINE. 617-354-3230 — Using PCBoard. The Best Files m the USA"", 90 lines, i',32bis support, 96 IBM file libraries; Amiga; Macintosh; Unix: Adult. Massive Windows, GIF's, sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo Nets, InterNet, Over 4,000,000 calls and growing. Come Join us! - BBS Magazine October 1995
617-354-5776 CAMBRIDGE, MA	Channel 1 (R), Channel 1 High Speed, Channel 1 Node #2, Channel One BBS (High Speed) (1990-1994)	Brian Miller	PCBoard
	14.4 v.32bis
617-354-6073 Cambridge MA	Grand Central BBS, The Commodore 64 Hotel (1987-1995)	Paul Ferdinand, The Manager	C-Net, C-Net 12, New Image BBS 1.0
	"This BBS started as a C-Net BBS. In say about 1889 I converted to BBS software called New Image BBS. This software was written by Ken Pletzer, (not sure of the spelling) who was one of the original writers of the C-Net BBS system. The writers had written a networking routine into the New Image BBS so all of the boards could network with each other and exchange message boards and software. I was connected to 3 other New Image Boards which in turn connected to other boards all around the country. It turned out to much fun and we all enjoyed the info we received." - Paul Ferdinand
617-354-8873 Norwood, MA	Channel 1 (tm), Channel 1 (tm) Online, CHANNEL 1 Communications, Channel 1 Node #1, Channel One BBS, Jung, Robert K., Channel 1 BBS (1986-1996)	Brian Miller, Miller & Heder, Brian Miller & Tess Heder, J. Brian Miller	PCBoard
	2400 baud 70-line PCBoard - 8 GB Files - Internet - 1000’s msg. confs. 70-line PCBoard - 8 GB Files - Internet - 1000’s msg. confs.
617-383-2789 Cohassett, MA	South Shore Secrets BBS, SSS, SOUTH SHORE SECRETS BBS (1991-1996)	P. Crimmins	MajorBBS
	SOUTH SHORE SECRETS BBS 617.383.2789, is a full feature BBS. We have thousands of adult text and picture files, all sexual preferences supported. SSS is networked to 30 Adult BBSs through out the US. S50 per year buys it all. Call voice 617.383.2264 for a free look. SSS, Home of the Marynet. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
617-389-5784 Everett, MA	Emergency Room C64
	Part-Time BBS (8pm-8am, 24 Hours on Weekends)
617-396-4607 Medford, MA	B.C.S. Atari, BACS, S.S.A.G.#2, Toad Hall (1984-1998)	Dana Jacobson	Nite-Lite, RatSoft, MichTron(M-Net)
	"The BBS of the Atari Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs Paul Swanson's Nite-Lite host software. 1988: a second line is added at 617-391-6745 and the BBS switches to an Atari ST running the MichTron host software. Dana Jacobson takes this opportunity to rename the BBS, 'Toad Hall', in honor of his favorite music album. 1994: board moves from Medford, MA, to East Boston. The new numbers are: Line#1 at 617-567-8642 and Line#2 at 617-569-2489 . The board adds M-Net networking to make up for the B.C.S. dropping all support in its vain try for a 'super-board'. 1997: After the collapse of the BCS the board moves to Billerica, MA, at 978-670-5896 . Board switches to an Atari Falcon running RatSoft and becomes the new home of the S.S.A.G. (South Shore Atari Group of Boston) Dana Jacobson carries the Atari e-'zine, 'ST Report'." - Winston Smith
617-397-8844 Boston, MA	Fantasy Realization, The Boston Dungeon Society (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Internet Domain: bdsbbs.com (99.242.194.90) Dedicated to those interested in the consensual domination & sub-mission lifestyle (B&D, SM, BDSM), two teleconference systems, SIGs, Matchmaker, run by the author of The Loving Dominant. Don't Dream. Live.
617-423-3733 Boston, MA	Zoom Telephonics Technical Support (1990-1995)	Jon Roberts, Kurt Doxey	Wildcat!
	"I (Jon Roberts) worked for Zoom Telephonics as a support technician in the customer service department. When I arrived at Zoom, the was a BBS in existance which had been set up by the general manager of customer service, Kurt Doxey. The BBS was used for customer support requests but had fallen into disuse. As a phone support technician, I had plenty of time on my hands to goof off on the BBSs while I was working. I was bothered by the fact that there was no official presence by Zoom support on the board and took it upon myself to respond to all the emails. One day, my boss, Tony Fiorillo, manager of technical support, snuck up behind me thinking that I was goofing off. I told him I was answering emails on the BBS and he was a little stunned that someone had taken some intiative. Later, I was called into Kurt Doxey's office. I was expecting to get yelled at but he pointed to the PC and rack of modems in the corner of his office and told me that I was now in charge of the BBS. I thought this was pretty cool because I had been a BBS fan for many years and had never taken the oportunity to SYSOP. I revamped the who system, added some wicked cool ANSI graphics, uploaded some neet modem utilities and locked up the email system to send all mails to me directly so I could respond to them in an official capacity. After a few more years, Zoom began using AOL and the web for support and the BBS fell into disuse. When I left Zoom for greener pastures, the BBS was still running and I'm not sure how much longer it remained in existance." - Jon Roberts
617-424-6822 Boston, MA	WBCN-terface, WBCN Listings (1983-1985)		Ethylnet Videotext
	"WBCN was always the most progressive radio station in the city of Boston. They were the first radio station to allow callers to dial into their mainframe and leave feedback about their various radio shows and various on the air personalities. A full decade before the advent of the World Wide Web, the WBCN-terface allowed consumers to provide direct public electronic feedback to a commercial enterprise." - Winston Smith
617-449-2589 Needham, MA	Xevious (1982-2000)	George Kassabgi, Jeff Keegan, Nels Anderson	Net-Works-][, GBBS-Pro, PC-Board, custom (on Apple II) originally
	"One of the original Boston First Wave boards, the origin of Xevious is lost in the mist of time. Xevious was the greatest BBS in the state of Massachusetts. When the Sysop moved out of the Boston Metr Area, he left a call-forwarded line so that regulars could still reach him. *ALL* hardware types were welcome: Apple, TRS-80, Atari, TI, Commodore, Z-80... even when the BBS ran on INTeL hardware! 1983: 617-449-2589 and 617-449-4146. 1986: Board moves to Framingham, MA, at 508-875-3618. Call forwarded line begins service at 617-449-7322. 1987: Board switches to GBBS-PRO software. 1990: Board switches over to PC-Board software and starts networking as R.I.M.E. Relaynet Node #159. Two lines are added: Line #2, 508-875-4786 and Line #3, 508-820-7360. 1998: Board drops from four lines to two -- Line #1, 508-788-6951 and Line #2, 508-788-6952." - The Boston Historian "Xevious was originally written by George Kasabgi of Needham Massachusetts. It ran on two Apple II computers, connected with two serial cards and a serial cable wrapped in tin-foil. It had a 6-meg hard drive. Two distinct features were a two-person chat system (where you could chat with whomever was on the other computer, not just the sysop), and Xevious Trek (a highly addictive grid-based trek game, with multiple planets, hidden galaxies, and the ability to attack other players while they were offline). When George Kasabgi had to go to Canada for several months, he considered closing the BBS. I (Jeff Keegan) offered to run it in his absence, and the BBS was moved to Stoneham, MA. If I remember correctly, the two lines there were 617-279-0354 and 617-438-???? Anyway, I ran it there for several months, eventually it went back to George, and then later he decided to call it quits. Nels Anderson stepped in, offering to move the BBS to Framingham, Massachusetts. At some point someone made the joke that since it was born in Needham, moved to Stoneham, and then moved to Framingham, it should probably go to die in Dedham." - Jeff Keeghan
617-469-6742 Boston, MA	Digital Horizons BBS (1996-1997)	Andrew Cencini	Excalibur, O-M-N-I
	"I ran this BBS following the wildcat BBS (AOS) (617-323-3841). The phone number listed here is actually for what was the second node in the hunt group -- 323-3841 hunted down to this number. While AOS was briefly a node on FidoNet, the capabilities of Excalibur allowed me to provide Internet access (node 1 was dialin for BBS, node 2 was dialed out to Concentric) in addition to the local community. A funny story about this was that Boston had just gone through some re-arrangement of it's 7/10 digit dialing and area codes. Well, I had the second line hooked to CNC for an entire month via what I thought was a local number. End of month comes, and I get a bill from AT&T for nearly $2000! Remmber, like many folks, I was just a high school kid, and I think my parents still got the bill though it was my line -- and they freaked! Somehow I straightened it all out with AT&T (and found a better POP to dial into) but that was one of the more interesting experiences I can remember. I actually really liked Excalibur and even more so, O-M-N-I BBS -- while there is no beating Wildcat, Renegade, etc., I think this next generation really was quite impressive. Too bad things had gone completely internet by that point. A strong negative I do remember was the 1-4MB client downloads -- people hated that! Now AIM/MSN Messenger are at a minimum that size :)" - Andrew Cencini
617-472-1676 Quincy, MA	B.C.S. Telecomm, Photo Talk, BCS Telecomm (1984-1996)	Robert Gorrill	RBBS, Fido, Opus, Maximus
	"The Telecommunications Group of The Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs RBBS in Quincy, MA. 1986: board moves to new line at 617-786-9788 and switches to Fido host software. 1987: board networks with the B.C.S. IBM Users Group and "mirrors" their message bases, both BBSes are FidoNET 1:101/122 . 1988: BBS switches software to Opus and begins sharing B.C.S. echomail message bases. 1995: In a try for a "super-board" the B.C.S. suspends its normal FidoNET networking. Many INTeL boards continue on independently. The B.C.S. Telecommunications Group merges with the Photo Talk BBS and continues FidoNET networking as FidoNET node 1:101/206 running under Maximus host software. 1996: the Boston Computer Society disbands." - Winston Smith
617-489-4011 Belmont, MA	Taj Mahal |05|09 (1992-1994)	Tim Miranda	Renegade, Telegard & Renegade
	"Taj Mahal was originally run by a blind/deaf/mute student. He got accepted to college in 93, and so wanted to transfer the BBS to someone else. I gave it a go, being in high school, and kept it going for about a year. We switched to Renegade from Telegard at some point." - Tim Miranda
617-491-4568 Cambridge, MA	B.B.N. BBS (1984)		RBBS
	"B.B.N. BBS stands for the name of the private school, 'Buckingham Browne and Nichols'; it was *NOT* affiliated with the famous computer company of B.B.N., 'Bolt Baranek and Newman'. One of the first school affiliated BBSes, B.B.N. BBS was heavily into the Fantasy Role Playing Game, "Dungeons And Dragons". There were text files on dungeon mastering, creating characters, creating interesting traps for dungeons, and much more. B.B.N BBS was also the first BBS in the area to carry the text file, "Requiem For A Sysop". The appearance of this text file is considered by some to officially mark the end of the "First Wave" of BBSing. (The "Second Wave" is said to have begun with the advent of Tom Mack's text file, "The Second Ring", the advent of the IBM PC, and the popularization of Ward Christensen's RBBS.)" - Winston Smith
617-497-6641 Cambridge, MA	TRaSh Bin (1982-1984)	Jonathan Toner	Greene Machine
	One of the Original First Wave boards, the TRaSh Bin was a TRS-80 board. It did not run Major Galacticomm Worldnet, which some boardhoppers abbreviate as MBBS, but ran the TRS-80 Multi-Board or Message Board, the first use of MBBS as a designation of hosting software.
617-527-5677 Boston, MA	The Tao of Telecommunications (1987-1991)	Mark Kupferman	Red Ryder Host
	"The Tao of Telecommunications was dedicated to discussions of various topics that were mostly non-computer related: local theater, music, and other events around Boston. Between 1997 and 1991 the web site operated at various phone numbers depending on where I was living at the time (I finally had to close it down when I left Massachusetts). During its last couple of years of operation it was a member of Fidonet." - "Mark Kupferman
617-527-8348 Newton Centre, MA	The Assembly Line (1986-1988)	Scott Perry	GBBS
	"A fairly basic BBS that ran on an Apple ][+ with 64K of RAM and 280K of storage (2 140K disc drives) to hold the BBS software, forums, files, etc. It went online in November, 1986 and lasted through August, 1988. The most unique feature of the BBS was the Simulated SysOp, a program designed to mimic a chat session with a SysOp. The user would normally ask a question, and the program would 'type' a response at about the same speed as the real SysOp normally would, complete with occasional typos and backspacing to fix them." - Scott Perry
617-547-1250 Cambridge, MA	City Solutions Institute's BBS (1989-1994)	Michael Rollins
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cambridge, Massachusetts since 01/89. Sysop: Michael Rollins. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 8000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $25 Annual fee. Access free Cities newsgroup cities@csi.cambridge.ma.us. Email to listsery or join@csi.cambridge.ma.us and place sub cities your-internet-address in message. Affect political policies. Access political & economic forecasts. Be part of solution - join.
617-558-9885 Newton, MA	Communication Breakdown (1992-1994)	Eric Poulin aka Dor	WWIV
	"Communication Breakdown transplanted itself out in the Boston area from the 413 area code for 2 years while the sysop went to Boston College." - Eric Poulin
617-565-7259 Newton, MA	Z-Node (1985)
	Password: BIGBOARD
617-566-7860 Brookline, MA	Gridpoint (1989-1990)	David Shih	TAG 2.5g
	"Gridpoint was a kind of Sister BBS to House of Grace. When HoG switched over to file transfers, Gridpoint stayed mostly a message and Games board, and also had a rivalry with HoG for elaborate ANSI opening screens. Gridpoint was online most nights from 11pm to 7am." - Wiley Cox
617-566-8227 Brookline, MA	TeleTypesetting Co. (1993)	David Shih, Eric Dewitt	TAG 2.4b
	"This BBS was put up ostensibly to serve customers of Teletypesetting in allowing them to ask questions of the workers. Set up by two contractors, it ran TAG BBS, a BBS system popular among a group of Sysops in Brookline at the time, including David Shih, Eric Dewitt, John Kumph, Wiley Cox and Leland James." - Wiley Cox
617-584-0155 Brockton, MA	Bushido (1985)
	Part time BBS (6pm-12am)
617-593-0081 Boston, MA	NPI (1985-1992)	Charles Carley	Opus
	"I was the Sysop for the NPI BBS systems it was actually started in 1985 and did not become a fidonet node until later. It was started with Opus ver 0.00 which I still have an zipped copy of. It was a lot of fun and work in the heyday of Fidonet (Fight-o-net). at one time I had over 2500 registered users and 350 extremely active ones NPI 2&3 were put together just to handle the flow of mail. Ah yes the wonderful world of 300 baud." - Charles Carley
617-595-0211 Lynn, MA	NORTH SHORE, North Shore A.M.I.S., North Shore AMIS (1983-1988)	Brian Oliva	A.M.I.S., Nite-Lite
	"The most fun that you could have on an Atari 6502 8-bit at the time, North Shore A.M.I.S. is the only BBS I know of that has a pinball game named after it -- Brian Oliva's "A.M.I.S. Ball" (courtesy of The Pinball Construction Set). North Shore A.M.I.S. was rather large for an Atari board of that time, and easily rivaled the medium sized TBBS boards of its era. 1983: Board runs A.M.I.S. (Atari Message Information System) 1987: Board switches to Paul Swanson's "Nite-Lite" BBS software but retains A.M.I.S. in its name." - Winston Smith
617-623-3244 Somerville, MA	Algol-1, Project Crossbow (1984-1986)	David Kaufman	ABBCS
	"The Algol-1 BBS used the Atari Bulletin Board Construction Set. ABBCS was an ambitious software package that contained many novel features for a BBS run on the ATARI 8-bit micro-computer (a computer whose virtues were pitched by Alan Alda), including an intra-line editor. Unfortunately, the software package was highly unstable, and after a large number of crashes, most ABBCS SysOps ave up on the software entirely." - Winston Smith
617-646-3610 Boston, MA	CBBS - BOSTON, CBBS Boston, FIDO #44 NECS Arlington, N.E.C.S. CBBS, NECS (1982-1986)	Dave Mitton	FidoNet, CBBS
	"What can be said about N.E.C.S. CBBS ? It was an early Fido board. The node number was below the 100's. The board used to go down quite often. The Sysop would often run it for long periods of time without any supervision or intervention. As a result, the callers that got out of hand got *WAY* out of hand! It resembled a "war board", not by design, but rather, by circumstance. It was a free-for-all where techies and pirates would trade insults mano-a-mano in a cacophonous scream of teen angst, bluster, and machismo amidst a background noise of raging hormones. For a faint echo of what it was like back then, today, try reading the international english "FIDONET SYSOP" echomail message base." - Winston Smith
617-649-7097 Dunstable, MA	Forum-80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
617-657-4735 Wilmington, MA	Wilmington High BBS
	Part Time BBS: 4pm-7:45pm, 24 hours on Weekends
617-663-4221 Billerica, MA	NITELITE, Original NiteLite	Paul Swanson	NiteLite
	"The SysOp was also the author of NiteLite BBS software for Ataris. ISTR that he had an old Nash Rambler station wagon in his front yard..."
617-720-3600 Boston, MA	ABBS - BOSTON, Future Tech Xchg, Future Technology, Future Technology - 4DOS, Future TechXchg, Future TechXchg,512M, NET-WORKS Pirate's Harbor, Pirate's Harbor, PIRATES HARBOR, T-I-M-E-C-O-R, PIRATE'S HARBOR (1982-1994)	Napier & Moran, Bud Napier, Napier&Moran	PCBoard, Net-Works-][
	"One of the first large commercial pay boards in Boston, a subscription to Pirate's Harbor would allow the caller access to a collection of text files that would extensively explain the various software protection cracking techniques useful for all brands of 8-bit computer. There were separate sections for all brands of popular computer. 1983: Board is originally known as Pirate's Harbor. 1986: A second line is installed at 617-720-4097. The board now goes by the name of T-I-M-E-C-O-R, rather than Pirate's Harbor, as the term "Pirate" is now looked upon with much disfavor. Tightening of copyright laws and the spread of the Internet will lead to the eventual demise of the board. (The term "pirates" is replaced by "elites" and "RaTz", among other euphemisms....)" - Winston Smith
617-734-2975 Brookline, MA	House of Grace (1989-1991)	Grace - Wiley Cox	Tag BBS 2.0 - 2.5
	"House of Grace originally was started as a Message-only BBS running on a Tandy 8088 4.77 mhz machine, with a 1200 Baud modem on a single phone line. "The system really took off when I upgraded to a 286-25mhz motherboard with a 120meg Seagate 4144 drive, allowing for animated ANSI logon screens, Games (Galactic Warzone, mostly), file transfers. At one point, HoG had regular callers from over 30 states and 5 or 6 other countries, including Italy and England. At the end of HoG's life, the TAG BBS system allowed for two phone lines, which I had, allowing two separate users to chat with each other on the BBS. "House of Grace closed down when I went to College in 1991, after being moved and SysOp'd briefly by Ninjo, John Kumpf, also in Brookline." - Wiley Cox
617-738-0503 Brookline, MA	Beacon BBS (1987-1995)	Spaceman
	"Beacon BBS, run out of a location just outide Cleveland Circle, was a well-run file-trading Bulletin board. Spaceman enforced strict file upload/download ratios, but if you needed a file, Beacon was the place to go. The hardware and modems were always up to date and cutting edge, thanks to Spaceman's job working for NEC." - Wiley Cox
617-770-3066 Quincy, MA	Quincy RAM-Net (1985)	Andrew Moore	Various (Citadel, RBBS?, MBBS, RCP/M)
	"As best I can remember this ran around 1985. It was more of an experimental platform for the system rather than a long-lived BBS. I ran it on a Xerox 820 CP/M machine or possibly 820-II (can't remember if the box was upgraded before the BBS started). It started out as a part-time BBS but eventually got a dedicated phone line at 617-770-3066. Board went through several software flavors including RBBS, MBBS, and a brief stint as a Citadel system. Acronym stood for "R)CP/M A)nd M)essage NET)work." Started out at 300 baud and I think it eventually ran at 2400. At one point Jonathan Toner (who ran TRaSh bin) volunteered some programming to give the board username and password capabilities since I hadn't learned about file I/O yet. Not sure when or why the board came down." - Andrew Moore
617-825-1594 Dorchester, MA	Neponset Nite Lite (1983-1986)	Kevin Champagne	Nite Lite (Atari 8-Bit)
	"This BBS was moved in 1986 to UMass Boston (running Michton BBS on an Atari ST), and then from there in 1987 to Computer Cache, a computer store in Quincy, MA, where it was run until 1990." - Kevin Champagne
617-837-7287 Marshfield, MA	The Wizard's Ark (1990-1993)	The Wizard	telegard, renegade, oblivion/2
	"The ark ran on a packard bell 486sx33 with 16 mb. At one point it also had a 286 12mhz box for the 2nd node. DESQview was fun." - The Wizard
617-848-0193 Braintree, MA	Epson RCP/M
	Password: epson
617-861-8976 Lexington, MA	The Works BBS (1989-1994)	Dave Ferret	Waffle, Ferret BBS
	"Originally started in Chappaqua, NY in 1986, The Works BBS went down when the sysop went to college. At the time it had one theme and one theme only: textfiles. It was pretty popular, especially as a place to download the archives of textfiles available to any user who logged on. After the board went down, Dave Ferret found the old sysop on a BBS in Boston called "The Wall", and asked if he could take it over, to which I agreed. The Works went up in Lexington using my Waffle Run-Alike software, Ferret BBS, and ran throughout Dave's high school career, until he ultimately took it down via attrition. The board moved in with Matt Iskra, who kept it going for a number of years after that, and then grabbed by Owen, who now runs it as a telnet BBS at works.org." - Jason Scott
617-862-5779 Lexington, MA	B.C.S. Commodore, BCS BBS, Boston Commodore (1984-1997)	Stephen McRae	Info-Quick, BBS-PC, DLG-Pro
	"The Commodore Users Group of the Boston Computer Society. 1984: board runs Info-Quick 1988: board switches to BBS-PC host software. 1989: board moves to the town of Winchester, MA at 617-729-7340 . 1993: board switches to DLG-Pro host software, joins FidoNET, and goes multi-line. Line#1: 617-729-7340. Line#2: 617-729-7310. Line#3: 617-729-4164. (FidoNET nodes 1:101/337 , 1:101/336). 1994: fourth line added at 617-729-2843 . 1996: with the collapse of the Boston Computer Society, two of the lines are pressed into service as mailers on FidoNET node 101/336; 617-729-4164 and 617-729-2843 become mailer servers. Line 617-729-7310 switches from FidoNET to UUCP mailer protocol to talk with the internet. Line #1, 617-729-7340 remains FidoNET node 1:101/337 . 1997: the board bravely continues for another year, appointing Dan Devoe's BBS as mail mover." - Winston Smith
617-862-6942 Newton, MA	Terra Cresta (1982-1989)	The Ninja	Heavily modified PRIME
	"Terra Cresta was arguably the best Apple-based gaming BBS in the Boston area. The SysOps were programmers and they custom coded an incredible game called Starfire which was vaguely similar to TradeWars but substantially more fun. They later also made another game called TavernWorld which was also extremely popular, basically a multiplayer roguelike game. The BBS was around during the 80's, but I can't remember exactly what span of time it was there. I would guess that it was in operation for at least five or six years, but that's just conjecture on my part. I would redial my modem for hours and hours every day trying to connect - That's how popular it was. I know it existed prior to when I started running my own BBS, 'Project BBS'. The timespan I listed is guesswork and may not be accurate. There were two SysOps of Terra Cresta, but I don't know either of their real names. One of their aliases was 'The Ninja'. I can't find ANY trace of this BBS anywhere except for here, at the very end of the file: http://www.textfiles.com/humor/lbinter.hum Because of how popular this BBS was and how fun and addictive the games were, I'd really hate for the memory of Terra Cresta BBS to slip into oblivion without having its place of honor among the other BBS systems in your list. (By the way, my own BBS that I ran back then, 'Project BBS', is present in your list. All the information about Project BBS is accurate _except_ that it wasn't based in Cambridge, it was in Scituate, about fifty or sixty minutes south of Cambridge)" - Kailef
617-863-0677 Lexington, MA	Buckman Tavern, Buckmans Tavern, ? ? ? ? ?, Buckman's Tavern (1984-1995)		ASCII-Express, Hermes, FirstClass
	"Buckman Tavern started as an ASCII-Express or A.E. board running on an Apple-][. Here is the history of the board -- 1984: BBS runs ASCII-Express. 1986: board goes private for friends only. 1992: board goes public again, thanks to the wild popularity of Hermes B.B.S. software for the Apple Macintosh, at its new number at 617-863-8502 now running Hermes and known as Buckman Tavern II. 1994: board switches to FirstClass B.B.S. host and runs OneNet networking and is now known as Buckman Tavern III. 1995: board moves to the town of Somerville, MA, and goes multi-line for a short while, before eventually going down due to the Area Code split. Line #1 is at 617-625-7483 and Line #2 is at 617-625-7484." - Winston Smith
617-864-3819 Cambridge, MA	CBBS Cambridge, New England Computer Society CBBS (1980-1981)	Dave Mitton	CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
617-864-6909 Cambridge, MA	The Type Recorder (1986-1987)	Sam Ezust	Tele-Cat 3.0
	"Host of the New England Apple Tree files and discussions for Apple ][ and Macintosh Users. Also host of the Modem Journal BBS List, a monthly-updated BBS list of the greater Boston area. It ran on a Franklin Ace 1000, Apple-Cat 212 modem, and a Corvus 5mb hard drive on loan from the New England Apple Tree." - Sam Ezust
617-884-6106 Chelsea, MA	Pirate's Cove, The Fisherman's Cove (1983-1994)	Larry Cyr, Larry Cyr (Big Fisherman)	Net-Works-][, C-Net, Telegard
	"Pirate's Cove was originally part of the Pirate's Harbor family of Net-Works-][ pay subscriber boards for providing fee for service descriptions of techniques for cracking software protection schemes on 8-bit software. It changed its name to Fisherman's Cove and switched software to the C-Net BBS host software in an attempt to provide a BBS for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts." - Winston Smith
617-891-1349 Waltham, MA	N.E.M.S. II, Pirate's Chest, PIRATES CHEST (1982-1985)		Net-Works-][
	"As the micro-computer started to become popular, pay or subscription boards offering software protection cracking techniques on a fee for service basis started to spring up all over Boston and its environs. This particular class of commercial board to which the Pirate's Chest belonged was known around Boston, Massachusetts, as the 'Pirate's Harbor' family of Net-Works-][ boards. The Pirate's Chest was one such board of this group." - Winston Smith
617-897-0346 Maynard, MA	New England Comp. Soc., NECS/DEC CBBS (1980-1983)		DEC CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue). At one point ran from 6am-7am and Weekends.
617-963-5807 Randolph, MA	Toxic Warez Dump (1986-1989)	The Toxic Avenger	CNET-- highly modified 11.1a
	"In high school I spent way too much time modifying CNET. However, I made that board program completely customized. I had psuedo AI automated SYSOP chat, download/upload credits, etc. In my heyday I was getting between 20 - 40 calls a day. Towards the end, it just dwindled. Time has passed the BBS by. My BBS was a testament to guzzling Coca Cola Classic, banging in Microsoft C64 Basic, and abusing a 1541 disk drive. It was fun. I am often nostalgic. The experiences were definitely helpful later in life. Give a kid a 1200 BPS modem, an 8 bit computer, and a cool alias, and suddenly the nerdiest kid in his high school feels like a super hero. Special shout outs to: The Culprit, *** CBM Ranger (upload to my board dammit - whuh huh huh), Zippy The Pin Head, The Improper Bostonian, Zack The Hack / The Shadowlord, The Warlord (from Bushido), The Doc (from the Emergency Room), The Big Fisherman (from the Fisherman's Cove). It was fun. Thanks fer da memories." - Toxic Avenger
617-965-7259 Newton, MA	B.C.S. Zitel, Big Board, Newton Center Z-Node, Newton Centre BigBoard (1984-1998)	Jay Sage, Sage Microsystems East	R CP/M, PCBoard
	"This B.B.S. was a Remote CP/M board run by Sage Micro-Systems of Newton, MA. It was a premier CP/M system, and eventually became the home of all of the CP/M systems of Boston. 1984: board runs R_CP/M. 1994: After running both the Newton Center Z-Node board and the B.C.S. Zitel board concurrently since 1990, and having merged the Kaypro Group into Zi/tel, Jay Sage decides to merge both the Boston F.O.G. and the Newton Center Z-Node into the B.C.S. Zitel board and make it an "all inclusive" CP/M board. The board software is switched to PC-Board and the new number is that of the B.C.S. Zitel board; Line #1 at 617-965-7046, Line #2 at 617-965-7785, Line #3 617-965-7259. 1996: the line at 617-965-7259 is dropped. 1997: the line at 617-965-7785 is dropped." - Winston Smith
617-965-8761 Newton, MA	Billboard (1984-1985)		A.M.I.S., F.O.R.E.M.
	"The Atari Message Information Service (A.M.I.S.), the earliest Atari B.B.S. host software, was eventually superceded by better software called the (F)riends (O)f (R)ick (E). (M)oose, F.O.R.E.M. for short, a pun on FORUM-80, an early TRS-80 BBS software." - Winston Smith
617-969-3138 Newton Highlands, MA	The White Zone, The White Zone BBS, White Zone BBS (1990-1994)	David Saganey	TBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Newton Highlands, Massachusetts since 10/90. Sysop: David Saganey. Using TBBS 2.2 with 8 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 4400 MB storage. US Robotics at 16800 bps. $25 Quarterly fee. 2.5+ GB of IBM MS-DOS Shareware, Adult Graphics, Midi & Soundcard Files, Windows, WazWare & More. Online Games, Classified Ads, BBS Listings, QWK Offline Mail Reader Support, News-bytes Weekly & PC Catalog Online. ASP Approved BBS.
617-969-9660 NEWTON, MA	Boston Computer Society (Info,IBM) (1983-1996)		RBBS, Fido, Opus, TBBS (1:101/121)
	"One of the early Boston boards, the B.C.S. main board a.k.a. the Info Center, a.k.a. the Calendar board, has a history that mimics the history of BBSing in general. ?-1983: Starts as an RBBS board at 617-696-9660 in Newton, MA, USA. 1984-1986: still an RBBS board, it moves to 617-227-7986, Boston, MA, USA. 1987: Finally ends its isolation as a stand-alone RBBS board and switches to Fido FidoNET networking as node 1:101/121 . 1988: the Fido board switches to Opus, sharing echomail among BCS groups. 1989-1991: Opus board switches to TBBS for multi-line support and online databases. 1992-1993: still a TBBS board, it moves to 617-621-0882 in the town of Cambridge, MA, USA, the new B.C.S. office (the zenith of BCS power!). 1994-1996: Giant BCS*MAC super-board consolidation forces out Info Center. Board moves yet again to 617-290-5726 in Waltham, MA, USA / Oct.1996 BCS disbands!"
618-258-2539 East Alton, IL	Hotel California (1991)	RedHotChiliPepper	WWIV
	"The first BBS in the area to make hacking/phreaking text files widely available to everyone." - Anonymous
618-345-3895 COLLINSVILLE, IL	The Immortal BBS (1991-1993)	Darrell Fortae	Wildcat!
	"I ran a part time BBS from 1991 to 1993. It was called The Immortal BBS. Phone number was 618-345-3895. I was a teenager in high school and had a Wildcat BBS. I shared the phone line with my older brother, who would occassionally pick up the phone while someone was on my BBS and curse up a storm. LOL! I specialized in configuring all kinds of upload/download protocols. I would help other SYSOPS setup about 10 different protocols! So much fun. Ahhhhh, the good ole' days!" - Darrell Fortae, Everlast Software, LLC
618-548-4391 Salem, IL	Wild Thang BBS (1990-1999)		TriBBS
	"Wild Thang BBS ran on a 20 mb hard drive powered by a IBM Clone 286 computer I was the Sysop and Wild Thangs main attraction was it War Board I moved it to Centraila Illinois and closed it down in 1993 due to lack of participation and the Growth of the Internet Thank you very much for listing Wild Thang BBS and keeping up with Americas BBS History." - Mike Toler
618-548-9735 Salem, IL	Last Outpost (1992-1996)	Scott Luallen	Searchlight, SLBBS
	"I see you have boards listed after I shutdown in '96, but I consider my BBS, Last Outpost the last of the multi-node, full service BBS's in our area. I had games/chat rooms/file libraries; it was a Searchlight BBS so it even had a GUI for the wimps (Window, Icon, Mouse, People). :) In 1993 I was running 3 lines with about 40 to 60 logins per day, with a user base of over 300, not bad for a rural community in Southern Illinois. I had a three county area that could make a local call to Last Outpost. Those were great days, the sysops in the area not only ran their systems but I remember we all would play games for a couple of hours a day on each others boards. Kings Castle BBS in Centralia and The Hide Out BBS in Salem played prominate roles for the online community before the Internet shut us all down. I have Last Outpost BBS intact on a harddrive on my bookshelf. Always thought that since it's I-net capable that I would put it up on the Internet someday, but it looks like that ain't gonna happen. "It's nice what you've done here. People need to know about BBS's and their contribution to the online world. Most people have never heard of a BBS. Explaining what a BBS was or did, is... interesting. They marvel at the idea that there were pre-internet local online services that set precedents for what happens everyday on the WEB. Enough of my ramblings. Thanks for the memories." - Scott Luallen
618-549-2754 Carbondale, IL	The Board (1987-1990)	Dave Grant	RBBS
	"I ran this for about three years, it was a lot of fun but also a lot of work. Those were the days. Hi ya Mark, thanks for letting me use the backpack. :)" - Dave Grant
618-692-3595 Edwardsville, IL	SOILED Net (So. IL Educ Net) (1993)
	FrEdMail System
618-746-4021 Belleville, IL	The Dragon's Den BBS (1994)	Chris Reagoso
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Belleville, Illinois since 07/94. Sysop: Chris Reagoso. Using TBBS 2.2 with 1 line on OS/2 with 500 MB storage. Practical Peripheral at 14400 bps. No fee. Special Interests: Scuba; Sports; Military (Enlisted, Officer, and Public); Fire, Police, and Emerg Medical Svcs; Role Playing Games; Magic:The Gathering Card Trading Area; Automotive. CDROM online soon. 28.8KBps modem online soon.
618-797-1967 Granite City, IL	Sigite Communications, Sigite Communications (1998-2002)	Vince Sigite	Wildcat 4
	"The board has been offline for a few years now, as I pursue a career in electronics and continue with my hobby of amateur radio. But one day I plan to resurrect the BBS with dedicated telephone line and telnet acess, for nostalgic reasons (nothing like the gold old days of 300 baud)." - Vince Sigite
618-797-2339 Granite City, IL	Roy's Place (1991-1996)	Zak	WWIV
	"The midwest headquarters for the Phone Losers of America."
618-942-4310 Herrin, IL,	CyberStorm, StormFront (1994-1997)	Rock Domineck and Son	VBBS
	"CyberStorm replaced the StormFront when SysOp moved. My son made many friends via the CyberStorm meetings. He is still in contact with many of them to this day. Cyberstorm met every 3 months to trade computer stories." - Rock Domineck
619-224-3853 San Diego, CA	FAX Weather Satellite, FAX/Satellite Services BBS (1993-1994)	Scotty Olson
	NOAA Weather Satellite Images - Russian/Japanese Sat Pics
619-234-2006 San Diego, CA	The Keep (1983-1986)	Tom Davidson aka The Keeper	Keeper-Line
	"After watching the movie Wargames in 1983 I got a modem for my C-64 and discovered the BBS scene. I found a simple BBS program in a computer magazine... If only I could remember which one. Anyway, I developed the software for the next couple of years incorporating the Punter protocol for file transfers, my own assembler I/O routines, and compiled the BASIC using the Blitz! BASIC compiler. Oh the good old days." - Tom Davidson
619-258-8006 Santee, CA	Problem Corner / Central (1984-1987)	Problem Child	CNET (C=64)
	"I just stumbled across your site via a link from Tom's Hardware. My most fond memories were running a BBS in the mid 80's on the CNET software (C=64). I was a little bummed to not see my BBS listed when I lived in Santee, CA., but about fell out of my chair when I saw my BBS listed in Centreville, VA (AC: 703)-(Double Trouble). You have a great site and it's nice to see "our generation" recognized." - Problem Child
619-264-8412 San Diego, CA	Christ, She's At It Again! (1990-1994)	Cheryl Cohen	DLX
	"This was a five-line DLX BBS that was a parody of the X-rated Plain Brown Wrapper BBS owned by my ex-husband, Tim. CSAIA BBS received a lot of press because of the entrance exam and the heavy use of sexual euphemism rather than the real deal. We had regular "meats" at the beach, complete with bonfires and made cardboard signs that began with "Will work for ____". CSAIA members usually had a very amiable relationship with other BBSes, such as San Diego Connection and yes, even the Ex's Plain Brown Wrapper. Those were the days!" - Cheryl Cohen
619-278-7361 San Diego, CA	Pacific Rim Info 1, Pacific Rim Info Node 3 FIDO, Pacific Rim Information II, PacRimInfo, PacRimInfo 300M, PacRimInfo 300M , PRI Wildcat! BBS, TNL Online , The Pacific Rim (1982-2002)	Brenda Donovan	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Female Sysops
619-279-2722 San Diego, CA	The Penthouse Suite (1985-1986)	Robert Kuhn (aka: Rammy)	TC-BBSxe (modified)
	"Ran on an Atari 130XE, two disk drives (a modded Atari 1050 drive [Single Sided/Double Density] 180KB, and a Teac [Single Sided/Double Density] 360KB), originally an Atari 1030 modem (110/300 baud) then later to a Supra 110/300/450 baud and then eventually a Volks 300/1200 baud via an Atari 850 RS232 interface/adapater. The software was written by Total Control Systems (TCS) which was also in San Diego and not that far from where I lived at the time so I was able to visit and talk with the developer. The XE version was a huge upgrade over the previous versions. If you were lucky enough to have the 130XE you could take advantage of the additional 64K of RAM by making it a RAM disk and then loading the menus and other text files. This would speed up the performance of the site and give you more space for storage. About a few months of owning the software, I modified the message base to resemble CNET (another popular C64 BBS software). I felt their message base/layout/etc was clean. At one point I hooked up an Atari 800XL, wrote a "connector" and setup a multi-lined BBS. I remember running into problems with the message base. Reading messages were fine, it was only if two people were replying to the same message. In the end I fixed it by using part of the RAM disk as a cache/buffer but that mean sacrificing loading menus and other text files up in RAM. Eventually I went back to a single lined system as the other line was actually our house line so it was only avaialble at night. I pulled the BBS offline in '86 when I moved with plans to set it back up again but never did - just wasn't into BBS' anymore, Those were some fun times, however." - Robert Kuhn
619-279-6560 San Diego, CA	Styx Crossing (1991-1994)	Michael Severe	WWIV
	"On a whim I decided to Google my old board and was amazed not only to find your list, but to find me on it! So many old names, numbers, and good memories! The old BBS' were to me what I suppose ham radios were to my father in the 50s and 60s. At any rate, I thought I'd go ahead and submit more details for my old board. Thanks for the list and the trip down memory lane." - Michael Severe
619-281-1581 San Diego, CA	General 9 New Users, THE GENERAL BBS (1994-1995)
	THE GENERAL BBS, 619.281.1581, features our own local San Diego ""Giffy Girl"" models' Gif pictures and email! Over 10 gigs of files, over 60,000 total files, over 1 8,000 adult Gifs, GLs, text files, DLs, etc. 20 lines, all high-speed, email from Usenet, Fidonet, Relaynet, Wildnet, Keshernetand more. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 THE GENERAL BBS, 619.281.1581. teatures our own local San Diego ""Giffy Girl"" models' Git pictures and email! Over 10 gigs of files, over 60,000 total files, over 1 8,000 adult Gifs. GLs, text files, DLs. etc. 20 lines, all high-speed, email from Usenet. Fidonet. Relaynet, Wildnet, Keshernet and more. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
619-281-8616 San Diego, CA	General 2 Public Line, The General (1993-1994)	Marc Teitler
	Popular File Library - GIF Images
619-287-2431 San Diego, CA	Info-Core I (1989-1994)	Dan Sikorski	Renegade
	"Originally called The Double D BBS from 1989 to 1992. Renamed to Info-Core I in 1992, when partnership between Info-Core I and Info-Core II developed with Dan Gilbreth and Dan Sikorski. BBS ran Telegard BBS Software up until Renegade BBS Software became available. The Double D BBS was originally a father-son activity, which turned into a full-time activity for the son and was only supported financially by the father. During from 1992 to 1994, Info-Core I & II were vital hubs to the original warez underground in San Diego, until Info-Core I was busted by the FBI at the end 1994. Info-Core II went off-line at the end of 1994, two days after the FBI raid on Info-Core I. Info-Core II ran Wildcat BBS for a short period of time before switching to Renegade BBS. Original ANSI artwork from Michael Tomlinson (co-sysop of Info-Core I & II) is still available on the Internet somewhere. After 1994, the original SysOp's went seperate ways and never spoke again." - Anonymous Poster (Listed himself as Dan Sikorski, Second Dan Sikorski disputes this)
619-295-3103 SAN DIEGO, CA	FORA (1985-1990)	Jim Bowery	FORA
	"I wrote this multiuser chat/bbs system (programmed primarily in ASM86) hoping to seed an approach to large scale networking I started as the network architect for Knight Ridder and AT&T's VIEWTRON videotex service while at their joint venture, Viewdata Corporation of America. Unfortunately, Bill Blue, a local competitor, also in San Diego, had a deal with the Naval Ocean Systems Center via which he could obtain Usenet feeds at a very low cost -- a cost with which I could not compete. He was providing these feeds to the public which I believe was illegal, given that they were via MilNet (DARPA). I did attempt to have the Naval Inspector General's office investigate how to either terminate my competitor's illegal advantage or acquire said advantage for FORA, but after a few go-arounds and "we're looking into it"s, my resorces were running too thin. The combined financial and operational troubles (my attempts to exclude suspected child molesters was landing me in tough personal situations) led me to shut it down after about 4 years. For more information see http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/vnatap.html" - Jim Bowery
619-295-9591 San Diego, CA	CMS: San Diego Unified, San Diego USD (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-326-4928 Needles, CA	Teen BBS (1986)	Chuck Swan
	Online Saturdays Online Saturdays
619-339-6401 Imperial Valley, CA	El Centro USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-390-2689 Lakeside, CA	CMS: Lakeside, Lakeside MS (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-429-7342 Imperial Beach, CA	Commodore Image BBS (1991-1994)	X-TEC	Image 1.2a
	"This BBS was a dual line board. System components were 2 Commodore 64's, 1 Lt. Kernal 40 meg and 1 CMD 200 meg hard drive, 1 Xetec Multiplexer, 2 host adapters, 2 1581 disk drives, 2 1541 disk drives, 1 Legend 880 printer, 1 Supra 2400, 1 Commodore 1670 modem, 1 Commodore 1702 monitor and 1 1902 monitor. This BBS started at a US Navy base in Adak, Alaska in 1988. It ran for three years in California while I was stationed there and then it moved to Lakeland Florida when I retired. The BBS went down in 1996 when my house was struck by lightning and most of the equipment was destroyed." - X-TEC
619-432-2420 Escondido, CA	Escondido Union (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-435-6709 Coronado, CA	Monitor (1982-1985)	Dave TIpton	Color Connection
	"BBS was run on a TRS80 Color Computer with 2 double sided floppy drives. You loaded the BBS Software, then put in the two disks for data and messages. Modem was J-cat 300 baud (a Hayes 1200 baud modem was like $250.00 if I recall right, so not to many people had them). Features were lots of Basic downloads and sharing of Computer Knowledge for the TRS80 color computer. Also were mod information such as programming the extended basic chip using a ROM burner (which was new at that time). No one I knew had a hard drive in those days as a floppy drive was about $100.00, and a 10 meg hard drive was like $500.00. My first Color computer with 4K ram was $400.00 The Color computer used a 6809(e) (the e meant it had an external clock) 8 bit processor." - Dave Tipton
619-445-7476 San Diego, CA	Yak Attack BBS (1991-1992)	Drew Dunn	Wildcat
	"In operation from 1991 until 1992. This was the rebirth of Megadrive, a BBS that I ran in Tiverton, RI. I was in the Navy at the time and was transferred to San Diego in 1991. We upgraded our system to a "screaming" 9600bps modem and a 386/33 with a huge 4MB of RAM. The board was part of Fidonet and became very popular because we carried a lot of the Fido echoes" - Drew Dunn
619-447-7003 El Cajon , CA	Spider-One (1989-1991)	William McNamara	Image
	"I had 150 users at one time. I tryed to set it up in Phoenix when I moved there. But Commodore was going out real quick and I went to a 386SX." - William McNamara
619-456,0815 LA JOLLA, CA	Coconut Computing, Inc (1995)
	Product: CocoNet
619-459-2542 LA JOLLA, CA	L-5 San Diego (FORA)
	Registration required. Leave name, phone number, and desired password on voice recorder at (619) 459-1607. Expect to have your account in 24 hours.
619-463-1355 La Mesa, CA	Amiga Commodore Edition (1987-1993)	Michelle Pankratz, Michelle Pankratz (Olsen)
	"Originally known as Commodore Edition, the name eventually changed to Amiga Commodore Edition, as in a new edition of the news. This bbs was most amazingly run on a Commodore 64, with a bank of nine 5 1/4 inch floppy drives chained together. I wanted a hard drive, but the only one really available at the time was a Lt. Kernal that was several hundred dollars. Originally a 1200 baud bbs, we moved to 2400 baud relatively quickly. It took years to save up the big bucks to buy a U.S. Robotics 9600 baud which was even more than the Lt. Kernal. This bbs took over my living room, with two lines (one just for sysops) tall rows of metal shelves to hold the floppy drives and of course, multiple monitors that allowed me to see what the on-line user was actively doing and make system changes. Once I discovered the Amiga, I switched nearly everything over to that OS and ran for 2 more years, eventually bringing in FidoNet. Over time, the flame wars got to me, and I decided it wasn't worth my time any longer to babysit people who just wanted to disagree and argue with each other. I miss my bbs friends. I would love to get back in touch. I remember the days when we had our munches and everyone got to put a face to the names of the people we chatted with every day. Although I was one of the very few women at the time, I was lucky to be considered a nerd before my time. Thank you sincerely, Michelle G. Olsen, Former SysOp, Amiga Commodore Edition"
619-475-3019 San Diego, CA	Translucent Reality, Translucent Reality BBS (1993-1995)	Mike Baker	WWIV
	"I ran this thing in my bedroom computer between 9th-11th grade. Most of the users were my age. It had a few online games (LORD, Food Fight, TradeWars), a modest downloads section. The main draw of the board were the message boards. I also offered message boards through WWIV-compatible networks. My handle was Lord Visionary. I had probably about 100 regular users." - Mike Baker
619-475-4852 Bonita, CA	FeEdMail Central (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-475-6187 Bonita, CA	The Convent (1983-1990)	Lady Carolin	Applenet, Emulex/II
	"This BBS was my test area for what became future cDc text files I wrote. I'd post fragments and have my users, some future cDc members, some not, comment, and adjust my writings accordingly. " - Lady Carolin
619-483-2097 San Diego, CA	CMS: Pacific Beach, Pacific Beach MS (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-486-6492 Poway, CA	TGR The Grinches Realm (Theoretisch Galerie von Ruine) (1994-1998)	The Grinch ( Charles Douglass Haessig)	Renegade
	s was my step brothers BBS. I have an ansi file with all the details on it except for the BBS software if I remember correctly it was renegade. I have recently brought back the name using mystic on telnet. thegrinchesrealm.dynv6.net:23
619-523-9025 San Diego, CA	Radio Free Amiga, Techno Mages Guild, Techno-Mages (1993-1996)	Holly Sullivan, Jeff Grimmett	DLG Pro
	"This is more in the way of an update. :) I wasn't the only sysop; Jeff Grimmett ran Radio Free Amiga and when I moved to San Diego to marry him, my Orlando, Florida based BBS (Holly's Bed & Board) merged with his to become the Techno Mages Guild. :) We're still happily married FWIW. Thank you, FidoNet, AmigaNet, and the C= Amiga. :)" - Holly Grimmett
619-527-1252 Vista, CA	New World Order (1994-1996)	Saiine	PCBoard / OBV 2
	"I had a board before New World Order called Above Quota, some art was released for Above Quota in a Shiver pack I believe, and some art for New World Order by Aslyum was created. This board was a underground h/p/a board, with - if my memory serves me correctly, 400 megs online / CD-ROM online, and some decent distro affils. I hate the internet, I loved BBS'ing!" - Saiine
619-549-4345 San Diego, CA	Paradise F/X, Sleepless Nights #2 (1992-1995)	Drew Dunn	Wildcat
	"Sleepless Nights 619-549-4345, 619-566-3280 "In operation from 1992 until 1995. We moved from Alpine, CA into San Diego and added another phone line. We played around with Roboboard for a while, too. The BBS was very popular because we could send and receive Internet email, something that was very new at the time. "Also, we had a lot of online games, particularly multiuser games that a lot of people liked. I think that those few years were really the peak of BBS useage in the San Diego area, it was before the Internet was very big. "The San Diego BBS scene was really great during the time that I was there, from 1991 until the end of 1995. Fidonet was very active, with a huge number of nodes. We were fortunate enough to have a couple of sysops who also had Internet access and acted as Internet to Fidonet gateways, so we could also offer Internet email. The city had a local computer magazine, ComputorEdge, that was very supportive of local BBS's. The community was really quite amazing...we would have Fidonet Net202 picnics that would gather upwards of 200 people from very diverse backgrounds...from aerospace engineers to sailors in the Navy to housewives to executives. It really was a very fun time. And even though it had the potential to be a pretty expensive hobby in terms of phone lines and computer upgrades, it was well worth it just to be able to meet the people that we met. "I wouldn't say that the Internet killed all that, but it certainly changed things. In 1995 I moved to Boise, Idaho (where I live today) and found that the BBS community here was in a decline. We tried to get things rolling again, but unfortunately, the local Fidonet net coordinator was trying to make a business out of running the local net and, of course, the Internet was beginning to make its presence felt. "Still, we've tried to preserve some small amount of the community through the Internet with our web sites like http://www.freepctech.com and the mailing lists that it supports. While it's not a local community like the BBS's were, at least it fills some small part of the void." - Drew Dunn
619-564-6142 Indio, CA	Desert Sands USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-565-7747 San Diego, CA	Hell's Doorway (later The Monestary!) (1980-1994)	Demonlord (later Friar Tuck)
	"Ran my BBS almost continuously for about 13 years." - Demonlord
619-566-7347 San Diego, CA	Classified Connection, Classified Connection BBS (1992-1994)	Bill Kennon
	Giffy Girls - Nude GIF Images of the Girl Next Door
619-573-1675 SAN DIEGO, CA	Computer's Edge, ComputorEdge On-Line, ComputorEdge Online 1 (1990-1995)	Tom Grigg
	List of BBS List Keepers: San Diego, CA AC 619/Ron Dipold ListKeeper: San Diego, CA AC 619
619-584-8456 San Diego, CA	San Diego Connection (1985-1995)	Richard Famiglietti	DLX
	"San Diego Connection BBS (Bulletin Board System) was born on Sept 3rd, 1985. It grew to over 2500 members and 32 lines. It was run on a Pentium I PC with 4 digiboards and 32 15.6 modems. It started out with 1 300 baud Hayes modem and gradually upgraded to more lines and better modems until I sold my interest in it in March of 1995. At that time, there were over 40,000 single line BBS. in the US. SDC as it grew to be known was the premier social networking site at its prime. We had weekly meetings and quartly parties were members could meet each other and put faces with their online friends. SDC also had nightly online games, message boards and downloads." - Richard Famiglietti
619-587-7993 San Diego, CA	CMS: San Diego County, FrEdMail Central (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-588-0948 El Cajon, CA	CMS: Cajon Valley Unified, Cajon Valley USD (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-594-3428 San Diego, CA	CMS: SDSU, San Diego State University (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-656-1258 CHULA VISTA, CA	Infinities Bar & Grill, Infinities Bar and Grill, The Programmer's Connection (1992-1997)	Dennis Mattison	RBBS, VBBS, InfinitiesBBS
	"The board was brought up in 92, shortly after my graduation from high school, as a place where myself and my friends could get together to talk about sci. fi. and role playing, hence the name "Infinities Bar and Grill", an inside joke at the time I shared with my friends. The actual story behind the name was that I had created a comic strip during the drudgery of my high school calculus class...I was really bored. There were two heros, who battled against the school administration and teachers over bad business practices and corruption, the type of stuff that now-a-days might end up being taken the wrong way, but at the time was looked at by my teacher as creative. The name itself came from the thought that in calculus we are taught that there is a region in math called infinity, and that everything eventually reached infinity (series, logs, etc.) My teacher informed us that the x and y axis even streached out into infinity. He, at one point asked me a question related to infinity, which in my smart-alec response I told him the reason everything stopped at infinity was that there was a great bar and grill there, the best in the universe, and nobody could resist stopping there for a bite to eat. Hence, Infinities Bar & Grill came into existence. The board was up for about a year and a half, and was well visited (we had close to 100 users in November of 93.) However, the content of the board was changing away from sci. fi. and role playing games towards programming, so the board was renamed "The Programmer's Connection," to cover this newer content. Some of the old board remained. The board first appeared running RBBS, then in 1993 we purchased and moved over to VBBS. The VBBS software was heavily bastardized over the years, we had so many mods and changes in there that we eventually renamed the software we were using "InfinitiesBBS," since the system was modified so much. The author of VBBS dropped support of our system since we were still using VBBS 6, and we were kicked off of VirtualNet (VBBS's network, which we were a member of from 1993-1996.) We were on WWIVnet and FidoNet between 1994-1996, and were using UUCP from 95-97, in a matter of fact tcpbbs.esnet.net still exists even though we have long since dropped the board." - Dennis Mattison
619-669-0385 JAMUL, CA	9-1-1 BBS, 9-1-1-BBS, 911 (202/123), The General Alarm (1992-1997)	Joe Nicholson & Marj Mills, Joe Nicholson&Marge Mills	TELEGARD
	List of BBS List Keepers: San Diego AC 619/Joe Nicholson ListKeeper: San Diego AC 619
619-670-5379 San Diego, CA	Pro-Sol, Proline - sol, ProLine sol, Pro-sol, pro-sol, Morgn Davis group (1990-1998)	Morgan Davis
	List of BBS List Keepers: Apple II BBS with Internet con/Morgan Davis ListKeeper: Apple II BBS with Internet con Product: Proline
619-688-9469 San Diego, CA	Phoenix Realm, The Phoenix Realm BBS (1994)	Rich Norman	Home-made
	"Inspired by Hop>Scotch and LISA/LOLA Multi-Line Chat Systems, The Phoenix Realm was programmed in Tandy Color Computer BASIC, and started as a single line BBS that, eventually, was made to multitask chat (still in BASIC). Memories of friends, met on the BBS's, will stay with me forever." - Rich Norman
619-691-8367 Chula Vista, CA	Chula Vista BBS, CVBBS , CVBBS #1 (1983-1985)	Brad Brown	T-Net
	"The BBS started out on an Apple ][+ w/64k of RAM and a single 140k floppy (no hard drive). Over time, it was expanded to a total of six floppy drives, until our first 10MB hard drive arrived in 1985. Due to relocation, the bbs was taken down in late 1985." - Brad Brown
619-693-4582 San Diego, CA	CMS: USIU, US Internat’l University (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-721-1828 Oceanside, CA	Rosicrucian Fellowship BBS, THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP BBS, The Rosicrucian Fellowship BBS (1992-1995)	Marie-Jose CLERC, Marie-José Clerc	MajorBBS 6.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Oceanside, California since 06/92. Sysop: Marie-Jose CLERC. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 1 line on MS-DOS 80486 with 525 MB storage. Practical Peripheral at 14400 bps. No fee. Dedicated to the promulgation of Rosicrucian Christianity. Multilingual text file library of the written legacy of Max Heindel, founder of The Rosicrucian Fellowship, an Inter-national Association of Christian Mystics. RIP Graphics support. FREE.
619-741-3412 San Marcos, CA	Alpo Net, Alponet Fido (1986-1989)	Mark Petersen	Fidonet
	"Alpo Net was run initially on an IBM PC with a 20Mb half-height drive. Later the capacity was expanded to 2-20Mb half height drives which made it one of the largest capacity BBS systems in San Diego. The Modems used during this time were US Robotics models rated from 1200 up to 9600 baud. "The early BBS systems, particularly networked Fido-Net BBSes were the precursor to the Internet and they represented a technical revolution themselves. It was a pleasure to be a part of this history and see it recognized on this fine website. "Watching the PC revolution happen firsthand was quite an exciting time. I met many nice and interesting people from running this BBS including Mike Elkins from Mike's C board and Steve King a frequent contributor to PC, Byte and PC Tech Journal magazines. I also chatted online with, "the Poway Cracker" who had the infamous distinction of being one of the earliest and most well known computer hackers. "I also saw firsthand how some local companies like Pacific Data Products (HP LaserJet add-ons) grew from a 1-2 person startups to valuations in the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Similarly the stories of Apple, Microsoft, Kaypro, Radio Shack, AST, etc. are well known but it was fun to watch this revolution from the sidelines." - Mark Petersen
619-747-4048 Escondido, CA	Dream Net, Dream Net BBS (1994-1997)	Reep & Blondie	MajorBBS 6.25
	"I knew the Sysops of this board personally. They were Reep (George Tabler) and Blondie (Tara Tabler)." - E. Nusbaum
619-748-1817 Poway, CA	Brewery (The), The Brewery (1987-1997)	The Brewmaster (Robert Eddy)	WWIV
	"I ran The Brewery for 10 years. By 1997, the World Wide Web was finally coming into it's own, and as I kept a dedicated machine to the BBS, as well as one for me, plus phone lines for each, I decided it was too much trouble to keep up, as well as I was losing interest, callers were down, I couldn't afford a multi-line system, etc. We (My users, and other BBS Systems' users) use to go to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor in Escondido, CA for years, then it migrated to Alcapulco's Mexican Resturant for awhile, then it briefly was in another Mexican resturant in Rancho Bernardo, then finally Round Table Pizza in Poway. Good times, good times. :) Check out the Brewery BBS' Obituary in ComputorEdge http://trageser.com/computers/online/1521.php (Jim Trageser was a farly regular user). I wish I'd kept the BBS software and datafiles when I took it down, but lack of HD space a year or so later made me decide to erase it for more room. :(" - Robert Eddy
619-757-3180 Oceanside, CA	CMS: Jefferson, CMS: Oceanside, Jefferson JHS (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-774-8547 San Marcos, CA	San Marcos Unified (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-788-5082 Ramona, CA	Ramona School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-943-2012 Encinitas, CA	Mission Estancia Elementary (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-944-4316 Encinitas, CA	CMS: Encinitas, Encinitas Union (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-944-4383 Encinitas, CA	CMS: La Costa, LaCosta Gts Elementary (1993-1994)
	FrEdMail System
619-944-4398 Encinitas, CA	Park Dale Lane Elementary (1993)
	FrEdMail System
619-947-5951 ,	The Cutting Edge BBS (1992-1996)	Jim Barkdull, Jim Barkdulls	Spitfire
	"1 line--DR DOS 386/40 with 120Mb; Spitfire 3.2 with Boca at up to 38400 bps. Established 07/91; no fee. Supporting home schooling, 4-H, doors, files, more. In 1996 when Windows 95 came out we moved to Web site hosting and design. www.ceol.com" - Jim Barkdull
619-956-1167 Hesperia, CA.	The Realm (1991-1996)	Worf, Raven	PCBoard
	"Mostly a underground board, warez etc in beginning. later had FiDo linked BRE and falcon's eye. in its last gasp would allow queued ftp downloads from the internet. one of a select few local BBS systems that were running in the High desert area of SOCAL." - Invictus
630-323-2958 Westmont, IL	Blue Lightning BBS (1993-1995)	tomhall (Curtis Ensley)	Renegade
	"1 line, many users, went from renegade to teleguard to mbbs back to renegade, it had more colors then a rainbow lol, had lots of door games, even had some addon to play doom2 via 2 lines on renegade, it had that forum link thing, was fun =) starting back up, itgames.com" - Curtis Ensley
630-584-5948 St. Charles, IL	Fly-By-Wire, The Fly-By-Wire BBS (1990-1996)	Don Grillo	PCBoard
	The Fly-By-Wire BBS used PCBoard software and was a private user BBS for American Airlines Pilots who were members of the pilots labor union, The Allied Pilots Association (APA). There were 6 other BBS's around the country located at pilot bases using Fidonet compatible message forum software. It started out at 1200 baud and eventually up to 14,400 as the speeds increased over time. Each night the 7 BBS's would connect with each other transferring all the messages posted during the day. A file directory was also created on each BBS to allow users to download monthly work schedules created by American Airlines and sent to each sysop. In 1996 the sysops moved to America Online (AOL). AOL created a private area on their servers for the Allied Pilots Association. Sometime after 2000 the APA moved to the WWW. Don Grillo, sysop
630-832-2760 Elmhurst, IL	MegaByte Motel (1993-1999)	Jim O'Sullivan	PCBoard
	"Was originally a WildCat BBS named "Magic Man's BBS." Was then upgraded to PCBoard and renamed "Megabyte Motel." Megabyte Motel grew to 3 nodes (though the 3rd node was limited to 9600kbps), and Internet email (@megmotel.com). Near the end of the lifespan, it was changed to NeoChicago BBS and slowly died and was shutdown in 1999." - Jim O'Sullivan
630-858-9959 Glendale Hts, IL	The Meat Eaters Guild (1994-1999)	Mike, Mike Shimanski	Wildcat
	"Single line, though I owned a 16 node license. Was run on a 540 MB hard drive with a Pioneer SCSI 6 CD changer. Started with a 14.4 USR and ended with a 56K USR. And it did take way too much of my time. Never expanded due to being replaced by the internet." - Mike Shimanski
650-592-8520 San Mateo, CA	Kewl BBS, Kewl! BBS (1994-2004)	Mike Russell, Squelch	Worldgroup, MajorBBS
	"Kewl! BBS is still in operation and alive and busy to this day! Featuring MajorMUD and online chat telnet in at kewl.net" - Mike Russell
650-967-5720 Mountain View, CA	Slasher's Slave Pit (1985)	Slasher, Otto Maddox	Modified PC FoRuM
	"Started on Atari 400 with 1 floppy disk drive. Eventually upgraded to Atari 800 and 2 floppy disk drives. Used MPP 300 baud modem. Traded Atari games and ASCII text files. Shutdown and moved data to Ottoman Empire BBS down the street in Mountain View." - Slasher
650-967-6969 Mountain View, CA,	Trex, Trex II, Trexx II (1987-2003)	Brette	Custom
	"Trex as well as Trex2 was one of the most popular systems in the bay area. At its peak we had abuot 40 lines coming in. We evolved using the same interface but added access from the internet when we ported to unix. You can see some history at the associated website: http://www.trex.org. Come take a look. This was primarily a chat board with an amazing userbase from all walks of life and all interests. It was designed to not let anyone hide, not to let somone block another, etc. It was a dynamic place that managed to bring together people that otherwise would never have gotten along. Of course, first IRC then web-based distractions and the internet in general reduced the masses a great deal, but still there is a small needy group that grew up and might otherwise not know what to do if trex went away." - Brette
650-969-1634 Mountain View, CA	Ottoman Empire (1985-1987)	Otto Maddox
	"Ran on an Atari 800 with 4 - 88k floppy drives and an MPP 300 baud modem that connected through the joystick port. Eventually upgraded to 1200 and the poor Atari could barely keep up." - Otto Maddox
661-298-3997 Santa Clarita, CA	Stepping Stone Hotel (1988-2001)	Jeanne Miller	SDLX
	"Still online and kicking. :) also available via telnet at sshbbs.com (206.171.108.240)" - Jeanne Miller
661-664-1231 Bakersfield, CA	Zone Five, aka Z5 (1993-1997)	rumanchu (Andrew Hartsell)	Renegade
	"Very vigorous message board; about 10 really loyal users who called multiple times per day. At one point, averaged around 1000 posts a day, with the average user spending 1-2 hours per login. Not too shabby considering that it was running on a single node. "I'm in the process of trying to get into my old BBS files (I have them on an old HD) to get some more info for your site, as well as a list of other BBSs that I frequented during the period." - Rumanchu
671-637-8988 Dededo , Guam	Boardwalk BBS (1993-1995)	Dale Chitwood	CNET / Maxs BBS (AMIGA)
	"The Boardwalk BBS was one of two Amiga ran BBS's in Guam during the early 90's. The Boardwalk transferred to Vancouver Washington 360 Area Code in November 1995 and remained in operation until late 1996." - Dale Chitwood
671-653-7448	Goober BBS (1991-1992)	Greg Huber	Spitfire
	Located at Andersen Air Force Base. - Greg Huber
701-222-0429 Bismarck, ND	GobblerNet (1995-1998)	Bob Newell	aDBBS
	"GobblerNet was the very last system in Bismarck, and when it closed down, the era ended forever in central North Dakota. It was a Linux-based BBS. In those days that was pretty rare. The system runs again, by the way, as ChungKuo BBS, in my current Santa Fe, New Mexico location, as a telnet only system: telnet://chungkuo.org " - Bob Newell
701-232-0067 Fargo, ND	THE GRAND ILLUSION RBBS, The Grand Illusion RBBS (1992-1994)	Brian Beckers	RBBS-PC ver 14
	"The Grand Illusion was the first BBS in Fargo, ND to offer a 14.4k connection. At it.s high-point, we were one of the very few with multiple lines. The board was known for several multi-user .door. games, including the extremely popular Tradewars 2002 and Legend of the Red Dragon." - Brian Beckers
701-239-6047 FARGO, ND	TEXT BBS (1992)
	TEXT BBS for mature modemers, no handles, no games, no hype, multi-line 24,00 files, echoes, quality, HST/DS 1-701-239- 6047, 12/2400 1-701-293-7758.
701-258-0872 Bismarck, ND	The D-Generation BBS (1991-1997)	Mark Vernon	Wildcat , Wildcat 3.0 thru Wildcat 4.52
	"The D-Generation BBS was the First Multi-Line BBS (5 Lines)in the Bismarck/Mandan Community Offering 14 On-Line Shareware CD's through the Use of two CD Keg Drives. We offered the First BBS in the area to offer Echo Mail to Wildnet!, FidoNet and many others. We offered over 30 On-Line Door games and were the first BBS to go from 14,400 bps to 28,800 and 28,800 to 56k connections. We also offered RIP graphics on our system." - Mark Vernon
701-293-0846 Fargo, ND	The Retarded Rat Trap (1992-1994)	Joe Vesel	WWIV
	"Used every bit of a 20MB harddrive on an Amstrad 8.6mghz processor." - Joe Vesel
701-293-7758 FARGO, ND	TEXT BBS (1992)
	TEXT BBS for mature modemers, no handles, no games, no hype, multi-line 24,00 files, echoes, quality, HST/DS 1-701-239- 6047, 12/2400 1-701-293-7758.
701-293-9395 Fargo, ND	The Beggars Banquet (1988-1996)	James Nelson	WWIV
	"Fargo's First WWIV BBS" - James Nelson
701-594-8603 EMERADO, ND	Prime Directive (1992)
	Spelljammers Member BBS
701-642-9642 Wahpeton, ND	The Doctor's Office (1992-1994)	Jeff Schmidt, David Farmen	WWIV
	"One of the town's more popular BBSes for gaming (Boards) and file sharing. Most users didn't realize it was ran by a 10 year old kid(me) and his friend until the local paper did an article on us." - Oliver Pantser
701-727-6690 Minot AFB, ND	Northwind BBS (1994-1997)	Dave	Wildcat 4.20
	"Ran 5 lines and packed them babys everyday !! IT was GREAT!" - Dave
701-727-6804 Minot AFB, ND	Scorpion BBS (1987-1992)	John Foster	Commodore-C128 BBS
	"Used a Commodore-C128 computer with 512k Expansion Card and two 3-1/2" Floppy Drives." - John Foster
701-772-3852 Grand Forks, ND	Anomoly, Nucleus (1994-1997)	Jeremy Veum, The Nucleus	WWIV
	"Games-Tradewars. Had a decent WarEZ section including: An extensive list of viruses and Trojans, username and passwords for UND students internet accounts, AOHell, CHICAGO.ZIP or Windows '95, Mastercard Card # Algorithm, AT&T phone card Algorithm, JollyRodger. txt and The Anarchists Cookbook, hacked PBX access: ext-666 (RRHS PBX)"
701-852-9435 MINOT, ND	Anderson's Toolshed, The Gamer's Guild (1991-1995)	Jon Thorson	MajorBBS, RemoteAccess
	"The Gamer's Guild ran on a Tandy 1000TL with 768k of RAM and a 40MB Hard Drive with MS-DOS and RemoteAccess BBS software. Anderson's Toolshed ran on a beefier Homebrew 386DX-40 with 8MB of RAM and a 250MB Hard Drive, with MS-DOS and MajorBBS. The Gamer's Guild was a single node BBS dedicated to online games. I think the most available at one time was around 110. Anderson's Toolshed was a dual node BBS and focused on the darker side of life, forbidden subjects, conspiracy theories, UFO's, bigfoot, etc. and had a rather large adult section. It also had around 15 online games available." - Joe Thorson
702-324-2994 Reno, NV	Lost in the Never, Lost In The Never BBS (1994-1997)	Paul Baygents	Wild Cat
	"That was my BBS! I couldn't believe I actually found place with the name of it. As far was extras I ran 3 lines had 57,000 files available for download (18 disc cdrom changer) it ran all on a 486 dx 66 with 20megs of ram. There were also 120 online games. Legend of the red dragon and Trade wars..etc...etc...etc? I carried All of Fido Net! Some 25megs of messages per day back then. oh yeah and I spent 44,000 hours online working on it. lol Anyhow the BBS is somewhere in my house backed up on a few 8mm tapes from the old backup I had. If there is anything else you can think of to ask go for it! I'd love to relive a few memories." - Paul Baygents
702-334-3318 Reno, NV	Advanced System BBS (1993)
	Advanced Systems Research
702-362-0963 Las Vegas, NV	ORION'S BELT BBS, Orion's Belt! (1989-1995)	Patrick Powers	Spitfire
	"Starting on an XT with 2 Bernouli boxes & different flavors of BBS software and finishing on a "souped up" 286 running Spitfire w/ RLL hard drives & a 20meg Iomega Floptical drive, The Belt was a Las Vegas based BBS that was online for 6 or so years from the late 80's on. Its pride was mainly with pristine downloadables direct from the authors & the 1st LV "Sports Book". Also an Apogee game dist. site, had multiple, concurrently run Trade Wars configurations and was home to the "HooMan!" TW add-on. Being unable to stay off the Net long enough to offer any connects, it was retired ..." - Pat Powers
702-384-8503 Las Vegas, NV	QuickSilver, QUICKSILVER I, QuickSilver MBBS I (1992-1998)	Don Drake	The Major BBS
	"Operated eight lines from two phone numbers, QuickSilver I was free access and QuickSilver II at 702.384.9544 was paid credit access. ASP (Association Shareware Professionals)member and offerred their entire library of programs online. Plus multi-user games, on-line fax accounts, and a shopping mall. Originaly started in 1985 using RBBS as a small system." - Don Drake
702-454-7284 Las Vegas, NV	JUKE BOX, Jukebox, Jukebox-BBS (1984-1993)	Tony Shaw	Wildcat!
	"With Wild-Cat I made this BBS Unreal.......I had People call me 24-Hrs A day.......And I loved it....You could play Games to D/L files on Any-Thing....That was Realy Some-thing....." - Tony Shaw
702-553-2869 Beatty, NV	Second Home, Second Home Electronic Cottage (1987-1998)	Andrew Bernhardt	DTJ-BBS
	"Flagship system for DTJ-BBS. First ran in 1985 at McGuire AFB, New Jersey (609 area code)." - Andrew Bernhardt
702-558-3701 Las Vegas, NV	HyperSpace-Continuum (phase I - IV) (1990-1998)	g.w. weber aka tocd	renegade
	"3rd and final board I ran in Vegas. Came and went over the years, in different phases. Average of 28 callers per day, single node, 120 users. Ran the Las Vegas BBS list for a while. This board was ran from a 386sx/33 with 4 megs of ram and a 245 MB hd. It is still in it's entirety, unchanged since 1995, with all of its old records, users, messages, files, and games. Just no phone line. In 1997 I tried to drum up some BBS support again, but only ever got a few calls. It was online briefly in 1998 again, but only for a few weeks. It officially went down 2 weeks after the Edge BBS went down, since that signified the end of BBS's in las vegas for me." - G. W. Weber
702-558-8480 Henderson, NV	2MilesFromHell, The Phoenix BBS (1995-1996)	J.D.Helmick	PCBoard
	"This is the predecessor to 2MilesFromHell. In fact, this BBS was also known in it's 1st incarnation as The Klingon Empire BBS. Pretty much the same set-up but different name and handle (SysOp evolved with the BBS). " - J.D. Helmick
702-873-9112 Las Vegas, NV	Las Vegas Forum 80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue). Originally open 5-9pm.
702-882-1439 Carson City, NV	The Lost City (1988-1991)	Jaxx	Ivory BBS C64
	"Was a FBR distro Commodore 64 BBS with 2 lines and 20meg HD." - Jaxx
702-894-9619 LAS VEGAS, NV	SKUNK WORKS, The Skunk Works (1990-1995)	Scott Alfter
	"It started on an Apple IIe (with 40 megs of disk and a 10-MHz accelerator) with Warp Six, migrated to a homebrew 286-12 running Maximus under DR DOS 6 and DESQview (it was nice to have my Apple back :-), and went through a 386SX-25 before shutting down with a 486SLC-33 running an early version of Linux and some simple BBS software I wrote. While the Skunk Works was hosted under DOS and Linux, it was also on the local Fidonet @ 1:209/263, and had a partial Usenet feed obtained through Fidonet (getting cnews to pull from Fidonet instead of another NNTP host was interesting :-) )." - Scott Alfter
702-898-8552 Las Vegas, NV	Las Vegas CUE (1993)
	FrEdMail System
703-243-0490 WASZ 8, VA	Flight Of Icarus (1992)	Opus
	Vogue Member BBS
703-256-6748 Annandale, VA	urban ka0s (Urban Chaos) (1993-1998)	s0ul trader (Soul Trader)	Modded Renegade
	"I was the sys0p, Ran the Board for 5 Years using Renegade, which was hex edited by my own hand. World Headquarters of the (DoX) Ansi art group, who's art can still be found on www.acid.org and ftp.cdrom.com, Thanks for the Memories.. I will look back and see if this thing gets updated =), you already have it on the list. I guess one of my friends added it." - David N. Alford AKA Soul Trader AKA meep (my new nick)
703-264-0255 Reston, VA	Back of Rack, Back Of The Rack, Online Entertainment Network, The Online Entertainment Network, Back of the Rack (1994-1996)	David Clark, Dave Clark	TBBS, TBBS , TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Reston, Virginia since 05/94. Sysop: Dave Clark. Using TBBS 2.2 with 2 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1000 MB storage. PPI at 28800 bps. No fee. Expanding to 16 lines. We offer onliners, live chat and support for DOS and OS/2. We also have low Internet mail prices. Virtual Sysop, Legends, Bandwarz and more. Join us as we add more features and enjoy the ride through online telecommunications.
703-281-2125 McLean, VA	AMRAD, Washington DC CBBS (1980)		CBBS, 6800 Ham Radio link
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980). "Their CBBS is accessible via telephone (703-281-2125) or via an amateur radio repeater in McLean, Viginia. Radio access is via the WR4APC 2 meter repeater on 147.81/147.21 MHz. The computer recognizes the call WR4IWG when sent using 45 baud (60 wpm) Baudot RTTY with tones of 2125 Hz (mark) and 2295 Hz (space). When calling the CBBS, the baud rates are 110 or 300 baud."
703-319-0714 Vienna, VA	Air 'n Sun, Air 'n Sun , Air 'n Sun (formerly TIDMADT), Backbone Breakout Box, Local Hub Star, Moonbase Alpha Hub, Net-109 Crp Administrator, Net-109 Local Star (1997-2003)	Dave Aronson	Maximus
	"More complete history, including prior names/numbers: 1988: I start it, in Alexandria VA (proper), at 703-370-7054, using Opus. 1990 or so: I switch it to Maximus. 1993: I move it to 703-765-0822, in south "Alexandria" (i.e., what the Post Office calls Alexandria, but is not within Alexandria city limits; more properly, Hybla Valley or thereabouts). 1994: I rename it Air 'n Sun. 1997: I move it to Vienna VA, at 703-319-0714. 2001: I shut it down, as part of leaving the area." - Dave Aronson
703-323-5997 BRADDOCK, VA	Alcatraz, ALCATRAZ (1992-1995)	The Beatbox
	Skid Row Member BBS
703-348-1423 RESTON, VA	PC PowerHouse, PC Power House (1993-1996)	Eddie Gebhard	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Virginia AC 703/804
703-354-0731 Annandale, VA	Boogie Board BBS, Monopoly Board, The Boogie Board BBS (1987-1990)	John Borowiec	Fido
	"I'm pretty sure the FidoNet node number was 109/683 if you collect that type of info, but I'm not 100% sure. A bit of trivia for you: It was originally hosted on an IBM PC/XT with two 360k floppies (only!) and later on I added a 32 MB hard drive on-a-card thing which lasted the rest of the BBS' lifetime. We even hosted BBS parties (complete with Jolt Cola) from time to time. Great site!" - John Borowiec
703-354-2489 Alexandria, VA	Dreaming City BBS (1984-2000)	Richard Rivenbark	Forum XT
	"Great site. Originally ran on an Atari 800 then later on an Atari TT Graphics workstation. Went offline on December 31, 1999 due to a Y2K clock problem with the older Atari computers." - Tom Royall
703-354-9210 Alexandria, VA	The Shores of Leoness BBS (1985-1990)	Tom Royall	CoBBS on Tandy CoCo III
	"Basic BBS. Nice color ANSII entry screen. Email and one of the first online games called Galactic Conquest." - Tom Royall
703-359-2911 Washington, DC	Adult Fantasy BBS (1996)	Jeff Dooley	WorldGroup
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: The original and largest adult bbs in the D.C. metro area. 6 hrs free time, 68 lines, live chat, matchmakers, MailLink, Networked message bases, full internet slip access, files, games, weekly meetings and more. Running on MBBS Worldgroup See our home page at http://www.adf.com or Telnet to adf.com all lifestyles welcome.
703-361-7541 MANASSAS, VA	The Hobby Shop (1984-1989)	Ken Coghill	CNET, Deadlock
	"I was the shiznat with almost 4 megs of file space! (4 1581's, Baby!) Ah, the days of Commodore Youth." - Ken Coghill
703-366-4620 Roanoke, VA	The Other Side Of Reality, tosor, TOSOR BBS (1992-1994)		WWIV
	List of BBS List Keepers: Virginia AC 703/804/Scott Dickinson
703-385-4325 Vienna, VA	OS/2 Shareware, OS/2 Shareware (P. Norloff), OS/2 Shareware(P. Norloff, Westerfeld, Kurt, OS2/Shareware BBS (1990-1996)	Pete Norloff, P. Norloff	Maximus, Maximus/2
	List of BBS List Keepers: OS/2 BBS Systems/Pete Norloff ListKeeper: OS/2 BBS Systems
703-425-2505 BRADDOCK, VA	Interconnect , Interconnect (J. Morley), Interconnect,! , The Interconnect BBS, Interconmnect (1992-1995)	Jeffrey Morley	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Washington DC BBS List/Mike Focke
703-426-1976 Burke, VA	The Searchroom BBS (1996-1997)	Aaron Banerjee	RBBS
	"The Searchroom BBS was a board dedicated to scientific curiosa (unusual patents, etc) that existed from 1996 - 1997. The sysop was a former patent examiner. It featured .gif images of unusual patents not found elsewhere, including books on unusual patents. Examples included: the patent for the comb-over, the "greenhouse helmet", and a patent for a telephone switching device that the Patent Office accidentally printed a picture of a donkey's rear end on the front page. Also included were historical patents: Harry Houdini's patent (a diving suit that one could quickly divest), Abraham Lincon's patent (method of buoying ships), to name a few. Since The Searchroom BBS didn't go online until after the end of the BBS era, there weren't too many callers, but we did get a caller from Germany, and another from Australia. The board was free. No download restrictions or nosy questions when you registered. It was not part of any network." - Aaron Banerjee
703-427-0226 Roanoke, Va	Mountain Air BBS (1992-1995)	Edward Wood, Edward Lee Wood, Jr.
	Adult Based BBS
703-430-0885 HERNDON, VA	Inner Sanctum (1992)	Jam Master
	Fast Member BBS
703-435-3316 HERNDON, VA	Free For All (FFA) (1992-1994)
	"This BBS was rather secretive but it was one the biggest Amiga and PC software "warez" and "files" BBSes for a short time in the DC area. They ran very stripped down BBS software with limited message functionality. They were known for a no upload requirement and a literal "free for all" for software." - Shelby
703-437-0432 Herndon, VA	The Main Exchange (1984-1990)	D.T.	Custom
	"I continually worked on it over those years. The users were my testers. passwords, Msg base, up/downloads, started adding color towards the last couple years. I had a C64 and wrote the bbs in basic. I had two extra hard drives and had to go through great lengths to keep the computer cool and the program (compiled) small enough to run. I sold a couple copies and had put some protection on the disk as well as a special back door for my self. Ahhhhh....those were the days. Very exciting and new. We had many software swaps. Thanks for having this list for us to remember." - D. T.
703-455-2547 WASZ 17, VA	Icewind Dale (1992)	Gwenhwyvar
	Possessed Member BBS
703-503-8440 BRADDOCK, VA	JOBBS (1995)
	JOBBS, 703,503,8440, Job Opportunity Bulletin Board System, computer and construction indystry professionals. Display your resume electronically for access by organizations searching for employees and consultants in your specialty, 24 categories. Take the free tour and find out more. - BBS Magazine October 1995
703-528-2612 Arlington, Va	National Genealogical System, National Genealogy BBS #1, National Genealogy Society, NGS-CIG, NGS/CIG, National Genealogical BBS (1987-1998)	Ray Gwinn, Don Wilson, National Genealogical Society, Richard A. Pence	TBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Geneology Related BBS/Richard A. Pence Family History - Genealogical Research - Gravestone Haunting ListKeeper: Geneology Related BBS
703-533-8591 Falls Church, VA	Virginia Business Systems (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
703-551-3009 Manassas, VA	The World's Address (1993-1996)	Bill the Cat	WWIV
	"This was the BBS I ran, the phone number was a Lorton exchange, at the time more people could dial that number without paying extended area charges. Also started up a WWIV Network called FearNet, got to be about 40 or 50 nodes I think at one point, which made it one of the larger "smaller" WWIV networks around." - Bill the Cat
703-578-4542 Arlington, Va	G L I B, Gay and Lesbian Information, GLIB, GLIB - Gay/Lesbian (1989-2001)	Jon Larimore, Jon Lairmore, Community Educational Svcs. Foundation	TBBS
	Gay and Lesbian Information Bureau - 11 Lines - 9600 bps
703-614-0215 Washington, DC	ADA Information , ADA Information Clearinghouse, ADAIC DOD ADA Language (1993-1994)	Department of Defense
	Information on ADA Programming Language/Military Specs
703-620-2022 Oakton, VA	Power Supply, The Power Supply (1986-1991)	Darrell Duane	PCBoard, Opus, PC Board
	"You can see my web page at http://www.darrellduane.com" - Darrell Duane
703-620-8900 Washington, DC	World Data Net, WorldNet, World Data Net (Andrew Bielski/Tony McClenny), World Data Network, WORLD DATA NETWORK, Word Data Net (1984-1996)	Andrew Bielski/Tony McClenny, Andrew Bilski/Tony McClenny	PC-Board, PCBoard , PC Board, PCBoard 15.2
	WORLD DATA NETWORK 703.620.8900 / 301.654.2554. Online since 1984, Internet: telnet wdn.com (email, ftp. gopher, newsgroups and telnet). 35 lines. 28.8k modems, 100 doors, PC World Online news. and AOP members. 3000 mail network forums, over 80.000 files. Authorized PCBoard BBS reseller with installs. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 WORLD DATA NETWORK 703.620.8900 / 301.654.2554, Online since 1984. Internet: telnet wcfn.com (email, ftp, gopher, newsgroups and telnet). 35 lines, 28,8k modems. 100 doors. PC World Online nev/s, and AOP members. 3000 mail netv/ork forums, over 80,000 files. Authorized PCBoard BBS reseller with installs. - BBS Magazine October 1995
703-643-2106 Las Vegas, NV	The Realm (1994-1995)	Burke Azbill	Renegade
	"At it's peak, The Realm had over 300 users on a single line being run from a Dormitory room at Nellis Air Force Base!" - Burke Azbill
703-644-9776 Fairfax, VA	BeltwayBandit's, The Beltway Bandit's BBS (1987-1996)	Mark Madden	PCBoard
	"Can't believe I sweated over this thing for almost 10 years. Kept it alive for 2 years while I lived in Germany. Even had my girlfriend running it during 1990-91, paying the bills, getting up in the middle of the night when the network crashed, while I paid the bills to keep it running. Still, I don't regret the experience. Met literally hundreds of wonderful people while doing this. Can't get this same intimacy on the Web. No way for the SysOp to break in and chat now. I miss those days, but curiously I wouldn't go back if I could. Expensive hobby, both from a time and money perspective. Still keep in touch with some of my users. It was a wonderful time." - Mark Madden (The Beltway Bandit)
703-680-3702 DaleCity, VA	The DeadEnd BBS (The Morgue!) (1987-1995)	Talonp	MajorBBS/Worldgroup
	"The DeadEnd BBS (The Morgue!) Started out as a test system using version 2 of the MajorBBS later it was upgraded to version 4 and finally went public under version 5 of the MajorBBS, as a 1 line system it was for friends mostly and with the release of version 5.2 we took the system to 4 lines and the 12 lines with the release of version 6 later we found that the system was full most of the time with people playing games and chatting so with the release of version 6.25 we to a big chance and jumped to 32 lines. In the mid 90's real life got in the way and the system was forced to close so we held a big party in Gathersburg, MD on June 16th, 1995 and the system went off line the next day :( In 1999 I put the system back online as a Telnet only system and it is still running today...now it is called GCOMMLive.com and I find myself still playing with the system and designing software and games for Worldgroup even though there are very few users anymore. I still enjoy talking with the local users and playing the old ansi games hell I have even got my kids hooked on text muds now and they play on my system all the time. I miss the community that came with a local BBS and from time to time think that it will be back some day :) but I know its gone just wishful thinking hehe btw I bought the BBS doc DVD and I loved it great work!" - Talonp
703-684-9252 Alexandria, VA	The Signal Bridge (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Do you cruise or use a boat? Check out the Signal Bridge. We bring you the latest local marine information. Photos, scanning, classified ads, E-mail and much more. Your link world of boating. For more information e-mail info@chandler.com.
