"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 408-226-3727

SAN JOSE, CA Mystic Choice

(1989) 408-226-3780

SAN JOSE, CA BackBoard, The Backboard

(1988-1994) Red Ryder Host, Second Sight 408-226-4277

SAN JOSE, CA Compushop

(1986) 408-226-5209

SAN JOSE, CA Environmental Health

(1986-1989) 408-227-0224

SAN JOSE, CA Ventura Professional Forum

(1989) Gene Rodrigues 408-227-0226

SAN JOSE, CA Central Valley Hub, Ventura Professional Forum, VPUG USA

(1989) Gene Rodrigues 408-227-0227

SAN JOSE, CA NET-WORKS Computer Emporium

(1982-1983) 408-227-3993

SAN JOSE, CA Atari Annex

(1989) 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 Userâ€™s Group BBS 408-227-4865

SAN JOSE, CA West World, West-world , West-World BBS

(1989-1996) Chas Bolton RBBS 408-227-5416

San Jose, CA COMPUTER EMPORIUM, NET-WORKS Computer Emporium

(1984-1985) NET-WORKS 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 408-241-0769

San Jose, CA BULLET-80 San Jose, CA

(1982-1985) BULLET-80 408-241-4114

SANTA CLARA, CA Modem Marquee

(1986) 408-243-1933

San Jose, CA Liberty Bell

(1987-1996) Scott Lieberman, Bob Bickford, Mark Hinkle, Joe Dehn 408-243-2370

SANTA CLARA, CA Bucc's Man'O'War, Man O War, Man o' War

(1985-1987) 408-243-2938

SANTA CLARA, CA After Midnight

(1989) Wildcat 408-243-6259

SANTA CLARA, CA The Starnet BBS

(1989-1990) Rich Hall 408-244-0813

SANTA CLARA, CA Excalibur Technical Support, Excalibur!, N204 South Hub, Patricia M. Hoffman

(1989-1997) Patricia Hoffman, Merry Hughes, Kiddo Hughes 408-244-1614

SANTA CLARA, CA Starfleet Academy

(1986) 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 408-244-4816

SANTA CLARA, CA Televideo CP/M

(1986) 408-244-9545

SANTA CLARA, CA The Light House

(1989) Wildcat 408-245-1420

SUNNYVALE, CA Zee Machine RBBS, ZeeMachine Z-NODE #35 -- RBBS/PDSE

(1985-1986) Norman Beeler 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 408-246-0164

Santa Clara, CA Pathfinder Associates, Pathfinder BBS

(1988-1993) Wildcat 408-246-5014

SANTA CLARA, CA RCP/M Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, Ca.RCP/M

(1982-1983) 408-246-7854

SANTA CLARA, CA Crumal's Dimension

(1987-1994) Fred Barling, Crumal Red Ryder Host, Second Sight 408-246-9102

SANTA CLARA, CA MicroBBS

(1987-1988) Douglas Coatney 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 408-247-2853

SANTA CLARA, CA RCP/M RBBS Santa Clara, Santa Clara PBBS-RCP/M, Santa Clara RBBS/RCPM, Santa Clara RCP/M

(1984-1986) Jeff King 408-247-3296

SANTA CLARA, CA Lan's End, Silicon Valley, Spiv's Fido

(1986-1994) Robert E Spivack FidoNet 408-247-3813

SANTA CLARA, CA The Dungeon

(1988) Merry Hughes 408-247-4810

SANTA CLARA, CA Shark's Head, SharksHead

(1986-1988) Dusty Van 408-247-8307

SANTA CLARA, CA MacScience BBS

(1988-1991) N6PHJ Red Ryder Host 408-248-0198

SANTA CLARA, CA Carl's Corner

(1988-1996) Carl Linden 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 408-248-6148

SANTA CLARA, CA The Asylum BBS

(1987-1988) Steve Resnick 408-248-9704

SANTA CLARA, CA Carl's Corner, Carl's DV Corner

(1989-1994) Carl Linden 408-249-5534

SANTA CLARA, CA KOME On-Line

(1986) 408-249-6670

SANTA CLARA, CA Collinwood

(1986) Dan Lehtola 408-249-6946

SANTA CLARA, CA RAT'S NEST, Rats Nest

(1984-1985) AMIS 408-249-7599

SANTA CLARA, CA Affordable Harbor

(1986) 408-249-7722

SANTA CLARA, CA Bay Area Atari Users Group

(1986) 408-251-4926

SAN JOSE, CA East Valley Hub, Net 143 Echo Coord, Tranquility Base #1

(1987-1991) Dennis Diaz, Les Knookie 408-252-6801

SAN JOSE, CA MacDaze II, Phoenix Node #2A, PhoenixIIa

(1988-1991) Bob Murrow Red Ryder Host 408-252-6973

SAN JOSE, CA Fido's Kennel

(1989) Software John FidoNet 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 408-253-2140