703-685-4911 Arlington, VA	The Moral Kiosk (1991-2004)	Boda and Lady Godiva	WWIV v4.20e
	"The Moral Kiosk now resides at: telnet://kiosk.synchro.net" - Boda
703-689-2232 Reston, VA	666-KILL (1993-1996)	Juiblex	OBV/2
	"This board was the east coast HQ for ACiD (ANSI Creators in Demand) and some less than scrupulous groups. We fancied ourselves as being quite l337. Not much in the way of doors, but a vast game/app file section. Thanks for the trip down memory lane." - Jason Jacobs
703-690-0669 LORTON, VA	My UnKnown (J. Klemmer), My UnKnown BBS (1992-1996)	Joe Klemmer	TriBBS
	"This was one of the first BBS's that had Linux available for Download. I remember having people calling from all over the world to get the files. Those were the days...." - Joe Klemmer
703-709-6318 Reston, VA	Motorcyclist (D. Coyner), The Motorcyclist BBS (TMCBBS) (1991-1996)	D. Coyner, Dale Coyner	RBBS
	"Members of TMCBBS helped spearhead a successful 1992 campaign in northern Virginia to open HOV lanes to motorcyclists. Many members continue to stay in touch with one another. We had about 500 registered members at one point with about 100 active members. We even had mousepads printed up at one time. Boy, were we big time! :-)" - Dale Coyner
703-734-1387 Washington, DC	AMateur RADio, Amrad, AMRAD (L. Kesteloot), AMRAD BBS, CBBS AMRAD (1980-1994)	K8MMO, Terry Fox (Amrad)	CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
703-758-0124 HERNDON, VA	The Inner Sanctum (1992)	Jabbah
	Independent Member BBS
703-759-4990 Great Falls, VA	Mirage BBS (1987-1990)	Scott Levy	WWIV
	"The original Mirage BBS WWIV Board, entrance ascii art was a palm tree on a beach Ran off a 286 pc single node, was part time and full time. Was listed in some printed BBS directories. Had many door games. Was well known for Trade Wars." - Scott Levy
703-764-4413 Fairfax, VA	Rising of the Dark Star (1993-1995)	Sheer Panic	modified vbbs
	"Actually this was one of several iterations.. the board had no less than 3 different phone numbers in its career - at the end, it was hosted at Hacker Shack computers in Woodbridge and had several phone lines! At one time the board was running on a Bridgeboard in a commodore amiga - making it the only BBS (we hope) to be running on two different operating systems at the same time. I still have fond memories of ROTDS - I have backup tapes somewhere, and plan to bring back a telnettable version someday." - Sheer Panic
703-765-0501 Alexandria, Va	Community Link, CommunityLink @ DCWAS (1993-1994)	Wayne Rutledge
	DC Tour Info. & Help, Online Publications,Treknet,Fidonet
703-765-6885 Alexandria, VA	Crunchland (1991-1998)	Tom Engle, Dave Faris	Remote Access, Rmt Access
	"Crunchland stopped being a dial-up BBS in 1997, but continues on the web at http://www.crunchland.com to this day." - Dave Faris
703-768-2417 Alexandria, VA	Sprockets (1988-1991)	Larry Williams	WWIV
	"My BBS Moved to Woodbridge, VA in summer of 1990. I Had some friends in Manassas and we would get together one or two times a Month to talk BBS stuff or just to get together. Mr. Bills Abode (Bill Curran) was very helpful to us all in setting up the wwiv bbs' in our group of friends. Lots of fun in those days. We were mainly into Amiga stuff. We joined a group of other WWIV Boards where we would share our Boards to store messages for the day and at night would forward this email around the World. WATTS Lines were the best for the LD stuff because it didn't cost any of us anything. this was around 1990 I think. Those were the Days. Oh, Mr. Bill's Abode both 1 and 2 were WWIV BBS' and though #1 was almost all Amiga # 2 was almost all DOS to the NEW Windows 3.0 there at the end." - Larry Williams
703-780-6643 Mt. Vernon, VA	The Nuclear Reactor BBS (1986-1988)	Mr. Rap	DMBBS
	"I was 13-15 years old while I ran this. Was known mainly for a great selection of cracked games." - Mr. Rap
703-799-2536 WASZ 8, VA	RoseNet OIS, ROSENET(TM) ONLINE (1992-1994)
	ROSENET(TM) ONLINE — For LAN users, consultants, CNE's and programmers. Your best source for current LAN files, especially NetWare. Also featuring LAN industry news & over 300 national conferences. Sysop authored 2 NetWare books including the ""Programmer's Guide to NetWare"" published by McGraw-Hill. MultiLine, PCBoard vl4.5a, v.32bis and CompuCom modems. Get relief now, on RoseNet! FREE trial membership, so call today! (703) 799-2536.
703-803-8000 Woodbridge, VA	Falken Support, Info Share Technical Support, INFO*SHARE, Info*Share $, InfoShare, Falken Support BBS (1993-1995)	Herb Rose	Falken
	Support for FALKEN software - 16 lines - doors - chat
703-825-6517 WASHINGTON, VA	Apocalypse Node 1 (1992)	P.O.W
	Fairlight Member BBS
703-825-6523 WASHINGTON, VA	Apocalypse Node 2 (1992)	P.O.W
	Fairlight Member BBS
703-830-3612 BRADDOCK, VA	4th Dimension (1993-1995)	Robert Velasco	TriBBS
	"Hi, I was looking for BBS info and noticed you have my old BBS info on your list. I still have my BBS and I started the box about 5 months ago and played a few door games. I really miss those days playing Pimpwars, LORD, etc... thanks." - Robert Velasco
703-841-9598 Arlington, Va	Long Branch School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
703-866-1391 Springfield, VA	Asgard (1988-1990)	Thor, Squidge	C-Base
	"Commodore 64 BBS, Later resurfaced as an Amiga BBS in 1991-1992 as The Palace Of Midgard." - Thor
703-866-4476 Springfield, VA	Riva BBS (1986-1992)	Sean Malahy	FoReM XE
	"Ran on an Atari 320XE with 230MB of harddisk space. Impressive for the 80s." - Glasswolf
703-878-4931 Woodbridge, VA	GEEZERS BBS, Net 265 INet Hub (1995-1997)	Bill Schoonover	Wildcat
	"I was the primary sysop of Geezers BBS, along with my Dad (we're both Bill Schoonover...Jr. And Sr.). We enjoyed a brief, but glorious run, picking up a number of terrific "users" (I'd prefer, "visitors") from Darin Ramey's "The Outpost BBS" when it closed down. We even had a great write up in the "Washington Post" "Fast Forward" magazine in September 1995. I've attached a fairly legible PDF file of the article. Eventually we could no longer compete with that "Internet thing" that rose in popularity about that time. Mustang Software was getting ready to drop its support of the DOS-based BBS package, "Wildcat 4.0", in favor of an Internet-ready, Windows product. We weren't about to abandon good `ole DOS for some fancy Microsoft product, so we just pulled the plug. I guess I've had sort of a "last laugh", having recently switched from PC to MAC...but I also sort of miss those old ASCII-art, clunky DOS BBS's. Thanks for keeping the memories alive..." - Bill Schoonover, Jr.
703-892-9010 Fort Meyer, VA	The Twisted Platypus (1991-1994)	Robert Adamczyk	Spitfire
	"Started in my barracks room on Fort Myer and moved to my apartment when I got out of the Army. Home of the "Doors Galore" BBS door expansion shareware software as well as the message board for sightings of "Thumper, The Twisted Platypus." - Robert Adamczyk
703-893-9478 McLean, VA	Paul's ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
703-903-9241 Arlington, VA,	Crystal Aerie (1987-2002)	Tempo Rubato	Synchronet
	"Crystal Aerie has been continuously operating since March, 1987. It started out with rOverbOard and later switched to Synchronet which it is still running. It's had several sets of telephone numbers since at it's peak it ran dial-up nodes. Thanks to the phone company and two physical moves, however, there were probably about ten phone numbers attributable to the same board. In your list you have it listed about eight times but there has always been only one Crystal Aerie. We're currently telnettable at telnet:\\crystal-aerie.com and have a small but active group of callers." - Spencer Greenwald aka Tempo Rubato
703-938-5876 Vienna, VA	The Tomb (1986-1990)	Bill/Peter Thomas	Fido then Opus
	"At 16, I was the youngest active FidoNet SysOp in Net 109--I remember feeling. My FidoNet node number was 1:109/622. Singularity Hostel was the reincarnation of The Tomb on new software. I ran it only sporadically." - Peter Thomas
703-978-7561 Fairfax, VA	Family Historians Forum-80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
703-I49-2889	INFO'Share, Inc (1995)
	Product: Faulken
704-209-3158 GRANITE QUARRY, NC	Hunter's Planet, Hunters Planet (1997-1998)	Chris Young
	"Hunter's Planet (704-209-3158) was my board which I ran on a single line using the KBBS system under the screen name "Predator". (I loved those comics and movies more than was reasonable.) I've long since gone on to military service, undergraduate college, law school, and active practice, but getting that thing up and running remains one of my most memorable accomplishments. Of course this wasn't because of the great difficulty or insurmountable odds, but just because it was something tangible that I was so absolutely enamored with at the time. I've never been so completely immersed in a project before or since, and doing that work at that time is a point in life that I'll always remember with fondness." - Christopher Young
704-241-9234 Newton, NC	Magic Castle, Magic Castle 5 (1994-1996)	Luke Walling	Renegade (and others)
	"Would love to see a little history represented for the listing. Magic Castle 5 featured the launch of a business that was little more than a wild idea in 1994, Walling Data Systems. Our URL, http://www.wallingdatasystems.com and www.avg-antivirus.net. We're a rapidly growing IT and software distribution business today, 12 years later. Would be pleased to see that and my email address luke@wallingdatasystems.com listed (spam-bots are no concern) along with those URLS for anyone that might be coming across this site online and wanting to make contact with people they associated with in the BBS days. Thanks!" - Luke Walling
704-255-5992 Asheville, NC	Buncombe County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-256-7136 Hickory, NC	Catawba County Board of Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-262-3094 Boone, NC	Appalachian State University (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-263-1411 STANLEY, NC	Inferno (1993-1995)	Steven Houser, David Fortenberry	WWIV, VBBS
	"I was surfing through the web earlier, feeling a little nostalgic when I ran across your website with information and lists on Bulletin Board Systems. Much to my surprise, I found Inferno BBS. I was like, "Hey that was our board!" I had tinkered with bulletin boards as early as 1993. With the help of some local sysops of boards across my small hometown of Stanley, I was pointed in the right direction on how I needed to go about setting up a board. With a little luck and long hours of determination, I was able to get a board up and online... which was the Alternative BBS using WWIV. After listing my board on some local BBS systems, I managed to connect with Mr. Steven Houser. He and I shared a common interest in computers and became pretty good friends. We changed the name to Inferno BBS in 1994 and ran it pretty solid through 1995. Steven did all of the technical stuff, and I did the day-to-day running of the board. We ran the board off of a computer in my bedroom at my parent's house, which was connected to the 2nd phone line. By 1996 Steven and I had lost contact, and we went our separate ways. After he left, I had moved to the Internet using a service called Netcom. Soon after that I moved to AOL Dial-up and I guess the rest is just history! I guess you could say that now our Inferno BBS belongs to the ages of the history of computing." - David Fortenberry
704-264-7381 Boone, NC	Boone HUB, T-I-E TBBS (1987-1990)	Blaise Anderson	TBBS
	"I just happened to search my name (Blaise Anderson) using MSN.COM's search engine and ran across your area code 704 list. To my delight I found my name next to my old BBS (Phil Becker's TBBS software (FIDONET)), T-I-E (The Information Exchange). I ran it on a Tandy 1000 with a 10MB HD, 24/7, on a dedicated phone line. I still talk about the "old days" every now and then. My first (dumb)modem was 300 baud ($300 appox), my second modem was a (smart)Hayes 1200 baud I got from a sysop promo deal($1000 retail)for about $400! Bill Schriber (search your area code 704 list)was my first BBS I connected to sucessfully and motivoted me to start my own. He past away at an early age of 34 in 1990 and so did his and my BBS that same year. This one's for you Bill! I'm 49 and repair PC's for over 20 years in Tennessee. Thanks for the memories sir... You done good!" - Blaise Anderson
704-279-2295 GRANITE QUARRY, NC	Big Byte BBS, ROWAN COUNTY HUB, The Big Byte (1990-2000)	Tom Curtis
	"The Big Byte BBS (704-279-2295) was the grand daddy BBS in our locale (the Salisbury, NC and surrounding area). It was incredibly advanced, sporting *TWO* nodes. You could communicate with another person in real time. It was mind blowing in 1990. I remember calling Tom as a squeaky 12 year old to request access to the "private" areas of the board (which was just a permission-based forum and a file upload area). His wife Dottie initially answered, then turned me over to Tom. It wasn't a big deal, but when he flagged my account with access I felt like I had been appointed CEO of Apple. A few years later, Tom gave me a lot of help in setting up my own BBS (Hunter's Planet), which I ran for several years before internet access became readily available enough to wipe us all out." - Christopher Young
704-283-3538 Monroe, NC	Union County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-324-9949 Hickory, NC	Computerman's Lair, SBC Development, SBC-Development (1994-1998)	Matt Davis	Wildcat, AdeptXBBS
	"Computerman's Lare [sic] was run for a few years before 1994 by another Sysop, but I forget his name. He was moving out of town, so I bought Wildcat 3.9 SL, some manuals, and equipment from him and re-opened the BBS as Computerman's Lair a few days later. About a month after that we were online at Fidonet as 1:3666/107.0 and we participated pretty heavily in the OS-DEBATE echo since we were an OS/2 system. In 1995 or 1996 we switched from DOC-based Wildcat to AdeptXBBS, which was an OS/2-based package written by Steve Tower, Gordon Zeglinski, and John Morris. Mark Kimes licensed the XBBS code to those guys (AdeptSoft, based in Boca Raton, FL), but eventually forced the company to close since they weren't paying their royalty fees. Oops. Anyway, just before we switched to AdeptXBBS, I changed the name to SBC Development since the BBS was supporting my fledgling software business. SBCdev interacted most heavily with Magic Castle 5 (Luke Walling - 704-241-9234 - Hickory, NC - Renegade software), Cer'rin (Shaun Sides), and Synergistics (Tim Davis)" - Matt Davis
704-334-4075 Charlotte, NC	Legal Eagle, The Legal Eagle BBS (1987-1993)	Alan Kaplan	RBBS
	"I ran RBBS and RBBSMail on the Legal Eagle BBS which was part of RBBSNet. It had two lines, with 9600 baud US Robotic HST modems. The board ran as two DOS instances on a 386 running OS/2. The Legal Eagle BBS catered to lawyers in Mecklenburg county, and was made an official method of obtaining court calendars. The attorneys liked to be able to search the WordPerfect files for their names. Like many SysOps in the area, I was a member of the Metrolina Sysops Association. The MSA shared information about abusive users, and if a user was banned on one board, we banned them from all. The group led to some lifelong friends -- I met Joe Venturelli of XLR8ed for the first time as a member of the group." - Alan Kaplan
704-343-5366 Charlotte, NC	Carlotte-Mecklenburg School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-394-2642 Charlotte, NC	Classic (1994-1997)	Ray James	VBBS
	"The Sysop, Ray James, passed away in late 1997."
704-398-0371 Charlotte, NC	The Mounties BBS (1990-1996)	Eric Hasson	Telegard
	"The Mounties BBS started its life in late 1990 or early 1991 as a local only BBS. I was new to Charlotte and did not have a life outside of work and it just seemed the thing to do. The board started on a Columbia 8088 and later moved to a 80286, and was run on Telegard under OS/2. Although it was a small board, it had a lively group of users and some of us are still in touch to this day. For the last year or year and a half of its 5 to 6 year life span, I started running a second BBS called "No Name City" that was run on WWIV. That BBS could only be reached through a door on The Mounties BBS. During this same period (maybe a little longer) The Mounties BBS was on FIDONet and No Name City was on WWIVNet if I remember correctly. Thank you for putting up this list. Brings back many memories and I see the names of a number of people I have lost touch with." - Ertic Hasson
704-399-5432 CHARLOTTE, NC	Disk Shop, DISK SHOPPE (1992-1995)	Rock Head
	Scoopex Member BBS
704-428-9171 Maiden, NC	Castle Ravenwood, Castle Ravenwood / Crossroads BBS, Crossroads BBS (1993-1997)	Scot Rose	Searchlight
	"Castle Ravenwood BBS started its life as Crossroads BBS in August of 1993 because Maiden was a local call for most of the BBS Users in Lincoln and Catawba counties of NC in a time when it was long distance to call the other counties. We provided a free middle ground ( A Crossroads ) where BBSers from both counties could mingle. One night in a drunken haze Jester and Myself decided to change the name and the structure.. the rest was history. As the Internet gained popularity, users drifted away and the castle closed its doors in Febuary of 1997 much to my sorrow. Recently (2003) Castle Ravenwood reopend its doors as a Message base website and I invited back as many of teh old users as I still was in contact with and as of this point about 40 lunatic souls are again in the Castle. However long this lasts, who knows... But I missed the commaradrie of those days and it seems so did a few of those persons I found again... If you are ever interested drop by... www.ravenwood.com/castleravenwood" - Scot Rose
704-455-1374 Harrisburg, NC	The Total Perspective Vortex (1987-1991)	Andy Little	WWIV
	"I started this on an IBM PS/2 Model 30 (x286) running a 1200 baud modem and a 20MB hard disk. I registered the WWIV software for $50 I think, and started doing mods -- my first foray into C at 11 years old. I can't really remember what I hosted on the BBS, I think it was mostly games and ASCII graphics and a few message boards. Upgraded to Hayes 2400 baud modem after a year. Good times!" - Andy Little
704-464-7235 NEWTON, NC	The HIDEOUT (1992-1996)	Kevin Teague	Searchlight
	"I was searching yahoo looking for my name and I found your list. Thought I'd share information regarding how The HIDEOUT came to be. I used Compuserve on a 300 baud modem in 1988 and was hooked. No longer was one limited to the software choices and experiences on the local computer store shelf! The whole world was available online! When I purchased my first 2400 baud modem, I kept the phone line tied up calling the local BBS's almost everyday. I saw the BBS software as a way to access my personal files from home with some security to my personal system, so I downloaded the quickest package available from PC-Link (later America Online), which happened to be Searchlight. Since I had my computer online all the time for my convenience, why not open it up to others? The system started on my personal machine, and finally ended up running on a 386 server, networked to 2 286 machines via a 10baseT network using Lantastic software. Each 286 had it's own 14.4 modem, and was supported by 2 40MB hard drives and 2 CD rom drives. A second line was added for the use of persons who supported the system with a one time $10 donation. Otherwise the system was completely FREE! We specialized in GIF images, but had discussions, private mail, and online games. We were the 2nd multi-line system in Western North Carolina and the first in the Hickory area. I transferred the system in late 1995 to another individual as the time demands were too great to keep the system running properly. Mail was going unanswered, etc. I still do the custom image work that was offered then. Samples can be seen at www.teaguetown.com if interested. The world of communications has come a long way! From 300 baud to the DSL and cable modems of today. What's next?!" - Kevin Teague
704-488-2290 Bryson City, NC	Swain County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-495-8806 Taylorsville, NC	Alexander County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-521-9997 Charlotte, NC	Meg Zone [EPIC/APOGEE] (1991-1993)	Master Tracker	WWIV
	"At its peak, the Meg Zone had over 500 users and I could never get on my PC because of the daily traffic! It was great fun... "The good old days"." - Master Tracker
704-537-6075 Charlotte, NC	Personal Touch, The Personal Touch (1989-1993)	Paul Dedrick, Paul Spike Dedrick	Telegard/WildCat!
	"The Personal Touch BBS was originally set up as a single line in early 1989 using the Telegard BBS software. With the help of a BBS member's MAC {YUK!} I was able to parse out the data of the user list to allow the site to evolve to WildCat! in 1991. Telegard had no export means, and WildCat! needed a certain format, which HyperCard could create. "With WildCat!, the system was also expanded to 3 lines (3 USR SysOp program 19,200 Courier Dual Standard modems) and a local SysOp login window. It ran on a 286, and later 386SX25 under DOS 6.22 and DesqView for the virtual 'DOS window' nodes. I operated the BBS as a hobby and means of relaxation after my weeks on the road as a field engineer. Eventually I was laid off by my company in January of 1992 and experienced a year of continued unemployment. The only offers I had at the end of 1992 were one from a little company called Microsoft locally in Charlotte, and a company in the Caribbean who shall go un-named. Let's see, Microsoft Windows 95 development team - $17,500 and US taxes, or ?????? - $46,750 and NO TAXES!?!? Well, what would YOU have done? "I moved to the Caribbean in Feb. 1993, which is when I transferred the BBS software and data backups to John Pierce. He ran the board supposedly until 1997, or thereabouts. I have lost touch with him in the intervening years. I still have the 386SX25 system that ran the personal touch and all the data thereon from the last day of operation. I miss those days, meeting weekly at The Mill on Woodlawn Road and seeing all the users and SysOps and enjoying the amateur talent show. "I am still in contact with Eric Hasson (Snidely Whiplash of The Mounties BBS) and many of the former users of The Personal Touch BBS. Did I say I miss those days? Oh yeah, last paragraph! Well, I do miss them, and the comeraderie we shared in that fledgling technological period. I just emerged from under the rubble of Hurricane IVAN and have been doing genealogical research. The search truned up my name and I just had to take a look. Thanks for the memories!" - Paul "Spike" Dedrick - SysOp of The Personal Touch BBS (Nov 2, 2004)
704-541-3306 Charlotte, NC	AMIS Southeast, S.A.O.C.N.C., Southeast AMIS BBS, Southeastern AMIS (1985-1989)	Trent Condellone	AMIS, Comet AMIS
	"Southeast AMIS of Charlotte North Carolina, was an unusual boardthat catered to Timex, Atari (of course) and TRS-80's including CoCos... ran on a version of AMIS so modified that it didnt resemble AMIS... called COMET AMIS (home was Comet AMIS of Algonic, MI) written by Matt Pritchard and Tom Johnson with some heavy involvment of myself in certain features. Although there were various, odd, hardware configurations, the board itself always featured multiple message bases, private mail (user to user), a (then) popular BBS News Service that was called something soft News Net and was based out of Indianna and featured updated news and information. It maintained master lists of AMIS boards and one of the most accurate and updated lists of BBS systems in the US, and after BUG quite the "master" AMIS list Southeast carried on for a bit. Had callers from around the world, file downloads, was very progressive for its time and was working on a FIDO net type of thing when it went down. Had an ATR-8000, harddrive, worked on MPP and then later "regular" 3000/1200 baud modems. John Demar of New York State wrote the drivers (for MPP), however the COMET people made them work properly. Charles Marselett of Garland, Texas wrote the DOS (MYDOS I think) to make all the weird hardware work... at one point there was 8 DEC "oct" (as in 8x) drives runnning that used these damn expensive 5.25" special disks, very sensitive to dust,however I liked the Tandem drives. My father was fanatically opposed to my involvement in computers (or anything else), and would shut the system down in the summer the day I went out of town to my grandparents house in the Ozarks backwoods, and would sometimes even get rid of my equipment." - Trent Condollone "One last thing about Southeast AMIS... most all of the AMIS programs that ran special features such as password protection, were Matt & Toms, although several people "claimed" to have written them, they were just copies of Comet. Comet was the original, and the other "similar" ones all had Matt's back door that was hidden only in his Comet software.... Comet was the finest Atari based system in its day, and deserves to be remembered." - Trent Condollone
704-541-9842 CHARLOTTE, NC	Moobasi Optics Ink, Moobasi Optics, Ink (1993-1995)	Blaine Schmidt	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Charlotte, NC AC 704
704-541-9909 Charlotte, NC	XLR8ed TBBS, XLR8ed BBS (1987-1990)	Joe Venturelli	TBBS Multiline
	"The XLR8ed BBS started life as a 2 Line TBBS system running on a TRS80 Model 3 with a 10MG Hard drive. It was sold to me by Peter Paul who used it to run the Night Shift BBS in Staten Island NY. Around 1988 I upgraded TBBS to the IBM version for about $249 and put 4 Hayes 2400 Smart modems online. As time went on, added USR Courier 14.4 etc. to replace the Hayes. It was the only BBS in town that you could mail in $1 and get a fully printed user manual mailed to your house. XLR8ed was part of Fidonet and Usenet towards the latter part of 1990." - Joe Venturelli
704-545-6290 CHARLOTTE, NC	Simplified Computer BBS (1988-1991)	Gary Budd, Kenneth Budd	PCBoard
	"Simplified Computer BBS was the BBS for my father's (Gary Budd) small PC retailer "Simplified Computer Systems, Inc". I was the Sysop, under my full name (Kenneth Budd). It operated from 1988 - 1991, having two lines and running the professional edition of PCBoard at its peak. As Sysop, one of my duties was routinely using our "PCPursuit" (via Telenet's X.25 network) account to dial into the BBSes that were the origin point for the most popular shareware packages and download them for redistribution in the Charlotte market via our BBS. We considered this a public service, and it was very effective in driving traffic for both the BBS and my father's business. in 1989 Gary and I founded the "Metrolina Sysop's Association" as a monthly club for Sysops of Charlotte area BBSes. Primarily social in nature, MSA helped us deal with a few common abusive users who were wreaking havoc in our community. Alan Kaplan (Legal Eagle BBS), Richard Cook (Shadowland II), Wayne Cook (Scorpio BBS), & Joe Venturelli (XLR8ed BBS) were some of the founding members that I remember. (There were others that I'm failing to remember.)" - K.C. Budd
704-545-8900 Charlotte, NC	The Spare Parts BBS (1993)	Floppy D/Hard Drive	WWIV 4.23
	"IBM PC/AT 286 System made from spare parts into a Short Lived BBS. Note: Red Lion BBS was just up the street from me. A Much better, more supported BBS run by a good friend of mine." - E. Nardelli
704-553-9193 Charlotte, NC	iNFiNiTi, Paradoxical (1995-1996)	Will Howard	VBBS
	"I ran this BBS when I was 13 or 14, I don't remember the exact time. I hijacked the family 386 to run it, then we upgraded to an IBM 486 DX4 with OS/2, which allowed me to run it in the background. Had Fidonet and a couple more local networks, and used to write a lot of VBBS scripts. Even had a small scripting/graphics "crew", Emeraldise, with a few members, some not local. Had door games (including an ANSI etch-a-sketch clone I wrote!) and specialized in audio/MOD/tracking software. Its nice to reminisce about when I was a young, bored computer geek." - Will Howard
704-568-1663 CHARLOTTE, NC	Carolina Forum (1987-1994)	Sam Grier
	Had two numbers. 704-568-1663 had a 14.4k modem. 704-563-5857 had a 16.8k. Lots of OS/2 stuff when I used it.
704-598-9611 Charlotte, NC	Christian Star, Christian Star TBBS, The Christian Star (1985-1995)	Jace Carlson	TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Charlotte, North Carolina since 01/85. Sysop: Jace Carlson. Using TBBS 2.2 with 6 lines on MS-DOS with 1200 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $50.00 Annual fee. Christian networking Galore! Online database, files, and message conferences devoted to Christian Apologetics, Cult Information & Research, Bible Studies, and much, much, more! Teen Help & Christian Singles sections, UltraChat, and Multi-Player Games.
704-639-3068 Rowan, NC	Rowan-Salisbury Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-694-4523 Wadesboro, NC	Wadesboro Middle School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
704-754-0568 Lenoir, NC	The Snake Pit (1993-1995)	Jeremy Earp	Searchlight 4.0
	"The Snake Pit was the first Lenoir BBS that had Fidonet newsgroups. In 1995, The Snake Pit was relaunched as a group of web sites under the www.tspnetwork.com domain. The sites were closed in 1997." - Jeremy Earp
704-861-9082 Gastonia, NC	The Board of the Bard (1990-1997)	Kevin Caldwell	Remote Access
	"Home of BOB, the bbs spirit that originally wanted to help you use these odd things called BBSes. He later went insane, and threatened to take over the world, and all carbon units. We also had a mildly popular reputation as a file-intensive site with no download quotas." - Kevin Caldwell
704-873-8482 Statesville, NC	Statesville RBBS (1992-1999)	Jeff Watts	RemoteAccess
	"This was one of my first experiances with a BBS. I have known this family for 12 years now. and can remeber the hours I would spend in the next room connecting to this and many other BBS on this list. Jeff and I still talk apon the days of the BBS. Sometimes I think of even starting my own just to show a new generation the fun and enjoyment the BBS's brought to many. Cause of my experiance with BBS I got started in my love with PC's. And wouldn't know the things I do now had it not been for the influence the BBS system had on me. I would like to thank all the Sysops for the time and dedication they place into building and running these systems." - Fred Ortman
704-956-1254 Davidson Co, NC	Davidson County Board of Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
705-272-2980 Cochrane, ON	Toad's Place BBS (1987-1994)	Richard Toal	Remote Access
	"Those were the days... started the BBS on a 8088 and built it up to a whopping 386 sx66. At the end it was flying on a 28.8 kbps modem. And now today in 2006 I'm an ISP :-)" - Richard Toal
705-487-6520 Hawkestone, Ontario	The Other Domain BBS (1995-1999)	Jeff Irvine	Telegard
	"Telegard beta site (joined beta team after 3.00 was released). Maintained a local area BBS list. Provided free Internet email and newsgroups when Internet access costed big bucks. Home of assorted utilities and doors." - Jeff Irvine
705-497-3057 North Bay, Ontario	The Fat Agnus BBS (1989-1995)	Chris Guertin
	"The "Fat Agnus" is one of the co-processors in the famous Amiga line of computers. The system was run on a Commodore Amiga and helped support the local Amiga users group (long gone too). It was killed by the budding popularity of the Internet and finally became to costly to run. It peaked at 3 phone lines and 100+ calls a day! I ran a BBS for a few years on a Commodore 64 in the 1980's as well (300 baud era) in St. Thomas, Ontario, 519 area code. If I can find any of my old papers with a phone number I'll submit it too. It ran from 1984 until about 1987 and was very popular with a local users group connection as well. At it's peak it had eight (8) 5.25" floppy drives connected to it! At night in my bedroom I could tell what a caller was doing by what drive was lit up... lol... Those were the days... Thanx for keeping a little bit of BBS history alive. I have younger computer guys working for me who don't even know what a BBS was." - Chris Guertin
705-534-3861 Victoria Harbour, Ontario	The Dog House BBS (1995-1998)	Ryan de Laplante	Maximus
	"The bbs was opened Dec 1994 in Victoria Harbour. It quickly became a popular bbs with an average of 80 calls per day. By 1997 it was the last BBS left in the area. In Nov 1997 we moved to Orillia and I put the board up there. Being a fresh bbs to the area it became popular quickly. By this time the Internet was taking over and BBS's were dropping like flies. It was one of the last left in the area when I shut it down Jul 8 1998. In Oct 2003 the BBS was revived as a telnet only bbs and as of this writing is still running. http://www.doghousebbs.com" - Ryan de Laplante
705-566-5089 Sudbury, Ontario	The Crystal Cavern (1986-1992)	Dave Cushing	Opus, Maximus
	"Just ran across your list and have to say, it was a nostalgic trip down memory lane. I was the SysOp of The Crystal Cavern and remember all the great friends I made through my BBS (in days of yore, before the Internet was cool). It was only last month that I had been introduced to a colleague who recognized my name and said "Didn't you run The Crystal Cavern?" - us old schoolers never forget." - Dave Cushing
705-566-7521 Sudbury, ONT	Pirates Domain (1985-1990)	Guy Turgeon	G.S.T. BBS - Developed by Guy & Serge Turgeon
	"I connected to the BBS I wrote back in the 80's when I was 16 (35+ years ago) today. Someone found it recently. It ran on a single floppy disk on the C= 64. It was seen today 2022-02-23 in action via a telnet session. The enthusiast in Iowa found me on linkedin and is running the BBS on real C=64 hardware and 1541 drive has a twitter feed Twitter: @K0FFY_Radio"
705-743-7296 Peterborough, Ontario	'The BBS' Bulletin Board (1983-1991)	B. White, Blaine White	PCBoard, PunterNet
	"Originally, I was the SYSOP of the RTC Bulletin Board in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada...owned by Richvale Telecommunications. Their system ran on a small-screen Commodore PET, and an accoustic modem. Someone had built a little "answering circuit". The unfortunate part of the accoustic modem was that the constant carrier signal caused the receiver to vibrate out of the rubber cups. The RTC BBS ran from the store's repair shop, and when the phone receiver had vibrated far enough out of the modem cups, people talking in the room would cause nasty garbage characters on the screen. When I took the system over from Ernie Kalwa, the original RTC SYSOP, I ended up having to drive in from Bridgenorth (a 20 minute drive) to push the phone receiver back into the rubber modem cups. When their store closed (went out of business), I switched from runing Steve Punter's PETBBS, and moved to the new 64BBS software on the Commodore 64. In doing this, I became PunterNet Node 80. PunterNet was a great system to run, because you could send e-mail all over North America. Remember, this was before the Internet was widely accessable. Each node would call the nearest long distance node, after midnight - when Long Distance rates were the cheapest, and transfer any messages that were in the outbox. Each successive node would pass messages along, until they reached their destination node. Users kept a cash balance (by sending money to the SYSOP), and the system automatically deducted the cost of the LD call from their account when they sent an e-mail. PunterNet was the brainchild of Steve Punter, of Mississauga Ontario. Punter was also responsible for creating WordPro, the first real wordprocessor for the Commodore PET and C64 computers. The board rapidly expanded, and soon I was running 13MB of disk storage (spanning a D9090 Hard Drive, and 4 SFD-1001 (1MB floppy drives). This amount of drive space running on a C64 was virtually unheard of, and I believe at the time I was running the most in my geographic area. Eventually, the board grew too big for the C64, and I moved to an XT running PCBoard. As things continued to expand, I eventually wound up running 3 networked 286 (LANtastic) nodes. Callers could chat between the lines, and play online games, like TradeWars! 'THE BBS' always had the password "Calculus" when it ran the Punter software. This was a "throwback" to the original RTC SYSOP, Ernie Kalwa. Ernie had placed the password in to keep "undesirables" out. I tried removing it when I switched to the C64 version, but people had become so accustomed to seeing it, they found it disturbing when it vanished, so I put it back in. I was a teenager when I first started the system, and I ran it until I was in my early 20's, and had my "first real job". It was one of those "formative" life experiences that helped to shape who I became in later years. I met many interesting people during the time I ran the system, and it was one of the best times of my life. I look back fondly to the time when I was a SYSOP, and often wish I could go back there once again." - Blaine White
705-835-6192 MOONSTONE, CANADA	The Cottage Country BBS (1990-1993)	Alex Draper
	List of BBS List Keepers: Ontario Area 705/Alex Draper
706-208-0637 Athens, GA	A1A BBS (1992-1994)	Michael Maddox, Ed Wilson	Telecomm bbs, Oracomm, Renegade
	"We used a little-known BBS package called Oracomm--NOT the comm software of the same name. The package was truly excellent for threaded posting, providing all posts under a thread at a single view without requiring lots of back-and-forth motion between pages. Additionally, it was the same used by the large BBS we were replacing--Graffiti BBS (Jim Maddox and Ric Helton)--which our large user base had become accustomed to. We ran multi-line from the beginning, until Ed and I had a parting of the ways. Ed later ran A1A in a second incarnation under Renegade, but I was no longer involved with the BBS. Funny thing, I still have the BBS on disk, including manuals. That was a wonderful time in my life--one I'll never forget. The feeling of community was strong with our users, and we had face-to-face acquaintances and friendships with most all of them. The web is great, but the 80s and early 90s were really the acme of the local computer scenes. Great list! Glad you're keeping this stuff alive!" - Michael Maddox "Like Michael said, it was a unique sort of community. Although I've run several Web-based forums since then, nothing really compared to the intelligent, eclectic, and unique group of folks that frequented A1A (and Graffiti before it). The second incarnation lasted until 1994; I ended up closing the second incarnation as the costs associated with it were exceeding my income at the time, and I didn't want to start charging for access or relying on donations (and would have had to have added things like internet gateways to keep up). Man! Just thinking about the word "BBS" brings back a flood of memories." - Ed Wilson
706-323-1885 Columbus, GA	InTenCities (1993-1996)	Bart Colbert, Bart Colbert AKA BartMan	PowerBoard
	"InTenCities was started as a free computer help BBS. It grew into a community of BBSers with get together that filled the Denny's restaurant on Victory Drive, Columbus, GA. on a Saturday Morning. Unicorn Port and Peachtree Databahn were the sister BBSes. There was always a group of Sysops and Members readily available for anything anytime in a community of people who just wanted to enjoy a good cup of coffee or fellowship." - Bart Colbert
706-563-8781 Columbus, GA	The Unicorn Porte (1992-1996)	Neil & Rose Hasselquist	VBBS
	"Chip Nelson taught us the ropes - Neil & Rose Hasselquist brought it to fruition. The Unicorn Porte grew to be one of the most used bbs's in Columbus, Ga. With a patronage of over 600 and a daily user base of about 150 the "Porte" had to expand to a 4 line system towards the end of 1994. We all worked from "The Shop" there towards the end. The Peachtree Databahn and InTenCities were close allies. All hail "The One True Bathroom"!"
706-569-0773 Columbus, GA	Populus BBS, POPULUS II, Populus II (1993-1995)	David Mackley & David Mcafee, David McAfee	MajorBBS 6.12
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Columbus, Georgia since 05/93. Sysop: David McAfee. Using MajorBBS 6.12 with 2 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 600 MB storage. TWINCOM at 38400 bps. No fee. Windows, Programmer's Support, C++, Object-oriented Programming, Flash games, On-Line Chat, CD-ROM's, Programming Avail-able. FIDO, Local messaging, and pay service INTERNET.
706-673-4436 TUNNEL HILL, GA	The Comfy Chair BBS, The Comfy Chair! BBS (1989-1996)	Gary Hasty, Gary M Hasty	ProBoard
	Now an Internet Service Provider: dalton.net
706-682-1228 Columbus, GA	Ridge Runner, The Ridge Runner (1993-1994)	Eric Alexander	QuickBBS - Pegasus Software / Frontdoor
	"I was in the military at Ft. benning Georgia and started the BBS to pass time and communicate with friends. We (All the SysOPS around at that time) Had a lot of fun together. I remember one BBS that was the first to have a T1 line ran from Atlanta. I had been the Rodger Hartlines "Hill side BBS" home as well as many of the other sysops homes. The friendships developed during that time were priceless. We really were a community, not like now a days..... Man, this brings back memories...... " - Eric Alexander
707-255-0784 NAPA, CA	Destroyers Den, DESTROYERS DEN (1992-1995)	Robert Thaller
	Chemistry Member BBS
707-257-6502 Napa, CA	N.V.W-cat, Napa Valley Fido, Napa Valley RBBS/RCPM, Napa Valley RCPM/DBBS, Napa Valley RCPM/RBBS, Napa Valley WildCat (Last), Napa Valley Wildcat BBS, RCP/M RBBS Napa Valley (1978-1996)	Dave Austin, Steve Austin	FidoNet, Wildcat , CBBS
	"BBS Started with a Imsai 8080. Intel 8080 at 2 MHz. Then later at Z80 at a blazing 4 MHz. Then later to a 8086 CPU. so we could run CPM/86. (precursor to MSDOS) (All S100). The first BBS software was something in BASIC. Highly modified. First speed was 300 baud. I think it was 1978 or so. Then on to 600 baud. (A S100 board that could do 600) Then standard 1200 and later 2400 and 9600 baud. (AT&T External modem.) Then later to 56K etc. The BBS moved to a Processor Technology SOL. Then to a Northstar Horizon. (S100) with Micropolis drives. (5 1/4 100TPI!) All floppy based. Then later with a 5 Meg hard drive. Then later to a IBM 8088 based system. Then 80186 based. etc. Basic BBS I wrote then to CBBS and RBBS and WildCat software. Turned off in 1996 when I closed my computer shop.(1976 to 1996 Online Computers.) (and this neat thing called the Internet came along.)" - Dave Austin (co-sysops were Duane Stofan and Jake Sanderson.)
707-262-0836 Lakeport, CA	Reura Pente BBS, Utopia Clanitia BBS (1993-1994)	Shane Hill	WWIV, Wildcat!
	"I started this locally popular BBS in my bedroom while in high school. I experimented with BBS software, and ultimately settled on WWIV. My BBS was networked through WWIVNet and I was able to send and receive email! It took days for a message to be received while traveling "hops" through other network computers. It was run on a variety of computers, like an IBM PC/XT, Compaq Deskpro 286, and a 486SX-25. One of my users sent me information about this new internet world wide web thing, and actually donated money so I could explore it. I reviewed it and felt it was nothing significant." -Hussein Hill
707-422-1246 Fairfield, CA	Metal Zone, The Metal Zone (1993-1995)	Bandit, Cyberpunk	Wildcat
	"This BBS started out as a single-line system and quickly grew to an 8-line BBS that offered chat rooms and online gaming, as well as a multi-CD drive server loaded with tons of shareware software. In late 1994 it was sold off to a comic book store, and shortly thereafter went offline." - Cyberpunk
707-426-5512 FAIRFIELD, CA	Total Recall (1992)
	Chemistry Member BBS
707-427-1268 Solano County, CA	Solano County Office Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
707-445-5734 EUREKA, CA	SMUGgler's, SMUGgler's BBS (1993-Present)	Steve Kayner, Casey Meaden	FirstClass
	"We ran the first full-GUI BBS on the northcoast of CA. It was part of the Sequoia Mac User Group initially, and was responsible for membership increasing from about 12 to over 425 people. It lasted until 2006--a great run!" - Steve Kayner
707-448-2225 Vacaville, CA	Recommended Info Service (1987-1995)	Ray Vizzone	MajorBBS
	"This BBS was the classic MajorBBS setup. It started with just a few lines but had grown to 16 lines, chat rooms, and real-time games that we all grew to love, and can still play today on some telnet BBS's. While Ray Vizzone was the owner, the position of Sysop was first held by a user named Pegasus, then Insomnia and just prior to going offline the position went to a group of users that formed a committee of sorts." - Insomnia
707-459-6745 Willits, CA	Subspecies Domain (1993-1996)	Stan Horstman AKA AXE	GBBS
	"Took over and revamped OverDrive BBS (Dennis MacGraph SYSOP). New BBS with dual ANSI and ASCII menu's. Many scripts for events such as 'this day in history' to a credit based time bank so people could 'bank' unused BBS time for a later date for downloading from CD's. 14 CD's accessable online from NightOwl Shareware to Adult JPG's. Many turn based games as well as a bunch just for fun like the 'Mischa's Pissing Contest'. Go TRADE WAR'S! Over 200 users in a 60 Day Period. Networked with Dixon's Doves (Randy Dixon SYSOP) and DSE Online (Danial Statinski SYSOP) with WILLITSNET and the Grapevine with Griffins Lair in Ukiah (Robert Griffith SYSOP), Divers and other BBS's with local message boards. The first Willits BBS to bring in UUCP Subs giving a REAL INTERNET EMAIL address for FREE to members in Willits. Multiple updates every day. " - Stan Horstman
707-464-7392 Crescent City, CA	The Den (1997-1998)	Justin Glazner	Iniquity a26
	"I'd long been calling BBS systems -- since 1993 (age 12!), and finally decided I'd put that spare line and cruddy spare 386 to use. Offered about 350 megs of drive space, LORD, Exitilus, Planets, BRE, FE, the usual "I'm 16, pissed, and lonely - here's guns-and-bombs files" stuff, etc etc etc. Most of my time was consumed fighting off the *cough*lamers*cough* from the local 'underground' board. At my home AND on my BBS. Uncalled for, eh? But, the sweetest moment was taking a night of BBS machine downtime to lock the competition up with a clever redialing from hell Telix script. :) "But the long story short is, it had about 3 to 12 callers a day, I had to move to the middle of nowhere east of Sacramento CA, and it didn't quite even last two years. I'd had plenty of co-sysop experience, but I wanted to just get up and do something on my own. So, this was my attempt, and I honestly wouldn't have traded in the time or the spare phone line for almost anything else." - Justin Glazner
707-523-3106 SANTA ROSA, CA	The Q Continuum (1988-1990)	Brian Hunziker	MichTron BBS
	"I ran this Star Trek-oriented BBS in my bedroom in my parents house in Santa Rosa when I was in Junior High. It went through several incarnations (the first was called Galaxy Class BBS) ... I eventually took it down due to inactivity, but it was fun while it lasted." - Brian Hunziker
707-538-9124 Santa Rosa, CA	Grape Line BBS, The D&M BBS (later DMG) (1983-1992)	Marcos Della & Shad Muegge	D&M BBS
	"A home written system originally on a TRS-80 written in BASIC/Assembly. Later translated to Turbo Pascal v3.0 then later still over to the IBM PC platform under Turbo Pascal v5.5. Marcos Della, Shad Muegge, and Richard Gross were primary authors. Many DMG BBSs were run throughout the country (opensource pascal)" - Marcos Della
707-552-3314 VALLEJO, CA	BDPA BAC BBS (1993-1995)	Arthur McGee, Arthur ""Rambo"" McGee
	List of BBS List Keepers: Black Run/Oriented BBS/Arthur “Rambo” McGee ListKeeper: Indigenous People BBSs ListKeeper: Black Run/Oriented BBS
707-557-6173 Vallejo, CA	Genesis BBS, GeneSys, Genesys BBS, The Mushroom Garden (1990-1994)	David Myers, Mike Martin, Michael Martin	QuickBBS , RA
	"I took over GeneSys and renamed it to Mushroom Garden in 1992 after the former SysOp David Meyers murdered Lynne Hutcheson, the Sysop of another local BBS. It was originally a WildCat BBS, but I migrated it to QBBS, then to RA. I ran it until I was transfered out of the area in early 1993. I continued to run it in the Antelope Valley until 1994 under 805-538-9959. It is amazing how many of these names bring back old memories, we were a small community and often had get togethers to meet each other and our users. I have lost contact with everybody from Vallejo, but it brings back some great memories." - Michael Martin
707-573-1024 Santa Rosa, CA	Switchroom WEST (1992-1998)	Shatter	Telegard 2.7
	"Primarily a private invite only BBS. Used Frontdor/GEcho to network with a group of East Coast BBS's located in 716 area. We have since moved to the internet in the form of a mailing list maintained by Shatter." - Shatter
707-575-8766 Santa Rosa, CA,	Master Control (1995-1999)	Sysop: TRON Co-Sysops: Waggie, Video Vindicator	Wildcat 3, Major BBS 6.25, Worldgroup
	"Started as a two line hack/phreak dialup bbs with over 100 users from North America and Europe, telnet access was added later; co-sysop was Waggie, sysop of Waggie's Place BBS. Put back up from 2000 to 2002 as a ten port telnet only bbs in Hawai'i running Worldgroup, Video Vindicator was co-sysop." - TRON
707-585-2403 Rohnert Park, CA	The Blood Stone BBS (1991-1994)	The Outlaw	WWIV v4.21
	"The Blood Stone BBS originally started up on a Commodore 64 in 415 land but after moving to 707, It was upgraded to a beat up old AST Premium 286 that was pulled out of a dumpster back in the day. No case, just the mobo in an open cabinet :-) Running a registered WWIV v4.2x, we hosted a very small 'Blood Net' in which a couple of my buddies tied into back then. Had Operation Overkill, Scrabble and maybe one or two other trivia games, it was a fun hobby in a very exciting time. Revived in April 2011, it is now a telnet only BBS available at telnet://wwiv.bsbbs.com" - The Outlaw
707-588-8055 Rohnert Park, CA	Party Line, The Party Line BBS (1985-1995)	Jami Chism
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Rohnert Park, California since 12/85. Sysop: Jami Chism. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 12 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 4800 MB storage. Practical Peripheral at 14400 bps. $10 Monthly fee. Internet Email, Usenet newsgroups, RIP Graphics, Nationwide ChatLink, PC Catalog, Newsbytes, Multi-Player Tradewars 2002, 6 Recent CD-ROMs, Free Trial. For information via Internet email: jami@partyline.com. MajorNet email: sysop@xcl
707-643-2736 VALLEJO, CA	BEach STreet, T Minus Zero, SANITARIUM (1991-1995)	Jerry Shaw, Petraunt
	Independent Member BBS
707-664-0952 Rohnert Park, CA	Recursion City BBS (1992-1993)	Verne Baxter	TriBBS
	"Incredible experience. Accepted all connections from 300 baud (oh, was that painful to monitor when they were having problems) to 9600 CompuCom. Specialized in offering online games. Met people from as far away as Hong Kong. Only had to bump one user. Sure miss it! By the way, Cotati and Rohnert Park snug up to each other. I lived in Rohnert Park. Currently working in Information Security at a mid-size ISP in the Central California mountain area. BBSs ROCK!!" - Verne Baxter
707-792-2572 Rohnert Park, CA	Star Trek, The STar Trek BBS (1987-1994)	Christopher Kren	MichTron
	"Chris was a friend of mine, and fellow Star Trek afficionado who introduced me to BBSing. I eventually set up a board of my own. I don't remember when Chris finally took the STar Trek BBS down, but it was a result of his switch in computing platforms (got rid of his Atari and bought a Mac)." - Brian "When I started the STar Trek BBS, it was designed for a place where Star Trek fans could meet and chat, and for the local Atari ST User Group. At our peek with has 3 incoming lines, with multi-line chat and started transferring news net messages before school and the Internet took things over. It was great fun while it lasted." - Christopher Kren
707-795-4939 Cotati, CA	Gravesend, Gravesend BBS (1988-1996)	Thomas Tuerke, Thomas M. Tuerke	Auntie
	Thomas Tuerke writes "What a blast stumbling on this list! In the days before the Internet, there were BBS's.... Prior to Cotati, Gravesend ran out of Novato. 415-892-1301, if memory serves. That must have been from '85-88. Good ol' Auntie software. Memories? Huge. Let's see. Top three: The #1 bulletin on Gravesend: Hoax-a-scope. Nightly, Auntie would pick 24 random innocuous sentences from a database of hundreds, put two under each sign, and post that day's horoscope. People called daily to get their reading, and many claimed "it really works!".... She-Woman Keyboard Hater's Club. A consortium of "abandoned spouses" congregated on Gravesend, because of all of us Geeky males spending more time in front of the pale wash of CGA monitors than spending time with spouses and S/O's... Hell hath no fury, etc... ;) .... In response to the ARC/PKZip incident and the subsequent proliferation of compression tools, Al Kalian (Palladin BBS) and I concocted "NABOB" -- the ultimate compression tool. It could compress *anything* better than *anything* else out there, often down to one byte (ASCII character 1, the smiley character) Early adopters downloaded it, tried it, and loved it: the endorsements came rolling in. (Of course, it eventually was taken down when several humor-impaired types complained that it couldn't *decompress* their files!) Oh well... Those were the days.... Great job."
707-822-8640 Arcata, CA	Home Power BBS, Home Power Communications System, Home Power Renewable Energy (1993-1998)	Michael Welch, Don Kulha/Redwood Alliance	TBBS
	"What a wonderful experience being a BBS sysop was. But it was also a lot of work. We provided years of communications for folks that were interested in home scale renewable energy like solar, wind, & hydro. Of course, then the internet came along. Now folks can check us out at www.homepower.com." - Michael Welch Photovoltaics/Micro-hydro/Generators - Home Power Magazine
707-944-8002 YOUNTVILLE, CA	Info-Exchange, INFOEX-80 (1980-1984)	Lars Locken	InfoEx-80 BBS v2.3 (DSK) - John Burgan - Larry Clements (1983)
	"Hardware: Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III 2MHZ Zilog Z-80 Processor with a whopping 48K RAM. 4 double sided 80 track drives provided TONS of storage :-). I was one of the first adopters of the 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodem. I remember paying $515 for this modem! This was mostly a private BBS, so not much public information was published about it. We had about 300 'regulars' who dialed in to share information and programs. One of the 'things' to do at the time is to share hacks of games so you would get unlimited lives/weapons. It was a fun time for me and I met alot of people. I just can't believe we did all that on a single 1200 baud modem line! Ahhh to remember staying up til 3am with people from all over the world! Thanks for keeping the BBS history alive!" - Lars Locken
707-965-0939 Angwin, CA	Genesis Network #2, Small Town BBS, Small Town Christian BBS (1990-1992)	Matt Mills
	"Equipment: 8088, 1 3 1/2 Floppy, 40MB hard drive, Started out with 1200bps modem, later upgraded to 2400, then to 14.4k. Favorite door game for my users was Trade Wars 2002. I just happened to be situated in a town that had local calling between two cities, so every night my machine would relay FidoNet and FamilyNet mail for 5 or 6 other BBS's. This was how we got around paying long distance charges for sending "email." - Matt Mills
707-987-2928 Middletown, CA	Groucho's Wild Slug Fest (1993-1994)	Richard Lemon	WWIV
	"BBS ran out of my bedroom. Mostly just a forum for debating our views on DOORS albums and pseudo-spirituality." - Richard Lemon
708-208-0662 Geneva, IL	Grey Matter (1991-1995)	James Karaganis	Wildcat , Wildcat!
	"I really miss those days ... we were just another casualty of the Internet, I guess. But it was a lot of fun while it lasted. I remember having to turn down the furnace in the place in the winter because of all the heat coming off the computers." - Jim Karaganis
708-234-4843 ELK GROVE, IL	The Jolly Roger Soft Shop AE (1981-1983)	Chris Bennett	Ascii Express
	"The name of my AE was the Jolly-Roger Soft-Shop. It ran on just two 5.25 drives, and a 64k RAM drive (remember those?). It had two claims to fame. First, it had a new game uploaded onto each drive every single day.. it seemed that every piece of software that crossed from one coast to the other went through my system. And second, it had a really cool (at the time) little VT-52 text art scene of a space ship coming down and landing (thrusters turning on and off and all). I probably have that somewhere still. I ran it for a few years.. I guess til highschool. For a time I put it up during highschool as a Proving Grounds system. That was fun :)" - Chris Bennett
708-251-5094 WILMETTE, IL	Nun-Beaters Anonymous (1991-1994 )	Guido Sanchez	Telegard
	"300 users at the peak. World HQ of tfile group "BLaH". Primarily a textfile and message board BBS, every user would receive SysOp access upon application of new user status. Also implemented "LEECH" function in Telegard that would allow users to download the board's entire collection of 5000 files in one huge archive, implemented with filebase granularity (especially evil with the virus archive filebase). Otherwise completely unremarkable BBS with heavy message base activity (100+ quality posts a day, usually busy phone lines, no networked message bases). Received recognition as one of two prominent USA virus exchange BBSs by an anti-viral industry group in 1991 (the other was The Hell Pit). Featured as "bbs of the month" in Boardwatch at some point."
708-260-8818 Chicago, IL	AdLine U S A, AdLine U.S.A, Adline USA, ADLINE, U.S.A!, Adline U.S.A.!, AdLine U.S.A. (1992-1995)	Charles Parker	DLXB
	ADLINE, U.S.A! (708) 260-8818 80386 w/330MB, 2400bps, Free Service, over 2,000 programs: Business, Games, Graphics, Pictures, Adult. Free Classified ads. Ads from local businesses. ""The Future of Information Services."" ADLINE, U.S.A!, (708) 260-8818 80386 W/330MB, 2400bps, Free Service, over 2,000 programs: Business, Games, Graphics, Pictures, Adult. Free Classified ads. Ads from local businesses. ""The Future of Information Services."" - BBS Magazine November, 1994 ADLINE, U.S.A!, (708) 260-8818 80386 W/330M6, 2400bps, Free Service, over 2,000 programs: Business, Games, Graphics, Pictures. Adult. Free Classified ads. Ads from local businesses. ""The Future of Information Services."" - BBS Magazine March, 1995
708-289-0034 Chicago, IL	Dominant Illusions, House of Kinks (6 lines), Outer Limits (B) [$], The Outer Limits BBS (1991-2000)	Mistress Crystal	DLXB, Synchronet 1
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Chicago, Illinois since 05/92. Sysop: Mistress Crystal. Using Synchronet 1 with 12 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 3000 MB storage. Various at 14400 bps. $20 Quarterly fee. The Midwest's Best D/s, B/D & Fetish On-line Play Party! "Fantasy handles", chat, games, conferences, contests, Adultnet, and 3GB of files make us the board to explore your fantasies and play! Women free, plus no-harassment policy. Visa/MC. 21+ only.
708-299-3310 Chicago, IL	City, City (10 nodes) , The City (1990-1993 )	Patrick Robo Sullivan	DBBS
	"I remember this BBS well! It had six line text chat back in 1990. It was meant to be a for-profit BBS, tho it never quite reached that. In 1990 it was a good hangout for techies who would help each other with hardware & software problems. By 1991 it was getting more dating service users who changed the tone of the message base. The SYSOP even organized a few user meetings in 1991-1992. It closed up sometime in early 1993." - Mkowalsk
708-327-9327 Westmont, IL	The A.P.C. BBS (1990-1991)	Ed Bartram	Telegard
	"A.P.C. stood for Amplified Panatropic Compiler which was homage to Doctor Who. I used FIDOnet software to create a small network with some other local BBS's which I called ChiNet. Daily we would synch up message boards and door games such as Trade Wars." - Ed Bartram
708-356-4417 Lake Villa, IL	ChiTown Network (1996-2000)		Excalibur
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: ChiTown uses an Excalibur BBS package that allows for True-MultiTasking. This means you can chat, play games, download and upload all at the same time. ChiTown offers Internet Mail, Usenet Groups, Multi-Media and Multi-Player games. This BBS requires the use of Windows! Call today and experience the technology of tomorrow!
708-358-5104 Barrington, IL	Polysyn, Polysyncronism (1989-1991)	Jeff Darling	Forum PC
	"This system was on a 10mhz IBM PC clone with a 100 megabyte hard drive. The BBS software was based on the Forum PC BBS software, with some modifications written by Ron Bieber to allow for sharing messages with 5 other Forum PC systems." - Jeff Darling
708-360-8419 Chicago, IL	Titanic BBS, Unsinkable RMS Titanic (1994-1996)	Eric Joy	WWIV
	"I (Eric Joy) am the original SysOp of the Unsinkable RMS Titanic BBS and my handle there was 'Captain EJ Smith'. I was in the US Navy stationed in Great Lakes at the time and ran the BBS on a early z80 PC with a 40MB HDD and I think it had a 1.44MB floppy drive and a dual sided 5.25. I had a 56k modem (I think... gosh memory fades)and am trying ot get it running again today since BBSs are seeing a small resurgance. I have a small (hardly ever updated) website www.the-joys.com that I am trying to figure out the direction of... right now it serves as a personal site only. I had a friend I met there (cannot recall his name we are out of touch) that was a co-SysOp and was starting his own BBS at the time; and he was on the network I founded called SEXnet but I do not know what happened when i transferred because my BBS never came back up again as after Chicago, IL I was in Japan for 3 years. Note to list owner: Please correct the name as it was never "Titanic BBS" it was always "The Unsinkable RMS Titanic BBS" - Thanks
708-393-7750 Warrenville, IL	Caer Tuatha (1993-1994 )	Gwydion
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Warrenville, Illinois since 12/93. Sysop: Gwydion. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 120 MB storage. Cardinal at 2400 bps. $30.00 Annual fee. Exploring the unknown; Strange and unexplained phenomena, the mystical and the mythical. As your gateway to the unknown, Caer Tuatha invites you to take a peek into that fascinating world that lies just beyond the fringes of the imagination. Free Trial.
708-403-2826 Chicago, IL	Stillwaters , Stillwaters , Stillwaters [Chicago BBS list] (1989-1996)	Jordan/Anvin	RBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Chicago/Paul Chartraw
708-459-7267 BUFFALO GROVE, IL	Hell Pit {459}, The Hell Pit, The Hell Pit BBS (1990-1995)	Scott Page, HADES, KTO, Kato, Hades (Rob+Scott Page)	Telegard
	"The most famous virus exchange BBS in the United States- its collection at its peak was second only to the Virus Exchange BBS in Bulgaria. Hacking, phreaking, and programming message bases. Access to the viral file bases required that you upload a virus to their already-huge 1000 unique virus collection (very impressive for 1991 standards)- and even then, each virus required 50 file points to download (equivalent of a 500KB file for a mere 4k program). Later (1993) joined NuKENET viral programming network. Many rumors that this BBS was a fed board, all unsubstantiated. BBS went away after Kato (the programmer brother) moved to France and Hades (the punk rocker brother) graduated high school and moved out of their folks' house."
708-470-4280	Destruction'S Realm, DESTRUCTION'S REALM (1992-1995)
	Trsi Member BBS
708-491-9036 LA GRANGE, IL	NET 115 Internet Gateway, Royal Swedish Viking (1994-1995)	Peter Anvin
	ListKeeper: Chicago
708-495-6609	Risqilly 201 202 203 204 205 206 207, Risqilly BBS (1994-1995)	Billy Kennedy
	ListKeeper: Gay & Lesbian BBS List
708-499-4302 OAK LAWN, IL	Edge Of Insanity #1 (1992-1992 )	Warduke
	Nemesis Member BBS
708-499-4321 OAK LAWN, IL	Edge Of Insanity #3 (1992-1992 )	Warduke
	Nemesis Member BBS
708-499-4370 OAK LAWN, IL	Edge Of Insanity #2 (1992-1992 )	Warduke
	Nemesis Member BBS
708-513-1034 St. Charles, IL	MidWest, MidWest (4 lines) [fee], MidWest BBS, Midwest Systems (15 lines) [FEE], Midwest Systems [$], MidWest [fee], Midwest,profess' (1984-1996)	Steve Mills	PCBoard , PCBB
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Saint Charles, Illinois since 02/84. Sysop: Steve Mills. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 15 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 7500 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $45 Annual fee. Call us LAST! We are confident you'll find us to be one of the best, friendliest, most enjoyable Bulletin Board Systems that you have EVER called. Call us for your free trial and get our BBS guide in the mail after you logon. You WONT be disappointed.
708-526-2668 Island Lake, IL	MegaCopies (1991-1997)	Wes Johnson	WildCat, Excalibur
	"Wow - what a gem to find this site. I came across it by searching for MEGACOPIES, which is still (15 years) in the printing business. The BBS system was deployed as a way for our clients to send us their documents to us for reproduction. Of course... I had to "enhance" the system during every spare moment. Putting in the FIDO news group feed, what was the name of that very popular fantasy text game? Ypu'd go into the forest and kill animals? Talk in the pubs? Dragon something? Whatever it was - it was all a blast! Of course, then it was cutting edge and very few clients would use it simply because they didn't have a modem, or if they did, the print button was much easier to push. :) The BBS really never paid for itself, but it did wake up our company to the up and coming digital age. The offical name was "MegaCopies' Document Reception System". Did the Internet kill the BBS'es? No, I believe BBS'es helped the Internet become what it is today, only faster. Too all fellow SysOps and BBS users - It was a BLAST! Thank you." - Wes Johnson
708-531-9033 Westchester, IL	Middle Earth BBS/AE (1983-1985)	Darien Kruss (Gandalf the Grey)	GBBS/AE
	"One of the first Apple ][ BBS/AE systems with a hard disk drive (10 MB). A highly customized interface had two operating modes: Extremly slim menu requiring only 3 lines for the techies who already knew the command shortcuts, and the full-screen menu catering to new visitors. Originally 300 baud, then 1200, and ultimately 2400." - Darien M. Kruss
708-537-6917	Junkyard 2 Nodes, JUNKYARD [2NDZ], JUNKYARD #1, JUNKYARD [2NDZ] (1992-1995)	Riff Raff
	Independent Member BBS
708-546-0421 Round Lake, IL	Euphoria BBS (1987-1989)		C-Net DS-2
	"Started as a 300 baud C-64 System with 2 CBM SFD-1001's (1MB ea.). Eventually upgraded to 2400 baud, then made the mistake of buying a used ICT Datachief 20MB drive. The drive would crash constantly, and when it did work, it was really slow. Thanks for putting this site together, it's brought back alot of memories of BBS's that I had forgotten about." - Sysop
708-546-4644 OAKBROOK, IL	Cell Block Node #1, CELL BLOCK #1 (1992-1995)	The Warden
	Independent Member BBS
708-546-4649 OAKBROOK, IL	Cell Block Node #2, CELL BLOCK #2 (1992-1995)	The Warden
	Independent Member BBS
708-551-9574 CHICAGO, IL	Greyhaven (1992-1992 )
	Quartex Member BBS
708-598-1606 Oak Lawn, IL	The Virtual Village, THE VIRTUAL VILLAGE (1994-1995)	Stan Mocek	TBBS 2.2
	THE VIRTUAL VILLAGE 708.598.1606, Free trial, download on first call. Unlimited downloads with subscription. Call today and read our electronic magazines and news services. Adult multiplayer games and chat. Gigabytes of files, only the best in shareware, CDRoms online. Fidonet. Internet email and newsgroups. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
708-599-1537 HICKORY HILLS, IL	Involuntary Death (1989-1992 )	Loverboy
	Nemesis-Dist. Member BBS
708-599-7686 Burbank, IL	The Download Spiral (1995-1997)	PhanTASM	JetBBS, Renegade
	"Big shouts to Piss Pour of Urine Nation." - Jason Haltom
708-632-0274 Arlington Heights, IL	GridPoint (1994-1996)	Ernie Kemnetz	Telegard
	"Wow, this things you find when you google/yahoo your name. Yep I ran GridPoint years ago, you probably got my listing from after I became a Fido node as you list my real name rather than a long forgotten handle: It began it's life on a suped up IBM PCjr which I had modified to have a 2400 modem and a 40meg MFM drive (needed a huge extra power supply) As it grew it eventually migrated to a Tandy 1000, 286 machine on a 9600 modem, then later adopted one of the 28800 v.fast modems (when they were still arguing standards) and eventually became Fido 1:112/632 in the last year of it's life. Thanks for the walk down memory lane." - Ernie Kemnetz
708-636-6694 Chicago, IL	Suburban Software, Suburban Software [$], Surburban Software, SUBURBAN SOFTWARE, Suburban Software BBS, Suburban Softwr (1990-1999)	Chuck Valecek, Chuck Valacek	PCBoard, PCBoard Ver 14.5/E3, PCBB, PCBoard v15.0
	SUBURBAN SOFTWARE, PCBoard Ver 14.5/E3, Sysop: Chuck Valecek, 1-708- 636-6694, RelayNet, MetroNet, Home of: King of the Board, Strike 93, Word Nerd, Ansi-View, Text-Read, plus many sysop utilities. SUBURBAN SOFTWARE, PCBoard Ver 14.5/E3, Sysop: Chuck Valecek, 1-708-636-6694, RelayNet, MetroNet, Home of: King of the Board, Strike 93, Word Nerd, Ansi-View, Text-Read, plus many sysop utilities. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 SUBURBAN SOFTWARE 708.636.6694, Home of ""King ol the Board""*, one of the oldest and most supported door programs in United States, Strike 93. Word Nerd. Ansi-View. Deluxe Hi-Lo and many others. Members on RIME, MetroNet, Usenet, Fidonet newsgroups, always new files, support for Doorframe plus much more. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 SUBURBAN SOFTWARE 708.636.6694, Home of ""King of the Board"", one of the oldest and most supported door programs in United States, Strike 93, Word Nerd, Ansi-View, Deluxe Hi-Lo and many others. (Members on RIME, MetroNet, Usenet, Fidonet newsgroups. aKvays new files, support for Doorframe plus much more. - BBS Magazine October 1995
708-653-0375 Carol Stream, IL	Circuit Breaker BBS, Disallusioned Society (1994-1996)	Todd Hendricks (lightning/electric visionary)	Telegard, Renegade, Iniquity
	Run by the author of OvrEdit for Renegade, beta tester for Iniquity. FidoNet participant.
708-668-5731 Wheaton, IL	Chaos BBS System (1983-1991)	Dr Death, Dr. Death	Telegard
	"I started this BBS on a C=64 (later C=128) using the C-Net series and other BBS programs with a 312 area code number (before the 708 area code was added to Northern Illinois). Back in the Commie days I had an elaborate ANSI color based title screen that took at least 120 seconds to display before login (much to the chagrin of the users at 1200 baud!) Once the transition to PC/XT came I adopted Telegard. I added Newsgroups and FidoNet access and maintained a healthy download file library with more than 100 regular users. I had close ties to some of the DiverseyDial (Apple II chat) and Amiga based layouts - we had usergroup pool parties where all of our teenage hormones could be sampled in person! Fond memories and i still have friends in that area who I speak with!" - thx1138010101
708-677-3369 Chicago, IL	ABSOLUTE PLEASURE, Absolute Pleasure (1993-1996)	Mister Absolute
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Chicago, Illinois since 10/93. Sysop: Mister Absolute. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 12 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 3000 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. $24.00 Half Year fee. Chicago's hottest & friendliest up & coming board. Full time Sysop & 12 seXXion SysOps (8 of them female). CYBEROTIC, the only true on-line mall. New original gif daily. Regularly scheduled chats, internet coming. Mention this ad for a 10 day test drive
708-687-4413 Oak Forest, IL	PitStar, PitStar BBS (1992-1996)	Pady Smith	PCBB
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Oak Forest, Illinois since 01/92. Sysop: Pady Smith. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 2000 MB storage. Intel at 14400 bps. $25-90 Annual fee. Multi-purpose BBS with a business and finance flavor. Stock, Commodities quotes, Usenet, Internet Email, GIFs of missing children, current weather reports, 100+ file directories.
708-697-9572 Elgin, IL	Cyber Comm Networks, CYBER COMM NETWORKS (1994-1996)	Armor Robinson
	CYBER COMM NETWORKS, 708.697.9572 Elgin, IL Sysop: Armor Robinson using C-Net 2.63, Supra 14.4 with 25gB. Fee $4.60/month. Featuring easy to use message forums, kids & women only sections, singles meeting, hobby and adult areas, online chat, matchmaking, games, catalogs and ads. 255k files serving IBM, MAC, Unix & Amiga. The BBS where you make a difference. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 CYBER COMM NETWORKS, 708.697.9572 Elgin, IL Sysop: Armor Robinson using C-Met 2.63, Supra 14.4 with 25gB. Fee S4.60/month. Featuring easy to use message forums, kids & women only sections, singles meeting, hobby and adult areas, online chat, matchmaking, games, catalogs and ads. 255k files serving IBM, MAC, Unix & Amiga. The BBS where you make a difference. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
708-717-9370 Naperville, IL	Com One, COM*ONE, COM-ONE, ComOne, COM*ONE, COM*ONE, COM ONE (1992-1996)	Craig Wells	PCBoard , Falken, MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Naperville, Illnois since 05/92. Sysop: Craig Wells. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 8 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 6000 MB storage. Incomm at 2400 bps. $9 Variable fee. Over 60,000 of the most current files with new files daily. 9 cds online, Over 200 MajorNet & Usenet Newsgroups. Internet email w/all subscriptions. Online mags & news. Adult forums, files. Chat Nights & Theme Nights. Phone Support line. Free Demo Time.
708-739-2675 Bolingbrook, IL	The Game Zone (1993-1993 )	Chris Todesco
	"The Game Zone was first known as Gamers' Galaxy before it was relaunched as the Game Zone. The sysop was a kid named Chris Todesco, who went by the handle Desco. Like so many BBS's, the board went through long periods with little administration. It had a pretty lively message board at times, as I recall. I don't whatever became of Chris, but his parents still live in Bolingbrook. Another site worth mentioning is Jay's Place (708-759-7302), which was also in Bolingbrook, also run by a kid, whose name was Jason Jordan, and went by Jay. I remember giving him several dozen floppies of text files for the site when he rode his bike over to my parents' house one summer. He would go on and become one of the best tuba players in the state and got a scholarship to Eastern Illinois University. Don't know where he is now. I love this site. It's brought back so many memories from my mis-spent youth. There were months when I racked up some hefty phone bills calling BBS's all over the state. I miss those days ..." - Marcus Brown
708-752-4426 CHICAGO, IL	Guru Haven Node 2 (1992-1992 )	Desert Rat
	Independent Member BBS
708-752-9958 CHICAGO, IL	Guru Haven Node 1 (1992-1992 )	Desert Rat
	Independent Member BBS
708-759-5622 Bolingbrook, IL	Alpha Centauri (1993-1994 )	Erick Robertson	Renegade
	"This was the BBS that I ran in high school. I was pretty astonished to find that it was even mentioned online at all." - Erick Robertson
708-759-7908 Bolingbrook, IL	BolingbrookArea Hub, ChicagoLand Hub 4, FarWest ChgoLand Hub 4, Magrathea BBS, Magrathea {708}, Naperville Area Hub 40, NapervilleArea NoServiceHub 40 (1990-1997)	Sun Kwok	Remote Access, RACC
	"I have been running BBS's since 1982 (Magrathea BBS 1982-1985). I ran Bloom County BBS in Champaign from 1986 until my graduation from the University of Illinois in 1987. After 1987 I was working hard, paying my dues as a computer consultant and was not able to run a BBS for a while because I was apartment hopping. I finally bought a house in 1990 and was able to setup Magrathea BBS, this time using the PC-based Remote Access software and joining FidoNet. I ran the BBS for over 7 years, gaining a popular Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy following, and becoming a ChicagoLand distribution hub for FidoNet, sharing the messages and costs so that others could enjoy all of the FidoNet message forums. Around 1997, after watching the declining interest in BBS's due to the rising popularity of FidoNet, I finally decided to call it quits, ending a 15 year SySop career. Today, I have my own consulting firm, and maintain our website at www.integralcorp.com. I am eagerly watching the evolution of new BBS type software, such as that as EZBoard.com that is bringing back some much needed sense of community that BBS's used to have, but the Internet did not." - Sun Kwok
708-795-4442 Berwyn, IL	Chicago Sys Link, Chicago Syslink, Chicago Syslink [$] {622}, Chicago Syslink [Fee] {622} (1981-2000)	George Matyaszek	TBBS, TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Berwyn, Illinois since 06/81. Sysop: George Matyaszek. Using TBBS 2.2 with 16 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1000 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. $30 Annual fee. Rated G, so the entire family can call. New CD-ROM online every weekend. 100+ online games, MicroMatch/Find-A-Friend, Internet/Fidonet, USAToday, Worldwide HUB for Virtual Sysop, OutDial Service to Other BBS's and something for All. Special Interest Areas for Ferret/Pet Owners. TRS80/Aviation
708-801-0823 Chicago, IL	H.U.R.K., HURK BBS (1990-1996)		Spitfire
	List of BBS List Keepers: Chicago/David Nathan
708-820-8344 Chicago, IL	Aquila BBS, Aquila {820} (29 lines), Aquila {820} [Fee] (12 lines), Aquila {820} [Fee] (18 lines), Aquila {820} [Fee] (9 lines), Aquila PCBoard BBS, Aquarian (1988-1996)	Steve Williams, Kevin Behrens, Kristy Behrens, Chriss Bobb, Doug Bell	PCBoard , BBPC
	USA Today Door Demo 6GB 25 Nodes Fidonet/Interlink/Metronet Mce IL/CHI Graphics 6GB 25 Nodes Fidonet/Interlink/Metronet Mce IL/CHI Graphics 6GB 25 Nodes Fidonet/Interlink/Metronet Mce IL/CHI Graphics SLIP/PPP Provider
708-827-3619 Park Ridge, IL	AlphaOne Online, AlphaOne Online (16 lines) {827}, Lambda Zone (14 lines) {827}, Lambda Zone / Lobo, The Lambda Zone BBS, ALPHAONE ONLINE, AlphaOne OnLine (1990-1996)	Toby Schneiter	TBBS, TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Park Ridge, Illinois since 03/90. Sysop: Toby. Using TBBS 2.2 with 18 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 8500 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $36 Annual fee. You've seen the rest-now try the BEST! 100,000+ Files. Online stores. CHAT, match-makers, adult games 150+ conferences. Fidonet, Adult Link, GayCom. Get the most for your online $! CALL & mention this ad for FREE TRIAL. For more info voice-708-827-3615 ADULT BBS V. FASTSEX BBS, 404.338.9483 5 Hot! Adult CD's online. 4 V.Fast 28.8 lines. All our pictures are of the highest quality and hard to find! Preview your pictures before you download with WildCat 4's online thumbnail maker. Hottest pics in the Southeast! Call today. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
708-849-1132 Chicago, IL	Computerized Bulletin Board System, Ward Board (Ward Christensen), Computerized Bulleting Board Sys (1991-1994 )	Ward Christensen
	First Electronic Bulletin Board - Creator of XMODEM Protocol
708-852-1292 Westmont, IL	Carma, CARMA (Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Assn) BBS, CARMA BBS [$] HAM/RADIO/SCANNING>, S.C.U.G., Suburban Commodore Users' Group (SCUG) (1986-2000)	Will & Gregg Sperling	C-Net 9.0 (1989-1993) MAJOR BBS (1994-1998)
	"The SCUG BBS was originally run by Joanne Ashdown, but in 1986, she transferred control to Will Sperling. Will ran the BBS on a Commodore 64 under the C-Net software until it was bought out by IMAGE, and the system later upgraded to IMAGE 2.0. Gregg began learning more about computers, and assisted with the administration of the system from approximately 1990 to 1996. The Suburban Commodore Users' Group disbanded, and Will retained the BBS and continued to run it out of his own pocket. The BBS was converted to the CARMA (Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association, www.carmachicago.com) main bulletin board system sometime in 1993-1994. During this transition, the Commodore 64 platform was abandoned in favor of the IBM PC. MAJOR BBS software was utilized on a 486SX2/66 with a 340MB hard drive, and 15" SVGA monitor. CARMA BBS eventually had Internet E-Mail connectivity via UUCP. Finally, the BBS was abandoned in favor of the Internet." - Gregg Sperling
708-854-0255 Chicago, IL	CAP/USA Support (1993-1996)	Jeff Gerschkow	PCBoard
	"Formerly CAP/Analysis in Toronto, Canada (416-773-6109)." - Derren Whiteman
708-858-5876 Glen Ellyn, IL	Brickie's, Brickie’s (1991-1994 )	Kurt Schroeder	PCBoard, PCBB
	"Ran on a Tandy 1000 hx 3/7 MHz 2400 baud and a 80 meg hd that I paid $800.00 for :)" - Kurt Schroeder
708-885-8865 Chicago, IL	OPOWD Crowd, The Opowd Crowd (1991-1996)		Wildcat!
	Specializing in outdoor activities and sports
708-910-3945 CHICAGO - FRONT, IL	Ora-Comm, Oracomm #318 (1982-1992 )	Mark Drozd	ORACOMM
	"I am not sure how I can across your web site but I am sure glad I did. It brings back many good memories of my bbs years. You already have me listed on one of your list but I thought I would provide some additional information. I ran the Oracomm software and I am almost sure it was node #318. It was always listed as being in Hinsdale but it was really in a small town next to it called Clarendon Hills. I run a bbs prior to Oracomm on my Commodore 64. I still have that computer, drive and printer! I want to say that phone number was 789-3966 but I cant recall if it was area code 708 or 630. It was probably 708. You have a great compilation is bbs lists/numbers. I probably have a few of these lists on one of my old hard drives from. Thanks again for the memories. I will need to drop back to continue to browse your collection." - Mark Drozd
708-924-5704 SUMMIT, IL	Maelstorm, MAELSTORM (1992-1995)	Bj
	Bronx Member BBS
708-932-0293	Dreaming City, The Dreaming City, DREAMING CITY (1992-1995)	Oldman
	Chronos Member BBS Chronos Member BBS
708-934-1940 OAKBROOK, IL	Cafe Express, CAFEXPRESS BBS (1994-1995)
	CAFEXPRESS BBS 708.934.1940. Gap Communications at 14.4bps. Chicagoland's newest BBS. Come help us grow. Mo access fee. intelligent conversations sen/ed fresh daily on our message bases. Special forums for comic collectors and role playing games. Magick and Elfwolfe invite you to be their guest. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
708-963-4551 Chicago, IL	Masquerade, Masquerade BBS, The Masquerade BBS (1990-1995)	The Malevolent Bunny, Swordsman	VisionX, QBBS
	"This was a negative warez board that had links to the THG, Razor-911, SiN, ICe, IC, and a gaggle of other groups. The list of who stopped by ranged from Pieman to Hi-T Moonweed to Toyman. Went down 08-04-1993 in a raid for illegal software. Never came back up." - Anonymous
708-966-4135	Chronos Hq, CHRONOS (1992-1995)
	Chronos Member BBS
708-980-1613	APA ChicAAgo BBS, ChicAAgo Hangar, ChicAAgo Hanger, The ChicAAgo Hangar, The ChicAAgo Hanger, ChicAAgoHangar (1990-1995)	Rex Chadwell
	List of BBS List Keepers: Airline Pilot/JUMPSEAT BBSs/Rex Chadwell ListKeeper: Airline PilotiJUMPSEAT BBSs
708-982-5092 Skokie, IL	Sit UBU Sit HST, Sit UBU Sit USR Factory, U.S. Robotics Inc, U.S. Robotics Tech Support {500}, U.S.Robotics (Tech Support BBS), US Robotics (USR/HST), US Robotics Technical Support, US Robotics, Inc BBS, USR Tech Support, U.S. Robotics BBS, U.S. Robotics – Sit UBU Sit (1990-1996)	Henry Senk, Nick Dodge, Adam Strack, U.S. Robotics Corporation	TBBS
	Support for US Robotics HST 9600 bps Modems
708-983-6435 Lisle, IL	Amiga Network, XNet Info Systems, XNet Information Systems (10lines), Xnet (1991-2000)
	SLIP/PPP Provider
708-993-0461 Chicago, IL	The Wild Onion, THE WILD ONION!, The Wild Onion! BBS, Wild Onion (20 lines), Wild Onion! (1993-2000)	ALT@ONION, Greg Jiede	MajorBBS , MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Chicago Metro-area since 05/93. Sysop: ALT@ONION.COM. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 50 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 12500 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $10 variable fee. Chicago area's premier all adult social BBS. Chat, local Forums and 20+ games. 75,000+ files and GIFs online. Large Adult Forums area. INTERNET NEWS and mail. MAJORNET and WORLDLINK. PC Pursuit thru ILCHI. FREE INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT!
709-364-6833 St. John's, NF	The Anthrax Palace (TAP) (1993-1995)	Nick Morrissey (flink, x-files)	Renegade, Iniquity
	"Once upon a time, I was a teenager who had just gotten a modem. A friend gave me a copy of Telix, and I started calling around to different BBSs around town. I was immediately hooked. I eventually decided to run my own, and at the time, the popular software was Renegade (at least in my town). Renegade was one of those really easy to setup BBS programs, and I was needing something a little more customizable. Someone clued me into a little known piece of software written by a guy in Halifax... Iniquity. During this time, IRC was becoming more and more popular. I learned of it when I got my first real internet connection, and in 1995, I shut my BBS down, so I could use my line for more interesting ventures. This coincided with DALnet opening up for business, and I just totally dropped the BBS scene. I found the introduction of this site to really match what my time on BBSs was like. Even to this day, 10 years later, I still remember making my daily calls... and my daily fix of LORD :)" - Nick Morrissey
709-368-0094 Mount Pearl, NF	Moe's Tavern (1993-1997)	Sarge (Blair Churchill), Mrs. Doubtfire (Stephen Williams), Spark Plug, (Keagan Quilty)	TriBBS 5.1
	"Wanted to make some changes to your entry to Moe's Tavern in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland (709 list). Moe's ran on TriBBS on a 286 owned by Sarge (Blair) donated by Remote Sysop, Mrs.Doubtfire. Co-Sysops would vary, depending on who logged on regularly at the time but Spark Plug was always on the list, who also ran the Q Continuum. Always had fun with Moe's but I left town and had to take it down. Plus BBS's were dying out anyway since this Internet thing seemed to be catching on somewhat at the time. I still have the last backup of Moe's stored on this computer. Hard to part with =)" - Blair Churchill
709-454-8205 St. Anthony, NEWFOUNDLAND	The Northern Link (1994-1998)	Duane Diamond	PowerBBS
	"The only known PowerBBS system in Newfoundland, PowerBBS utilized a ""Windoze"" type environment with their PowerAccess terminal software for graphics and sounds! The Northern Link BBS Ran on a 486 PC with 2 massive 40M hard drives, dual floppy, colour monitor and a 14.4 external modem!" - Duane Diamond
709-489-4758 GRANDFALLS, CANADA	FoxNet, FoxNet PCBoard (1985-1991)	William Hiltz	PCBoard
	"Two USR-HST lines, Dual CDROM drives online, Authorized PCSIG Reseller, Simpleware Program Support, 100+ QMail Conferences."
709-579-2666 St. John's, NL	The Data Hut BBS (1992-1996)	Drury Cook	Wildcat, Frontdoor
	"First BBS to bring Fidonet to Newfoundland. Was also the Fidonet hub for Newfoundland." - Drury Cook
709-670-6195 Woodbridge, VA	Side 7 BBS (1992-1996)	Bad Karma (Jason Lamey), Sir Kain	Shotgun BBS
	"Side 7 was an anime-related BBS. Was regional node for WizNet, and had a max of two phone lines. There were plenty of registered doors, and several CD libraries of files to download. These days, Side 7 is an online art gallery and community, currently serving over 8,000 members. You can find it at http://www.side7.com/ ." - Bad Karma (Jason Lamey)
709-739-6547 ST JOHNS, CANADA	BitStop, NoParity (1985-1989)	Joe Dawson	Custom
	"Custom Code by: Joe Dawson, Nick Barrowman, Stephen Hiscock. NoParity was the second BBS in Newfoundland. But when that system shut down in 1986. From 1985-1987 NoParity was the largest public data service in Newfoundland. In 1987 the programmers of NoParity started to write a whole new BBS system that was not based on the same Commodore 64 hardware platform that NoParity was based. This new system opened in 1998 with the name of BitStop. For more information on NoParity or other Newfoundland BBSs 1987-1988 visit http://www.pomakis.com/~pomakis/bbs/ or http://bitstop.ca." - Joe Dawson
709-747-0747 St. John's, Newfoundland	The Hidden BBS (1992-1993)	Jeff Power	Remote Access
	"Ran in the daytime while I was at school (which I all-too-often wasn't), and my mom was at work. Not that active, thanks to the restricted hours (being when most BBSers were unable to dial-in...) Had some games, lots of small DOS utility programs. All files compressed with obscure archiver "Squeeze v1.08.3", which had better compression that ZIP or ARJ. 2400 baud modem I liked the concept of a BBS, but didn't have the means to fully explore it (not many really did...). Fun while it lasted." - Jeff Power
709-782-0470 Paradise, Newfoundland	The Purple Room BBS (1991-1996)	Mark Gruchy	TriBBS
	"Running this thing was a fascinating experience. "It all began when I found a partially obscured, white, cardboard box on a back shelf at Radio Shack. It bore no logo. It simply read, in bold black letters: "2400 Baud Modem (insert serial number) "Not even a price tag. Well, I'd just turned 13 and recalled reading about computers "talking" over the phone when I was eight or so in a book my dad had. They did this by way of a MOdulator-DEModulator. This was the first time I'd ever actually come across one of the gadgets in the flesh. So, being the technically oriented little bugger that I was (I cut my teeth on a VIC 20 my eccentric yet mechanically ingenious great uncle bought years before. That thing was great. Had a bloody tape drive. Those were the days.)I did what any 13 year old kid would do. "I begged mom for the money. I still recall her nervousness as I dismantled the newly acquired 12 MHZ 286 we'd just bought. Then, a few months later when I set up the board, I recall her dismay as the phone calls just kept rolling in all hours of the night. "In a matter of months, I heard about ARPAnet. I put two and two together and realized what was about to happen. I figured if a 13 year old kid from the far east of Canada was tuned into what amounted to a de facto network that existed solely due to the will of the BBS operators it was only a matter of time. "I got my first internet account in 1995. "We were there guys." - Mark Gruchy
712-239-8549 Sioux City, IA	The Enterprise BBS	David Stavens	Wildcat
	"The Enterprise BBS was my family's first entrance into the fledgling internet. The site offered internet email at usse.com, and my father used his account to apply for jobs. The board offered the standard door games, including Legend of the Red Dragon and Trade Wars. There was also access to internet software archives, including TUCOWS. The founder, David Stavens, ran this BBS when he was in middle and high school. He shut it down when he went to Princeton University, to graduate at age 19. After getting his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, and being part of the winning team of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, he helped found Udacity." - Ben Blankley
712-252-1926 Sioux City, IA	Brotherhood of Groovyness (1995-2001)	John Porterfield	Maximus
	"The (712)252-1926 is defunct. The BBS is accessable now throught the internet. Telnet to b-o-g.net and type bbsuser for the username. This BBS is STILL Running." - John Porterfield
712-255-2432 Sioux City, IA	Technoids (1987-1996)	Al Schemmer	QBBS
	This system is being restored to put online via telnet. The system together with Modem Madness (RIP Dennis Bracy) was part of Fido-net, the system was moved in 1990 to Akron IA 712-568-2571 and later to Hawarden Iowa in 1994 712-552-1636, In 1996 the system moved from QBBS to a multiline Linux system that was connected with UUCP and UseNet via satellite and dialup. Shortly thereafter I became the internet provider with a 56k link which then became A.C.S. Networks in 1996 and ended operations in Dec 2015
712-323-4075 Council Bluffs, IA	Kastle Anthrax (1991-1994)	Jason Woods	WWIV, VBBS
	"Part of WWIVnet @ forgotten node number. BBS was originally run on Citadel-86 (inspired by ISCA BBS's DOC). After finding WWIV software, it was switched to that until a second dial-up node was brought on line (can't remember phone number now). This inspired the switch to VBBS (near clone of WWIV), and the use of DesqView, then OS/2. The BBS was brought down in 1994 after a power surge destroyed all equipment, sans the 104 MB hard drive." - Jason Woods
713-271-0024 Houston, TX	Media One Studios (1994)	Shawn Fry, Chris Christopher, Greg Mahan	MajorBBS, Major BBS
	"Adding sysops for Media One Studios. The three of us (me, Chris, and Shawn) went on to get some patents. 5,727,154, 5,987,505, and 6,256,665. (Yeah, I was a big nerd and ran 4 or 5 BBS's in Houston)." - Greg Mahan
713-298-3661 The Woodlands, TX	The Schoolboard (4 Nodes) (1994-1999)	Dave Plummer	TriBBS
	"It had 4 nodes, and was started and run by my junior high band director, originally out of his office at the school. It was a sanctioned project of the Conroe Independent School District, but still had plenty of very active door games, like The Pitt, and Trade Wars 2002, plus various puzzle games, and a daily points lottery (points were used to purchase additional login time, which I think was 60 minutes a day), etc." - C. Bergin
713-320-2823 Spring, TX	Crazy Crue 1, Crazy Crue 2, Red Dawn (1991)	Owen Ellington	PC-Board, Telegard, TAG, PCBoard
	"Some facts about the boards: Crazy Crue 1 was first put up in 1991. The phone number was 713.320.1008. I used TAG as the BBS software. Crazy Crue 2 went up on a dedicated number which is the one above (713.320.2823) also as a TAG board. It went up a few months after CC1 went down. I had about 80MB online @ 9600baud. Red Dawn was basically node #2 of CC2. It was run on Telegard and PC-Board later. I forget the number. I forget the dude's name that was the SysOp of Red Dawn (it was 14 years ago) They should all be associated together though." - Owen Ellington
713-324-2139 HOUSTON (MCI), TX	Danse Macabre Node 1, DANSE MACABRE #1 (1992-1995)	Nosferatu
	Skid Row Member BBS
713-324-2826 HOUSTON (MCI), TX	Danse Macabre Node 3, DANSE MACABRE #3 (1992-1995)	Nosferatu
	Skid Row Member BBS
713-324-3088 HOUSTON (MCI), TX	Danse Macabre Node 2, DANSE MACABRE #2 (1992-1995)	Nosferatu
	Skid Row Member BBS
713-351-9396 Houston, Texas,	Teen Talk BBS (1990-1996)	David Heine Jr	Wildcat
	"Teen Talk was was the first BBS to introduce the graphical game Planets to the texas area. It was also a fairly large Warez board with a whopping 975MB of software. making it one of the largest Pirated Software sources to the texas area in the early 1990's and a true Pioneer, with over 400 users state wide. featuring 3 Private nodes, and FIDONET." - David Heine, Jr.
713-355-6107 Houston, TX	Data Warp Premimum PCB3 ECHO, Data Warp Premium BBS, Data Warp Premium Computer Systems, Data Warp Premium Computers (1988-1996)	Mike Meyer	PCBoard , PC-Board
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Houston, Texas since 07/88. Sysop: Mike Meyer. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 2500 MB storage. US Robotics at 38400 bps. $20 Quarterly fee. One of Houston's largest general interest BBS systems. Thousands of files, dozens more posted daily. Hundreds of message conferences, including Usenet newsgroups, Internet email @dwarp.com, IILink and Annex networks. Adult areas available. Free or fee.
713-444-1653 Houston, TX	The Roach Motel (1984)	Scott Cochran (aka Dr. Roach), Scott Cochran (Dr. Roach)	NET-WORKS
	"I ran the board during the 1984 year only. Oh what memories! I was only 14 years old. The sysop for Wizardry(713-952-3210) helped me get the board going and made changes to it to make it look "cool". At that time my interests were primarily trading games and hacking. I thank God i never got in trouble! The Roach Motel was the most popular board during the summer of 84. Then my parents moved to California and that was the end. Even today i still look back at that year as the greatest year of my life. I met so many people and learned so much." - Dr. Roach
713-448-2450 Houston, TX	Inn of the Laughing God (1992)	Morgan ap Rhys, Michelle Miller, Greg Mahan	OPUS
	"You have inn of the laughing god listed twice, because we moved and switched phone numbers. I'm one of the original sysops (Greg Mahan) and ran the board with Luis (Morgan) and Michelle (Fayth). I was actually the technical guy who set up and ran the board, orinally under TAG, and later switching to OPUS." - Greg Mahan
713-448-2941 Houston, TX	The Campus BBS (1983-1987)	Don "The Professor" Graham	ICE BBS
	The BBS ran on a Commodore C-64.
713-460-8217 HOUSTON FAIRBAN, TX	Martyrium #1 (1992)	Wintermute
	Anthrox Member BBS
713-460-8258 HOUSTON FAIRBAN, TX	Martyrium #2 (1992)	Wintermute
	Anthrox Member BBS
713-460-8259 HOUSTON FAIRBAN, TX	Martyrium #3 (1992)	Wintermute
	Anthrox Member BBS
713-462-5215 Houston, Tx	Tomz Toyz (1994)	Tommy Johnson aka Radioman	PCBoard, CNET c64
	"I ran this from my apartment on a c64, then a 128D, with a 2400 baud modem, two 1541's, and an MSD Dual Drive. Mostly warez, but Bob Murkot and I wrote a few utilities like PagerHell II, that some of you may remember. Ahhh, the good ol' dayz! I landed a job in radio, migrated to a 386, and moved up to Dallas. Greets out to Jody (PooPoo). Grego. Battleship, Toon-Town, Cuddly Place, and Maximum Overdrive." - Tommy Johnson
713-463-2117 Houston, TX	The Guild of Elven Lords (1983-1989)		Custom then PC-Board
	"I started this one when the H.A.C.S. BBS list had about 25 systems on it. It originally ran on a C= VIC-20 with a 1200 baud modem and 16K memory expander card using custom software then later on a C=64 and C=128 and finally on a 286 PC running PC-BOARD." - Sysop of The Guild of Elven Lords
713-463-6366 Houston, TX	The Neutral Zone (1991-1994)	Soulstream	Celerity
	"I started this BBS I in the winter of 1991. The active message boards always had great ragwars going on as we always kept a few good lamers around to bash on. =) Usually had 0-30 day wares on-hand.. only the good stuff. Door games included Tradewars and Barren Realms Elite. Had custom ANSI art done by g-man, and others for the various screens you could customize in Celerity. In its early days it was run off of a 14.4k v.32 modem, on a 386dx40, with 100meg hd. But was eventually upgraded to a 486dx2/66 with 16meg of ram and a whopping 400meg hd..oh and a 28.8 v.42bis modem.. It Was the "headquarters" of LOGiC, a group that's was involved in ANSI art creation, MOD music creation, game walkthroughs and cheats, and other neat stuff. Sited in the credits/Instruments of MOD's written by Timelord of LOGiC in 1993. "Inferno", "Eclipse", and others." -Soulstream
713-469-3115 Houston, Texas,	Hackers Probe (1986-1988)	Larry, Shadow Walker	Emulex 2.92 edited by Shadow Walker
	"This was a sister board to The Anarchists Underground (TAU). IBM XT Clone,65 meg RLL HD, 2400 baud, and two 5 1/4 floppies. Those were the days." - Shadow Walker
713-479-8919 Deer Park, TX	Hallucinating Cow, The Darksided Personalities of Vindictive Edibles, The TwinkieZone (1987-1992)	Christopher Daniello (The Fierce Pancake)	CNET, 6485, C-Net 128, TAG
	"Initially run on a Commodore 128 and in its final days a 386 PC, this was a message based board which often changed name. Most popular incarnations of the BBS were "The TwinkieZone" and "The Darksided Personalties of Vindictive Edibles" with users by the name of Fierce Pancake and Vigilante Waffle, etc. Other names of the board included Skaro BBS (the first version, on a modified 6485 code with the SysOp known as The Dalek), Into the Out Of, Danse Macabre, and The Lobster Quadrille. There was an existing listing of this board with the name "Hallucinating Cow", which I do not remember nor do I dispute may have been a brief BBS title." - Christopher Daniello
713-481-2100 Houston, TX	Talk To Me, Talk-to-Me (1984)	Welsy Pitts aka The Lone CoCo
	"Just an addition. The Houston 713 bbs (old school list) "Talk To Me" was operated by Wesley Pitts, "The Lone CoCo". It ran on a TRS-80 Color Computer." - Anonymous
713-488-3055 HOUSTON, TX	Hangar #18, HANGAR #18 (1992-1995)	Flyboy
	Triad Member BBS
713-488-6077 Houston, TX	A-Mega BBS (1991-1997)	John Peck	Wildcat!
	"I started this BBS back in 1991 as a way to transfer files to friends across town. In the beginning the BBS was called Paradise Island and ran on two 2400 Baud modems. By 1993, I upgraded the system to 4 lines and renamed it to A-Mega BBS. As time when by, the BBS was constantly being upgraded at a rate that it grew into a network of 12 computers, 2 7-Bay CD-Towers, with 10 rollover lines. During the peak years between 94 and 96, the bbs was averaging 1200 calls per day. However, by 1997 the board had died down to less than 10 calls per day and on May 16th, 1997... the BBS ceased to exist. The knowledge gained during those days has proven to be invaluable, as it has allowed me to enjoy a career providing 3rd level support for a Fortune 100 company. I truly miss those days, along with the good times, and the friends that were made along the way." - John Peck
713-520-8086 HOUSTON JACKSON, TX	Aida, TechFX (1989-1995)	John Olson
	"Aida, TechFX - These were "FidoNet" boards. I think the net/node number was 106/888. I ran BinkleyTerm software - not really a BBS - I was a "hub" for local Fido mail distribution. By then I was running a 386 based system with Windows NT 2.5. I also dabbled in OS/2 for a while. My job briefly assigned me to Washington DC at about the time when the Internet was killing dial-up, so that was the end of the era for me... By the time I returned home, everything was Internet." - John L. Olson
713-521-2191 Houston, TX	The Exchange BBS (1991-1994)	John Fields, James Craig	TBBS
	Largest Gay/Bi/Lesbian Multiline BBS in Houston Largest Gay/Bi/Lesbian Multiline BBS in Houston
713-522-1170 Houston, TX	First Time BBS, First Time BBS - Houston, Houston 1st Time (1995-1997)	James Simmons	SDLX
	"Gay, lesbian and bisexual social/chat system. Sister BBS in Dallas by the same name."
713-522-3805 HOUSTON JACKSON, TX	RCP/M Technical, SOBBS Test Mode (1983)	John Olson, Stan Barber
	"You have listed as RCP/M Technical... it was actually called "Houston Technical RCP/M". I "borrowed" the name from "Technical RCP/M", out of Chicago, I believe. I ran it on a CP/M 8080 based sysem from my office. It ran on one of the office phone lines, so it only ran at night. After a while, my secretary started to complain about calls coming in during the day... "is this the computer??" LOL I built the computer out of some boards from a surplus telecommunciations processor. I had to wind my own power transformer and build the power supply and case - also out of surplus. I wrote my own BIOS (was there any other way back then?). The system ran on 2 - 8 inch floppies. 300 Baud direct connect modem. The software was customized 8080 ASM code... Don't remember what it was derived from. One of Ward Christensen's creations maybe... Ahhh... those were the days. This was not technically "BBS" software... This was a "file exchange" system. The caller was presented with an "A>" prompt, and used normal CP/M commands to navigate. Used "xmodem" command to upload and download files. Not quite as insecure as it sounds - the destructive commands were disabled." - John L. Olson "There is a note I submitted about Stan Barber being know for an adventure game Burial Ground. I stated it was a game he wrote. I just found him and asked him about that, trying to track down the game. He did not write the game, so my note should just says that SOBBS was known for having an online version of Burial Ground." - Al Space
713-523-5000 HOUSTON JACKSON, TX	RCP/M CP/M Houston (1984-1985)	John Olson
	"Listed as RCP/M CP/M Houston... By now we had a local "computer club" (called CP/M Houston) where people could come and exchange info about computers. Lots of Osbornes, Kay Pro, etc. I ran this system from home on a Xerox 820 motherboard that a friend (who worked for Xerox) gave me. No case... just a motherboard and powersupply and disk drives sitting on my desk. I briefly upgraded to a CPM-3 system that I built. It actually had a hard drive! 5 Megs if I remember correctly. I later ported my 8080 CP/M code to 8086 Assembly and ran this board on a Compaq Deskpro. I was running on a multi-tasking system - can't remember the name of it, but it still ran under MS-DOS 2.0." - John L. Olson
713-530-8875 Houston, TX	All Rights Reserved, ATOMIC CAFE, THE 1, BBS List of Houston, Connect!Communications, David Wachenschwanz, Houston Area 713 BBS, List Of Houston BBS's, The Atomic Cafe, The Atomic Cafe BBS, This List Copyrighted (1991-1996)	David Wachenschwanz, David E. Wachenschwanz	TBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Houston Area 713/David E. Wachenschwanz Houston Area BBS list and Connect! Magazine ListKeeper: Houston Area 713
713-553-5191 Alvin, TX	Fantasy Uprising (1991-1994)	Steven Tidwell	TAG
	"My first attempt at a BBS before Bill and I ran "The Conservative Hippie". Met many people over the years. I think a "reunion" would be a good thing." - Steven Tidwell
713-568-0825 Houston, TX	The RASTER Line (1985-1994)	Jeff Watts	TAG/Xenolink
	"Originally CHIPS C-64 BBS, I upgraded to Amiga in 1989 and changed the name to The Raster Line. Back in those dark ages I had the largest Amiga BBS in Texas with a whopping 1.2 gigs of storage and over 10,000 files. Over 500 users kept me and my poor phone line almost always busy. I added Fidonet in the early 90's and had about 50 online games to waste even more time! Back then we Amiga users were a pretty militant lot convinced of the superiority of our systems over the dreaded and ridiculed "IBM". Back then we swore we would never "go clone". I still have the BBS machine, but it's been in a closet for over 10 years while I use my Windows XP machine (sigh)" - Jeff Watts
713-580-8213 HOUSTON, TX	GBBSPro 24 hours APPLE, The Celestial Woodlands (1985-1991)	Ben Frazier Jr., The Ranger	Emulex, SYS-PC
	"Not your average site. Large g-files section with Phrack, cDc, CUD, uXu, etc." - The Ranger
713-597-4000 HOUSTON BUFFALO, TX	Paradise Play Line, PARADISE PLAY LINE (1994-1996)	Scott Vradenburgh	MajorBBS
	PARADISE PLAY LINE, 713.597.4000 Feel the excitement of Cyberspace. 21 and over. INTERNET access, World link Chat, Bi-Weekly Social activities, Adult Files, Swinger Forums and info. User Registries with GIF attachments. 14,4kb modems, 30 Lines of pleasure and friendship in BBS Paradise!!! - BBS Magazine November, 1994
713-681-6166 HOUSTON OVERLAN, TX	Shadows of Fyre, UnderWorld BBS (1994-1996)	Kevin Drake	TAG
	Shadows of Fyre was a BBS set up by Sonya Marney, variously using TAG, Oblivion, and several others, though each one looked identical, because she would make sure that was the way she wanted it. UnderWorld BBS was run by Kevin Drake under TAG, And he never really wanted it to change. All this was under the same phone number. The front end I (Kevin) built would allow the caller to choose which BBS to load into. I know for the last half a year I had a FIDOnet, which automatically called out in the middle of the wee hours to sync. All this was started on XT with a 300/1200 baud modem, and a 10 meg hard card. We eventually upgraded to a 286, 386 and 486, eventually having 2 megs of memory, which was glorious at the time, and a 56k baud modem. The death nell was all of those EV1 internet CD's and AOL CD's that were floating around. All the glory was lost to the Geocities and angelfire websites that could be hosted all the time without tying up the phone line with the added benefit of being free.
713-748-7353 HOUSTON RIVERSI, TX	Longhorn BBS (1991-1993)	Carl Seiler	Maximus
	"I ran this BBS from my dorm room at night (only one phone line) while at the University of Texas. Met many friends in both Houston and Austin during this time. Some of them seem to have vanished into thin air. When I graduated, I moved to Houston and got a second line. The thing was run on an 8088 with a 20Mb HD and 2400bps modem."
713-774-7877 Houston, TX	Computech (1990-1993)	Russell Kroll	GT Power
	"Originally Ivory 3.3 on a C-64 (Feb 1990 - Oct 1990), then GT Power on a 386. Started 9 Feb 1990. Left Houston 21 Jun 1993, came back up in Colorado Springs 23 Jun 1993 as 719-260-6279. Officially shut down 30 Apr 1999 after major rainstorms flooded computer room. Former network addresses: GT 001/070 (1990-1999), Fido 1:128/152 (1993-1999), ctsbbs.com (1994-1999)" - Russell Kroll
713-782-5706 HOUSTON SUNSET, TX	NET-WORKS Briar-Net (1983-1984)
	"Briar-Net ran Networks and was run out of the classroom of Briarwoods elementary school. If you logged in during the school day, you could sometimes chat with the teacher." - Eric Zorrilla
713-807-9488 Houston, Texas,	Teen Talk BBS (1990-1996)	David Heine Jr	Wildcat
	"Teen Talk was was the first BBS to introduce the graphical game Planets to the texas area. It was also a fairly large Warez board with a whopping 975MB of software. making it one of the largest Pirated Software sources to the texas area in the early 1990's and a true Pioneer, with over 400 users state wide. featuring 3 Private nodes, and FIDONET." - David Heine, Jr.
713-852-7028 Humble, TX	Power House BBS, The PowerHouse BBS (1990-1997)	Jack Followay, Jr. (Rascal)	Image, New Image BBS
	"The BBS was originally run on a borrowed copy of C-Net 64 (from the Hip Pocket BBS' SysOp). Later we bought Atlantis BBS' copy of New Image BBS. When the Hip Pocket went down a short while later, we bought most of their hardware (a whoppin 80 meg Lt Kernal Hard drive system). We were part of the NISSA/ImageNet network (Node ID was PHB). From 95-97 we helped create and run a development/beta system for the "next generation" of Image BBS (v2.0). Sadly, it never released as a product (Image somewhat fell apart after the loss of Fred Dart)." - Jack Followay
713-855-4285 HOUSTON, TX	CLOUD NINE BBS (1992)
	CLOUD NINE BBS, 8 GiGs, 60,000+ nies PCBoard vl4.5a/xl99 C-USA, 700 conferences, 18 nodes, all lines 19.2kb, 24 hours a day. 713-855-6133 voice and 713-855-4285 data.
713-862-2926 Houston, TX	Hard Times, The (1989-1994)	The Master	PC-Board
	"Major warez board run by The Master until he moved back to Missouri. Had a loose affiliation with The General."
713-868-4372 Houston, TX,	Fightertown USA, The Hornets NEst, The Hornets' Nest, The Mages' Guild (1990-1991)	Scott Marshall	Telegard, TAG
	"I enjoyed running a Houston area Bulletin board. Door games and files downloads were the 'in thing'. I changed software a few times as my tastes changed - but most of all I enjoyed a SYSOP chat with people and games like Solar Realms Elite. I don't think the modern day Internet captures the sense of community that BBS's did. I do indeed miss those days! I don't miss the constant drone of my BBS computers hard-drive throughout the night! Like most, I miss that first modem feeling I hard hearing the 'screech' as it connected to my first BBS." - Scott Marshall
713-884-7100 HOUSTON OXFORD, TX	The FRP BBS (1986-1992)	Mark Manning	Custom Software
	"Run on an Apple //gs, two 3.5" floppy drives, two 5.25" floppy drives. Featured a multiplayer D&D like game with a referee and several chat boards. Ran for over five years. Approximately 1986-1992 when I moved and then got married. Hasn't been back up since. :-( Presently working on an internet version of a FRP game based upon my copyrighted rpg rules (like doesn't EVERYONE have a copyrighted set of rules? ;-) At the height of the game we used to have about eight regular players with about 10-20 drop-ins. People could form teams, explore, or go their separate ways. Age group was from 6yrs old (a player named Link after[I suppose] the Zelda games) up to a 40yr old guy who liked to play a vampire. We had lots of fun in the game. :-)" - Mark Manning
713-890-0310 Houston, TX	BBS IBM Hostcomm Houston, Hostcomm Houston (Password: NFSYS) (1983-1985)	Tim Tindle	HostComm
	I enjoyed running the BBS, I had left TI in 1982 with some friends to start a computer company we initially named Gateway Technology later changed to Compaq Computer Corp, When I started my BBS it ran on a prototype of the original Compaq Portable. Great memories.
713-890-0561 Cypress, TX	The Anarchist's Underground (TAU), Anarchists Underground (1990)		SYS-PC, Spartus, Genesis
	"BBS software did change to "Spartus" which was another Forum hack. Spartus was programmed by the SysOp (Shadow Walker) who also co-coded another locally popular BBS "RCS". Going back even further, the BBS first ran Genesis software, switched to Forum, then Sys-PC (because that's what Celestial Woodlands was running - Shadow Walker was a co-SysOp of Celestial Woodlands), then various versions of Spartus. System ran on an IBM XT with a 40meg RLL HDD. A hard-disk crash and shifting priorities eventually spelled the end for this BBS." - Timothy Ranglin
713-894-5636 Houston, Texas	South Texas BBS Systems (1986-1995)	Ray Martin	RBBS-17a
	"Multi-line Multi-city BBS system. Locations Houston, Lake Jackson, and Bay City. Part of the STUG (South Texas Users Group). Programmers, games, and utilities conferences and files." - Ray Martin
713-941-1542 HOUSTON HUDSON, TX	The Golden Coco BBS (1984-1996)	Terry Goode	RiBBS, RBBS-PC
	"You brought back some fond memories, some not so fond. I ran the "The Golden Coco Bbs" (tandy "Rat shack" color computer), it was actually painted a Gold color, from late 82/mid 83 on home made software. It was the "first official" color computer bbs in Texas, there was another but he only lasted 30 days at that time. When Radio Shack came out with OS9 i converted to Ribbs and that was in 84 and the bbs ran till 94 i think. God what memories. heheh 3 O'clock calls that the bbs was down due to a storm or a floppy went bad then went big time up to 5 meg "hard drives", heheh" - Terry Goode
713-943-4000 Houston, TX	X-Citing Systems, X-Citing Systems Online (XSO), xciting systems online (1994-1996)	Huggy Bear, Kinky Kiss (Greg Mahan), Travis R	MajorBBS, Major BBS
	"Probably Houston's first for-pay adult multi-line bbs. Had 2 incoming lines." - Greg Mahan From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Houston, Texas since 06/01. Sysop: Travis R.. Using MajorBBS 6.21-d with 31 lines on MS-DOS with 6000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $$48 Annual fee. Serving the back alleys of the Information Super Highway. Internet, Majornet. All adult, must be 21 yrs or older. Come see the girls of X-Citing Tans, the nations hottest adult tanning salons. Chat live with these girls online and see their GIF's & AVI's
713-955-0063 Houston, Texas	South Texas BBS Systems, South Texas BBS Systems II, South Texas BBS Systems Node 2 (1987-1995)	Ray Martin	RBBS-17a, RBBS-PC 17a
	"Home of HDINFO, multi-user, multi-node BBS system." - Ray Martin
713-977-7019 Houston, TX	Houston ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
713-984-8086 HOUSTON HOMESTE, TX	Aida (1988)	John Olson
	"Aida - Briefly ran an RCP/M style (ported to MS-DOS 2.0) board with "Packet Radio" capabilities. You could call up and talk / listen (uhh... actually.... type ) to ham radio operators chatting via packet radio. This was the period of time where I got a FidoNet node number and started dabbling in writing FidoNet capable software." - John L. Olson
713-994-5162 HOUSTON SUNSET, TX	Powerhouse (1992)	Trillion
	Independent Member BBS
714-220-4088 Anaheim, CA	Anaheim UHSD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-245-0408 Lake Elsinor, CA	Lake Elsinor Unified SD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-276-4503 LOS ANGELES - P, CA	The Otherside (1992)	Jynx
	Digital Member BBS
714-280-9556 Anaheim Hills, CA	The Entrepreneur Connection (1994)	Tim R
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Anaheim Hills, California since 01/94. Sysop: Tim R. Sills. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 20 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $60 Annual fee. If you ever wanted to start a business but didn't know how, this is the place to call. Learn step-by-step how to start & run your own business through our business software, calendar of classes & seminars, & online bus. directory. Call now for free demo.
714-362-8299 Laguna Niguel, CA	Check Six BBS (1993-1994)	Patrick Gost
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Laguna Niguel, California since 06/93. Sysop: Patrick Gost. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1.2 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $5 Monthly fee. Latest flight simulation updates, utils, and msgs. Internet Email, USENET (air combat, fit. sim, etc.). Official customer support forums for Keyboard Commander Corp (kcc@checksix.com) and ThrustMaster (thrustmaster @checksix.com). SimNet member BBS.
714-379-9004 Huntington Beach, CA	NovaCentral, ResNova Software, ResNova Software Inc (1994-1995)
	Product: Novalink.professional
714-396-0014 Diamond Bar, CA	Computer Business Services (1993-1994)	Nick Anis Jr.
	Book/Publishing Consultant Nick Anis’ BBS
714-447-7496 Fullerton, CA	Fullerton Elementary (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-449-5689 San Diego, CA	Bill's ABBS (Peoples Message System) (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
714-449-9373 FULLERTON, CA	Korea America Online (1995)	Wayne Jeong
	ListKeeper: Korean BBSs
714-458-6858 Laguna Hills, CA	Bonzai's Hideaway (1988-1991)	Bonzai Bob	WWIV
	"No dedicated line, ran only at night. Featured ANSI Art rivalry with Hard Knox." - A. Priestley
714-491-1003 ANAHEIM, CA	The Desktop BBS (1984-1996)	Mark Murphy, David Lawrence, Kerry Garrison
	"One of the first Macintosh BBSs in Orange County, came out after the famed Mousehole BBS. Ran on an Apple ][+ starting out and eventually ran on a Mac. Shut down in 1996 due to the Internet. The BBS kind of lives on via an email list which previous users can subscribe at Desktop-on@list.Mac-Online.com." - Mark Murphy
714-493-3819	Crow's Nest , Crow's Nest,a.-9, CrowNest GAPHQ, GAP Development Company Technical Support, The Crow's Nest, The Crow's Nest GAP (1985-1998)	Kenny Gardner	GAP
	Product: GAP
714-520-0781 Colorado Springs, CO	The Midnight Runner (1990-1991)	Matthew Bradford	Wildcat!
	"This was a little BBS I put together that ran on my house line during the wee hours of the night (hence the name) actually turned into quite the file sharing hub back in the day. :-)" - Matthew Bradford
714-520-9945 ANAHEIM, CA	Dead Zone Node 1 (1992)	Toxicman
	Ind/Trsi Member BBS
714-524-9308 Placenita, CA	Ace BBS (1992-1996)	Puggsley, Nammtar, NoX	Synchronet
	"High School students running a Pre-Internet hang out. We had 8,000 users 40 calls a day (~80 with two nodes). There were some snags along the way getting all the parts to put the thing together & keeping it going(having no $ didn't help). The running joke was it was the fastest 286 BBS. At our peek we had 2 nodes and 80 calls a day. Retired in 96' (after graduation) I still have the CPU from the system in my wallet. Thanks for the memories." - Jay (Puggsley)
714-529-5313 BREA, CA	Digital Dynamics Technical Support, Vertrauen (1994-1996)	Rob Swindell
	Product: Synchronet
714-529-9525 Yorba Linda, CA	SynchroNet BBS, Vertrauen, Digital Dynamics, Digital Dynamics (Synchronet Demo) (1993-1996)		Synchronet
	2400bps
714-529-9547 Yorba Linda, CA	Digital Dynamics, Digital Dynamics (Synchronet Demo) (1993-1995)		Synchronet
	GST/v.32bis
714-529-9666 Brea, CA	War Tech BBS (1989-1995)	Ben Durda	PC Board
	"I can add more later if you like. War Tech BBS was started as away to get to learn programing. I started out with Wildcat, and moved to PCboard less then a year later. It was a heavy modded board. My board was the 1st to use many CD Roms at one time. Seems I was at that time the only admin to get 3/4 CD Roms working on one computer. This gave life to my board. Why it do not start out as a adult board, it soon became one. Guess it was going to be that being I had 9 Adult CDs on line at the time and each being 600+megs each. I did have 13 nodes, with 15 computers running in my bedroom." - Ben Durda
714-531-5609 Orange County, CA	Morrison Hotel (1986-1989)	Eric Pederson, Mike Cantu	Skynet
	"Morrison Hotel (MoHo) was started in 1986 as a way to learn Unix and meet girls. It was a 10-line multi-user BBS offering Chat, Message Boards, Email, Games, File Transfers, Voting, and much more. "The sysops were Mike Cantu and myself, both 19 year old (in 1986) college students going to California State University Long Beach. "Mike and I spent a number of years as interns administering a IBM mainframe system used by students in our high school district. On that system we wrote some of the predecessors of MoHo features (in Fortran!). We also spent a lot of time online during high school on different BBSes around the country and in Orange County. "The software for the MoHo was developed from scratch by us in C, running Unix System V/3 on a Convergent Technologies miniframe (first) and then SCO Unix on a 386 tower. We had ten 2400 baud US Robotics Sportsters. "The users of the board were primarily college kids and teenagers. It was a prime place to meet the opposite sex via Chat :) The users got together for parties all the time. "Because 10 phone lines weren't cheap (neither was the $10,000 Convergent Miniframe), we charged a $10/month flat rate subscription (we also had a "credits" plan where you were charged for online usage). Access to the message boards and email were free, as was limited access to chat. We strongly believed that the basic features of our bulletin board should always be free. "The chat system we developed was heavily influenced by Diversidial. Lots of cool and unique features (like Jive mode, if you remember the old Unix jive filter). A clone of the MoHo chat system (same UI, different code base) was used by Vrave based at hyperreal.org "The message boards we developed were very heavily influenced by PicoSpan (the original software that the Well ran). Featuring threaded topics, etc. "The email system and the menuing system we developed were heavily influenced by Forum-PC (probably the best DOS PC BBS software there was, followed by WWIV) "Among the many games (there were lots of freeware games for Unix) was a game we wrote called TAC - Tactical Armored Command. This was a real-time, multiuser tank battle game. People spent hours and hours playing that game! "File transfers used gz, a freeware Unix file transfer program that supported x/y/zmodem. "We did not advertise because the phone lines were always busy (tho we had a 30 minute timeout after which you were hung up on to let someone else get a chance to get in). We had numerous phone numbers, so that MoHo would be local dialing to the widest area. "A company called US CAD hired us, and adopted Morrison Hotel to try to turn it into a profitable business (both from subscriptions and from developing the software to sell to other sysops). The business never panned out though, for a number of reasons. We were eventually laid off from US CAD in 1989 and Morrison Hotel was shut down. We did not have the motivation to start it back up again. "That is the story of Morrison Hotel." - Eric Pederson
714-531-9819 SANTA ANA, CA	Purple Dragon Ii (1990-1992)
	Skid Row Member BBS
714-533-6112 Anaheim, CA	Mousehole Download	Larry Nedry	Custom
	"This BBS started with two phone lines and was running on a TRS-80 Model III. The custom designed software was written in Z-80 ASM by the Sysop." - Larry Nedry
714-533-6451 Fullerton, CA	Digital Dementians (1987-1991)	Frans Lagersuufer	Maximus
	"Member of the ChainMail group in 1992. Originally a text files repository."
714-556-3177 Newport Beach, CA	Newport Mesa USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-562-6069 Placentia, CA	The Belching Dragon Inn & Tavern (1988-1996)	Hendel Thistletop	Maximus CBCS
	"As for The Dragon, I have a little history page up on my website, at http://www.belchingdragon.com/draghst.html. After the dialup board went down, I tried for a while to create the same experience on a website - that never worked out, but I still maintain a mailing list to which many of the original "Irregulars" still contribute. Like several of your interview subjects, to this day my closest friends (not to mention my wife) are people I met through The Dragon. Funny story for you (the "sysop" stuff from disc 1 is still echoing in my head). One of the Irregulars had a young daughter; she was probably about seven at the time. Very smart, precocious kid that we all treated as "ours" at the weekly board social events. One day her mom gets a call from school, wanting to know if the girl needed to be punished. Seems that someone was trying to explain the idea of "God" to her, as the entity that created and maintains the universe. In her eureka moment, Smaltos exclaimed, "Oh, you mean he's a sysop!" Her teachers didn't know the word, and thought it might be a foreign/naughty one. :-)" - Hendel Thistletop
714-562-8255 La Mirada, CA	The Coffee Break BBS (1995)	Lisa Verhagen, Lisa Verhagen (Coffee)	MBBS/Worldgroup
	"The Coffee Break BBS is one of the few BBS's from "back in the day" that is still going strong! Believe it or not we still have some of our original users online! MajorMUD is the big draw, although chat, trivia, Tradewars, TLORD, etc are alive as well. The Coffee Break BBS still gives you that warm fuzzy feeling of an era gone by. It's managed to keep up with the times while retaining the pub atmosphere where everybody knows your name. In a time when there is internet overload, it's just nice to have a place to come to and know you're safe and loved. The Coffee Break BBS is that place. Log on and see why people click their heels and say "There's no place like Coffee's!" You can log on to the webpage at http://www.coffeebbs.com or log on directly by telnetting to coffeebbs.com. You can email the sysop (Coffee) at sysop@coffeebbs.com You can subscribe using PayPal or by sending your payment in snailmail to: Lisa Verhagen 9247 SVL Box, Victorville, CA 92395 Help keep the memories alive at The Coffee Break BBS... the ULTIMATE Caffeine BUZZ!" - Lisa Verhagen
714-562-9211 Centralia, CA	Centralia School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-563-2206 ANAHEIM, CA	Hms Bounty 4 Nodes (1992)	Christian Fletcher
	Thg Member BBS
714-565-0761 San Diego, CA	Stan Skoglund (Infobit) CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
714-571-5550 San Diego, CA	San Diego Computer Society CBBS (1980)		CP/M CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
714-579-7022 Anaheim Hills, CA	Fantasia Services Unlimited, FSU BBS (1993-1996)	Paul Egger	MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Anaheim Hills, California since 06/93. Sysop: Paul Egger. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 16 lines on MS-DOS with 15000 MB storage. PPI at 14400 bps. No fee. Massive BBS featuring message forums, National ChatLink, Internet Email and Newsgroups, CD-ROM file library, online tournament gaming. Dedicated to providing top quality adult entertainment. Take advantage of our free accounts to see why we're the best.
714-582-9557 San Diego, CA	PMS-SAN DIEGO, Apple Corps of San Diego (Computer Merchant) (1980-1982)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
714-586-6142 Mission Viejo, CA	DIGITAL FOREST, Digital Forest Information System, The Digital Forest, The Digital Forest Information System (1994-1995)	Tobin Fricke, Light Ray (Tobin Fricke), Bucket Man	Renegade
	"In addition to the 1994-1995 years, the BBS was reincarnated for a few months in (1999?) when I was in college, as a telnet-accessible BBS." - Tobin Fricke
714-586-6297 Mission Viejo, CA	Saddleback Valley Unified (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-586-6836 Mission Viejo, CA	Plain Wrap BBS (1986-1993)	Coyote	CNet
	"Started as Plain Wrap BBS with the Commodore 64 (three 1541's and one SFD-1001), then went to the Amiga 500, then the Amiga 2000 then got a 68020 upgrade. The Amiga had a 20GB hard disc and a dual port serial card. Had one line with a 28.8K USR Dual Standard (714-586-6836) had a second line with a 14.4K USR Dual Standard (714-586-8366). Then went to Black Rainbow BBS until taken down in 1993." - Coyote
714-588-3020 Corona, CA	Corona-Norco USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-589-2700 Rancho Santa Margrita, CA	Chamber Secrets (1992-1995)	Jason McDonnell	WWIV & VBBS
	"This was the second location of a Single line BBS system that ran WWIV v4.xx (Originally called Heels of Domination out of Tustin, CA (714)832-1566). The system upgraded in mid of 1992 to a two line system running VBBS (one HST line the other standard 14.4 type). The system was connected up on the WWIVnet and acted as a mail hub using both PCnetwork (Sprint dial up system) and direct dial to 4 systems in St. Louis, San Francisco, Virginia and New York city. The BBS was moved to a user in Riverside California at the beginning of 1995 when I moved away from California for a job. I can not remember the new phone number but the name stayed the same for over two years. This year 2003, I have donated the BBS to a history project/group called the Leather Achieves. This is a BDSM oriented group that is documenting the Leather/BDSM community history. I hope the BBS provides information on the transition between word of mouth communication and the Digital age of the Internet." - Jason McDonnell
714-591-1329 Chino, CA	Chino High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-621-2310 Claremont, CA	Claremont High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-633-6619 Orange, CA	NEEON-19 (1984-1988)	Wally the Weirdo (aka Prof. Feedlebom)	CNet, Citadel
	"NEEON-19 was a small BBS run in conjunction with a voice-based comment line of the same name (that number was 714-633-7610) that had a small but tightly-knit userbase. Originally run on a C-64 with two floppy drives, by the end it was running on an Atari ST with a small hard drive. NEEON-19 was arguably more famous for the voice comment line we ran, which attained a small amount of infamy for being the worst-run of such lines in the Los Angeles area. Hey, we were 16 at the time.. and were more interested in girls than production values." - Wally the Weirdo
714-650-4612 Costa Mesa, CA	The Viewlink BBS, Viewlink (1992-1994)	Terry Andrews
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Costa Mesa, California since 10/92. Sysop: Terry Andrews. Using WildCat 3.9 with 4 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 1400 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $10 36 days fee. Latest shareware, hottest adult GIFs and FlFs, Temp Jobs, latest hot shareware GAMES. 28 cents per hour. Upload GIFs for more time. Chat for all. 10 Conferences and 109 File Areas. Login 4 more info. You must be 18 or older, please.
714-652-4128 Hemet, CA	Ouija Board, The Darkside, Warez 'R' Us (1984-1989)	Grinder / The Punisher	6485 and then UES
	"I ran this BBS roughly from '84 to '89. It was affiliated to the groups TEF, WHO, SCG, and INC (despite what Gryman claims). It should be noted that in the 80's listing by area codes, the Inland Empire (excluding Palm Springs which was 619), and Hemet/San Jacinto in particular, was actually in the 714 area until the early 90's when it became 909. It is only now that it will fully propagate to 951 in the next 6mos. My mother still lives there, so this is confirmed." - Grinder
714-663-6064 Garden Grove, CA	Pacifica High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-678-9395 Elsinor, CA	Elsinor School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-681-6221 Mira Loma, CA	Attention to Details, Attention to Details BBS, Attn to Details (1992-1996)	Clint Bradford	Wildcat
	Utilities/ASP/Patriquin Utils/Protocols
714-685-1021 Fontana, CA	Free Flight (1985-1992)	Mach One & Spad	Hermes
	"Great conversation and posted opinions. Warez [to a minor degree]; mostly shareware and sheer genius" - Anonymous
714-699-6780 Orange County, CA	Exciton BBS (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: High resolution image (JPG) catalog of women & men's lingeries, women's accessories, books & games, lotions, toys, and adult novelties. Online ordering, secure credit card transactions, free access. Enhance your love life.
714-727-4723 Irvine, CA	AST On-Line!, AST Research Inc, AST Research Technical Support, AST Research, Inc BBS, AST support BBS 2400, AST Technical Services BBS (1991-1995)	AST Research Inc.
	Superb support system for AST Computer Products
714-730-5785 Irvine, CA	Spider Island Software, Splider Island Software (1993-1995)
	Product: Telefinder
714-730-6872 Tustin, CA	HAG (Haddock's Adventure Games) (1983-1984)	Captain Haddock	Custom
	"Online D&D games, message boards, voting, switchable 40/80 col with wordwrap, run on a C=64" - Captain Haddock
714-733-8284 Irvine, CA	Mindfog (1985-1987)	Leggz, The Unseen Entity	Telecat BBS - Cat-Fur, Catsend, AE
	"20 Meg Apple //e system.. Ran proving grounds in the background. Ended up going Elite after reaching about 300 users, it was just too much. Elite system was phreakers and pirates only.. Had about 40 members from all over the U.S. and a few from Africa/South America/Euro. They were pretty scarey characters. Bluebeard, Redlaw, Minotaur, Blue Buccaneer, Blue Sentry, Sensei, Green Hornet, The Goniff and Wombat, others.. It's been so long I cannot remember. Turned it off the day before I turned 18..." - The Unseen Entity
714-738-5190 Fullerton, CA	The Electronic Jukebox, The Electronic Jukebox BBS (1991-1992)	Bill Arthur	RBBS-PC, RemoteAccess
	"We had a lot of fun! I remember that the local 103 gang was very helpful for a newbie sysop getting started. Dave Steever had me bring my 9MHz XT(with two 20MB HDs)to his house and installed BinkleyTerm, Qmail and Qecho. When a new nodediff came out my poor little XT had to chug away for hours to compile the new nodelist. I never had that many users, but I sure learned a lot. Eventually I moved to the 310 area code and later switched to Wildcat5 (Winserver) and was online as www.jukeboxbbs.com" - Bill Arthur
714-739-0669 Buena Park, CA	The Beast's Domain (1985-1996)	Allen Christiansen, King Drafus	GBBS II, WWIV, Synchronet
	"Originally started on a Franklin Ace 1000 with a couple of floppy drives and a 300 baud MicroModem on GBBS. The BBS was on haitus for a couple of years until IBM XT's became the "big thing" and I restarted it on WWIV, eventually becoming one of the initial BBS's run on the Synchronet BBS software which was written by my good friend Rob (Digital Man) over at Vertrauen BBS." - King Drafus
714-753-1068	Western Digital Corp., Western Digital Support, Western Digital Technical Support, Western Digital Tech Support (1991-1995)	Western Digital Corporation
	Hard Drive/Controller Installation and Config Data
714-761-8949 Cypress, CA	Lexington JHS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-786-2951 Irvine, CA,	Kanda's Lair (1986-1987)	Jeff Thompson, Jeff Thompson, AKA Kanda' Jalen Eirsie	OPUS
	"The second incarnation of Kanda's Lair, 1st of which was on an international network - OpusNet (at the time). BBS ran on an IBM PC portable (luggable) 2 floppies and a 20 meg HD. I was so fed up with the usual 1-hour time limit that nearly all BBS's enforced, that Kanda's Lair became at that time, tag-lined as "No Limits..." - Jeff Thompson
714-793-9858 Redlands, CA	Redlands Unified School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-820-6865 Rialto, CA	Rialto School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-822-2718 Fontana, CA	Mr.Happy's Tele-Mate, Mr. Happy's Telemate (1979-1989)	Kevin Stevens	Written from Scratch
	"My brother Kevin & I ran up my parent's phone bill dialing out to other area BBS systems on our Apple II (one of the first 500 Apple II's made). We shared a bedroom and would stay up late at night talking. We decided to write our own BBS. Kevin was about 10 years old, I was 13. I was the initial idea guy, but Kevin was the brains behind programming it from scratch. I remember asking him to teach me and he would just point to this pile of books from which he used to learn. When you first logged onto Tele-mate, it would present you with a list of questions. They were used to compare you with other users and provide you with a match. The problem was, back then 90% of the users were men. The name came from Robin William's routine that was running on HBO at the time. Mr. Happy was what Robin referred to his private part as. However, the name was really never meant to infer that it had to do with private parts, we just liked it. In hind-site Tele-mate without Mr. Happy's would have been a better name. At first, we were using our regular home phone number. The hours were supposed to be from 9pm to 8am. We would turn the ringer off of our rotary phone that was leased from PacBell at the time, hanging on the wall in our hallway. But, as it turned out, we got in trouble again from our parents, because people would call at all hours and my mom would answer only to hear a modem on the other end. It was written in Applesoft and later compiled to machine language. It started out with 5 1/4 floppies only, then graduated to a hard drive. Eventually it was upgraded to an Apple IIGS. I think my brother gave the code away to a couple of other people, of which one used it for their own Tele-mate BBS. After the first couple of years, I lost interest, but my brother stayed with it. Eventually AOL became prominent and my brother lost interesest as he moved into high school and started getting a life." - Michael Stevens
714-828-7093 Cypress, CA	Best Friends, Interludes BBS (1989-1995)	Angela Duarte	MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cypress, California since 01/89. Sysop: Angela Duarte. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 13 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 3000 MB storage. Supra at 14400 bps. $4.95 Monthly fee. Local numbers avail-able. Multiplayer games, Internet Mail, Usenet, Majornet mail, nationwide chat, matchmaker, and more! Home of Humanware Systems (TPD of MajorBBS utilities). Low rates. Fast and friendly system with great users!
714-832-1566 Tustin, CA	Heels Of Domination, Heels of Domination (1986-1994)	Jason Mcdonnell, Jason McDonnell	WWIV
	"This was the first location of a Single line BBS system that ran WWIV v4.xx. The computer started life on a 2400baud modem, and in 1989 an upgrade to a USRobotics HST Dual Standard 14.4 was the biggest moment (and a $589 hole out of my wallet). The BBS focus was the BDSM/Fetish community in the Orange County area. By using a Warez based BBS software I was able to provide security and several different "Worlds" to make a safe place for people to talk and become friends. The user base at one time exceeded 500 people on the single line system and would be active 950 to 1100 minutes a day with a caller volume of 50 to 70 different users per day. The system was a member of the WWIVnet message exchange network. The system moved in mid of 1992 to 714-589-2700, and was upgraded to a two line system running VBBS. The BBS was moved to a user in Riverside California at the beginning of 1995 when I moved away from California for a job. The BBS 714-832-1566 phone number was listed in the first printing of "Screw the roses, send me the thorns" BDSM education book. And this year (2003), I have donated the BBS to a history project/group called the Leather Achieves. This is a BDSM oriented group that is documenting the Leather/BDSM community history. I hope the BBS provides information on the transition between word of mouth communication and the Digital age of the Internet." - Jason McDonnell
714-836-5153 SANTA ANA, CA	Depths Of Hell (1992)	Radar
	Crack Inc Member BBS
714-837-3218 Mission Viejo, CA	The Solar System 2, The Solar System BBS (1992-1993)
	Deltronix Enterprises
714-837-9677 Mission Viejo, CA	Orange Co South, SolarSys, The Solar System, The Solar System / Deltronix Online, The Solar System 1, The Solar System BBS (1988-2004)	Peter Guethlein	Wildcat , Wildcat!, WildCat 4.01
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Mission Viejo, California since 12/88. Sysop: Peter Guethlein. Using WildCat 3.9 with 6 lines on MS-DOS with 15000 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. No fee. Awesome ANSI & RIP Graphics, FidoNet 1:103/957, Internet, Intelec, MetroLink Echomail & more. Space Tteme, over 90 live door games, very unique high quality BBS, free access available, support board: B-CRC upload file duplication scanner. Deltronix Enterprises
714-838-7345 Tustin, Ca,	BBS Commodore The Grapevine (1983-1985)	Roger Fisher	RAVICS / Commodore 64
	"Had a great time running this board!" - Roger Fisher
714-840-3520 Huntington Beach, CA	CovyWare, ResNova Software Inc, ArenaBBS (1993)
	ResNova Software, Inc.
714-840-8641 HUNTINGTON BEAC, CA	Nova Central, NovaCentral (1993-1994)
	ResNova Software, Inc.
714-852-8002 Irvine, CA	Moving & Shaking BBS (1989-1996)	Ron Rapp	FrontDoor & QuickBBS (later RemoteAccess)
	"Started the BBS during my college years out of the dorm room. The BBS was active from 10 pm to 6 am and I'd simply unplug our telephone so the ringing wouldn't wake anyone up. Hard to believe, but users respected the nodelist-posted hours for the BBS. And my roommates put up with having no phone during the middle of the night, even though they didn't use the BBS. Saints, one and all..." - Ron Rapp
714-855-4318 Laguna Hills, CA	Chip's Ahoy, Chip's Ah0Y! (1988-1998)	Mr. Chips - Steve Kuver	WWIV
	"The switch to 949 was a killer! Started in High School on an ALR 286-10 (Later modded to be a 286-16) w/ 2MB RAM and a Paradise 256K RAM VGA card and NEC Multisync II monitor. 40Mb of storage was rather limiting, but a user donated a 660MB Maxtor SCSI drive and adapter to expand things a tag (5 1/4" full-heigth!). The Zoom telephonics 2400baud Internal ISA modem was procured where? At the Pomona computer swapmeet (for $94, BTW) Upgrades to 4800, 9600, 14.4k and finally a 'Not for resale' demonstration Courier V.everything (which still handles fax reception at my office to this day!) allowed for SMOKIN' fast 33,6k connects. It was running on a 386/52Mhz (over-clocked AMD 386/40 w/ a BIG heatsink and a 387/26Mhz co-processor, too!) for a while until Wild Bill stumbled on a deal that we couldn't pass up: Micron (a USA vendor of high quality) Pentium-100 desktops... that was the last machine that ran the BBS w/ the last incarnation on a 4.3GB WD IDE HDD. The sound was so soothing at night. When it was finally shut down, I had trouble sleeping for months! I met numerous great people on the local BBS scene, and am always looking to hold a user meet at Round Table or Harbor House..." - Mr. Chips "
714-863-7097 Irvine, CA	Gateway Communications Inc, Gateway Communications, Inc BBS, Gateway Communications BBS (1991-1994)	Gary Gabrick
	Novell Netware/TCP-IP Shareware Utilities
714-869-2328 Pomona, CA	Cal Poly Univ (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-870-3423 Fullerton, CA	Sunny Hills HS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-888-0047 San Bernardino, CA	Azusa Pacific (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-888-1573 San Bernardino, CA	San Bernardino City (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-898-1984 Westminster, CA	Computer Components Association of Orange Country (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
714-925-0836 Hemet, CA	Hemet FeEdMail Center (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-964-4346 Huntington Beach, CA	Kors-Meyer Electronics ABBS (1980)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
714-966-4313 Orange County, CA	Orange County Office Ed (1993)
	FrEdMail System FrEdMail System
714-981-7382 San Antonio Heights, CA	The Ice House BBS (1985-1988)	Chris Logan
	"Computer: Commodore 64. Modem: Westridge 6420 Automodem. Disk Drives: (2) 1541 Drives. Phone Lines: 1. Nodes: 1. Operational: 24/7." - Chris Logan
714-986-9890 Ontario, CA	Ontario Montclair SD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
714-991-4019 Anaheim, CA	Software Gallery, THE SOFTWARE GALLERY BBS (1990-1994)	Joe Engebretson	Wildcat!
	"Hi. I was the sysop of the Software Gallery in Anaheim CA (714-991-4019) Just wanted to thank you for the database and a minor correction. Ran the BBS from 1990-1994 on a 386/Dx 16, Wildcat software, 14.4k modem, 2 lines, Games, Chat, Freeware and Shareware. Thanks, Joe Engebretson."
714-995-8830 Anaheim, CA	DUSTV'S BAR & SOCIAL CLUB (1995)
	DUSTV'S BAR & SOCIAL CLUB 714.995.8830. 714.995.9054. Anaheim CA since 6/94. Sysop: Bib Bubba. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 2 lines (4 more 1/95) on MS-Dos 486. Hayes 28.8 modems. Games, Chatlink, Majornet. Online magazines, sport news, children, teen, adult sections. Logon for more info. 8N1.5 hrsfree. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
714-995-9054 Anaheim, CA	DUSTV'S BAR & SOCIAL CLUB, Dusty's Bar & Social Club (1994-1995)	Big Bubba	MajorBBS 6.21
	DUSTV'S BAR & SOCIAL CLUB 714.995.8830. 714.995.9054. Anaheim CA since 6/94. Sysop: Bib Bubba. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 2 lines (4 more 1/95) on MS-Dos 486. Hayes 28.8 modems. Games, Chatlink, Majornet. Online magazines, sport news, children, teen, adult sections. Logon for more info. 8N1.5 hrsfree. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
714-996-3367 Yorba Linda, Ca	The Anarchist's Connection (TaC) (1995-1997)	Russman, Bootyquake, Froth	Renegade
	"The Anarchist's Connection was a great resource for h/p/a/c/v related files. There was an active userbase and message board. The message board was also synched with DNA-NET. GOOD TIMES!" - Russman/Dale
714-996-7777 Anaheim Hills, CA	The Liberty BBS (1992-1996)	Steven Grande, David Salch	MajorBBS 6.21
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Members are overwhelmingly adults with adult discussions and forums, but system is open to all. Featuring Internet, Web & your own home page. Other numbers local to most of Southern California and nationwide via BBS DIRECT or telnet to liberty.com.
714-997-6387 Orange, CA	Orange USD (1993)
	FrEdMail System
715-345-5438 Stevens Point, WI	SPASH EBBS (1992-1994)	Dave Jones, Jason Klismith, Jason Bilbrey	RemoteAccess
	"This was a BBS run by the SPASH computer club." - Jason Bilbrey
715-345-7132 STEVENS POINT, WI	YIA-BBS!, YES It's another BBS (1994-1996)	Corey Koltz	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Area Code 715 BBS's
715-424-5934 Wisconsin Rapids, WI	Electroland BBS (1996-2000)	T. Giraud	TriBBS
	"Popular BBS with a wide variety of door games. Most notably, the system was used as a test site for door software developed by the SysOp, providing users with access to Internet e-Mail, FTP and gopher services." - T. Giraud
715-449-2951 Birnamwood, WI,	The Razors Edge BBS (1992-1998)	David Bachman	TriBBS, Wildcat!
	"I started this BBS when I was in High School. It was responsible for me Landing my first Job in IT. All my money as a high school kid went into operating this. Those days were so much fun!" - David Bachman
715-479-4459 EAGLE RIVER, WI	Alathea's Castle (1992)	Charles Nance
	"My daughter saw your list and refered me. The castle was named in part after her (her name is Alathea). To be more accurate she was probably named after the castle. Anyway I ran Alathea's Castle as a small on line BBS using Maxumus software and man I can't even remember the name of the frontend software I ran to keep it in fidonet. This is only one incarnation of the BBS. I also ran the same BBS in Rhinelander WI and Springfield MO although I could not tell you the phone numbers to those incarnations it has simply been a lifetime ago. Thanks for a small trip down memory lane." - Charles Nance
715-682-8800 Ashland, WI	Wolf's Lair (1990-1993)	Scott Falk	Wildcat
	"BBS Moved to Travis AFB, California in 1994 and contined there until 1996 (it is properly listed under the 707 area code). The BBS now resides in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin as TELNET only. From 2001 to present." - Scott Falk
715-723-0501 Chippewa Falls, WI	Storm BBS (1995-1996)	Adept	KBBS
	I'm no longer Clay Busker, so it'd be really preferable if I could put my BBS alias of the time in the field instead of my name at the time. (I did a similar request in the 920 area code)
715-743-1600 NEILLSVILLE, WI	free.org (1995)
	SLIP/PPP Provider
715-834-2085 Eau Claire, WI	Introspective (1993-1995)	Jonathan Osborne	WWIV & ViSiON-X
	"I operated this WWIV BBS on and off for over a year, although most of that time was spent in an experimental state. There wasn't much I could do with a slow modem (2400bps), so I needed something faster to run the system. For Christmas 1993, I got a 14.4k modem, and I was finally getting things ready to go! "In April 1994, I ordered a dedicated phone line for the BBS. But not until I purchased a CD full of shareware did it finally go live; this happened in July. Around the middle of January 1995, I got a nasty virus from somebody and had to reformat my machine. That was a small tragedy: I enjoyed running the BBS. It was also a blessing in disguise though, because after the system went down, I was able to use my computer for my own needs instead of serving others. If I'd had another computer, who knows how long I could have run? "Introspective received over 20 calls a day during its prime that November. Earlier that fall, I helped set up a message network with a sysop in Maple Grove, Minnesota. It was cool to syndicate e-mail and message boards across a wide area. "All in all, it was fun and educational to run a BBS, but the internet really pointed out the weaknesses of a single-user system." - Jonathan Osborne
715-835-0880 Eau Claire, WI	Voyage BBS (1988-1991)	Michael Walker	PCBoard
	"I use to run Voyager BBs in Eau Claire, WI from 89 to 91 not Voyage BBs and it was Michael Walker software was right though, also you have me listed correctly for Great White North BBS in Chippewa Falls, I ran the Voyager, moved back to the UP of MI then came back home and ran Great White North." - Michael Walker
715-839-1003 Eay Claire, WI	The Radioactive Zone (1993-1996)	Ben Olson	WWIV
	"Olivetti 386 machine... 14.4 Viva Modem... Orange Monochrome Monitor... The fan sounded like an outboard motor and the CPU overheated... I actually put the box in a closet with a box fan blowing on it with the case panels off. Good times. Met my first girlfriend on there too!" - Ben Olson
715-848-5526 Wausau, WI	X-Net (1995-2000)	Brian Kling	MajorBBS
	"X-Net was an eight line BBS with many door games, file downloads, Fidonet and a very active online chat room. Those were fun time!" - Brian King
715-878-4976 CLEGHORN, WI	The DarkSide BBS (1991-1995)	Aaron Salmon (The Sandman)	WWIV, Telegard, Renegade
	"I tailored to gamers and my friends... I ran lots of Doors including LORD, Global War, Dungeon Master, Planets, and of course TradeWars 2002. I really advertised the TradeWars game and had quite a few people playing. I also had files up for download and an active message board, photos, ascii art, and list of other local BBSs. I recognize quite a few of those Eau Claire BBSs on your list.. Good times.. One thing i remember was one user on my BBS was still on a 300 baud modem.... I also was a friend "Mark Berry" who ran a bbs named "8BBS". That's when i was introduced to the bbs and TradeWars." - Aaron Salmon (The Sandman)
716-224-9052 Rochester, NY	Energon BBS, Realms of Aerth (1984-1996)	Laurie Brown	BBS Express, BBS Express ST, Maximus
	"The longest running Role-Playing game BBS in Rochester. Originally run on an Atari 800, then moved to the Atari 520ST, and finally the PC. Had multiple file areas for all computer models and served as a hub to multiple gaming networks including Fidonet and RPGNet. Originally called Energon BBS, the name was later changed to the Realms of Aerth BBS. Much of the Aerth gaming information is now found on www.aerth.org" - Laurie Brown
716-227-3225 Rochester, NY	Eagles Lair ST (1986-1988)	Warren Horton	Forem ST
	"I actually first ran the Eagles Lair on an Atari 800 running 4 floppy drives, and a 256K ramdisk around 1984. After I got my Atari 1040ST I set up the Eagles Lair ST running with 4 megs of Ram, 2 40 meg Seagate MFM hard drives, and a 2400 baud modem. I never had more than 1 phone line but it was a good running board and I had quite a bit of activity, including some overseas callers and many out of staters." - Warren Horton
716-256-2659 ROCHESTER, NY	Logan's Run, MetroEast Hub, Now 2613/111, Logan’s Run (1991-1994)	Tracy Logan
	List of BBS List Keepers: Rochester NY AC 716/Tracy Logan
716-283-6641 NIAGARA FALLS, NY	Kondrak's Komputer (1982-1995)	Mad Phoneman	Telegard
	"We were fido compatable, and ran a sister bbs, Switchroom at 716-285-1883 We were featured in two phracks, and numerous articles by Mad Phoneman still exist on the Internet." - Mad Phoneman
716-285-1883 NIAGARA FALLS, NY	Switchroom BBS, The Switchroom (1982-1995)	Blaster, Marc Blitz (Blaster)	Telegard
	"This was the sister board to Kondrak's Komputer." - Mad Phoneman
716-328-2914 Rochester, NY	Logan's Run, MetroEast Hub (1994-2001)	Tracy Logan
	ListKeeper: Rochester NY AC 716
716-344-1153 BATAVIA, NY	Treasons Reach BBS (1992-1995)	Narmacil	ViSiON/X
	"I started BBSing with roboboard bbs, which probably was the precursor to the webs graphical interface. 256 colors, animations, buttons, full screen graphics display. Unfortunetly the interface was to slow for our 1200 baud modems. I switched to a text interface using ansi animations, the 400 line 30k scrolling animations :) After playing around with different boards (renegade, pcboard, wildcat, AXiS, celeberety, etc) I finally settled with ViSiON/X because the programmer responded to messages on improvements. It wasnt bloated, had the few features I wanted. the bbs was only online nights, and weekends, and mainly was used to play tradewars 2002, and LORD. It did however get me into computer graphics and programming, by giving me access to the demo scenes, and people with my same interests. lets face it the computer was a bit boring stand alone back in the late 80s early 90s befor the net. The bbs went down after the internet became local in our town, thanksgiving '95 :) Ive actually installed the software several times since then just to play around with it (still stored on my 120/250 colorado tape drive tapes) It was fun while it lasted, and i sort of wish that bbs's were still in use. The scene was definatly fun while it lasted, and sysoping a board just seems to have a bit of magic, that chatting on a online messaging service or on a irc program just doesnt seem to beable to capture." - Narmacil
716-345-9800 Batavia, NY	Hidden Paradise BBS (1994-2002)	Dean Brooks
	"This BBS is still up and running via dial-up or even telnet across the internet. The area code has since changed though to 585 thanks to Verizon. You can get to the BBS here: hpbbs.dns2go.com" - Dean Brooks
716-383-1192 Pittsford, NY	Woogie Land (1993-1995)	Ian Gyle (Mr Woogie)	Roboboard
	"This was a small bbs known for adult picture sharing, controversial debates, and a graphical strip club designed by Larry switzky known as Larry's Harem." - Ian Gyle
716-439-0430 Lockport, NY	The Chamber Door, The Chamber Door BBS (1991-1997)	Beth Trimble, Beth Smatana, Ravenhart	Telegard
	"Home of RAVEnet." - Ravenhart
716-467-5659 Rochester, NY	Starbase 53 (1989-1994)	Larry Matula	Forum ST/STadel
	"I can't tell you how happy I was to find your site. Just looking over and remembering all the other BBS sites that I used to visit, and the SysOps I remember meeting. Here is one that is listed in the "www.verycomputer.com" listing, but yours seems much more comprehensive and historical. I was disappointed that my site was not listed in the "archives". If you'll allow, I'd like to add my own boards to the historical listing. Baud: 1200/2400/9600. Megs of Storage: 200+ (this was a HUGE amount at the time, when most boards were running around 80 megs or so.) Computer: Atari ST. BBS Software: Forum ST/STadel. Content: Software downloads/DOORS Games, etc. Historical Listing: http://www.verycomputer.com/10_68b7c9f88e600140_1.htm I can't remember the exact dates, but it was over a 5 year period or so (Around 1989 - 1994)." "I can tell you a bit about the Rochester BBS SysOp picnic, where about 10 of us BBS SysOps got together to talk about... BBS's. LOL. Met Bob Puff (Developer of Puff BBS Software), and some others, who's names I've since forgotten. I still have printouts of some of the more memorable postings and discussions if interested. Please note that the 716 area code at the time included Rochester AND Buffalo New York. Several years ago, the 716 area code was consolidated to just Buffalo, and the Rochester area was changed to a 585 area code. Dark Knight's BBS (also run from that same location above)." - Larry Matula
716-646-3177 Hamburg, NY	Devcon (1995-1997)	jiff	WWIV
	"Was on many WWIV networks, and a secondary hub for Western New York's WWIVnet connection from 96-97." - Jiff
716-655-4940 EAST AURORA, NY	The Edge, THE EDGE [5NDZ], EDGE,THE #1, THE EDGE [5NDZ] (1992-1995)
	Ramjam Member BBS
716-661-3743 Jamestown, NY	The Regional BBS (1994-1997)	Henry Ford	PowerBBS
	"The BBS turned into Regional Communications Network (REG.NET) in 1995 and moved to Dunkirk, NY at that time. The board was run on PowerBBS software from 1994 - 1997. Here is a web archive of the staff page: http://web.archive.org/web/19970413233214/http://www.reg.net/staff.htm" - Henry Ford
716-671-1174 Webster, NY	RockLINE BBS (1984-1988)
	"RockLINE BBS was a BBS system to discuss recent bands, music and trends and leave mail for members. Running on an Atari 1040ST with 1MB mod., 300 baud upgraded to 4800 baud and 86MB of storage. Most calls were from the US and not too many international calls." - Keith Woods
716-671-8765 Webster, NY	RockLINE BBS (1984-1987)	Keith Woods	FaST BBS and BBS Express!
	RockLINE BBS was a BBS system to discuss recent bands, music and trends and leave mail for members. Running on an Atari 1040ST with 1MB mod., 300 baud upgraded to 4800 baud and 86MB of storage. Most calls were from the US and not too many international calls.
716-671-9679 Webster, NY	Rueby's Gem (1988-1994)	Robert Brian Rueby	GT
	"I was impressed that I could send and receive a response in only 3 days from China." - Robert Brian Rueby
716-674-7676 Orchard Park, NY	Tres ^ Angle (1981-1989)	Thissid Eup (Pete), Tresar Inyux	Apple ][
	"Tres Angle was the main BBS I use to log into. We would have about 6-8 events a year where we would gather, "trade" Apple software and party. The BBS was on at various times an Apple ][+ at others an Appple ][e rigged with 6-8 floppy drives. The messages boards were the typical, including hacking, phreaking and cracking tips, programming help, and general BS :) The BBS had just the single phone # and was connected with a 300 baud zoom modem ( I believe. ) I don't remember the name of the BBS package."
716-684-3562 Lancaster, NY	Fantasia (1992-1994)	Jonathan Tarbox	WWIV
	Original home of AMProSoft.
716-695-2335 Tonawanda, NY	The Center for Unlawful Arcane Knowledge (1992-1996)	Rich Hewett, Glenn Seiler	WWIV
	Despite the name, and the reputation (based on the name) this was not a hacker/wares board. It was more centered around games and TTRPG discussions.
716-695-3707 TONAWANDA, NY	Boiler Room (1992)	Freddy Krueger
	Scoopex Member BBS
716-723-3437 Rochester, NY	Intimate Image Corporation (1993-1994)	Jim Hutchings
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Rochester, New York since 09/93. Sysop: Jim Hutchings. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 1 line on MS-DOS with 1500 MB storage. Zoom at 28800 bps. $25 Annual fee. An adult only system. Age verification is required. We scan our own images, you won't find our stuff duplicated on any other board. XXX-rated images. We are the fastest growing Adult BBS in Rochester. Give us a call and you'll agree that we are best.
716-754-7587 Lewiston, NY	The Tyrell Corporation (1989-1993)	Dead Head
	"Files oriented BBS. Had a great impact in the north east 716 area for its time. I had a blast running it." - Dead Head
716-773-7526 GRAND ISLAND, NY	Land of Fa, Land of Fa ][, Land of Fa ][ (1987-1990)	The Overlord	WWIV, Forum
	Pirate BBS, System Password was SKOAL.
716-826-6072 Buffalo, NY	Starpoint Technology Station (1993-2002)	Special Agent (Frank Broughton)	WWIV
	"Had 4 phone lines and received 200-250 individual calls a day during its best days. Was a WWIV Support Board. Was the second BBS in WNY to have a CD Rom installed and files on it available for download." - Special Agent (Frank Broughton)
716-835-1001 Amherst, NY	Dark Sun (1986-1997)	David S Hoffman
	"The BBS ran Trade Wars, Wizard Wars, ZZT, and some other features." - David S Hoffman
716-872-3743 Webster, NY	The Devil's Dungeon (1984-1988)	Don DeLapp Jr., Ed Scott	FidoNet, Genesis
	"Don DeLapp Jr. & Don DeLapp Sr. worked together to launch Devil's Dungeon back in the early 80's. Starting out on the CPM with 300 baud modems. Eventually they upgraded to 1200 baud on a IBM/Compatible. Dedicated phone line, and many late nights coming up with .ans artwork using TheDraw.exe The BBS almost went down after Don DeLapp Jr. was killed in 1987 by a drunk driver (http://www.jimdelapp.com/d/deaths/Death.htm) I am his brother, and at the age of 10 years old I would not let my father put the Bulletin Board to rest, we renamed it to Don's Dungeon which is written on my brother's headstone at the Holy Trinity Cemetary in Webster, NY. Later the name changed to Space Quest, and other's started up Space Quest II, and III, Black Cauldron) I recently snagged some information off the old BBS 5.25 inch disks (http://www.jimdelapp.com/d/files/BBS%20Days/) Recently Don DeLapp Sr. died, but their memories remain. Live long & Prosper."
716-896-7581 Buffalo, NY	Taxacom, TAXACOM (1987-1995)	Richard Zander, Clinton Herbarium, Buffalo Museum	CUSTOM, REMOTE
	Botany, Herbaria, FLORA ONLINE Newsletter, Latin Translation
716-924-4193 VICTOR, NY	Bruce Krobusek (1995)
	Product: TinyHost
716-939-5462 New York, NY	Movie BBS (1993)	Clarke Ulmer
	Movie Reviews and Information - Television
717-252-4543 York, PA	Microbe II BBS (1984-2002)	Bob Moore	Wildcat
	"The Microbe II BBS started as Microbe BBS a place for a friend of mine to be able to experience using a BBS and to stay in touch. It soon become a source of information for those of similar computer or technical interests. The II designation was added when the BBS moved from a TRS-80 Model 1 running dual floppies to a Model 4P that grew to 3 floppy drives and an external 20 MEG HD. 20 Meg was a lot of strage at that time. I still have a working Full size 5 MEG drive I had used. Later the BBS ran on an 8086 IBM clone,an 8088 then an 80286, an Amiga and finally grew to using a Lantastic network of computers with a W.O.R.M. drive,several CD changers, 5 computers with 9 hard drives,3 transceivers and assorted TNCs. A Sola UPS and several Everex Streaming Tape drives became part of the system. "The members laughed when AOL first started sending those floppies advertising "50,000 files online", as Microbe II BBS had over 240,000 at that point in time and all of them freeware, shareware or public domain. Several were written by the members. Multiple door programs ranging from games through standalone programs never intended to be remote accessed thanks to a utility program and amateur radio callsign lookups were added along with various batch processes to allow files to be added automatically which were obtained from a C baseband satellite feed. "A Msys radio BBS with 2 meter,220 and 440 transceivers was linked into the lan shortly there after. Licensed amatuers could enter either landline or radio BBS system and use the other system. Many different BBS programs were used over the years, including Fido, Citadel and BBS-PC. Other names escape me at the moment. Operating systems linked included DOS 3.3 , OS/2, Windows 3.11 and of course Amiga Dos. Wildcat was the last BBS software used on the landline side after the systems took a devastating lightning strike. We didn't hear the boom first, just a sound like an arc welder and the lights going out...then a terrific boom and the smell of burnt electronics. Not one of my better days in history. Fortunately nothing caught fire, they just smoldered. "After that disaster a scaled back system was used until my MIS career and second job became too demanding. I ceased operations in the Spring of 2002. The fun and experimentation of running various systems paid off in good friends and career advancement oppertunity. I've served as a network admin on a 3600 node system spanning 24 countries and currently manage IT, Telcom and network security for a defense industry company among other things. I still enjoy "playing" with computers over the last 34 years but not neccessarily enjoying all their users. :-{ I still have my TRS-80s,Amiga and other computers including an old Sperry-Univac BC/7. I now relax commuting to and from work on my ZX14 Ninja after a few years of a ZX-12R. Growing older is no excuse not to have fun! "Your website is a trip down memory lane! Keep up the good work!" - Bob Moore
717-270-2942 East Petersburg, PA	Lancaster/Lebanon IU (1993)
	FrEdMail System
717-273-6704 LEBANON, PA	The Yacht Club (1986)	Masked Marauder	Ascii Express
	Home of "The Legion", as declared on the Pirate's Den 1200 AE List (December 23, 1986)
717-347-6297 Scranton, PA	The Razor's Edge (1989-1991)	Chris Moughan	Quick BBS
	"I ran the BBS on an 8088 Leading Edge PC. It had a 2400 baud modem and a huge 40 meg hard drive. It was a dedicated line and ran 24 hours a day. At it's peak there was 213 registered users. I miss those days." - Chris Moughan
717-372-7184 Selinsgrove , PA	The Antechamber/Susquehanna U Computer Consultants (1991-2010)	John Clifford and others	WWIV & VBBS, now web based
	"It amazes me that this little BBS I started in my dorm room ran 19 years - that's got to be a top 1% lifespan for a BBS. It was briefly called "No Carrier." This lasted for about a month until I discovered that the main screen (which was just a bunch of random characters followed by "No Carrier" - to look like the screen you got when you hung up) caused most of the terminal emulators of the day to assume the connection had been lost and hang up. It was also briefly networked with a group called SCUMNet after switching to VBBS. I wish I could remember all of the other nodes. One of them was The Devil's Doorknob in Maryland. The system that called out every night to swap files was based in Florida. This only lasted for a couple months because the long distance calls got to be too expensive."
717-396-8543 Lancsater, PA	A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1996-2000)	Max Campbell, Mad Max	C/Net, C/Net Amiga
	"AMLoR where the black sheep of the BBS scene. We didn't play nice with the other SysOps. I just want to let everyone know that we are all still better than you. - MistaVicious/CircleJerk/Exploited/antisocial/etc..."
717-399-3160 LANCASTER, PA	Illicit Illusion, ILLICIT ILLUSION (1992-1995)	The Mighty Quinn
	Agile Member BBS
717-424-3226 Pocono Mts., PA	Pocono Area Educator’s (1993)
	FrEdMail System
717-489-8001 Throop, PA	The Budland Express (1983-1993)	RIchard Jones, Richard Jones	EBBS128
	"Budland used a modified version of EBBS128 software for C= 128. With the 64K limitation of the P compiler, I had to branch the software into 8 different modules which handled different tasks, much like what was called "Doors" in the IBM world at the time. The doors consisted of 10 message boards, 10 download areas, a private download area, system reporting, intrusion detection analysis to see what was being attacked. I updated the script to use a 2400 baud Multi-Tech modem through a userport serial adapter. It ran on four 3.5" floppy drives, 3 for storage, and 1 for the system. Over the 10 years, it answered over 30,000 calls. It was a popular site for messages. I would often talk to users and then they would leave messages as well. Had many friendships from the board." - Rich Jones
717-560-1750 Elizabethtown, PA	The Tusk (1988-1998)	Mike Dissinger
	"The BBS continued to run until 1998. It ran on an Amiga 3000 using a BBS package called DLG." - Christopher Aymar
717-564-8420 Harrisburg, PA	Paladin BBS (1995-1998)	Michael Messina (Garland)	Oblivion/2 v2.x
	"I still have a copy of the thing stored on my hard drive ;)" - Michael Messina
717-569-9289 East Petersburg, PA	Lancaster/Lebanon IU (1993)
	FrEdMail System
717-569-9967 EAST PETERSBURG, PA	Byte Bucket (1984-1990)	Joe Calkins	Custom
	"This was a great BBS that was run on a mainframe that the SYSOP's father had. The program was made by the sysop. Had great message boards with tipics like Creation vs. Evolution, The Flamingo Club and more. There was a section for jokes, but you couldn't name any specific race or group... so you had to say "random ethnic" like "a random ethnic is being chased by the KKK" and stuff. Great BBS." - Eric Anderson
717-588-7636 Bushkill, PA	The Enterprise BBS (1985-1990)	Russel Miranda, Robert Miranda	Various On C64, Amiga
	"This Enterprise BBS started on a C64 with CNet64 software and two C1541 (170K) disk drives, later including a C1581 (880K). In 1987 it was moved to an Amiga and included packages that briefly included Atredes, then switched to Paragon/Starnet/MEBBS as that package transformed and changed owners. On the Amiga, Russel Miranda wrote the MailStorm FidoNet mail processor that was later donated to the MEBBS version of the BBS product by William (Bill) Bowling. Robert Miranda (me) contributed ZTick (FileBone control) to the 3rd party FidoNet utilities provided with MEBBS, which was a complete rework of an earlier Starnet-based effort by Russel Miranda. The BBS later was seen online as per your records as GVP BBS (215) and Phoenix BBS (717) through 1994. Also, I know there was another 717-223-based BBS during the mid-80's for about 2 years (85-87 I think), run by Ed Chrissey, and was located in the area now known now as 'Foxmoore' between Marshals Creek and Bushkill, PA., but the name is eluding me at the moment. This BBS was popular because Alan Davenport (Al's Cabin 717), who wrote an offshoot of the popular Tradewars game (later renamed to Yankee Trader), was friends with the sysop. It was very popular because the 223 exchange was free to the Bushkill/Stroudsburg/East Stroudsburg area and also to many of the Mount Pocono area. "Another note: Pocono BBS, Don Isenberg - was operating much longer than you have listed (at least since 1985, and possibly earler) and claimed to be the longest running Pocono area BBS. I attended many User/Sysop parties during the time and knew him wel back then. I can also confirm most of your info on Paul Faeder's PoconoMtn BBS, as I knew him, and he lived in the Pine Ridge private community at the time, next to mine. A note about the Motherboard franchise of pirate BBS's: Bart Kaplan was the Sysop and 'franchiser', originating in NY, but moved to Royersford, PA for about 6 months in 1989-90 timeframe. It ran on the latest USR modems in basic-box '386's that used Novell Netware 2x linked with 10Base-2 Ethernet. He was a roomate for 7-8 months and a co-worker during that time. "One final note - Joe Mollica of various BBS's at 215-551-1485 was in operation from 1987 when he retured from the armed services that year and returned home to his native Philadelphia. His Philadelphia Amiga Users Group BBS incarnation was run on an Amiga 2000 with 5 high speed lines, and was supplemented by Great Valley Products (Amiga 3rd party HW developer in Paoli/King of Prussia) with hard disks, 68030/68040 processor cards, and high speed serial ports, and ran Paragon/Starnet/MEBBS from 1989 onward. His was one of the few BBS's in the area (excluding the specialized configuration the Z1C George Peace had) at the time that could handle a week's FidoNet mail feed off the satelite backbone feed when it occasionally had problems." - Robert Miranda
717-638-2486 Blossburg, PA	Cyber-Dock / Paradox (1991-1997)	Cool	Renegade
	"It was a single node system that I started on a 386 33mhz computer with 16 MB ram. It had an 80MB hard drive which was split into two partions, one for the board and the other for personal use. I was about 11 when I first started it up. I found a number for a board run out of a dorm room at a neighboring college and that's where I found the software. I had a few CD-Rom full of software that I rotated out weekly. At most I had 350 users, with about 30-40 regular callers and another 100 who called atleast once every couple of weeks. Sometime in 1993 I started exploring other types of software and found the creators of Iniquity and Nexes/2 on IRC. For the next year or so I ran Iniquity and then went to Nexes/2 as a beta tester and finally back to Iniquity. When I switched from renegade I also changed the name and the feel of the board and added a second node for telnet (heard of RLFossil). It was the beginning of my life as a technie... boy I miss those days." - Cool
717-657-2223 Harrisburg, PA	Future Zonegate, Net270 Mail System, North America, The Other BBS, The Other BBS [Mail], The Other BBS 1:1/0 (1989-1994)	George Peace, Z1C
	Fidonet Zone Coordinator for North America 1:1/0
717-657-4992 Harrisburg, PA	WIZ/TIB, Wizard Systems, Wiz/Tib TI/99 BBS (1980-1994)	John Core, Dave Ratcliffe, David Ratcliffe	Custom
	"1st BBS in Harrisburg area. Started with 110 baud. Mentioned in an AP story in several newspapers and a blurb in Time magazine. Near the end we were supporting Telebit PEP modems and were offering usenet and fidonet through a Pagesat satellite feed. Users dialed the main number (had several roll-over lines) and could select several different systems to log into. Often copied by others who claimed the changes were their idea. Most notibly by the library out of Hershey. We were also one of the test locations for AT&T's new service - caller ID which made it a lot of fun when abusers called and we knew who they were and called them back. "Wizards keep (general board) DYM#42 (sort of a fun matchmaker service) The Pit (online fantasy role playing game) the data factory (dedicated to TI99 users)." "We also sponsored a yearly Halloween party with people comming from several states away. System started with 8 apple II's and a corvus network. Ended with a Unix server." - John Core
717-657-8699 Harrisburg, PA	Africa Gate, Central Pa HUB, FTPhub Distribuion, Harrisburg HUB, Oceania Gate, PA Online, Pa Online!, Penna. Online!, Penna.6Online! 8, Pennsylvania Online!, Ramblin' Wizard RCP/M (FOG System #10), The Other BBS, The Other BBS [Opus], FOG-10 (1981-2000)	George Peace, peace	TBBS , TBBS 2.3
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Harris-burg, Pennsylvania since 08/81. Sysop: George Peace. Using TBBS 2.2 with 16 lines on MS-DOS with 10000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $8 Monthly fee. The gathering place for everyone. Files, chat, Internet, and more. The full FidoNet backbone and filebone and all Usenet Newsgroups are available. Inexpensive UUCP Accounts. Visa/MC. CP/M + Software. PRASCA Member. CP/M + Software. PRASCA Member.
717-657-9850 Harrisburg, PA	PA ONLINE (1995)
	ISDN Line
717-664-3735 MANHEIM, PA	A Missing Chromosome (2013)		Mystic
	Dedicated to retro gaming and computing, gravis ultrasound,vintage mopeds and small displacement motorcycles, and DIY ethics. Filez, Appz, Gamez, Romz, Textfiles, Rare Service Manuals and Brochures for vintage mopeds and cycles, 1:1 images of 5.25"" and 3.5"" floppy diskettes, and it's growing every day! Now with one of the largest collections of Gravis UltraSound files in the world: Drives, Demos, Utilities, Manuals, you name it!
717-671-3760 Harrisburg, PA	TAVERN BBS, Tavern BBS (1994-1995)	Wayne Granger	MajorBBS 6.21
	TAVERN BBS 717.671.3760 Central PA's newest and largest BBS. offering Online Magazines, tons of shareware, exciting games, featuring Cybertank. Internet, national chat link, forums and matchmaker. Ail with custom RIP graphics. Immediate access with free demo. Call now and join the Club! - BBS Magazine March, 1995 TAVERN BBS 717.671.3760 Central PA's newest and largest BBS, offering Online Magazines, tons of shareware, exciting games, featuring Cybertank, Internet, national chat link, forums and matchmaker. All with custom RIP graphics. Immediate access with free demo, Call now and join the Club! - BBS Magazine October 1995
717-730-8504 Lemoyne, Pa	Stimpy's Sandbox, Stimpy's Sandbox , Stimpy's Sandbox (Node 1), West Shore Mail Hub, Stimp's Sandbox (1994-2004)	Mark Friend, Mark Fiend	Magpie, TriBBS, ProBoard, EleBBS
	"Finally bit the dust after a drive crash :(" - Mark Friend
717-755-2440 YORK, PA	Antarctica / ArcticSoft, Antarctica Bulletin Board, The Antarctia BBS, The Antarctica BBS (1993-1997)	Mario Mueller	PCBoard
	ListKeeper: RIP BBS Listing
717-757-4141 York, PA	Bits & Bytes BBS, Bits 'N Bytes, Bits 'N Bytes BBS (1989-1997)	Bryan Leaman, Bryan S Leaman	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: York, Pennsylvania since 09/89. Sysop: Bryan S Leaman. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 3 lines on MS-DOS with 3300 MB storage. US Robotics at 16800 bps. $23 Annual fee. Large MS-DOS file library including SIMTEL-20 Internet FTP archive, Internet E-Mail, Usenet newsgroups, RIME mail network, up-to-date NOAA weather forecasts, a wide variety of online games. multinode chat. New users receive instant access.
717-840-1444 York, PA	Cyberia (1993-1996)	Adam Viener, Sara/Adam Viener	TBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: York, Pennsylvania since 06/93. Sysop: Adam Viener. Using TBBS 2.2 with 15 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 3300 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $7 Monthly fee. Receive Internet mail for FREE! Cyberia is a professional system offering USA Today news, Boardwatch, PC Catalog, Chat, Games, Quality Shareware, Internet, Fidonet, RIP & Blind Access, Everyone gets a FREE trial account. Now available via Global Access. ListKeeper: 717 AC BBS Listing
717-845-4220 York, PA	Mainline BBS (1994-1996)	Nick Fitzkee	PCBoard
	"It wasn't a very good BBS, but it was a lot of fun to do, and it taught me a lot. In fact, probably the one person who benefitted most from it was me, but hopefully others enjoyed it, too. Interestingly, I still have it sitting around somewhere." - Nick Fitzkee
717-848-1666 York, PA	Cyberia (1995-1996)	Adam Viener
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Cyberia is an excellent online community. We specialize in providing easy access to the world of online services. Call or Telnet to cyberia.com for your free trial. Also visit our World Wide Web page at www.cyberia.com. We also offer flat rate direct internet (SLIP/PPP) connections, and Internet training seminars. Call 848-1439 voice for info.
717-854-9349 York, PA	YCDS BBS, York Country Day School BBS, York County Day School BBS (1994-1996)	Sharae Deckard, Robert Morris, Rotating
	"This BBS was a student run production, founded at least in 1995 by Robert Morris (I think maybe as early as 1994). Sharae Deackard was co-sysop until Robert moved from highschool to the significantly more prestiguous MIT-- so she was officially the sysop during the 1995-96 school year. I (Pete Spangler) was co-sysop during this time, then graduated to head in the 1996-97 school year, assisted by Peter Brunengraber who in turn.... "Although the BBS was built (I think) entirely by Robert, credit must also be given to the computer instructor, Steve Griggs, who took money out of his own budget to support the BBS." - Pete Spangler
717-898-6309 Manheim, PA	Retrodome (2014)		Custom
	We believe that BBS DOOR GAMES can only be played one way, by dialing into a BBS! Retrodome is a colorful ANSI menu BBS loaded with Door Games. It's a fun and functional trip down memory lane, enjoy!
717-944-8038 Middletown, PA	Blue Moon (1993)	Maverick, Jayson Hansen	Renegade
	""Blue Moon" BBS. Some very fond memories. The BBS offered many of the common features of any other local BBS, however, where we lacked in files (due to a lack in hard drive space) we made up in message networks and doors. Blue Moon had at one time the most online doors (registered and free) than any other local board, I want to say 102 door games in all. We carried over 20 message networks, including all the "big ones" such as FIDO. We made it a point to offer the local area the latest Renegade releases, sometimes days before FIDO file distribution brought the updates to the area (we made it a point to call Cott Langs BBS atleast twice a day) as well as offer the most Renegade utilities including releasing some of our own. Coitionist (SysOp of Sexual Tendencies - Dan Gellatly) was my Co-SysOp." - Jayson Hansen
718-234-3659 NYCZ 7, NY	FBI (node 2), Fbi BBS, FBI node # 2 (1990-1992)	The Guardian
	Independent Member BBS
718-241-9007 Brooklyn, NY	Paradise Network, PARADISE NETWORK BBS, Paradise Network BBS (1989-1994)	Luc'e, Luc’e	Other
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Brooklyn, New York since 06/89. Sysop: Luc'e. Using Custom 1.0 with 17 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1345 MB storage. Supra at 2400 bps. $30 Annual fee. New York's Largest Adult BBS. Hundreds of singles & couples looking to chat, exchange mail, and meet! X-rated GIFS and animations. High female to male ratio. Free two week trial. 9600 v.32 (718) 241-9049. All adult, must be 21. Credit cards accepted.