San Jose, CA The Twilight Zone

(1985) The Vader NetWorks 408-253-3926

SAN JOSE, CA Mac Daze, MacDaze, Phoenix #2, PhoenixII

(1988-1994) Bob Murrow Red Ryder Host 408-253-5123

SAN JOSE, CA Hotel California

(1986) 408-253-5216

Cupertino, CA AMIS GRAFEX Cupertino, GFxBBS, GRAFEX

(1982-1985) AMIS 408-253-6293

SAN JOSE, CA Tandy Color SIG

(1986) 408-253-7310

SAN JOSE, CA Dark Domain BBS

(1988-1991) Justin Miller, The Zenabyte PCBoard 408-255-1845

SAN JOSE, CA Big Foot BBS

(1985) 408-255-5172

SAN JOSE, CA White Embassy

(1986) 408-255-7208

SAN JOSE, CA Phoenix BBS

(1987-1989) Mark Cookson Red Ryder Host 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 408-255-8919

Cupertino, CA BULLET-80 Cupertino, CA

(1984-1985) BULLET-80 408-255-9742

SAN JOSE, CA High Gate Design, Highgate Design BBS Fac., HighGate Dsgn

(1988-1996) Rocky Awalt Wildcat 408-257-0323

SAN JOSE, CA Shrink Tank

(1988) 408-257-1853

SAN JOSE, CA Sofia System

(1986) 408-257-3174

SAN JOSE, CA Gold Mine

(1986) Ascii Express 408-257-5682

SAN JOSE, CA Fallout Sheltr

(1987) 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 408-257-7147

SAN JOSE, CA Iron Works, Ironworks BBS

(1986-1991) Mike McNulty 408-258-3484

SAN JOSE, CA The Micro Foundry

(1988-1989) Wildcat 408-258-3679

SAN JOSE, CA South Bay TIUG, The Wrong Number, Wrong Number

(1989-1994) Chris & Martha Schram, Martha Schram MUBBS 408-258-3889

SAN JOSE, CA Computer Outpost

(1984-1985) 408-258-8128

SAN JOSE, CA Ampro RCP/M

(1986) 408-259-2223

San Jose, CA ASM-Lang & CFS Board, AsmLang and CFS Board, AsmLang and OS/2 Board, East Valley Hub, Net Echo Coordinator

(1989-1994) Patrick Oriva, NEC, Patrick O'Riva 408-259-2357

SAN JOSE, CA Star Watcher BBS

(1987) Rich Hall 408-259-6855

San Jose, CA Nest, Piedmont Middle School

(1987-1993) FrEdMail System 408-262-3963

MILPITAS, CA Sailor's Refuge

(1986) 408-262-5010

MILPITAS, CA UTILITY CO.

(1985) AMIS 408-262-5174

MILPITAS, CA KA6S Fido

(1986) 408-262-6960

MILPITAS, CA Nubus BBS

(1987) 408-262-7177

MILPITAS, CA SpaceNET

(1988-1989) Bill Dale 408-263-0299

MILPITAS, CA A32 BBS, A32 User's Group, Association of Apple 32 Bit Users (A32)

(1987-1992) Fred Barling Red Ryder Host, Second Sight 408-263-1345

MILPITAS, CA Wang Bang

(1985) 408-263-2588

MILPITAS, CA Oxgate-002 RCP/M Milpitas, RCP/M Collossal Oxgate, RCP/M Colossal Oxgate, RCP/M Oxgate 002

(1982-1985) Mel Cruts 408-263-2857

MILPITAS, CA Shelcom CP/M

(1986) 408-263-5462

MILPITAS, CA Swamp (300)

(1986) 408-263-5576

MILPITAS, CA Help

(1986) 408-263-8134

MILPITAS, CA Wyrld Wyrm BBS

(1986-1991) Robert Plamondon 408-263-8143

MILPITAS, CA WYRLD WYRM BBS

(1988) Robert Plamondon 408-263-9015

MILPITAS, CA TODD PC3

(1988) Wildcat 408-263-9497

MILPITAS, CA Potpourri Fido

(1986-1989) Robert Field 408-265-1479

SAN JOSE, CA Throne of the Gods (300)