718-271-0478 NYCZ 8, NY	Prowl'S Palace, PROWL'S PALACE, Prowls Place (1992-1995)	PR0WL	AmiExpress /X
	Section 8 Member BBS Amiga SECTiON8 BBS
718-274-3769 NYCZ 8, NY	OBITUARY BBS (1994-1995)
	OBITUARY BBS, absolutely NO rules! Devoted to SB/VGA demos, Ansi, GFX, Mod Music, Fantasy Gifs. All the shareware you need and large Adult area! (718)274-3769 up to 14.4k v.32, v.42bis... 100% FREE! - BBS Magazine November, 1994 OBITUARY BBS, absolutely NO rules! Devoted to SB/VGA demos, Ansi, GFX Mod Music, Fantasy Gifs. All the shareware you need and large Adult area! (718)274-3769 up to 14.4k v.32. v.42bis... 100% FREE! - BBS Magazine March, 1995
718-279-2766 NYCZ 11, NY	Disembodied Voices (1993-1999)	Iodine, Cardiac Arrest	PC Board
	"The hub of all computer art scene-related activity in the New York City area. Many SysOps, most of them members of major international art groups -- iCE, ACiD, etc. The BBS eventually spawned a web site, www.disembodied.com, which now seems to be defunct."
718-297-4829 Jamica, NY	Imhotep (1990-1996)	Joseph Jay Adams	RBBS
	"Imhotep BBS was the online home of the IMHOTEP African History Study Group."
718-297-7057 NYCZ 10, NY	INTERAX ADULT SYSTEM (1994)
	INTERAX ADULT SYSTEM, 718.297.7057 over 30,000 ADULT FILES, GAMES, CLASSIFIEDS, PERSONALS & MORE. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
718-318-8315 NYCZ 13, NY	Trash City, TRASH CITY #1 (1992-1995)
	Ics Member BBS
718-332-1330 Brooklyn, NY	Liveline! (1985-1992)	Magick Entertainment	MajorBBS, Galacticomm
	"Started in 85/86 when the only other game in town were 2 line bbs'. Opened with a 16 GComm board and went to 24 lines before I closed down in '92. considered starting up again many times, but then there was this thing called the internet..." - Magick Entertainment
718-351-3859 Staten Island, NY	Ariel BBS (1986-2000)	A. Sessa	Wildcat
	"Member of New York Sysops Assoc. I was a stay at home mom and I began the BBS after being a cosysop on a few Staten Island BBSes (SISTER, Night Shift and Grand Central). In the beginning, I ran Ariel BBS on a C64 with two floppy drives on Ribbit software and one phone line. Ribbit was full of bugs, so I became a beta tester for Frog software which was very good. I was finally forced to upgrade to an IBM 286 to keep up with new technology. (MY C64 was also innocently crashing several of my favorite BBS systems and I didn't want to do that.) I tried several shareware BBS programs and again fixing bugs took up too much time. I finally upgraded to better equipment with Windows 95 and settled with Wildcat. The BBS worked great for many years, until the Internet took over and users went down to one caller a week." - A. Sessa
718-380-5750 NYCZ 10, NY	7 Ray Institute, Seven Ray Institute, Seventh Ray Inst., NEW AGE BULLETIN BOARD (1991-1994)	Jerome Salem
	NEW AGE BULLETIN BOARD. Good, intelligent high quality BBS for serious thinkers looking for new horizons. Alice Bailey works and others in the traditional Western esoteric tradition. Esoteric Psychology, Astrology, Healing, Seven Rays, etc. No Fees, 1200-19,200 BAUD, 24 hrs. (718)380-5750.
718-428-6776 Bayside, NY	Milliways, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe BBS, Milliways, TRATEOTU! (1986-1989)	Sunspot	C-Net 128
	"Originally was Split/Infinity BBS, was a cDc board. The years of operation are estimates, my memory doesn't work too well anymore (anything over two weeks ago is a little hazy)." - SunSpot, cDc
718-446-2157 Queens, NY	ABC On Line, ABC On-Line, ABC On-Line 1, ABC ON-LINE, ABC Online (1993-1997)	Michael Hajovsky	TBBS , TBBS 2.1
	ABC ON-LINE, 718.446.2157, over 100,000 files, GIFs, Online publications, News, Databases, Internet E-Mail and Usenet Newsgroups, Special Interest Forum, Online Games.AII high speed 28.800 BPS modems. One month free trial period. MasterCard and VISA accepted. You must be 18 or older, please. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 ABC ON-LINE, 718.446.2157, over 100,000 files. GIFs. Online publications, Mews, Databases, Internet E-Mail and Usenet Newsgroups. Special Interest Forum, Online Games.AII high speed 28.800 BPS modems.One month free trial period. MasterCard and VISA accepted.You must be 18 or older, please. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
718-454-2551 Flushing, NY	Channel One (1988-1992)	Matthew Tracey	Opus and Wildcat
	"Channel One originally started on a Tandy 1000 computer, running the built in Terminal Host from the Tandy Deskmate software suite (very primitive!). Later ran Opus software with FidoNet feeds, and eventually the Wildcat! software from Mustang." - Matthew Tracey
718-478-8333 Jackson Heights, NY	Jimmy's Place BBS (1990-1995)	Jimmy Pena	Wildcat
	"I ran the board from age 14 until 17. It was run off my first computer, a 386 PC with Windows 3.1 and one phone line. I ran D'Bridge as a front end for the mail networks (FidoNet, etc). The phone bills were horrendous. I met some great people and had some great help setting up the board and all of the door games (still love those!). But due to some personal conflicts I took the board down permanently." - Jimmy Pena
718-531-3979 Brooklyn, NY	Wavelength, Wavelengths BBS (1987-1989)	John Sorrentino and Gene Reynolds	BBS Express Pro
	"John and I started Wavelengths on an Atari 800XL with an ICD Multi IO board (1MB version) connected to the parallel bus. This, along with a 100MB hard disk and a Hayes Smartmodem 2400 completed the set. At the time, I believe we had one of the largest amounts of storage for a BBS at that time. We loved our old BBS and the people we met through it." - Gene Reynolds
718-539-3338 Queens , NY	New York Amateur Com Club, New York Amateur Computer Club Club, NY Amat.ComClub, NY Amat.ComClub (1986-1997)	Hank Kee	RBBS, PCBoard
	"NYACC - The BBS of the New York Amateur Computer Club. It was run by the host of the WBAI-FM radio show Hank Kee - I got this free for membership and was the main reason I renewed my membership every year. It was an RBBS system that later became CBoard. It later had Internet e-mail. It was the second BBS I called. It went down on July 1-3 1997 - the same time Hong Kong passed over to Chinese control. I asked the SYSOP to leave it up a bit longer than its scheduled time so I could download files and he said he would as long as it was being used. I delayed calling - I mean I could have called more than I did so it went down around July 3." - Sammy Finkelman
718-592-2433 NYCZ 8, NY	Defiant'S Ones, Motherboard II, DEFIANT'S ONES (1990-1995)
	Trsi Member BBS
718-636-3081 Brooklyn, NY	Expressways, Expressways BBS (1991-1996)	Ben Rivera	MajorBBS , Worldgroup
	"This board grew into a 12 line system using the Galacticomm MajorBBS and Worldgroup software. It later expanded to include online games, BBS door capability, Unix Shell accounts, SLIP internet access (slow), basic html hosting and Wlink capabilities. Between users begin dragged away by cheap telco internet dial up accounts and AOL's market saturation, this board eventually became unable to sustain its monthly costs. It lingered for a while, but eventually was retired. The Sysop retains a copy of the software archived in storage, and occasionally entertains thoughts of a revival." - Ben Rivera
718-692-1069 Brooklyn, NY	Into the Black, Sanitarium - DDial #66 (1986-1988)	William Hertling	DDial (Diversi-Dial), AmigaBBS
	"Saniarium was the fourth DDial in the 718 area code. Two of the three prior DDials were "Out of the Blue" and "The Great Beyond". A monthly subscription was $15. Sanitarium had seven phone lines, and ran on an Apple //e with seven modems. Night time was frequently busy enough to fill all seven lines for hours on end. We frequently linked to Out of the Blue (for weeks on end), as well as DDials in New Jersey and Texas. One term in frequent use then was "blog", short for backlogged. This occurred when the sum of the input from the other six phone lines was greater than the 300 baud output to your line, and was worsen when you would type a message, stalling output to your line. Shortly after Sanitarium started, a fifth DDial started in Brooklyn, by the name of "Joe's Bar and Grill". Unfortunately, with five DDials to choose from, most users would not financially support more than one or two. The base of users in the 718 area code wasn't growing, and with little to differentiate the DDials, it was difficult for any one DDial to have enough paying users to cover the expense of seven phone lines. Later in 1987, Sanitarium was taken down." - William Hertling "Into the Black was a short-lived BBS that bridged the period from Sanitarium (DDial #66) to a later, more successful BBS known as the Programmer's Pit Stop. Running on an Amiga, storage consisted of a: 1MB RAM Disk, two 880K 3.5" floppy disks, and a 440K 5.25" floppy disk. Because the Amiga had real multitasking, even way back when, it was possible to run the BBS and still use my computer, which was great compared to other systems." - William Hertling
718-743-2430 Brooklyn, NY	Bklyn BBS, Brooklyn Broadcasting System (1993-1997)	David Kaufman	Wildcat , Wildcat!
	"Hub and Home of BrooklynNET mail network." - Tom Murphy
718-743-2434 Brooklyn, NY	EntrePlex 4 Entrep. (1986-1988)	Larry Alex, Larry Alexander
	For entrepreneurs. For entrepreneurs.
718-779-7864 Bronx, NY	The TARDIS BBS (1986-1993)	Time Lord Supreme	Spitfire
	"My name is jose Soto, i Ran the Original Tardis BBS in the NY area for about 7 years sysop name "Time Lord Supreme".. from commodore 64 to 128. from 1200 baud to 9600 baud. a 20 meg Data chief.. MARRIAGE took my away form the Site... Andrew Borrs an old NYC Ems co-worke,r started the Tardis II in the (914), then he took over my site. Now i run www.BachataRadio.com... a latin based music site" - Jose Soto
718-783-6723 Brooklyn, NY	Brooklyn BBS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
718-793-8548 Flushing, NY	THE ICEBOX BBS, The IceBox BBS, The Icebox BBS (1988-1996)	Darren Klein	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Flusing, New York since 04/88. Sysop: Darren Klein. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 5 lines on MS-DOS with 34000 MB storage. Microcom at 28800 bps. $25 Annual fee. Internet/USEnet access. Thou-sands of files available for download. Many online games. Chat live with users. Offline mail reader. New files daily. Many famous echo'd mail networks. Visa Mastercard Accepted.
718-816-1808 Staten Island, NY	Computer Connx, COMPUTER CONNECTIONS BBS, COMPUTER CONNECTION BBS (1994-1996)	Steve Laino
	COMPUTER CONNECTIONS BBS 718.816.1808. Staten Island. NY. Free top notch technical help on computer hardware and software. Supporting up to 28.B kbps. Online games, poker, blackjack, slots, lotto, bingo. "" Multiplayer DOOM ""* up to 4 players battle it out in each game. F-15, Wing Commander armada plus much more. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 COMPUTER CONNECTION BBS, 718.816.1808. located in Staten Island NY — 6 lines at 28.8bps. 8 CD Roms. adult area. UFO/Paranormal, online games including ' ' ' multiplayer Doom. Doom2 ¦¦' and tradewars 2002, online shopping, Internet email and usenet. - BBS Magazine October 1995
718-816-7792 Staten Island, NY	BQSNet Groupmail Coord, Free NY Groupmail Coord, HUB 600 GroupMail Coord, Net2603 Groupmail Coord, Night Shift BBS, Outer New York City HUB, The Night Shift (1981-1994)	Peter Paul	AMIS, TBBS
	"When it first started as the Night Shift, the intent was to only have the BBS up between 11PM and 7AM but when the number of calls during the day were overwhelming (a week or two later) a second phone line was installed just for the BBS and it was operational, 24x7. It had a 5.25" 77kb Atari floppy drive for the code and the message base. When it finally shut down, there were 4 19.2k lines installed, 2 300 mb harddrives, etc. but it couldn't compete with the internet." - Peter Paul
718-849-1614 Richmond Hill, NY	Backroom, The Back Room (1991-1993)	Fred Kohn
	America’s Largest Exclusively Gay DB - Home of Gaycomm
718-849-6694 New York, NY	Backroom (1986-1991)	Artie Kohn
	"I think you have several listings for the same "BACKROOM BBS" which existed in NYC from at least 1986 when I became a member until 1997. It started as basically a gay social media BBS, and became a major source for AIDS information as the epidemic spread. It was founded by Artie Kohn, a great guy who died of AIDS in 1991. I believe Artie's brother Fred kept it running for a year or two after his death, and then a member, "Tiger Tom" kept it running from 1993-1997. It had several dial-in numbers (the main one above) but there were alternate numbers in the 212 exchange and perhaps others. David Charnow served as co-moderator of the board from 1987-1990. Aside from the online aspect, there were "Backroom Bashes" held at a Brooklyn gay bar or at Artie's apartment where members could meet and greet their online friends. My handle was "Wings Theatre" (my company). My lover was "Hot Spik". The Backroom was an important part of my life after first moving to NYC, and then in '88 getting an HIV diagnosis. I'm still close friends with two or three of the guys I met on the Backroom ("GT Pete" and "Sy Clops" were the handles.) Upon the arrival of the internet, Artie became one of the first to link to the new technology and we all received internet email addresses. I remember The Backroom with a great deal of fondness and appreciation. I can upload an old Backroom print ad if you like." - Wings Theatre
718-852-2662 Brooklyn, NY	New York On-Line (1983-1992)	William Bowles	Red Ryder Host
	"Hi, I ran NYOL from around 1983 to 1992. At the time, aside from the Well, NYOL was the only political BBS around. I ran it initially on an Apple ][ then moved to a Macintosh in the middle of 1984. NYOL networked around 35 newsgroups globally. I have written some history of it for the newsgroup Community Memory. I'll try and dig it out." - William Bowles
718-886-1829 Flushing, NY	NYCnet EchoMail Coordinator, NYCnet Manhattan EchoHub, NYCnet Manhattan EchoHub 1, NYCnet Network Coordinator, The United Front (1981-2000)	Darrell Benvenuto
	"The United Front BBS initially began on a CP/M-based Osborne 1 computer in 1981, with a single dialup running at 300 baud. This increased to 1200 baud, then 2400 baud, and the system grew to host a large amount of public domain CP/M applications, with the eventual intent of joining the FOG (First Osborne Group) league of BBSes. But a system failure on the Osborne shelved that plan, and the new United Front BBS began on a 286. This BBS grew and flourished through many changes in its hardware, up through 386, 486 and in its final incarnation, a 486 DX/2 66 driving six 19,200 baud modems while multitasking over an 8-port serial card using Quarterdeck software. At this point the BBS featured a wide slew of online games, inter-user chatting and also inter-user multiplayer games, not to mention a large chunk of the EchoMail feed and also many FidoNET file feeds; with approximately 5 GB of storage, with more content coming in every day on the File feeds, the BBS had a very extensive selection of downloads. By this point too, the SysOp had been elected as the Net Coordinator for NET 278 (NYCNET), with authority over all of the many FidoNET BBSes in New York City and its five boroughs. Over his many years in this position, this BBS also became the primary EchoMail Hub for NYCNET, and the SysOp also accepted the mantle of Net EchoMail Coordinator. Yet the inexorable, growing draw of the Internet, AOL and other commercialized online services and the ongoing decline of FidoNET in general led the BBS gradually from having all six lines continually occupied to getting perhaps one or two calls per day. Always provided as a free service, with subscription being optional, the BBS was shut down in 2000 due to lack of use and lack of operating funds to cover replacing failing hardware and the ongoing expense of six phone lines." - Darrell Benvenuto
718-886-6988 Queens, NY	Baud Stiff, Baud Stiff BBS (1992-1996)	Klatuu	TBBS, RipTerm
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: The new BBS where there's never a dull moment. Featuring multi-line live chat, topic forums, games, files, special events, and more. Mature atmosphere where adults can be themselves. Come find out what you're missing. When the Internet leaves you bored stiff, call Baud Stiff. The People BBS. (2400-28,800)
718-893-2319 Bronx, NY	M.A.D.H.O.U.S.E. BBS (1988-1992)	Joe "JoeRock" Johnson	Wildcat!
	"Single-line Bulletin Board System (BBS) running 24/7 originally set up to promote our DJ services. 1200+ members nationwide, averaging 30 - 40 logins per day. Distribution site for various Shareware and door game authors (i.e. Beta test site for Scott Baker's Land of Devastation 'L.O.D.', etc.). Competitive games, lively message boards with personal and sometimes in-person assistance to users new to BBSing and/or computing in general. Today we still play music on Twitch, Mixcloud, etc. and post some funny stuff on X & FB. Our links are at "https://linktr.ee/MHPHQ". Reach out and say hi if you were a MHP Member!! Mad love to Jason Scott for maintaining this piece of history for the BBS community." - Joe Johnson
718-934-0774 Brooklyn NY	Earth News Central (1989)
	"END was run by an associate of mine, John Gleich. At the time it was the largest BBs (in terms of users and calls) in NY and probabl;y one of the largest on the East Coast. I can't be dead certain when it started. I know that when i started my BBs ENC had been up for a while and that was around 1983 or so. ENC ran as a BBS until around 1989 or 1990 and then soldiered on via the internet." - Anonymous
718-951-6652 Brooklyn, NY	Mind Matters, Mind Matters BBS, The Round Table BBS (1989-1996)	IsraelSilverman, Israel A. Silverman, Israel Silverman	PCBoard , PcBoard 15.0
	"The Round Table BBS was started as a primarily message-based BBS for local users in 1989 by Israel Silverman. It featured a number of popular doors, such as Chess, Hang-'em-high, Wizard's Arena. It ran as a single node board and, after finding out that there was a major PA board named "Round Table," it changed to "Mind Matters BBS" several years into its life, and had two nodes running in DOS windows under OS/2 Warp (Yeah, you try configuring DOS door batch files with variables under OS/2 Warp). It started with a 1200 modem, followed by a 2400 MNP-5 (replaced, by an excited Sysop, with a 2400 V.42bis mode, which of course was much faster). Then, it ran on a Hayes 9600 modem, which "only" cost around $800 under a special Sysop deal. After 1996, calls became fewer and fewer, and it died." - Israel Silverman
718-966-5930 NYCZ 15, NY	Orions Bet (1992)
	Trsi Member BBS
718-967-6827 Staten Island, NY	The Fanatics Bulletin Board System (1990-1994)	David Dempsey
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Staten Island, New York since 11/90. Sysop: David Dempsey. Using PCBoard v15.1 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 10000 MB storage. Microcom at 28.8 bps. No fee. Internet, Direct Windows Support, Rimenet, RipScript Supported, 24 Hour Voice & Fax Lines, Novell Technical Support, Windows and OS/2 Patches, RoseMail & Qmail Offline Mail Readers Supported, Strategy & RPG Gamers Welcomed, Online RPG Games & Much More!
718-972-6099 Brooklyn, NY	Star Link Network, Star-Link, Star-Link Net BBS, Star-Link Network BBS, STAR-LINK NETWORK BBS (1988-1996)	Michael Keylin	PCBoard
	9-nodes, 2.1GB, llink, 75,000 programs
718-980-5838 Staten Island, NY	NYCnet Manhattan EchoHub 1, Overnight Network BBS, Overnight ][ BBS (1995-2000)	Tommy DeMarzo	PowerBoard
	"Overnight ][" was a sister board to my brother Brian's "Overnight BBS". I later changed the name to "Overnight Network". Initially the board ran on NuIQ's Powerboard, where I worked with NuIQ developer Scott Brown to help create a mail system compatible with Fidonet and with the help of "GEcho" to allow direct hubbing of mail from Powerboard to other systems. Special thanks went out to Radu Hociung and Vince Baker in getting that all together. The system was later upgraded to Wildcat! Winserver with internet access. Thanks for the memories all!" - Tommy DeMarzo
719-520-5000 Colorado Springs, CO	Community News Service, Community News Service (CNS) (1993)	Klaus Dimmler
	News and Entertainment - 17 Lines Community Focus
719-593-1914 Colorado Springs, CO	Rocky Mt. Ed. Computing Co (1993)
	FrEdMail System
719-632-9126 Colorado Spring, CO	Mile HI Apple Pie (1989-1990)
	"Apple II, Source: Computist magazine 74, p. 6"
724-459-7290 Blairsville, PA	Indiana/Westmoreland County Host, Indiana/Westmoreland County Temp. NC, Net 2610 EchoMail Coordinator, Temp NEC, The Rebel BBS, the rebel multiline X (1994-2004)	Doug Reynolds, Doug Reynolds aka the maverick	Telegard
	"The Rebel was run with a heavily customized copy of Telegard/2. The board served as a beta test site for Telegard and Binkleyterm. At the end of life, the board closed with 50,000+ calls. It also served as the final network coordinator for FidoNet Net 2610. The BBS expanded to two dial-in nodes with a few telnet posts." - Doug Reynolds
724-539-1366 Latrobe, PA	The Black Knite's Dungeon (2 Ns) (1994-2004)	Black Knite & White Queen	TriBBS
	"TriBBS support board, over 700 L.O.R.D. igm and program files, RPG, gambling, global domination, and trivia games. website- http://www.icubed.com/~bloodnet/index.html telnet- telnet://bloodnet.myftp.org" - Black Knite
724-588-5056 Greenville, PA	The Lost Realm (1991-1992)	Jim Mutdosch	Searchlight
	"In my early years on the computer I became interested in dialing out to BBS's. I also became interested in playing the on-line games. Speciafically a game called Tardewars. I played that game on all my local BBS's I could dial locally from my house. I then became friends with one of the owners of the largest BBS around my area called Becon Hill. Steve Bross was one of the people who ran that system and he also played tradewars. From there I decided to run my own system. I ran it on a computer my parents gave me. It was a 286 running dos then windows. I could only run it at night because the phone line was also our house phone. I then also added ECHO mail and that was alot of fun to setup. I would spend many late hours tweeking my bbs and making it awesome. I miss those days so much. It was so much more fun and entertaining than todays internet. You felt like you had a tight group of friends back then. Damn now where did I put that time machine ;) To bad none of local BBS's are still around. Hey Steve if you ever see this contact me!!" - Jim Mutdosch
724-694-9701 Latrobe, PA	The Titanic BBS, The Titantic BBS - Node 1, The Titantic BBS Telnet (1982-2004)	T.J. McMillen Jr., T.J. McMillan Jr., Exodus	Renegade
	"telnet://ttb.slyip.com" - Exodus
724-VIP-DESK Beaver Falls, PA	VIP DESK BBS (1987-1995)	Brian M Verner	Oasis
	"This was a great BBS covering Beaver County PA with foreign exchange numbers in Allegheny County and Lawrence County that provide a free local dial up numbers in those areas as well. VIP DESK was a first to offer the ability to send faxes from the BBS as text, as well as an email connection to the new (at that time) internet email addresses that we use today. VIP DESK was a FAMILY BBS. No cussing/swearing. Always lots of great conversation. Nice politics board as well as a Christian Chat / Bible Study area. One of the fastest BBS systems that I remember of the time too." - Brian Verner
732-223-0882 Brielle, NJ	Fire House (1985-1991)	Tom Dee	IBM XT - GBBS
	"This used to be fido, but then all apples started to run gbbs and then gbbs was ported to basica. I had the bell 212a modem 300/1200. Then was updated to an everx 300/1200/2400. IBM XT with one of the areas first 20mb rrl st-225 which supported a file share using xmodem and zmodem. At that time either is was pkzip or arj." - Tom Dee
732-244-2400 Beachwood, NJ	CSI BBS, CSI BBS [$] , CSI Online Services (1993-2004)	Paul Tricoli, Kid Ice, (Rich Augustino-Kid Ice-Owner)	Worldgroup, MajorBBS , Galacticomm/Worldgroup BBS
	"Over 100 people in Teleconference at once. Those were the days..." - Paul Tricoli " "Hi - I am Rich Augustino - Owner of CSI Computers LLC - I owned CSI Onlines Services and sold to Tellurian in 2004. My Co-Sysop was Paul Tricoli."
732-541-1597 Port Reading, NJ	Budweiser BBS (1986-1987)	Ray Lubeski - JERM
	Shared jokes, Cracked c64 games by JERM, and SID songs.
732-918-1995 Neptune, NJ	New JerseyLand (1993-1998)	Charles Bailey	PCBoard
	"I was the Sysop. Made it to the front page of the Asbury Park Press once because of it :) BBS ended with a simultaneous HD crash, and a death in the family." - Charles Bailey
734-721-1442 Westland, MI	Elysian Fields (1994-1997)	Ostrich Man	Renegade
	"I started this BBS in high school in 1994 and ran it until a catastrophic hardware failure in early 1997. We were a member of Fidonet and Echonet and also the founder of ShizNet... at our peak we had 15 nodes spread across Michigan and Ohio. Lots of wares, apps, and door games. I always felt bad that the board basically vanished when the computer it ran on crashed. I had tape backups that, like many tape backups, proved to be completely worthless. So I'd like to thank everyone that made it what it was over those couple of years - the local callers and the ShizNet folks were great. I had a ton of fun and hope you all did too." - Ostrich Man
740-524-0704 Kilbourne, OH	The Ultimate Trekkie BBS (1994-2002)	Jim	Excalibur BBS for Windows
	"The BBS is still going strong. Few users but still online with a current Excalibur BBS list." - Jim
740-633-1701 Martins Ferry, OH	Small-Trek BBS! (1992-2000)	Cap'n Jim	VBBS
	"This was once a very popular BBS (with the theme of Star-Trek) in the Ohio valley and was involved in the very first network of BBS's in the area called StarNet, which made the newspapers. The BBS was first started on an old Tandy 1000RL with a 20 meg hard drive." - Cap'n Jim
740-745-5363 St. Louisville, OH	Wayne's World BBS (1992-1998)	Wayne Millard	RBBS, WWIV, WildCat!
	"I started this BBS part-time in 1992 on RBBS. It went full-time on WWIV on October 12, 1994. I ran the WWIV board with Co-SysOps Bob Jutzi (who not only was SysOp of a local BBS (that switched names between The Zoo, Data Dimensions, and The Toolbox), but is also totally blind), Mike Wenzel (SysOp of Michael's Madness), and his son Nick Wenzel. The BBS converted to WildCat! on April 3, 1993. Mike Wenzel and Nick Wenzel, who were most familiar with WWIV, stepped down as Co-SysOps and were replaced with Robert Schweitzer (SysOp of PC-Exchange) and Bob Soltysik. The BBS became a FidoNet node (1:226/1430) on December 23, 1995. The BBS was also the mail hub for Z-Com. The BBS grew in popularity until a 2nd node was required. A 2nd node was installed April 30, 1996. 1997 was a tough year for the BBS as the Internet began to ramp up in this area and traffic on the BBS fell sharply. As I became a Sophmore in college (majoring in Computer Information Systems), my time with the BBS was shortening to the point that I could no longer spend the time to maintain it. The BBS took its last call on June 30, 1997." -- Wayne Millard
740-862-6574 Baltimore, OH	Protean II, PROTEAN!, PROTEAN! BBS, PROTEAN! II, PROTEAN! II BBS (1990-1998)	Lowell Clugston	Wildcat! BBS
	"I ran a SCSI System - I daisy chained 3 Pioneer 6 Pack CD's with a 6 pack offline request (18 online) 24 CD's from Night OWL CD's to Shareware Best. I also ran online games - Beta Tester for Freshwater Fishing - Ran Trade Wars 2002 - Master of the Universe (MOTU) - many more popular ones. I ran Wildcat! SOftware Multi-Node version - I had 2 to 3 nodes going at one time - even had a bump line from Columbus Ohio, making my LOCAL calling area one of the LARGEST in area. I don't know anyone else that ran 18 cd's online - so might make me the largest file base in county if not state. I also had Frontdoor for FidoNet, COBBA, WildNet, Boondocks (our local are nets), plus other available to me via Frontdoor or QWK packets. I really enjoyed jumping in a local Node and chatting with the users - or playing the online games. Most I missed of all is messing with DOS - I still believe it's faster than Winders (memory hog) but, the software is much better now using that environment. Just think what we can do with the speed connections we have now. Direct-Direct connection with a cable modem - WOW - no hops That would be speed. I remember my first HighSpeed Modem was $614 for a 14.4 HST USR "Sysop" Special I still have all mine that was connected to the nodes. Have fun - as my log out screen said - "Turn out the lights - the Party is over" - Lowell Clugston (Protean)
757-229-7174 Williamsburg, VA	Will's Place, Will's Place BBS (1992-1997)	Will Caulford	RoboBoard/FX
	"Will's Place was one of the first to offer full 256 Graphics. Also from 1995-1997 they offered access to FTP/HTTP and e-mail. In 1998, Will went to work for Widomaker Internet services. Today he is the network operation manger for Widomaker in Newport News, VA." - Will Caulford
757-420-7827 Virginia Beach, VA	Forbidden Playground, Sybercom (1995-2001)	Michael Plautz, Steven Plautz	MajorBBS, Worldgroup
	"Inspired by other MajorBBS's, such as Shadowscape in Memphis and Cupids in Norfolk, we decided to start a system of our own when we bought a new house. I recall it became so popular, we had to add lines every few months causing issues with the phone company running out of copper pairs. We quickly became one of the largest BBS's on the east coast. At its peak in 1996, it was not uncommon to see over 100 users online at once. After that, due to the increasing popularity of the internet, BBS usage declined and we became more of an ISP. The whole system was ran out of one bedroom, which eventually looked like a server room, containing 66 analog modems, many PC's, a couple Portmasters & a USR Terminal Server. Much of our equipment was eventually moved to a Cox co-location facility in Norfolk as we converted to all digital lines. Its worth noting that Sybercom was one of the first ISP's in the Hampton Roads area to offer 56kbps X2 access. When Sybercom was sold to Picus at the end of 2000, we had about 4000 users with almost 400 lines. But by that point, the BBS itself didn't have much usage except as a billing system and occassional MajorMud players. It lived on though until 2001 when I shut off the power that final time." - Michael Plautz
757-490-2850 Virginia Beach, VA	Sherwood Forest (1988-1990)	Silent Suicide, Robin Hood	All-American BBS
	"I was 13 and owned a C64, 1541 and 300 baud modem. I later added a 1581 and a 1200 baud modem (to replace the 300). I went through several aliases but the two listed were certainly the most common. I believe I also had another name for the BBS but it was Sherwood Forest the majority of the time. For most of the time I ran an illegal copy of All-American until Nick called me personally to complain and threaten me, which I subsequently shelled out (my mom did anyways) the $50 for a legit copy. I had several SysOps of which I can't recall. I'm old now but these were good times back then! Used to love playing "Empire" via the old school BBSs."
757-631-0455 Virginia Beach, VA	FidoTel (1993-2003)	Shannon Talley	Wildcat Winserver
	"FidoTel was originally "TeleServe" BBS (running on Searchlight Software), and I (Shannon Talley) was Zone 4 coordinator while I was operating TeleServe in the Republic of Panama for 3 years ('93-'96). For those 3 years, I provided a FidoNet gate to South American and I was the "ONLY" Internet Email providor for the entire continent for 2 years until the Internet was introduced in 1995 (we gated Internet Email through Louis Oaken at Sunshine.com in Florida). Upon moving to the US, I opened FidoTel as an Internet Only (ION) BBS in 1997. FidoTel has been running in Virginia Beach since 1997." - Shannon Talley
760-256-8004 Barstow, Ca	The Height's (1992-1999)	Ray Retzlaff	WWIV
	"This was my BBS. I had a small but very active user base and would like to thank all that were users/supporters of this great BBS. May The Height's R.I.P." - Ray Retzlaff
760-356-1011 Holtville, CA	Encrypted BBS, OuterNet BBS (1995-1999)	Jacob Ritter	TriBBS
	"This was my BBS. A little love of mine. Im surprised its not on the list, I see a few other BBS's listed from my very small county. Id like for my BBS to be remembered, please add it to your list. I had lots of faithfull users, who Im sure would like for it to be remembered as well. Thanks :)"
760-432-6225 ESCONDIDO, CA	Inner Revolution BBS (1993-1999)	Paul Gorman	Renegade
	Available to browse at http://irev.net.
760-724-6451 Vista, CA	The Scratching Post (1998-2000)	Denise 'Catnip' Chatham	Wildcat
	"I met Denise on another local BBS named The Dojo. We were together for three years. I still think of those days fondly. BBS'sing was more than a hobby. It was a way to interact with people who have common interests, and make lifelong friends." - Eric Hutchins, Sysop, The Midnight Express
765-284-0796 Muncie, IN	Muncie MicroLink (1985-1994)	Steve Stewart	PCBoard v15.0
	"First BBS in East Central Indiana to offer users QWK Mail. This allowed users to log in, quickly download their messages and upload any new messags. Great time saver for everyone. Muncie MicroLink participated in FidoNet and sent mail from home in the first Gulf War. Muncie MicroLink was also the first BBS in the area to offer "Fantasy Football"." - Steve Stewart
765-759-4762 Yorktown, IN	dols.com, DOLS.COM (Delaware On Line Services) (1991-1996)	Jerry Harvey	MegaHost, PowerBBS, Searchlight, VUBBS
	"Ran MegaHost (dos), PowerBBS (win3.1), Searchlight (win3.1), vubbs (Linux). From 1993 - 1996, when I did have it on the Linux system, I opened a UUCP account with a local ISP and had the only BBS in Delaware county that provided internet email, for free! On the two win3.1 software packages, I can remember spending hours creating screen with RIPDraw! This is GREAT! Thanks!" - Jerry Harvey
770-395-7873 Atlanta, GA	The Citadel (1990-1994)	Diamond -/- T. Warren	Renegade, PCBoard
	"This was a great board back in the day. It was run on a fairly quick computer and modem. This board went from TeleGard to Renegade (the SysOp edited the pascal code himself making additions) then finally to PCBoard. Nightly message transfers we made with many other systems through FrontDoor messaging system." - T. Warren
770-414-4400 Lithonia, GA	Com 1, COM1: ATL PCUG, COM1: Atlanta PCUG BBS (1986-1996)	Bob McDearmid, Paul Sponaugle	PCBoard
	"Atlanta PC Users Group, 5 node BBS. Mark Prichard and Bob Nye were also Sysops during this time span. Bob McDearmid held the title of Sysop and President of the APCUG in 1993-1994 and ended up going through a divorce shortly thereafter. ;-)" - Bob McDearmid
770-454-6447 Atlanta GA	The SafetyBoard! BBS (1994-2000)	Bob Branson	PC Board
	This was an early online safety and risk management resource for businesses and insurance professionals. I have a ton of old BBS related materials including a presentation I made BBS vs Internet. Needless to say, I lost that battle.
770-489-6172 Douglasville, GA	Haunting the Chapel (1991-1993)	Jason Thornton (Slayer)	Renegade
	"200+ Users, Frontdoor system exchanged messages with other local BBS's. Mostly teenagers talking about girls, cars and games. Had door games TradeWars and The Pit." - Jason Thornton
770-773-7966 Adairsville, GA	The Warp Factor BBS, Warp Factor BBS (1990-1996)	Mark Stewart	Searchlight
	"Multi-node BBS. Had the largest file selection outside metro Atlanta with 150,000+ file available for downloading including 4 onlne shareware CD-ROMS. Ran OS/2 because Windows 3.1 could not handle multi-node downloads without locking up. Searchlight support and sales site for Georgia. 35 online door games." - Mark Stewart
770-916-1616 Marietta, GA	Lightning Shocks, Lightning Shocks BBS, Wiretrip BBS (1991-1996)	Justin Reock, SysOp: Justin Reock (Cyberwulf) - CoSysOp: John Walls (Mr. Ripper)	Telegard
	"Thanks so much for maintaining this history! That time period in my life meant a lot to me (I was eleven when I started Wiretrip and kept it up through early high school). I made many friends and many LORD adversaries.. Again I think this is a great compendium and I thank you for maintaining it... BTW, Wiretrip was lightning shocks for about a month, but changed quickly." - Justin Reock
770-979-9467 Snellville, GA	Red Shift BBS (1995-1998)	Robby Dittmann	Maximus
	"I ran the BBS under OS/2 and OS/2 Warp. It was the home of Mamoosoft Programming, which is the name I used to write a large number of IGMs for LORDII." - Robby Dittmann
773-776-2563 Chicago, IL	Hell Hole (1984-1986)	Ami	Depeche Mode BBS
	Was only online 10pm to 8am.. sysop always yelled yo go voice if you called during the day.
773-881-8920 Chicago, IL	Marist BBS, The Marist BBS (1993-1996)	Mike Leonard, Mike Wisniewski, Mike Racanelli, Nathan Pifko	PCBoard 14.x - 15.x
	"The Marist BBS was the original online system at Marist High School on Chicago's south side. It was moderated by Bro. Timothy Brady FMS, who is now the school's Director of Technology. The original two sysops were Mike Leonard (Bif) and Mike Wisniewski(Sk00ter). Later on Mike Racanelli (Rac) was added on board, and Nathan Pifko followed. It was run originally on a 486 DX2/50 with PCBoard software, and featured games like King Of The Board." - Mike Racanelli
775-267-5598 Minden, NV	The Hairball BBS (1992-1998)	Jason Arnold (phantom)	TriBBS
	"It was a cool, BBS with nice ANSI menus, and lots of door games. It was a fun BBS to run. 14.4 fast a light. ;)" - Jason Arnold
778-379-7158 Burnaby, BC, Canada	Beavis & Butt-Head BBS (2015)		RemoteAccess
	Originally Ran from 1997-1999, reopened September 2015. All files are from back in the late 90s. Over 30 online doors.
780-439-8364 Edmonton, AB	Alberta Net, Central Alberta, Xanadu, xanadubbs.ca (1994-2020)	Charles Cruden	Roboboard F/X
	Xanadu is a general public board for those interested in all varieties of BBS related activites. We have a large base of available files, FIDO news, various mail networks and a large variety of doors. In particular we provide a number of InterBBS BRE and FE leagues with boards from across the world.
780-464-3802 Edmonton, AB	Friar Tuck's BBS (1981-1992)	Syd and Tony Ruffo	RBBS-PC, FidoBBS
	"When I first donwloaded RBBS-PC from the states, I did it ASCII. I didn't know what xmodem was. So I took my noise corrupted download, and began writing code to fill in the bits that were missing. I ran this version for a few years, and some of my mods made it back to the core code base. Eventually, we upgraded to the excellent FidoBBS (and a Hayes modem at 2400 baud). I remember the modem upgrade was like owning a bicycle and getting a rocket ship for Christmas." "It was run on an IBM PC/1 with a hacked motherboard to allow 640K instead of 512K. I had 2 x 360K drives, 1 for the BBS software, and one for the Daily Downloads. I communicated through a pre-Hayes modem; The Cermetek Mutant Modem (as we called it)." "Later, we recovered a Davong External Hard Drive from the Telus trash bins, and built a hard drive interface. Then we had 10 Mb of downloads (wooh). I believe we provided Edmonton's first dial up access for sending and recieving Internet email. I was using FidoBBS and Ham radio to move the mail. It was sneakernet everyday to the guy at the end of the block with the Ham radio antenna. He "beamed" our mail down to the states for us." "Those were the days! It was a privilege serving my fellow geeks!" - Tony Ruffo
780-473-7790 Edmonton, AB	RoadRunner X (1991-2007)	Randy E. Sommerfeld	TriBBS, PCBoard, Synchronet
	"BBS still operational at http://rrx.ca and telnet://rrx.ca, formerly operating out of Pincher Creek, Alberta (TriBBS - 1991), Grande Cache, Alberta (PCBoard - 1995), and Vancouver, British Columbia (Synchronet - 2006)" - Randy E. Sommerfeld
780-967-4552 Onoway, AB	Twigs BBS (1995-1999)	Erich Umstatter	Telegard
	"I ran TwigsNet, and was the north america supplier for BBSWorldMagazine (BWM) 1997-1999.. 1997 was when a bunch of us got IRex (Internet Rex) and started to share mail packets thru e-mail on the internet and keep our phone lines available more..." - Erich Umstatter
781-828-1873 Canton, MA	The Oriental Crayon (1994-1996)	Admiral Jacobs	TAG, Telegaurd
	"I had to deliver an awful lot of newspapers for that phone line! I was 15, and after a few bad experiences with a >$300 phone bill it was not easy to convince my dad to let me get it. I ran the BBS mostly for the love of hardware, and connections to networks like Wizard's Net and FidoNet. It's so long ago that it almost seems like a different lifetime ;^(" - Admiral Jacobs
785-842-5025 Lawrence, KS	Sherwood Forest, Ye Sherwood Forest BBS (1988-1994)	Little John	TGP2 (Custom-made software)
	"Robin Hood was a fictional account that was used by the programmer of the software (a gentleman whose name was Tony Spangler and whose handle was Papa Smurf). RH was used in the text of various system messages (as was The Sheriff) and had the account name used but the account itself was actually locked. Various users used character names from the story on this BBS but not on other systems. Friar Tuck was a Co-Sysop while Maid Marion and another user named Maid Marian were both normal users. TGP2 was intended to be similar in design and features to WWIV but was fully programmed and designed in Turbo Pascal 5.0 by Tony." - Little John
787-283-8107 Trujillo Alto, PR	The Forgotten Realms (1994-1997)	Lonely Spirit, The Unforgiven, DeathSurgeon	PC Board
	"The Forgotten Realms was prior managed by The Unforgiven and DeathSurgeon. After I met them we hosted at my place (Lonely Spirit). We offered software mostly. No games. Just Upload/Download Ratio. We had International Couriers, even from Spain. We had a group called UpS 8o9. [H/P/A/V] We had the first 1GB (double 5 1/4 bay) Super noisy HardDrive with lots of stuff. Mostly Elite. " - The Lonely Spirit
800-232-9925 Elgin AFB, CA	Ada 9x, ADA-9X, ADA 9X Project Bulletin Board (1993-1995)	Chris Anderson, Susan Carlson
	ADA Programming Language Revisions and News ADA Programming Language Revisions and News
800-407-6398 Grand Rapids, MI	Resort Tour & Cruise BBS (1994)	Dennis A Hauser
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Grand Rapids, Michigan since 07/94. Sysop: Dennis A Hauser. Using TBBS 2.2M with 2 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 340 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. No fee. We're your online vacation getaway headquarters.
800-564-1656 Fort Bragg, CA	MCAB (1986)	Manuel Martinez
	California Callers Only California Callers Only
800-596-6405 Bethesda, MD	B.P.H.C., BPHC ACCESS (1994-2002)	Cyndee Trower, Donal Davis, Bayard Catron
	"A Federal BBS which grew to become a free email server and internet access point for rural health centers."
800-648-6964 New York, CA	Town Hall (1993-1993 )	National Review Magazine
	Conservative Political Conference and Debate
800-827-2727 Salt Lake City, CA	WEATHERBANK, Weatherbrief, WeatherBrief [$], WeatherBank (1993-1996)	Steve Root/WeatherBrief Data Services
	Online Weather Forecasts for Any City - Download Radar Data
800-835-7899 Portland, ME	OnBoard (1992)
	Boater Friendly Marine Information Service Boater Friendly Marine Information Service Boater Friendly Marine Information Service
800-874-2937 Norcross, CA	Hayes Customer Support, Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc., Hayes Microcomputer Technical Support, Hayes Modems, Hayes System, HAYES-ONLINE, Online with Hayes, Online With Hayes (Support), Hayes Online, Hayes Advanced Systems Support (1990-1996)	Ricky Lacy, Hayes Microcomputer Products
	List of BBS List Keepers: National 800 Number BBS List/Hayes Online Customer Support Line for Hayes Customers, V-series/Ultra
800-897-2536	Intel Applications Support BBS
	"The toll-free BBS (available in the U.S. and Canada) offers lists of documents available from FaxBack, a master list of files available from the application BBS, and a BBS user’s guide. The BBS file listing is also available from FaxBack (catalog number 6; see page 1-4 for phone numbers and a description of the FaxBack service)."
801-225-1849 Orem, UT	The Dark Fortess (1986-1995)	Paul Witte (Handle: Questor Thews)	FoRem ST
	"I started the BBS on an Atari 130XE (can't remember the name of the software) then moved it to the Atari ST first on Michtron software, then FoRem. I am author of The Thieves' Guild BBS Door. This game was released exclusively for the Atari ST and had a graphical emulator front-end client. A conversion for PC's was made but by then the internet had pretty much replaced BBSes so we never bothered releasing it (I still have the software if anyone wants to use it on their telnet BBS)." - Paul Witte
801-225-4444 Orem, UT	Reference Software Technical Support, Word Perfect Corp Technical Support, Word Perfect Customer Support (1993-1995)	Word Perfect Corporation
	Word Perfect 4.2/5.0/5.1 Support/Printer Drivers
801-243-0324 Anchorage, AK	CHSIE
	"This board originally began as the "Chugiak High School Information Exchange" and operated out of the library of Chugiak High School. As a high school student in 1984, I worked with the computer teacher Dick Phelps on developing this board. Mr. Phelps moved the board to his home a year or so later and it just went by CHSIE (pronounced CHESSIE) from then on." - Rich
801-277-2926 Holladay, UT	ToTaL HaVoC BBS (1994-1996)	Peter Fillmore (The Anarchist), John Kuchera, TheAnarchist	SBBS, Synchronet
	"Total Havoc BBS was aptly named; run by rebels of the worst type - youth. Aged 12 & 13 we were already proponents of the free exchange of information and digital anonymity rights. We required only what personal info you felt like sharing. While only ever having a single line that didn't stop the commodore and active L.O.R.D. community."
801-374-5434 Provo, UT	Mainly Macintosh (1990-1994)	Steve Trottier	Hermes
	"Steve was the original sysop. In mid 1991, Steve transfered the BBS to someone else (his name escapes me) to run. The new sysop ran the BBS until at least 1994. The new number was 801-377-9333." - Steve Trottier
801-375-3058 Provo, UT	Sect of the Trampoline People (1994-1996)	TED / Punk Rock Girl	Searchlight BBS
	"Utah iteration." - TED
801-375-5135 Provo, UT	2112 (1994-1995)	The Wanderer	Telegard
	"100 Users Shared Files, had a forum, and BBS games. Formerly known as Exit Stage Left." - The Wanderer
801-465-1367 Payson, UT	The Darkside (1992-1994)	Blake Barnett, Blake Barnett (Talon), Cody Burdick (Kachina)	Renegade
	"Started on a 2400BPS, Wang 386sx20 4mb ram, single line. Didn't become very popular until I purchased a 14.4 modem from the first BBS I ever logged into. (Tri-Star, also on the list). We were mainly a file-trading and gaming BBS. Although we had some fairly active discussions it mainly centered around anti-SPA activities. ;) I really don't recall why I shut it down... those were the days." - Blake Barnett
801-465-3650 West Mountain, UT	West Mountain Wilderness (1989-1990)	Ryan Bird	GAP
	"Ran the BBS as a hobby when I was in High School. 2400 Baud, 286-12 server. Started out with a 54MB RLL Drive, then upgraded to a full height 80MB HD, (Which I RLL'ed to 120MB.) For most the life of the BBS, the computer was without a case and just sat on my desk. The Power Supply did not have a working fan, so everything was "air cooled". The big hard drive some times had to be moved back to the "middle" of the desk as it tended to move around a bit. Lots of fun, averaged 10-15 callers a day. Gave up on the BBS about the time I got my drivers license." - Ryan Bird
801-465-4684 Payson, UT	Golgotha (1995-1996)	Blake Barnett, Blake Barnett (deadsoul)	Oblivion/2
	"This was a short-lived BBS that I put up mainly because I missed the good old days of BBSing and also because I had a great interest in the ANSI Art scene. I joined a few art groups, attempted to make some of my own... It was fun while it lasted. -- side note: the # spells GOL-GOTH, heh. Dorky, I know." - Blake Barnett
801-466-2949 Salt Lake City, UT	The Planet Gallifrey (1990-1994)	The Doctor (Joseph Casalino)	Telegard 2.4i
	"I originally started the BBS with a 2400 baud Hayes modem, then eventually upgraded to a USR Courier 14.4K HST modem. Was one of the first in the state to use a ZyXEL 19.2k modem, which I used to trade often with Ground Zero. Bumped up to a Courier 33.6k v.34 modem before the v.34 spec was finalized, and flashed with final v.34 spec once it was adopted. I was known mostly for the software downloads with a ton of stuff archived to Travan tape and restored upon request. I had broad support for rare transfer protocols like YModem, BiModem, and Kermit. I also had lightly-used message boards and hosted a Tradewars instance. BBS was shut down one fateful morning in 1994 due to an untimely Novell lawsuit. Now own and use theplanetgallifrey.net, since 1998 or so. :D" - Joseph Casalino
801-466-4261 Salt Lake CIty, UT	The Unbelievers, The Unbelivers (1987-2000)	Kevin Thomson	VBBS
	"I was the sysop Kevin Thomson- I just found your web site and thought I would correct a few things. This was Utah's first Athiest BBS. 23 lines averaged about 500 calls a day. - 32 computers running the system. Backed by a Novell network. A big accomplishment for its day." - Kevin Thomson
801-467-8450 Ogden/Layton/Hill AFB, UT	Dragon's Spyre (1992-1998)	Sinjin Hawk	VBBS
	"Ran this as I moved around in Utah, kept it up when I moved to NY in 96. When the rest of the CyberNET went out only Gandolf of the Castle of Dreams BBS and I remained for a bit, then we too bowed to the inevitable. Glad some folks remember. I miss it. Sinjin Hawk, SysOp Dragon's Spyre BBS, Region 1 Co-ordinator, CyberNET"
801-476-1674 OGDEN, UT	Castle of Dreams (1993-1998)	Gandolf	VBBS
	"This BBS was the Owner of CyberNET. This network spanned across a bunch of states, but mostly was located in the weber county area. Back in this Era, BBS's were extremely popular in Utah. This BBS was also a part of the OgdenNET WWIV network. This network was very lively with many discussions and rivalrys. The Dead Hackers Society was a group which met quite often and had a huge war with Ogre. If any of you remember!!" - Gandolf
801-479-1665 Uintah, UT	DEMENTiA (1993-1997)	BryGuy	Oblivion/2, System/X
	"We were an "underground" board, with around 300 or so users. Had a bunch of board games, most popular of those were Bordello and Smurf Combat... never got into the Lord, Tradewars, etc. really... hey, we were simple minded! We were home of TSR ("This Sh*t Rox!") ANSI group, along with Doomsday productions, L!GHTN!NG, and a few other groups/etc. When we first opened, I believe it was with a 14.4k (possibly 9600?) ... but I cannot remember exactly. It was on a system with 8 megs of RAM and a 101meg HDD -- upon closing, I believe I was on my P133/2 Gigs with 16 RAM - something like that." - Bryan Ashby
801-485-5095 SALT LAKE CITY, UT	Burning Chrome I and II (1989-1990)	Count Zero, DNA Cowboy, Quantum Mechanic	Dialog
	"The Burning Chrome BBSs were mainly known for two things. First, all things cyberpunk. We had some good discussion groups going on several cyberpunk related topics... books, industrial/electronic music, Culture, RPGs, etc. Second, we were bringing the freshest Amiga warez in the galaxy to that cool little pocket of die-hard Amiga evangelists in Utah, and elsewhere. Burning Chrome II also had a very respectable H/P/C/A area, and it was the HQ for the SLC based United Hacker Federation. The original Burning Chrome ran on an Amiga 1000 with 1 meg of RAM and around 150 megs of external SCSI storage. It was accessed by a 9600 baud US Robotics Courier HST. Burning Chrome II (which ran simultaneously) was powered by an Amiga 2500 with 2 megs of RAM, and a 50 meg Microscribe SCSI HD. Throughput was achieved via an Intel 9600EX. Fondest memories: Pasting my buddies at Star Control while my BBS multi-tasked away in the backgroud." - DNA Cowboy
801-485-5572 Salt Lake City, UT	9 Hells (1989-1991)	Synical Sorcerer, Matthew Jordan (Synical Sorcerer)	STadel3.3c, STadel 13.3c
	"Formerly known as Gardening at Night. Ran on what I believe was the first Telebit 19200 BPS Modem in Utah. Synchronized nightly with another Citadel BBS in Florida." - Matthew Jordan
801-486-4261 Salt Lake CIty, UT	The Unbelivers (1989-1998)	Kevin Thomson	VBBS
	"The first Athiest BBS in Salt Lake City. At one time was a major hub for news groups and email for VBBS systems. At its peak sported over 32 lines. Was supported by Novell Network backbone, on 3 servers, each line had it own computer as to keep processing speed at its maximum. (these also provided heat for the house in winter months) Was finaly dismantled and slowly taken offline due to hackers, and expenses to keep all the phone lines active. Was fun while it lasted. - Now see -- http://www.nowscape.com/atheist0.htm" - Kevin Thomson
801-486-6397 SALT LAKE CITY, UT	Expresso Yourself BBS (1992-1996)	Andy Darylrimple, Keith McNaughton	WWIV
	"Primarily a gay community and games board last running on a 486/33DX, 4MB, QEMM, DesqView, Windows 3.11, WWIV." - Andy Dalrymple
801-508-1091 Magna, UT	NC Net 311, Third Rock from the Sun, Third Rock From The Sun BBS (1998-2009)	Thebutler4, Maryanna, Steve Reeves	Virtual Advanced
	"Update: Third Rock From The Sun BBS was setup back in 1998 .. at the very end of the dial up BBS days. however the BBS still lives! .. There is still 1 dial up node and 3 telnet nodes and again still running Virtual Advanced BBS software. I refuse to give up! .. we do get a few calls a day over telnet but its been a long time since we have had anyone dial into the system however its still there! the BBS phone number is 801-508-1091 .. We are also still with FidoNet and a few other networks such as VirtualNet and GatorNet .. I hope a few people find this .. and give us a call for old time sake! .. We are trying to keep BBSing alive! its still much more personal than the web. I also want to add there is another board that came up as well. Lighting BBS is up and running again. so there are 2 BBS`s here in Salt Lake!!! Nope we are not dead!"
801-538-0237 Salt Lake, UT	Stonewall BBS (1990-1991)	Devin Hanson
	"This BBS was run by Devin Hanson. It was perhaps the first all Gay BBS in Utah. I do not know when it started but it was going strong in 1990 and 1991. Devin Hanson was a pioneer for Gay Rights in Utah in the 1980s until about 1994 when he moved to San Francisco where he became very successful in the computer industry. He was also one of the founding members of Queer Nation Utah. Devin Hanson died from injuries sustained in an accident in 2002. He is greatly missed." - Anonymous
801-547-0607 Layton, UT	Phoenix Rises, The Year 2000 BBS, The Year 2000 NetWork (1988-1992)	Bart Flint	PCBoard
	"The Year 2000 was the largest multi-line BBS in the area. In 1991, he took it offline for a few months, but brought it online a few months later under the name Phoenix Rises." - Bart Flint
801-586-8751 Cedar City, UT	The Cedar Chest (1991-1998)	Ken Rhodes	QuickBBS
	"I am Ken Rhodes. The time span you have is probably a little on the long side. I estimate it was nearly six years, and I did take it over from the founder in 1991, but I think it was taken down for good in 1996- possibly as late as 1997. The BBS was founded by a man named Dave Dykes and when he moved from the community, he asked me if I wanted to put the files on my computer and take over the phone number. I decided to do that. I was running the BBS on an old Emerson 286 with a USR 9600 external modem. When I took it over, I decided to alter it just a bit and focus on games almost entirely, mostly fantasy and science fiction based games. It was great fun, but when local WWW access came to Cedar City, our users began to stop calling us until there were no calls at all and we disconnected the second phone line. Towards the end I was running it on a 486 DX machine with a whopping 4MB of RAM and multi-tasking in a DOS environment so that I could be "online" when the users were as well." - Ken Rhodes
801-756-2901 American Fork, UT	Thunder Hold, Rodent Laboratories Software (1991-1998)	Todd Harrington	PC Board
	"I started this BBS on an Atari ST using RatSoft BBS software, and was a beta site for the software for some time. It included file sharing, games, and was a fidonet node. Later on I moved it to a PC and used PCBoard BBS software and it grew to 3 lines. In 1995 I was hired by PowerQuest (famous for PartitionMagic) to run their BBS. I ran both until 1998 when my work took me to europe for a year and both BBS's went down." - Todd Harrington Product: RATsoft ST
801-774-9422 Layton, Utah	Star Gates (1991-1996)	Gate Keeper	WWIV
	"This board ran as Star Gates until 1993 when it switch to California Beach House. After 1996 I took it over at a different number as Necromancy. It ran for another year or so." - Dr. Faustus
801-882-4215 TOOELE, UT	Middle Earth (1992)	Markwood
	Vogue Member BBS
801-942-8629 Sandy, UT	Hypnosis (1985-1989)	Chris Gandelman
	"I ran my BBS in my parents basement on a C=64 with 3 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and 1 3 1/2 inch floppy drive, on a 2400 baud hayes modem. My highest user base was 479 in 87 i think, I also had users from overseas in europe and australia. File sharing and information." - Chris Gandelman
802-334-7976 NEWPORT, VT	CUS-VT, Orleans County, Computer Ser. of Ver (1993-1995)	Russell Boyce, Russ Boyce
	ListKeeper: Vermont BBS's
802-482-2110 HINESBURG, VT	(C> II, CVU, VT Education System (1985-1995)	Craig Lyndes
	"Champlain Valley Union High School (CVU) started its bulletin board during the 1984-1985 school year, running RBBS on a dual (5 1/4") floppy system, with a single 300 baud HAYES external modem on the 484-2110 number. The original SYSOP was Brad Portelance, with help from John King and Steve Padnos. Craig Lyndes was the faculty advisor. I became a SYSOP during the 1985-1986 school year, and was the "Chief Sysop" for '85-'86 and '86-87. There were several other "associate" SYSOPs during that time, including Andre' Mehta, Steve Padnos, Dan LeClaire, Hemant Rao, Cathy Young, Liberty Joyce, John King, Jim Lawson, Chris Blaise, and Jessica Dione. After I graduated in '87 I believe that Jim or Chris took over, though don't much remember as I was going to college out of state. After the first year of maintaining and fixing bugs with the RBBS source (it was written in BASIC and was some of the hairiest code I've ever seen) we held some fund raisers and was able to get the money to buy TBBS, a ten meg hard drive (an inCider, if I remember), and a couple extra lines. I think we eventually upgraded to a couple of 1200 baud modems too by the time I left. I also wrote a proposal (with help from others in the CVU Computer Club) that we submitted to IBM (they have a chip manufacturing plant in Essex Junction VT) and were awarded a grant for $3000 in late 1985 or early 1986. This was used to upgrade the software and to buy more phone lines to extend our reach: Hinesburgh (where CVU is located) was a long distance call for pretty much everyone except Hinesburgh residents, so we purchased Burlington numbers (which weren't LD) that rang through to Hinesburgh. I don't know which year the BBS finally disappeared. I would expect that it was as late as 1994 or 1995." - Tom Emerson
802-655-4108 BURLINGTON, VT	CyberMalls, CYBERSPACE VERMONT, Shopping Mall (1994-1996)		MajorBBS
	CYBERSPACE VERMONT, Shopping Mall. Vermont places to visit.things to do, products to buy. Shop for Vermont crafted products. Plan your VT vacation. Experience that special Vermont state of mind. 802.655.4108 - BBS Magazine November, 1994
802-658-1760 BURLINGTON, VT	The Game Portal (1987-1989)	Chris Campbell	QuickBBS
	"I ran on QuickBBS and my board was in operation from 87-89. I ran Fido, and various multi-player games. My system ran on an Vendex Headstart II 8088-XT 8Mhz processor with 1MB ram. I started with a 1200 Hayes modem. Eventually upgraded to a USR 2400. John King, Bennett Delikuka, James Pallack and I started the Vermont SysOp Association (Please list me with everyone at 802-862-2186). It basically consisted of us meeting on a Thursday night at Zachary's Pizza, talking BBS and eating. John and I remained friends after the end of our BBSs. We've since lost touch." - Christian Campbell
802-879-1336 Essex Jct., VT	Spyrit's Crypt (1990-1992)	Black Spyrit	PC Xpress
	"Razor 1911 WHQ, ICE WHQ, later ACiD Eastern Agora." - Black Spyrit
803-207-1911 Charleston, SC	The Medical Forum (1988-1997)	Shelley Crawford, Shelley Pickard, Shelley Driscoll	Quick BBS, FrontDoor
	"The Medical Forum existed in Jacksonville, NC from 1988 to 1992. I moved to SC in 1992 and operated there until 1997 when the Internet really started taking over. Callers were WAY down. And yes, I was one of those rare birds, a female sysop. Damn it was FUN!!! I met my husband Patrick at a local sysop's meeting." - Shelley Driscoll
803-223-5006 Greenwood, SC	The Black Hole BBS, The Blackhole (1993-1996)	James Kennemore	RemoteAccess with FrontDoor
	"The original BBS had a 2400bps modem, which I later upgraded to 14,400. The main attractions were our feeds (FidoNet, SolarNet, and ChattanoogaNet), and doors (Legend of the Red Dragon, etc.). We started SolarNet because we didn't know any better... In 1995 a company started providing internet in our town, and I pulled the BBS offline. I started several IT companies, including a CLEC and ISP, myself, in 1997 and in 2005 purchased the ISP that replaced my BBS." - James A. Kennemore, Jr.
803-223-5688 Greenwood, SC	Mirror Abstract BBS (1994-1995)	Roy Richardson	Remote Access 2.1
	"I was the sysop of Mirror Abstract BBS. It is now defunct of course. The Internet blew away the need for my BBS. So I closed up shop. The item that seemed to draw the most attention was Legend of Red Dragon. I was the first one in my area to have a 56K modem. :-) My PC was in a constant state of upgrade as I kept trying to make the BBS better and better. I ran FidoNet for a while and even bought but never got running a used Planet Connect system to download FidoNet news. I remember the BNU fossil drive and Front Door. I had a NEC six CD-ROM changer with EZ CD as the door to it and I kept it stocked with shareware CD's for people to download. I asked for and received many donations to pay for software licenses. I had about 40 total regular users. I really miss those days. They can never truly be revisited." - Roy Richardson
803-242-1238 Greenville, SC	Intimate Fantacies, Intimate Fantasies, Intimate Fantasies (also IF) (1991-1992)	Kristine Johnson, Mark McQuistion, Kristine Johnson (Mark McQuistion co-hosted for a few months in 1991)	Remote Access
	"What started out as an "adult" board, became the first Wiccan, alternative religion and poetry board in Greenville, SC. (Something of a rarity for the home of BJU) We carried FidoNet and ParaNet, refused to serve as a file library and had bevy of Trade Wars addicts among our ranks. Our Meet and Greets were a tad infamous, but it was all in good fun. IF will always hold good memories for me and in a roundabout way was instrumental in helping me to eventually meet my husband." - Kristine Johnson
803-256-3546 Columbia , SC	Cola Net, Para-Soft, ParaSoft BBS (1989-1994)	Shay Walters	WWIV (custom)
	"This BBS started out as something to fill up spare time. It ran on a case-less 8MHz 8088 motherboard with two 20-Meg drives sitting on the desk beside it. Sometime around 1990, I wrote a Fidonet interface for WWIV called "FourDog" (Four from the IV in WWIV, and Dog from Fidonet.) This system became the hub of the Columbia Fidonet for a number of years, and I acted as NC (Network Coordinator) for much of that time. The FidoNet address was 376/12. Several of the local sysops started a sysops-users group which would have occasional meetings, often at a local restaurant or picnic shelter. This group was called CSA (Columbia Sysops Assn.) There was a notable BBS in Columbia which is missing from your list. This BBS was named The WordWorks. It was run by Wes Ives (now deceased). This BBS had no downloads (aside from text files), only discussion boards. It pre-dated my BBS by a number of years, and, I think was running after I had shut mine down. Unfortunately, I don't remember the phone number for the WordWorks. If I run across an old BBS phone # list, I'll send you another update for it." - Shay Walters
803-279-5392 Augusta, GA	FORUM-80 Augusta, GA (1980-1985)		FORUM-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
803-297-4395 SUMTER, SC	Referral Marketing BBS, The Referral Market, Referral Market BBS (1992-1994)	Thomas Weathers
	List of BBS List Keepers: CompuCom Moden BBS List/Thomas Weather
803-323-2479 Rock Hill, SC	The Screamin' Eagle BBS (1991-1999)	Alan Taylor, James Troyan	TriBBS
	"You have most of the right information in your list for my old BBS, but you can add my name (Alan Taylor) and my friend's name (James Troyan) as SysOps if you like. We ran the BBS from my office in the Academic Computing Center at Winthrop University. The years are off too, though. I remember being proud to help distribute the newly released Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. I stopped working at the college in 1994 when I got a "real job". As I recall, James ran the BBS for 2 more years after I left, so I'd say the years should be 1991-1996. I'm not sure where the 1998-1999 years came from, but I suppose it could have went on for a while longer than I realized. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. :) During that time I was programming in Pascal to create TriBBS utilities under the name TnT Programming. Lots of fun." - Alan Taylor
803-494-4461 STATEBURG, SC	Dragon Mountain (1992-1994)	Jeff Davis, Allanon	PCBOARD
	"During its short lifespan Dragon Mountain quickly became one of the most popular BBS's in the Shaw AFB area during it's years of existence. Highly customized menus and login screens. Most users of the time will remember the SysOp as Allanon, and Co-SysOp Blossom. Several games, message areas, Some xxx areas, and for a time (Shhh don't tell anyone - a burgeoning pirate board section). At it's peak there were roughly 300 regular active users boasting about 50-60 calls per day with just one phone line. A 2nd line was added for donating members towards the end." - Jeff (Allanon)
803-499-4316 Sumter, SC	Carolina Connections KC4PL, Sumter Hub, Sumter Net, Sumter's Node (1991-1996)	Gale Wilkinson
	" The Node part of the listing was in reference to the fact that I was the Sumter area Fido Net NC. Though the sumter net never did get very big as most of the local bbs's were put up by military personel stationed at Shaw AFB, and as they were reassigned they boards would go down and new ones go up. And then came the Internet which did us all in! As a matter of fact the primary purpose of the bbs was news groups from FidoNet and several other nets. Until I closed it down it was the 3rd oldest BBS in the county, the oldest one being run by a local computer store and the 2nd oldest being the Sumter/Shaw Computer Club bbs. At the peak I had 200+ news groups from the various nets I was involved with." - Gale D. Wilkinson
803-524-5655 Beaufort, SC	Broad River Emp, Broad River Emporium (1989-1995)	Ken Kelly, Ken Kelley	Wildcat!, Spitfire, TAG
	"We ran under a variety of names, starting with The Hobby Shop, and then various incarnations using the THS initials (The Hedonistic Society). Eventurally the name settled on Broad River Emporium. We ran a variety of software, mainly to prove that we could. "We started on Wildcat! but did Spitfire for a while. We went to T.A.G. because of its flexibility and I know we experimented with PC-Board, RBBS, Telegard, and WWIV. Eventually we ran for a while using both Wildcat! and T.A.G., so users could pick their favorite experience. I think before we shut it down Ken ran Maximus BBS for a while, but that was after I was out of day-to-day operations as a SysOp." - K. Brian Kelley
803-548-0900 FORT MILL, SC	Fort Mill BBS, Fort Mill Hub, Fort Mill Tabby, RBBS IBM PC Fort Mill, RCP/M RBBS Fort Mill (1982-1995)	Bill Taylor	Red Ryder Host, Mouse Exchange
	List of BBS List Keepers: Macintosh BBS/Bill Taylor
803-552-4389 North Charleston, SC	Earth Art,envir, The Earth Art BBS (GREENNET), The Earth Art BBS!, EarthArt BBS, The Earth Art(tm) BBS (1991-1999)	Bob Chapman, Ambassador Wildlife Gallery/Bob Chapman	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Ecology/Conservation BBS/Bob Chapman Wildlife/Conservation Art Gallery GIF Images ListKeeper: Ecology/Conservation BBS
803-556-7485 McClellanville, SC	Charleston Net, East Bay X-change, East Bay X-Change 1, East Bay X-Change Node 1, EastBayXcghg, EastBayXchg, Rat in the Office [Mail Only], Smokin' Software, TComm QMX/XRS Help, East Bay X-Change 372/888 (1987-1996)	Mike Ratledge, Michael Ratledge	QuickBBS , TComm
	"East Bay X-Change (listed under several other numbers - back then we didn't have "roll-over" for non-commercial phones) ran TComm software, and was the home of "XRS", the "Xpress Response System" offline mail reader/responder written and sold by myself for almost 10 years which was one of the first "bulk mail" offline readers for FidoNet systems. I was the Region 18 (SouthEast) software distribution service hub and coordinator (SDScoord), Charleston (Net 183) network coordinator for FidoNet and also author of "NewDay/PC" a 'Today in History' program popular during that time period. You have one node listed as being up until 1996, but after moving from the original East Bay St location (723- & 577- exchange #s) to my home in the West Ashley area after Hurricane Hugo in 1989, I ran three nodes until mid-1993." - Mike Ratledge Home of XRS Offline Mail Reader
803-566-1812 Charleston, SC	Morningside Middle School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
803-591-0312 Spartanburg, SC	Animated Prism (1986)
	Spartanburg Commodore Users Group Spartanburg Commodore Users Group
803-762-2136 Charleston, SC	The Upper Room (1987-1992)	Mark Murphy	QuickBBS
	"Not real sure when I started this BBS, in fact it started as a part time BBS using RBBS software. I eventually joined FidoNet running QuickBBS and Binkleyterm as the front end mailer. I was one of the early sysops to purchase a US Robotics HST modem that was able to run at 9600 Baud, and later at 14400 baud after a firmware upgrade. My board was primarily a message and download board reaching at it's height 60Mb split approximately in half with 30Mb in downloads and 30Mb in messaging and system software. I did run a game on my board. It was called Ultimate Mayhem. This was a multi-player space game which was a sort of cross between Tradewars and the Star Track games of the day. The Upper Room moved to Cincinnati, OH in 1989 after Hurricane Hugo came through, and survived another year before the computer blew a hard disk." - Mark Murphy
803-763-9522 Charleston, SC	Counter<>Parts Online, Dog House BBS, Counterpart (1986-1996)	Danny Covington	Varoius Programs, Self Written Voice Mail
	"This BBS was started on a hoighy modified TI99 4a, Then was run on a souped up Atari xe 130. When IBM came out with the PS2 we ported over and ran a dting BBS Voice mail while still maintaining our graphic based BBS." - Danny Covington
803-786-6132 COLUMBIA, SC	Carolina Networx (1988-1990)	Lewis Etheridge, Mark McClure	Opus
	"You have two entries for Carolina Networx, one under the phone number on this comment, another on 803-788-8039. These are the same board, Mark & I shared SysOp duties on this machine; it had two phone numbers because it was originally located at the place where we worked and later moved it to another location. Mark handled user authentication & registration, I handled the tech stuff for FidoNet (which, IIRC, our node was 376/10?)." - Lewis Etheridge
803-794-2238 Cayce, SC	The Fish Tank [ASV/CBV] (1993-2000)	Joey Linden, Fish	WWIV
	"The Fish Tank was a BBS that was started during my High School years as something to feel in spare time. As a result of running the board I began to modify the source code. Because of this I was able to start learning a little C++ in high school. I loved programming and running the board. I learned so much in those few years. Thanks to Shay Walters (SysOp of ParaSoft or Chez Shay) for giving me my first 300 baud modem and getting me started." - Joey Linden
803-798-3755 Columbia, SC	MacInternational (1993-1994)	Ralph Yount
	Largest MAC BBS on East Coast
803-821-8689 Summerville, SC	Pat's Place (Node 1), Pat's Place BBS (Node 1), Pat's Place Node 1 (1988-1999)	Patrick Driscoll	TriBBS, PC Board
	"Oldest BBS in Summerville, with 4 nodes and FidoNet mail access. Survived Operation Sundevil, with only one system seized. Run util the calls dropped to less than 10 a day." - Patrick Driscoll
803-823-8176 Charleston, SC	The Thieves Market (1989-1994)	The Doorman / DMZ / David M Zendzian	WWIV
	"WWIVnet & Fidonet node, eventually moved services into A World of Difference (awod.com) the first ISP in Charleston that DMZ was a partner in." - David M. Zendzian
803-925-2468 Smyrna, SC	Maw's BBS, Maw’s BBS (1996-1997)	Supe007	WWiV
	This was my BBS. It ran for a year and was what got me into computer networking. It was named Maw’s BBS because I was a teenager at the time and naming after my mother was how I convinced my parents to let me run it.
803-925-3826 Hickory Grove, SC	The Wasted Youth BBS (1993-2001)	Kevbo	WWIV
	"The Wasted Youth BBS began in Columbia, SC in 1992 as The Wonder Years BBS, an direct branch off of The Trixter BBS. After graduating college in 1992, the BBS was revised and reopened in February 1993 as The Wasted Youth BBS. Although it had a part-time number for about 6, the 92-KEVBO(925-3826) number was the trademark for connections. The BBS grew and died slowly, at one time it provided WWIVNEt based connections for the entire Charlotte BBS community. The hey-day began to fade in 1996 when internet use began to sore and I returned again to school. The BBS closed in February 2001, 8 years to the day of its opening. It has seen me through 2 college degrees, marriage, and my first child. I miss the lives I once touched and despise the impersonalness of the internet." - Kevbo
803-948-0640 Spartanburg, SC	Jim Snell, The Unregistered Copy (1992-1994)	Jim Snell	Renegade
	"During its peak Spartanburg had a small but very active group of BBS enthusiasts. We were close to Greenville, SC (30 miles), which at any given time probably had about twice as many boards, but Southern Bell charged high in-state long-distance. I like the Internet, and I think that it is a terrific resource for commercial uses and news. However we are really suffering from the complete loss of community that you had with the local BBS. I don't beleive that I have ever telephoned, or struck up a friendship with anyone off of the Internet. However such friendships were routinely forged online back with the boards. Although it may have appeared to the outside world as stricly a solitary activity I know of very few hobbies that are actually so social. Indeed, the most popular way of guaging a bulletin board's popularity was by the number and frequency of callers. Although plenty of sysops were always quick to reference all of the time and money the invested, from my own experience I know that no matter how much time or money I invested (which was all I had of both), I always got so much more in return." - Jim Snell
803-951-3848 Lexington, SC	Ego Mania, EgoMania BBS (1991-1994)	Ron Howard aka The Controller	WWIV
	"In the early 90's Columbia, SC was a great place to operate a BBS. The local Sysops actually started an organization called CAUSE, an acronym which stood for Columbia Area Users & Sysops Exchange. Local Sysops and Users met monthly at various restaurants to get to know each other and to exchange ideas. EgoMania actually died rather quickly when I relocated to California from South Carolina." - Ron Howard
804-222-2242 Richmond, CA	ChatCity BBS (1993-1996)	Brian S. Mueller and Matthew J. Compton, Brian Mueller	MajorBBS
	"Brian and I had this idea of a BBS. We didn't like the WWIV-like experience and we decided to run something a little different. We discovered Major BBS and chose to go that direction. We started of with a six line service and grew it to 24 lines (one galactibox, two digiboards, and 24 external USR 14.4 soft upgraded to 28.8). Around 1995 AOL came into Richmond, VA and we were losing some subscribers to the larger web. We decided to do a link to the internet to sustain the customers, but in 1996 a lightning strike to the house ruined the equipment." - Matt Compton
804-239-5434 Lynchburg, VA	Nuttin' Fancy, Nuttin' Fancy (ASP), Nuttin' Fancy BBS (1993-1995)	Jeff Washburn
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Lynchburg, Virginia since 08/93. Sysop: Jeff Washburn. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 3 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 5000 MB storage. Hayes at 28.8 bps. $35.00 Annual fee. Over 5 Gigabytes of Online Files. All phone lines roll over. Fidonet and Intelec Message Network Member. Official Apogee Software Distribution Point. ASP Approved Member BBS. 1 Free week of BBS usage when New. Mention this ad to get $5 off a subscription
804-272-0605 Richmond, VA	Wildfire BBS (1990-1993)	Chip Saunders	WWIV
	Ran this in high school and college. Heavily Modded WWIV WWIVnet member.
804-278-6283 Richmond, VA	Airwolf's Lair (1991-1995)	Airwolf	RiBBS
	"Wasn't a very active BBS but it was there." - Airwolf
804-340-9177 Virginia Beach, VA	The Toasted Elemental (1992-1997)	Brian Monroe	Renegade
	"Single line Battletech themed board, Member of Fidonet and several other smaller networks." - Tepes
804-353-4160 Richmond, VA	Intercity BBS (1987-1999)	Tyronne Foy, Tyrone Foy	RBBS
	Source is the book "Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter" by Charlton D. McIlwain. Note that Foy's name is currently listed as a Sysop twice with one of the listings being a misspelling.
804-358-3286 Richmond, VA	The Hegelian Solution, Inc. [PIN] (1989-1993)	Hegel, Himself.	WWIV v3.2
	" I'm Hegel, Himself. . .� (1@8413WWIVLink and 1@8407WWIVNet). The Hegelian Solution, Inc. BBS ran from 89-93, on WWIV v3.2 and then 4.24 by Wayne Bell. There were numerous modifications to the source code, several "doors" leading to ascii games, self-testing instruments, etc. The bbs initially ran on a dedicated 8088-10mhz dtk barebones system, with a pair of seagate 40mb drives and a 2400 bps internal modem. Hours of operation were 24/7, except for maintenance. In early 1992, the system was upgraded to a 286 machine. "THS was afilliated with both WWIVLenk and WWIVNet, as well as the PIN (Pagan Information Network). Subs generally centered around politics, religion, alternative lifestyles, and ascii art. Games were available. The Richmond Area SysOps Association had a monthly lunch at the "The Venice" restaurant at least into mid 1993, when I stopped attending. "I took the board down in late 1993 or early 1994, and had my first www site up for my students at the University of Richmond by late August 1994. Its long gone now, as are subsequent sites. Anyway, that's the "rest of the story." I've lost touch with all but a very few fellow sysops from that time, and the one's I'm in touch with have closed their boards." - Hegel Himself (Michael Bell)
804-379-6314 Richmond, VA	Bitz N Bytez (1993-1995)	Tom Wojciaczyk	TriBBS
	"Provided Internet based FTP downloads via a FTP door, HAM PACKET radio access, and most importantly constant Legend of the Red Dragon contests!" - Tom Wojciaczyk
804-384-8720 Lynchburg, VA	The Undiscovered Country (1992-1994)	Vic Oppleman	RemoteAccess
	Thanks for doing this. Too bad we don't have an ""Internet Archive"" so to speak of BBSes with screenshots and other stuff like .
804-422-9395 Virginia Beach, VA	Nite Moves BBS (1988-1992)	Joe Prentiss
	"Adult BBS, FIDOnet Hub, Multi-line, 4 gigs and 6 CD's online." - Joe Prentiss
804-442-5867 MECHANICSVILLE, VA	The Funhouse, TelPro Technologies (1993-1995)
	Product: Kitten
804-464-4869 Virginia Beach,, VA	Ragnarok Threshold (1992-1994)	Michael Zimmerman (Expo)	WWIV 4.12
	"I ran this BBS while in highschool. We proudly ran WWIV and were heavily modified. We were part of WWIVNET as well as several smaller local nets. I still have the SC and play with it from time to time." - Michael Zimmerman
804-473-LASS LYNCHBURG, VA	Pleasure Dome, PLEASURE DOME (1991-1992)		WILDCAT! V3.02R
	PLEASURE DOME, twice voted Best Adult BBS in America. Member THROB-NET, KINKNET, AFTERDARK & VOYAGERNET. Six lines, WILDCAT! V3.02R General Access lines (804) 490-LUST, Ladies only access (804) 473-LASS. Call and see why we are the BEST!
804-489-1022 Norfolk, VA	Tidewater Circuit Board (1992-1994)	Andrew Lewis	Modified GBBS
	"This was the BBS for the Tidewater Apple Worms, the local Apple users group."
804-490-LUST HOPEWELL, VA	Pleasure Dome, PLEASURE DOME (1991-1992)		WILDCAT! V3.02R
	PLEASURE DOME, twice voted Best Adult BBS in America. Member THROB-NET, KINKNET, AFTERDARK & VOYAGERNET. Six lines, WILDCAT! V3.02R General Access lines (804) 490-LUST, Ladies only access (804) 473-LASS. Call and see why we are the BEST!
804-498-5878 Virginia Beach, VA	The Pleasure Dome BBS (1985-1994)		Wildcat!
	"I was the Sysop of THE PLEASURE DOME BBS in Virginia Beach VA (1985-1994) Main line was 804-498-5878 (LUST). The area code changed a few years after we closed to 757, for whatever that is worth! Wildcat! BBS Software . 10 lines Was one of the early Adults Only BBSs. Had a separate dedicated line for the ladies to log into. Selected as #1 BBS In America 1992-1993 in BoardWatch Magazine, #1 in Virginia for several years as well. Enjoyed a LOT of press, especially in The ADULT BBS GUIDEBOOK and THE JOY OF CYBERSEX (I can probably get you copies of those articles. Had many years of fun, but you probably cannot publish THAT info, hahaha"
804-499-2266 GLOUCESTER, VA	Amiga East, Amiga East!!, AMIGA EAST (1988-1995)	East Coast
	Skid Row Member BBS
804-520-4046 Colonial Heights, VA	Piledriver BBS (1992-1996)	Robert Mitchem	Wildcat
	"Had domain name piledriver.com. Offered email and usenet service." - Robert Mitchem
804-548-1988 Virginia Beach, VA	CompuVision On-Line Entertainment System, Compuvision (1993-1994)	Russ Salter
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Virginia Beach, Virginia since 05/93. Sysop: Russ Salter. Using Excalibur .65 with 8 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 2000 MB storage. ZyXel at 16800 bps. $10.00 Monthly fee. CompuVision is the premiere Windows based system in the country. Use our Free windows terminal to view full color graphics, GIFs while online. Mouse support and sound, familiar windows interface. Say goodbye to ANSI and RIP.
804-588-0940 Norfolk, VA	Real Time Access (1991-1995)	Mike Marange, Michael Marange	Wildcat
	"Also known as RTA BBS and Tidewater Online (twonline.com) during the begining of the Internet." - Michael Marange
804-723-1663 MECHANICSVILLE, VA	Virginia Data Exchange (1991)	Tim Jacobs
	"Hi Jason, I am the one that ran the Virginia Data Exchange! It was 4 lines with a satellite downlink for constant data. The satellite was a C band modem of 38400 in 1990-1995. I don't even know how many users I had. It was run on ... Cant remember... lol I'm now 62 and still use my knowledge from those days, yet for collection of satellite data. The coolest thing I did is allow users to write to the soldiers of the Gulf War. I was then call a BBS in Kuwait Saudi someplace and deliver the letters to be printed and delivered to the post office where they would deliver each one to a random soldier. I was told it helped some of them to get a pin pal going. I did that for the entire war. I even setup a system at a school that allowed the kids to do it at school. In NewportNews VA.. That is where the BBS was. It cost me about $1000 a month and I got about 10K a year in people just sending me money... That was the coolest. It was all FREE and no porn only Family BBS so that the kids could play and get games. I had a user create an interface that gave the entire system colorized and made it kind of like Compu-serv back in the day. I ended up getting orders to move to California where I had thought about setting up a BBS and Full Internet POP, and compete with AOL. I was next to the California Browns Fiber Ring and could have had a feed there. I just had a little girl - Natasha, and my Wife got Pregnant with my first boy, and the BBS took so much time that I just quit! It was an amazing ride." - Tim Jacobs
804-744-0797 Midlothian, VA	FreeB:RAIMAILSYSOP, FreePress BBS, The Freeboard, The FreeBoard BBS (1990-1997)	Bill Hunter
	Desktop Publishing File Distribution Network 1:264/212
804-784-7014 Goochland, VA	Whistlestop West (1988-1993)	Joanne 'Doc' Baldwin
	"It began operating in about 1988, which I remember clearly as I was still in high school at the time. The sysop was my mother Joanne "Doc" Baldwin, and she created a community of local folks who still keep in touch to this day. I don't know if you're still updating the list, but my mother passed away recently, and I and the other folks from her board would love to have her name memorialized along with her BBS." - Cricket
804-794-2125 Midlothian, VA	Gemini (1994-1998)	Paul Anderson	Synchronet
	"It was a very active board for a number of high school students in the Midlothian, VA area. It died in December 1998 when Paul left the BBS up while on vacation and lightning fried his systems while he was gone. I have no idea what happened to everyone on the board. We all sort of lost contact with each other after Gemini died. The internet was already coming to our houses by then, and it was time to move on." - Anonymous
804-973-8235 Charlottesville, VA	Broadcasters, Pat's Place (1988-1996)	Pat Wilson	PCBoard
	"Hi, I'm Pat Wilson and ran the BBS in Charlottesville and later Richmond, VA when I moved in 1995. I also had my BBS transferring mail between the mainframe at UVA and the BBS 12 times a day. I was probably one of the first locally operated BBSs to have internet email. I also ran several game doors and other things on what we called the Compaq Luggable (it was not really portable). I had a 20 meg hardcard in the machine instead of a regular harddrive. What a way to go. I enjoy reading all the things you have up and thanks for keeping the history. I also tried to run Excalibur when things started changing, but didn't have access to a high speed internet connection. Anyhow, it's good to see all this info. BTW, I was the Co-Sysop on the Central Virginia BBS with Mark Cagley who developed Arc Door. Much has change and mostly for the better. I remember the WARS between Phil Katz and the ARC folks. I remember when Phil had a contest to name his newly developed compression program and when Zipper came out. Thanks again and keep it going." - Patrick Wilson
804-979-1036 Charlottesville, VA	Flat Line, Flat Line BBS (1995-1996)	Paul Suggs	Wildcat
	"This BBS is already listed, I just wanted to update it with the sysop's name. This was my first BBS, and my first foray into the world of LORD (an addiction which still has a firm hold :-P). If not for him (He was always both active and courteous), I may never have kept my interest BBSing, and never met my fiancee. We met a few years ago in a game of, you guessed it, LORD." - Notbert
805-238-1058 Paso Robles, CA	Paso Robles BBS (1985-1989)	Paul Ogren	Wildcat, Wildcat and others
	"Tried several different BBS programs and ended up with Wildcat being the most versatile. Even tried a homemade version patterned after an adventure program - some of the users posted the solution on the local high school bulletin board (thumb tack kind). I got quite a kick out of it." - Paul Ogren
805-239-4292 Paso Robles, CA	ProBoard II, ProBOARD ][ GBBS (1986-1998)	John P. Edwards	GBBS-Pro Super Modified
	"I operated the ProBOARD first on an Apple IIc with 140k Floppy disk and 128k of RAM beginning in late 1985. I may have used a different name at first, I was known as Silver Surfer then. By the time I became the Official GBBS-Pro Support and Development person for new owner Steven Lichter of The Apple Elite ][ in Riverside, I had changed the name to the ProBOARD ][ GBBS and used the well known handle Surfer Joe. Software I wrote was best known by my initials JPE. The ProBOARD ][ was A showcase of the most radical mods a SysOP could do to their personal Boards and many came to me for consulting and program work. Much of which was done remotely, across the country and around the world as early as 1987. The Primary GBBS-Pro BBS's in our Support Network were Networked using OggNET Node and Ring Software designed and developed by Paul Oggman. Gateways were build to interface our Network with FIDO and other nets. I was also Co-Designer and Developer for ProTERM Mac after many years on the beta test team for ProTERM A2. (Greg Schaefer and I became good friends) Search GBBS for more info. The ProBOARD ][ GBBS was preserved and sold intact to the Boston Computer Musuem in 2000. This was the same exact computer that Bob Hardy (later CEO for Sega North America) Created many of his popular A2 Games on in the early days btw." - John Edwards
805-268-0643 Acton, CA	Ladyhawke's Domain (1993-1996)	Shari Johnson	Wildcat
	"My BBS was started in a RV 5th wheel that I was living in at the time. I had a total of 5 lines eventually. The phone company couldn't understand why I needed 5 lines in a 5th wheel trailer...LOL. From the RV I moved across the road and rented a house. So running the BBS became much easier. I got to meet a lot of my users face to face ... which was great! Have to say in all honesty, I miss it!" - Shari Johnson
805-379-3450 THOUSAND OAKS, CA	Gilmore Systems (1995)
	Product: Magnum BBS
805-379-4209 Thousand Oaks, CA,	The Back Harlow Road (1994-1999)	Tunnel Ratt	Renegade
	"I ran this BBS for a while and started the small art group - ORiGiN (known as EViL initially.) We had some good members that went on to bigger & better groups. Crazy how time flies - we had no idea that what we were doing at 14, 15, 16 years old was somewhat revolutionary. It really was an interesting experience and one that really is only understood or appreciated by others that experienced it. I remember a few guys out there - Odie, grifter, the guy that ran the jurisprudence, sigmar, and more. Good times." - Paul Ferro
805-395-0650 Bakersfield, CA	MSI HQ BBS Public, Mustang Softare Inc, Mustang Software, Inc BBS, Mustang Wildcat , Mustang Wildcat WILD, Mustang Wildcat! BBS System, Mustang Wildcat,, Mustang's WILDCAT Support, The Mustang, WildCat BBS, Wildcat Support And Files, Mustang Software Inc., Wildcat! HQ, Wildcat HQ BBS 210/12 (1987-1996)	Steve Crippen, Rick Hemming, Jim Harrer, Rick Heming, Wildcat Staff, MSI – Mustang Software, Inc.	Wildcat
	List of BBS List Keepers: Wildcat! BBS/Jim Harrer Multiline Support System for Wildcat BBS Software
805-395-1880 Bakersfield, CA	AHI Computer Hotline, AHI Helpline (1988-1993)	Michael Kammer	Wildcat
	"I ran a two line Wildcat BBS on a early PC Clone. This BBS originally started out as a TBBS using a TRS-80 Model 1 eventually upgraded to a Model 4 with 4 total drives (2 360k and 2 720k drives). The BBS eventually moved to a PC clone with a 20 megabyte HD in 1991. I originally started out using 805-395-0371 and eventually added a second line with 805-395-1880 as well in 1990. Total BBS up time was 1988-1993 with my company A.H.I. Computer products at 4700 Easton drive and moved to 4100 Easton Drive a few years later in Bakersfield, CA. During 1988, when the BBS was introduced, it was the second bulletin board that Bakersfield CA. had. I had two years earlier used my Model 1 as a BBS at Andrews AFB from my dorm room using a TBBS and a early Hayes SmartModem (300 baud). Believe it or not, I still have the original Wildcat registered 5 1/4 discs, although I have no idea if they are still readable." - Michael Kammer
805-487-2374 OXNARD, CA	Loc'D Out Hood, LOC'D OUT HOOD (1992-1995)
	Chemistry Member BBS
805-489-1966 Arroyo Grande, CA	212NC, CCNET NC, Central Coast Net NC, MCBBS, Message Center, Message Center BBS, NET NEC (1988-1999)	Jim Tinlin	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess , Home-made
	"I started this BBS on a Comodore64 with a home-made RS-232 port and a 2400 baud modem. I enlisted the genius of Mike Thompson to write the machine language code to hide 'under' the ROM in order to make this work. The basis for the software was a BASIC program I created and all the ASCII translation and modem work was done with Mike's code. It worked great all the way up to 19200!!! Once I realized that I couldn't keep up with the traffic on a couple of floppy drives (I eventually bought a gargantuan 1Mb floppy for that thing) then I moved to a PC and QuickBBS which quickly ran up to multi-tasking 3 versions with 3 modems and phone lines. On-line games and file transfers were the most used during the later years, but integration of FidoNet kept the message areas alive. I even charged for the 3rd phone line as a 'premium' service to those that were tired of not being able to get on-line with the other 2 very busy lines. A great adventure and learning experience that eventually got me into opening and running the first 'true' local ISP in my town...what a trip!" - Jim Tinlin
805-493-1706 THOUSAND OAKS, CA	The Verge of Extinction (1995-1998)	Sick Boy	Renegade
	"The Verge of Extinction was a little Renegade board that had a small following but was usually overshadowed by the corporate MajorBBS boards in the 805. It had but 1 phone line but still had a decent number of callers posting messages and playing games such as TradeWars and LORD. Was World headquarters for a small ansii art group for a while before they went bunk." -SickBoy
805-494-9386 THOUSAND OAKS, CA	FF/LC/ML/JCQ/FM/LS Support USA, PACIFIC COAST, Pacific Coast Micro, Pacific Coast Micro 3 (1989-2000)	Mike Ehlert	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess, RemoteAccess
	"Originally ran QuickBBS in 1989. Switched to RemoteAccess in 1990, became the North American RA Support site in 1992. (http://pcmicro.com/ra). Founded the BBS Archives in 1995 (http://archives.thebbs.org), Switched to Proboard in 1996, then to EleBBS in 1997. Officially shut down the BBS in 1998, though still maintain the BBS Archives web/ftp site and offer several BBS related services like dynamic DNS, banner exchages, Irc network, BBS FAQ, etc. at theBBS.org, and support COM/IP software used to allow BBS software to run via telnet under Windows (http://pcmicro.com). Other phone numbers I'm listed under include: 805-493-8318, 805-493-8328, 805-494-8327, 805-494-8427, 805-496-7320 and 805-497-3456." - Mike Ehlert
805-495-1479 Thousand Oaks, CA	The Keep, The KEEP BBS (1983-2007)	Greg Mcgill , Greg McGill	QuickBBS
	"This system is still online at www.thekeep.net or telnet to thekeep.net. We've evolved over the years to a multiline worldgroup system, at one time having 12 incoming lines and providing internet services and BBS of course." - Greg McGill
805-495-9413 Westlake Village, CA	Black iCE (1992-1994)	Inertia	Oblivion/2
	"Featured in an Acid artpack with an Ansimation by CatBones H/P/A/C, *.LIT and Ascii file bases." - Inertia
805-496-7093 Westlake Village, CA	The Connector (1986)
	Dating and Networking Dating and Networking
805-497-5117 Westlake, CA	The Druid's Keep, The Commodore Connection (1983-1986)	Crystal Warrior, Micro Pro	C-NET
	"Hello! My name is Scott Lee. I ran a BBS from Westlake California during the 1980s. I first ran a BBS on the commodore 64 called "The Commodore Connection" my Sysop handle was "Micro Pro". This BBS type was C-NET BBS Phone: 1805-497-5117 in 1983-1985 The second was "THe Druid's Keep" SysOp "Crystal Warrior" both used the same phone number. Later I did run an amiga BBS on BBS-PC! and CNET from Agoura in the late 80s though do not recall the phone number." - Scott Lee
805-498-8320 Newbury Park, CA	Atlantis (1986-1988)	Eric Horne	Opus
	"I ran this while I was in High School out of my parents office. If I remember correctly, I paid for the phone line myself and ran the BBS on an IBM PC. I think I got a total of $5 in donations. Oh what joy I felt when I added that $400 20MB (Mega-byte!) hard drive. The spacious drive. The board itself wasn't really all that popular, but I had tons of fun configuring it, making it look neat, and meeting all the different folks. It was my first introduction to networking, and I've been doing it ever since. ASCII animation art, that was a hoot!" - Eric Horne
805-499-5415 Newbury Park, CA	TI - KEEP / The KEEP BBS, TI-Keep (1983-Present)	Greg McGill, Gregory McGill	TI-NET, QuickBBS, MajorBBS, WG
	"Still up at www.thekeep.net. The TI KEEP started on my TI-99/4a and has run ever since on various other computers. It was at one point the social online "place to be" in Eugene Oregon after I moved there in 1993.. I had 12 lines at max build out. And was a full ISP when the internet started. Now it's just telnet only running on worldgroup via the net. Still here!" - Gregory McGill
805-526-0609 Simi Valley, CA	IBM Data Shop , The Data Shop, The IBM Data Shop (1987-2000)	Alan McDonald	QuickBBS , MajorBBS , RemoteAccess , Colossus, Collie, PC-Board
	"I started this BBS with the purchase of my first IBM in 1987. I was able to finance the system, which cost about $3000, with a paper route for 3 years. My first computer system had only 2 floppy drives, one ran Colossus (the BBS software), the other floppy was for downloads. Our first major upgrade was 30MB of disk space. Other Sysops I spoke with in the late 80's agreed that this was more than we'd ever need :). Over the years we grew to 7 phone lines and more than a GB of storage. In the mid to late 90's my brother Mark began running the site. Eventually, the Internet took over." - Alan McDonald
805-526-2374 Simi Valley, CA	The Realm of Despair (1995-1996)	Andrew Kuhlmann	Renegade
	"I put up this BBS using my first computer, a 486 DX 66 when I was about 12-13 years old. Thanks to extensive help from some other Simi Valley sysop whose name escapes me I was also able to integrate with FidoNet." - Andrew Kuhlmann
805-529-5732 Moorpark, CA	Jurisprudence, The Jurisprudence (1993-1998)	Joe Clifford	Renegade, Telegard, Wildcat, PC-Board
	"This was my board. Went through a ton of different names. In fact, I can only remember a couple of the other names "The Lost Illusions" "The Raunchy Porker" The board was a member board for ORiGiN (if you guys remember that, and the pack's we pumped out) and a distro board for DoRE. I remember a few of the names still, like TR and the dude who ran the verge of extinction (remember when we went to fight night) I can't believe we made history (this site) that is incredible but i don't know where the original information was gathered except for fidonet, but my board was up in 1993, and i ran it on a 386sx/16mhz on 4 MB's of ram and had a 2400bps modem when it started, eventually went up to 28.8k." - Joe Clifford
805-538-9959 Palmdale, CA	The Mushroom Garden (1993-1994)	Mike Martin, Michael Martin	RemoteAccess , RA
	"This BBS moved with me when I relocated from Vallejo to Palmdale. It was actually a 2 line affair, with both lines rolling into one number, with 1 computer running DesqView to run 2 versions of the BBS at once. Ethernet with a peer to peer networking system, quite sophisticated for the day for a home system. I connected into several packet mail services, including FIDONet, LynneNet, and others. Of course, by 1994 this new thing was on the horizon called "The Internet", and most of the traffic was taken up by the monster boards like Stepping Stone Hotel. So in 1994 I closed it up and now is just a memory. But is funny to think that a BBS with 2 CD-ROMs and a 700 MB hard drive was considered to be a "monster" for the era." - Michael Martin
805-543-8227 San Luis Obispo, CA	Fubar Sys, Fubar Systems, Prototype System, FSBBS Prototype System (1992-1995)	Chris Ambler, Christopher Ambler, Chris Ambler, Fubar Systems	FSBBS
	Home of FSUUCP and FSBBS - Unix Communications for DOS
805-544-4953 San Luis Obispo, CA	Cyberspace BBS, CyberSpace Node #1 (1990-1995)	Todd Gemmel, Rich Viar, Danyal Medley	Major BBS
	"Todd Gemmel (crap, I forget his handle!) was the founder, and Rich Viar (Hotar) and Danyal Medley (fROOD) were sysops during most of the indicated time-span... And thanks for tracking this list. It's nice to have finally spotted the name of my old stomping grounds on the net after all these years..." - Danyal Medley
805-546-9150 San Luis Obispo, CA	X-Tree, XTree Co. BBS, Xtree Company, XTree BBS (1993-1994)	Xtree Company
	Support for XTree Pro Gold DOS Shell Program
805-549-9104 San Luis Obispo, CA	The Pentode (1985-1995)	Dale Williams	Red Ryder Host, WWIV Mac, Hermes
	"Also 805 544-4606 and forward on busy to a couple of other lines. For a while several osers ran a couple of call forwarding numbers to extend the toll-free dial-in area.. The Pentode had a number of very active forums and an active file transfer section as well, with the emphasis on Mac freeware and shareware. It was probably the largest Mac resource between Los Angeles and San Francisco for most of its life. Parties were held for users. The sysops home, pizza parlors, and a local beach were the usual sites. Themes varied but there was almost always pizza. There was lively tech discussion among the many knowledge people and those eager to learn. There was health rivalry between Mac, PC, Atari, Amiga and other system owners. There were many Cal Poly students online, and several professors as well. There were some healthy debates between some of the religious users and members of the gay community. It was a fun period where many of the users felt like family to a degree that's uncommon on the internet today." - Dale Williams
805-581-4975 Simi Valley, CA	Channel Z (1994)
	"This board had a lot of user overlap with CVMUG (Conejo Valley Macintosh User Group), and had an ongoing exchange with a board in Alaska...I think it was a daily exchange of messages, so we were effectively linked. This is a great project! Thanks for preserving history!" - Anonymous
805-588-9349 Bakersfield, CA	Resistance is Futile (1994-1996)	Kym Taborn	RyBBS
	"The BBS was the home of the fanzine "Resistance is Futile". It was the first, perhaps only, regularly published fanzine dedicated to Star Trek humor, and highlighting the Borg. The fanzine existed for 67 issues (5 years). It started in May 1992 on Prodigy. From 1992-1994 I lived in Oxnard, CA and distributed it on many BBSes across the world. In 1994, I moved to Bakersfield and set up my own BBS. In 1997, I switched to the Internet and published issues 65-67, and then discontinued it when I started another webpage that became very popular and took up most my time." - Kym Taborn
805-652-1478 VENTURA, CA	His Board, HIS BOARD,relig (1989-1996)	Bob Harris, Larry Honore	RBBS, RBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Central California 805/Larry Honore ListKeeper: Central California Area 805
805-733-7132 Lompoc , CA	California BBS (1995-1998)	Brian Buchanan	Major BBS -- Galacticomm
	"First to offer local dial-up Internet access in 1996"
805-735-3315 Lompoc, CA	Granola Board, The Granola Board (1990-1996)	Deborah Taylor	MajorBBS , Major BBS, Major BBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Lompoc, California since 01/90. Sysop: Deborah Taylor. Using MajorBBS 6.21d with 24 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 1200 MB storage. Best Data at 2400 bps. $0.60 Hourly fee. Home to diversity and California's nuts and flakes! IBM files, games, entertainment, chat, forums/files for the disabled, Majornet access and more! High speed ZyXEL 16.8kbps available. Come visit our friendly system and see what makes us special!
805-872-3666 Bakersfield, CA	The DarkSide BBs (1989-1994)	Sir KAOs	Colour 64 C=64 / Cnet Amiga
	"I was the founding sysop of this bbs, we started on the C=64 then years later moved to an Amiga 500." - Sir Kaos
805-873,2400 OJAI, CA	Mustang Softwre, Inc. (1995)
	Product: Wildcat!
805-873-2400 Bakersfield, CA	Mustang Software HQ BBS, Mustang Software Technical Support, Mustang Wildcat, Mustang Software, Inc, Wildcat! HQ, MSI HQ BBS (1987-1995)	Jim Harrer	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Wildcat! BBS Wildcat! 4 Vendor
805-967-8833 GOLETA, CA	Inquisition (1992)	Ollie North
	Skid Row Member BBS
806-273-5727 Borger, TX	Fantasy Quest Online (1988-1995)	Shawn Henderson	Remote Access 2.0
	"Taken over for friends in the BBS community when they moved. 100+ games, LORD, Barren Realms Elite, Trade Wars... 2 line system = 2400 - 19,200 baud." - Shawn Henderson
806-353-4648 AMARILLO FLEETW, TX	The Riot Zone (1992)
	Lsd Member BBS
806-355-2915 Amarillo, TX	Starship Heart of Gold (1988-1995)	Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sheila Clark)	WBBS, QuickBBS
	"Ran the board on an Atari 520 ST - originally on WBBS (1988-1990, 2400b), then switched to modified QuickBBS (1990-1995, 14.4b). Was part of FidoNet (1:806/8006), WWIVnet (1806006), QNet (1806006), ThunderNET (1), and SubEtherNet (1)." - Sheila Clark (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
806-355-5940 Amarillo, TX	Soft Asylum (1987-1989)	Lionel Gamache	Forem-ST (Atari ST)
	"I'm pretty sure I had the BBS listed in the Computer Shopper BBS listing when it was live. I wrote a few door programs for Forem-ST. The two that I remember are - Calllog: a log parsing program that let you display statistics about previous callers (written in C), and TCCP: The Complete Chess Player. A chess door written in C. I was also part of the FNet message base networking system (like FIDO-Net, but for Forem BBS's) at the time. Don't remember what my node number was, though." - Lionel Gamache
806-379-6879 Amarillo, TX	The Matrix BBS (1984-1986)	Roger Blassingame / David Rula	ARB BBS
	"Started March 20, 1984. 1st networked BBS in area (Amarillo TX/Kileen TX). commodore 64. 1650 modem (300 baud) 1670 modem (1200 baud) multiple 1541 disk drives. 1571 disk drive. and the cutting edge 1581 3-1/2" disk drive! ;) Still have original machine and software. Original bulletin board files still intact. :) Does everyone still remember their passwords?" - Roger Blassingame
806-381-2932 Amarillo, TX	The Attic, the Attic, The ATTIC (1984-1991)	Mike & Cheree Gilliam	PCBoard, TRBO, GBBS Pro
	"Whoever submitted the original information about the Attic was just a little off. Glad to see someone creating a compiled list. There were dozens of BBS's in Amarillo and surrounding area back then. When we first started the Attic, we were running on a brand new Apple //e with the latest and greatest Smartmodem (300 bps). For many years we had a Saturday luncheon for Sysops and users..." - Cheree Gilliam
806-745-5593 Lubbock, TX	Cabin Fever BBS (1991-1995)	Matt Carter	VBBS
	"I started the BBS in my hometown of Amarillo in 1991 - just after I got out of the Air Force. I had it running on a 386dx16 on DOS, a 40MB hard drive, and 2 MB of RAM with a 2400 Baud modem. In 1992, It moved to Lubbock with me and was run out of my dorm room at Texas Tech University for 2 years. It was eventually upgraded to a 19.2 modem, but always ran on that same box. I tested various softwares and versions, and my favorite two were WWIV and VBBS." - Matt Carter
806-763-3549 Lubbock, TX	Aces High, Penguin Lust Cafe, Penguin Lust II - The Smell of Halibut, The Wrong BBS (1992-1995)	Webster/Popinjay/Murphy/Lysdexic	WWIV, Telegard, Renegade
	"The BBS went through changes in names and software, and at the end, was a dual BBS with a frontdoor leading to The Wrong BBS run by Murphy & Penguin Lust II run by Lysdexic on two phone lines." - Murphy
806-793-2538 Lubbock, TX	Brave NEUro World (1991-1998)	David Pickard	GBBS FIDO
	"BNW was run on a Apple II for several years in Lubbock and then we moved to Ft. Worth and fired it up on a Apple GS. Lots of special mods for the Apple (thanks Wabbit) so we could run the PC games and network on their networks. Lots of work but lots of fun!! Had a few nodes and had good friends who also ran BBS's (shout out to Mike at The Attic in Amarillo). Wow, I miss those days." - David Pickard
806-794-4362 LUBBOCK FRANKFO, TX	Demon Roach Undrgrnd, The Demon Roach Underground BBS, The Marauding C*A*M*E*L, Domain of Roach, Demon Roach Underground/AE (1984-1999)	Grandmaster Swamp Ratte'
	Birthplace of the Cult of the Dead Cow; Run on an Apple II until its demise; Cut of the Dead Cow now reachable via http://www.cultdeadcow.com.
806-795-3990 Lubbock, TX	Machete World (1991-1994)	Machete (bds), Brandon Sumners	WWIV
	"I was the owner and operator of this BBS from 1991-1994. I initially ran this out of my parent's house on our home phone after they went to bed. I eventually moved into an apartment while I was at Texas Tech. I ran WWIV on a 386 machine with a 19.2 modem. I worked at a knife shop in the South Plains Mall, hence the name Machete. Thanks for the memories, Brandon D. Sumners (bds)." - Brandon Sumners (bds)
806-797-3750 Lubbock, TX	Sysco BBS (1993-1996)	Shadow, Captain Harlock	WWIV
	"During its lifespan, Sysco BBS was the largest free BBS in Lubbock and the only free multi-line BBS. It was run by Jeremy Faircloth (Shadow) and offered a number of doors/games including a chat system written in C by the sysop. The system co-sysop was Captain Harlock. Sysco partnered with Windmill BBS to write and publish Lubbock's BBS newsletter."
806-797-7501 LUBBOCK SWIFT, TX	CHAOS (The Cannibal Hillbilly Army of Satan BBS) (1992-1997)	Seth Thornberry
	Lives on as a website at http://chaos.greeny.org
807-343-2541 Thunder Bay, ON	UtlimaTIM BBS, UltimaTIM BBS (1994-1995)	Timothy E. Kirkup	TriBBS
	"Local area TriBBS support board and home of dozens of UltimaWARE software programs written by the sysop (Tim Kirkup) for TriBBS. Hosted many data files including purchased CD-ROMs. Plenty of doors were available with the local favourite being Legend of the Red Dragon. Operations ceased in the fall of 1995 when the sysop started a new career in the Canadian Forces as a Field Engineer (sapper)." - Timothy E. Kirkup
807-475-0300 Thunder Bay, ONT	VIrtual Zone BBS (1994-2000)	Higher Power & Kilo G	All American BBS, Iniquity, Renegade, Telegard, VBBS
	"Was a BBS more for teens because the sysops were tired of the politics on the adult ran/oriented BBS's. Y2k bugs was what finally shut it down, not the lack of callers. Ran All American BBS, VBBS, INIQUITY, RENEGADE, TELEGARD in that order. After 1995 and not ran by a Commodore 64 anymore, it always had over a CD-ROM's worth of shareware and freeware in the file area unless in the middle of a software switch. Nearing the end, had over 50 online games with some networked. Member of DreamNet, League 283. Went online with Synchronet via telnet in around 2004, but that only lasted a few months. Who knows maybe it'll be back; next year." - Higher Power
808-239-2150 Waipahu, HI	The Coven (1992-1994)	Rudy Knight (Decker-X)	Wildcat
	"Hub of UnderWorld Network Hawaii" - Rudy Knight
808-488-8838 Aiea, HI	Town Crier, GronkNET (1991)	Archone Master	AMIS, ARMUDIC, BBS Construction Set
	"Ran off of an Atari 400 with Moasic 16k RAM disk and two double density Indus disk drives." - Archone Master
808-499-2527 Honolulu, HI	Land's End BBS (1995)	Brent Davis
	ListKeeper: Oahu Hawaii
808-531-8581 Honolulu, HI	Reno's Tavern (1987-1994)	Reno Tolentino
	"Hi, I can't believe I finally found some proof to validate the existence of this BBS! I also can't believe your webpage is the only reference to Reno's Tavern on the entire world wide web. I used this BBS extensively to chat with and meet girls in Hawaii when I was stationed there in the Navy 1987-1990. So when I saw the dates as 1992-1994, I just wanted to let you know it was around before that! Now, if we could only find Reno!" - Anonymous "Reno's Tavern (please add Reno Tolentino as the SysOp) was one of the hottest multinode systems in the state at the time, and one of the BBSs on which I hung out all the time. Ahhh the golden days of BBSing!" - Royce
808-622-5186 Wahiawa, HI	The Scavenger Hunt (1986-1988)	Mark Havener	GBBS Pro
	"Hello! I ran this BBS out of my barracks room on a Navy base in Hawai'i. It ran on an Apple ][e, starting out on two 5.25" floppy drives, and I later updated it to a 20 MB hard drive. Thanks for the memories!" - Mark Havener
808-623-1586 Wahiawa, HI	Techno Tronic BBS (1991-1993)	Mililani HI, Jerry Deguzman	GT-Power
	"Hey...awesome seeing my old BBS listed here. Thanks! Just wanted to clarify that Techno Tronic was up and running from 1991-93. I had two lines running the GT-Power BBS system, multitasking on a 386SX processor running DesqView. Techno Tronic was also the first .online. system (this was before internet was widely available) to accept ballots for Radio Free Hawaii . a groundbreaking radio station that allowed listeners to vote for the music they wanted to hear. I wrote that application (they were called .programs. then) using Borland.s Turbo Pascal compiler, and was able to network this with other GT-Power BBS.s as well as crossover into Fidonet to accept ballots. Damn...fun times! haha" - Jerry DeGuzman
808-672-4889 Honolulu, HI	Vampyre's Lair BBS (1992-1996)	James Taylor, Dan Hutchins	Renegade
	"Wow! What a blast from the past! A listing of my old BBS! That's a lot of exclamations! Unfortunately, someone else is listed as the sysop of the the BBS and the years are off. I am (well, was) the sysop of that BBS. I moved away from HI in 1993 so it couldn't have run there past that time. Thanks for maintaining such an awesome resource. Dan (aka PennYwisE: Sysop of "Vampyre's Lair" and "The Dark Half" before it)" - Dan Hutchins
808-695-9406 Makaha, HI	COCONUTS (1981-1984)	Ben & Daniel Johnson
	"Ran on a Tandy Color Computer 3 With 512k Ram Running Motorolla OS9" - Aibsmaui
808-839-3036 Honolulu, HI,	Latte Stone Park, Latte Stone Park BBS (1995-1997)	Royce Sarusal	Wildcat! v4
	"Good to see my old BBS listed. In addition to the national relay networks, we had Hawaii Supernet linking most of the hundreds of BBSs in Hawaii. Made lots of friends, a few of whom have become lifelong friends. Those were the days!" - Royce Sarusal
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
809-292-9479 Pembroke, Bermuda	Narly Dudes, Narly Dudes BBS (1990-1994)	Sean Soares	GT Power
	"I started this BBS as a project while in high school. After visiting CD-BBS, I decided to jump on the bandwagon and setup one up myself. We recieved our main feeds for emails (Echo Mail) from CD-BBS during nightly runs. ND-BBS catered more to the younder crowds. It ran on an old IBM 286 with 4MB of RAM, a whopping 60MB seagate hard drive and a CD-ROM drive which was updated periodically with a shareware volume CD. In 1993 the modem was upgraded to a Zoom 14.4, which at the time was lightning fast. With the advent of the internet, popularity declined, and I eventually dispanded the service in early 1994. Now of course, I run a blog, www.imho.bm" - Sean Soares
809-544-2929 Santo Domingo, DN	CIF BBS	Carlos Fragio	Wildcat under DESQview 386
	"C.I.F. - B.B.S. (809)-544-2929 1200/2400/9600/14400HST 24 Hours Santo Domingo, Dom. Republic. CIF BBS was the granddaddy of all dominican BBS's late 80s early 90s. It had two or three nodes, had messaging, files, chat, on-line games and many more. All this for free thanks to Carlos Fragio, a spanish citizen working for the Spanish Embassy in the DR." - Carlos Fragio
809-699-2212 Santo Domingo, DN	TRON BBS (1995-1998)	Roberto Rosario, Roberto Rosario Vargas	Power BBS
	"Ubicado en la Zona Oriental, con dos (2) lineas telef�nicas (809 669 2212 y 809 669 2215), brind� gratuitamente servicios de mensajer�a, chat e intercambio de archivos. Famoso por su enorme cantidad de juegos, programas variados (utilitarios) asi como textos en formato ASCII de multiples materias estudiantiles, tales como Historia, Ciencias Politicas, Inform�tica, entre otras. Influenciado por la existencia de CIF BBS (Carlos Fragio) y O.S.C.A.R. BBS (Oscar Ramirez) y asesorado por su gran amigo Carlos Guillermo Schrils Santana (Radio Aficionado)brind� sus servicios por tres (3) maravillosos a�os." - Roberto Rosario Located in the Eastern Zone of the Dominican capital, with two (2) telephone lines (809) 669-2212 and (809) 669-2215, provided free messaging services, chat and file sharing. Famous for its huge number of games, miscellaneous programs (utilities) and ASCII text format to multiple student topics, such as History, Political Science, Computer, among others. Influenced by the existence of CIF BBS (Carlos Fragio) and OSCAR BBS (Oscar Ramirez) and advised by his good friend Carlos Guillermo Schrils Santana (Radio Amateur) offered their services for three (3) wonderful years." - Roberto Rosario
809-763-3925 Puerto Rico, PR	Orillas en Puerto Rico (1993)
	FrEdMail System
809-777-4026 St. Thomas, PR	Caribbean CUE (1993)
	FrEdMail System
809-785-3897 Bayamon, Puerto Rico, PR	Zeus BBS: The Japanimation Connection of Puerto Rico (1995-1997)	Metalhead, SonGoku, Jerry Robles	Wildcat!
	"Altough this BBS ran in Wildcat! it had nice layout ANSI graphics, Greek-Style hence the name Zeus. This BBS had a large collection of shareware programs, BBS programs, and lots and lots of Anime Pics. The BBS had a lot of DOOR games including L.O.R.D, the SysOp also offered anime and Video Game merchandise for sale thru his BBS. When internet became available in Puerto Rico this BBS was shutdown the same as the other BBS's of the time." - Mazeto
810-232-3261 Flint, MI	The On-Line Lodge (1994-1996)	Kevin Francart
	"Part of the MasNet network. BBS supported by Genesee Lodge No. 174 Free and Accepted Masons." - Kevin Francart
810-235-6094 Flint, MI	Cat's Meow (1993-1996)	Sue Mabe	WWiV
	"This BBS ran from at least 1993 to 1996 when I moved out of state. The owner was Sue Mabe, and it was a Grand Blanc based BBS with a flint exchange because of the way local calls were billed back then. Basically any town that shared a border with another town was considered local. Having a flint exchange (810)xxx-yyyy allowed for a much larger "local" calling area. I believe her grand blanc number was 810-695-6094, and she asked that people who could call Grand Blanc locally do so. Good times, thanks for the nostalgia." - Sue Mabe
810-249-6807 Burton, MI	The Rock of Bral (1994-1997)	Brian Germain, Michelle Burden	WWIV
	Just a small aside The Rock of Bral BBS name was based on the D&D Spelljammer setting and originally came out around the same year (1989), I ran it sporadically off my shared home phone line in Linden, from 89-90 and got inspired to do so from my friend Jack Mercer who ran a BBS also in Flint I believe the name of his BBS was also Dark Side BBS. Regardless We were part of WWIVnet and good friends with the guys from Courts of Chaos, and Mithrandir's Magic Shoppe as well as part of Carl Sharkey's Castle Amber South SHADOnet. Man I miss those days!!! Thank you so much for this list Jason!
810-258-9864 Birmingham, MI	Star Fleet Command, Starfleet Cmd., Starfleet Command (1985-2000)	Kerry Born	C-Net DS2
	"Starfleet Command began as a hobby for my then teenage daughter and I to spend some quality time together. She quickly lost interest, I however was hooked. We started out running on a C=64 with one 1541 floppy drive running C-Net 9.0 part time on our home phone, eventually evolving into a BBS with it's own line running 24/7 on a C=128 with a Lt. Kernal 20 meg HD and then state of the art high speed modem of 19,200. At it's peak Starfleet was receiving over 50 to 75 calls per day and was networked to over 50 BBS's world wide through DS2 CommNet. While the total number of calls to the BBS is lost to time, the final incarnation of the DS2 software had logged over 100,000 calls when the BBS was finally turned off in late 2000." - Kerry Born
810-268-0520 WARREN, MI	Scimitar, Scimitar BBS (1986-1996)	Arnold Osgan, Arnold R. Osgan
	"I didn't hook up to the news system till 1993. Those were the good old days of linking up several BBS together and forwarding phone lines in areas to extend the connections. The old days of MUD playing, the BBS parties everyone had. I had 10 phone lines hooked to an old AMIGA 3000 in those days. I remember my first 1.3 gig SCSI hard drive I bought ran me $1,300. Also replaced 3 1400 baud modems because of a lighting strike. It was expensive but most hobbies are." - Arnold Osgan
810-286-0145 Clinton Township, MI	The Serial Port (1982-1994)	Stu Jackson
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Clinton Town-ship, Michigan since 03/82. Sysop: Stu Jackson. Using TBBS 2.2 with 16 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 10100 MB storage. ZyXEL at 16800 bps. $10 Monthly fee. C'mon by for a fun time. Over 10 Gig of pd and ADULT files. New UltraChat for live PartyLine Chat between users. Ladies receive n/c access to many of the systems options. We offer instant access with Visa, MC, Discover and voice support lines.
810-293-0383 St. Clair Shores, MI	(the) Patch Line BBS, Patch Line (1990-1995)	Doug Downing	T.A.G. BBS Software
	"Towards the end of my Patch Line run a bunch of us "local" and some not so local BBS's teamed up and ran a mini "NET" called "D.A.R.E. net" Julia and Anne were the founders, we had many meetings and ALWAYS had a blast..... Thanks Sharon!" - Doug Downing
810-377-4215 Rochester Hills, MI	Shadow of Death, The Shadow of Death (1992-1994)	Mike Chambers	T.A.G.
	"The BBS started under the name "Deep Sea" and my handle was Shark. A friend of mine decided that it would be "cool" to try to crash another BBS via a virus. We got caught and the Sysop from that BBS (can't remember BBS name) threatened to call the cops unless the BBS went down. We complied as I was only 12 years old at the time. A month later, the BBS reopened with a new phone number and name - The Shadow of Death. My new handle became "The Tracker". I had tried to provide as many features as possible and joined many different message networks. The Shadow of Death was part of LifeNet, FidoNet, and some others that I cannot recall. I had even started my own DeathNet which reached 10 other BBS's at its height. There were also a lot of games. My favorites on my BBS were Legends of the Red Dragon (LORD), BRE, SRE, and some bowling game. The BBS went down in Summer of 1994 becase I moved to Brentwood, TN. Since The Shadow of Death was not a good "Bible Belt" BBS name, my BBS was renamed "Nashville Online"." - Mike Chambers
810-399-2845 Detroit, MI	ONE EYED JACK'S, One Eyed Jacks (1993-1996)	Russ Bopray, JACK
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: DETROIT since 09/93. Sysop: JACK. Using TBBS 2.2 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 3500 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. $450 PER FILE fee. Huge selection of adult gifs! 3 CD-ROMs online. NO time charges, only 450 per file downloaded. Set up for the first time user in mind! Throbnet, Fidonet ONE EYED JACK'S 810.399.2845. 1 5.000 Hot sexy adult GIFs online. Thousands of adult text files, wild XRated movies, and sizzling fantasies. We are set up with the first time user in mind, with an easy to use interface. No hourly fees. Only ,45 cents per file download. Visa/MC accepted online. Hayes 14.4 - BBS Magazine March, 1995
810-412-8177 Clinton Township, MI	Share Warehouse, SHAREWarehouse, SHARE Warehouse (1994-1996)	Rick Wadowski	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.1
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Free 7 day trial. 125000+ files on 50 CDROM's. E-mail networks from Planet Connect Satellite include: Internet, Usenet, FIDO and Rime. Cut online costs with custom CD's available from our file library. 100's new files daily. We never ask for uploads. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Clinton Township, Michigan since 01/94. Sysop: Rick Wadowski. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 5500 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $35.00 Annual fee. Free 7 day trial. 100,000+ files on 24 CDROM's. No ratio/byte limits. Over 900 conferences with 25,000 new msgs/day and 50-100 new files/day from our satellite downlink. Member FIDONET. We never ask for uploads.
810-478-4652 LAPEER, MI	The Southern Cross (1989-1995)	Jason Whittenburg	Telegard
	"Was located in Novi, MI. Started in 1989, joined fidonet in 1992 and was online until early 1995. Started on an 386DX-25 with a 2400 baud modem. Was renamed to Army of the Southern Cross then to Son of the Southern Cross after some hardware upgrades, areacode and other changes. Bought one of the first USR Courier 14400 HST modems, 386DX-40 and a 250 MEG HDs! Was also under the phone number of 313-478-4652." - Jason Whittenburg
810-598-1632 Chesterfield, MI	Bearsville, North Macomb Co Hub, The Huggy Bear BBS, The New Huggy Bear BBS (1994-1996)	William Dobiesz	T.A.G.
	"I started on a hand-me-down "Frankencomputer" - an IBM 5150B, 640K of ram, 20 meg HDD, 4.77mhz 8088 and an amber monochrome monitor. I picked up a 2400 baud modem at a ham swap, and with the help of several co workers (including the late James Jones from Colt's DoMain) I was online and having a blast. I was enjoying it and was tying up the phone line. My wife suggested I get another phone line for the computer so she could use our phone again. Since I now had a dedicated phone line for the computer, I decided to start a BBS. My friends all ran Renegade but it wouldn't run on my crummy computer, so they set me up with T.A.G. I outgrew the computer but could not afford to make changes. Eventually I got a 386sx motherboard, 2 megs ram and and a 210 meg HDD. With that I changed to Renegade and renamed the board The New Huggy Bear BBS. The board continued to grow and evolve, at its peak in 1995 the board was averaging 18-20 hours / day with users online it got tough for Front Door to send / receive mail. I moved from Chesterfield to Warren in September 1996. Story continues as The Bearsville BBS, Warren MI" - William Dobiesz
810-725-7219 New Baltimore, MI	Checkpoint 847-249-1650eta (1993-1997)	Zigg-E	Renegade
	"This BBS quickly became a local favorite as a great place to play the newest registered online games. The SysOp was 14 years old when the system took off and quickly morphed into a place for Anchor Bay students to communicate." - Zigg-E
810-732-8746 Flint, MI	Castle Amber South (1994-1996)	Carl Sharkey	WWIV
	"Castle Amber South was my BBS. It was one of the first to go globally. We had our own packet switching network called SHADOnet and it connected to other WWIV systems all over the USA and even over to Kuwait and other countries. We won many local awards for best BBS and Best Sysop over the years. We had 4 phone lines and 4 Zoom 28.8 External modems and 21 CD's (CD Changers) for downloads, and tons of games." - Carl Sharkey
810-754-2820 Center Line, MI	The Road House (1993-1996)	Scott Rocky	Excelsior BBS
	"Using Excelsior BBS software I was linked with Scimitar and a couple of other BBS's. FIDO point, and several other networks. I also offered internet email @theroadhouse.inet.net" - Scott Rocky
810-775-0018 Roseville, MI	USS Enterprise (1993-1997)	Fdisk, Lord Ith, Andy LaPorte	T.A.G. 2.6c
	"Real names of the Sysops: Fdisk - Matt Sawyer, Lord Ith - John Brenda" - Matt Sawyer
810-949-0109 Chesterfield, MI	Industry, Industry BBS (1991-1994)	Tony DiSano	Excelsior BBS (CNET CLONE)
	"(I)ndustry BBS was ran by Tony DiSano with fellow SysOp's Mills, Turbo6 (Chris Frezza who also ran www.camaroz28.com), Dirt (Nick Shue), Ultimatum (Aaron). Located in Chesterfield until sometime around 1995 when they relocated to an office space in Mt Clemens. Industry participated in the linked BBS's of Michigan BBS, Scimitar and Industry. At the the time there was nothing like it to have over 35 people in a chat room at once.. Well other then AOL. They switched to Major BBS in 1994. Started offering internet services sometime around 1997-8." - Greg (SysOp of -X-Caliber 1994-1997, SysOp of Evolution Online - 1997-1999)
810-977-3886 WARREN, MI	Virtue Seekers BBS (1994)	The Avatar, Ken Burger
	"I was just hearkening back to my old BBS days tonight, when I decided to look to see if anything had been stored from my BBS days back in the mid-1990s. I came upon your BBS list and saw the BBS I used to run listed there. I used to run the Virtue Seekers BBS in the 810 area code, and I thought I'd provide a little background in case you wanted to add it to the file, like I've seen with some other boards. "I started Virtue Seekers BBS in 1994 when the Internet was just starting to become a thing. I used to hang out on various BBSes downloading various things and decided I wanted to try my hand at running one, so I downloaded Renegade, started tinkering with it, and was able to get it up and running. It was mostly for file sharing and BBS games like Legend of the Red Dragon and Global Wars. It took me awhile to get everything running well, but with a little help from the sysop of Corum County, we were able to work the bugs out. Unfortunately, it didn't last long because the World Wide Web and various internet services really took off very shortly thereafter, and nobody really wanted to call BBSes anymore. It was still fun setting it up and running it for the time I did, and I made some friends in the BBS world. As for the name, in case you couldn't tell, I was and remain a huge fan of the Ultima video game series, and I referred to myself as the Avatar - and later VSAvatar. I'm still known by that nickname around the internet. "Anyway, I'm glad to see that something from that era was preserved, and that it wasn't completely forgotten, because that was a part of my youth, and I learned a lot about computers and networking as a result of running that system. Thanks for creating and maintaining the site." - Kenneth Burger
812-232-1404 TERRE HAUTE, IN	Deep Space 9 (1992-1996)	Shadow Rider/Adam Thompson	WWIV 4.24
	"May have been the first BBS in Terre Haute to run "Legend of The Red Dragon", but I can't remember for sure.DEFINITELY the first BBS in Terre Haute to run "Barney SPLAT!" :)" - Adam Thompson
812-234-0460 Terre Haute, IN	Late Night BBS (1989-1994)	Brad Myers	WWIV and RBBS
	"Specialized in Sound Card Software (specifically Sound Blaster 1.0) Started the BBS when I was in 8th grade until I left for college, then my brother took over." - Brad Myers
812-299-8835 Terre Haute, IN	The Lion's Den (1993-1995)	Brett Sebring	WWIV
	"Sister site to Spellsinger ][." - Brett Sebring
812-333-9721 Bloomington, IN	Pixel Palace, Taco Hell (1991-1994)	Derek Cahill	WWIV
	"Gary Figg's 4th Dimension was the original WWIV board in Bloomington. As he was leaving for Terre Haute (roughly 1991-1992), my BBS (Pixel Palace) and Dude's Bait Shop & Sushi Bar were starting up. Pixel Palace was taken down and renamed Taco Hell to clean up its image from warez to more serious discussion boards. It eventually became the main WWIVnet node connecting Bloomington with the rest of the world before I moved in 1994." - Derek Cahill
812-334-1852 Bloomington, IN	Continental BBS, The Continental BBS (1987-1996)	Doug Thompson	Wildcat
	"Started as a single line bbs in Bloomington, Indiana. Moved to Annapolis, MD in 1989 then to Atlanta, GA in 1991. Flinally shut down in 1996 due to the internet... naturally!" - Doug Thompson
812-421-9257 EVANSVILLE, IN	Doctor's Inn, The Doctors Inn, THE DOCTORS INN (1986-1996)	Gene Flick	PCBoard
	Conferences, Online Games, Six CDROM's, Qmail Door
812-423-3394 EVANSVILLE, IN	E D S Development Technical Support, E.D.S. Development, American Banking Systems, E.D.S. DEVELOPMENT (1993-1995)	Eric Scales	PCBoard (PPE)
	Programmer's Oriented BBS 201 202 203 204 205
812-424-1099 EVANSVILLE, IN	COURIER ONLINE BBS (1994-1995)	Evansville Courier
	Evansville Courier Newspaper Online, News, Scripps Howard News
812-424-1258 EVANSVILLE, IN	THE OBJECT ELEMENT (1994-1995)	Loser & Zaphod
	2 Hours Online Daily, New High Quality Downloads
812-424-2757 Evansville, IN	The Objective Element, The Objective Element (TOE) (1995-1999)	Chris Griffin, Courtney Biggerstaff, Aaron Tanner	TriBBS, TriBBS 5.1
	"Just to let you know that The Objective Element had 3 Sysops. Chris Griffin (which is listed), Courtney Biggerstaff, and Aaron Tanner (which was a sysop for a little over half the time). They all went by the handles Zaphod (Chris), Gambit (Courtney), and Loser (Aaron). Just thought it would be nice if everyone could be noted since all worked equally as hard on the project. Just for fun trivia as well. There was a short lived zine that was released by the BBS, also called The Objective Element. There was only a couple issue released in early 1996 (if my mind serves me right)." - Chris Griffin
812-424-3614 EVANSVILLE, IN	THE HAM STATION (1994-1995)	Steve Doty
	Ham radio software, technical support, radio modifications, utilities
812-425-7302 EVANSVILLE, IN	GRAPEVINE BBS (1989-1995)	Steve Masterson
	Dedicated to the Free Exchange of Information
812-425-9847 EVANSVILLE, IN	Athena's Apple, ATHENA'S APPLE (1994-1995)	Ken Staub
	Macintosh Graphic BBS w/Fidonet,EchoMac,Apple Lic.Software, Many Files
812-426-7400 EVANSVILLE, IN	WNIN ONLINE (1994-1995)	Dave Jenkins, Herb Wilburn
	Education and Information Services free to the community
812-428-3352 EVANSVILLE, IN	KA9LQM Ham Shack BBS (1992-1995)	Mike Anderson	Wildcat
	Ham Radio, WC Support, Internet, Planet Connect Satellite
812-428-3870 EVANSVILLE, IN	"YA! WEBECAD!", "YA! WEBECAD!" BBS, Ya !, Ya! WebeCad!, Ya! WeBecadd!, Ya!WeBeCAD! (1990-1996)	Don Habegger, Don Hebegger	Wildcat
	33 CD-ROMS, New Files Daily, BW Top 100,
812-428-4985 EVANSVILLE, IN	Chameleon's Castle, Chaneleon's Castle, Dragon's Bane, CHAMELEON'S CASTLE (1989-1999)	Jesse Cates	TriBBS
	Many message bases, including free InterNet access. Over
812-428-8394 EVANSVILLE, IN	EPCAT (1990-1995)	Evansville Libraries
	Research book titles, find out which libraries they
812-466-9778 Terre Haute, IN,	The Windsong BBS, Windsong BBS (1987-1995)	Sysop: Stormwind~	WWIV
	"System ran by Stormwind~ Cosysops: The Kegler, Parapuke, Sexy Lady and Andy Curry (of NoMansLand BBS. Modded alittle by Ethereal Cereal and a few notable others. I ran it from my room starting as a Junior in High school. It moved with me several times. It died when the internet became HUGE and no one was calling local BBSes anymore. The local BBS scene was a great place to get a hobby that became my professional life later (and still is). I still talk to quite a few old bbsers. And have some fantastic memories of going to the WWIV get togethers in St. Louis, Carbondale Il. and alot of them here in Terre Haute called TNDS. It was nice to find this site.." - Stormwind~ (Curt Carpenter)
812-476-3553 EVANSVILLE, IN	ABOVE BOARD (1994-1995)	Tod Thomas Price
	24 hour Christian files and messages - very
812-476-4534 EVANSVILLE, IN	The Windows Source, Windows Source Node 1 -=14.4=-, WINDOWS SOURCE (1993-1995)	Craig Kohler	RemoteAccess
	Windows 1993 CD-ROM Online, Lots of talk, Great
812-477-8813 EVANSVILLE, IN	Highlander's, HIGHLANDER'S VIEWPOINT (1993-1996)	Will Duncan	Magpie
	Free Internet, 20+ Doors, C.F.A. Member and 100+
812-479-1029 Evansville, IN	Wolf Pack (1994-1999)	Tim Brown	TriBBS
	"I was bored and thought that I would search around to see what the name was being used for these days and what do I find! This is very interesting to see! The BBS was named, because I had a Hybrid Timberwolf at the time. The BBS was built for fun mainly. Anyway, very good learning experience that lead to bigger and better things. Thanks to everyone who participated!" - Tim Brown
812-479-1310 Evansville, IN	DigiCom, Digicom BBS, Eagle Soft Technical Support, EagleSoft, DIGICOM BBS (1985-1996)	Gary Barr	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess, QBBS
	List of BBS List Keepers: Technical Support BBS List/Gary Barr ListKeeper: Technical Support BBS List Satellite Connection, Fire/EMS/Police, RA-Beta Site, News 4U Magazine
812-479-5440 EVANSVILLE, IN	The Stock Shop, THE STOCK SHOP (1994-1999)	Jeff Stocker	TriBBS
	7PM-7AM
812-479-6505 EVANSVILLE, IN	HOMER'S PALACE (1993-1995)	Yoda
	RIME, 6 CDs, Adult Files, Online Chat, 49
812-479-9645 Evansville, IN	Empire BBS (1992-1993)	Matthew Byers
	"I purchased the BBS from Donnie Walker who ran The Alpha Complex BBS here in Evansville in 1992. I ran it for about 2 years under the Empire BBS name. The board mostly dealt with role-playing games of the period." - Matthew Byers
812-779-3812 PATOKA, IN	Gibson County Connection, GIBSON COUNTY CONNECT (1992-1997)	Mike Barrett	Wildcat
	Planet Connect, FidoNet, InterNet Email, Multiple CD's
812-825-4777 Bloomington, IN	Acme on Line, Acme On-Line (1992-1998)	Ray Murphy, Chris Corns	Wildcat
	"Although your information was very good, it was not totally correct. Actually Acme On-Line was in Bloomington, IN and was up until December 28, 1998. That is the day my Dad, Ray Murphy, passed away. Thanks for remembering the good old days. It's nice to know that 6 years later my Dad's favorite hobby is still floating around cyberspace. Makes me think I should dig out the old 8mm backup tapes and just look around the old BBS. Thanks for the list." - Chris Corns
812-838-9053 Mount Vernon, IN	BR-Ranch.com, Bufkin Ridge Ranch, Bufkin Ridge Ranch BBS, BUFKIN RIDGE RANCH (1992-2002)	Michael Deig, Michael W. Deig	Wildcat
	"Hello and thanks for this list. Bufkin Ridge Ranch BBS started out in 92 using Dos and wildcat 3.0. We was the first BBS in the Tri-State area that offered internet email to our users. I would make 4 calls a day to holonet to transfer the mail packets. We used to have group meet ups after the game food fight was won. We had a large file database with 3 6 changer CD-rom drives. I was the 3rd largest BBS in the tri-state with 5 incoming lines and full time internet link. I had switched over to NT and winsever by this time with 5 servers that was to off load the system and keep the spead up for the users. As the internet took off the BBS become an ISP and tried to stay with the bigger companies in the area that was getting into the ISP service. It was a hard thing to take my system down. I still think of all the people that I meet over the years and miss running one to this day." - Michael Deig TEC-Net, CCNet, Horse Owners Conference, Christ Connection Network
812-853-7640 Newburgh, IN	Mercury Networks II (1983-1984)	Stan Brown	Home Made using Apple IIe
	"This system ran on 2 floppy disk drives under an Apple IIe with 1 phone line and a 300 baud rate modem, using custom software written in Apple BASIC." - Edward Stanton
812-858-9995 NEWBURGH, IN	THE FILE DEPOT (1994-1995)	Scott Klassen
	CDROM Drive with Night Owl CD Online
812-867-7675 MCCUTCHANVILLE, IN	The Northern Ghetto!, THE NORTHERN GHETTO! (1992-1995)	Dean Becher
	ModemNews Magazine NewsStand, MegaChip Computering Support, 50+ doors
812-877-4342 Terre Haute, IN	The Resource Center (1990-1996)	Parapuke	WWIV
	"A location for disemination of information and files, was also a network hub for use around the country by several networks. Open until the internet became so popular as to only have had one phone call in one week with all outgoing expenses the same, paid out of pocket as BBS's were for the most part run voluntarily." - Parapuke
812-897-5751 BOONVILLE, IN	COMPUTER FREAKS BBS (1993-1995)
	CDROM Drive, with lots of doors, Home board
812-897-8757 BOONVILLE, IN	The Data Connection, THE DATA CONNECTION (1993-1997)	Billy Sargent
	CD-ROM, Networks, .GIF's! Swimsuit CD! And Much Much
812-925-6879 Chandler, IN	Evansville Hub, Nightlog BBS, Nitelog BBS (1996-1998)	David Marshall	RemoteAccess
	"RemoteAccess running under Windows 95. Six online CD drives. 33.6 modem. Evansville Fido Net Hub. Just reading some of the names of the boards and sysops in the Evansville area brings back some great memories. Thanks to all the helped and supported me while Nitelog BBS was running." - David Marshall
812-925-7864 Chandler/Newburgh, IN	Paradis Connection, Paradise Connection BBS (1990-1996)	Stan Brown	Wildcat
	"This Wildcat BBS ran on 3 - 80386 computers using Lantastic Network software, and 1 - 80486 computer with a 120 Meg hard drive. 4 phone lines." - Edward Stanton
812-925-7890 CHANDLER, IN	Paradise Connection, PARADISE CONNECTION (1990-1995)	Stan Brown
	Multiple CDROM Drives, Updated collection of MSDOS &
812-944-3907 NEW ALBANY, IN	MicroDot, The MicroDot BBS (1985-2000)	Mr. Natural	WWIV
	"MicroDot BBS was a general interest BBS in the Louisville, Kentucky area [operated out of New Albany, Indiana.] Its message boards centered around political and social issues rather than hardware talk. Its most interesting features were the areas set up for original poetry and art by the callers. Text files relating to Esperanto and other invented, classical, or obscure languages were also there. Online games included Tradewars, BBS Chess, and Dungeons and Dragons BBS, the latter a particular interest of the sysops. The board also contained a file area relating to Unlimited Adventures, the SSI role playing game creation software." - Mr. Natural
812-944-6866 NEW ALBANY, IN	Evil Asylum, Stockpile Ind., MEGA LO MANIA (1992-1995)	Anarchy-X , Xiola Blue
	Squadron Member BBS Independent Member BBS
812-963-3221 SAINT JOSEPH, IN	The Fun Zone, THE FUN ZONE (1992-1995)	Douglas Gempel
	Operating with Citadel BBS Software under a Unix
812-963-9139 SAINT JOSEPH, IN	Pinnacle Club -=28.8=-, River City Echo Hub -=28.8=-, River City Net, The Pinnacle Club BBS, PINNACLE BBS (1986-1995)	Paul Billingsley
	Free access to CDROM, Messages bases, Online Games,
812-985-7823 SAINT PHILIP, IN	EVSC (Node 1), EVSC BBS, The West Terrace BBS (1985-1995)	Keith Bobbitt	RemoteAccess
	Education & Entertainment Software, FidoNet & K-12 Net,
812-985-9913 SAINT PHILIP, IN	THE PIT BBS (1994-1995)	Brian Bobbitt
	General BBS, CD-ROM, Messaging, File, 2-CDROM's and much
813-223-7688 Tampa, FL	Tampa Forum 80 (1980)		Forum 80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
813-237-0152 Tampa, FL	Ko Ro Ba (1993)	David Stidham	WWiV
	"Local WWIVnet hub for the 813 area code. Had a plethora of message boards." - David Stidham
813-239-3704 TAMPA, FL	Bits of Blue RBBS (1988-1994)	Kevan Sheridan
	"Bits of Blue was the official site for the Tampa IBM PC Users Group. The BBS started in 1987 (bits of "big" blue was the idea) at a phone number I do not remember, in October 1988 the number changed to 239-3704 and stayed there until the number changed again in 1995 (to 813-980-2725)." - Kevan Sheridan
813-251-4095 Tampa, FL	Alpha (1982-1985)	Rob Wiley	custom software - Apple II+
	"In 1983 the phone number for Alpha changed to 813-969-0512. Alpha's sister system, Omega, turned into an online gaming board in 1983 but I do not remember the telephone number. Omega was online from 1982-1983. Alpha featured movie reviews, articles, email and of course a public message system. It operated at 300-1200 baud. Alpha and Omega were the first Apple-based BBS's in Tampa." - Anonymous
813-264-6344 Tampa, FL	Entropy, Entropy BBS (1986-1994)	Bill Weinheimer, Bill weinheimer, B. Weinheimer	WWIV, Wildcat, DCI, Searchlight
	"The theme of this board was astronomy, but there were parts devoted to discussions on many other topics as well. Some downloads and online games were provided, but the main activity was message posting and e-mail. Entropy organized several star parties during its lifetime." - Bill Weinheimer
813-265-2706 Tampa, FL,	Underdog's BBS (1994-2001)	Underdog	WWIV
	"Discussion oriented BBS with online doors for Tradewars and Global War." - Underdog
813-321-0734 St Petersburg, FL	Florida Mail Hub, Florida Mail Hub/NEC3603, Mercury Opus, Mercury Opus NEC3603, Mercury Opus(NEC3603), Mercury Opus/NEC3603, R18 EchoMail Coordinator, Reg 18 EchoCoord (1988-1996)	Emery Mandel	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Saint Petersburg, Florida since 09/88. Sysop: Emery Mandel. Using PCBoard 15 with 10 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 12000 MB storage. Hayes at 28800 bps. $30 Half Year fee. Huge message area, over 2000 conferences, 100,000 quality Amiga, Mac, DOS, Windows, OS/2 and adult files with new files daily, 10+ networks including Internet and Usenet, games, chat, matchmaker, fax gateway, BBS lists, instant access via credit card. ListKeeper: Pinellas/Tampa Florida AC 813
813-355-1002 Sarasota, Florida	The Bit Bucket (1988-1989)	Barry Plautz, Ken Wetz	Opus
	"Barry and I shared a apartment for a year and shared a BBS. I was more into the technical side and Barry was much better at the Look and Feel part of the system. I designed doors like a Florida Lotto number generator and Leech ( woo to those who never posted or uploaded hehehe ) and Barry designed excellent ansi graphics and screens and such." - Ken Wetz
813-371-2831 Sarasota, FL	Lightning BBS, The Lightning BBS (1993-1996)	Steve Helferich	TriBBS, VBBS, Virtual Advanced
	"Moved from Sarasota, FL to Salt Lake City, UT in the summer of 1996. Continued on the BBS there. The BBS is still in operation as of 6/2005 at telnet://lightningbbs.com." - Steve Helferich
813-496-4104 Venice, FL	Sarasota Community Access Network, Sarrasota Community Access Network (1994)	Ken Wetz	TBBS
	"What can I say. I went to a BBScom up in Atlanta and came back with a vision of a multiline monster BBS. 5 lines at start and at the end 11 phone lines went into the 4 computer system. 1 computer was for my email and Usenet feeds for the domain of scan.com and 1 for for the file and CDrom server and 1 for the TBBS software and 1 as a netware server. " - Ken Wetz
813-530-3159	Sin City BBS (1992)	Hellion, Shadow Angel (File Base Sysop), Dirty Frank (Message Bases), Orion (Promotions), Crusher (Affiliations)
	Jason says "Listed as the Firlight US Easter Courier Headquarters. 6 Nodes, running USR 16.8 Duals."
813-574-1807 Cape Coral, FL	The Transfer Station BBS (1991-1992)	Joe Lenders
	"Email and file sharing BBS with over 1000 users. Two 28K lines allowed simple chat and games like chess. "Huge" dual 200 meg hard drives in a screaming 286 machine fully populated with 2 megs of RAM. The lines were constantly busy since membership was free. Fidonet email connected us to the online world. Even back then hackers were a problem, forcing me to shut down after someone uploaded a trojan that erased one of my drives for the third time. A dating and chat program on the system kept the SYSOP amused as he watched a dozen or so (registered users) males impersonate females and correspond with other unwitting males. Users uploading pornographic pictures and copyright software was a constant problem. Basically, everything that is a problem for webmaters today was a problem for the SYSOP back then." - Joe Lenders
813-595-8442 Largo, FL	LightHouse BBS (1995-1996)	Chris Light	Renegade
	"Influenced by SysOp of the Happy Hideaway BBS (also my math tutor) (Harry Rubenstein), this part-time BBS of mine was created. (Also was in the 727 area code when Largo switched area codes). Unfortunately, I never got my BBS mainstream but I did do a lot with design and ANSI graphics for Galaxy BBS and CrAsH BBS using my bbs. I was also Co-Sysop of Happy Hideaway for about 6 months before it was shut down. The Atari computer died, though we did try to restart it, so then we tried to move over to Wildcat PC but to no avail. Mr. Rubenstein passed away in August of 1998." - Chris Light
813-597-4736 Naples, FL	CyberBambi (1992-1994)	Jeff Hillis	VBBS, WWHIV, BMB/B
	"BBS featured custom games, message boards and lots of goofy stuff." - Jeff Hillis
813-622-7762 Tampa, FL	Murkworks, Ground Zero, Wildcoast (1982-1991)	Kevin Cook, Ryan Smith, Catherine Koch	Oblivion, WWIV, 2AM, Synergy (OS/2 Homemade BBS Conversion)
	"Rotating BBS (depending on day of week, how I felt) Originally ran as Ground Zero with me (Rotte / The Humungous) and Ryan (The Deathwarrior). Me and Ryan hand coded our first Commodore-64 bbs (just a basic single board and one adventure game) that lasted for a year before the C-64 burned up from overheating. We moved it onto a IBM XT I built (with a 20 meg HD!!) and tried just about all of the dos bbs software out there (Wildcat, PC-Board, WWIV, 2AM, Pyroto Mtn etc) before finally moving off dos and programming the first (and maybe only) OS/2 based BBS (Synergy) in the late 80's. Ground Zero was sci-fi based off of the Road Warrior movie, mainly sci-fi, gaming discussions. Wildcoast was fantasy wargaming and RPG based. Later on I met Catherine, and she created the Murkworks bbs which I ran, which was fantasy and writing based." - Thavious
813-648-0105 Lakeland, Florida	Death's Den (The Purple Haze) (1991-1995)	-=The Stone=-, Thanatos (Josh Hasty	WWiV, OBV2/2.0
	"QUADnet, HARMOnet, VertigoNET, DreamNET, Escape!net" - Doc
813-648-9052 Lakeland, FL	Commodore Image BBS (1994-1996)	X-TEC	Image
	"Most of the BBS equipment was destroyed by lightning in 1996." - X-TEC
813-654-1793 Tampa, FL	StackShack, The Stack Shack (1990-1994)	Joe Weiss	Wildcat
	"I found my BBS on your list and that is exciting. I am Joe Weiss. This was my first BBS, I started it a few months before graduating from college and I ran it until 1992. In 1992 I started a second BBS called The Forbidden Realm with two nodes. That BBS turned into a full ISP in 1994/95 and eventually had over 50 nodes." - Joe Weiss
813-684-5923 Brandon, FL	The Loose Moose BBS (1984-1991)	Mako Yoshikawa	CNet, CNet128, Dead;pcl, Deadlock
	"Started at age 13 with a 300 baud modem and C64. Later a couple of C128s and 1200 baud. In the last part of it's life the Loose Moose was a 5 node IBM compatible (386s, 286s and XTs) network running Novell Netware and 10mbps network cards. I had 2 phone lines (813-684-5923 and 5987) at 2400 baud with the ability for users to chat between nodes. I had a whopping 160MB of storage. I finally closed down due to all the maintenance that was required and the cost of having equipment damaged all the time due to Tampa's lightning. I can't remember the name of the IBM BBS software I ran. This was a great experience and I taught myself so much including Unix which has been my daily job for almost 2 decades. I met a lot of people, some that I still am in contact with and had a lot of fun. I miss it a lot. There were so many firsts. Here is irony for you... Shortly after I shutdown the internet started gaining traction and my thought was that it was going to be more time wasted on technology..." - Mako Yoshikawa
813-684-6005 Brandon, FL	The Savage Curtain ][ (1987-1992)	John Magliano III, John Magliano III (Caretaker)	WW4
	"I am John Magliano III, I was so excited when I found my old BBS on your list. I was only 16 when I ran that bbs. There was an original Savage Curtain. I think I was about 14 it was 1985." - John Magliano III
813-689-3298 Tampa, FL	Death Tongue, DeathTongue (1988-1991)	Chris May	WWIV
	"This was one of quite a few BBSs in Tampa way back when in the late 80's, when I was about 14. I hosted it to basically play Global War and online chats. Thanks for bringing back so many memories." - Chris May
813-726-8088 Clearwater, FL	A to Z Classifieds (1993-1995)	Ed Marquardt	TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Clearwater, Florida since 07/93. Sysop: Ed Marquardt. Using TBBS 2.2M with 2 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 210 MB storage. Hayes at 14400 bps. No fee. Classified Ads and information. Sell your car, your boat, your house, or any other item. Advertise your business. Look for employment opportunities, and much more.
813-750-6900 Bradenton, FL	GRAPHICS TOUCH (1995)
	GRAPHICS TOUCH BBS 813.750.6900. Bradenton, FL. Email, Newsgroups, OneNet Member, Graphics Services of all kinds. Print Posters, 3D Digitizing of objects, Animation Frames transfer. Scan slides, prints, negatives. 3D objects forsale — trees, etc. Heat Transfer from your photos by mail or computer. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 - BBS Magazine March, 1995
813-796-5627 Clearwater, FL	Cyberspace DataBase, Data Com Systems Network, Data Comm Network, DataCOM, DataCOM Super Systems, DataCOM Systems Network, The DataCOM Super System (1982-1996)	Steve Sanders	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Clear-water, Florida since 09/82. Sysop: Steve Sanders. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 3 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 10000 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $50.00 Annual fee. Everything for Windows, Sound Cards, VGA games, DTP, HAM Radio, AMSAT, Adult GIFs, Utilities, Applications, Spreadsheets, more. 12 CD-ROMs and BIG hard drives = 80,000+ files! Hi-resolution GOES weather satellite photos daily. V.Fast Class modems !!!
813-831-8466 TAMPA, FL	Vertigo (1992)	White Ninja
	Trauma Member BBS
813-843-8905 New Port Richey, FL	The Storm's Fury BBS, The Storms Fury BBS (1993-1996)	Matt Holden	Virtual BBS
	"Ran a 2-line VirtualBBS for 3 years to the day. At its high point, was an official distribution site for over 60 software companies and ran over 120 door games. TSF was also an active member of FIDONet, VirtualNet, and several other smaller VBBS/WWIV-style networks." - Matt Holden
813-859-4800 Lakeland, FL	Data Link, DataLink BBS (1984-1994)	Jody Large	Varied
	"This BBS began on an radio shack color computer then an atari 130xe then a atari 1040st and finished its life out on an IBM PC AT. The original bbs on the RS Color Computer ran software I wrote and really didn't do a lot other than messaging. On the atari 130xe I ran BBS Express, I actually forget what I ran on the Atari ST (could probably find it as there was only one serious program offered for the ST in that timeframe) and I finished out the bbs era on the PC with OPUS as a cog in the fidonet. :) Thanks for the memories ;)" - Jody Large
813-862-8806 Hudson, FL	Studio-64 (1986)	Ralph LoBianco
	A Commodore BBS and Online Store. A Commodore BBS and Online Store.
813-868-5334 New Port Richey, FL	Buzzard's Bay, BUZZARDS BAY (1988-1999)	Steven	Searchlight , Excalibur
	"I know he ran several, Wildcat, Ripterm, all kinds but the one I remember most was when the internet was just getting in the grove and he had a dial up to his board and you could access the internet thru his setup. Good old day's." - Q Access
813-876-2791 Tampa, FL	Dreamscape (1990-1992)	Girlie	WWIV
	"I ran Dreamscape from my parents' house and it was up in the P.M. Notable that I was in Junior High." - Laura Curts
813-884-1506 Tampa, FL	Access-80, Micro Informer, Micro Informer II (1982-1988)	James Card	Custom and for some time Access80
	"I wrote the BBS myself using a hybrid of MS BASIC and assembly language on a Radio Shack Model I. It was one of the original BBS's in Tampa (I think it was the 5th but not 100% certain). The first version I wrote when I only had a tape drive but lots of memory. Every morning I had to save the message data base (each message was limited to 255 characters due to the size of MS Basic strings!) to cassette tape and restore it in the evening. I did this for not quite a year and then managed to save up enough money for the expansion interface and a couple of disk drives. At that point I rewrote the entire board to handle longer messages and ran the board on a 24 hour basis. The new version and the one that ran for all but about one year was called "Micro Informer II". I did try out a commercial BBS for less than a year called Access 80 but ended up going back to my home grown BBS." - James Card
813-933-5008 Tampa, FL	WORLD OF TIERS (1992-1998)	Seth Adams, Seth Adams - Lord Jadawin	Wildcat
	"Site was registered with the State of Florida as a Private Non-Profit Electronic Library." - Seth Adams
813-949-3392 Tampa, FL	PC-Help! BBS (1991-1995)	Russ Wallace	Wildcat! 2.0
	"Put me through college! Sold the right to use the name to Walter Zipper in 1995 for $100." - Russ Wallace
813-961-9552 Tampa, FL	Mystery Tour (1989-1996)	Quad Squad (Joseph Ayo)	AmiExpress
	Ics Member BBS
813-968-5360 Tampa, FL	Dali's Mustache (1994-1999)	Joe and Lisa White	Renegade
	"Carried FIDOnet and WWIVnet and had a number of door games including TW, TW2002, and LotRD" - Joe and Lisa White
813-971-5013 Tampa, FL	Brainless Wonder (1987-1994)	Andrea Longo	WWIV
	"Started as a part-time system running out of a dorm room at The University of South Florida." - Andrea Longo
813-980-1453 Tampa, FL	The Forbidden Realm (1992-1995)	Joe Weiss, Joe Weiss (aka) The Boss	Wildcat, WWIV, Roboboard FX, VBBS
	"I found my BBS on your list and that is exciting. I am Joe Weiss ( -=< The Boss >=- ). This BBS was grown from The Stack Shack BBS (a single node BBS running Wildcate) to a multi-node BBS running WWIV. With WWIV we started down the path of worldwide messages with FidoNET. That lead to the change to VBBS and the addition of several other message bases including my own creation called MysticNET which had nodes all across America. In 1993 the BBS was re-located to Alabama from Florida. In 1994/95 we went from being just a BBS to a full fledged ISP and eventually had over 50 nodes." - Joe Weiss
813-989-3279 Temple Terrace, FL	Hard Rock Cafe of Tampa (1990-1994)	Apollyon	WWIV
	"Nostalgic to find my system (HRC of Tampa) in your list! This system was an offshoot of the original one that I co-sysop'd (V / The Four Horsemen) with The White Horseman / RiffRaff back in the late 80's out of our dorm at MacDill AFB in Tampa." - Apollyon
813-996-7155 Tampa, FL	The Halls of Hell (1992-1995)	Jason Hall, Kenny Thornton	WWIV
	"One of the few multi-node BBSs in the 813 area code, the site was popular due to a large number of active message boards and good online games like TW2002. This was also the WHQ for the AMNESiA group."
814-234-2971 State College, PA	Entity, The Entity (1987-1989)	Marty Grove	Wildcat
	"I was shocked to find this web site. I had no idea that my small BBS was listed on a list anywhere. I sysop'ed this web site for about 5 to 6 years (it originally ran on a Commodore 64, then later on a Commodore 128 before running on an old IBM PC comparable (8088 processor) using Wildcat! software. Anyway, thanks for listing The Entity. It was quite a surprise to find it listed here." - Marty Grove
814-337-0754 Meadville, PA	Magical Mystery Tour II, Compuphile BBS (1989-1995)	Glenn Rudolph, Gordon Lincoln, John Bingham	WIldcat
	Was an active node in the Intelec BBS network operated by Cliff Watkins and later, served as a hub. also a node in a few other networks, provided users with internet based email services circa 1993-1995. This stuff is just background - but would like my name & John's name, and the right dates to be shown. He and I put a lot of time, effort, and scraped up the dollars to keep the software updated, and the server and phones online.
814-368-8481 Bradford, PA	Major Minor, The Major Minor BBS! (1992-2000)	Jason Valentine, Jason R. Valentine	QuickBBS , QBBS, Executive Host QBBS type
	"I was the sysop... Thank you for including me in the history pages... I still have the system loaded in old 486... but I feel the drive is about to die.... And windows xp... I don't even want to think about it. Thanks again!" - Jason Valentine
814-734-7723 Edinboro, PA	Phoenix Rising Holt (1998-2000)	David Stayduhar	Renegade
	"The BBS originated in Edinboro back in 1992 as the Starlight BBS, which was only run at night due to the fact that it was on a campus dorm phone line. It resurfaced in 1994 as The Inn of the Last Home (the first of many name changed before it's final name of Phoenix Rising Holt.) in LeMoyne PA, and was moved to Dallastown PA, and back to Edinboro PA, and finally to Erie PA before I made the decision to take it down for lack of usership in January of 2000(I had one regular caller and decided it wasn't worth keeping up anymore.) The BBS had a brief comeback in 2003, but was gone for good when the hard drive on my old computer crashed, and all backups were found to be corrupted. I am toying with the idea of resurrecting it to some extent on the internet if I ever get the time and remember how to set one up." - David Stayduhar (Puck)
814-778-5576 Mt. Jewett, PA	Kane Konnection (1995)	Dustin Laurie	Wildcat
	"Wow - incredible someone has this information about a BBS I created for a short period of time. Divorce ruined my plans for an awesome BBS. I even forgot I had done this. I remember great times surfing different BBS's and creating my own. Good times." - Dustin Laurie
814-793-9788 Martinsburg, PA	Nuts & Nutz, Incorporated (1995-1998)	Nuts & Nutz
	"Let me start here: Jason, thank you for putting this together! History of the board: This was a home-brew special with a single digit userbase. Back in the day, my 793 exchange was a toll call for most everyone I knew. I was able to connect with the Altoona/Hollidaysburg (942/3/4/6, 695/6) crews but not so much the other way around. Board ran off a single line. Protocol was a voice call to tell me you wanted it, and it was plugged into the IBM 486/33 by request. Personal Note: For all you guys that were just pixels on a screen or words on ""The Wall"", for those of you who turned into real people not just user names, for those of you I laughed, cried, and chain-smoked with, and those of you who will always be part of the best memories of those years: On the outside chance you're reading this all these years later - Thanks for all the adventures you fantastic mother****ers!" - Nuts & Nutz
814-833-4073 Erie, PA,	SAGE, SAGE BBS, Spectrum Atari Group (1985-1998)	Dennis Mcguire, Dennis McGuire	FoReM ST
	"Spectrum Atari Group of Erie BBS. Always run on Atari computers starting with 1 floppy drive and 300 bps modem in 1985. I was the Sysop." - Dennis McGuire
814-944-2693 ALTOONA, PA	KAINE'S World (1996)	Jason Michaels
	" First I want to say thank you for the work you have obviously done in preserving the history of BBS's . I am "Jason Michaels" (I used my on the air DJ name from WBXQ) the SYSOP of KAINESWorld BBS. I been aware of your list for sometime now and cannot express how much it makes me smile to just see those old familiar names on screen again. That time period was downright magical in terms of the BBS community. All of us 814 area sysops were a pretty tight group who helped eachother daily, be it a problem with altering .Dat files, figuring out the best Init string to use, or help getting an "add-on" for Barney Splat to work. There were even a couple of sysop volleyball games outside of Roosevelt Jr High. Seth Able(L.O.R.D creator) was very active in helping overcome any issues one may have had with getting L.O.R.D to run right on whichever BBS platform we used. KAINES world started on a 8088 ibm compatible pc with a single node bbs on the kitchen table of a party house right outside PSU. Occupied by 3 sets of teenage couples utilizing the shared lone phone line causes Many early dropped carrier messages for sure. I was attending Computer school at the time learning cutting edge things like dBase III and Win 3.1. When Kaines world was first online, it was simply to tinker with system files for Searchlight, and to work on ansi art for "Welcome Screens" for a few sysops I had come to befriend as a user. By the time Kaines World signed off in late 97 for good it was running two nodes at 19200, had over 150 users and was rocking some sweet custom RIP graphics, most of which created by Sandy Childester from Outworld arts. Hands down, Sandy was a Pioneer in terms of digital art and many BBS sported her work. Her custom Welcome page art for Kaines World Is my single most regrettably lost file, would love to see that again. Kaines world sadly, was zipped away in a file placed on an old laptop along with my"Hot Rod" game files and countless midi files and lost in a fire. There will never be a time in computing like that again..... Thank you for reminding me of it. "A Blinding light engulfs you. You are now in the presence of Kaine" Sysop has pulled you into chat. Logout"
815-284-9036 Dixon, IL	Pegasoft - Dixon, Pegasoft - Sterling (1986-1999)	Kent Meyer, Shelby Meyer	Wildcat, WildCat!
	"Pegasoft Dixon and Pegasoft Sterling 815-625-1584 were run by brothers Kent and Shelby Meyer. Shelby started Pegasoft with a Commodore 128 with a 1200 baud modem running 3 hours a night. It slowly grew to the Amiga platform to 2 cities, Dixon and Sterling, and had up to 5 total lines dedicated to it. Even today I still talk with computer friends and colleagues and we reminisce about the fun times playing TradeWars, Empire, and other online games. The message boards were awesome to communicate with others. We even offered free email accounts before the BBS era came to an end. We had lots of fun with this and truly miss the good times!" - Kent Meyer "PEGASOFT-Sterling was in operation from 1986-1996 and ran 2 lines. 815-284-3681 and 815-284-9036 PEGASOFT was an abbreviation for Pegasus Software. The BBS was a member of several different messaging networks at that time. The BBS also kept 18 CD~Rs of software online for the callers and supported a couple dozen online games. The BBS was originally known as Pegasoft. My brother eventually created one called Pegasoft Dixon which had 3 lines. Somewhere I even have the complete history of the BBS in a 2 page essay. The BBS used Wildcat at the end. However it used about 6 different software packages over the years." - Shelby Meyer
815-459-3570 CRYSTAL LAKE, IL	The Hell Keep (1989-1996)	Dragon-Bait Starvo M. Beta	Renegade/OBv2
	"Primarily local message nets, and Online Inter-BBS games. (BRE, LORD, SRE, etc..) For the majority of its life, it was 3 lines, with a slimming down to 2 lines at the end of 1996."
815-623-2331 roscoe, il	blind side, Defunct Society (1995-1997)	Intensity	Pipeline
	"Formerly known as defunct society running oblivion/2, switched over to pipeline when it became a beta site. Concurrently ran on oblivion/2 and pipeline via obv2 as the front end. Message bases were linked (815's message net was based out of ds/bs after voidnet folded). Blind Side also carried a variety of national underground nets, and was the midwest hub for the infamous CiP net in it's second incarnation under Mitchell Waas (aka Midnight Sorrow). there was a great deal of involvement with the art and textfile scene. the sysop was involved in various art groups during the life of the board, including a stint in ACiD." - Intensity
815-723-2522 Joliet, IL	Funeral Home, Monastery, Lords Of The Evil Dominion (1987-1993)	McCalley, Lord Reebok	GBBS
	"Funeral Home Sysop Undertaker 1984-1985, Monastery Sysop Brother Wayne 1985-1986 Final BBS Lords of the Evil Dominion 1987-1993 Apple //e 10meg hard drive and Hayes modem 300/1200/2400 baud."
815-727-7069 Joliet, IL	Wayne Jupiter CBBS (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue). At one point, ran at 110 baud only.
815-729-9896 Shorewood, Illinois	Radio Free Illinois BBS (1988-1998)	Mike Bohler	RBBS, VBBS, PCBOARD
	"I ran Radio Free Illinois pretty much constant for ten years starting in the spring of 1988. Before that I did some intermittent testing using a TRS-80 color computer. Eventually broke down and got an IBM XT clone and started Radio Free Illinois. I had started using RBBS since it was a free, open source program and allowed some real modifications. In the mid 90~Rs I got involved with FIDO and The internet and had fairly good setup. I still have much of the software I used." - Mike Bohler AKA Dr. Oldsmobile
815-741-3544 Chicago, IL	The Time Vortex, Time Vortex (1991-1996)	Mel Rock	Renegade
	"This guy ran one of the best systems in the area and I was a cosysop, I wanted to make sure his name was listed. My memory can't supply me with the exact years it was in service, I am certain that it was in operation between 1991-96. Thanks." - Scott Fox "Mel Rock passed away Sunday October 21st, 2001 at 4:30am. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him and forever remembered by the many users who once dialed his system. He provided a great service to the community, donating his time, money and friendship to anyone that cared to call. A great man has been lost and I will never forget him." - Scott Fox
815-877-2071 Loves Park, IL	AWESOME GRAPHICS!!!, AWESOME GRAPHICSls! (1996)	Jaysen Martin	Searchlight 5.0
	"The board was generally geared to providing a BBS with the best RIP graphics around. Remote Imaging Protocol graphics was a way pre-web BBS systems could provide a windows-like interface over modem speeds." - Jaysen Martin
815-932-2351 Bradley, IL	The PMS BBS (1992-1993)	The Pms-Man
	"Wow, just browsing your site and man did it bring back some memories - quite cool to see a list of the old local bbs's online - anyway just thought i'd add mine - thanks for the memories!" - The PMS Man
815-933-5390 Chicago, IL	Crossroads (A) {933}, Inn Crossroads BBS, The Crossroads BBS (1991-1993)	Mark Jones	Wildcat!
	2400
815-938-7980 Kankakee, IL	Kennedy Elementary (1993)
	FrEdMail System
815-963-8077 Rockford, IL	Hysteria BBS, HYsteria II, HYsteria ][ BBS, Hysteria ][ BBS (1990-1994)	Brian Taylor	Telegard, VBBS
	"1200 Baud, 286/12mhz, 40Mb" - Angel of Rock
816-228-2882 Blue Springs, MO	The Brainstorm, The DX Logbook (1984-1987)	David Wallace, David Wallace and LaDawna Howard	BBS 64 Written by Tom Wheeler, BBS 64 (Written By Tom Wheeler) and BIZ 64 (Written by Bill Atchison)
	"DX Logbook was Ham Radio/Techie oriented. It seemed to be well recieved. I had a lot of help from people like Tom Wheeler and Jim Howard who had already made names for themselves in the early 80's Kansas City BBS community. The Brainstorm was a shorter lived bulletin board but became very popular with 40 - 50 callers a day during the Summer and Fall of 86. Really a place for anyone to go and express their ideas. Political, Philosophical, Religion, etc. Computer use was a Commodore 64. The software was BBS 64 then switched to then BIZ 64." - David Wallace
816-252-8212 KANSAS CITY IND, MO	Aftermath (1995-1998)	Dan Wheeler	Renegade
	"This is the same Aftermath that's on your list. Jim transferred ownership of the board and the userbase to me around 1995. I ran it for a few years then shut it down when I left for college." - Dan Wheeler
816-263-0980 Moberly, MO	Beyond Tommorow, Beyond Tomorrow, Freedom America, Magic City Net, Stingray (1990-1997)	Will Wright, Stingray, William Wright, Matthew Cummings	Last used Remote Access
	"You have me down as Stingray, my name is Matthew Cummings. In Moberly William Wright and myself had the very first BBS, stingray is reference to my UUCP node which provided usenet feeds to him and the other BBS's in Moberly. The dates I believe are fairly accurate. There were many BBS's here, and I was a member/sysop of most of them over time, usually co-sysop because I worked full time and maintained my usenet feed, which I donated free to them. My usenet feed was the first, but membership to my system was very selective and not like a BBS in concept, it was access to a shell terminal where they could use Unix commands. I used SCO Unix as my first online OS, then later Slackware .99 was used. All the BBS's you have in Odessa, with the 816-263 or 816-269 were actually in Moberly, MO which later because the 660 area code. Hope this helps." - Matthew Cummings
816-331-4703 BELTON, MO	PC-Help BBS, PC-HELP BBS (1992-1996)	Bob Zumbrunnen
	ListKeeper: Kansas City Area 816/913
816-356-4554 Kansas City/Raytown, MO	The Lair, The Queen's Lair (1994-1996)	Ian Hough, Brandon Burch, Rick Stebbens, Glenn Powell	Galacticomm BBS
	"The original name was "The Queen's Lair" but some thought that sounded queer so we shortened it to The Lair. 10 dial-in lines at a max 28,800 baud." - Ian Hough
816-436-4516 KANSAS CITY NAS, MO	Sound Advice, Sound Advice BBS, Sound Advice PCB10 OLG (1988-1998)	Roy Timberman	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Kansas City Area 816/913/Roy Timberman
816-452-1397 Kansas City, MO	The Arkham Asylum (1988-1991)	Hotblack/Professor Deziarty/Philip Robinson	Biz 64
	"Was laid out like a 'create your own adventure' with hidden menu options and approx 12 message boards. MAterials were mostly dedicated to philosophy and consciousness expansion (ala Robert Anton Wilson/Illuminatis, Thornley/Principia Discordia, and various oddities) Central theme was the Arkham Asylum (NOT the one used by Batman DC Comics creators, but my own personal vision per writings of H.P. Lovecraft). Had 3 'levels of insanity' that a user could choose- each progressively harder to navigate- but also more rewarding once 'mapped' out. The HARDEST level [dubbed 'INSANITY'] had an area called "Hotblack's Brain"- it was a tesseract [hypercube/5th dimensional cube]. Dave Potter (syso pof '64th Dimension') and Dave ? (another local sysop) had actually mapped out the section and figured it out that the area was indeed a tesseract..it drove them nuts while they were mapping it.. :) I still have the computer [Commodore 64] and software [Biz64] to start the bbs up again, but no time or energy to bother..." - Philip Robinson
816-474-1052 KANSAS CITY MCG, MO	Mebbsie (1988-1991)	Lee Willoughby
	"The site ran on an Apple Lisa computer with an Apple Profile hard disk at University of Missouri Kansas city Medical School." - Jim Luther
816-524-5239 Lee’s Summit, MO	R-7 Lee’s Summit Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
816-630-4183 Excelsior Springs, MI	The Bedroom BBS (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: The Midwest's oldest and most respected Adults Only BBS. Online for 16+ years with 3000+ members from all 50 states and many foreign countries. 1000's of GIF/JPG/Story files. Internet access, e-mail, alt.sex and alt.personals. All lines 14.4k (28.8 coming soon) Matchmaker, large CDRom library, and many more features. Come play with us.
816-665-7157 Kirksville, MO,	The Cave (1992-1995)	Alex Fleak	Wildcat
	"I was the sysop for this board. it was a general files, fido message and doors bbs. somehow all the bbs lists have the city as lenexa instead of kirksville. " - Alex Fleak
816-737-1031 Kansas City, MO	Kansas City CBBS - EMS (1980)		CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
816-761-1525 Kansas City, MO	Our Cheep, Our Cheep BBS (1991-1994)	Josh Chewning, Cyberpsycho, Josh Chewning, Mike Armey, Mike Dietrich, and Josh Linn	Telegard
	"Home of Binky the Clown, the Rockles, ARRFnet, and damaged keeboards."
816-792-3821 Liberty, MO	Red Sector (1991-1994)	Dylan Maskill, Lion Heart	PCBoard, PC BOARD
	"There was two phone lines (816)792-3821 16.8 and (816)792-2029 HST. It was the Midwest HQ for Future Crew the biggest demo scene group at the time see (http://sunsite.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/faq/demo_res.faq). It was a shareware BBS frontend and a Pirate BBS backend. Had alot of users and attended the KC Sysop association. I was doing this from age 12-14 then I found a girl friend and everything went a miss. It brings back alot of cool young memories and I still know some of the friends I met in the BBS scene. Cool list btw.." - Dylan Maskill
816-796-0475 Independence, MO	Apocalypse BBS (1986-1992)	Scott Brown, Ed Brown, Michael Welsh	VisionX, PC-Board, CNet, EBBS
	"Ran a BBS on and off for many years starting in 1986 on a commodore 64 and later on an IBM PC." - Scott Brown
816-861-7040 Kansas City, MO	FORUM-80 Kansas City (1980-1983)	Bill Abney	Forum-80
	Believed to be the home base of the Forum-80 BBS Software package, creator, Bill Abney. Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue).