(1986) 408-265-4286

SAN JOSE, CA Princess Lynn

(1987) Daniel Hoang 408-265-8070

San Jose, CA Computers at Law, NET-WORKS Computers at Law

(1984-1985) NET-WORKS 408-266-3490

SAN JOSE, CA Collinwood

(1987-1994) Dan Lehtola 408-266-9963

SAN JOSE, CA Electronic B., Electronic Bulletin

(1989-1994) Schmidt & Allen PCBoard 408-267-3558

SAN JOSE, CA Star, Star BBS

(1985-1986) 408-267-4476

SAN JOSE, CA Silicon Valley Buyers Board

(1986) 408-267-7399

SAN JOSE, CA Bird House

(1983-1985) 408-268-3367

SAN JOSE, CA Syrinx

(1987) 408-268-5157

SAN JOSE, CA Norad

(1986-1987) 408-268-9453

SAN JOSE, CA Eclectic

(1987-1989) Dave Hunter 408-270-4085

SAN JOSE, CA PDS-SIG BBS, PDS-SIG,allcomp1

(1986-1996) Bob Allen PCBoard 408-270-5157

SAN JOSE, CA Steve's Opus

(1988) Steven Rubin 408-270-7042

SAN JOSE, CA The 11th Cavalry

(1989) Mike Myers 408-274-1879

SAN JOSE, CA Eleventh Cavalry Division

(1988) Mike Myers 408-274-4727

SAN JOSE, CA T-N-T's FIDO

(1987-1989) Tim Kreps FidoNet 408-274-5550

SAN JOSE, CA New Dimensions, NewDimensions

(1989-1996) Shawn McCullar PCBoard 408-275-8274

SAN JOSE, CA The BatCave

(1988) Chuck Farnham 408-279-4908

SAN JOSE, CA P-CAD's Board

(1986-1988) Bruce Fihe 408-280-1610

SAN JOSE, CA Micro Medic, Micro-Medic

(1988-1996) Duane Davis PCBoard 408-281-7059

SAN JOSE, CA PicoNet #4 Wizard's Keep RBBS-RCP/M, RCP/M RBBS Piconet #4 WK

(1983-1985) 408-286-8332

SAN JOSE, CA Comp-U-Ease, Compuease, CompUEase,Eng

(1989-1996) Stuart Smith PCBoard 408-287-2454

SAN JOSE, CA Snake Pit, The Snake Pit

(1989-1994) Duane Davis PCBoard 408-287-5901

SAN JOSE, CA RCP/M Oxgate 001, RCP/M RBBS San Jose Oxgate

(1982-1985) 408-287-9996

SAN JOSE, CA Doghouse BBS

(1985) 408-289-9151

SAN JOSE, CA Modem Magazine

(1984-1986) 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 408-293-0752

SAN JOSE, CA DWB's BBS

(1987) 408-293-2253

SAN JOSE, CA Hydro Engineering

(1986) 408-293-7894

SAN JOSE, CA Looneybin, Vietnam Veteran's Valhalla!, VIETNAM VETS - THE LOONEY BIN

(1986-1988) Todd Looney 408-294-2000

SAN JOSE, CA Cleo

(1985) 408-296-2329

SANTA CLARA, CA Fido Help, Fido's Kennel, Silicon Valley

(1987-1988) John Hamilton FidoNet 408-296-5078

SANTA CLARA, CA RCP/M Skyhouse Systems

(1984-1985) Kirk DeHaan 408-296-5799

San Jose, CA 8BBS

(1981) Bernard Klatt 8BBS 408-296-6465

SANTA CLARA, CA AE Line: PARROT

(1985) 408-298-4277

SAN JOSE, CA Environmental Health

(1989-1994) 408-298-6930

San Jose, CA AMIS IBBBS San Jose, IBBBS, IBBS, Itsy Bitsy, Itsy Bitsy BBS

(1982-1986) Forem ST, AMIS 408-336-3134

Ben Lomond, CA Pyrzqxgl

(1986-1987) Tané Tachyon Pyrzqxgl tree-structured discussion BBS software 408-336-8444