816-941-4233 Kansas City, MO	The Doctor's Inn BBS (1984-1992)	Brian J. Stewart	Future Systems Software
	"Future System Software (C-64) which I had coded myself with the help a few other local coders. I had two phone lines, with a total of (4) 1541 drives online featuring games, text/chat boards and plenty of downloads." - Brian J. Stewart
817-232-8047 Saginaw, Texas	The Emergency Room (1982-1985)	K. Brad Holder	Apple - GBBS II BBS
	"The name and phone number of this BBS changed in 85 to The Crystal Caverns. CC ran until late 88 in the same city and area code but the prefix changed from 232 to 847. In six years this system was up it recieved over 10,000 calls. In its prime, ER/CC recieved over 50 back to back calls a day. In 1992 I set up a Wildcat BBS called Electromania. Its life span was short lived however because me and my Co-Sysop of The Crystal Caverns, Dan Newman (The Starchief) decided to set up a multi-node system called The Void (Netherland Express) which ran from 92 to 96. We had four phone lines on The Void and ran The Wildcat BBS System. The main number was 817-838-7560." - K. Brad Holder
817-236-3304 FORT WORTH EAGL, TX	Anchor Bay, Barbed Wire Dreams, The Fountains, Wellington Estates (1991-1993)	Robert W. McKee	TAG
	"Years from now it will be unimaginable that people actually dedicated their entire phone line for the purpose of receiving calls to their BBS, one person at a time -- but from the great friends and people I've met through my own, it was hardly a sacrifice. I ran it out of my room when I was 16 and, it was a great way to socialize with all sorts of people of all ages. The message boards are what I was most interested in... the debates got really heated and really silly, over crap like the $25,000 Pyramid vs. Jeopardy, etc... The logs are priceless.. Those were the days.. =]"
817-243-1506 Fort Worth, TX	The Zepp (1986-1990)	Steve White	Opus
	"I started out in 1986 (it might have been 87') with an IBM PC with a V20 (BIOS modded to an XT), and a 10 MEG full height HDD, and a 300 baud external Hayes modem. The 63 Watt power supply used to overheat with the HDD, so I used to have to keep the lid off of it and a fan running into it to keep it up. I eventually went to a 286 system and 1200 baud with 2 20 MEG drives. I didn't have a case for my system, so I just ran it all on a cardboard box by a chair in my living room. I used to run OPUS BBS software. I originally started off with the name of the BBS being The Led Zeppelin BBS, but one of the users thought up the name The Zepp, so me and everyone else started calling it that. I met a lot of them, and we had parties, and some of them are life long friends. I didn't know we were the precursor to the internet." - Steve White
817-268-6445 Fort Worth, TX	H-E-B BBS II, CHG-NT CBBS (1980-1997)	Duane Totty	CBBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
817-281-0612 North Richland Hills, TX	Mount Olympus, The Tower Of Babble, TOWER OF BABBLE (1986-1990)	Darin Arrick, Darin Arrick (Apollo)	C64
	"I ran 3 or 4 BBSes on that number from 1986 or so until 1990. First Mt. Olympus, then one I can't remember the name of, then the Tower of Babble (a FidoNet node). There may be another BBS in there somewhere, too. I ran the first couple on a Commodore 64. I ran 6485 and then (I think) Ivory, and then Ribit for a short time. Then I upgraded to an IBM PC XT Clone with a 10MB full height 5 1/4" hard drive. The Tower of Babble was reasonably popular, and dedicated to languages." - Darin Arrick
817-346-9569 Fort Worth, TX	The Matrix (1994-1996)	Tom 'Dreamshadow' Tjarks	Renegade
	"I ran the Matrix for over two years, named for the William Gibson novel 'Neuromancer'. It was mostly friends who logged into play LORD or Tradewars, as well as chat on the boards. It was run from my home for a period, then sponsored by a friend's father for the majority of its two year run where he actually had an extra phone line for it." - Tom Tjarks
817-354-6750 Euless, TX	EE-BBS (1988-1994)	David Johnson	Opus, later Maximus
	"The BBS started off as the "Student's Late Night BBS" with David operating it on RBBS software, then FIDO, then on Opus and finally on Maximus. During the Fidonet days the BBS name changed to EE-BBS. The node was 130/19 and later on 130/54. The BBS had over 450 registered users, and featured echomail and "file echoes." - David Johnson
817-367-1684 WHITE SETTLEMEN, TX	Gates Of Asgard (1992)	Rotor
	Independent Member BBS
817-367-2517 Fort Worth, TX	KloneZone Mac BBS (1992-2009)	Daniel O'Leary	AMUG
	"The original KloneZone, was named after my handle (KloneMeister and later KloneMan) on old boards that was in turn, named for my old apple II clone. It was a TANO (Technical Associates of New Orleans) computer, using a Hayes 110/300 BPS internal modem that I brought with me from Louisiana by way of a multi-year layover in Rantoul Illinois. I replaced the computer with an Apple //gs, but the handle stuck. I played around with GBBS on it. I came from Rantoul Illinois to Benbrook Texas, armed with a 7 page printout of the Texas area BBSs, and was connected to a system from our hotel room and downloading software from it before I had even completely unpacked the car, much to the astonishment of my brother-in-law Rick Pearce, who was so impressed that had to stop on his way back to Louisiana to pick up a modem for his computer. There were a few other boards that I hung out on as a user, prior to starting my board. "The Zepp", Sysop'd by Steve White, and "Planetfall", sysop'd by Chris Ayres. (I think the last name is correct but I may be wrong). There was another, sysop'd by Brad Williams, AKA "Fallen Angel" and "ACE" that I cannot recall the name of - sorry Brad) I enjoyed these so much that I wanted to start my own. I toyed with GBBS, but did not want to spend lots of money on the software. In 1990, I picked up a pair of Apollo DN330 Workstations, wrote and operated an after hours unix-based BBS for them that had a unique feature - You could call into a modem connected to one of them, and through it, call out of another modem connected to either that system or one connected to any system on the local area network to which they were attached. Unfortunately, I only had one line that did double duty as a voice line. This inherited the KloneZone name from the Apple //gs Computer. I had planned on expanding it, when I stumbled on a deal I could not refuse on a Mac II and a newer Apollo. Once I got the mac and a modem for it, I started looking for area BBSs that catered to the mac. I found one called Metroplex Mailbox, that had the first graphical user interface I had ever seen. My work on the UNIX software ceased. The KloneZone Mac originated in November of 1992 when Kyle Hearn ("Metroplex Mailbox" Sysop) sold my his copy of TeleFinder Software for the Macintosh, along with a copy of Tabby Fidonet email software, an NEC CD ROM drive, a copy of AMUG BBS IN A BOX, and some other software for immediate installation on an old Mac II I picked up from a user of "Rainbows End" (R.E. ran GBBS software and was sysop'd by Marshal Norris, who wrote a network package for it.) When I relocated from Benbrook TX to White Settlement, I joined Fidonet, and had various node numbers. I also went to full time operation of the BBS with a pair of dedicated lines. I eventually made a connection with an ISP, and used one of the dialups to put my system on the internet where it exists to this day, right alongside my dial-in connection. The TeleFinder Software evolved in the right direction, by providing better transfers using X and Zmodem, and an improved protocol that supported resumption of failed downloads which could be made in the background of other accesses, Fido connections via an improved 3rd Party mailer called MacKennel (Craig Vaughan), and Internet capability, including multi-user chat, system and user websites, and Email using SMTP and POP3, as well as an internal method of exchange between TeleFinder systems called TFNet. There were also a pair of 3rd party NNTP clients to import Usenet - NNTP Sucker (Daryll Turner) and Lollipop (Jim Smith) that I used too. Later I moved again, this time to Fort Worth, TX. but I kept the same phone number pairs. I tested the line quality and found that one was better than the other, and I swapped my dial-up and dedicated connections at that time. This is the reason my numbers changed. Somewhere along the way, I helped my brother Dennis O'Leary obtain a copy of TeleFinder, and start "Krawfish Kastle" in Covington, Louisiana. It is operating now, I think, as I recently brought it back up. Sorry for the rambling, but I think this a bit of almost lost history that could go in your database." - Daniel O' Leary
817-429-2269 Fort Worth, TX	Garden of Eden (1992-1995)	Adam Gerety	Renegade
	"The Garden of Eden (later reincarnated as the Back From The Dead BBS, circa 1996.) was a strong community in the early to mid 1990's, with over 300 registered users at one point. Regularly listed in the local Computer Currents newspaper and advertised across Fort Worth. Eventually closed it's baud doors for ever, in favor of the Internet." - Adam Gerety
817-431-2342 Keller, TX	The Serial Port (1982-1997)	Stu Jackson	TBBS 2.2
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Stop by for a few files from our 11+ Gig storage. Many ADULT listings for the over 21 crowd as well. On-Line Games, Messages, On-Line chat Low monthly fee via MCNISA/Discover for instant access. If you're looking for adult information, this is the place!! We'll leave the (modem) light on for ya'.
817-467-1175 FORT WORTH ARLI, TX	Second Sanctum (1994-1996)	Mark Robbins
	ListKeeper: Dalls Fort Worth BBS List
817-467-2212 New Arlington, TX	CYBERIA BBS (1994)	Belinda Rodgers	Major BBS 6.2
	CYBERIA BBS, 817.467.2212 All free! Sysop Belinda Rodgers, Offering Sysops on easy way to fund their BBSes.New Arlington TX BBS running Galacticomm's Major BBS 6.2 with 2 lines, Chat on-line games, forums.new files daily, e-mail, QWK mail, Rip graphics. 24 hours. US Robotics 14400 bps. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
817-478-7149 Arlington, TX	The Punter Exchange (1984-1986)	Marcus Patman	Hal BBS / CNET 1.0
	"This BBS ran HAL BBS software for it's first 6 months or so in existance. CNET BBS software was aquired from a trade on the west coast and it ended up being the first CNET BBS in 817 oo online. The CNET code was so slow you had to compile the BBS code to get it to run at a reasonable speed even at 300 baud." - Marcus Patman
817-483-7717 Forest Hill, TX	Free Water BBS (1991-1997)	Sadie Allen	TriBBS
	"I ran Free Water BBS, first as a part-time night only Bulletin Board, and then as a full-time BBS with one dedicated telephone line. It was quite primitive but lasted for about 6.5 years. With the advent of the internet's popularity, membership declined and I finally closed the board down in March of 1997." - Sadie Allen
817-489-1983 Newark, TX	OverByte LTD (1988-1998)	Muddy, James Muddy Hudson	Telegard, Renegade, Telegard/Renegade
	"Multinode BBS started out running Telegard and switched to Renegade in the early 90's. Mostly a Hacker/Phreak/Warez BBS. Also had a lot of door games, Fidonet mail and a very extensive set of files. One of the first in the area to adopt early bidirectional downloading protocols like HSLink. Extremely cool Sysop Muddy was one of the areas most admired hackers." - Mdibin
817-496-3209 Arlington, TX	John's Program Exchange, Scavenger's Island (1984-1986)	John Evans	CCGMS BBS
	"Scavenger's Island ran on a 64 and two 1541's, but I don't remember which BBS software. My handle was "Red Rebel" at the time. John's Program Exchange ran on the same 64 & 2 1541's, and CCGMS BBS software purchased from Craig Smith and Aaron Hightower (who lived nearby) for $30. Modems used through the years were an automodem (1650), a HESmodem(?), a 1660, and eventually a 1670. My CCGMS board was one of three boards in the 817 area code at the time that formed a "Sysop Alliance" where we shared the same user list, so people could log in using the same credentials on all three boards. The other two boards in the alliance were "Rigormortis" and "The Wall."" - John Evans
817-540-3527 Bedford, TX	FTW's Third Rate Hub, Spare Parts, Spare Parts , Spare Parts 1:130/38 (1989-1994)	Larry Mundy
	Windows Distribution Network - Windows utilities/files
817-543-4250 Arlington, TX	The Emporium BBS! (1988-1994)	Henry Buchanan
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Arlington, Texas since 10/88. Sysop: Henry Buchanan. Using Remote Access 2 with 20 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 6000 MB storage. US Robotics at 19200 bps. $75 Annual fee. One of the largest collections of adult files! Over 17,000 adult files online. Adult games online, with online chat and messages! ADULTS only! Must be 21 years of age or older! Immediate adult access w/valid credit card - VISA, Master-card, Discover, AMEX
817-572-4867 Bedford, TX	The Olde West (1980-2002)	Douglas Rhea, Doug Rhea	Phoenix RCS
	"I AM the Sysop of this BBS. That was the old number from about 1990 to 1999. I started "The Olde West" om Feb 15, 1980 and I STILL run it today. The current number is 817-277-5544, and it STILL runs on the old DOS Phoenix RCS (no even Y2K compliant) I am currently porting it over to WildCate WIN32. I also hosted the GameMaster's Realm and Mist of Oblivion on the same computer (had a front end package written for Phoenix caleld: PreNm (Pre Net mailer) and it allowed the selection of multiple BBS software from the connection menu. The GameMaster's Realm was actually started on Sep 01,1990 and is also still run today (the Mist of Oblivion was started about the same time, but was a role play message board and was a replacement for Kingdom of Nyrond). Anyway, just to set the record straaight, thought I would drop you a line. We are still kicking today and on of the oldest BBS in Texas (actually the Chrysalis in Dallas is/was older)" - Doug Rhea
817-698-1624 Nolanville, TX	The Pauper's Menagerie (1991-1993)	Shane Trammell	Wildcat!
	"I was stationed at Ft. Hood, TX from 1988 - 1996. Spent 7 months in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. When we got back, I decided to move off-post. I enjoyed connecting to other BBSs so much I decided to run my own! Bought the latest copy of Wildcat from Mustang and went to town. The name "The Pauper's Menagerie" translated to "The Poor Man's Zoo" because I was in the military with little pay trying to run this BBS. I had a 14.4 modem. And I eventually bought a second phone line to dedicate to the BBS. I still remember after I had advertised on some local boards that I got my first caller about 10pm (ish). My girlfriend and I were already in bed and I saw the computer screen light up in the other room. I ran to the computer and watched my first caller work his way through my site... Again, thanks for the memories.. and I saw a lot of other BBSs on your site that I used to frequent at the time." - Shane Trammell
817-714-1281 Waco, TX	Dragon's Lair, Forbidden Taboo (1990-1997)	Michael Peck	Telegard
	"Dragon's Lair was a fun local site with tons of files, message bases and lots of ANSII games online. Forbidden Taboo started off several years later more on the Adult side, but never made it anywhere do to the lack of descent ANSII Graphics, but it was fun because it made for a great conversation piece at our Monthly Meetings. Thanks for the chance to see a lot of the old gangs sites listed! It used to be a BLAST!! The web is so much more individualized. We had our own click back then." - Michael Peck
817-776-0332 Waco/Elk, TX	Brazos de Dios (1990-1992)	Wayne Martin
	"Found your site, was really nifty and a surprise to see some of these old BBS and Sysop names that I used to use and e-mail with. If you make notations for some BBS sites, you might want to make one for "Brazos De Dios" BBS (Sysop Wayne Martin) -- this BBS system operated from the now-famous Waco Branch-Davidian compound outside of Waco, Texas (the compound was actually located near Elk, Texas). It should probably be noted that the Christian BBS gave out spiritual info from Davidians to the BBS community, but never actually tipped its hand to who was running it. That BBS, along with Wayne Martin, burned and died in the April 1993 fire that killed the remaining Branch Davidians. It was a tragedy for some local Sysops who had actually met Wayne Martin at some of our local gatherings. He seemed very much like a normal guy, a Harvard attorney with quite a few friends. In the end, I guess the wrong friends.... I was Sysop of ModHouse and Asleep at the Keyboard, and thought you might want to know that interesting little bit of Waco BBS history. Those were some really neat days in the pre-Internet." - Julian West
817-784-1178 FORT WORTH ARLI, TX	Second Sanctum (1991-1996)	Mark Robbins	PCBoard
	List of BBS List Keepers: Dallas/Ft Worth Area 214/814/Mark Robbins
817-788-2422 North Richland Hills, TX	Skull Crusher's Haven (1993-1997)	Kenneth McCall (Skull Crusher)	Renegade / RoboBoard
	"I ran this while I was a teenager." - Kenneth McCell
817-795-2100 FORT WORTH CRES, TX	Cartell (1992)	The Jaguar
	Independent Member BBS
817-795-5722 Arlington, TX	Mad Laboratory (1987-1993)	Mad Scientist	WWIV 4
	"I was just a kid with a BBS. I leeched all of the g-files from Cult of the Dead Cow from a California BBS and put them online. I ran tw2k, Pimpwars, Solar Realms Elite. I didn't run BRE after I finally paid for the SRE key. I also had a 261 prefix for a while, and ran voice first on a metro 265 prefix. I really wanted to be Elite, but I didn't have a budget. I did get a few calls here and there. I tried Emulex / LSD / other Forum mods, TAG, Telegard, Renegade. Overall, I always fell back to WWIV, and for a while was on WWIV-LINK and WWIV-NET. Temporarily, I was "Wasted Lands" BBS, Sysop Radiation Master; Midnight Shadow, etc. I was Mad Scientist for a long time. When I was 8, I wanted a "Mad Scientist Dissect an Alien" kit and used that for my handle on commie (c64 / c128) boards. For 8-char handle, I used omnimax because Omnimax is better than Unimax, a guy who I felt had ripped my parents off when I was 8 or 9. Anyway, eventually, Mad Scientist gave way to Omnimax, even on the Mad Laboratory (Lah-BOR-uh-tor-ee). I always had to have a BBS presence. Somehow, this seemed more permanent. Eventually, I lost interest, and and got a dial-up account in 1994. I continued with omnimax mostly, and 'generic' once in a while. In 1996, I registered Omnitech.net. I tried to resurrect WWIV on TCPIP there. Again, not much there. Just a place for my stuff, but a handful of people were regulars. Eventually, messaging, blogging, etc all took over, and omnimax was overloaded (projector technology) so I inverted my nic to xaminmo. I don't consider myself to have run a BBS in earnest since 1993, though I guess, technically, FTP + SSH + HTTP multi-user could be considered a BBS. This is what happens when you start modemming at age 6." - Mad Scientist
817-847-7249 Fort Worth, TX	Brave Neuro World (1993-1998)	David Pickard
	"Wow! Great site. I can't believe these lists actually exist! I started the board on an Apple II and eventually migrated to a Apple II GS. I still have them both (with software)in my attic. Most of the software and games were custom written by myself and The Wabbit (mainly him). It was one of a kind and a great place to meet women!" - David Pickard
817-855-3916 Witchita Falls, TX	FORUM-80 Wichita Falls (1980-1983)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
817-922-8900 Fort Worth, TX	Electric Knights (1990-1994)	Larry Coble	Wildcat
	"4 line door game and game download site." - Larry Coble
817-923-0009 Fort Worth, TX	Fort Worth Forum 80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
818-240-0280 Glenday, CA	PROBOARD, The Proboard, The PROBOARD BBS (1988-1996)	Everet Milner, Keenen Milner	Wildcat
	"I stated the BBS and ran it for years. My brother, Everet, took it over in its final year (and a bit)." - Keenen Milner
818-240-0415 GLENDALE, CA	Panasia BBS, PANASIA BBS (1991-1994)
	PANASIA BBS, Intelec Regional HUB, QWK/REP Mail Door, No Fees, ILink Node, Beta Site various Game Doors. 818-240-0415.
818-287-4570 ANAHEIM, CA	Scream, SCREAM!! BBS, Scream BBS (1987-1994)
	List of BBS List Keepers: Commodore 64/128/Amiga BBS/John Rigali
818-332-5535 Azusa, CA	NET-WORKS Coin Games (1984-1986)
	"This was my No. 1 source for C-64 stuff in those days. (He had stuff for other computers too.) The timeframe is approximate because his sytem went down and he lost my info and did not renew me when I tried logging in again. I remember seeing Psycho Chicken there so I assume (but know) he used the Citadel." - Brian Bartky
818-340-7354 CANOGA PARK, CA	Mr.Bill'S Abode (1992)	Mr.Bill
	Independent Member BBS
818-342-9150 Winnetka	The Keep, The KEEP BBS (1983-1994)	Gregory McGill	MajorBBS & Worldgroup
	"The KEEP is still up on the net at http://www.thekeep.net and telnet://thekeep.net I started the bbs around 1983 on my TI-99/4a home computer using various programs until I found TI net which I liked and had online games etc.. Then I migrated to a PC with QuickBBS.. decided I wanted to go multi-line so I upgraded to MajorBBS ver 5. and kept upgrading until today it's running on Worldgroup Ver 3.2NT.. I moved the bbs a few times, it started in 1000 oaks in the 805 area code, moved to 818 in Agoura hills around 1988. It moved then to the SF valley in Winnetka around 1990 and lived there for a few years, moved to Chatsworth in 92.. and then left Ca for good in November 1993.. I relocated to Eugene Oregon and brought the BBS right back up there, and it ran for years until I moved to Portland in 1999. At that point I saw no reason to continue offering dialup and moved to internet only access. The KEEP is still going strong here in Portland OR. (Actually Tigard) and is telnettable.. so join us!" - Gregory McGill
818-342-9661 Encino , CA	Encino Park RBBS (1982-1989)	Jay Tyzzer	RBBS
	"I started Encino Park BBS using one of the first IBM PC clones from a company called Columbia Data. The software I used was RBBS. It was open source. I Also made changes to this which worked pretty well. (used Basic if I remember correctly). Many of the surrounding BBS were using Wildcat during this time but I resisted. The system consisted of the Columbia Data with the 8088 taken out and replaced with a V20 from NEC. A 300 BAUD modem. Later a Universal Data Systems modem was added and when the Board shut down it had the following: The Columbia Data IBM PC with 640k ram, 80 MByte Micropolis Hard drive, a Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem, Color RGB CRT monitor, Mouse systems optical mouse. I made a some friends while running the board, some I still have contact with today. I was very surprised when a hard drive partitioning utility I wrote made it from Encino to Boston where a old friend saw it and got back to me. The cool thing was that I was not part of any kind of network. It just of migrated." - Jay Tyzzer
818-352-3620 Tujunga, CA	Ledge PCB S/W Reviews, The Ledge, The Ledge PCBoard (1987-1997)	Joseph Sheppard, J. Sheppard	PCBoard
	"I started the BBS on January 15, 1987. I pulled the plug on January 15, 1997. It had been very slow in the last year, but I wanted to be able to say I ran it for ten years. That morning my wife and kids and I got up, stood around the three computers in the den, saluted, I simulated the sound of a bugle playing "Taps" and I shut them off one at a time. The Ledge was the International Host system for U'NI-net, one of the major BBS Echomail Networks that I helped start with fellow Sysops Jim Fouch (Sleepy Hollow) and Vic Kass (Rose Media). The board also operated with numbers in the 818-896 prefix when I moved to Lake View Terrace, CA." - Joseph Sheppard
818-352-8959 Tujunga, CA	Fade To Black, The Treasure Chest (1990-1997)	Phantom Lord, One Eyed Willy	WWIV
	"Fade To Black was a very successful BBS, and known mostly for its active message board system. Around 1997 it finally died due to a hard disk crash. Activity had dwindled due to Internet popularity to the point it was not worth reviving. Rest in peace, I made many friends through you, and you were a big part of my life." - DJ Rob X
818-353-2756 Sunland, CA	LA Radio BBS (1996-1997)	Justin Robertson	Wildcat! 3.0/4.10ml
	"One node, I was 11 years old when I started it. Good times! :)" - Justin Robertson
818-353-8891 Tujunga, CA	Mysteria, MYSTERIA (1986-2002)	Phil Hansford, Phil Hansford | sed 's/ $//g'	Opus , BBBS
	"Mysteria BBS was started May 20, 1986 as an RCPM. Second node and converted to to DOS from CP/M Mar 14, 1990. Fidonet added. Converted to Maxiums from Remote Access Mar 31, 1992. Upgraded to a 486-33 from 386SX-16 Jan 10 1993. Internet Usenet feed via UUCP added Dec 1, 1994. Upgraded to AMD 486DX4-120 Oct. 18, 1995. Anonymous FTP site at mysteria.com May 29, 1996. Direct Fidonet feed via Internet (Southern Star) Dec 18, 1996. Upgraded to AMD K6 - 166 Mhz 1/1/98. Converted to BBBS (Linux) from Maxiums (DOS) Dec. 19, 1998. BBS still runs in conjustion with web page and FTP at mysteria.com. web, ftp, and bbs share same files directories." MYSTERIA, 818.353.8891, since 1986. Using Maximus with 2 lines. A general board which features metaphysics, occult and philosophy. 2.2 gig plus 2 cdroms. No file ratio for validated users. Hundreds of echomail conferences from Fidonet, Pods, Dharmanet, Searchnet, more. Low cost. Free limited access. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 ListKeeper: Occult BBS
818-358-6968 LONG BEACH, CA	CDS, Odyssey, ODYSSEY Online, Odyssey Online (1989-1996)
	"I was the Sr Communications and Network Engineer at Odyssey Online between Jan 1992 and Dec 1996 (I was a user at Odyssey starting in early 1990). Odyssey Online was located in Monrovia, CA, not Long Beach, CA. It ran on a highly modified version of Major BBS v5 w/a custom setup of Major BBS v6 sub-systems for taking advantage of modern games at the time. In Feb 1994 we added a Full UUNet T1 connection to the Internet and using a Novell Unixware custom setup that tied into the main BBS system allowed telnet in, web site, and allowed dialup users to access the Internet via command-line and a strange SLIP software setup for "web" access. The owner of Odyssey Online was Michael Allen. Was globally dialup accessible via CompuServes x.25 dialup network, and at its peak could handle 256 online users including local s. cal, compuserve dialup, 800 # and telnet (starting in early 1994). Odyssey Online was still in operation through 1997 but it was moved from S. California to a company in San Francisco in early 1996, I was laid off in Dec 1996, and it was still in operation as a online services at least into late 1997 but I lost contact with the owners after that. Came in #8 on the BoardWatch reader voting in 1993." - Nevin Lyne
818-366-1238 Granada Hills, CA	HBBS MOG-UR, Mog-Ur, MOG-UR'S EMS, Mog-Ur,EMS, Mog-urs EMS, Mogur's EMS, Mogur's EMS 4 nodes REL, THE MOG-UR'S EMS, The MOG-UR'S HBBS, The MOG-UR'S EMS, The MOG-UR’S EMS, The Mog-Ur's EMS (1984-1996)	Tom Tcimpidis, Thomas Tcimpidis	Wildcat
	5 Lines - 8 Networks CD-ROMS - 2.8 GB Hub Services HST/V.32
818-367-3359 SYLMAR, CA	dBored (1987-1989)	Tom Wyrick
	"There was just one name for it: dBored (818-367-3359). I was a budding PC developer focusing on dBase programming when I started the board in 1987 to support that community, which morphed into the Clipper language. The board was a clearing house for tips & tricks until I just got too busy with a new IT job to support it. But I have fond memories of it and all the people who used it...including one caller who ended up becoming a client that I worked with for the better part of 20 years." - Tom Wyrick
818-368-3337 Granada Hills, CA	Earthquake City BBS, Earthquake City BBS (1995-2004)	Steven Libis	Wildcat v4.20ml
	"Although activity is dying out, I still keep the BBS running for a few people that still use it. More details are on my web site at: http://eqcitybbs.tripod.com/" - Steven Libis
818-369-1223 Hacienda Heights, CA	House Of Gremlin (1991-1994)	Bruce Grembowski	VBBS (The Virtual BBS)
	"I ran this board first in Los Gatos, then San Jose, and finally in Hacienda Heights." - Bruce Grembowski
818-448-8529 LOS ANGELES, CA	Night Gallery (1982-1996)	John Powers, John Rigali	StG/OS9
	ListKeeper: Commodore 64/128/Amiga BBS
818-500-7517 Glendale, CA	Rivendell (1987-1994)	Jerel Crosland	2AM
	"One interesting note that you might want to add to my bbs entry is that the reason Rivendell went down is there was a huge earthquake in California in January of 1994 and it crashed my harddrive! Then in February I got a new job that took me out of the area and I never put a BBS back up." - Jerel Crosland
818-506-5885 North Hollywood, CA	Blood's Bizarre (1987-1998)	Rob Reed	EBBS
	"Became "The Slate" in 1994 and migrated online in 1998 and still going strong at www.rrbbs.com. Rob, a civil attorney, now lives in nearby Carey Ranch with wife he first started dating in junior high and has a son. His younger brother Chris, who assisted a bit in the Web site, is now living in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, NV., with a wife and two kids and is the director of publicity for Bigelow Aerospace (www.bigelowaerospace.com)." - Chris Reed
818-546-2332 Glendale, CA	LHD2, Lord Hacksaw's (1991-1997)	Hacksaw	WWIV
	"LHD was a relatively successful BBS. At the height of its popularity, it could recieve 200+ phone calls a day, and often exceeded 500 minutes of activity in a day (on a single line). It had an active file section, but was known more for its unique message boards. Politics, technology, drugs, and the darker computer arts were the most popular subjects of conversation." - Craig (formerly known as hacksaw)
818-569-3740 Glendale, CA	Panasia, PANASIA BBS, Panasia BBS (1989-1996)	William Padilla	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.1
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Glendale, California since 05/89. Sysop: William Padilla. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 2 lines on MS-DOS with 120 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. No fee. We offer Internet e-mail access and carry ALL conferences for the following echomail networks: Intelec, ThrobNet, PlanoNet, BasNet, JobNet, FSnet, and MegNet. QWK/REP packet processing avail-able via ()mail. Access is free. New users welcome.
818-571-0718 Alhambra, CA	MY OTHER BBS, My Other BBS (MOBBS) (1988-1996)	Steven Fuhrman	Wildcat
	"This system was originally located in Monterey Park and replaced "The Demented Domain BBS" which ran at the same number from 1987 to 1988. It was replaced with MOBBS when I moved from running the system on a Commodore 64 to an IBM PC/XT. After a couple of years, the system because the official bulletin board for The Pasadena IBM Users' Group (PIBMUG). At that time, Co-SysOps "Rod Ream" and "David Jung" assisted with the administration of the system. Following that, I moved from Monterey Park to Alhambra (where it maintained the same number until 1995). I then relocated to another address in Alhambra and the phone number changed to 818-570-xxxx (I forget the exact number) because the Phone Company said that exchange prefix wasn't located in that part of town even though it was in the same city. The system ran until the Internet started to take hold of the market and PIBMUG moved to a website. MOBBS was taken offline in December of 1996." - Steven Fuhrman
818-707-1581 Agoura, CA	Sanctuary (1988-1989)	Chris Humphrey	Amiga 500
	"My BBS was run on an Amiga 500 using a USR 14.4 HST modem gotten thru the USR Sysop deal program for about $400. WOW what a deal!! =) My BBS was actualy called 'Sanctuary BBS' names after the rock group Iron Maiden and their record label 'Sanctuary Music' and one of their songs "Sanctuary from the law..." lyrics. I forget the exact name of the Amiga BBS software I used, it was not CNET but I am guessing Pro-Board BBS or something along those lines... will check my storage unit and all my old Amiga 3.5" disks next time I am up there for the actual name as I am sure I still have the original BBS disk. =) Fun days back then in the computer world. I am amazed my BBS made your list!! Very nice." - Chris Humphrey
818-718-5994 Winnetka, CA	The Wine Connection BBS (1993-1995)	Paul Sennett	TBBS 2.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Winnetka, California since 11/93. Sysop: Paul Sennett. Using TBBS 2.2 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 250 MB storage. ZOOM at 14400 bps. No fee. Your best connection for Fine Wine! Communicate with other Wine Enthusiasts about Fine Wines you want to buy or sell and also about many other Wine Topics. Glossary of Wine Terms, Grape Varieties, California's Premium Wineries, and much more.
818-718-6376 NORTHRIDGE, CA	The Abyss BBS (1987-1997)	Ron Sarid (EggHead)	TAG
	"A single line BBS that reached the height of its popularity in the late eighties, and early nineties, the Abyss BBS was a close knit community of mostly greater L.A. area people that catered to lively discussion and the sharing of software and images." - Ron Sarid
818-763-1157 North Hollywood, CA	Panasia BBS (1989-1999)	William Padilla	Wildcat and PCBoard
	"Panasia BBS started in 1989, running Wildcat!. It was inspired by other amazing BBS's such as The Ledge, Hotline, Hot Tips, etc. Sometime in the early 90's, I converted Panasia BBS to PCBoard, which she ran on until her sunset in 1999. Panasia BBS quickly joined the echomail community, first by becoming a member and then hub for Intelec, then later by joining ILink. Eventually, Panasia became an ILink NDS (hub) and I was appointed ILink's Admissions Administrator. Thank you for maintaining this huge, cool list. Very nostalgic indeed. Panasia BBS is gone now, but I did maintain the Internet domain name, which is now used for a website: www.panasia.com." - William Padilla
818-763-1158 North Hollywood, CA	Panasia, Panasia , Panasia BBS (1992-2002)	William Padilla	PCBoard
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: We offer Internet email access and carry all conferences for the Intelec, ThrobNet, U'NI-net, and !Link echomail networks. Qmail QWK/REP door. Proof of age required for adult access (includes FAXmail service). Modest but high quality file area.
818-766-6442 North Hollywood, CA	Hotline Info Ctr, THE HOTLINE/COMPUTER ENTERTAINER ONLINE , The Hotline DataBoard (1986-1989)	Jon Badeaux
	U.S. and European music, TV ratings, CD sales, U.S. and European music, TV ratings, CD sales,
818-767-8657 Sun Valley, CA	Alternate Realities (1991-1994)	Jason Anderson	Wildcat
	"Ran this system on a 286-20 with a 28.8 and a 56k and 2 lines!! Can't remember much more but started working at Xircom and then it was all web after that. Long live BBS's!!" - Jason Anderson
818-785-1436 VanNuys, CA	StarChat (1988-1991)
	"Starchat was a gay underground BBS. My screen name was Codeblue. I wrote some really steaming stories about getting down with my room mate. Many people commented on the stories. I was hoping I could find copies of my stories from the sysop's backup files. I learned so much about computers thanks to the BBS." - Matt Bytes
818-812-0419 West Covina, CA	Apple Bus, The Applebus (1985-1994)	Mark Chally	SnAPP, WWIV
	"It started using SnAPP on an Apple II at 300BPS. It ended on WWIV on a Macintosh at 2400BPS. I was writing Mac software and interested in sharing programming tips." - Mark Chally
818-831-9226 Granada Hills, CA	LOGIX Development BBS (1989)	David K. Howington	Wildcat
	"This was a technical support BBS for Logix Development Corporation, a company in the San Fernando Valley that later moved its database software (LPM) and adult movie financial data processing business to Westlake Village, and then again to Camarillo, CA. As late at 1995, they continued to operate the BBS, although its activity had dramatically declined." - David Howington
818-842-6900 BURBANK, CA	Dial Your Match # 1, Dial Your Match #1, DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #1, MODEM BUTTERFLY'S BBS (1985-1995)		DIAL-YOUR-MATCH
	MODEM BUTTERFLY'S BBS, 818.842.6900, Instant access, Global accessible, Intelligent fun, 32 lines, 2400/1 4400bps, 1.2 gig downloads, online contests, lively public forums, G*Spot, writers & entertainment biz, technical support, local events. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 MODEM BUTTERFLY'S BBS, 818.842.6900, Instant access. Global accessible, Intelligent tun. 32 tines, 2400/14400bps, 1.2 gig downloads, online contests, lively public forums, G*Spot, writers & entertainment biz, technical support, local events. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
818-848-4101 Burbank, CA	Blue Thunder BBS [ASV] (1991-1997)	JAFO	WWIV
	"I was well known WWIV SysOp for many years. My BBS was also home of TerraNET, which grew to be the 3rd largest WWIV based network (behind WWIVnet and IceNET). It had over 700 message "subs". My BBS had 3 lines running USR v.34 Dual Standards. I attended the WWIVCon '94 convention in New Orleans where I met Wayne Bell, Filo, Morgul, and other popular WWIV SysOps at the time." - Jafo
818-881-0738 Northridge, CA	Port Royale (1984)	Man Mountain
	"Was started in 1984 by John Sands (aka Man Mountain) on an Apple ][ clone running off 4 floppy drives. Eventually the BBS switched over when the Atari 1040st was released." - Chris
818-882-6045 Chatsworth, CA	TUG-NET/FOG #16, TUG-Net (1986-1989)	Bob Koller
	FOG Remote System #16 - Technical User Group FOG Remote System #16 - Technical User Group
818-882-9058 Canoga Park, CA	eXpressNet Support, The Sweet Life BBS, The Sweet Life PCBoard (1991-1996)	Mike Waldron	PCBoard , FrontDoor
	This was my pet project from ages 12-17. The system ran from my own computer running DesqView so I could use the computer while the BBS was operating. My parents graciously sponsored my project with 2 phone lines. I've been an IT consultant from 1996 to present so I guess it was money well spent!
818-886-0872 Beverly Hills, CA	KBBS Los Angeles, KBBS LOS ANGELES (1991-1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Huge 18+ BBS. TradeWars, Erotica, Trivia, WorldLink Chat, Files, T-1 to Internet for WWW, SLIP, IRC, Usenet, E-mail, FTP, DOOM online, Great Parties. Telnet: 204.96.25.7 http://www.kbbsnet.com/ or write sysop@kbbsnet.com KBBS LOS ANGELES 818.886.0872 Telnet 204.96.25.7, 1000s single adults, weekly parties, shareware. GIFs, Games, and DOOM wads, 24/hr Worldlink chat. Online games. TradeWars 2002, Erotica, Trivia, DOOM game Connection. Internet: Telnet, Rlogin, IRC, FTP, WWW, Gopher, MUDs etc.. Free Trial. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 KBBS LOS ANGELES 818,886,0872 Telnet 204,96,25,7, 1000's single adults, weekly parties, sharev/are, GIFs, Games, and DOOM v/ads. 24/hr Worldlink chat. Online games, TradeWars 2002, Erotica, Trivia, DOOM game Connection, Internet: Telnet, RIogin, IRC, FP, WWW, Gopher, MUDs etc. Free Trial, - BBS Magazine October 1995
818-891-0397 SEPULVEDA, CA	ACE-BBS, ACE STATION BBS (1994-1996)		MajorBBS 6.25
	ACE STATION BBS, 818.891.0397, Using MajorSBS 6.25 v//l6 lines expanding to over 64 lines on H/IS DOS. 15000 MB storage. 500 CDRom's online. All nodes 28,800 bps. Internet, Usenet, Matchmaker, Interactive Online games. ASP approved BBS. Largest library in the Nation. That's right 350,000mb of hies. - BBS Magazine October 1995
818-891-6780 SEPULVEDA, CA	The Tool Shop, TOOLSHOP, Toolshop (S. Smith), ToolShop,langs, Tool Shop BBS (1991-1994)	Samuel Smith, Sam Smith	PCBoard
	Home of HS-Link and other tools for PCBoard Systems
818-896-4015 Tujunga, CA	The Ledge PC-Board, The Ledge PCBoard (1991-1995)	Joseph Sheppard	PCBoard
	Home of Textview Door for PCBoard Systems
818-954-0800 Burbank, CA	Underground, Underground RBBS, The Underground RBBS (1986-1989)	Larry Shadle, Larry Shadie
	Multi-Interest, supporting IBM-PC and Compatibles. Multi-Interest, supporting IBM-PC and Compatibles.
818-961-5013 LOS ANGELES, CA	City, Forbidden City (1992)
	Trsi Member BBS Trsi Member BBS
818-962-1530 Covina, CA	Infoline (1986-1991)	Luis M. Outumuro	Carina II (Modded MOE w/tweaks)
	"Infoline was a service of Computer Office Products for the use of the San Gabriel Valley communities and the ACES user group (the Associated Computer Enthusiast Society). The BBS no longer exists... but ACES still does." - Luis M. Outumuro
818-963-2095 Glendora, CA	Charter Oak (1993)
	FrEdMail System
818-969-8227 Azusa, CA	Avatar Online Systems (AOS) (1990-1995)	Nancyt4 (Nancy Teppler)	MajorBBS
	"I worked as Staff on the board for a few years. User name ""Nobody"". Avatar Online Systems! Family Board - providing Los Angeles, Orange County, and Simi Valley with the best in: Chat, Games, Pubs, Files, Online Tutoring, News, contests and prizes! FREE WEEK access. Friendly, available hosts :) Lines local to YOU! Odyssey Callers welcome on 2 dedicated lines via out-dial at no charge by AOS. We link with other boards for Chat & Trivia!"
818-988-0452 Van Nuys, CA	AUDIO PHILE NETWORK, Audiophile Net, Audiophile Network, AUDIOPHILE NETWORK , The Audiophile Network (1986-1996)	Guy Hickey, Guy Hickey/Quatre Spekaers	TBBS
	High-end Audio Components, Music, Video Reviews
818-992-7730 Calabasas, CA	Wastedland, Atari Elite (1985)	Booby Rose	Forem ST
	"The above BBS was operated by a guy named Rob, he is in prison for Murder. we used to talk a lot back in those days till he called me one day telling me he was on the run. That was the last I heard of him till I received a letter form him in Jail. Really wild because his BBS number still sticks in my head to this day even over the mass of local ones I used to call." - Kevin Nardelle
818-997,3888 VAN NUYS, CA	ADULT PREVIEW PLUS (1995)
	ADULT PREVIEW PLUS, 818.997,3888, Preview adult videos, online picture viewing, largest adult video library, online product catalog, view adult video stars, adult novelties, strip club listing, monthly 'pixel princess', internet email, chat, personal ads, usenet. plus much more, - BBS Magazine October 1995
818-999-1829	Barter Exchange, Barter Exchange BBS (1989-1994)	Richard Montaine	DLX
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Calabasas, California since 01/90. Sysop: Richard Montaine. Using Excalibur .67 with 8 lines on WINDOWS with 12000 MB storage. AT&T Paradyne at 19200 bps. No fee. Multi-tasking BBS which allows users to download, upload, chat and E-mail all at the same time. Never be bored waiting for a file to finish. You can now do many things at once. I recommend that only high speed modems call when accessing the file library.
819-563-3250 SHERBROOKE, CANADA	L'Ultime BBS (1992-1995)	Sylvain Lecours	RemoteAccess 2.0, FrontDoor
	"Hello! I did a search today for fun with my name in google and I stumbled on your site. What a surprise I had when I saw that you maintained a list of BBS and that my name was in it! The information you have is actually correct! I will add that I was running RemoteAccess 2.0 and FrontDoor (cant remember version) along with a bunch of Doors and shareware cds available at the time. I was running IceChat and IceEdit as chat and email softwares. In the name of all the SysOps that were my friends on that list, Thank you very much for your amazing work!" - Sylvain
819-563-9200 SHERBROOKE, CANADA	L'Ultime BBS (1992-1995)	Sylvain Lecours
	"Second line for the L'Ultime BBS." - Sylvain Lecours
819-682-7771 Aylmer, Quebec, Canada	RoboBoard HQ, RoboBOARD FX Demo System, Hamilton TeleGraphics (1994-1995)
	Product: RoboBoard/FX
819-776-3326 Hull, Quebec	Legacy (1997-1998)	Lord Sith	Renegade
	"Just your average, modded, distro site for ANSi packs and other stuff in the 613/819 area." - Lord Sith
819-797-6633 Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec	TOXiC WASTE BBS (1993-1996)	Danny Gamache	PCBoard 15.3
	"I have started this BBS when I was only 12 Years Old. I had so much fun doing it. I'll try to find some screen shot of my BBS, I remember the main colors of the website were green. Every SYSoP rembmer the @X01 code. Heumm, I wish it's the good one, I can't make sure." - Danny Gamache
819-864-0199 Deauville, QC, Canada,	SexNet BBS (1994-1996)	Francois Goulet, Franois Goulet	RA
	"Just looked your web page, and I have found my name inside. I just have wanted to said to you this little information. Before "Sexnet BBS" in 94-96, I have also founded "Clip-Scan BBS" in 1993-94. At the same phone number, but is closed before I run Sexnet. Thanks to give to the people, the old method of information trading, before that the internet existe.. because the internet, BBS is very rare now, and are also obsolete. You make a good job.." - Francois Goulet
828-241-9634 Catawba, NC	Bandit Land, Banditland, NW NC NET (1992-1998)	Jamen Shook	Mutant bbs / then Wildcat the last 2 yrs
	"It is great to see a list of all of the local bbs' in the area, this was neat to go back in time, Also I have registered www.banditland.net and it has replaced the bbs software, so friends and family go to it, but I still miss some of the things about the bbs community. You could always count on someone signing in and playing a game or uploading something they found, now with the internet, there is so much to see and do, no one devots any time to one site, they go and go and go, but it is usually not to the same site(on a daily basis). Anyways, great list and good luck on your documentary." - Jamen Shook
828-665-1978 Candler, NC	SHAZAM! BBS (1993-1995)	Eric Bowers (WeirdBeard or Captain Marvel & Eranos)	TriBBS
	"We had 2 phonelines, which was a big deal. The other number was 828-665-1985. We actually ran Free Speech software in the beginning, then Pinnacle, and finally TriBBS. We sure miss everybody that used to call in! What a great time it was!" - Eric Bowers
828-665-3996 Asheville, NC	The Arena (1991)	Nighthawk	Worldgroup
	"This was probably the biggest BBS in Asheville. It provided internet service also first through lynx and then through WinSock to a browser. The only competitor it had was AOL and even that was only towards the mid-late 90's. The BBS had a great community of people that were always in Teleconference, a huge file section, and the best door games." - Nighthawk
847-249-1650 Waukegan, IL	High Voltage (1984-1989)	Mike Scribner, Rob Leggett	CNET 128
	"We started in 1985 in Libertyville, IL as Leg-Man's BBS and ran on a C64 and an old version of CNET software. We had a 1541 drive and two 1 meg drives (I cannot remember the name of them). Later in 1985 we came up with an airport theme and renamed the BBS to the Jet Stream. In 1986 I moved the BBS to Waukegan purchased a Commodore 128D computer and renamed the BBS to High Voltage. I upgraded to CNET 128 and added a Lt. Kernal hard drive (a 20mb ultra-fast drive made for the 128). Along the way High Voltage went up the baud rate ladder (300, 1200, 2400, topping out at 9600 in 1988 or was it 14400?) In November of 1989 I moved and shut down High Voltage for good. I sold the 20mb Lt Kernal and the CNET software to another SysOp. What distinguished High Voltage from other BBS' was the amount of personal modifications I made to the software. Since CNET was written in Basic it was realatively easy to make enhancements. CNET could also accept 70byte modules, so new games or utilities could be loaded as the user selected them. We wrote or modified many of these and had many available for use on our BBS. Being a SysOP was a memorable part of my life for 5 years. I have a few web sites today but they do not give me the same feeling as I had during the golden age of the BBS." - Mike Scribner
847-438-8292 Lake Zurich, IL	Cloudcity BBS (1982-1996)	John Bilik	GBBS, Networks BBS
	DFX library, message boards, games and email, growing to telnet access, FTP, Lynx, Archie, Gopher and X.25 access. Apple //e and IBM systems grew to 32 lines before closing, registered as ‘cloud.com’ in 1991.
847-456-6508 Buffalo Grove, IL	CDW Tech BBS	Dan Rymarz, Jay Duff, Aaron Patrynik
	"I ran this BBS for Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW) from 1994 through 1995, while I was a Phone Support/Repair/Install tech. We would post files there for customers to download (before the Internet truly caught on) when they'd call in with problems that required a file to fix. I don't think it was ever advertised (although it may have been listed in the CDW catalogs), and it was never networked (like with FIDO). I have no idea what happened to it after I left, but I think Aaron ran it for a while. Dan Rymarz ran it before I got there until he left. I'm only about 90% sure of that number - haven't called it in a decade!" - Jay Duff
847-498-1908 Northbrook, IL	Androzani Major, The NSC Connection (1985-1987)	Christopher D. Heer	GBBS, GBBS Pro
	"Originally called Androzani Major, but later renamed to The NSC Connection (a.k.a. The North Shore Comics Connection) so I could suck up to my boss. :) Home of the 312 area code AE (Ascii Express) list. Some g-files, but mostly centered on the discussion forums." - Christopher Heer
847-598-4757 Hoffman Estates, IL	Ouija Board BBS (1998-2000)	Machausta	Telegard 3.08g
	I ran the BBS at my workplace using a USR Courier V.Everything 33.6k PCMCIA as it didn't attract much negative attention -- I also ran it via telnet ~1999.
847-827-3953 Park Ridge, IL	AlphaOne Online (1990-1997)	Toby Schneiter	TBBS
	"48 line TBBS system that was one of the first to utilize ISDN to allow its members to connect to the Internet - when the Internet had no graphical interface. Voted #7 Best Online Service in American by Boardwatch Magazine in 1993. AlphaOne Online still exists, but as AlphaOne Technology, a small, full featured, well supported web hosting & design company at www.alphaone-tech.com." - Toby Schneiter
856-933-7096 Mt. Ephraim, NJ	Christian Fellowship, Maryland Central Net, NJ Delaware Net, RC - Mid Atlantic, REGION 13 POTS NETMAIL GATE (1997-2020)	Thomas Luko, Michael Luko	PCBoard
	"BBS is still around and active. Land Line 856-933-7096 Telnet: cfbbs.dtdns.net or cfbbs.no-ip.com." - Michael Luko Games and Files. Message networks: Fido, ILink and Familynet.
860-496-7038 Torrington, CT	Citadel in the Mountains (1995-1996)	Steven DeLisle	Searchlight, then KBBS
	"One node, 7 Networks, 26 door games, 120 users, run under IBM's OS/2." - Steven DeLisle
860-533-9526 Manchester, Ct	Thrash Inc. BBS (1986-1997)	Thrash, The Shadow, Black IC	TSiBBS 2.2 (Modified Obv/2)
	"This was a classic BBS that housed most major message nets and had probably one of the strongest user bases ever within the 860 area code. It's still up periodically for nostalgia at Telnet://ThrashInc.TZO.Com and/or Telnet://ThrashInc.D2G.Com and it runs with all the original bells and whistles. This was a CLASSIC BBS indeed!" - Thrash
860-569-4825 East Hartford, CT	DatAphasia, DatAphasia BBS (1993-1996)	Dave Beal	Renegade
	"Our BBS was a close community of about 40 or so regular callers that checked in either daily of every other day, and about 100 more that called at least once a week. We had only one phone line, but it was well-used. In the beginning we were held together by the board's rather large selection of message bases that were networked to 6 message networks, one being a worldwide network, called FIDO. This was a big deal to a lot of people, since the Internet had not yet reached main-stream. It became even more popular with the addition of multiple gigs of software that was added online, and then by our (new and unique) Internet-gateway/e-mail system which set us apart, in 1995, from most of the local BBS community. But the people.... they made the whole thing worth while. I'll always remember my on-line friends: Claire Cantor, Chad Thompson (Oddly, I miss your sarcasm), Chris Dzialo (we never did play that basketball game! Sorry!), Ray Hinckley (I hope California treated you better), Bob Depino (thanks for the help starting up), Brendan Lefebvre (Still writing?), Dan Swatik (thanks for all your help) and so many more people that I couldn't list you all, I say, thanks for the memories. I'll always cherish the lost infancy of the online world and wish I could drag you all into one more online chat session. Any of you reading this who remember the BBS, e-mail me at: dataphasia@juno.com and tell me what you've been doing the past 6 years or so. Dave Beal (aka Striker Ace) signing off, with a tear."
860-635-6569 Middletown, CT	Joe's Garage BBS (1992-1999)	Les Robertson	Renegade
	"Hi... just saw my name listed with my old BBS, and thought I'd share some info with ya! I was the first free access BBS in CT to have CD-rom changers online. I had 2 pioneer 7 disc changers, plus 2 other cd drives in the machines. 16 cd roms of shareware was an astounding amount of files back then. The main focus of the board was online games, although I didd provide limited internet availability through telnet and whois. I actually still miss the fun of running a board. anyway... great site and great list. Kudos to you for maintaining it!" - Les Robertson
860-643-1159 Manchester, CT	A Tear in Your Hand, Screaming Slave, YoYoDyne Pyrotechnics (1991-1996)	Bryan Peretto	Wildcat, Renegade
	"The names, in order, are inspired from "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" movie, a song by Tori Amos, and a song by Nine Inch Nails. I ran the BBS in my bedroom during high school. It started on a 386sx 25mhz PC with 4 megs of RAM, 20meg hard drive, and 2400baud modem. Eventually things were upgraded to a 486, 28,000bps modem, 1x speed CD-ROM. We were one of the first BBSes to offer people free internet e-mail which I delivered through a UUCP hub. We also offered access to a shareware CD-ROM including a disc from JASC Shareware that included one of my own projects on it. We hosted a few messaging networks like FidoNet, but we also founded our own network called RaveNet which had member nodes all the way in California. Complex batch files ran nightly jobs and auto-corrected problems including restoring service on a reboot. In fact, the BBS continued to run autonomously after I left for college in 1995. It was shut down sometime in 1996 as I changed interest to the "new" World Wide Web. The BBS was hit once by a virus purposely uploaded by a classmate from my high school. I also met one of my girlfriends through the BBS- my first in a long line of computer-assisted dating." - Bryan Peretto
860-872-4607 Tolland, CT	Gamenet (1982-1984)	Scott Lahman
	"I ran this BBS from my bedroom. On a dual floppy Franklin Ace 1000 computer. Timeframe was probably 1982-1984 though I can't completely remember. I focused on video games. Probably fewer than 50 members and less than 5 paid. Not a great board but I did wind up with a career in video games." - Scott Lahman
860-886-1441 Norwich, CT	Hub 1000, Sea Of Noise, Sea of Noise (1992-1998)	Robert Szarka	QuickBBS , RA 2.50+, Waffle, RemoteAccess
	"Sea of Noise began life in 1992 running Waffle on a '286. After moving to RA running under OS/2 on a '486, it expanded to two lines and began serving as the local hub for FidoNet, NIRVANAnet, and several other networks. For many years it was the only local BBS providing access to Internet email or USENET newsgroups (using a combination of WaterGate and an old '386-SX running Linux). Sadly, when the machine died in 1998, I was too busy running an ISP to resurrect the BBS. It was fun while it lasted!" - Robert Szarka
863-293-3051 Winter Haven, FL	The Candy Factory (1996-1997)	Jelly Bean	Renegade
	"Those were the good 'ole days. I remember playing L.O.R.D. with all my users. And posting messages. Such fun! I loved every minute of it! Even when the software (Renegade) crashed a couple times. The Internet took the place of the BBS but the memories will never be forgotten.." - Jelly Bean
863-644-0860 Lakeland, FL	The Great Escape BBS (1991-1997)	Ziroc (Dan Huling)	WWIV Modded v4.12+
	"I ran The Great Escape BBS, which was the name of a comic shop in Louisville, KY I went to when I was younger. :) I got into BBSing because of people like: Aahz, Bink, Gonzo, Dr. Syn, Professor and others. I ran the most modded board in Polk county I believe, as well as started my own network called ESCAPEnet which many local WWIV boards picked up. I had WWIVnet, ICEnet, TERRAnet (JAFO's Network) and ran tons of DOOR games. (Red Dragon was fun). I got onto the Internet via Cybergate in 1994, and saw what was coming. I got a server, and put up my own WEBSITE, which is huge now. It's www.tgeweb.com and then my PC Gaming and Tech forum, www.ironworksforum.com --all still going, and VERY busy! It's almost 2008, and I'll be adding even more stuff as well! If any old friends want to contact me, email me! I still use Ziroc too. :)" - Ziroc (Dan Huling)
864-297-0800 Greer, SC	Shockwave (1994-1996)	Michael Coletta	Wildcat 4
	"I ran this while I was in middle school, believe it or not. My parents actually gave me my own phoneline. I used to serve up an assortment of "warez" and plenty of good door games! The popularity of the internet eventually killed the BBS. I miss those good old ANSI screens!" - Michael Coletta
864-587-9828 Spartanburg, SC	The Alter Ego (1995-1998)	James Munsey	Renegade
	"Alter Ego was created to be the Headquarters Site for RcA (Real Crazy Artists, later changed to Really Creative Artists). The board was one of the best examples of art-based BBS' in the region at the time and featured both ANSI and RIP screens for those who had Ripterm. The line was busy 24/7 it seemed with 30-50 calls daily. I thought when we got to a gig of storage and 28.8 baud we were the fastest thing going. People logged in from across the US to download our art 'packs' and locally it was also a popular gaming board. We also carried FidoNet, GoatNet and other message networks. Alter Ego was among the first BBS' in the area to offer free internet email to its users in 1997. Like all BBS', the internet eventually made it obsolete, but running Alter Ego, meeting the people who logged in and learning about computers changed my life. I ran it from my sophomore year in High School through Freshman year in college. What great fun it was! -James (Striker)
864-879-2848 Simpsonville, SC	FORUM! Information Exchange, Musical Shots!, The Programmers Forum! (1989-1998)	Mike Belue, Doug Glenn	Wildcat! 4
	The Programmers Forum! is the only name used for the BBS from the beginning to end. I hosted source files in asm, C, Pascal, Perl and others at the time. I don't know how Mike Belue got listed as a SysOp, he was a moderator on the board. (864-879-2848 FORUM! Information Exchange, Musical Shots!) did not exist as named, only The Programmers Forum! I never used anything else. My BBS originated in Ft. Polk, Leesville, Louisiana in 1989 on a 8086. I moved a number of times after ETS from the Army in 1990. Jobs pulled me around from Fountain Inn (which the Simpsonville number), Statesville, NC, Then to back to Mauldin, SC. The 963/967 preface was run by an Independent phone operator and covered Ft. Inn, Simpsonville and the south eastern side of Mauldin. In 1998 with the same single caller each day for the year I finally pulled the plug on it.
864-888-2244 Seneca, SC	Deviant (1994-1998)	Magnus	Wildcat 4.20
	"The internet came really late to rural parts of South Carolina and the BBS scene was still going even into the late 90s. I ran Deviant as a ANSI art board - my goal was to have a really pretty and streamlined BBS full of style. Helping the ANSI community was a real pleasure and Deviant provided endless entertainment for me and I hope others. Moreover the community was just great - I made several life long friends through Deviant and other BBSes. At its height my board was burning up the phone lines with 40+ calls per day... my only regret is that I never could spring for more phone lines. At some point Bell South offered an upstate calling plan for a flat rate and this really opened up the entire 864 area code for a lot of people. There were dozens of BBSes all over the place and it was great fun to sit and let Telix run through my list... thanks to all the other sysops - this was a wonderful hobby. (g)" - Magnus
901-276-8196 Medical, Memphis, TN	FORUM-80 Medical, Memphis, TN (1980-1985)		FORUM-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
901-368-4702 Memphis, TN	Center Field, CENTER FIELD (1995-1997)	Dave Osborne
	ISDN Line
901-372-3143 Bartlett, TN	The Neutral Zone (1990-1994)	Michael Plautz, Steven Plautz	QuickBBS
	"We started our BBS on an old Tandy 1000 SX as soon as we saved up enough money for a 30mb harddrive card. I recall we attended a few HAH meetings, and some of you may remember us as the twin brothers. Also, it should be noted that we were one of the first BBS's to bring 14.4kbps access to the 901 area. The BBS went down in June after we graduated from CBU. We later went on to start one of the largest BBS's on the east coast, Forbidden Playground, along with Sybercom ISP in Virginia Beach, VA." - Michael Plautz
901-386-0069 Memphis, TN	Hidden Castle!, The Hidden Castle! (1990-1992)	Chris Gaskins	C-Net, QuickBBS, Remote Access
	"It really brought back a lot of good memories when I first saw this list posted. I met some wonderful people through BBSs, the HAH gatherings, etc. I remember going to User Group meetings back when I was a TI-99/4A user, then the Libraries when I was a Commodore 64 user, trading games, etc... and meeting at Pizza Hut when I was a PC user. :) Good memories..." - Chris Gaskins
901-386-1760 MEMPHIS, TN	The Full Moon BBS (1985-1997)	Pierre Lamontagne, Pierre LaMontagne	Maximus 3.0
	"The Full Moon BBS was always a single line BBS that started W/O FidoNet for about the first 4 years. In the early days, the Full Moon BBS started out on QuickBBS software, then became a beta tester for QuickBBS, then soon(about 1 or so years) moved to Maximus 2.0 after a SysOp friend was bragging so much about how great Max was and after I verified how much better it was! Eventually, it was upgraded to Maximus 3.0. After joining FidoNet, I, like Chris Gaskins, met a lot of great new co-SysOps & users. In the early 80s, I too started out computing on a TI-99/4A. By the mid 80s, I became the SysOp of the TI club's BBS and got hooked! Soon after we decided to close TiBBS, I started the Full Moon BBS. I miss those wonderful days!" - Plamonta
901-767-3040 Memphis, TN	Brawner's BBS (1989-1996)	Marc Brawner & John Worthington	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess
	"Many of those who were active in the Memphis, TN BBS scene during the 90's will remember Brawner's. I started my BBS in 1989 at the prepubescent age of 13, initially with the gracious help of John Worthington--thanks to a phone line and a 20mb WD "Hard Card" from Santa. In Memphis, the local SysOps and users held a monthly gathering at a local Pizza Hut called a "HAH" party (for Hackers are Human..). I can recall having my Mom drop me off for my first HAH, and seeing the wild expressions on many of the SysOps faces of whom I had met in the online world as they realized this kid was one of them :-) In its heyday, Brawner's logged around 45-60 calls a day on a single line, and I frequently attempted to go multi-line, but being unemployed meant there was little budget for improvements. I'm grateful for the many friends whom I met over the years, and would love to hear from them again. The knowledge I gleaned from many helpful people over these years certainly played a strong role in jumpstarting my carreer in Information Security after college. " - Marc Brawner
901-872-8615 Millington, TN	BloodNet BBS, Cyberia (1995-1998)	Raven, Shadowcat, Vampire Duck	Wildcat, TriBBS
	"In 1995, I was heavily involved in the Memphis BBS scene. I had met Raven through the MajorBBS The Final Frontier (last I checked it was still up, however, I don't have the dial-in numbers since I'm no longer in Memphis and use telnet). Raven wanted to start a BBS. He asked me to help him. Thus, Cyberia BBS was born. Cyberia was a hideous, ugly monster. I forget now what software we were running, but it was slow and sluggish and didn't offer many customization features we were looking for. So, we tried a couple of other programs - such as TriBBS - and finally found WildCat!. We stayed with WildCat! for the life of the board. The name Cyberia was trite and cliche in itself. We decided we needed to choose something that reflected our own interests... something different that might appeal to a group of people. Raven and I both were avid Vampire: The Masquerade players and shared a love of all things Toreador. Thus, BloodNet was christened. For a small one-line BBS, BloodNet boasted a relatively large member base. If I remember correctly, we peaked at somewhere between 100 and 150 users, which isn't too shabby considering the board wasn't even up 24/7 at the beginning. One of the draws was our extensive amount of games including Trade Wars, LORD, etc. We also had several active message boards and a teleconference. BloodNet had to be shut down after it's 3 year life due to our real lives rudely taking up our free time, lack of funding for improvement of the board, and a general lack of interest (which I think has been the fall of many boards.) Nevertheless, I have very fond memories of my time there and made many friends that will last the rest of my life. Despite living in Pennsylvania now, I do try to keep in touch with Raven and the rest of the gang back home." - Shadowcat (Co-SysOp)
901-873-2837 Millington, TN	Buccaneer's Harbor, Buccaneer's Harbor City, Buccaneer'sHarbor, Casino Land, Global Exchange, Smurf's Village (1987-1995)	Carl Slawinski
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Millington, Tn since 03/87. Sysop: Carl Slawinski. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 6000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $25.00 Annual fee. EVERY Fidonet and RIME Conference Always Online. Planet Connect Satellite System - INTERNET UseNet Groups - Memphis Area Technical Support Hub Online Games - Multinode Chat - "The World at Your Fingertips!" Instant Access with VISA/MC AMEX/DISCOVER
902-469-9536 Dartmouth, NS	Sanatarium (1987-1994)	Kevin Bruce	ElfBBS, Cit-86 (1987-1993) ElfBBS (1994)
	"Was the central network hub for the Cit86 message relay in the Halifax Metro area. Originally connected to Utica College for message sharing but later connected directly with Hue Jr's Test System. First BBS in Eastern Canada to run 14.4 Courier Modems. System was originally created as a replacement for Stu Glens Aardvark BBS which is generally considered the first well known BBS in Nova Scotia. System was taken down for a couple of weeks at the end of 1993 but was quickly brought back up as a test system for Dino Nardini's ElfBBS software. The system went dark in early December of 1994 and never went back up." - Kevin Bruce
902-475-1090 Halifax, NS	Dueling Dragon BBS, Dueling Dragons BBS (1994-1997)	Pat Kavanaugh, James Puff	Renegade
	"The BBS Was in Spryfiled for the first couple of years of its life. Then it moved to CHebucto Road and the phone number changed. The phone number was changed to 902-455-0083. Unfortunately, MTT didn't leave the "number you have dialed has been changed" message on the old number very long and we started to lose members... Although not one of the longest lived BBS's in the area, we were one of the first in the area to actually have email routed to and from the internet. We also we one of the HUB's for Fidonet, as well as a few of the turn based RPG's that were around in that "Era" ... Many late nights, or even overnights... Lots of Coffee and god ole' Coke-A-Cola.... IT WAS A BLAST!!!"
902-479-0716 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, N.S.	East Coast (1991-2001)	Doug Frenette, Dave Andrea, Garson Yu	Wildcat!
	"I loved running the board. The batch files were set up give varying beeps, dependng on the event: a caller logging in, dropping to a door or game, returning from a door or game, logging off. The Page Sysop sound was distinctive. The sounds became part of my life. I knew when someone was entering my home through my computer, and having fun on my system, writing and reading messages, doing Questionnaires, running doors or games, download or uploading files. "The BBS began on an old 8088 system, and over the years migrated to more powerful machines. It finally reached a pinicle on a '486. :-) The users were great, and donated money to register doors, upgrade equipment, or just to help with the phone bill. I met many wonderful people. Taking the board down in 2001 was a very sad event, but there was just one too many crashes. This is all for now." - Doug Frenette
902-862-3667 New Waterford, Nova Scotia, CANADA	Amiga Island BBS (1991-2007)	Paul Burchell, Sean Hinchey	Cnet BBS V3.05
	"Amiga Island BBS - the name says it all! Amiga Supported System.. Well the BBS started in 1991 Took it OFFLINE in 98 & in 2006 Decided open it back up as a Telnet BBS." - Paul Burchell
903-758-3399 Longview, TX	The Flying Circus (1992-1994)	John Beavers (Python)	Telegard
	"The Flying Circus --- a name chosen due to my previously chosen handle Python --- was a hobby BBS I ran locally in my hometown of Longview, TX, while I was in high school. It was never on FidoNet, and in fact few in my hometown were that I'm aware of at that time. Regular internet access at the time was also not that common. So the community on my BBS was really just a bunch of local people who also populated a few related local BBSs, and this made up most of our online lives, though some of us also met up in person from time to time. I remember being especially proud of the simple and what I thought was elegant lay out of the BBS, and for the lively message boards, where I encouraged discussion of politics and religion, especially hot bed topics in deep East Texas. However, looking back on it was very much an amateur affair; mostly it was just a place for our circle of online friends to communicate (well, and play TradeWars). I still have the basic skeleton on my hard drive to this day, though Telegard won't run under linux so I can't actually see it work, and the extensive message boards got off-loaded to floppies years ago in the days when hard disk space was at a premium and I couldn't afford to keep them. But I can view the ANSI graphics, and it brought a smile to my face. My fiancee asked me recently how long my longest online friendship lasted, and given that I've recently stumbled across some of the old crowd on Facebook, I'd have to say around 20 years." - John Beavers (Python)
903-793-7173 TEXARKANA, TX	Internet Connection (1995)	Rodney Payne
	ListKeeper: Texarkana BBS List
904-221-3634 Jacksonville, FL	Danno's, Danno's Tech Board, Danno's Tech Board & Danno's BBS, JustANet HQ, NEC 112 (1989-1998)	Dan Keller, Debra Keller, Harley Keller, Dan & Debra Keller	TAG
	"Hello, Ran across your list of historical BBS's. Danno's Tech Board (904) 221-3634 opened sometime in 1989 and about a year or so later, Danno's BBS (shortened the name) opened node two at (904) 221-3632. I forget exactly when I created JustaNet (BBS Network) but handed over the reins to the network to my Pal in South Dakota in Late Summer 1998 and took my systems down shortly there after. It was fun to say the least. Nice memory lane you have." - Dan Keller
904-243-1257 Destin, FL	ABBS Fort Walton Beach, Ft. Walton Beach ABBS (1980-1983)		ABBS
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
904-249-8025 Jacksonville Beach, FL	The Lord's Domain (1991-1996)	Joe Jenkins (Lord Xeen)	WWIV v4.21-4.24
	"I opened the system as a single node on WWIV v4.21 as a middle/high school project. I had a few other SysOps at the time to assist [The Raven - Gary Gruber, Gladious Stormgate - Chuck Allen and a part time Systop, Jeff Romig]. At it's prime it was a hub for creative writing, shareware file exchanges and known for Tradewars. At it's peak it had a part time second node with multi-chat and over 700 users. The system also created and managed DARKLORDnet which, in it's prime, was over 110 systems on 3 continents. I closed the system in early 1996." - Joe Jenkins
904-252-6334 Daytona Beach, FL	The Wizard's Keep VBBS (1992-1995)	The Random One	Virtual BBS
	"One of the first to run Multiple Lines on a Private BBS in the Daytona Beach Area. At the Height of the BBS there were over 150 Doors running including the Popular ones. Usurper, Tradewars, Legend of the Red Dragon, Planets The Exploration of Space and VGA Planets as well as many obscure ones such as Kill Barney. Also the BBS was one of the few to run RIP scripts. All this done under private Ownership." - The Random One
904-254-0911 Daytona Beach, FL	Orbiter, Orbiter Online, formerly Starship Sirius, StarshipSirius (1994-2001)	Anthony Malena	MajorBBS , Worldgroup
	""The first free-access internet service in Volusia county (possibly Florida?). Still running to this very day (currently Internet only, no dialup due to lack of demand/support). Area code is now actually 386." - Anthony Malena
904-268-2945 Jacksonville, FL	Telephone Xchg, The Telephone Exchange (1989-1994)	Douglas Haire, Doug Haire	PCBoard
	"I started the board on January 1st, 1989 on an old 8088 PC clone with a 20Meg HD and a Packard Bell 2400bps modem. In 1989, we reformed a sysop association into a sysop and user group called the Jacksonville PC Sysop's Association (JPSA). There were about 25 boards in the JPSA at its height. In 1993, I moved down to West Palm Beach where I put the board back up and ran it until March of 1996." - Douglas Haire
904-272-7350 Orange Park, FL	Programmer's Den, ShadowNet (1989-1996)	Daniel Davis, Daniel Scott Davis, Scott Davis	Telegard, Renegade
	"Hi, I just wanted to update your info about my old BBS. I happened across your list and reading through my old area code brought back many memories. The timespan for my bbs was actually longer than you have listed. I ran it during high school and for a couple years afterward although I would go through periods where I just wasn't in the mood to keep it up. The other detail I wanted to update was the software used. I primarily ran either Telegard or Renegade. I switched somewhere along the line and don't remember which of the two I used first and which I switched to later. I know, it's surprising how much details like that fade over a decade. On a side note, I'm in the Seattle area now (engineer at Boeing) and I'm planning to reincarnate the Shadownet system on Telnet for some personal nostalgia. I may even get a dialup line set up for some good 'ole flashbacks." - Daniel Davis
904-292-9857 MANDARIN, FL	Assault & Battery, Magic Shop, POISONESS VENOM (1992-1995)	O.P.P , Crystal
	Pirates Member BBS Independent Member BBS
904-329-0627 Palatka, Fl	Jenkins Middle School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
904-374-3500 JACKSONVILLE, FL	Dragori Keep (1995)	Richard S. Mark
	ListKeeper: Internet accessible BBS's
904-375-3500 Gainesville, FL	Dragon Keep, DRAGON KEEP INTERNATIONAL, Dragon's Keep, Dragon Keep International (1987-1996)	Dragon, Richard S. Mark	MajorBBS , MajorBBS 6.21
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Gainesville, Florida since 01/87. Sysop: Dragon. Using MajorBBS 6.2 with 32 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 5000 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $.25 Hourly fee. Exciting Realtime Multi-Player Games, 24 Hr LIVE Chat featuring Global Chatlink every night 10PM-1 AM (EST). Over 50,000 files online w/ 6 CD-ROM's, MajorNet, NetAccess, and Internet. Instant access w/ VISA MC AMER call (904)375-6431 for 14.4 Access!
904-375-8584 Gainesville, FL	The Skateboard BBS (1987-1990)	Hardcore Skater	QuickBBS (QBBS)
	"The Skateboard BBS was the first Gainesville BBS to use QuickBBS created by Adam Hudson. Hardcore Skater was also a Fidonet Hub for the North Florida area, and produced a worldwide QBBS newsletter. Was also the first BBS in Gainesville to run the Tradewars door. Thanks for this work! It's really brought back some good memories." - Hardcore Skater
904-375-9999 Gainesville, FL	The Wine Cell	Dionysus
	"I was rather surprised to not find my BBS on here - this was ran by me - Dionysus (aka Mark Rahmani) - from 1985 until the PC hosting it died - 1996. This started out as a single-line (single 9600 baud USRobotics modem) BBS, and was later upgraded to a 4-line 56k BBS." - Mark Rahmani
904-378-4861 Gainesville, FL	Farthinghale ARMS (1989-1996)	Dwatney Farthinghale III	ARMS
	UUnet email and message boards on custom written BBS software.
904-378-6403 Gainesville, FL	The Virgin Forest, The WARLOCK's Castle, The Warlock's Castle (1990-1996)	McArthur Sandridge, Allyson Sandridge, The Warlock (McArthur Sandridge)	Maximus
	The Virgin Forest was only active for 1990. It was replaced by The Warlock.s Castle starting in 1990-91 and active as you have listed (not sure the exact replacement date, I don.t have my divorce papers handy). Allyson was never involved with The Warlock.s Castle, only The Virgin Forest. - McArthur Sandridge
904-384-4808 Jacksonville, FL	THE OUTER LIMITS! (1991-1997)	Aviatrix (Brenda)	WWIV
	"I was Brenda's Co-Sysop, aka Quorthon, for a couple of years. I really miss the board; it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about PC's back then. I've even thought about putting a BBS up and setting up a Telnet connection, but I really don't have the time to mess with it these days. I missed playing "LORD" and "Trade Wars 2002" - I just recently found the WWW version of "LORD" called "Legend of the Green Dragon". It's just as much fun as it ever was! Brenda moved to Miami, and that was pretty much the end of the BBS - she set it up down there, and some of us called in long Distance, but that eventually was the end of it as far as I know." - Tim aka Quorthon
904-387-2340 Jacksonville, FL	W.D.O.A. (1989-1990)	Dan Jones, Mike Dubyak	Express! Pro
	Atari 8 Bit
904-398-9275 Ocean City, NJ	Reality Alterations (1989-1995)	Pete Hess	Genesis Deluxe
	"It was the only known Genesis Deluxe to use Prodoor for PCBoard." - Pete Hess
904-438-4803 Pensacola, FL	BBS: Forty-TWO, Forty Two, Interim NC (1990-1997)	Joyce Divina&Michael Perkinson	QuickBBS
	"We were a member of Fidonet (1:3612/42) and specialized in supporting the Commodore Amiga. For a few years we were home of the Fidonet Amiga International Echo." - Joyce Divina
904-457-9486 Pensacola, FL	The Outhouse BBS (1992-1997)	Boss	WWIV
	"One of the first BBS's in NW Florida to have 28.8 kbps. Was a member node on WolfNet (A competitor to FidoNet which didn't last very long as far as I know)." - Boss
904-462-7006 ALACHUA, FL	The Center of the Universe BBS (1994-1995)	Steve Lewis
	"I am Steve Lewis, listed with Center of the Universe BBS. Was surprised to see me listed there, I wonder if Ken Sallot remembered my name? I also rolled with Marimaxx (Bryan Slatner), who later ended up helping me get my first programming job. But I haven't kept up with them in years. Originally, I named it The Lost Cities BBS, starting in summer of 1989. Marimaxx had hooked me up with the source code of Forum BBS and then later one of the branches of Ken Sallot's LSD source code (or maybe the baseline that Ken used prior to LSD BBS). Another friend had given me the Borland Pascal disk, and Marimaxx gifted me a huge book on Pascal Programming (I recall it reeked of 2nd hand smoke, but I read that thing cover to cover!). A few years earlier I had made a pottery in art class that depicted a future city - it was themed off a scene I had seen inside the Epcot Ball at Disney world. They don't have that scene anymore, but it was this future city made out of glass; back then the whole ride was themed off "the world of tomorrow." (one scene they had was the "world's first traffic jam" involving some donkeys and an ice-truck) All that is why I named the BBS The Lost Cities, and I'd use ANSI art to depict a city skyline at the intro login to the BBS. The main reason I stopped in 1995 wasn't because of the Internet, it was actually because I had a complete hard drive crash in that year - with absolutely no backups. That was pretty devastating to me, even my mother still remembers it: she reminds me every now and then how I cried about it for days. At the time she didn't see what the big deal was, but my father understood. I had been working on a BBS doors game that was a reconstruction of the game Civilization, using color ANSI graphics. I had the auto-generate land/water model, and this 20x20 text window where you could scroll your Settler unit around and start the game. I had played Civilization so much, and knew most of the internal mechanics and game-rules - I think I could have pulled it off. But I lost all that source code (and various other projects), and the source code and user login data to my BBS. I came across a disk that did have some compiled code of some of my old projects (I keep them archived now at https://github.com/voidstar78/VUC4DOS with CDIR.EXE being probably the best utility of the set). That crash was bad for me at the time - but on the flip side: the Internet was coming, and my BBS door game probably would not have been very successful in the grand scheme of things. And a year later, as mentioned, Marimaxx helped me get a real programming job at a local office. Speaking of BBS source code... I tried various BBS systems, about a dozen different ones, and I recall only having about 200 total users. When switching systems, I just manually re-typed their login credentials into the new system (sometimes I could write a converter tool, but typically it was just easier to re-type their data). The guy at Apogee who came up with FILE_ID.DIZ was a life saver, since switching systems, they'd often just parse file descriptions from that embedded file. Anyhow, encryption/privacy of accounts wasn't a huge thing and us SysOp's could see everything users were doing (literally on our screen, we saw what they saw). Eventually I settled on my own custom BBS source code that I called Xiphod BBS (after the shape of a sword), and I have this ANSI animation of a glint reflection going down the edge of a sword (and blood dripping from that sword). That is the name of the code/project that I compiled, not the name of the BBS itself. But I admit there was nothing really new or novel offered - just certain things were in my own style in how I managed the system. I guess one area I did focus on is supporting the AVATAR screen protocol instead of ANSI. AVATAR defined a set of binary sequences instead of the longer escape sequences, making it effectively twice as fast as ANSI, and you could define multiple text windows. So I could make my menus full popup interactive, where you up/down arrow through menu selections like a desktop app. QModem (terminal) supported AVATAR, but I'm not sure how many other terminal programs got updated to support it. In 1994, one day I was super tired and started to fall asleep on the couch. It was on my actual birthday, we were waiting for my mother to get home. Right as I was about to fall asleep -- I noticed on the desk across the room, under a stack of papers, was a big white box labeled "OS/2 WARP" and I literally leaped off that couch and ran after it. My dad laughed so hard and said "I wondered if you were gonna notice that - happy birthday!" I still remember that feeling of being excited about whole new (to me) operating system! Being able to use my computer while users were connected was always a challenge for me. I had tried DESQView for multitasking - but OS/2 was really exciting. This was a full year before Windows 95, and OS/2 did real multitasking, not a glorified DOS frontend. And this was probably what prompted me to rename the BBS, as a kind of "celebration." And the reason for the new name was that our neighbors were a spiritual community called "The Temple of the Universe" (of Alachua, County) and so it was a play on that theme that I came up with the name Center of the Universe. My best BBS memory is probably Fireman Ken. He was a local fireman that hosted a D&D campaign in the message board of my BBS with a group of about 7 of us (I met him at the fire station once in town). I wish I still had those messages files, but lost in the hard drive crash. Another memory is I remember someone trying to crash my system using a new feature of ANSI macros - something about defining a macro to delete all the local files. I think it was an exploit in the original BBS source code I baselined from, and they wanted to see if in claiming to write my own BBS if I had patched that exploit - which I had, so the macro didn't work. At my peak, the BBS was between 20-30 calls a day - one user I remember played ThePit religiously. Back to OS/2: it had a decent DOS emulation capability. I can't recall if at that time I was upgraded to the 486 or Pentium90 system yet. But OS/2 was nice - I could have a window where users logged in and did their thing, while in another window I did my thing: editing and compiling source code. My recall the prior summer one of my cousins trying to get me into Linux, which was still fairly new at the time. But I stuck with OS/2. It came with Gopher, and I recall one day "borrowing" my older sisters credit card to "get on the internet." I think it ended up being like $100 for an hour, using some traceroute, news/weather, AltaVista I think was the search engine. My sister was furious when she found out - but that hour made me realize how the BBS days were done. I closed it down sometime in late 1995. I think in the last few months of running my BBS, I came across a "graphical BBS" system. I can't remember the name or exactly how it worked - but the users needed a custom terminal in order to connect to it and see the graphics. It had a graphic editor, so I could define a vector graphics scene, and also mouse selection points to navigate between scenes - which it saved to a file in a compact format, and would stream to the terminal. It had a way to detect the required terminal, and if not detected, it would fallback to normal ANSI stuff. It was a neat system, but by 1995 it was just too late (and then later in 1995 was my epic hard drive crash). I tried Win95 when it came out, I remember like 14x 3.5" disk to install it. But I went back to OS/2 until Win98SE came out, as it became challenging to get games to work under OS/2 (figuring out custom performance settings for each one -- OS/2 was great, but driver support was limited and as we all know, Microsoft inevitably won that OS battle). One last thing, and the main reason I'm e-mailing: do you happen to have a contact info for Ken Sallot, or Paul Martin, or Richard Mark (Dragon)? I used Dragon Keep BBS often, and I still have one of the BBS t-shirts they sold at a festival once - I was hoping to contact one of them. Attached is an image of what the front of that T-shirt had printed. -Steve Lewis (now in Texas instead of Florida)"
904-476-1270 Pensacola, FL	TITAN S/W Solns, Titan Software Solution, TITAN SS BBS, Titan BBS 1:3612/140 (1991-1996)	Clayton Manson	Wildcat
	List of BBS List Keepers: National Adult BBS List/Clayton Manson Adult BBS - Online Games - GIF Images
904-495-2061 Bronson, FL	The Lair, The Satyr's Lair (1986-1990)	Jim Nelson Langley
	"It started out as The Satyr's Lair in 86 and continued on till 1990 as simply the Lair. The sysop was Jim Nelson Langley...a fine man and a good friend. It was located in Bronson but since most of the callers were in Gainesville, Jim set up a separate number so it'd be a local call for them. During most of that time it was run off a C-64 and 300 baud modem. When my 300 baud modem got fried, Jim gave me one of his spares. I later returned the favor by giving him one of my spare 1200 bauds, so in 88 The Lair went "high speed". We used to have water gun fights (Water Wars) with our pals over on the Esoteric Oracle BBS. The first such event was in the Oak's mall parking lot at 2AM after we'd all seen a late night movie together. Later wars were held at more conventional times and places but were no less fun. Through The Lair I met some of my oldest and dearest friends, including Chris Roth of The Pyramid(which was started in part to help continue the fun and comraderie we all shared on The Lair). Jim passed away on March 25 2004. Some of the old gang will be getting together again this Saturday (in this case Satyr's Day) April 10 for a memorial service/wake in his honor. He may be gone but the friendships he helped forge endure along with many great memories. R.I.P. Jim...you were/are one of a kind!" - RD Heath (AKA Davros)
904-581-1510 Mary Esther, FL	Short Circuit, The Short Circuit (1988-1990)	Andy Lubyck, Andy Lybyck
	"This was a BBS running from commercial software I bought from Radio Shack. I was inspired by the great Lloyd Wood (Woody- The Sysop of the Hot Muddy Duck). James Young had contributed most of the artwork and manu customization. We had a couple games and two lines. What fun it was! Thank you for putting this site up. It choked me up a bit to see it. Andy Lubyck- SysOp The Short Circuit BBS 1988-1990" - Andy Lubyck
904-646-1801 Jacksonville, FL	The Tardis BBS (1990-1996)	Jeff Romig	WWIV
	"Jeff was one of my part time Co-SysOps and ran a Dr. Who based system. Heavy in RHPS, creative writing and online door games, it had a late night esoteric crowd. I'm not sure of it's status as of today and the exact close date." - Joe Jenkins (Former SysOp of The Lord's Domain)
904-676-7644 Ormond Beach, FL	Chatterbox Corner, Gemini Dreams (1990-1996)	Jennifer Therrien	Telegard
	"Imagine my surprise to see my name in the listing! I was pleased.. it was SUCH a long time ago!! For the longest time I was the ONLY female Sysop in the Volusia/Flagler County area, and that was pretty awesome. Thanks for the list, I had a fun time looking up old friends, and reliving those pre-internet days. Terrific job!!" - Jennifer Therrien
904-734-3760 DeLand, FL	The Adventurer's Inn (1986-1994)	David Horgan (The Innkeeper)	GBBS Pro
	"Imagine a BBS running off an Apple. No, not at Macintosh, an Apple //e. Now imagine it had a whopping 30 megabytes of storage. And a speedy 2400 baud modem. Now imagine it's 1994. You wouldn't believe the looks I got from people when I told them about my system. However, it worked. I made many friends I keep in contact with to this day. Heck, earlier this month two users I hadn't spoken to in almost ten years tracked me down. I wouldn't trade the years I ran The Inn for the world." - David Horgan
904-734-9951 Deland, FL	The Colosseum, The Colosseum BBS (1990-1994)	Robert Gary, Robert Gray, Robert Gary Caesar	TAG, ProBoard
	"It originally went online in 1990 around December. I maintained it until literally New Years Eve of 1993/1994. We were the first "ProBoard" BBS to ever be operational in Florida. At it's height we sported 6 nodes with coast to coast dial up numbers and several toll free numbers. We also we among the first to provide our users with internet email addresses. I am proud to have been a part of the BBS community when BBSing was at it most popular time. For those that remember the site, I was called Caesar. I currently still play on the internet by designing websites." - Robert Gary
904-743-7050 Jacksonville, FL	PMS - SEB Computer, SEB Bulletin Board, SEB Computer (1981-1985)	Sam Bateh	PMS
	"Dear Editor: I would like to inform your readers of a free bulletin board for Apple users in Jacksonville, Florida. The "SEB Bulletin Board" is maintained from 6pm-8pm, seven days a week. The access number is 904-743-7050. The system is an Apple with 48K, one Disk Drive and a DC Hayes Micromodem." - Sam Bateh, Micro Magazine, October 1981
904-764-5405 Jacksonville, FL	The Muzzle Blast BBS [PIN] [ASV] (1989-1993)	JC Speiser, Maggie Connery, Joseph Speiser	WWIV
	"As the SysOp of The Muzzle Blast BBS, I attempted to bring our First Amendment Rights to a medium for others to share. We carried message bases for the sport shooter, the self defense carrier, the home defense gun owner and the collector. Buy Sell Trade areas, file downloads with no ratio, and online games were just a few of the areas of interest to my users. WWIVnet let us connect to the rest of the world, and I gladly paid the long distance fees to enable my users to connect to the 'net (as it was known then). The Muzzle Blast BBS was mentioned repeatedly on National Talk Radio and enjoyed many long distance callers. I'm glad I found your web site and that you are attempting to chronicle the inroads that we, the bbs world, made in global communications. Thanks!" - JC Speiser
904-784-9492 Panama City, FL	The Jungle BBS (1986-2001)	David O'Daniel	QuickBBS
	"The BBS started on a Commodore 64 with 7 1541 floppy drives at 300 baud running American BBS. When it was shut down, I think it was running on a 486DX4/100 at 14.4kbps on QuickBBS. Thinking back, bulletins boards that were online during the same time in the area: The House of Help, Tim's Mansion, The Network, The Sub-Network, The Bejue, and Computer Country to name a few." - David O'Daniel
904-785-0417 Panama City, FL	Falcon's Lair, The Falcon's Lair BBS, The Falcons Lair, The Phantoms Lair (1994-1996)	Tony Huddleston	Renegade
	"This was a Fido-net node. Can't recall the #. I hosted files, online games such as Trade-Wars, Planets TOS, and a couple more that I can't recall at this moment. I used ANSI Graphics and experimented with RIP graphics. The BBS ran under DOS for the first year, and then under a DOS window in Windows 3.1 :) Weird to see that someone collected all this and posted it. Takes me down memory lane... ;-)" - Tony Huddleston
904-794-4814 Saint Augustine, FL	Winter World, Sandcastle (1991-1997)	Cassandra Pleasent aka KaWinter	Renegade
	"Awesome site! Note about the BBS: Cassandra started the BBS as a single node system running Renegade but a bigger BBS became available and she bought the equipment and integrated it into Winter World. She modded the BBS software, and ran it as a Multinode system (4 public nodes plus a local node). When it finally shut down it was running 200+ calls a day with no errors."
904-829-9282 St. Augustine, FL,	QUiCkSiLVER'S BBS, QUiCkSiLVER'S Domain, Wasted Youth (1993-1995)	quicksilver (James Addison)	TAG/oblivion
	"I was 11yrs old when I started this BBS, saved up allowance to have own line. I was big into ANSI art so had a lot of outta towners callin because I had started "HoMAGE" ansi art club. I was inspired by "ACiD" and I forget the other big one at the time. Otherwise had about 130megs storage for d/l's and played lots of Barren Realms Elite!" - Quicksilver (James Addison)
904-932-8691 Gulf Breeze, FL	C-Shore BBS (1990-1995)	Michael Hooper	Magna128, WWIV
	"In 1993, switched from a Commodore 128 running Magna128 to a 486 running WWIV." - Michael Hooper
905-274-6713 Mississauga, ONT	Secrets of the Universe (1994-1998)	Shaun Rossi	Remote Access
	"We (my co-sysop and I) made a simple weather station that connected to the BBS that reported the current temperature on the welcome ANSI file. We were in high-school at the time." "We also made our own door that was distributed named 'Good Deeds' 'Good Deeds' would suggest to the user a nice thing to do to help someone out everyday. It was a bit of a joke but about a dozen or so other BBS's registered the program from us! (Registration was free)" "The BBS has been down for a few years now. I only *just* disconnected the phone line a week ago. As nice as the Internet is, there is a *feel* that can't be replaced. Some of my best online experiences to date were at 9600 baud." "There was this guy that kept calling my BBS. I didn't know at first but I found out I went to school with him. One day I was in the same class as him. He was talking trash about my BBS to his circle of friends. He said how it was 'lame' cause it was a "PD" (public domain board) I finally traced (with caller id) one day that he was calling. This guy had been calling my BBS every single day for 4 months straight (no joke) playing a game called LORD (Legend of the red dragon). He had one of the highest scores. That guy was a prick for talking trash about my board. Every time he would log on I would manually (for fun) screw with his minutes of remaining time. I would crank it up to over a thousand minutes, then he would run over to the time bank to bank his minutes. Just before he committed the minutes I would drop carrier on him. When he would log back on I would manually change his minutes to 1. Time out! See you later!" "I hardly ever played 'God' but it was good that I could." "Now I write software, setup web server(s), etc. As cool as gathering statistics on usage is, nothing beats being able to watch what a remote user was doing in absolute real time. Chat with sysop... 'yup?' I am (was) the sysop of the secrets of the universe BBS. Still have the 386 and 486 that ran it! Still have the userbases and ANSI screens on 1.44 disks." - Shaun Rossi
905-275-3737 COOKSVILLE, CANADA	Electrik Hawk BBS (1998)	Kaleem Maxwell, Shane Chagpar, Ryan Perks
	"Kaleem Maxwell, Shane Chagpar, and Ryan Perks were all active BBS users of the time and met together while at Gordon Graydon's International Business and Technology (IBT) program. While in school they made a proposal to purchase hardware including telephony to create a method for students to access and use resources the school could provide - including the ability to play games, share social information, and download useful files. As part of the IBT program offered at Gordon Graydon, Alex Videotex terminals were handed to every student - offering the perfect user base to connect to a BBS system. Our proposal went through and the Electrik Hawk was soon born in an office of the school's library. Quite a journey! Each of us now does their own thing - with Kaleem becoming quite fond of video editing and media, Shane Chagpar continuing his love for technology in Management Consulting and problem-solving, and Ryan Perks continuing to grow his passions in unified communications and collaboration." - Shane Chagpar
905-278-9495 Port Credit, CANADA	Net 250 Deputy NC, SMARTalec, The Port Credit Bulletin Board (1994-1999)	Glenn Menzie	PCBoard
	"Formerly known as SMARTalec in Toronto (416-253-5900)." - Derren Whiteman
905-279-1185 COOKSVILLE, CANADA	Kickstart BBS (1988-1995)	Chris Kawchuk	AmiExpress
	"One of the largest Amiga BBS's in Canada. Ran from May 1998 until December 1995." - Chris Kawchuk
905-318-1251 Hamilton, ON	Remote A.E. BBS (1987-1996)	George Fodi	FutureVision, FutureNet, FruityDog
	"I ran it till my move to this new house in 1996. Ran on Apple ][+/ Apple //e/ Apple //GS(at the end) Had Internet email gateway, newsgroups and was also a FidoNet node/gateway, using an Apple 8bit computer!!" - George Fodi
905-318-1397 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,	Hell On Earth BBS (1994-1999)	Nexus aka Mike Michalczyk	Renegade
	"I ran this BBS for 1 year under an all ages BBS, then in 1995 I made it an adult only BBS. In 1996, we added a local net known as AdultNet which lasted until the end of 1999. We were the top adult related BBS in the Hamilton area and considered closing in 1998, but due to popular demand we gave it one more year. Finally after 5 years, we closed the doors due to the fact that most of the popular BBS* were gone. It was a pleasure to sysop for the time I did, as well as make many new friends in doing so." - Nexus (Mike Michalczyk)
905-333-1279 Burlington, Ontario	Milo's Meadow BBS (1983-1990)	Michael Hier / John Stevens	Pocket Modem BBS / By Julius C. on Atari
	"Inspired by the wonderful scribblings of one Berkley Breathed and the stories of Bloom County, we ran a fun (and VERY busy) BBS out of the corner of a bedroom in Burlington, Ontario. There were many characters on this board from all walks of life. Some noteables: Hank!, 7 foot Dave, Sheila & Dan, Julian & Shirley-Mae, the ever-so-cute Nicole, Wendy & Carcass (Marcus) It was a way for all to unite in a common interest... ...the parties were awesome too! If only I could find the time to port the software... Cheers!" - Michael Hier
905-338-7754 Oakville, Ontario	The Crypt (1986-1996)	Geoff Maxwell, Geoff Maxwell / The Corpse Cleaner	BBS Express, Oasis, Renegade
	"Greetings! Geoff Maxwell here. I used to run The Crypt II which later became The Crypt. I used several platforms for it and loved them all and made plenty of great friends, some still exist today. Thank you to whoever submitted The Crypt to this list - it brought back plenty of great memories. I just stumbled on this page after visiting Wikipedia. Cheers." - Geoff aka The Corpse Cleaner
905-356-9196 Niagara Falls, ON	Thefakenet BBS (1991-2000)	Steven Wells	Maximus
	"This BBS, started out using Wildcat, very shortly thereafter (a few months) switched to Maximus, where it remained for several years, then it made the switch to the Excalibur BBS System, in 1997. It remained there until Excalibur shut down just before the year 2000. Thefakenet BBS shut down shortly after in 2000. A few small attempts were made to resaurect the BBS, but due to lack of interest, it never resurfaced." - Steven Wells
905-357-4477 Niagara Falls, Ont.	Kastle Archives (1997-1998)	Silent Knight/Scrunt	Renegade
	"After closing our first BBS - Tri-City Online Classifieds in the Cambridge/Kitchener area...we moved to the Niagara Falls area and re-opened the board under the new name 'Kastle Archives'. Single-node, running renegade...we reached approx. 300 users at the height of its local popularity. In 1999, we closed the BBS for good, registered it as KastleArchives.com - and became a full-time adult production corporation...which continues to this day (2004). What started as a sparetime BBS for fun and amusement...eventually morphed in to a full-fledged livelihood. My wife and I originally met through a mutual friend's BBS back in the early 90s (Off-World BBS based in Kitchener, Ontario). We hosted numerous BBS parties and get-togethers in the area, and attended many others. Even today we still maintain contact with several online pals from the era." - Silent Knight
905-458-4385 BRAMPTON, CANADA	Knights Castle Sys. , Knights Castle Systems (1992-2004)	The Watcher, Peter Hazen	Renegade
	"Knights Castle Systems has been online since 1992 with the finest in freeware, shareware and images available from our libraries. Catering to and supporting the BBS community into the future and beyond! Many registered doors are available for users to pit their skills against each other or in teams. The finest in online entertainment!" - The Watcher
905-471-1310 Markham, ONT, CANADA	The ICE BBS (1989-1993)	Steven Hammond	Remote Access
	"You already have my BBS listed, but I wanted to provide some background. Also, your list really brought back some good memories. The ICE BBS became very famous for cheats. I had a database of over 30MB (yes 30MB, seems so small now) and over 4000 cheats and trainers people could download to cheat and change their game settings via a trainer. The ICE BBS also had full access to FidoNet and partnered with a few other BBS's in Toronto, including Intoxicated BBS, and we had our own private FidoNet with a few forums. I also wrote a somewhat popular Door that allowed you to rank the number of uses of each of the door programs you ran so BBS Users could see what the most popular doors where. Always Tradewars was right up there. Good stuff, thanks for bringing back good memories!" - Steven Hammond
905-472-3877 Markham, ON	Rudnick's Den (1995-1998)	Trevor Vicars, David Fogel	Teleguard, Renegade
	"I remember hooking up to Fidonet, busting along with my fancy supra 14.4 modem while I was in High School on my fancy 386DX. Good times!" - Trevor Vicars
905-475-7886 Unionville, ON	FileHUB 7, Greater Toronto Area HUB 7, MetroHUB 7, NaNet HUB 7, UseNet HUB 7, Utopia Planitia, Utopia Planitia BBS (1986-1997)	Andrew Bishop, Alan Heighway	Telegard, Renegade
	"Hi. I am Andrew Bishop, I found you guys off a google search looking for tradwars BBS's. I started to get nostalgic about the old Utopia Planitia. I started it as a high school project and after the school no longer wanted to pay for the phone line. I moved it to my parents basement and joined Fidonet and the others. I just wanted you to know that it all started from an episode of Star Trek: TNG where we got to see the inside of Utopia Planitia for the first time. I have one addition. I had another co-sysop, Timothy Wildeboer. He kept the file bases full buying the Nighowl CD's every time a new one came out. I also wanted you to know the software we used over the years: started with WBBS at school, then moved to Telegard, then Renegade (was the best for a long time) and then ended up with the commercial version of Wildcat! 5 that ran on WINNT 3.51 and later 4.0. We went through 386's 486's, Pentium 1's and the last PC I ran the BBS on was a Pentium I 233Mhz and I still have that PC to this day. Today it is my home firewall running Linux. I even have backup tapes somewhere with the whole BBS on them. I finally had to give it up when my IT career started to get busy in 1996. Looking at your list it seems that I was one of the longest running BBSes in the 905. I was never big, maybe had 250 users and 1 node at my peak. Thanks for preserving some of the history of computers. Those days were fun, discovering, upgrading and learning. Keep up the good work." - Andrew Bishop
905-501-9363 Cooksville, ON	The Black Hole BBS (1993-1998)	John Sytsma	Wildcat 4.x - 5.x
	"I originally started the BBS after visiting many BBS's and thought it would be fun to run my own. I spent many a late night adding content to the site such as shareware apps, message boards, online games, etc. When I started The Black Hole BBS, it was a single node on a cloned 286 running at 6/12Mhz (Remember the Turbo button! I don't know why they ever put that button there....who ever used the slower speed??? :) ) using Wildcat 4.x (I can't remember the minor version.) Near the end of the Black Hole's existence, I had upgraded the system to a Pentium 166 w/128MB and dual 4GIG SCSI drives, 6 nodes, and was a full blown ISP running Wildcat 5.x. Unfortunately, expenses were far exceeding revenue, and sadly, I had to shut the system down. I made a lot of friends through the BBS, some of whom I'm still in contact with today! (2004). Those were the days!" - John Sytsma
905-528-4870 Hamilton, ONT	[N]ot [F]or [N]ovices (1984-1996)	Vince d'Eon	RBBS-PC, TFC
	First IBM-PC based BBS in the area. Ran RBBS-PC then the software developed by Phil French of The French Connexion BBS written in assembler. Hard disk and 2400bps early on.
905-571-6052 OSHAWA, CANADA	Seventh Dimension (1995)	Shawn Berry
	ListKeeper: Durham Region-OntariO Canada
905-627-9192 Dundas Ontario CANADA	The Twilight Zone (1993-1998)	Bill Gates, Screaming Death	Custom
	"My friend and I ran The Twilight Zone, based in Dundas, Ontario, Canada. It ran from ~ 1993 . 1998. We can.t prove it, however we believe it was one of, if not the longest running BBS in the area code. It ran on a 486DX33 with a 540MB HDD. The computer was actually an extremely custom rig for the day, complete with a 2MB cache control card and was built at Mountain Computers which was a custom computer shop on the Hamilton .mountain.. Funny part was that the computer never came with a modem when my friend, .Bill Gates. bought the machine. I had borrowed one, a Supra 14.4 external from a friend that I went to school with for the weekend.. the rest was history really. We hooked the modem up and started calling around to local boards and we eventually downloaded a copy of Renegade and we started putting together The Twilight Zone. If I remember correctly, I think I downloaded it from HAL, same with the BNU driver which Renegade notoriously required. Anyhow, the board eventually became a carrier for FREAKNET, which was originally hosted by The Crucial Taunt . that.s another discussion though. Anyhow, I was the CoSysOp and my handle was Screaming Death." - Darren Graham
905-646-8375 St. Catharines, Ontario	The Atomic Underground (1992-1994)	Atom	Oblivion 2
	"I ran several BBS's through the late 80's and into the 90's but The Atomic Underground was the most successful. At the time it was one of the more popular Hack/Phreak BBS's in the area and was loaded with informative text file and awesome ANSI graphics." - Atom
905-683-4446 Ajax, ONTARIO	Straight Jacket (1995-1997)	Jove Malcolm	RemoteAccess
	"I was the SysOp of Strait Jacket, oh the memories!" - Jove Malcom
905-685-6526 St. Catharines, ON	Beyond Wonderland (1993-1997)	Troy Mets, Mad Hatter.	Oblivion /2
	"Beyond Wonderland never got very big. I think During the High point the board only had 125 users, but it was big enough and it served the purpose of sharing software and a gathering point for all of the local elite computer users. As with everything, the technology changed, The internet came about, and the BBs just faded into history." - Mad Hatter
905-687-9987 St. Catharines, ON	Random Sample (1993-1998)	Michael Hackett	ProLine (Apple II)
	"I was the sysop of this board, and I'm pretty sure of the dates here are more accurate than in the current listing, as I moved from St. Catharines in Dec. 1996. I do recognize many of the other names on your 905 area list -- I'm sure I used many of them. Thanks for putting this site together. What a fun idea! Maybe I'll submit some stories at a later time." - Michael Hackett
905-689-3982 Waterdown Ontario Canada,	The GameBoard BBS (1987-1999)	Mark Collis, Mark Collins	Elite / PCBoard
	The GameBoard BBS was dedicated to online games, RPG's and other online fun. This BBS orginally started out on an Apple ][+ with four floppies and a 300 baud modem. Back then the big draw was a custom written, simultanious hidden movement combat game called Star Ace. We outgrew the Apple ][ and upgraded to an Apple //e with a 5mb Profile harddrive and the Elite BBS system about 1990. The writing was on the wall in the early 90's, either shut down the BBS or convert to an Intel based system. We bit the bullet and scrownged hardware and put up a PCBoard system. We never did port Star Ace, but we did get all the very best and most popular online BBS games at the time. Eventually we grew to two lines, seven CDROM drives, FIDONet, an Internet link to the newsgroups and over 80mb of online storage for files and games. During this time I kept writing small applications, utilities and games for the BBS. QOTD (over 5600 quotes), a rewritten Elisa type program, Solitare 97 and other programs were shared with the online community. With the advent of the www, the caller base dried up and I eventually pulled the plug on the BBS third quarter 1999. At The GameBoard's height, we boasted a user base of over 800 members and were an important part of the BBS community in Hamilton/Burlington area." - Mark Collis
905-689-6558 Waterdown, Ontario	The Night Shift BBS (1985-1988)	Jonathan Jackson, Lance Lange, Dave Robinson	McBBS (commodore 64)
	"McBBS was a command line driven BBS Program run on the commodore 64 and a 300 Bps pocket modem. I believe I upgraded the BBS to a 1200 Bps modem near the end. It was one of the most fun things I have ever done. I miss the early days of computing and local BBS systems. The Night Shift was one of the first BBS's in the Burlington/Hamilton area to put a 1 meg download section on line (for commodore 64). This was accomplished by using a SFD 1001 drive unit instead of the 1541 Drive that came with the commodore 64. My 3 digit user code is : 632 and my alias was Tazzy. Hope this is helpful." - Jonathan Jackson
905-689-7018 Waterdown, ON	Excelsior (1991-1996)	Spock	TAG
	"Originally started up using QuickBBS software, quickly changed to TAG within the first few days. Its first name was "Sub-Space" which later changed to the "USS Intrepid" due to a vote from the users of the board. By 1992 it was called the "USS Excelsior" and remained Excelsior until it was taken down in '96. For its entire history it ran on an aging IBM PS/2 Model 30, with a 2400 baud modem. That didn't seem to deter the users though, as it was not a file board, mostly just a message board. Feel free to contact me at spock35@gmail.com. I still have all the archived 'continuing stories' that were posted to the message boards!" - Spock
905-697-2935 Bowmanville, ON	SpaceLodge BBS, The No.1 Station BBS, The Space Lodge BBS, The Space Lodge/ESTO BBS (1993-1997)	David Bate, John Morse	RemoteAccess
	"SpaceLodge BBS started off providing email - usegroup - file access for space related information. The BBS had a close relationship with SpaceBase BBS (Hugh S Gregory) that also provided space related information and email access and later with The Assembly Line (Fraser Anderson). NOTE: The No.1 Station BBS (John Morse) was a separate BBS with it's own node in Oshawa, Ontario. It ran only for a very short period of time." - David Bate
905-712-0384 COOKSVILLE, CANADA	Access Denied (1993-1996)	Admiral 'X'	VBBS, Renegade
	Ran until sometime in 1996 when the BBS got shutdown unexpectedly and without explanation. Heart wasn't in it anymore to do another setup after HD got fried. - Admiral X
905-732-0428 Welland, ON	The MACHINE (1993-1997)	Craig Faris, Craig Faris (100 Mhz)	Remote Access
	"Started with TAG on an Amiga 2000 in the late 80's. Tried running Paragon and Atredes as well. Switched to PC platform and used Remote Access (tried RoboBoard for a short time but switched back). Moved from Welland to Fenwick and then St. Catharines. Joined FidoNet. Went multinode with Windows 95 and X00 fossil drivers. Had Files / Messages / multi-line chat / Online games / Offline mail reader / share-ware Cd's online / online store that faxed order to supplier. Setup 10 node system on NT3.51. http://www.the-machine.ca - members only (of course)." - Craig Faris
905-734-6062 Welland, ON	Maximum Ice BBS (1994-1997)	Paul Beauregard	Renegade, Oblivion2
	"Was created with the help of Sysop Mike Patrino from Dark Knight BBS in Welland, Ontario. Had over 600 users in its prime. Online games, file transfers daily. Friends with Sysop of IGA's Island. This BBS was very famous locally and people loved it dearly. In 1997, Maximum Ice was hacked and destroyed by a jealous newcomer to the BBS scene who thought his BBS was the best around. This person tried destroying many BBS's including IGA's Island but was not successful in his attempt. This person opened a BBS with the Oblivion software, the sysop was called Overlord, but it did not last long since everyone knew who he was, and it was also destroyed in time. Overlord was then caught by police pirating games and such and lost all his equipment and charged. Overlord is a name that no one in the Southern Ontario BBS scene will ever forget." - Paul Beauregard
905-735-8670 Welland, Ontario	Liquid Speed Dome (lSd.Bbs) (1994-2001)	exorcist (aka x0r)	Customized Renegade and Iniquity
	"Dealing strictly with Hacking/Phreaking related topics, lSd BBS was one of most active underground bulletin boards serving the Niagara Region. New users were required to complete various applications testing their knowledge in underground content (utilized for new user voting, etc). In the early years lSd ran a fully customized version of Renegade which was eventually converted to Iniquity. All artwork was of the highest skill level consisting of ANSI art from iCE, ACiD and numerous other global artists/groups. Currently this bbs is being redesigned with hopes of online telnet deployment in the near future." - exorcist
905-765-6537 Caledonia, OH	The Cows Have Eyes - TcHe (1995-1997)	Ryan Patterson	Renegade
	"Ran this BBS from the hick town of Caledonia ... had ANSI's made by Kannibalistik/theruiner .. Co-sysops were him and Akira .. helped me run the board .. lots of files and message boards .. LORD .. I think I even thought about gettin a second node? lol ...now I'm not doin' anything with computers in my real job though .. dealing cards to gamblers in Brantford .. Bugs from Bugs palace found me on facebook and I forgot about those fun times .. of downloading at 36.6... what a joke .. haha ...hope everyone enjoyed the bbs .. we worked hard on it." - Ryan Patterson
905-768-3260 Hagersville, ONT	Bugs Palace BBS (1995-2000)	Bugs and Ozz, Bugs (Jamie VanDalen) Ozz (Mike Craft)	Renegade, Reneage 10-05
	"Ozz and I ran this bbs for 5 fun filled years. I have now started a small group on Facebook.com for former members to get back in touch with people from their past. May be worth looking into. I know several other former sysops have done this as well. Look for us in the 'Bugs Palace BBS' group." - Jamie VanDalen
905-788-0946 Welland, Ontario	Little Wing BBS (1992-1997)	John Kott	Maximus
	"Screaming along at 2400 baud, Little Wing BBS focused on textfiles and discussion boards. Honest! The download section was named "The One and Only File Section". I don't believe there was one .exe file to be found. I heard the Star Trek theme more than once summoning the Sysop wondering "where were the warez". "Little Wing" BBS died when the power supply of my mighty 286-12 overheated; but by '97, few were calling any more. Nothing I type can explain the joy, wonder, and thrill of the BBS scene of the late 80s and early 90s to the people of today. If I had to give one anecdote, it would be this; it was a delight to be awoken in the middle of the night by the sound of a hard drive being activated by a late night caller (grin)." - John Kott
905-791-4867 BRAMPTON, CANADA	xTc (1995-1999)	Phillip Clarke, Phil Clarke	Telegard
	Tracked Music and Demo Coding. The Sysop can be reached at phil@zilth.com.
905-821-8645 Mississauga, Ontario	The House of Doom (1991-1995)	Todd Lee, Jeff Zakrzewski, Mark Treiber	Telegard then Renegade
	"Specializing in online games with a very active BRE league, the House of Doom was the early birthplace of the careers of more than one computer science graduate. It was a shame that the age of the BBS had to end." - Todd Lee
905-828-6803 STREETSVILLE, CANADA	Mike's Gamesroom (1991-1995)	Mike Thomson	PCBoard
	I ran this board as a first gen social chat group, with software sharing. I remember regularly having people connect and "Request chat with the SysOp" at all hours of the night, connecting online, then meeting "IRL" those were the days...
905-828-8346 STREETSVILLE, CANADA	Little Caesar's Palace (1991-1994)	Sean Graham	Renegade
	"I specialized in online games (I was running this off of an XT 8MHz w/ 2x20MB MFM hard drives). I had a big Tradewars system up and running, Barren Realms Elite, Operation Overkill, Solar Realms Elite, and about 10 others. aaaaahhhh back to the good old days." - Sean Graham
905-840-0592 Brampton, Ontario Canada,	HomeWard Bound (1992-2009)	Ernest Nachtigall	Spitfire
	"Still running in 2005. Plan to run in 2006. telnet homeward.no-ip.com." - Ernest Nachtigall
905-875-4516 Milton, Ontario, Canada	Yaboo's Dream Palace (1988-1994)	Yaboo	Telegard, QuickBBS
	"THG Distribution site, had great message boards." - Yaboo
905-882-4800 Toronto, Ontario	The Gay Blade (1990-1996)	Phil Dermott, Ron McGhee, Richard Kamus
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Toronto, Ontario since 01/90. Sysop: Richard Kamus. Using TBBS 2.2 with 20 lines on MS-DOS with 5000 MB storage. ZyXel at 19200 bps. $20 Hourly fee. The Gay Blade provides online chatting, online games, and message bases of interest to those living an alternate lifestyle. Networks include GayCom, La'Net, Studsnet and Internet. A wide variety of membership alternatives are available.
905-898-0373 Newmarket, ONT	Blue Planet (1993-1997)	Kevin Farley	Renegade
	""Jason, first, thanks for keeping this site alive, I had a moment of nostalgia and decided to google my old BBS, and low and behold, you have it listed! Cheers for the effort! If you've got time to put it up, I've provided some memories of my BBS times below. All the best. I started Blue Planet when I was 13 living in Thornhill, but was only able to convince my parents to let me get a dedicated line for it when we moved to Newmarket when I was 16, so I was limited to dial-in hours for the first few years. During that time though, Doom 2 came out and I began hoarding mods, I bought my first expansion drives and upgraded to a whopping 486 DX2-66. It got to the point where I had amassed a collection of almost 1GB of custom mods (my favourite being the Aliens mod, both visuals and sound effects from the movie), and at a time where drives were measured in the 10's of MB, this was quite the achievement! Once we moved to Newmarket and I put Blue Planet up full time, I made friends with some other local SysOp's like Jeremy Landvoight of IceSoft, whom I played league laser tag with every week. From there the BBS exploded, I was the single largest resource for Doom 2 mods that I knew of, and ended up with around 500 regular callers at my peak. I started ""FlameNet"", and a TradeWars league, both of which spanned Canada from coast to coast. I still remember working part time in the mall selling ""Internet"" accounts to people who'd never heard of it, then went home to get my hour of TradeWars in before playing Aliens Doom into the wee hours!"
905-937-1949 STCTNSTHLD, CANADA	Natural Selection (1996)	Mark Orser
	"Natural Selection was a 4 node system in use from 1990 to 1995. To get the 3rd and 4th nodes I requested Bell Canada dig up my parents front lawn to put the second pair of twisted pair cable in. I asked for permission later." "Probably the best time of my adolescence maintaining this site. I was also Co-sysop of Atlantis in Welland Ontario, but you have it listed with sysops I am not familiar with and it was a 4 node system not 2. For Atlantis I had to figure out how to make 4 nodes and a mouse work on one computer running Deskview. I got the 4 modems working but I think the mouse was eliminated." - Mark Orser
905-938-1670 St. Cathariines, ON	Dark Knight BBS (1994-1999)	Michael Cross	Renegade
	"Dark Knight BBS ran in the Niagara Region from 1994-1995, and then continued in London, ON for several years after that. Former users of the BBS continued to communicate on Dark Knight BBS (DKBBS) through KnightNet, an international message network that was available on boards in North America and the UK. The BBS provided files, games (including a section of games direct from LucasArts), email to other users, message boards, FIDONet, COMICNet, online games (including customized versions of games like Legend of the Red Dragon(LORD)), offline mail reader, private members section, and more. "Dark Knight BBS was an alias board, allowing users to pick an alter ego while on the board. Because of its comicbook theme, many of the aliases and elements were sci-fi/comic related. The SysOp was Michael Cross (aka Batman), and it's Co-SysOp, Jennifer Carruthers (aka Catwoman). As you might expect, SysOp and CoSysOp married, and now have three children! "At its height, DKBBS had over 500 users (which was quite a bit in the dialup days). It had some get togethers, and was always a friendly board, with a great community of people visiting it regularly. "DKBBS officially shutdown in 1999." - Michael Cross
905-945-5674 Grimsby, ONT	Bitz'n Bytes (1990-1994)	Gerald Kuiper	TAG
	"Was a hub for the Signet mail system..." - Gerald Kuiper
906-774-3826 IRON MOUNTAIN, MI	SuperiorLand (1990-1995)	Ronnie Gauthier	TBBS/TDBS
	"SuperiorLand BBS in Iron Mountain was the first commercial internet provider in Dickinson County. Internet access was started in 1992 and continued through 1995. SuperiorLand BBS had 8 lines in and 8 lines out. Internet access was $25.00 for 20 hours a month, BBS access was free but limited to one hour a day with a half-hour hook-up limit. As SysOp I was instrumental in the planning and development of Walden III http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/case/midp05.html Walden III was the first non-BBS based commercial ISP in the tri-county area. Even knowing that Walden III would eventually kill my BBS I persisted with involvement in the project through 1997 as a "greater good" to the community. Thanks for the resource and a trip down memory lane!" - Ronnie Gauthier
907-243-7293 Anchorage, AK	Darkest Hour BBS, P.A.G.A.N. (1990-1994)	BadOPCode, Pazuzues	Oblivion/2, Renegade
	"It was an usual BBS. It used a custom EMSI mailer program (Clipboard) that looked like Frontdoor from the users perspective but had a secret knock to go to an underboard, Darkest Hour. It was affiliated with the local hack/crack/pirate scene the co-sysop was Gryphon. P.A.G.A.N. (lifted from the movie Dragnet) was the overboard that did get semi-popular at one point and was mistaken as a Wiccan website and I just rolled with it. I was never a Wiccan but provided a couple of Wiccan FTN feeds for people and to keep up the legit public image. Co-sysop of P.A.G.A.N. was Shadowcat (girlfriend at the time) who really deserves all the credit for it. Why the board is not in the ""official"" Alaska list is a bunch of drama not directly related to the underboards nefarious activities. Let's just say we (or more like me) had a hard time putting the breaks on being a trouble maker. It didn't help there was rumors of the underboard as well. It was shutdown in 1994 because it was time to grow up and P.A.G.A.N. had evolved in a direction I had no interest in. In 1999 to present Darkest Hour has been running as a telnet BBS (with some down time when moving. But no longer in Alaska.) It's not the original system. It's kind of more of a tribute to the original problem child. I don't think the board was ever really that popular with callers but had a bit of reputation. So there might be a few people that might wonder what ever happened as one of history footnotes. :)"
907-248-9364 ANCHORAGE, AK	Alaska Pirate Soc (1995)	Patti Johnson
	ListKeeper: Alaska AC 907
907-338-3848 Anchorage, AK	Some Sunny Day (1989-1992)	Steve Read, Steve & Sarah Read	WildCAT! 3.x, Wildcat 1.x - 3.x
	"This was a part-time bbs that ran from December of 1989 through November 1992 in Anchorage. When we moved to Connersville IN we changed the name to "Gulliver's Travels" and switched to Maximus v3.x. Another move and a lightning strike pretty much did things in but I would still like to get it going again by Fall." - Sarah Read
907-349-1436 ANCHORAGE, AK	The AAUG BBS (1993-1996)	Joseph R Regan	GBBS
	"The AAUG BBS was the Anchorage Apple Users Group BBS. When Apple 'ment Apple //! AMUG, Anchorage Mac Users Group, was a different bird. Ran on an Apple //c+ enhanced w/ the latest GBBS version always applied. Knew a bloke (Jay), who knew the bloke who write METAL, the un-official succesor to GBBS and ran some test trials on this system, but stayed with GBBS for operations." - Joseph R Regan
907-373-3205 WASILLA, AK	Alaska Information Cache, AK Information Cache (1995)	Bob Southwick, Robert Southwick
	ListKeeper: Travel Related BBSs
907-443-2363 Anchorage, AK	The City of Avalon (1989-1993)	Ghost Wheel/Mike Adams	WWIVnet
	"I'm not sure on the dates, I was running it and working full time for the Alaska Army National Guard. Then when they moved me to Nome, I took the BBS, and I was on WWIV and other related networks all call in and like. Got expensive. Went out of town for a week or so and came back to a $800 long distance phone bill, and that cascaded to losing my job and other fun. Not the best time of my life. The BBS gave me purpose, and it may have stared c.1988, about the time my dad passed away. I believe for a short time I was the furthest west BBS on the planet, at least in the Western Hemisphere, unless someone had on in ... at least the mainland.." - Mike Adams
907-488-9327 North Pole, AK	Rice Paddy, Rice's Paddy, The Board, The Rice Paddy (1982-1994)	Al Rice	Red Ryder Host
	"The Rice Paddy was online at least as early as 1983 and I think possibly as early as 1982 though it may have had a different number or name (same sysop) at launch. Al Rice ran an Apple dealership in Fairbanks AK and operated the Rice Paddy out of his home in nearby North Pole. I still remember going to the store with my dad to buy the smartmodem II." - Hey Harris
907-562-1854 ANCHORAGE, AK	Alaska Pirate Society (1989-1993)		Wildcat
	List of BBS List Keepers: Alaska AC 907/Patti Johnson
907-688-3520 Chugiak, AK	Cosmotos, Midnight Madness (1984-1986)	Captain Midnight, The Bandit	GBBS
	""My first BBS. Operated from my bedroom on an Apple //e. Was modeled after Alpha Board, the first local BBS I ever connected to. Storage consisted of 4 143k Apple 5.25 floppy drives. The modem was an AppleCat 212 which would allow connections up to 1200 baud (fast!). This BBS was later changed to Midnight Madness when I switched to GBBS software. I changed my handle to Captain Midnight at the same time. My second BBS was Midnight Madness when I made some software and hardware changes. Switched to GBBS software from the other program (whose name escapes me). Upgraded to a whopping 10 megabyte hard drive which I purchased used from Bob Stevenson the Sysop of PMS-Anchorage. This system ran on an Apple //e which was dedicated to the BBS (no multi-tasking back then). It was mainly a bulletin board with very few downloads." - Captain Midnight
907-696-9602 Chugiak, Ak	The Mustang Information Exchange (1993-1994)	Davyan Williams	VBBS
	"This BBS was made for my High School (Chugiak High School). I did work on Vipers Exchange and Maximum Overload in order to get the registered copy of VBBS to run the BBS." - Davyan Williams
907-747-8430 Sitka, AK	Rain Country, The Rain Country BBS (1993-1996)	Larry Wright	VBBS
	"A small hard core group of users who were devoted to playing Trade Wars, VGA Planets and the most popular of all, LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon) We were also tied into the VBBS Net for forums and chatting, which was highly popular. We had a second phoone line for a while, but I do not remember the second number, its just been too long. The end came when I took a new job which changed my work hours, making updating and maintaining Rain Country without impacting users much more difficult." - Larry Wright
907-789-4743 Juneau, AK	NorthStar Communications (1986-1998)	Bill Hanaford	Wildcat, Wildcat!
	"NorthStar BBS used Wildcat software and offered dial-up access, upload and download UUCP mail services (early email accounts!) and telnet along with public and private forums, file storage, downloads and conference areas. In 1994, NorthStar became one of the first dial up Internet Service Providers in the state of Alaska and the first in Juneau utilizing the Wildcat BBS/Web software and browser. NorthStar also featured one of the first e-commerce sites on the web. Prototype e-commerce systems were designed for the grocery industry and the computer hardware/software industry as early as 1994 utilizing online billing, order entry and tracking." - Bill Hanaford
908-241-4518 Roselle, NJ	Up On Cripple Creek, Up on Cripple Creek (1991-2003)	Robert Lamprecht, Bob Lamprecht	RemoteAccess , Remote Access
	"General bbs with a leaning towards music." - Robert Lamprecht
908-273-8709 SUMMIT, NJ,	FunTime BBS (1990-1994)	Andrew Tollin	QuickBBS , RemoteAccess, QuickBBS , RemoteAccess
	"We had 660MB online!!!!!!!" - Andrew Tollin
908-321-3612 Edison, NJ	Cyberpunk BBS, The Stealth BBS (1994-1996)	Steven Silver, Andrew Yakovlech	Wildcat
	"I am Steven Silver. I was the SysOp along with my best friend in highschool. I started that BBS when I was a Freshman in highschool. I was into fighter jets so I initially named it the Stealth BBS. I joined fido net under that name, but later decided to name it something more age appropriate and my fellow BBS SysOp friend Anthony Abela from Anomaly BBS used to be called cyberpunk bbs but he also decided to name his board something more appropriate for his age so he came up with anomoly bbs. I was 14 when I started it and was the youngest bbs operator at the time. When I was 16 I called it quits when viruses became a major problem and the internet was a better means to transfer data. The area code had since changed to 732. If I can put my current e-mail next to my BBS it is sjsilver@bellsouth.net. I would be curious if someone who I used to know has called me. I since have been in the military, married, and have a son. It seems like eons ago but those BBS days were great. Your list brought back some real happy times in highschool for me. I can remember sitting in class just waiting for school to end to check on my bbs and the fido net messages that had come through that day." - Steven Silver
908-322-8006 PLAINFIELD, NJ	ACGNJ MAIN, ACGNJ Main Board, Hub 600 EchoMail, Hub 700 EchoMail, ACGNJ Main - ACGNJ Newsletter (1990-1994)	John Rusnak, Jeff Frank	RBBS
	"Both John and Jeff ran this BBS for the Amateur Computer Group of NJ(main was located at John's house and newsletter was located at Jeff's house), gave talks at the yearly conference for three years, and we were the youngest members of ACGNJ (both joined at 15 years old graduated HS in 1993). Wrote custom code for the RBBS software and ran the primary FIDOnet node for NJ in 1993. At peak we had 5 phone lines setup which were busy most hours of the day." - Jeff Frank
908-354-6979 Elizabeth, NJ	cjbbs.com, Comp. Junction, Computer Junct'n, Computer Junction, Computer Junction , Computer Junction BBS, Eastern New Jersey Net, Eastern NJ HUB, Hub 900 UUCP Gateway, Net 107 Admin Assist. (NAA), Net 107 Admin Assist. (NAA), Net 2630 IGATE, Net 2630 OGATE, Net 2630 UUCP Gateway, Union/Middlesex County HUB (1985-1997)	Jeff Shapiro, cjbbs.com, J.H. Shapiro, postmaster, Igate, Ogate	Wildcat , Wildcat!
	"Network Coordinator of FidoNet Net 2360. This was the longest running BBS in Union County, NJ and one of the oldest in the state." - Jeff Shapiro
908-388-3496 Scotch Plains, NJ	TreeFort (1994-1996)	Chris Messineo	PCBoard
	"I loved running The TreeFort BBS. We used to specialize in pc games and we always had a great online game of Global War (Risk) going on." - Chris Messineo
908-454-8340 Phillipsburg, NJ	Phillipsburg's Phinest, Phillipsburg's Phinest BBS (1992-1994)	Gary Boyer	Wildcat, MajorBBS
	"Wow! I just can't believe someone had this information archived. I was the Sysop of this BBS "back in the day". This is very cool. Keep up the good work! BBS ran on an Epson Equity II+ PC (80286 processor)." - Gary Boyer
908-464-8929 Berkeley Heights, NJ	Berkeley Heights Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
908-473-1287 Beachwood, NJ	Alfheim Forest (1995-1997)	Ilsundal	Iniquity
	"2599 world headquarters! gasp/dto/blade/jonas/hoe/y0lk/2599/lint/cia 9o8/473.1287 8oo/elfweed 8oo/4elfsex hpavc/zines/art/k0dez/cr4ckz/h4x/ph0nez." - Ilsundal
908-495-6996 North Middletown, NJ	Isle-Net (18+) (1984-1997)	Daniel Lewis, Dan Lewis, Dan Srebnick	TBBS , TBBS 2.2
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Erotic fantasies written by members, Internet mail, Usenet newsgroups. Free chat on your first call. Challenging games, lots of files to download. Stop by and have your Tarot cards read online. We do it better because we've done it since 1984. We're wired, so telnet to islenet.com now to join the fun. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: North Middletown, New Jersey since 10/84. Sysop: Dan. Using TBBS 2.2 with 12 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 244 MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $45 Annual fee. Internet mail, Usenet newsgroups, erotic fantasies written by members. Free chat on your first call! Challenging games, lots of files to download. Stop by and have your Tarot cards read online. We do it better because we've done it since 1984!
908-527-8850 ELIZABETH, NJ	Black Plague, Smugglers Cove (1992)	Deathlock
	Independent Member BBS
908-536-0025 Manalapan, NJ	Arachnid's Webbing, Beta Systems, Ravenhill, The Celestial Temple (TCT) (1994)		Telegard
	"I don't exactly rememeber the timlines here, but here is the progression: Beta Systems: Telegard This BBS was going to be a communication hub for a computer maintainance business that myself and Turgeon (sysop of cracked ice) started. Arachnid's Webbing: Renegade, sysop: tarantula cosys: turgeon When I got into the scene a little more, I decided to do something different. I was into spiderman comics at the time. The Celestial Temple (TCT): PCBoard, sysop: lord thanos cosys: turgeon I then got a little closer to the "elite" scene as I had started doing ansi graphics for some folks. I can't recall the handle I went by for my first ansi graphics, or which group I joined, but I can probably find some of those old files somewhere, maybe. I sort of wanted a seperate bbs from my ansi persona tho (See a comic book theme). Ravenhill: Renegade, Sysop: bilbo baggins/soul seeker cosys: turgeon Got into the whole LOTR and the Hobbit and named the board Ravenhill as Rivendell was already being used. Ravenhill is the perch on which Smaug surveys the land, in case you didn't know or even cared to know. It is mentioned only once in The Hobbit. I started out with the handle Bilbo Baggins, but it seemed to wimpy so I moved to soul seeker (which I got from some weapon on some online game). As ss!, I started an art group MAD (Mystical Artwork Designs) and merged with RANCiD to form Blade with Mindcrime (the Prez of Blade). I also started ImperialNET which was then taken over by Ffej, sysop of a board which now I can't recall the name of. Ravenhill was the longest running version. I don't recall all the details as the old system was lost in a HD crash at some point, but the following is what I remember: Blade Member Board, Imperial Net WHQ, GodNET HUB, FlameNet Member and a whole bunch of other nets. Files were mostly Artpacks and Utils. Anyway, thats all I can recall right now. Lateron, ss!"
908-541-1597 Port Reading, NJ	The Budweiser BBS (1986-1987)	Ray Lubeski, J.E.R.M.
	"I ran a BBS out of my home in Port Reading, NJ. I used my C64 to share games, and mostly chat. My biggest thing was the hundreds of Sid Songs I shared. Sid player songs, with its on screen keyboard, was a very big request during my time and I created them using the editor and shared countless others." - Ray Lubeski
908-638-6387 High Bridge, NJ	Caesar's Palace (1990-1995)	Caesar (Sara McHugh)	Renegade
	"Hi there! I thought I might add my old BBS information. No one knew a girl ran it :^) The BBS name was Caesar's Palace. Somewhere I still have my floppies with the ASCII artwork. Initially the modem speed was 2400, but was upgraded to 9600, then 14.4k. The BBS software was Renegade by Cott Lang, and I still have my registered copy of Legend Of the Red Dragon. My name at the time was Sara McHugh, and I was Caesar." - Sara McHugh
908-654-0935 WESTFIELD, NJ	4th Dimension, Dyer Maker (1992)	Navigator , Mr. YUK, FREEJACK, MALACHAi	AmiExpress /X
	Independent Member BBS NEMESiS USHQ - IBM/CONSOLE on an Amiga BBS. Ran on a Amiga 3000 68030/882 - 33mHz. 2 Nodes Ringdown, 500MB of storage!
908-657-8883 Lakehurst, NJ	Manchester Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
908-679-8477 SUMMIT, NJ	Link To Perfection, LINK TO PERFECTION (1992-1995)	Waremonger
	Quartex Member BBS
908-687-8876 Union, NJ	Spaceport BBS (1996-1998)	Brian Kessler	Telegard
	"Just wanted to fill in some missing data about SpacePort. The original incarnation was actually in the 80s and run off a Commodore. At first I ran USBSS, then Ivory BBS, and finally settled for C-BASE. Although I don't remember exact dates, I believe I was in Junior High School which I graduated in 88, and I believe it ran for about 2 years. The latter and last incarnation of SpacePort BBS ran TeleGard BBS; I think I ran something else before that, but I can't remember what. I don't remember the exact dates it ran, but it was up towards the end of 1996 and down around Easter of 1998. BTW, "FidoNet" isn't a BBS software, but a networking technology which was developed concurrent to the Internet. It served many of the same purposes and had many equivalent services, but it was developed by unfunded amateurs who wanted to beat phone bills. "Netmail" was the equivalent of "E-mail", "Echomail" was the "Newsgroups", and though I forget what it was called, there was a similiar relay for files which could be seen as forerunner of p2p file sharing. Some online games also traded packets using FidoNet technology, allowing players on one BBS to have opponents on another BBS. The last incarnation of SpacePort was a member of FidoNet, and about 4 other networks (none of which I remember by name right now) which piggybacked on the FidoNet technology." - Brian Kessler
908-735-0539 Lebanon, NJ	Hell's Dominion BBS (1995-2000)	Nicholas DeClario	Renegade BBS
	"Hell's Dominion BBS served the Hunterdon County, NJ area. Boasting just over 1000 members at peak and two 14.4 nodes. Hell's Dominion was the home BBS for a number of doors written by the SysOp including the BBS door game, Arch's Betrayel." - Nicholas DeClario
908-735-4654 Annandale, NJ	Jet BBS (1985-1988)	Chris DiOrio (Osmodious)	DragonSoft
	"I was a pretty addicted user on both Dragon's Weyr and Boardroom. The Boardroom had a fund-raiser and I donated whatever the amount was ($100?) and received a free copy of DragonSoft BBS software, as well as support from the Weyr's SysOp, and DragonSoft developer, Ron (Sauron). Jet ran on a Compaq Plus with 10MB full-height hard drive, internal USRobotics (hand wired!) 1200 baud modem for line 1, external IBM 2400 baud modem for line 2...I ran DoubleDOS so I could use the PC during the day, and have 2 sessions of DragonSoft running at night (to support the two lines). There was not a lot of computer users in Hunterdon County in those days (fairly rural, for NJ), but the BBS was popular for a while. Mostly just message boards and software sharing...DragonSoft didn't do doors or anything like that. By the time Ron moved DragonSoft over to Amiga, I had already bought an A500, which was not suitable to run a BBS. And I just ran out of time to run a BBS." - Chris DiOrio
908-769-6397 Plainfield, NJ	AT&T Support BBS (1993)	American Telephone/Telegraph PC Division
	Support for PC 6300 and Other AT&T PC Models
908-771-0112 Berkeley Heights, NJ	The Dark Side (1991-1994)	Adam Colon, Kaushik Sirkar	Searchlight BBS
	"This is a BBS I used to run with a friend out of my room in high school." - Adam Colon
908-787-0449 North Middletown, NJ	Isle-Net (18+) (1987-1991)	Dan Lewis	TBBS
	"Isle-Net had a total run from October 1984-September 1999." - Dan Lewis
908-789-7401 Westfield, NJ	Epileptic's BBS, Underground Empire (1994-1996)	Alex Smith	PCBoard
	"Co-SysOp: Don Swaynos; Running on a Gateway 2000 486DX2-50 running MS-DOS 6.1." - Alex Smith
908-819-7416 Edison, NJ	The Hotel California (1984-1992)	Anthony Politz (Cinsei)	CMS, GBBS Pro, Force!
	"Started running the BBS on an Apple IIe with CMS (Computer messaging System) on a 300 baud microcom modem. Moved to 2400 baud and change BBS program to GBBS Pro 1.3j. Later when PC's came to light, ran the system off Force! BBS 3.90." - Anthony Politz
908-820-0723 Elizabeth, NJ	Trancentral ][ (1995-1997)	Inspectah Deck	PC Board
	"14.4 modem. World Headquarters of the KLF, a MOD music artist collective, later changed named to the Kosmic Free Music Foundation, located at http://www.kosmic.org/ . I was a member for a short time. Name taken from the title of a song by the British electronica group KLF. My best estimate for timespan is 1995-1997." - ISM
908-851-0703 Union, NJ	No Name BBS (1992-1994)	Art Abbondante	Wildcat
	"My 1st attempt at setting up and running a system. Used to exchange files and messages." - Art Abbondante
908-852-1881 Hackettstown, NJ	RIFT Graphic, RIFT Graphics BBS (1994-1997)	David Hatchard	Searchlight
	"I was the Operator for Rift Graphics during its entire life. I started off running it as a single node searchlight BBS, as it's popularity grew I expanded to 4 nodes. the Boards was best know for my custom RIP graphics. I eventually went on in later years to form the WCSA (Warren County SysOp's Association) in which our goal was to provide a safe environment online for the growing number of the younger audience. I pulled th board down in late 1997 after becoming entrenched in coding and designing for the web. Rift participated in Fidonet, but was not a hub. RIFT still lives on in little pieces today in my design firm www.giftedtwisted.com I used to lift old next gen trek menus for inspiration in menu navigation. I still do this to some extent today. RIFT was a great experience and although I ended up switch from Searchlight to Another bs software whcih i dont recall, I still think searchlight was the best platform for RIP boards." - David Hatchard
908-888-0324 Keyport, NJ	The Space Port BBS (1986-1989)	The Admiral	Deadlock
	I ran The Spaceport BBS using deadlock software. From approx 1986 to 1989. It ran on a Commodore 64 then a 128. Using two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives for storage. Sysop name was The Admiral.
908-888-3959 Hazlet, NJ	Dream Home BBS, Instant Access, INSTANT ACCESS (1991-1996)	Richard Camba	PCBoard , PCBoard 15.1
	INSTANT ACCESS, 908.888.3959 Progressive adult & non adult file/message areas. With 22 Gig of file/message areas to suit all Lifestyles. Full Internet access.Telnet us at instbbs.camba.com Instant Access via Credit Card or TABS. FREE trail access. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 INSTANT ACCESS, 908.888.3959 Progressive adult & non adult file/message areas.With 22 Gig of file/message areas to suit all Lifestyles. Full Internet access.Telnet us at instbbs.camba.com Instant Access via Credit Card or TABS. FREE trail access. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
908-925-8147 Linden, NJ	Dungeon, Psycadelik Dungeon (1992-1994)	Chris Pingor, Christopher Pingor
	"I just wanted to make some changes. I ran the psykadelik dungeon in the 908 area code. Before it bacame the P. Dungeon it was also called 9 planes of hell. I can not remember the software we used but I remember it sucked. I also had several co-sysops one of which was Taso Lyristis and Stephan Szabo. I think this is a cool list. It brought back memories..." - Chris Pingor
908-929-2790 Toms River, NJ	The Zeppelin (1990-1994)	Kevin Paradine	Searchlight, Wildcat
	"Was Fido node 1:107/480 for a while. Net 107 had more than its share of assholes, though. Fabian Gordon was pretty cool, though, used to go over his place for get-togethers. Anyway, ran 3 nodes which is why you have multiple numbers, the main number was the one I had the longest (start to finish) and was the first node. Switched to Wildcat in maybe 93 to run Turbo Guppies, if you can believe it. No one cared much about the software, really, they were caring mostly about the doors. For the life of me I can't figure out why people loved Turbo Guppies so much. I got married in '94, moved north to the Matawan area and let the BBS die. It was the right time anyway."
908-946-3537 Holmdel, NJ	The Terrapin Station BBS (1993)	Brian Hahne	WWIV
	"This BBS traveled with me. I started it in 1990 in the 215 area code. I don't remember the phone number at the time, maybe you can find it? I ran it at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. First out of my dorm room, where they provided modems for us (2400 baud for off campus/incoming, 19.200 for on-campus pc to pc calls). When I moved off-campus the BBS came with me. In 1 or 2 summers it came home with me to this 908 number. It ran at this 908 number 1994. I then moved to Hosuton and it came with me. I ran it 1994-1996. I thought for sure that if I had this BBS it would support me as I tried to find a job just out of college. The problem was I was running up 500 dollar phone bills trying to get files to stay current, while only taking in 60-100 a month in memberships. I ran WWIV 4.20 and just never started up again after 1996 when I moved from houston to SC. I even had the entire BBS still archived on my hard drive until a few years ago when a hard drive crash took everything from the main site. the one thing i wish i still had were some ANSI files drawn by a great artist." - Brian Hahne
908-972-2387	Cheers Node #2, Cheers Online! (1990-1995)	Ian Rintel	MajorBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Central New Jersey since 09/90. Sysop: Ian Rintel. Using MajorBBS 6.2x with 32 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 500 MB storage. UDS at 2400 bps. $5 Monthly fee. FREE TRIAL! Lost Caverns,World Conquest,Word Quest,Galactic Empire,InfinityComplex,Forbidden Lands, Farwest Trivia, Crosswords, MegaSlots, Wilderlands , Erotica, Pro Chess, Gars. Local Access Throughout New Jersey! MajorNet, 24 Hour Links!
908-988-0706 Bradley Beach, NJ	Castle Tabby, Castle Tabby 107/412 (1991-1995)	Michael Connick, Michael E. Connick	FirstClass
	Home of TABBY Fidonet Interface Program for Apple Macintosh
909-307-1313 Redlands, CA	THE IRISH MALL ONLINE (1994)	since 06/01
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Redlands, California. since 06/01. Sysop: Sean Kenny. Using MajorBBS 6.21 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 2 gig MB storage. US Robotics at 14400 bps. $2.50 Hourly fee. This is a unique new service focussing on the needs of anyone with Irish interests. FREE online shop-ping for books, music, crystal, etc. Download-able photos, news, Irish Internet info. Forums. Games. Coming soon: genealogy service!
909-336,3578 ARROWHEAD, CA	RIM OF THE WORLD REALH CONNECTION BBS (1995)	Tiieresa Grant, Rita Sternath-Shaw
	RIM OF THE WORLD REALH CONNECTION BBS 909.336,3578, 'The Home of Mountain Hospitality, Opening doors for you,"" Shop for you dream home online, discuss real estate issues, preview photos and information online, free. Sysops: Tiieresa Grant and Rita Sternath-Shaw, Broker, CRS,14,4/n/8/1. - BBS Magazine October 1995 RIM OF THE WORLD REALH CONNECTION BBS 909.336,3578, 'The Home of Mountain Hospitality, Opening doors for you,"" Shop for you dream home online, discuss real estate issues, preview photos and information online, free. Sysops: Tiieresa Grant and Rita Sternath-Shaw, Broker, CRS,14,4/n/8/1. - BBS Magazine October 1995
909-356-4636 Fontana, CA	Bits and Bytes BBS, BitsnBytes BBS, BitsnBytes BBS 1 (1991-1996)	Barly Redsar	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Fontana, California since 09/91. Sysop: Barly Redsar. Using PCBoard V15.1 with 7 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 13000 MB storage. US Robotics at 21600 bps. $38 Annual fee. BEST BBS around! You do not believe us? Well call and find out for yourself! How can you go wrong? Over 75000 files online (every week we have 700 new files), 60 Door games, 700 conferences (Internet, RIME, U'NI, Intelec, Throbnet, and more). Adult Only.
909-357-2856 FONTANA, CA	Free Flight (1993-1994)	Kevin Price
	"Called 'Free Flight' because the sysop was a pilot." - Jason Montoya
909-369-6556 Riverside, CA	NightVision, NIGHTVISION, DigiBoard BBS (1993-1995)	John Williams	WildCat 4
	NIGHTVISION 909.369.6556. Monthly amateur GIF contests — free memberships available to entrants! Internet email and news groups, massive library of adult GiFs and text files, live group and private chat, online games, adult networks, all 16 lines at 14.400bps, only S69.00 per year. Visa/MC online. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 NIGHTUISION 909,369,6556, Monthly amateur GIF contests — free memberships available to entrants! Internet email and news groups, massive library of adult GIFs and text files, live group and private chat, online games, adult networks, all 16 lines at 14,400bps, only SB9,00 per year, Visa/MC online. - BBS Magazine October 1995
909-485-5550 Moreno Valley, CA	Vista Heights Middle School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
909-597-7051 Chino Hills, CA	Black Hole Sun BBS (1993-1999)	Desmond Silveira	WWIV
	"Black Hole Sun BBS was one of the most active bulletin board systems in the Inland Empire. It was heavily used for door games and its message boards but also featured extensive file downloads and an online matchmaker. It was a night board, only open 9pm - 6am, but grew to 250 active users. In the last years of its existence, it switched to a telnet board. I ran the BBS during my high school and college years." - Desmond Silveria
909-597-7858 Chino Hills, CA	Sound Source, SoundSource, T.E.L. Net Systems #2 (1990-1995)	Chris Epler, Chris A. Epler	QuickBBS , WWIV, QuickBBS, Maximus & many more...
	"BBS was located in Chino Hills, 3511 Glen Ridge Dr. to be exact :-P I was the operator and was fresh out of high school. BBS ran many many many MANY versions of software to the frustration of my users. I liked to experiment with all the flavors of BBS programs and enjoyed the setup of the system vs. the day to day operations. The Sound Source name was in the earlier years when sound clips were popular (sound effects, TV show theme songs etc). When that didn't take off I renamed it to T.E.L. Net Systems #2. Somewhat of a play on TELNET from UNIX and the initials of my last name and two of my friends from highschool: Saen/Raymond Tsai and Jeremy Locke. Thru the years I participated in WWIVnet (Can't locate my node info for that network) as well as FidoNet (1:207/107). At one time I had a serial link 'door' to a MicroVAX sitting on my nightstand (Not quiet..) for users to access USENET news. Those were great times. The Internet has made things too easy, and with all the size requirements of files these days it's no wonder that BBS's are disappearing, but it's still sad. I get a chuckle as I download 600 meg files and count off the number of 40 meg hard drives I've filled up as the download continues... ;)" - Chris A. Epler
909-676-6654 Temecula, CA	The Time Tunnel (1992-1993)	Patrick Delaney	GAP
	"Moderate popularity, considering the short amount of time I had it going. There were some pretty pathetic custom doors on that BBS. I had to shut it down when I moved away for high school. For me, running that BBS was loads more fun than setting up a website." - Patrick Delaney
909-682-5387 RIVERSIDE, CA	The Nucleus BBS (1988)	Harry Zink, The Outlaw	Custom on Apple II
	Run on an Apple IIe and IIgs, using Custom software based on a script engine called ModemWorks.
909-686-3690 RIVERSIDE, CA	F O X F I R E B, Foxfire, FOXFIRE BBS! (1993-1996)
	"Local hub for WWIVnet." - Jason Montoya
909-689-9229 Corona Hills, CA	Legend Graphics, Legend Graphics , Legend Graphics OnLine, The Legend Graphics BBS, LEGEND GRAPHICS ONLINE (1991-2003)	Joey Marquez	PCBoard
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Corona Hills, California since 11/91. Sysop: Joey Marquez. Using PCBoard 15.1 with 16 lines on LAN Network 80486s with 12000 MB storage. US Robotics at 28800 bps. $5 Monthly fee. Nation's one stop graphics BBS. You will be impressed. Huge adults only file areas. Simply the best in Southern California. SuperVGA photo images, video in motion MoviePlCs. Visa MC AmExp Optima accepted. LEGEND GRAPHICS ONLINE, 909.689.9229, nation's one stop graphics BBS! You will be impressed, huge adults only file areas and simply the best in southern California. SuperVGA photo images, movies and pics. - BBS Magazine November, 1994
909-699-5703 Temecula, CA	The Dark Del Taco (1995-1997)	Buddy Nahay	Renegade, KBBS
	"Started out with Wildcat, went to Renegade, KBBS, PCBOARD, and a few others, Changed the name every two weeks, and Dark Del Taco stuck for awhile." - Buddy Nahay
909-797-1835 Yucaipa, CA	Planet Connect HUB, The Zoo BBS/VETLink #33, Veterans' Self Help Network (1993-1997)	Russ Terry, Russell Terry, Dean Hodges, Eric McCormick	DLX - Multiline BBS Software, DLX Multi-Line
	"First DLX Multi-Line MatchMaker BBS in the 909 Area Code. THE ZOO BBS. The First "Planet Connect" on the West Coast. FIDONET HUB-MedievalNET HUB, The first VETLink (#33) on the West Coast, part of "The Veterans' Self Help Network." - Russ Terry "After Russ' DLX machine broke, he almost gave up on BBSes. However, I (Eric) got him hooked on FidoNet with a Maximus-CBCS with Binkley Term front end and Seal mail processor. Dean set up the network and I actually got the software running over shared drives, which it was not designed for, so it could be multiline. Then Russ added in the "Planet Connect" and it took down one line for about two hours. My solution? Used a 4.77 MHz PC with an RLL drive that was large enough to get the data dump, process it, and put it into Maximus. It took it 5 hours to process each set of messages, remove duplicates, and put them in. But once I got it working, Russ did not have to touch it for years and was able to focus on users, sub nodes, and so on. In fact, that was when he broke off my Hub (The N.I.M.B.Y. Zone) as his own hub." - Eric McCormick
909-799-7070 Redlands, CA	Lifeline BBS (1990-1996)	Brian Eller	WildCat!
	"Lifeline BBS was online from approximately 1990-1996. Though I did have it running prior to that (circa 1987) on a part-time basis, we'll only count the full-time service. The board had a few number changes (as can be seen on this list) as I moved a couple times. I was a proud member of the Inland Empire SysOps Association (IESA), Riverside County SysOps Association (RCSA) and a founding member of the Modem Users Group of the Inland Empire (MUGIE). Through my time in the BBS world, I met a number of great people; many of whom I'm still proud to call my friends to this day." - Brian Eller
909-823-5254 Fontana, CA	Emanon BBS (1989-1995)	tubaman (D. Tenhagen), tubaman (Daniel Tenhagen)	WWIV
	"Actual years of steady operation were 1989-1995, though it was online only sporadically near the end of 1995. I was 10 years old when I first started running the board. At the time, I was building PC.s and selling them to make the money to keep the board up (phone line, computer, WWIV software registration, etc). I kept the board up until my Sophomore year in High School, when cars and jobs became a bit more important than computers for a while, and the Internet was drawing all of my users away. While it was running, I also started a local WWIV Network called .BETALink. (the BETA stood for Beyond BBS, Emanon BBS, Tardis BBS and Aquarius BBS, the four original nodes). Over time, we grew to about 30 nodes, including one in Virginia and one in (I think) North Carolina." - Daniel Tenhagen
909-829-0653 Fontana, CA	The Generic BBS (1992-1993)	John Crawford (Link)	WWIV
	"I'm not exactly sure of the exact timespan of the bbs, but I started it using WWIV 4.21a and closed it down with 4.24. I did revive it a bit when I was in college, around 1997, and was the first telnetable only WWIV bbs open 24 hours a day. I also created the InlandNet for WWIV bbs' in the Inland Empire area of Southern California. "The bbs started with a 286/12 on 14.4k with a 40 meg HD which people were commenting how fast it seemed, even compared to newer 486 bbs' out there, because I made some code optimizations. Eventually, I moved the bbs over to a 486/25 before having to close it down in anticipation of heading off to college." - John Crawford
909-860-3213 Diamond Bar, CA	Castle of the Four Winds (1988-1998)	Christopher King, Chris King	PCBoard
	"The Castle was a gaming BBS, originally about role playing & other sorts of interactive storytelling games though there were a goodly number of door games. It was one of the orignal nodes in Vervan's Gaming Net. Was also the home of the Imperium door game." - Chris King
909-882-4427 SAN BERNARDINO, CA	The Tandy Shack (1993)	Jason Montoya (Little Boy, Freedom, The Jaguar)
	"Link mentioned InlandNet with his commentary on the Generic BBS. He started InlandNet as an experiment with my BBS, and we approached other WWIV sysops to join it. Eventually I took over the InlandNet and grew it to something like 20 nodes in its heyday. It was called InlandNet because the 909 is in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the group of communities in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties immediately to the east of L.A. County. We were one of the few WWIV-type networks who did not purchase Wayne Bell's optional software to maintain the network with updates to the node list, etc. instead I developed a DOS batch-file based system that did the job adequately well for us. I also used to host BBS sysop/user pizza parties at the Roaring 20's Pizza Parlor (now defunct) in San Bernardino. "I originally started BBSing in Omaha, NE. Prior to BBS's I was a library kid. One day at the Omaha library there was a stack of BBS lists at the checkout desk. Since I had recently obtained a 2400bps modem for my Tandy 1000 TL 286 in order to use the PCLink service (part of Quantum Computing Services today known as AOL) I figured out how to use the Tandy DeskMate terminal program and called a few of them. I was instantly addicted. When we later moved to San Bernardino, CA, I called some local boards that I had gotten numbers for from the networked Omaha BBSs and continued. I quickly moved on from the DeskMate terminal to Telix, Procomm Plus, and my favorite term, TeleMate. It wasn't long before I decided to start my own BBS. All together I would say that I was a hardcore BBSer from 1990 through 1994, when I graduated high school. It was probably the most fun I've ever had in my life and got me through some rough times (and maybe caused a couple, too!) All of the best friends I have today I met during that period, on BBSs." - Jason Montoya
909-888-3655 San Bernardino, CA	IRISH CONNECTION BBS (1991-1994)	Bob Griffin	Wildcat
	"4-node BBS based in the Highland/San Bernardino, CA area. Relocated to Michigan City, Indiana in 1994 through 1996 (219) area code." - Bob Griffin
909-931-7395 Upland, CA	Dyson's Sphere [ASV/GSA] (1990-1995)	Jay Dyson	WWIV 4.12, heavily modified
	"System was run on a 12 MHz Packard-Bell system with a 40-megabyte hard drive. I installed DR-DOS and used its disk doubler utility to make the drive a virtual 80-meg storage capacity. I cut my teeth on C with the BBS source code. This worked out very well in advancing my career during the early 1990s. Had a lot of fun and made a lot of friends and all that jazz. I eventually had to shutter the BBS and move on to other things. Running a BBS was just too much of a time commitment after five years and access to the Internet was slowly entering the consumer market. I think I shut down at just the right time. I may write an essay on this sometime. This has been a real trip down memory lane..." - Jay Dyson
909-987-5999 Alta Loma, CA	Post Nuclear Bliss (1994-1996)	Ka0s	Renegade
	"I ran about 3 different boards, using Renegade, Iniquity and Oblivion/X... Post Nuclear Bliss is the only name I can remember. My boards were low-mid range popularity. I had a nice file section, but not many people liked it because my phone line qualty was around 26400 baud, or 2.5kb/sec. Part of the time I was part of Fidonet using Intermail via The Weapons Vault." - Ka0s
909-9878483 CUCAMONGA, CA	CALIFORNIA LIP SERVICE (1995)
	CALIFORNIA LIP SERVICE, 909.987 8483. Join Sexy Sabfina & Tempting Tonya as they explore California Lifestyle and Surf the Net, GUI. Chat. Inet email/usenet. cd's zines, personals all vjith CA flavor. Free one month trial. TCP-IP with FC client to lips.com port 3000 (Visa/MC @ S9/mo). - BBS Magazine October 1995 - BBS Magazine October 1995
910-205-0398 Hamlet, NC	Taz's Pad BBS/2, The Rock (1994-2000)	Keith Kottwitz	Renegade
	"This was an official OS/2 Support BBS and the fidonet hub for The Rock servicing the Hamlet and Rockingham areas, feeding out of Fayetteville, NC from Thor's Retreat BBS using Front Door and Gecho." - Keith Kottwitz
910-276-6385 Laurinburg, NC	Hawk's BBS (1990-1994)	Mike Walters	Wildcat!
	"Mike Walters and Steve Gardner used & operated small BBS's with several friends from school in the late 80's and early 90's. The two would go on to co-found ServUSA Internet (a nationwide ISP with nearly 8000 total subscribers) in January of 2000 (and later joined by Brian Locklear). ServUSA Internet would grow to serve business, residential, government, and ultimately high-speed wireless customers and would purchase several smaller ISPs including MSQuest (a leading Mississippi ISP in 2004). In 2005 Earthlink offered to purchase the company for $1.2M, but was not sold at that time. The company was finally sold in 2007. According to Mike Walters, working with BBS's in the 80's contributed to the trio's future successes (including developing a state of the art extranet system called RAAS and a caching proxy for dialup user's that increased the users apparent download speeds by 5x). "We only had a thousand calls or so to our BBS over the years, but it sure was a lot of fun! .. Those were the days!" -Mike Walters
910-455-9720 Jacksonville, NC	CataCombs of Atlantis, Catacombs Of Atlantis (COA BBS), The Citadel (1991-2000)	Jason Bostic	VBBS
	"The Citadel was a simple BBS that ran on a Hyundai 8086. It only had one feature, an active game of TradeWars 2002. At midnight on New Year's Day 1992, the Citadel began the Catacombs of Atlantis, was upgraded to a 486 computer, faster modem, had a variety of door games and access to various networks. We still had great TradeWars games, and for a long time had the largest selection of TradeWars modifications and downloads of any website in the country. The Catacombs of Atlantis ran until 1997." - Jason Bostic
910-485-3500 Fayetteville, NC	Jeffman's Paradise (1991-1995)	Geoffrey Edge	WWIV
	"I started operating this BBS when I was 13 years old. In 1991, few 13 year-olds had access to computers in the home. Even fewer knew what a modem was. I was introduced to the technology by the person who sold my family our first computer. After the fifth or sixth time I managed to break the machine, he decided that I should find an outlet for my curiosity and sold me a modem and gave me the number to his BBS. I was fascinated by it and shortly thereafter, my BBS was born - dedicated line and all. I had to close down the BBS when I started High School. When I closed down the BBS, I had hundreds of members. My BBS had a node on FidoNet and I was using WAFFLE for UUCP email. It was a great learning experience, lots fo fun and a clear path to a great career for a 13-year old." - Geoffrey Edge"
910-485-6202 Fayetteville, NC	Rick's Place BBS, Ricks Place (1991-1996)	R. Winstead, Richard Winstead	Spitfire
	"Node 2 Number was 910-485-0613. I remember a friend of mine from high school got me interested in computers in 1983. I hung around the local Radio Shack for hours (even skipping school somedays). After high school I joined the Air Force in 1984 and didn't get back into computers until 1990 when I deployed to the desert during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. I again became addicted to computers. When I got back in 1991, I found out about BBS's through a friend and I decided to buy my first computer (a Packard Bell 386-16 with 4MB RAM and 130 MB HDD (WOW!!!) for $2,100.00. I immediately located a copy of Spitfire BBS shareware and played with it. Once I got the system running in my dorm room on Pope AFB, NC, Rick's Place BBS was born! Man, I had a lot to learn. I moved about a year later to an apartment in Fayetteville, NC. I met several local SysOps and helped others new to BBS'ing on what to do to set up their own BBS's. Soon, after many upgrades and increased HDD space, I obtained a second system for free through a computer salesman. The only catch was I had agreed to place "commercials" for his store. Didn't get too much negative feedback for it. The callers were just happy to be able to log into Node 2. By the time I became fully operational with both nodes, I had networked two PC's together using 1 Mbit network cards sharing 500 MBytes of space. I was the local hub for Barren Realms Elite and CircuitNET. That was quite a bit for 1994. I shut down the system in 1996 when Windows 95 became popular and my users started getting hooked on the Internet. I realized that BBS's would soon be a thing of the past. I still have my BBS backed up on tape but the files are probably corrupted by now. All that PC experience and BBS technology got me started into a career in networking. I now work for a large TelCo and manage network routers. I think back from time to time and wish I could do it all over again - even though some of those users caused me a lot of headaches." - Richard Winstead
910-486-6693 FAYETTEVILLE MC, NC	Wolfsbane (1994-1997)	Stephen Wilson	Renegade, PowerBBS
	Stephen is available at greywolf@thehaven.com.
910-567-5819 Dunn, NC	The GENERIC BBS (-1996)	Jason Ledbetter	WWIV , PCBoard, MajorBBS
	"So from 1992 to early 1994 it was called The GENERIC BBS and ran on WWIV. From 1994 to 1996 it was on PCBoard and called "Genocide!" for some unknown reason. I did "switch" to MajorBBS for a couple of months before moving back to PCBoard. I ran the BBS as a form of entertainment and learning during my high school years. "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
910-697-2998 Greensboro, NC	Lightspeed, LightSpeed BBS, LightSpeed BBS Node 1 (1990-1997)	Jonathan Preston	Super BBS
	"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
910-763-1850 WILMINGTON, NC	Coastal Carolina Net, Wilmington**80 TBBS (1983-1996)	Mark Samwick	TBBS
	"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
910-766-4369 Clemmons, NC	The Rebel Outpost (1991-1995)	Dave Flexman Hill	WWIV
	"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 Clemmons, NC	The Downward Spiral, The Serial Port BBS (1994-1995)	Nate Johnson	WWIV
	"Great times! Better were the weekly meetings at Chen's on Saturday nights!" - Anonymous
910-875-4628 RAEFORD, NC	Death's Realm (1996-1997)	Christopher Zinkula	Renegade
	"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
910-886-3435 Trinity, NC	The Dox Shoppe (1987-1989)	Mark Creasman (Mach I)	CNET-128
	"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)
910-895-0161 Rockingham, NC	The Guardian's Domain (1995-1997)	Gil Davis	Renegade BBS
	"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 Rockingham, NC	Bandit BBS (1995-1998)	Willie Clark, Wilie Clark	TriBBS
	"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
912-245-8715 Valdosta, GA	FALCON, Super Falcon BBS, The Falcon (1992-1994)	John Stringham	RBBS
	"I ran 2 nodes at 14400b and also was one of the 1st in the area to run 3 CDroms filled with all kinds of stuff to download. Back then I use to transmit all the email from my users to all the networks once a day after midnight. Sometimes it could take days to get a response. Those were the days. :)" - John Stringham
912-246-3280 Gainsville, GA	National Assn. of Cave Divers, National Association of Cave Divers, The NACD BBS, N.A.C.D. BBS (1992-1994)	National Assoc. of Cave Divers
	Cave Scuba Diving - Superb Special Topic System
912-272-6008 Dublin, GA	The Outerworld BBS (1993-1995)	Mark Lord	Wildcat 4 (5 node)
	"Ran on a 486DX/33, 8MB of RAM, 130MB hard drive, 1x CD-ROM configured system. Also one of the first in the Dublin area to have 28.8k access. The BBS was dedicated mostly to gaming downloads (distributing Apogee/3DRealms/idSoftware/Epic Megagames shareware), but also had a very active message board, FidoNet gaming feeds, and a variety of doors (kept it around 10, swapping out the unplayed ones for new ones every month). Users frequently complained about the board being down, mostly due to FidoNet pulls. Had plans to add a second node to avoid the downtime and upgraded the system to OS/2. Had problems with OS/2, so I swapped back to a MS-DOS 6.22/Desqview combination. Shortly after, a hard drive crash knocked the system out and the most recent backup (50+ floppy disks) was several months old. I felt like this was the time to call it quits -- the phone bills were getting very high and maintaining the system was affecting my school grades. Averaged around 150 calls a day, which was good for the Dublin area." - Mark Lord
912-328-9909 Warner Robins, GA	The Electronic Cafe! (1996)
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: 912-328-9939 28800 BPS. X-rated cartoons, dating services, live chat. Hard to find Gif's, movies. XX rated conferences home of the Coffee Talk Network. Women call for free. Telnet and BBS Direct access available via cris.com. Instant access using your credit card, TABS or home telephone billing (Not 900#!) Find things here you will never see on other BBS's.
912-474-8010 Macon, GA	Online Macon (1994-1999)	Chris Coggins	MajorBBS , Major BBS
	"A lot of the members still keep in touch with each other today." - Chris Coggins
912-729-7789 Saint Marys, GA	Subsailors BBS (1988-1990)	Eric M. Cohen	Wildcat
	"We were (as far as I know), the first multinode WildCat BBS. My site was the alpha and beta platform. Of note, the first multinode wildcat printed manual that came with the software had the example screens from SubSailors BBS...they even left our name on it! In it's heyday the system had 5 nodes, 4 by modem and one going to a dumb terminal on our bedstand...heady stuff for those years." - Eric M. Cohen
912-729-8745 Kingland, GA	Q&A BBS (1991-1995)	Mr. Question/Mrs.Answer AKA Charles and Julie Green	RemoteAccess
	"Primarily a Tech Support BBS. Also had some of the first access to true email in the Camden County area. Ran 4 lines at it's peak. Maintained and distributed the 912 area code BBS list for 2 years." - Mr. Quark
912-748-0331 Pooler, GA	The Dungeon (1984-1989)	Ringthane	Ravics, C-Net
	"C-64 with Xetec Lt.Kernal 20 Meg Hard Drive " - Ringthane
912-748-0526 POOLER, GA	Lost Dutchman Mine, LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (1992-1995)	Lost Dutchman
	Independent Member BBS
912-897-2982 SAVANNAH, GA	The Other BBS (1989-1990)	Snoopy	C-Net 10
	"Member of SOBs (Savannah Organization of BBS's)"
912-897-3614 SAVANNAH, GA	Satellite Station	Mensa	C-Net 128
	Member of the SOBs
912-920-2006 Savannah, GA	Savannah, Savannah BBS, The Savannah BBS (1990-1994)	Dwayne Hall	GAP
	"This was, at its height a 4 node Gap BBS run under Desqview (a DOS multitasking utility). We used 3 hard drives a couple of 65 meg drives and a humungous full height 5 1/4 inch IBM monster 300 meg drive and a couple of external CD-ROMS (rare for the day and a first for that area). For modems we had 3 USR 19200 and a Hayes internal 2400 (low speed users were required to use that line if available). For mail we used RelayNet via a Qmodem script to connect to DC and Orlando each night to transfer mail. The BBS was sold to Michael Herrin in 1994 as a package deal and it ran with him as SySop (though I continued to do the art for him) for another year or so." - Dwayne Hall
912-964-2425 SAVANNAH, GA	The Night Owl, The Night Owl II (1991-1993)	Don Murray
	Member of the SOBs
913-262-0702 Countryside, KS	Forrest in the City (1993-1996)	Hugh Forrest Smith
	"It was an interesting experience." - Hugh Forrest Smith
913-267-9624	Fremont Arsenal, CD-ROM Technology (1993)
	SysOptics advertisement
913-273-1550 Topeka, KS	N.A.M.U. Inc., Nat'l Assn of Modem Users, National Association of Modem Users, National Association of Modem Users, Inc. (The NAMU) (1983-1994)	Rob Nall	TBBS-16 Multiuser
	"The second phone line was 913-273-1551. People often referred to it as the NAMU. I started this BBS when I was a sophomore in High School, which was 1983. "When we moved out of the 273 telephone exchange (this was long before number portability), I made arrangements to have the phone lines hooked up at a friends house (who lived in the 273 phone exchange), so I could keep the same phone numbers, and he allowed me to set the BBS up in his basement...where it lived on for a few more years. "With the popularity of the Internet, my call volume dropped to only a few calls a day, and since I was providing it for free (accepting donations), I couldn't justify it anymore. I transferred the TBBS software license to my 10 year old (computer nerd) nephew, who lived in Colorado in 1994." - Rob Nall
913-342-8121 Blue Springs, MO	The Digital Access BBS (1995-1996)	Wayne Siemund	RemoteAccess
	"The Digital Access BBS was a music-centered BBS In the Kansas City metro area. A 2-line BBS running on IBM OS/2. Moved To Kansas City, KS in 1996." - Wayne Siemund
913-345-1978 Leawood, KS	ANARC BBS (1989-1996)	Kirk Baxter, ANARC, Assoc. of North American Radio Clubs
	World Radio/TV Handbook - Short Wave Freq Lists/Scheds.
913-441-0595 BONNER SPRINGS, KS	Prima Facie Dist, Wantree Development Technical Support (1995)
	Product: RemoteAccess
913-441-4722 BONNER SPRINGS, KS	Tempest Thunderstorm, Thunderstorm BBS, TEMPEST THUNDERSTORM (1992-1995)
	Lsd Member BBS
913-587-0241 KANSAS CITY, KS	Mid Kansas Net, Net 2800 NEC, The On-Line Connection! (1994-2000)	Chuck Baslock	Wildcat
	ListKeeper: Kansas 913 Area Code BBS's
913-648-5301 Leawood, KS	Steve's BBS/Game Palace (1982-1986)	Steve Kroger	Networks II
	Ran on Apple IIe with 2 5.25" Floppies Networks II Text games like Hunt the Wumpus.
913-764-1520 Olathe, KS	Engineer 80 - Forum 80 (1980)		Forum-80
	Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February 1980 Issue)
913-780-0005 Olathe, KS	The Erotic Shopping Network (1993-1996)	Dave McVey	MajorBBS 6.2
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Olathe, Kansas since 04/93. Sysop: Dave McVey. Using MajorBBS 6.1 with 3 lines on MS-DOS 80386 with 485 MB storage. Zoom at 9600 bps. No fee. The first BBS of its kind in the U.S. On-line Adult shopping system featuring XXX videos, exciting lingerie, massage oils and lotions, condoms, marital aids and adult novelties. Catalogs available in hardcopy. MC, VISA welcome. Must be 18 or over.
913-788-7395 Kansas City, KS	Gates Of R'lyeh (1986-1990)		WWIV
	"This system went by a variety of names, but was originally and best known as Gates Of R'lyeh. Purely t-file and message exchange dedicated to the back-then P/H/P and programmer scene. A very fun ride."
913-832-1158 Lawrence, Kansas	L.A.S.H.!, The Spaceport Bar BBS (1993-1996)	Dave Carson, Mike Breen	TGPII/Wildcat
	"The Spaceport Bar BBS was born out of L.A.S.H.! (which incidentally stood for Lawrence Area Super Heroes). L.A.S.H.! was given over to Dave Carson when Ghostrider left town, Dave then turned it over to me when he left town and I renamed/reformatted it to The Spaceport Bar BBS. Several attempts have been made over the years to revive the Spaceport Bar BBS as a website. Recently, however, it has taken up residence on one of Yahoo's Groups servers and is performing its original function as story board. It can be found in groups.yahoo.com in the computers/Internet area under, what else? BBSes. " - Mike Breen
913-832-2246	Electric Dreams, Reeperbahn (1990-1996)	Ray Dillinger, Joel Bradshaw, Trevor Gronges
	"ReeperBahn was devoted to the discussion of human sexuality and its effect on culture and media. I got the number 832-2246 from Joel when the Reeperbahn went down (he graduated and left town). I used it to set up my own BBS, Electric Dreams. It was SOP in that BBS community (Lawrence KS in those years) to try to re-use BBS phone numbers for new BBS's. This prevented irate people from getting modem calls to their new home phones at strange hours, and got us the old BBS' subscriber base for our new efforts. The phone company, once they understood, encouraged it. Otherwise they had to 'burn' modem numbers for four or five years before they were cold enough to reuse." - Bear "I (Ray Dillinger) was sysop of Electric Dreams until April 1996. I had graduated from college in December 1995, and finished the initial job-hunt in April. At that time, I passed both the BBS phone number and the BBS machine to Trevor Gronges (aka Sandman) who carried Electric Dreams on at least through the end of 1996. He graduated in 1997 and passed the BBS on to someone else, who renamed it -- I lost track of it after that." - Ray Dillinger
913-843-7467 Lawrence, KS	The Head Shop (1987-1991)	Steve Penrod, Chris Siron	TGP2 (Custom)
	"Originally ran out of a dorm room on campus, then moved to our apartment. Lawrence had the fortune of the 843 prefix, allowing the phone number to be 913-THE-SHOP. We adopted the personas of Hotrod and Dr. Bongo who ran this fictional harbor for peace, love and pre-internet BBS arguments. The TGP2 software was in Turbo Pascal and came from another local sysop known as Papa Smurf who started it for his BBS called The Great Pyramid. I met him in a Computer Science class and got a copy that I heavily modified, using ANSI control codes to add full-screen editor and colorize much of the interface -- so fancy!"
914-221-0774	RBBS IBM PC Hopewell Junction, The Sports Network BBS (1984-1987)	John Giberson
	For-Pay System ($30)
914-227-8064 Hopewell Junction, NY	Garden of Stone	Matt Fury, Uncle Meat	Telegard
	"Hey quite a comprehensive list you have!! I run into a lot of people in my field that have no idea what a BBS is and have no concept of a modem so this is awesome. I ran a BBS back in the late 80's to early 90's in Southern NY at 914-227-8064 using Telegard for the most part. I knew a lot of the guys you have listed. I ran it under a couple of names like "Garden of Stone" which was early 90's of course... Pearl Jam reference. Back in the late 80's I can't quite remember but I went under the handle "Uncle Meat" (another music reference :-) ). Started out on a 300 baud modem before I hosted. Well from 2400, 9600, 14.4k, 38.4, then finally 56k! I had a blast being able to admister it and create a community. Loved being able to see people actually log on and off and do things. Also remember being able to mess with them sometimes with fake line noise using the function keys LMAO. Anyway, I'm sure other things will come to me but thanks for putting the site together." - Matt Fury
914-228-4321 Carmel, NY	Infinity ACI BBS (1988-1992)	Bret Ancowitz
	"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
914-229-8483 Hyde Park, NY	F/X, F/X by FiRe (Node I), InFiniTy I, Infinity Node #1 (1991-1995)	Tim Winnard	Renegade
	"NEUA World Headquarters"
914-234-3260 Bedford, NY	The Central Office	The Datamaster	Citadel
	Run as a continuation of the efforts of the OSUNY BBS to educate.
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
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.
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
914-266-4706 Clinton Corners, NY	Infinity III BBBS
	The "NEUA Vault"
914-279-2514 Brewster, NY	The Brewster BBS (1991-1996)	Richard Durso, Rick Durso, Rick Durso / Richard Durso	Wildcat , Wildcat! BBS
	"I was the sysop to The Brewster BBS during my high school and early college years. It started on a Radio Shack TANDY 1000 with a internal 2400 baud modem and a 10MB MFM Hard Card (hard disk on a ISA board -- no native hard drive was offered). Overtime I upgraded to an external US Robotics 9600 HST modem through the SYSOP program (US Robotics put a name plate mounted to the modem that it could not be resold). That was later upgraded to 14.4K, 16.8K and 28.8K. It was operated using Wildcat BBS 2.x single-line under MS-DOS 2.x and 3.x, later used to DESQView to "multitask" and not take it off-line when I used the computer. Then ran it under OS/2 3.x after a computer upgrade and Wildcat BBS 3.x multi-line (added second node 914-279-4987) this was very stable and ran this way for a year or two. This system had over 1.3GB of SCSI storage at the time which was very rare when other large BBS had 300MB storage. Then I was invited to join the Wildcat! Beta Team (we even had t-shirts) for the Windows NT 3.1 version. It was a bumpy ride but still impressive. I ran a 16-port Digiboard with several lines. I gave a demo to a room of other sysop's where with multiple users on-line and downloading files I formatted a 1.44MB floppy drive and the UART didn't drop a single character. This was so impressive people's jaws dropped to the floor - floppy drive access and modems were incompatible prior to this (even under OS/2). [If you tried to use the floppy the modem would be paused]. I was a member of FidoNet in 1:272/xx (not positive of exact number). I also started my own network called ICN (Interactive Communications Network) which offer less red-tape then FidoNet. Grew to be international (Canada and Europe) with nearly 80 nodes but slowly fell apart during my college years. I offered my users internet e-mail addresses and the BBS could be reached via Telnet. I supported RIPTerm graphics (text tags used to describe a graphical interface used before HTML was available). By this time my bedroom had several computers linked via LANTastic Ethernet BUS (remember troubleshooting Ethernet terminators?) My skills running my BBS helped land my first job during my senior year of college with Prodigy & IBM in Yorktown, NY. They were amazed I knew how to use edlin (single line text editor in DOS) and troubleshoot IRQ conflicts between modems and mouse. The networking skills learned in my bedroom BBS setup helped land my second job with General Foods (KRAFT) as a network admin (converted their network from OS/2 1.x to Windows NT 3.1). I learned more practical knowledge from running a BBS than I every learned from college. The good old days." - Richard Durso
914-297-5616 Wappingers Falls, NY	Software City BBS (1987-1991)	David Burkart, Dave Burkhart	PCBoard
	40mb of Storage
914-297-5971 Wappingers Falls, NY	The Club BBS (1994)	Mike Stach	Wildcat
	"The Club BBS was the "official" BBS of the oft-renamed BlueApple+ computer club, of which my father and many of his friends were members. The SysOp was one of his best friends, and his name was Mike Stach, if you'd like to add that to the listing. I was still in elementary school at the time, but The Club BBS was my introduction to the BBS world, which, by the time I was in 7th or 8th grade, had introduced me to an entire gloriously 'elite' world of warez, phreaks, anarchy... (is "lol" appropriate here?!) not to mention network and modem communications, programming, and the Internet in general. Sadly, Mike passed away last year, logging into the big BBS in the sky, i guess. I remember him being a really sweet, friendly, and smart dude, though. After maintaining Telegard BBSs went out of style, he got into rebuilding Crosley automobiles. Hope you find a touch of interest in this bit of history, and have a great day!" - Jason Conklin
914-328-9078 West Harrison, NY	The Wrong Number ][ (1986-1998)	Al DeRosa
	"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
914-337-3021 Yonkers, NY	The Basement BBS (1991-1994)	Adam M Greenwald	Spitfire
	"The Basement BBS was located in the basement of my parents house in Yonkers, NY. My parents really didn't understand what I was doing so they only let me put it on from 10-11 at night until the morning. It was fun while it lasted. I remember upgrading to a 14.4 modem and that speer was just unbelievable!" - Adam Greenwald
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
914-344-3830 Middletown, NY	Fatal Error BBS (1992-1995)	Evil Ernie	Chaos
	"It's already in your list, but I figured I might as well add the details to it :). Pretty cool to see my board on this list. Miss those times!" - Evil Ernie
914-347-5831	Silver Star, The SilverStar BBS (1991-1994)
	200mb of Space
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
914-352-6543 Monsey, NY	Sherwood Forest III, Sherwood Forrest ///, SHERWOOD FOREST ][ (1985)	High Technology
	Source of many Phreaking and Hacking Textfiles
914-352-6801 Spring Valley, NY	FidoBBS #357 (Part Time), The Electronic Store	Richard Levey	FidoNet
	Part Time BBS for a While (6pm to 9am EST)
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
914-365-0123 Piermont, NY	Market Navagation Inc. BBS		Teleconference Software
	Possible Just a Teleconference Service.
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
914-368-3340	Criminal Connect (1992)	The Dreamer
	T.C.C. Member BBS
914-368-4354 Suffern, NY	Skyline BBS (1991-1996)	Mike Sokolov	PCBoard
	510mb of Disk Space
914-376-2657	Hire-A-Techie, The Tycoons's Tabernacle (1987-1991)	Norman Dachamn	PCBoard
	100mb of Storage Space
914-381-1600 Mamaroneck, NY	Brentwood BBS (1992-1995)	Guy Cappello
	For pay BBS
914-425-8627 Spring Valley, NY	The Clinic, The Landfill (1992)	Garbage Heap, GarbageHeap
	Phalcon/Skism Headquarters D-Mob Member BBS
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
914-496-2833 Rock Tavern, NY	The Particle Board II (1990-1992)	Joe Cupano, John Downey	Searchlight BBS
	"Sequel to "The Particle Board" of Monroe, NY as run by Dave Breen, 1988 to 1990." - Joe Cupano
914-561-6562 Newburgh, NY	McClusky's Bar and Grill BBS
	New User Password: "Alcohol"
914-583-6237 Smallwood, NY	The Cheaters Guild BBS, The Cult of the Tentacle, The Home of Cheat! (1994-1997)	Mike Zier	QuickBBS
	Home of Cheat!
914-591-9285	The Conference Center, The Conference Center (Password: EXEC) (1986)		Ascii Express
	20mb Disk Space
914-621-1284 Mahopac, NY	The Van Eck BBS
	Offered "Hack, Phreak, Warez"
914-623-0039 Nyack, NY	Keith Graham Shareware Support BBS (1993-1994)	Keith P. Graham
	Home of OPTIK, TEXT2COM, CBOOT and other PC utilities OPTIK, TEXT2COM, CBOOT, very good shareware utilities
914-623-1471	Apple Pit I (1986)	Torino Man	AE/CatFur/BBS, Ascii Express
	10mb of Disk Space
914-628-6851 Mahopac, NY	Twilight File Exchange (1992)		Telegard
	"Open daily from 10 p.m. until 9 a.m."
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
914-651-5048 Flordia, NY	Channel XPress
	ALF World Headquarters
914-654-8082 New Rochelle, NY	The World's End, World's End BBS (1992-1998)	Spell Binder	WWIV
	"Last of many incarnations before dying."
914-666-3997 Mount Kisco, NY	The Perfect World BBS, The Spies in the Wire BBS	Andy Rubin
	8 Line BBS running in 1984, UNIX Interface, Allowed free BITNET E-mail!
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
	Continues to run in present day as an ISP in Mount Vernon (www.execnet.com) Interlink Netmail National Host - Multiline PCBoard System
914-682-1965 White Plains, NY	Cloud 9 Online, Cloud Nine On-Line, Silver Arrow BBS (1990-1996)	Scott Drassinower, S.Drassinower, S. Drassinower	PCBoard
	Continues to Run as an ISP in White Plains, NY (www.cloud9.net)
914-683-8912 Valhalla, NY	FIDO, The Fido Video Music Education BBS (1989-1991)	Ricky Finn	FidoNet
	Focuses on Music Education
914-698-5965 Mamaroneck, NY	Circus Maximus AE (1986-1988)	The Disk-Bomber	AE/Catfur/BBS, Ascii Express
	"Co-Sysop was The Gremlin (that's me). Real name of the board was Circuits Maximus (not Circus... Circuits was my brilliant creativity). The Disk-Bomber and I actually ended up going to college together at Boston University. We were both users on your board. And you and I met several times years later at various 2600 meetings in Boston, iirc, and through the various projects that came out of the l0pht. "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
914-721-2653 Scarsdale, NY	Scarsdale Middle School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
914-725-4060	NET-WORKS 201 202 203 204 205 206 207, OHIO SCIENTIFIC-OSUNY, OSUNA Scarsdale, OSUNY, PBX (1982-1988)	Frank Roberts	Citadel, Cit86 2.17
	One of the most famous Phreak BBSes, mentioned in Newsweek, very Popular
914-736-9409 Peekskill, NY	The House of Music BBS, The Hall of Music (1989-1998)	Paul Newman	Wildcat, T.A.G.
	"Hi. Interesting reading. I did use the name "Paul's Porno Palace & Smut Emporium" for my adult board. It was a seperate system for a couple of years but eventually it was accessed as a backdoor from my main site (node 4) with a second copy of my BBS software. I also ran my site on 914-528-3030 for about four years which was really an echomail hub with Frontdoor but was set with everything the same except for local messages. I still have my entire BBS on tape including local & state wide bbs lists as well as Fidonet, Adultnet, etc., echomail lists if you are interested. Was great going through your list and seeing a lot of the names. Wonder how many (like myself) now have websites? Reminds me whats really missing from the Internet!" - Paul Newman
914-761-6877 Westchester County, NY	The Uncensored BBS
	Uncensored BBS has continue to function as an ISP and Internet BBS.
914-762-4679 Ossining, NY	Sing Sing Sing Studios, Sing Sing Studios BBS (1989-1996)	Ira Lichtenstein	Spitfire
	Conveniently located near Sing Sing Prison
914-764-0415 Olathe, NY	The Ranch BBS (1986-2000)	Bill Barnhart
	"The Ranch went the way of the old cowboys was out dated and not needed any longer. Bill is still in computers on the WWW. So rest in peace BBS's of the era it was fun and can never be replaced." - Bill Barnhart
914-779-5886 Bronxville, NY	Eyes of KH, The Eyes of the Kwisatz Hadderach (1985-1989)	Muad'Dib (aka: Antryg Windrose)	C-Net
	"Just some notes. Ghormenghast Manor (Unicorn, in Dobbs Ferry) was an off-shoot of this site as was one by The Tower Guard (Eyes of the Kwisatz Hadderach 2, Yonkers, NY). Dorian Hawkmoon (dammit what was the name of his BBS in Elmsford)was instrumental in the formation of this BBS even if he didn't know it. KH was well known for its "Never Ending" discussion room that was started with the simple line "I was an egg salad sandwich in a former life. It didn't do much for my karma though..." - Bweltd
914-783-2455 Monroe, NY	South East NY, The Particle Board 3, The Particle Board III (1992-1997)	Navarino/Cupano, Vincent Navarino, Joe Cupano	Searchlight BBS
	"Sequel to "The Particle Board II." - Joe Cupano
914-796-1136 Wurtsboro, NY	CPU BBS (1993-1996)	James Oppenheim	PCBoard
	For Pay BBS
914-831-2663 Wappingers Falls, NY	World of Tiers BBS (1991-1994)	Rei Santovenia	RBBS
	"We were the Hub for SKYNet (Systems Konnected Year-Round)..." - Rei Santovenia
914-834-7830 Larchmont, NY	PowerBoard BBS, The Powerboard HQ BBS, The Swing BBS, NuIQ, NUIQ Software, Inc (1991-1997)	Scott Brown
	Product: Powerboard BBS
914-876-1450 Red Hook, NY	The Hudson Valley BBS (1992-1997)	John Perz	Wildcat
	Boasted of Lots of Windows 3.0 Files
914-876-5639 Rhinebeck, NY	Rhinewan (1988-1994)	Robert J Demkowicz	RBBS-PC, Citadel
	"Move from Saugerties User Exchange (S.U.E.) continuing to run RBBS-PC. Migrate to CITIDEL86e in 1988,then CITIDELUX 1990 on XENIX moving to AIX PC 1992. A second phone line took calls from other systems twice a day and called out twice a day." - Robert J. Demkowicz
914-897-3127 Fishkill, NY	Intoxicated Roadkill (1990-1992)	Chris Shorter (Mainman)	Teleguard
	"I just can't believe this thing made it to your list.. Anyway, the info above is correct. It was just a good time in life, trading warez before you had to endure porn pop-ups to do it." - Chris Shorter
914-942-2638 Stony Point, NY	R A C S III, RACS III BBS, TUCBBS (1982-1987)	Tuc	Remote Access Computer System (RACS)
	racsiii.net - The story of bringing it back online. Know anyone that can align drives?? ;)
914-963-7187 Yonkers, NY	Hole In The Wall BBS (1983-1988)	Kid Curry, Optimus Prime	C-Net
	"A BBS me and my father ran on our Commodore 64 back in 1983-1988(?) It started with a commodore 64 and one 1541 disc drive running on c-net. It eventually grew to about 4 1541 disk drives and 2 brand disc drives which I cannot remember that actually were 2 disc drives in 1 (equaling 4 additional drives in total).. I was only about 10 years old I believe and was the co-sysop. We were one of the more popular BBS's on the C64 scene and had a dedicated line just for the BBS. The line was alywas busy and we have near 1,000 users. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life in regards to computers and something I hold dear to my heart till this very day. The WWW. Has nothing on dial up BBS!" - Optimus Prime
914-968-8511 Yonkers, NY	The Main Line BBS (1989-1990)	Vincent Scaramuzzo
	"I am the former SysOp of the Main Line BBS out of Yonkers NY. Funny to see my name on the list. I was about 15 when I ran that site for a year, forgot the name of the software I used, I think it was QuickBBS, a great shareware program that was similar to TBBS if memory serves me right. I ran it on a PC with (2) 20 meg hard drive and a 2400BPS modem... How cool I thought I was and what a system I thought I had. I was clued to the Computer 12-18 hours a day. I think I spend more time on my BBS setting things up then actually letting it run! My first BBS experience was with another on the list, M&M's in Pelham, NY...One of the first BBS in Westchester county. I first logged onto that board with my 300BPS modem that I got for x-mas...... What I thought I was doing that x-mas morning as I connected to a ASCII text welcome screen of a Christmas tree...I think the asterisks actually blinked in color! I later spent a lot of time on Joe Browns BBS in Mt. Vernon. Joe is a Ham Radio Operator and Mike from M&M's Pelham (also a HAM) both gave a young kid great guidance on how to run a BBS.... I even got involved with FidoNet and other mail systems... Our way of sending messages across the country in 24hrs! Faster than the post office at the time, and a precursor of E-Mail to come. Little did we know what was to come. Back then my PC booted up quicker, we did everything in DOS. Became the kings of .bat files and ASCII files, and I hardly remember my system locking up or having to reboot.....As for Viruses?????? never got one.... We were the pioneers, blazing across the west on Horseback, only to have trains, then cars, and eventually planes pass us by. Eventually got the keys to a car at 16 and gone was my lust for the BBS. Soon to follow was the Internet when I turned 18 and found it to be a sneaky way to do well in college! Now, the Internet is the wild west, and is only limited by imagination. Back then we had the imagination, just not the technology. I wonder what we will think of the Internet now, in another 15 years... Thanks so much for the memories!" - Vincent Scaramuzzo
915-235-4818 Sweetwater, TX	Star Link, Starlink BBS (1993-1994)	John Land
	Technical Support for Predictive Maint Customers
915-332-6030 Odessa, TX	Triforce's Imperial BBS (1992-1995)	Christopher Poe	Spitfire
	"Running licensed copy of Spitfire BBS. Single line - 2400 to 28.8k bps, zoom 28.8k external model. File Areas - 1.20 GB online. Games and Door Programs - Over 30 door programs. Validated access first call. This was my first BBS running full-time with a dedicated phone line, from my parents house. If I remember correctly, I was in 9th grade at the time, and my mom was cool enough to give me the money to buy a license for Spitfire BBS. This was my after-school project and I looked forward every day to sysoping! In particular I remember several very fun door games I had in stalled and played myself along with several of my users. Usurper, Legend of the Red Dragon, Planets, and a few others I can't think of." - Christopher Poe
915-520-0114 Midland, TX	Baron's Castle, Baron's Castle BBS (1992-1998)	John Hautzenroeder	Amiga CNET 5.0
	"The Baron's Castle ran on an accelerated Amiga 2000 with 5 lines. From late 1996 to 1998, it also included 10 telnet connections. It offered multiple live chat, single and multi-user on-line games, and 6 gigabytes of freeware and shareware games, utilities, and demo files." - John Hautzenroeder
915-520-6633 Midland, TX	Lucid Dimensions (1986-1995)	Greg Wootan	Synchronet
	"Lucid Dimensions was the largest file download BBS in the Permian Basin. It was the first to offer downloads from extensive (by that days standards) commercially produced CD libraries. Lucid Dimensions also offered the ever popular Trade Wars online game. Many thanks to those who supported Lucid Dimensions during its 8+ year run." - Greg Wootan
915-561-5115 TERMINAL, TX	Telegraph Road (1) (1986-1991)	James (Jim) Stormes, Matt Vann	Major BBS
	"I started this BBS with my friend Matt. He lived half way between Midland and Odessa Texas. At that time if you lived between the two cities, you could get a "metro" number that would not be a long distance phone call from ether Midland or Odessa. That is why it is listed as Terminal TX. I gave it to someone else to run after I left for college, I don't recall his name. I know several people kept it running and it passed from one Sysop to another. We had only two lines when I handed it off. It eventually had 4." - Jim Stormes
915-580-5085 Odessa, TX	The Institute of Chaos (1995-1997)	Christopher Poe	Renegade
	"The Institute of Chaos. File Areas - 1.28GB. 6 Registered Door Games. Dual Zoom V.34 28.8k modems. Running two instances of Renegade BBS using Novell DOS 7. Validated access first call. "The Institute of Chaos (TiC). This was my seond BBS to run, I started it as another BBS side project while in high school, running it in addition to Triforce's Imperial BBS for a short time, then shutting down TI to focus on my new one. I had pushed the limits of my Spitfire BBS software and moved to a more powerful and actually freeware software called Renegade BBS. With money made working for a movie theater after school I purchased a used 486, another Zoom 28.8k modem, and got an ISDN Line - I was in business with a multi-node BBS! By this time I had registered half a dozen of my favorite door games, and had a fairly active user base built up. It was very rare that at least one of my nodes weren't connected." -Christopher Poe
915-590-3817 El Paso, TX	The Other Side (1992-1997)	Sean Dunbar	Telegard, Renegade
	"This board was also related to Maniac's Realm and any other boards operated by myself (Sean Dunbar) - same system, different phone numbers (from moving) and names. The Other Side can also be seen in the 972 list in both Carrollton TX and Renner TX - didn't stay up very long after moving to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Currently working to bring it back up as a telnet system (projected Feb 2003). The system switched back and forth between Telegard and Renegade, but ran Telegard for most of its life." - Sean Dunbar
915-591-9972 El Paso, TX	The Club House (1984-1988)	David Permenter, Art Weller, Bob Dockendorf	RBBS, PC Board, FidoNet
	"SWIPCC (SouthWest International PC Club) official BBS." - Anonymous
915-643-2204 Brownwood, TX	ReptileLand (1990-1998)	Mike Jackson	Wildcat 4-5
	"Reptileland BBS is now closed due to a lighting storm that took out the entire system." - Mike Jackson
915-643-9685 Brownwood, TX	Light of Dawn BBS (1993-1995)	Aaron Tucker	Wildcat
	"I was 1:19/102.1 on FidoNet, started with PowerBoard by NuIQ Software." - Aaron Tucker
915-658-2603 SAN ANGELO, TX	Twilight Zone III, TWILIGHT ZONE TOO, Twilite Zone, TZtoo! (1985-1993)	Greg Hartle	FireStorm, QuickBBS, Opus, NOCHANGE, TBBS, GBBS
	Software: FireStorm (homebrew: PC, C++, 80x86 Asm), QuickBBS, Opus, NOCHANGE, TBBS, GBBS (homebrew: TRS-80, BASIC, Z80 Asm). "Fidonet 1:383/3. Offered extensive online games with a system-wide point system and rankings, message boards for various discussion topics, and downloads for several machines. Many of the online games were written from scratch, adapted for BBS usage, or ported from other BBS platforms by the sysop. It was certainly a learning & growing experience during my high school and college years." - Greg Hartle
915-683-6500 Midland, TX	The Online Supercenter (1994-1999)	Charlie Lee	Searchlight
	General file sharing local and CD, door games, weather, chat and common boards in both ANSII and RIPscript formats.
915-833-3899 El Paso North, TX	Crystal Wind, Iconoclast (1988-1992)	Michael Cox	Skyline
	Software written by Michael Cox.
916-222-0320 Redding, CA	Firehouse BBS, The Firehouse BBS (1993-1998)	Ed "Firefighter" Nowlin	WWIV
	"Moved to the 530 Area Code during the split, hosted WWIVNet, ICENet, FireTacNet and during the last 1.5 years of existance, was a TrekNet (Fido type network) Gateway." - Ed Nowlin
916-262-0836 Lakeport, CA	Reura Pente BBS, Utopia Clanitia (1993-1994)	Hussein Hill	WWIV
	"I was the sysop of this popular wwivnet bbs. I was a high school student at the time and my BBS was frequented by many high school students at the time. One of my users sent me alot of information about this new internet world wide web thing, and actually donated money so I could explore it. I reviewed it and felt it was nothing significant." - Hussein Hill
916-273-9525 Grass Valley, CA	The Gold Coast BBS (1990-1994)	Jim Barker	Wildcat
	"Ran a few door games like Tradewars, Food Fight, etc. One of the best times of my life. I still have the software...on floppy disc...heheh" - Jim Barker
916-334-2958 Sacramento, CA	The Camera Eye BBS Node 2 (1989-1999)	Herman Rinkel, Bob Brodovsky	Spitfire
	"I Also ran The Spieler's Haven from 1989 to 1991 before merging it into The Camera Eye with Bob Brodovsky. It was like the 5th or 6th BBS to exist in 916. If you are interested you can get a clearer history @ http://users.neworld.net/cameye/history.html. Cheers!" - Herman Rinkel "Mr. Rinkel asserts that the Camera Eye was the 5th or 6th BBS to exist in 916 and that he started in 1989 but I started BBSing in the 916 in 1984/85 and had way more than 6 local boards I called on a regular basis. Perhaps he was only aware of a portion of the actual boards in his area. A little bit of wardialing could have gotten him a 916 list of several dozen active BBSs as early as 82/83." - L. Burt
916-342-0562 Chico, CA	The Klingon Empire, Wayne's World (1992)	Jade Rasmussen (General Wang), Brad Franzella (TheWizz)	WWIV
	"This board was operated by my close friend for a few years (with a name change at some point). I don't remember the exact dates, but I'm guessing from 1990-1993 at least. He ran a CoCo3 based BBS for awhile immediately before with the same name (The Klingon Empire). He switched to a 386 running WWIV around 1991-ish then renamed it "Wayne's World" a year or two after. The main mistake you have is "Fair Oaks" for the city, when it was really Chico far to the North. As far as I can recall, he changed his handel to General Chang when Star Trek VI came out, but everyone called him General Wang (immediately stuck). He tried to change this to General Wayne, so when the movie "Wayne's World" came out, he couldn't resist changing the name of the board to avoid this little joke and went by "Wayne" for awhile. :) This brings it all back!" - Brad Franzella
916-348-6133 Sacramento, CA	Big Blue I (1988-1990)	Marty Bouillon	RBBS
	"I believe Big Blue was originally launched in the very early 80's in Sacramento by Tom Thornton. I took Big Blue over from Tom sometime in early '88... I left home for school in '90 and needed my machine (a true blue IBM XT) for other things." - Marty Bouillon
916-356-3600 FOLSOM, CA	Intel Application Support Technical Support, Intel Applications Support BBS (1995)
	"The bulletin board system (BBS) lets you download files to your computer. The application BBS has the latest ApBUILDER software, hypertext manuals and datasheets, software drivers, firmware upgrades, application notes and utilities, and quality and reliability data." - Matthew Lange
916-356-7209 FOLSOM, CA	Intel Applications Support BBS
	"The bulletin board system (BBS) lets you download files to your computer. The application BBS has the latest ApBUILDER software, hypertext manuals and datasheets, software drivers, firmware upgrades, application notes and utilities, and quality and reliability data." - Matthew Lange
916-365-6104 Redding, Ca	FATAL ERROR (1994-1996)	John Colosio	Wildcat, Wild Cat 4
	"Internet E-mail and Pagesat Satellite imported Newsgroups." - John Colosio
916-365-7456 Redding, CA	Fatal Error (1994-1996)	John Colosio	Wildcat, Wild Cat 4
	"Internet E-mail and Pagesat Satellite imported Newsgroups." - John Colosio
916-366-3216 Sacramento, CA	The Coconut Telegraph, The Coconut Telegraph (Node 1) (1994-2004)	Mike Sommer	Magpie , Wildcat, TriBBS, Wildcat! WINServer
	"Can you believe it? The system is still up. Since 1994. I still get 5-10 dial up calls a day and a few that still donate. My system is their means for e-mail. The donations cover the monthly phone biil and I say that I will pull the plug if the donations stop - but somehow I think I will have a difficult time doing that. I Was up to 4 dial up lines during the last of the 'hey day' but you know the story - that internet thing took over:-) My Winserver system is connected full time to the internet witha business class DSL with a static IP. I host 10 domains, both mail and web. 1/2 mine, the other half paying customers. I get a handful of telnet callers as well just to play LORD, Trade Wars and Foof Fite. I Used to run TriBBS, my influence was Stimpy's Litterbox (TriBBS) - Sysop Brad Barrier. I was totally jazzed that he had a CD rom accessable on the BBS via RomBrain from Brainex software (And believe this, Brainex is still out there selling doors!) When I had the TriBBS system, I had over 21 CD-ROMS online on SCSI Pioneer changers plus 2 IDE CD Roms. Plus a *whopping* 1.2GB of hard drive file storage. I did the QWK mail hub thing and the FIDO - the "secret handshake club" to get into;-) I could go on being nostalgic but I won't. If you want to contact me, e-mail me at mike.sommer@coconutcomm.com and I'd be happy to wax BBS nostagia with you." - Mike Sommer
916-369-6787 Sacramento, CA	Dragons Den II (1987-2002)	Vince Seifert	Novucivitas
	"Dragons Den II BBS is still operational today. It has just been left active all these years with no interference from the sysop. Occasionally old users still log on. The owner/sysop thinks of it as an online BBS museum." - Scott Mattas
916-429-2239 SACRAMENTO, CA	The Underworld (1992)	Califboy
	Crack Inc Member BBS
916-486-1594 Sacramento, CA	Palmtree BBS (1983-1990)	Bill Drennon
	"Started on a Radio Shack color computer 1983." - Gunner1940
916-487-2931 Sacramento, CA	Skies of Acid, Skies of Acid BBS, The Gates Of Zendocon (1994-1999)	Rolf Brown, Ryan Brown, Ryan Brown (Zendo)	Renegade
	"A name change from "The Gates of Zendocon," and a new look revamped the BBS. I put more focus into the online games, adding as many as I could and tried to get a few gaming networks going, although those never really took off. I ran the message boards with a very serious emphasis on free speech, and for a short time integrated Internet email and limited newsgroups through Waffle as a sort of sub-BBS, but that didn't really catch on either. In 1995, my single line BBS was named "2nd Best Reader's Choice BBS" (Or something very similar) by the Sacramento News and Review in their annual "Best Of" issue. The gigantic and very cool 24th Street Exchange multi-line chat BBS took 1st. I think the 1995 "Best Of" may have been the last one to ever have an entry for a BBS. Around the end of 1998 I still seemed to get at least one call per day, so I kept the BBS up. I wanted to hit the 10 year mark, but in 1999 I hardly received calls anymore, and decided it was pointless. The Internet had won.." - Ryan Brown
916-529-3758 Red Bluff, CA	B.J.J.S.II (1983-1985)	Blaine Sutliff	AMIS
	This was an A.M.I.S. Limited Hours Bulletin Board Open from 8am - 8pm, started in late 1983 running on an Atari 400 with a 300 baud Atari 1030 modem and a Rana-1000 DS/DD Disk Drive. The original name was briefly the Atari Inn, but was changed to prevent confusion with the Atari Inn BBS in New York. At the time this was 1 of 3 BBSs serving Northern California.
916-624-5332 Rocklin, Ca	Demon's Lair (1990-1997)	John Best, Demonhunter	Telegard
	"At one time had one of the largest filebases in the area. Massive ammounts of door games. Fido/Battlenet/EagleNet" - Demonhunter
916-672-2367 Shingle Springs, CA	Phiber Optik BBS (1992-1994)	Jared Huber & Jason Griffith	Hermes 2
	"Running my bbs was a huge part of my life. I did horrible in high school because of it. I spent probably 3-5 hours a day working/socializing on my bbs. My father had a company phone line (from Intel) that I used sometimes to call long distance. I would scavenge other BBSes file areas and put the files I liked on mine. that came to an end when his boss told him I racked up over $3000 phone bill for a 4-5 month period. "My bbs specialized in local chat (El Dorado county), shareware games (mac & pc), and other shareware. had LOTS of fidonet echoes. approx. 100 members. Got approx. 20-30 calls per day." - Jared Huber
916-674-3437 Sacramento, CA	The Alien Nation (1988)	Chad Baker
	"1200/300 baud - 20 megs Downloads/Uploads - Text Files 13 msg bases - 10pm-7am - Apple / Commodore / IBM / TRS Support. Source: Computist magazine 53, p. 37"
916-756-4178 Davis, CA	the wRong Number BBS (1989-1991)	Cerkit Breaker, Nersis	Telegard 2.4h
	"Went completely private for a year before shutting down. Two different BBS's took the framework Telegard and ran their own BBS when the wRong Number BBS shut down. TCM a.k.a. The COPY Machine, Sysop Shadow, and BBB, Bold, Blue, and Bitchin' with Sysop Mav'Rick, the two BBS's assuming the private and public user accounts, respectively." - Cerkit Breaker
916-788-7403 Beale AFB, CA	The Morning Calm (1995-1996)	C. A. Rohn, C.A. Rohn	CNet Amiga
	"I started The Morning Calm in South Korea (Land Of The Morning Calm) in 1991. Its primary function over there was to connect servicemembers stationed in Korea with the States. About 10-15 of us brought FIDOnet to Korea (Zone 6, Region 66, I was 6:760/41). I ran the BBS on an Amiga 2000 with a 68030 daughterboard, 16 MB of RAM, a Pioneer 6 CD-ROM SCSI changer and a 1 GB hard disk, back when 1 GB was considered huge. After relocation to the States in 1995 I ran the BBS for about 18 months until the internet went mainstream. It was fun while it lasted, and I'm proud to have given some of my fellow servicemembers a stateside connection in the pre-internet days." - C.A. Rohn
916-891-0312 Chico, CA	>Unknow System< (1990-1996)	Unknown/Tweaty	WWIVnet Node 9650
	"916 Area Coordinator and mail hub." - Tweaty
916-929-7511 Sacramento, CA	Bob's, Bob's BBS, BOBsBBS, USBBS, Bob’s BBS, Bobs BBS (1986-1996)	Bob Breedlove
	List of BBS List Keepers: Darwin National USBBS List/Bob Breedlove ListKeeper: Darwin National USBBS List
916-962-3973 Sacramento, CA	For Adults Only BBS, FOR ADULTS ONLY Bulletin Board System, ForAdultsOnly (1988-1996)	Dale DeBord
	From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Minimum member age 21. Sacramento's premiere adult chat and files BBS. 9+ GIGs of adult graphics, games, erotica files. Friendly members nationwide. Referred by Playboy, Adult BBS Guidebook, EIDOS, and Joy of Cybersex. Free four-hour trial period. Download first logon. MasterCard and VISA accepted. From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Sacramento, California since 01/88. Sysop: Dale DeBord. Using Oracomm-PLUS 7.1 with 17 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 2000 MB storage. Practical Peripheral at 14400 bps. $14 Quarterly fee. Sacramento's largest and friendliest Adult CHAT, FILES System. Adult Message Bases, CHAT, GIF, GL, DL, FLI, Text and Game FILES. FREE Member GIFs. DISCOUNT Member Plans for Students and Military. FREE 3-HOUR TRIAL PERIOD. DOWNLOAD ON FIRST LOGON!
918-245-0522 Sand Springs, TX	T*R*A*T*E*O*T*U (1988-1990)	Ben Lindsey	QuickBBS
	"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
918-251-1612 Broken Arrow, OK	Fat Ladies, Fat Ladies BBS (1987)	Michael Chasteen a.k.a. --=> The Head Hacker <=--	Originally Genesis BBS
	"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."
918-252-5542 Tulsa, OK	1st Admendment MLTBBS, 1st Amendment TBBSML, First Amendment (1985-1991)	Steve Schendel, Joe Winett	TBBS
	"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
918-254-5592 Broken Arrow, OK	Stephen Thompson's Place (1993-1998)	Stephen E. Thompson, Stephen Thompson	MAXBBS
	"I was the origional file "leech". I loved downloading software with my modem. I it was irritating that some BBSs limited downloading. So I set up this BBS to give back to the public at large a little and provide a place where leeches like myself could have a good old time. I thought I might start a trend. I totally funded it myself and had a CD jukebox online with literally gigabytes of downloads available, all for free. After a while I hooked into fidonet and found out that BBSs could be used for email and news groups. What a concept! Fidonet was great. Too bad the internet killed it. But that's progress. It was a great ride and I learned a lot about dial up networking." - Stephen Thompson
918-272-7779 Tulsa, OK	Black Gold BBS (1981-1995)	Michael Cline, Roger Ridgway, John Cline	PCBoard, PCBoard 15.2
	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
918-299-3073 Jenks, OK	The Earth Foundation (1991)	Brad Kester	Remote Access
	"I am Brad Kester, the sysop of this old board.. it was strange to find myself included in this list and reading through the names brought back memories. (= During that time of my life, my best friends were the people I knew from the BBS's. I still have a number of good friends who I met back then. It's too bad that this form of communication died when the internet was born. I always felt more connected to the people then... but then again, I couldn't webcam with my friend in Russia back then either. (= Thanks for taking the time to set this list up. Definitely a piece of history that deserves to be remembered." - Brad Kester
918-369-5032 Bixby, OK	Person To Person (1984-1985)	Randal Chapman	Custom on C64
	"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
918-369-7295 Tulsa, OK	House of Insanity (1993-1996)	The Victor, Bunny Slayer, White Knight	SuperBBS
	"No longer around (of course). I had around 1800 user ids on the board, at least 300-400 were active and unique. I was in '93 the youngest sysop in town (age 13). Used to courier razor releases on the privy section, had a well used msg base, files were games/utils/patches oriented, and several games that were frequented: ooii, usurper, lod, lotrd, battletech vga... all on SuperBBS v1.17. I may have lists of all the boards in town during those years (300 were active or so). " - The Victor
918-371-2013 Collinsville, OK	Zocalo: Online! (1994-1997)	Steven Rungtranont	MaxsBBS
	"I originally started this BBS as "The Mariah Carey Singing BBS," as that was the poster hanging above my computer and the chat wav sample was Mariah Carey singing. It started one night because I was bored, and ran off a two floppy Amiga 1200 system for a while, before I got a whopping 20 MB hard drive. Also started out with a 14.4 modem, eventually ending at 33.6. We started getting a loyal group of message board RPG players, and that branched out into a full fleged gaming group with everything from RPG's, to Magic the Gathering, anime, movies, and picnics. The name was changed to Zocalo: OnLine! to reflect the heavy inspiration of Babylon 5, and then one of our users, Brad "Honkee" Sebastion started referring to us as "The z Crew." So, even though the BBS died, the group lives on and online at http://www.zcrew.org." - Steven Rungtranont
918-481-5715 Tulsa, OK	LiveNet OS/2 BBS, Tulsa Hub A, LiveNet 1:170/110 (1991-1995)	Dave Fisher
	List of BBS List Keepers: OS/2 Related BBS/Dave Fisher ListKeeper: OS/2 Related BBS
918-492-1749 Tulsa, OK	Morning Star BBS, Psalms 35 BBS CfC 31 (1989-1994)	David Wenrick
	"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
918-496-8113 Tulsa, OK	Excalibur Communications Technical Support, Excalibur Headquarters, Excalibur HQ BBS, Excalibur Communications, Inc, Excalibur BBS (1994-1995)
	Product: Excalibur
918-585-2552 Sand Springs, OK	THE SLAMMER, THE SLAMMER BBS (1985-1991)	M. Phillips, Michael L. Phillips	TBBS
	"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
918-622-1121 TULSA, OK	Alpha Complex, Future City BBS, Jelly Baby, X-Factor (1988-1993)	Josh McCormick	Carnival, Madronna Marsh, Utopia
	"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
918-663-2446 Tulsa, OK	BrainWave BBS (1994-1996)	Terry Gamel	Proboard
	"Never used fidonet, but it was the largest LORD and TEOS BBS in Tulsa in terms of number of players and number of addons during its time." - Terry Gamel
918-743-6831 Tulsa , OK	Uncle Dave's High Octane BBS (1983-1987)	Steve Epps, Dave McFadden	TBBS
	"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
918-747-2542 Tulsa, OK	ACCESS AMERICA, Access America (1988-1995)	Vance Martin, Linda Hargraves	TBBS 2.2
	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
918-747-9825 Tulsa, OK	Chicken Of The Sea BBS (1994-1995)	Mark Rodgers
	"I started this BBS when I was 12 and ran it for about a year and half before my parents made me take it down. It was based out of my bedroom in Tulsa, OK and got about 40-60 calls/log-ons per day. It used the Remote Access platform which was the most popular of the day. I ran most the popular door games of the day (BRE, Usurper, etc) and had service from multiple mail networks (FidoNet, FunkNet, etc). A few Tulsa SysOps ran the mail network I started OmegaNet. One of my fondest memories was the "Insomia Breakdown Challenge" where myself and many other users saw who could stay up for the longest with no sleep. I believe the winner went almost 48 hours before crashing, and I believe caffeine was the only drug ingested. I now run an insurance business in Dallas, TX and point to my early days as a BBS sysop that gave me my start as an entrepreneur." - Mark Rodgers
918-749-0059 Tulsa, OK	BULLET-80 Tulsa, TBBS, TBBS Tulsa (1981-1987)	Floyd Grant	TBBS
	"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
918-832-0684 TULSA, OK	The Talking BBS (1995-1996)	Christy Yingst	Remote Access
	"I was really surprised to see this listed! I remember starting the BBS, just for the heck of it. I had no idea what I was getting into, as I had to pull the BBS down to connect to boards myself and the callers didn't like that! I sure did have fun with it though, and I can only hope the callers did too. I even had Fido running on it, quite an accomplishment back in those days. The BBS community were my only friends for quite some time, and they helped me through a very difficult time in my life, probably without even realizing it. Ah the days." - Christy Schulte, formerly Christy Yingst, Talking BBS SysOP
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
	"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
918-836-0452 Tulsa, OK	(A)narchist (A)nonymous (1991-1997)	Ruse Artifice	SuperBBS
	"For informational purposes ONLY!" =) Can you still call you board 'underground' if you had a constant 300-400 steady local user base? *Credit goes out to TOTSE (Temple of the Screaming Electron) via Californa for the wide file base." - Ruse Artifice
919-212-0086 Raleigh, NC	GraphX (1993-1995)	Jay Harrison	TAG
	I started up this BBS when I first moved back to Raleigh from Garden city, concentrating on images and image manipulation. Lots of POV-ray sources and images, along with some of the more popular shareware. (The rest just to you, Mr. Scott): I got nostalgic and started poking around the net to see if BBSes still existed in any form, and was utterly surprised not only that they do, but that my little BBS was at the top of your list :D
919-222-9348 Burlington, NC	Micro-5 Users Group (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-233-1655 Raleigh, NC	Van Allen Industries (1991-1996)	John Butzke, Jon Butzke (Kill Ratio)	TAG then Maximus (OS/2)
	"The board was originally run from my college room, which meant that the phone would ring at all hours of the night as people called in. After two years I got an apartment, switched the board over to OS/2 so that I could use my computer for school work while some knucklehead was playing Trade Wars. The board was a member of FIDOnet which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Being able to read national newsgroups and chat with people throughout the local area." - Jon Butzke
919-243-1601 Wilson, NC	Wilson County Board of Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-271-0649 Guilford County, NC	Guilford County BBS (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-284-4736 Micro, NC	Johnston County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-286-3606 Durham, NC	PreRapture BBS 2, PreRapture BBS Node 2, PreRapture BBS Node2, PRIME NETWORK, PRIME – PreRapture International Message Exchange (1991-2001)	Steve Winter
	PRIME NETWORK, the only real Christian Network on earth, PreRapture BBS 919-286-3606, Acts 2:38, John 3:5 download prime.zip for Network kit. - BBS Magazine November, 1994 PRIME NETWORK, the only real Christian Network on earth, PreRapture BBS 919-286-3606. Acts 2:38. John 3:5 download prime.zip for Network kit. - BBS Magazine March, 1995
919-362-0676 Cary, NC	Dial Your Match #20, DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #20, DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #20 Apex, NCBBS, Ora Comm, Oracomm, Oracle of N.C (1978-1996)	Dale Dutcher	MajorBBS , DIAL-YOUR-MATCH, Apple Basic
	"First BBS in North Carolina. Connected with Bill Blue of People's Messenger Service in CA for the first file transfers using Ward Christensen XMODEM protocol at TTY and 110 BAUD Dennis Hayes designed MODEM+Clock." - Dale Dutcher
919-362-4995 Apex, North Carolina	Hong Longs Hot Tamale and Refried Bean Dip Counter (1991-1994)	Michael Bab AKA ScRap Lover	T.A.G and Telegard
	"Sister BBS with "Fong Longs" out of Cary, NC running for approximately the same duration. Single line BBS with TAG front end and a ling to a hidden telegard system for users with elevated rights." - Michael Bab
919-380-8713 Cary, NC	Pandora's Box (1994-1996)	Syberblade aka Yung Chang	Vision/x and Obsidian/2
	"Ran a BBS when I was 15 as a way of meeting older girls (who could drive) and getting laid. It worked beautifully. You should ask the other Sysops "So how many of you started a BBS as a way to meet girls?" (or download porn) Other interesting things like Running into Kevin Mitnick, and the founder of Razor 1911 in person at a BBS party. And all before I turned 17!" - Syberblade
919-444-1190 Havelock, NC	ShadowChaser's BBS (1994-1996)	Gary Perry	Wildcat
	"This BBS was a 4 line BBS. It was hell getting the 4 internal modems to work at first. Manually configuring 4 internal modem's IRQ's, com port's, and other settings was quite interesting. "The BBS ran using the 10 line version of Wildcat BBS software from Mustang Software out in California somewhere. It operated on MS DOS 5.5 and eventually MS DOS 6.2 using QEMM for memory management and Desqview to provide the multitasking environment. I used Mcafee anti virus which at the time was free for SYSOPS. "Three lines were for incoming callers and one line was reserved for email and outgoing connections between users from New Bern, NC and Morehead City, NC. I was in the middle of 2 cities long distance to each other and I was local to both. I provided a means for users from either city to connect to BBS's in the other city. This system had 6 internal cd rom drives and 2 540 MB hard drives. At the time, 540 MB drives were huge. CD rom drives still had to have their own IDE interface card. I daisy chained 4 drives on one card, and went to radio shack to make my own data cable for the 4 drives. In addition to a massive file server and multiple lines, I offered all the door games I could get to work and all the email networks I could get and live chat with the BBS users that were online." - Gary Perry
919-444-1473 Havelock, NC	Asahi BBS (1985-1993)	Iley Pullen	PCBoard, RBBS
	"I was the BBS Administrator for Asahi BBS, 919-444-1473. I actually started the BBS in 1985 using RBBS. In 1989, I switched from RBBS to PCBoard. The site was taken down in 1990 as I left for the war, Desert Storm. The site was down from August 1990 to April 1991. I then brought the site back up and continued to run the site until I retired from the Marines in 1993. During that time, I was the East Coast Regional Director for everything from North Carolina to Florida for RBBSNet and FIDONet. These were the early versions of email service. As a director, I had a repository on my computer, then a whopping 80MB that accepted phone calls, called other repositories, and passed mail out. Back then, we had to go onto the BBS to view our email, which I guess is currently like the Webmail services that we can get. Back then I owned a BBS and now I use web sites for the same type of things, just better and faster." - Iley Pullen
919-460-4964 Cary, NC	The Collective BBS (1992-1995)	Danny Durhl, Danny Druhl	TAG BBS
	"Michael D. Druhl here, former Sysop of The Collective BBS. One of the neatest things I've ever seen......my old BBS listed on a website such as this. Too Cool!! Many years later and 10 years into a Navy career now, I still miss the good ol' days of selecting a dozen or so BBS's to call up with procomm and see which wasn't busy. I guess my only corrections to the info are the city, Cary, which is right next to Raleigh in the state of NC. I used various releases of TAG right up until the version that supported RIP graphics, and not long after that, I took down my board. Some of the most enjoyable years of my life in which I learned the most!" - Michael Druhl
919-477-0548 Durham, NC	BARGAIN BASEMENT BBS, BargnBsmt, The Bargain Basement, Bargain Basement BBS (1988-1994)	Dennis O'Dell	Wildcat, Red Ryder Host
	"Bargain Basement came online originally running Red Ryder Host on a Mac Plus, and about a year later switched over to Wildcat on a V-20 PC with a "huge" 30 MB RLL hard drive, as the Mac Plus wasn't really designed to be on 24/7. I didn't like the direction the authors were taking Wildcat, so in 1991 I switched to WWIV to take advantage of WWIVnet and dual phone lines. At that point Bargain Basement became Another World and Aardvark Central was added a year later as the second line." - Dennis O'Dell
919-481-9399 Cary, NC	Delta Comm Development Technical Support, DeltaComm Development, deltaComm Online, Telix Support, Telix Support Technical Support, Telix Support BBS, deltaComm Development, Inc (1993-1997)	Jeff Woods, Jeff Woods/deltaComm Development	PCBoard
	Support Service for Telix Communications Software
919-489-2474 Orange County, NC	The Infinite Improbabililty BBS/Heart of Gold BBS	Andrew Mead	WWIV
	"A programmer by training, I got into BBSing through my interest in writing software tools. I wrote a few door games (Star Traders and Madness were probably my most widespread games) as an experiment, and spent a couple years figuring out how to get them to work with over 30-odd drop file formats used by various DOS based BBS programs. The site used a tool I wrote that allowed WWIVnet BBSes to also receive FidoNet connections (as Private Idaho BBS), but the main use of my BBS was development and propagation of the open source BOI (BBS Onliner Interface) Turbo Pascal code library that I made available to others to write their own doors." - Andrew Mead
919-528-4182 Stem, NC	The Fork in the Road (1992-1994)	Michael E. Gurganus	VBBS 4.5
	"Online from 013192 as WWIV then switched to registered version of VBBS 041292 and assigned VBBS Node @9391. Hosted over 100 local Durham area users and was one of the first to utilize 14.4K speed in the area. Dedicated System was a Intel 80386 with 2 60MB drives, 14.4K Modem with dedicated Phone Line and a 20MB tape backup. System offline after fire destroyed the area of the home where the BBS was set up 011794 and was retired. Name was not from the famous Yogi Berra quote but from Johnny Carson's character Art Fern ("Art Fern's Tea Time Movie"). The residence was at 1677 Sanders Road in Stem at the actual "Fork in the Road" where Sanders Road splits to the right and left at Tally Ho Baptist Church." - Michael E. Gurganus"
919-541-0041 Research Triangle Park, NC	NIHES, NIHES Apple Users' Group BBS, NIEHS Apple User's Group (1993-1995)	Phil Albro	OBBS
	"The listed name for this BBS is incorrect -- it should be NIEHS. The Sysop was Phil Albro (now deceased), who at the time worked at the National Institute of Environmental Health Service (hence NIEHS). I was a member of the Carolina Apple Core (CAC) Apple II User's Group and this board was our club's board. Among other things, it hosted the club's collection of freeware and shareware. The board ran on an Apple IIe and was physically located at NIEHS. After Albro retired, he moved the server to his home in Cary, NC. I think that coincident with the move was the renaming of the board to CoreTalk, and the change of the number to 919.544.1356. (See http://www.textfiles.com/apple/GENIELAMP/almp9607.app for confirmation of the number). I don't recall the dates the board was live, but IIRC I first started using it ca. 1991 and I think it was finally taken offline ca. 1998, but by that time it was mostly disused." - Phil Albro
919-541-1325 Hurdle Mills, NC	Applied Modeling Research, Applied Modeling Research BBS , Applied Modeling Research RBBS (1992-1994)	William Peterson/EPA
	Environmental Protection Agency Atomspheric Models
919-544-7811 Research Triangle Park, NC	Entertain. Club, Entertainment Club 08, Entertainment Club BBS (1994-1996)	Brian Womack	Wildcat , WildCat 4, Wildcat!
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina since 04/94. Sysop: Brian Womack. Using MagNum OS/2 7.0005 with 4 lines on Pentium/60 OS/2 with 8GB MB storage. Zyxel at 19200 bps. $8++ Annual fee. 1000++ File areas (40,000++ files w/ 6 SW CDROMs update quarterly), 500++ Message sections . will add more at user's request. 40++ REGISTERED Multi-User Games (Inter-BBS/Real-Time), Color Scanner serv., MatchMaking services (doors, parties) BARGAIN!
919-560-3815 Durham, NC	Durham Public Schls (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-571-1467 Raleigh, NC	The Alchemist's Laboratory, The Alchemists' Laboratory, The Toxic Spell Dump (1992-1996)	Kevin Sonney, Chris Stanford, Sean Mirman	WWIV
	"In '94 Kevin Sonney took down "The Alchemist's Lab", got married and moved. I moved in with his former roommate and started my BBS, "The Toxic Spell Dump" on the Lab's old phone line. At our peak we have 7500 users on 4 nodes. We were members of ICEnet, ACnet, FIITnet and started PLAYnet with another sysop in Charlotte." - Chris Stanford
919-571-7736 Raleigh, NC	Lunatic Fringe, Technical Obsolescence (1987-1993)	John Luce, John Luce aka Coppertop	CopperCit (Citadel variant)
	"BBS was run on an S-100 Bus machine with 4 8" floppies using the CP/M 2.0 operating system. Source code was compiled using BDS C with overlays, and a 9600 baud US Robotics HST modem. Board was brought down after moving when the move caused damage to the rack and bus of the computer. I then ported my CopperCit software to MSDOS for the use of Babel in Seattle, WA when that sysop's Radio Shack TRS-2 failed." - John Luce
919-597-8528 Roxboro, NC	Person County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-625-3520 Asheboro, NC	Asheboro City Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-662-0546 Raleigh, NC	The RIGHT Stuff BBS, The Right Stuff (1993-1996)	Bill Brady, Kaye Brady	T.A.G., TAG
	"I ran across this site today, and have to say that I was COMPLETELY surprised by the extent of your collection of sites that have long vanished from current means of communication, but remain in the hearts and minds of those who lived through the decade plus "golden age" of IDE, SCSI, CD-ROM, QEMM, etc...... The board started out as a venting place for political discussion. As a conservative, I used the "play on words" of the "Right Stuff" to attract folks to the forums. I spent considerable time recruiting the liberal leaning folks I had spoken with to lend their views to the opinions of my more fervent members. What occurred was some of the best, mostly civil discourse of political discussion I've ever seen. I was very proud to offer my home and PC to the BBS world. There are many time that I miss its simplicity. I was a little surprised to see my old site on your list, but my chest puffed a bit in pride, as I took a small trip down memory lane. Please add Kaye Brady as a SYSOP. She was my wife and a large contributor to the site. She should be recognized." - Bill Brady
919-727-2213 Winston-Salem, NC	Forsyth County Board of Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-744-1333 Winston-Salem, NC	Empire! BBS [ASV] (1990-1995)	Highlander AKA Michael Dymott	WWIV
	"This BBS was the sister BBS to FRINC BBS also in Winston-Salem. I had a CD ROM that had 640 MB of files that gave the system a very robust selection of downloadable files, and many people called for that. Bart Spainhour created some really great ANSI graphics for the board, and Llama Man was really supportive when I asked for cash donations. Iron Oxide logged in just about every day to play one of the ANSI based games. Ahhh the good old days." - Michael Dymott
919-757-4154 Greenville, NC	East Carolina University (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-776-7135 Sanford, NC	Lee County School District (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-779-4119 Garner, NC	The Dark Side (1984-1991)	Mark Wood (aka The Creep)	Color 64, C-Net, Ivory
	"Those were the days!" - Mark Wood
919-779-6674 Raleigh, NC	Micro Mesage Service, Micro Message Service, Micro Msg Svc, MMS Information Systems, Micro Message Svc. (1982-1996)	Mike Stroud, Mike Strand, Michael M Stroud, Michael M. Stroud, Michael Stroud	TBBS
	From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Raleigh, North Carolina since 10/82. Sysop: Michael M Stroud. Using TBBS 2.2 with 10 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 12000 MB storage. US Robotics at 19200 bps. $45 Annual fee. NC's # 1 online info service support for PC, Mac, Amiga and Atari ST. Hundreds of new files added weekly. Expert leaders for each SIG. Authorized eSoft dealer, system design and TDBS programming. Give your online system a leading edge, call us first. List of BBS List Keepers: Raleigh NC Area Code 919 USA Today/Boxoffice Magazine - Large Download Area ListKeeper: Raleigh NC Area Code 919
919-788-8227 Winston-Salem, NC	Maxx's Place (1987-1990)	Rodney Hester	C-Net
	"(Note that the last 3 digits of the phone number spell BBS - this was entirely coincidental.) Started on C-Net version 7 on a Commodore 64 with a lone 5.25" single-sided floppy-drive, running at 300 baud only at night after 7:00PM sharing my parent's phone line, Maxx's Place ended its run when I left for college in mid-1990 on a Commodore 128 running C-Net DS2 with 640K of RAM (512K expansion), 4 floppy drives (2 low-capacity single-sided 5.25" and 2 high-capacity double-sided 3.5" drives), a 2400 baud modem and a summer-home-box-cooling-fan-turned-computer-apparatus (I was forced to stack the drives because of space constraints and those puppies ran HOT!, so I used duct tape to secure this huge fan to the top of the stack blowing towards the floor) hosting approximately 300 users. Over my nearly 4-year span as SysOp, I toyed around with Color 64, ARB, Image, even Xavian (all Commodore BBS packages, some lesser-known, many unmentioned), but always returned to C-Net (despite us C-Net SysOps being deadly rivals with our Color 64 brethren). I will never forget my own first BBS call to Andy Pitts' The Padded Cell BBS and my first chat with a real, live human being/SysOp - I've never since owned a computer that wasn't "connected" in some way. Those were heady days." - Rodney Hester
919-790-0034 Raleigh, NC	The French Touch (1989-1993)	Tristan Louis	WWIV
	"Started in Raleigh but then continued at a new number in Chapel Hill when I moved there for college. Discontinued when I graduated from college and moved up to New York (by then, I was more interested in the internet)."
919-846-1750 Raleigh, NC	The Cave BBS (1992-1998)	Red Wolf	WWIV v4.21a - v4.24a
	"From December 1992 to February 9th, 1998, I ran a one-node WWIV BBS in Raleigh, NC called "The Cave BBS." At its height it had over 1000 users, although definitely not all were active at once. The BBS was members of both FIITAnet and CaveNet WWIV message networks at one time or another. I started with the BBS software WWIV 4.21a and slowly upgraded to WWIV 4.24a over the years, stopping at 4.22, 4.23, etc., along the way. The BBS phone number's last four digits were "1750." We had many message bases, many online games, a rather large file section, and by the end, the BBS had racked up well over 10,000 calls. It was a fun and fascinating experience, one whose profound influence on my life continues to this day." - Red Wolf (www.cavebbs.com)
919-846-3734 Cary, NC	Boinger Board (1989-1990)	Apache	WWIV
	"I did not run Boinger Board, but I did call in, and I met the SysOp, Brandon (aka Apache) a few times. It was a good WWIV BBS." - Anonymous
919-850-8951 Raleigh, NC	Wake County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-859-2547 Raleigh, NC	NiteFlite (1988-1994)	D. Bank, E. Mohrmann	WWIV
	"From D. Bank (original NiteFlite SysOp): I'm the original SysOp of NiteFlite, which began as a Comp. Sci. project for my degree at NCSU. I ran it from 1988 to 1990 (when it had a different phone #, I think in the 755 exchange), when I turned it over to a friend and frequent caller, E. Mohrmann. He ran it until at least 1993 (I'm not sure when her shut it down). NiteFlite was never intended to be a major file-sharing hub - StarFleet BBS and AJIS and a few others had that market cornered. Instead, it was intended to be a discussion board, and took on subjects that most other BBS operators didn't want to touch (at one point, it hosted some very frank discussions about human sexuality - not porn, by serious, thoughtful discussion). It probably peaked around 70+ calls per day (single-line system) and as many as 100 new messages per day. Running NiteFlite was a great experience and I still think back to some fond memories, and the connections I made." - D. Bank
919-862-8998 Bladen County, NC	Bladen County Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-870-5649 Raleigh, NC	No Man's Land (1993-1996)	David Buskirk	Wildcat
	"One of the best kept secrets in the Raleigh area. A whopping 12 lines at the time. Ahhhh those were the days!! Thanks for the list - this rocks!!!" - David Buskirk
919-888-2561 High Point, NC	High Point Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-895-1416 Rockingham, NC	Rockingham Jr. High School (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-926-0953 Swan Quarter, NC	Hyde County Board of Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-946-4934 Washington, NC	Washington City Schools (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-947-3954 Carthage, NC	Board of Education (1993)
	FrEdMail System
919-949-2844 Whispering Pines, NC	Dark Star (1983-1986)	Mister E	Self written for Atari 800
	"I was 14 and began operating an Atari focused BBS in 1983 - it used BBS software I purchased (can't remember) that provided typical forums, chat and file support. After about 6 months, It was clear that my primary value was to provide file sharing services plus chat, so I wrote a new BBS system (BASIC, no less) plus used the modem drivers provided by the manufacturer. Reduced the drive space occupied by the BBS system (which was a big deal - drives were expensive!) Operated until 1986 when it was time to go to college. Great experience - I will never forget chatting with a Taiwanese immigrant (I. Jen Chen) who described his experiences during the china revolution - wrote my college entrance essay about it." - Mister E
919-965-4696 Clayton, NC	Parole Board WILD REL, The Parole Board BBS (1990-1997)	Dennis Maidon
	"I was the SysOP and write BBS door programs under the name of PAROLE Software. I took my first call on March 27, 1990 at 2:01pm and shut the BBS down exactly 7 years later on March 27, 1997 at 2:01pm. I took over 80,000 calls during that time and took callers from every continent but Antartica." - Dennis Maidon
919-967-4373 Chapel Hill, NC	The Fire BBS, World of Violent Rage (1993-1994)	Paul Scheidt	Renegade
	"I was a sophomore at Chapel Hill High School when I put this board up. It was really popular with the CHHS kids who went on BBSes during the spring/summer of 1994 because most of the other Chapel Hill boards went down or went elite. It fizzled once school started up in fall 1994, so I took it down. After that, I got a Netcom shell account and started getting on the Internet. WoVR ran on a 386sx-16 with 1MB RAM, 2 40 MB drives, and a USRobotics 14.4k modem. I kept it around as a zip for a while, but I ended up losing it in 1996. Years later, I've met some random people who say they remember this board. While the Internet is great and all, I do miss the local flavor you'd get from a BBS, since most people calling were in the same area as you. I sometimes think it'd be funny to have a 10 year reunion of the Chapel Hill BBS scene. Anybody that remembers my board, feel free to email me (pdscheid _AT_ hotmail.com)." - Paul Scheidt
919-992-0407 Morrisville, NC	Digital Velocity BBS, NT Digital Velocity (1994-1997)	Ken Morrison, Lloyd Buchfinck
	ISDN Line
919-992-3059 Morrisville, NC	Digital Velocity BBS, Northern Telcomm BBS, NT Digital Velocity (1994-1997)	Ken Morrison, Ralph Grames, Lloyd Buchfinck	PCBoard
	ListKeeper: National ISDN BBS list - Analog Line
920-262-0900 Watertown, WI	Hack n' Slash (1991-1996)	Royan Webb	RPGBBS
	"RPGBBS system run on Amiga 1000 with 14.4baud modem, eventually upgraded to Amiga 600HD."
920-725-4117 Neenah, WI	FlashPoint, N.E. WI & U.P. MI (1992-2000)	Jon Verrett	Synchronet
	"This BBS Started after I got out of the Marines as a small hobby. It grew to a 4 line system recieving 150+ calls a day at its peak. Boy do I miss those days. BTW you have 920-725-2266 listed as bbs number for my bbs. That was my voice phone number. LOL. If you have any questions about FlashPoint please shoot me an E-mail at jverrett@new.rr.com keep up the good work I have enjoyed remember the days before the W.W.W. put us outa business." - Jon Verrett "I started FlashPoint BBS originally in Kinston, NC in June of 1992. The name FlashPoint came to me as the board was originally set up as a Fire and EMS topic BBS. The BBS ran on RYBBS software. In October of 1992 I moved back to my Home town of Neenah, WI. I got the BBS back up on a 1 node system. I had switched to Super BBS software. I ran SBBS for about 6 months and when the software went unsupported I switched to ProBoard. Also during that time the bbs shifted from a Fire EMS based bbs to a general topic bbs with Door games and all the other fun stuff. It also went to a 2 line system. In 1995 my call volume went up enough that I installed 2 more lines for a total of four. Switched to Synchronet BBS software which had multi-node chat feature built in that was a huge hit. The bbs was getting from 150-175 calls a day. I think my record for calls in one day was 240. As the internet became more accessible to the general public the calls drop off to less than 20 a day, by the end of 1997 I had pretty much shut down the bbs. It dropped to a 1 line system. I kept it running until 2000 when I pulled the plug. Well it.s been right at 10 years since I Shut it down that the bug has bitten me to get it back up. It is now a telnet BBS running on Synchronet with 10 nodes which I am hoping will get some use because I really enjoy working on it. Working on it has brought back some fun memories. It has some of the old door games and multi-node chat and I even set up the old FlashPoint Bar and Grill which was a blast in the day. Telnet://flashpointbbs.no-ip.org HTTP://flashpointbbs.no-ip.org Fidonet 1:139/635" - Jon Verrett
920-734-2499 Appleton, WI	Enterprise Data Systems Inc - EDSI (1988-1994)	Chuck Tomasi	Xenix 2.x, running Starbase II
	"This was a multi-line BBS that, thanks to it's owners' day job, was provided a UUCP link to the internet and carried USENET and email for the users. It was a pay-for BBS, but I do not recall how much. Due to the ability to multi-chat and regular users meetings at the admin's house, where there were many additional VT terminals, there will be others that can better fill in the start and end dates, I listed my personal start and end years. I suspect it ran for a few before and after this." - Chuck Tomasi
925-228-7993 Pleasant Hill Ca, 94523	Castle in the Attic, LaMerD00dz BBS (1990-1996)	Sir Mikey, Stingray, Cobra & Stingray	Mod'ed WWIV
	"Over 400 Active users, Still have it running on a box here somewhere. This was a big deal we had a new modem. I was lucky never to get in to much trouble, There was a large group of us (sysops) that would meet a Carrow's every night, the guy's from Special F/X, Post WWIII, Tuna land, and other popular boards swaping floppies with Krad Elite WareZ. would have been more fun, but alway's had to watch out for the police!! Silly Cerfews, most of us were 16yr's old. I also, have the March 10, 1990 Computer currents saved UNIX IS DEAD! that was a party silly internet thing was starting to steal users & Mail. I can still remeber the day I got a 40 meg Hard drive!! What an upgrade from a Zenith modem to a Hayes! It was a big day. And then there was the annual BBS Football game, that still happens to this day! Once year we try to kill each other at a random park on a random day. Good times!" - Sir Mikey
928-203-0399 Sedona, AZ	Black Jade Arena BBS (1995-1999)	Krystal (*deceased, Former Owner), Donculo6y (New Owner)	Worldgroup
	"Worldgroup for DOS, WGNT, Majormud, Cost over-runs forced shutdown. Inactive. Plan to re-activate at some point and update MM Mods and all hardware and software. Former Owner Susan Jasper aka "Krystal" or "Jade", Passed away after an extended illness on February 02, 2007. Black Jade Arena BBS was originally owned by Pagan and Natalie from Northern Virgina in the 80's and ran on an Intel 486 100mhz PC, with a Boca Board and a dozen or so ZOOM 28.8 and 56k modems. Susan bought the BBS and moved it to her Rockville, Maryland home, and it ran there for a number of years. Later, it was Moved to Olney, Maryland. Here it ran for a short period of time on 128k ISDN. After we encountered the high expenses of ISDN and BBS income shortfalls, (No one was paying fees) and many other technical issues with the server itself, ***no backups***, persistent hardware and data failures, other Sysop and Co-Sysop arguments) after all of this, it was shut down. Updated 04/27/08 by Donculo6y. Current Sysop-Owner. I'd like to thank Don B., Nate, Darrel, Matt for all the help with the BBS back in 1999 when it was moved to Olney." - Donculo6y
928-342-5170 Yuma, AZ	The Cactus Patch TBBS (CPTBBS) (1980-2001)	Larry Wall	TBBS MultiLine
	"This BBS originally started out with software written by myself on a TRS-80 Model I at 110-300 baud. The 1st commercial BBS software used was the InfoEx-80 Software, Then we put the Greene Machine online. Finally after looking over the TBBS software and its abilities in 1984 we went to the TBBS software because of its lightening speed. Our TRS-80 Model III at the time started to fail. We then switched to the TBBS-PC software and became a beta test site for the TBBS software. Sometime in 1986 we started testing the MultiLine TBBS software. This labor of love lasted until the great interest of the InterNet struck. People had a hard time supporting the local hobbiest BBS' but they surely had no problem migrating to the InterNet. Finally, after a thunderstorm came through the area, the CPTBBS' computer would not come back up. With no support, after 21yrs, September of 2001 the Cactus Patch TBBS surrendered its telephone lines. There were a great number of super BBS Sysops around the country. In 1988 Phil Becker had the 1st TUG (TBBS User's Group) converge on a motel in the Denver area. It was a power charged meeting of very knowledgable people..." Just recently the CPTBBS has been put back online via telnet. This means it can be freely accessed from anywhere in the world. Come Join us in the recreation of the BBS trend! Larry Wall CPTBBS - Sysop - Telnet: cptbbs.mine.nu Port 23" - Larry Wall
937-252-4056 Riverside, OH	City of Angels, The Labyrinth (1992-1997)	Lonnie Waugh	CNet BBS
	"I started the BBS in 91 or 92, we'll just say 92 because I'm not 100% positive. The BBS originally ran a pirated copy of trinity BBS software on an Amiga 500 system, which is ok because I'm now friends with the author.. to boot the BBS I literally had to load one floppy, change disks and continue loading because I had no hard drive. I eventually upgraded the system to an Amiga 2000 system and converted to CNet BBS using a copy I got from Doc Gaver.. I still have the manual but don't have the disks! I eventually got consumed by the internet when I started working as a software developer for a local ISP and shut down the board permanently, it resurfaced as a telnet accessable board for a couple of months using an Amiga emulator. Ahhh .. memories" - Lonnie Waugh
937-274-9578 Dayton, OH	Fantastic Voyage, The Conidium BBS (1991-1993)	Brian Shaffer	Telegard 2.7
	"Conidium in it's time served mainly as a debate BBS as well as a distribution site for Telegard and Renegade Utilities created by TNL Systems, formerly known as MD-UTILS." - Brian Shaffer
937-279-0136 Dayton, OH	My Crazy World BBS (1995-2004)	Tim Sturgeon, Timothy Sturgeon	Wildcat, Wildcat! v4.20
	"We have never been off-line since 9/24/1994" - Timothy Sturgeon
937-323-6009 Springfield, OH	James' BBS (1982-1995)	James Marous	Wildcat
	"James is still around, http://www.erinet.com/jamesm" - James Marous
937-427-9995 Beavercreek, Ohio	Chatnet BBS (1993-1996)	Jeff Luehrs	TBBS, TBBS
	"Chatnet BBS has received nearly 700000 calls(even after losing a year of extremely busy call data due to a dead hard drive). It's now up as a telnet bbs at telnet://chatnet.com. If the name sounds familiar, it's because we were using UUCP for internet email on the bbs in 1993.. before chatnet.org irc's decided to borrow the name I had come up with. I started running bbs systems with a commodore 64. I had a 1 meg drive for software downloads. Around this time, or a while after, in 1986 I first logged into the predecessor of what is now called America Online. It was called Quantumlink and it was several dollars PER HOUR to chat and play games such as slots. My first IBM PC was bought solely to run a bbs. At that time it was called Hacker's Dominion and it was driven by downloads, message bases, and online games. Still one line at this point, though I had found a bbs package I was comfortable with called TBBS - The Bread Board System. After the pay per hour chats of quantumlink, I had decided to try and set up chat at some point on a bbs, and that day finally came when I got the multiline version of TBBS. A few thousand dollars spent for games,software, modems and phone lines and I had 4 lines up (can't remember the speed, though I think it was 9600/14400 at this time.) I also had 2- 6 disc cd rom drives that fed all the Night Owl / Pier etc software collections from a seperate file server across a lantastic lan. I also admittedly had set up something called TABS 900 to collect subscription fees. People wouldn't pay it seemed at this point for anything except porn. UGH I had a loyal base of a hundred or so callers at this point. I also had one competitor that I was aiming for called Freedom BBS. It had maybe a dozen lines, but later claimed to have many more though I don't think they were ever full. I had logged on and even paid a fee for 10 or so hours of chat. The bbs was fun, the message boards were great, but the chat wasn't where it needed to be to compete.. SO.. I had the phone company drop a 25 line cable under my yard and added 20 lines. Now, I was in business. A thousand dollar phone bill to pay each month and I needed people online fast. I quickly decided there weren't enough women to keep people online chatting, so I made chat free for women! I had a lot of complaints from guys thinking they should get it free too, but I had phone lines to pay for and someone had to pay the bills. I had a couple of friends-young ladies come over to my house on most nights and chat as well in order to keep the chat area active until enough new users subscribed. It was obvious to me what it would take to keep the chat going, and it was women. I set my fees at $10 per month for unlimited calls of 90 minutes. The bbs filled up fast and the first casualty was the hourly based Freedom BBS. This was 1994 and the bbs was full every night, and there were almost always enough people to talk to day or night. We had parties monthly at various places inclusing sports bars and pizza places. We also had at least a dozen marriages- a few of which I attended and was even thanked during the reception for bringing the couple together. Not everyone got along either and the board itself was a regular soap opera. This was a lot of people's sole source of dates and of making new friends. It was a blast... and it went well until I decided to start an ISP, but that is another story." - Jeff Luehrs (Chatnet.com)
937-890-5204 Dayton, OH	Dayton Beach BBS (1993-1997)	Rod Martin	Trinity BBS (Amiga)
	"Was a 4 line BBS that had many active members. We held events/parties almost every weekend it seems. I do miss it at times and have considered bringing it back as a website/forum. Might still do that." - Rod Martin
941-283-5669 PINE ISLAND, FL	DeaTHRoW (1994-2001)	SKooB	WorldGroup
	"Home of DeaTHNeT networking, member of ShadowNet, and networked with 'Lost Reality' BBS. Also home of DeaTHNeT 640 AM Radio. BBS is about to go back up via telnet!! Keep looking for Deathrow and Lost Reality to come back to the Fort Myers area!" - SKooB
941-293-3051 Winter Haven, FL	The Candy Factory (1996-1997)	Jelly Bean	Renegade
	"Those were the good 'ole days. I remember playing L.O.R.D. with all my users. And posting messages. Such fun! I loved every minute of it! Even when the software (Renegade) crashed a couple times. The Internet took the place of the BBS but the memories will never be forgotten.." - Jelly Bean
941-346-0680 Sarasota, FL	Hotline BBS (1986-1995)	Amelia Manning, Amelia Hudson Manning	OPUS then TBBS
	"The good old days! Ansi graphics, single player online games and shareware downloads. All the sysops in the area had get togethers and we had 100's of users. 30 to 40 calls a day were the norm. Started with 1200 baud and ended up at 28,800k. Modems were always U.S. Robotics BBS/Sysop deals that they did back then." - Amelia Manning
941-353-0491 Naples, FL	OPUS Southern Fried, Southern Fried, Southern Fried BBS (1991-1995)	Donald Alderman	Maximus
	"Just happened to run across this list and thought you would like more information. System was a 286/12mhz, 16meg ram, Maxtor XT1140 MFM hard drive formatted out in RLL to 205meg, using Zoom 14400bd internal modem and US robotics external SysOp modem starting at 16800bd and eventually updated to handle 33600bd, using OPUS BBS software in 1991 under DOS 6.2 and in 1992 - 1995 ran Maximus BBS software with OS/2 operating system." - Donald Alderman
941-365-6302 SARASOTA, FL	Sunshine (1995-1996)	Larry Drabik, Traveler
	"I'd like to say how cool it is that you're hosting a website with all those old BBS numbers, and names. It was like a blast from the past to see them all. 941-365-6302 was my brother Larry Drabik's BBS back in 1995-1996, and at one point I believe had 3-4 lines though I don't recall the other phone numbers. I'll just say that it's very cool that his BBS is even listed there, and I'm very surprised to see it. He passed away back in 2010 unfortunately. He certainly loved his BBS, and very much enjoyed it as a hobby. I'm not sure where you found that information, but it definitely caught me by surprise when I found it during a Google search. Thank you, Jason." - Darin (Stinger)
941-423-0356 Port Charlotte, FL	Crazy House (1989-1997)	Tim Grzechowski / Robert Jones	MajorBBS/Worldgroup
	"Crazy House started as a BBS in early 1989 in Port Charlotte (941-423-0356), which is a pretty rural area, as a quasi-private system running Maximus on OS/2. It expanded to two lines with the first rolling over on busy to the second. As time went on and I was spending less and less time in Port Charlotte and had bigger aspirations for the BBS as well. In early 1992 I moved the heart of the system 45 miles north to Sarasota (941-925-7998) but kept the Port Charlotte dial-up numbers (more on that later). At this time I change the BBS software to Major BBS by Galacticom (later called Worldgroup-- YUK!) and upgraded to sixteen telephone lines. By this time I had as much money into Crazy House as a really good used car. The chat room was by far the most used feature! By the end of 1992 I had secured a 56K Frame Relay connection to the Internet via UUNet Technologies and became the FIRST private Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the 941 area code. It went commercial under the URL of flnet.com with the company name as ^�Florida Network Technologies, Inc.^� As my day job was in the Telephony world (but not the phone company) I was able to, legally, social engineer the phone company to make changes within their system that allowed me to forward the Port Charlotte phone numbers to Sarasota without additional callers getting a busy signal until all the modems were busy. With this in place, and now due to higher demand, I tossed out the Galacticom Box (modem bank) added a terminal server along with another sixteen dial-up lines and upgraded to a half a T1. FreeBSD UNIX, which we had been playing with behind the scenes, became a cornerstone of FLnet^�s technology for the years ahead. This worked out so well that I quickly added other forwarding lines to other cities in the area including Venice (941-496-4505), Punta Gorda (941-743-9189) and North Port (can^�t find those digits). And, again, added more dial-up lines to the system. "Later, due to high demand I installed a Point-of-Presence (POP) for Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda in North Port, FL (between Port Charlotte and Sarasota). I installed a Point-to-Point T1 between North Port and the main system in Sarasota and changed the Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda numbers to point to North Port. With the exception of another terminal server, more modems, and a FreeBSD box for administration purposes everything else was kept in Sarasota. For users this meant that the change was 100% transparent to callers-- other than fewer busy signals. At this point Crazy House was local to callers over more than a 75 mile north/south distance along Florida^�s Gulf Coast with a population of more than half a million people. Not bad for a BBS in rural America! The BBS, unfortunately, became a forgotten milestone in technology and was used less and less. I pulled the plug on the BBS sometime in 1994 when the daily login, both modem and Internet callers, had dropped to less than a few a day. However flnet.com as an ISP lived on for another three years, through waves of new and ever expanding (and more expensive) hardware. I saw the writing on the wall. The big ISP^�s were taking over, Mom-n-Pop ISP^�s like mine were becoming a dime a dozen. There was little room for the little guy. With my large customer base, due to our huge calling area, one of the big guys came in and bought out the rights to my customer base. I reluctantly sold. Unfortunately my life does not consist of sitting on the beach, toes in the sand, and drinking a Mia-Tia all the while watching to make Jeeves puts two coats of wax the Ferrari. I am still an everyday working guy. Learned a ton of tech during the years of Crazy House / FLnet. I now work as an over paid consultant as a Unix System Administrator. I wouldn^�t change a thing^� well maybe Jeeves and the Ferrari. Thanks for letting me share the legend of Crazy House!" - Tim Grzechowski
941-488-5373 VENICE, FL	The Hourglass BBS (1992-1995)	Josh Sowin	PCBoard, Wildcat!
	"I started The Hourglass BBS at my grandparents, escaping home. I was 10? 11? It started out PCBoard and then Wildcat and I loved trying to draw extremely bad ANSI art. It didn’t take long to convince my grandparents we needed an extra phone line since calls would come in on the main line and sound like a robot was screaming. “Joshua what are you doing,” she would say but then she’d make me a hamburger and milkshake and then Grandpa and me would go retreat back into the Computer Room. Could life be any better? I found an old flyer I put up around town. It has a giant champagne bottle overflowing in glorious clipartness, saying “File areas! Message areas! OS/2 CD-ROM! Star Trek information! Christian BBS with Christian files!” so clearly I hadn’t picked a direction in theme (or in life). A couple things I remember. Going to a BBS meetup where everyone was retired (it was Florida, after all) and a pre-teen kid showed up saying he was a sysop. No one knew what to do with me. Once my grandparents took me to North Carolina to see family and I looked up a local sysop and we went to his house, then his basement. I was so impressed he had the latest Wildcat software and I told him I couldn’t afford it … and he made me a copy. That small gesture of piracy made a lasting impact. Eventually I upgraded to Excalibur which gave a fancy GUI interface using Windows, but at that point we were all starting to transition to the web, so that didn’t last long. RIP to some good times." - Josh Sowin
941-598-1738 Naples, FL	Low Budget Land (1994-1996)	Jeremy Joseph	VBBS
	"I spent a lot of time writing scripts to customize the BBS with random wackiness, the intent was to continue the goofy spirit of Jeff Hillis' board. Credits were issued to allow users to smash each others' mailboxes and trash each other's menu screens, and there were silly ANSI animations. Fun times!" - Jeremy Joseph
941-625-2827 Port Charlotte, FL	Sanctuary of the Krasnians, Sanctuary of the Krasnians BBS, Wrigleyville USA (1987-1995)	Robert Dunn	C-Net (Commodore 128 Computer)
	"Charlotte County Florida's FIRST Bulliten Board System! 80 megabyte of storage.... was one of the largest Commodore 64/128 BBS systems in the USA at the time. In 1992, changed to different name." - Robert Dunn
941-753-6893 Bradenton, FL	Satan's Lair (1995-1999)	neuralfraud (aka: lucifer)	Renegade, Iniquity
	"This BBS was my introduction to the world of social networking, before it was called social networking. It changed many times throughout the relatively short lifespan and I finally called it quits after it became apparent that the mainstream internet had superseded BBS's. In that time I came to know many people - some of which are close friends to this day (2013). Shout to my good friend mental who showed me what a BBS was - running on a "cluster" of commodore 64 "servers" - the Starbase BBS (sysop: Scotty) And thanks to Aneurysm (Damage Inc) for the shoutout! " - Neuralfraud
941-756-4861 Bradenton, Florida	Damage Inc. (1988-1992)	Aneurysm (Jason Chaplinsky)	Renegade
	"I ran this BBS in my early childhood. It was a great BBS. I worked really hard to make it what it was. Not to many people were allowed on my BBS because it was underground. I started an art group called Damage. I worked primarilly in ASCII, but a sysOp I knew named Lucifer, used to make some killer ANSI pictures. We started the group, and by the time I shut down my BBS, I had about 12 members of the Damage art group. I sometimes look at all the old art packages, and contimplate on the past. There was an old group back then names Ice. We used to try to make packages that could compete with them. Those days were the good old days." - Aneurysm (Jason Chaplinsky)
941-764-9845 Port Charlotte, FL	Dark Shadows BBS, LEC Port Charlotte FL, NEC Port Charlotte FL Interim NEC, The Dark Shadows BBS Fl (1997-1998)	Torin Ryder, Torin Ryder (nick Sleeper)	RemoteAccess
	"Started the bbs as a hobby, and it eventually grew into a full time job maintaining filebases, messagebases, and all the games. All in all it was a GREAT experience and would never trade it for anything in the world. BBS's are almost a thing of the past, very few still operate. If it is not too late, I suggest logging into a BBS and experience a little history :)" - Torin Ryder
951-652-1690 Hemet, CA	Borderline BBS, Cottonwood BBS (2014-2016)		All American, Color 64
	Borderline BBS was brought online in January 2014 as a dial-up only BBS. Telnet-accessibility has been added, making it the first BBS running on a C64 with a ""hybrid setup"" allowing both dial-up and Telnet calls. Running on AA BBS v11.6b on a Commodore 64c with 3 floppy drives. This is a truly authentic Commodore bulletin board system from the late 80s! Cottonwood BBS is running on a Commodore 64 computer at 2400 baud. Message boards, file transfers, online games, and more!
954-200-9385 FT Lauderdale, FL	Wild Palms BBS (1991-1994)	Dee	MajorBBS
	"XXX service with 16 28.8 modems and 800 line. 6 disc changer and a porn style MUD. Also used R. I. P. And mailed out 3.5 disks." - Dee
954-726-4390 Tamarac, FL	Comnet-64 (1982-1987)	Lewis Horn	ComNet
	"First Commodore BBS to use PetSCII graphics with free terminal program, and ASCII for other computers." - Lewis Horn
954-987-1047 Pembrok Pines , FL	Distant Signals (1983-1986)	Tim Laubach & Chuck Lucian (Digital Man and Cygnus X)
	"Back when the C-64 was King! Sometimes I miss hearing those modem tones." - Art Luciano
970-243-6152 Grand Junction, CO	Expaning Horizons BBS (1994-1998)	Sysdwarf Lori Kelleher	PC Board
	"The BBS was alot of fun, We did files and fido and blah blah and door games. The best of it all was the community lacking on the net, we had pretty regular bbs BBQ's in our front yard. I still have very dear friends and all those bbs boys are grown. One of the bbs boys actually married my niece of all of the giant shocks. We had 3 online nodes and one just for me! It was busy place right up to the rise of mainstream inet pretty much." - Sysdwarf Lori Kelleher
970-248-9017 Grand Junction, CO	Arkaic Arts BBS (2001)	Keith Thomson	Maximus OS/2
	"Arkaic Arts BBS was a brief attempt to continue being a sysop after I closed down my Alcun Atirutan & USS Alcun & Starcraft/2 BBS, formerly on 303-864-2227 and 970-864-2227. It lasted maybe a month because it was ISDN and Telnet only and I couldn't really get the tossers and fidonet front ends and such to function." - Keith Thomson
972-226-8041 DALLAS SUNNYVAL, TX	Beale Air Force Base (1986-1988)	The ACE!!!	Ivory (C64)
	"It was running on a little Commodore 64, with (At various times) up to 3 1541 floppies and 1 1581 3.5" floppy... Man... That really brought back a lot of fond memories." - Serk the Serk
972-235-2419 Dallas, TX	Tornado Alley, Tornado Alley 2, Tornado Alley BBS (1981-1997)	Michael Cedeck	Remote Access
	"I ran RA and had 5 nodes, Deadicated to Weather, severe weather was my theme. I chase storms and well I miss the good ole bbs days. Started on a commodore 64, and ended on a p1 based machine. grew from a 3 person system to well over a few hundred users." - Michael Cedeck
972-329-0781 Mesquite, TX	Prison Board, Prison Board BBS, Prison Board Node 2 (1998-2009)	Ruben Figueroa	Wildcat, WinServer (wildcat)
	"Full Time hobbyist board with all the features of messaging, file, game, lots of games, interbbs games, etc." - Ruben Figueroa
972-625-2448 The Colony, TX	Rawhide Creek Brewery, Terminator, The Terminator (1991-1997)	Terry Whitehead	Maximus, RemoteAccess
	"Lot of memories there! I had 3 pioneer 6 disk changers. 18 cd roms full of shareware and freeware. The Terminator was my first bbs. A general bbs with all the lastest door games. Rawhide Creek Brewery was for all us home brewers out there loads of recipes for brewing your favorite beer wine etc. I spent many a sleepless night worrying about the bbs. and $$$$$" - Terry Whitehead
973-267-2194 Morris Plains, NJ	The Amityville BBS (1986-1988)	George	Kid & Co. BBS Software (Custom)
	"I ran this BBS from the years 1986 through 1988 on an Apple II+, Thunderclock+, AppleCat 1200 baud modem, and a FCP Sider 10 Meg Hard Drive. Thanks - interesting site that brings back memories!" - George
973-751-5066 Belleville, NJ	Idiosyncrasies (1988-1997)	Terry - SHEOP	TAG
	"Fidonet node, Safenet and Policenet. Home of the Starlight Cafe Storyboard. Spawned a hand coded editor called TEDIT written by William (Spock) Baker (sysop of NCC1701 in West Orange. I still have the old release notes for it!" - Terry
978-521-6936 Haverhill, MA	Dream Line BBS, DreamLine BBS (1991-1994)	Ross Tracy	QuickBBS, RandomAccess
	"I ran across this site somehow (not sure exactly, I was looking up information on Andrew Milner's RA sale, etc.) and figured I'd update you ;) I used to write a lot of ANSI based games for RA, QBBS, RBBS, Wildcat, etc. TriCards, Card Match, Hangman, Pyramid, etc. All in Pascal with DORINFO1.DEF access (LOL I can't believe I remember this!!)" - Ross Tracy
978-534-0313 Leominster, Ma	Vidiots Lair (1994-2003)	Mike Olsen	GAP BBS
	"I started Vidiot's Lair BBS in 1994 originally located at Fort Devens, MA (near Ayer). When Fort Devens closed in 1996 it was moved to Leominster, MA. The BBS was shut down around the beginning of 2001. It ran on GAP BBS software. It had a decent sized file download library stored on a couple of CD changers that could be loaded with 6 CDs each and a number of Fidonet message forums, but the most popular activity for users was playing the online DOORS games such as Barren Realms Elite in multiple leagues with many other BBSes. I'm sure it was still listed in the Fidonet node list for some time after I shut the system down. With so many other BBSes shutting down at that time I didn't know anyone who was left to notify to remove the listing." - Mike Olsen
978-544-8337 Wendell, MA	Locks Hill BBS, MassNet West (1983-2004)	Robert Heller, R Heller	Script evolved from 1bbs, ifcico under Linux
	"This BBS is *still* up with a 2400 BPS modem. Locks Hill BBS is presently the Net Host for Fidonet Net #321 in region 16. It is the only functioning FidoNet BBS in Franklin County. Running on a K6-500 machine running RedHat Linux 7.3. " - Bob Heller
978-682-0133 Methuen, MA	Black Market, BlakMarket, The Black Market, The BlackMarket BBS (1987-1995)	Jim Black	RemoteAccess
	"87-89 used QuickBBS 89-95 Switched to RemoteAccess BBS and became a member of Fidonet 95 System hard drive crashed - backup could not be found. Blackmarket BBS was the home of many useful QuickBBS/Remote Access utilities including QFE (QuickBBS File Editor)" - Jim Black
978-745-1689 Salem, MA	Massnet East, The Witch City BBS, Witch Cityb BBS (1988-1998)	Dan Devoe, Danny Devoe	RemoteAccess
	"Started on a C-128 using EBBS. Moved to a PC-based (XT) version of EBBS in 1990 before upgrading to a 486-based PC running RemoteAccess in 1993." - Dan Devoe
978-822-2586	Back To The Future (2017)		X/84
	BBSes are a return to the past, just like our favorite time travel movie. BTTTFBBS is a playground for Linux and Python experiments. Features a dial-out modem (call out to dial-up BBSes or information services), some local and networked games, and whatever features the sysop feels like developing.
979-696-1931 College Station, TX	King's Mountain ][, The King's Mountain II (1988-1991)	Adam Burke	Opus
	"I started this BBS on an Osborne Executive (CP/M) computer with a "SmartTEAM" 2400bps modem. It had 128k of RAM and two 256k floppy drives. It did not have a hard drive! The BBS at that time offered a few useful CP/M utilities for download and a simple message area (no "echo" mail). Sometime in '89, I moved the BBS over to an IBM PS/2 computer running MS-DOS and Opus BBS software. This computer had a 20MB hard drive and a 1.44M floppy. I think the BBS offered an impressive amount of files for download despite the limited storage. (I even stored some downloadable files on the floppy. Speed didn't matter; The floppy was still faster than the modem!) In addition to files, I had online games, and (of course) five or six echomail groups. I changed modems regularly as technology improved. I remember spending $450 for a USRobotics "Courier HST" modem. These were first capable of 9600bps and then later versions supported 14.4kbps. This was the most popular high speed modem at the time, and both parties had to have a Courier HST modem to get the higher speed connections." - Adam Burke
979-764-7268 College Station, Texas	Dimensions of Chaos (1995-1998)	Chaos 1/2	Renegade
	"I was 14 years old when I started this BBS. I ran this BBS off a 386 laptop with 16 megs of ram and 80 meg harddrive. I ran mostly games like LORD and Trade Wars. I would also like to mention Stone Temple, the first BBS I was ever on." - Chaos 1/2
989-775-2241 Cadillac, MI	The Two-Tone Arsenal (1986-1988)	The Gypsy	C-Net
	"I was the SysOp of this board -- it ran on my C64 for a couple of years. I had TWO 1581 (3.5", 800k) floppy drives and thought that that was HUGE! :) I later paid $300, me entire life savings at the time, for a giant 5MB hard drive (which came in a box the size of an air conditioner) that was broken -- and never did get it working. Good times. :)" - The Gypsy