SAN FRANCISCO, CA Ye Olde Magic Shoppe

(1986) 408-338-4647

SAN JOSE: WEST DA, CA Four Directions

(1989-1991) Renuka 408-338-6220

SAN JOSE: WEST DA, CA Calif Connx, California Connection, Stronghold

(1988-1994) Ain McKendrick 408-338-7410

SAN JOSE: WEST DA, CA The Trolley Barn II

(1982-2001) Larry Didier 408-338-9095

SAN JOSE: WEST DA, CA The Menagerie, The Menagerie II, The San Lorenzo Valley Business Net

(1989-1992) Chuck Schaefer 408-338-9511

SAN JOSE: WEST DA, CA Andronx, Stuart II, Stuart II BBS

(1983-1994) 408-338-9674

SAN JOSE: WEST DA, CA B.C. Board, Over The Hill Hub

(1989-1990) Brian Collins 408-353-1189

LOS GATOS, CA Family Radio Forum Wstrn Trnsltr

(1988) Ron Marland 408-353-1553

LOS GATOS, CA Metroplis

(1985) 408-353-1836

LOS GATOS, CA Compucat

(1985) 408-353-3703

LOS GATOS, CA Dragon Flight

(1986) 408-353-4531

Redwood Estates, CA Ace Connection, The Ace Connection

(1986) Jason Ace Allie 408-353-4669

LOS GATOS, CA Laserbreath Caverns

(1986) 408-354-1896

Los Gatos, CA Shadow Keep II

(1982-1985) Robert Prohl NetWorks 408-354-5934

LOS GATOS, 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

(1983-1986) Chuck Metz & Paul Traina 408-358-2353

LOS GATOS, CA Zing Batwang

(1986) 408-359-1444

SARATOGA, CA OPUS of Edmond

(1987) 408-370-0873

Campbell, CA PMS - Campbell, PMS Campbell, CA

(1982-1985) PMS 408-370-6605

SAN JOSE, CA E.R.S.

(1988) Wildcat 408-370-9187

SAN JOSE, CA Buccaneers Cove

(1989) 408-371-4629

SAN JOSE, CA The Electric Classroom

(1987-1988) Doug Stein 408-371-7654

Campbell, CA Brown Bag , Brown Bag S/W-West PCB, Brown Bag Software (Tech Support BBS), Brown Bag Software BBS, BROWN BAG SW

(1987-1994) Brown Bag Softw, Adam Rodgers, Russ Brown PCBoard 408-371-8857

SAN JOSE, CA Buccaneer's Cove

(1986) 408-372-3673

Revelatrons

(1988) Wildcat 408-373-3773

SUNNYVALE, CA Cricket, The Cricket BBS

(1988-1996) Jim Robeson PCBoard 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 408-374-9238

SAN JOSE, CA Animal House

(1986) 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 408-377-2536

SAN JOSE, CA Five Points BBS

(1989) Woody Milliron 408-377-7592

SAN JOSE, CA The Computer Shop. Mall

(1989) Wildcat 408-377-8551

SAN JOSE, CA Solid Steel BBS

(1989) Tas Burrfoot 408-378-3173

SAN JOSE, CA Living BBS

(1984) 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 408-378-8733

SAN JOSE, CA dBASE II RCP/M Campbell, CA, OxGate-dBASE II RCP/M Campbell, CA, RCP/M DBASE ][

(1983-1985) Roger D. Brown 408-379-4638

SAN JOSE, CA NewDimens

(1989) Shawn McCullar 408-379-4830

SAN JOSE, CA Campbell BBS

(1987) 408-379-8086

SAN JOSE, CA AMA-MCI, Atlas Micro, Atlas Micro Associates "MCI" RCP/M-RBBS, Atlas Micro Associates `MCI' GOLIATH Node 005, Goliath, RCP/M Atlas Micro Assoc.

(1984-1989) Bill Spoolhoff 408-394-6234

SUNNYVALE, CA Westlog , Westlog Premium BBS

(1987-1994) Rick Lagerstrom, R Lagerstrom PCBoard 408-394-8842

SUNNYVALE, CA jUMPIN,pcjrs

(1989-1996) George Layton RBBS 408-395-1402

LOS GATOS, CA Saratoga Clone , Saratoga Clone WILD HAM

(1988-1995) Chuck Metz Wildcat 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. 408-422-2940

SAN MARTIN, CA Trans-West BBS

(1988) Wildcat 408-422-5931

SAN MARTIN, CA The Crupt BBS

(1989) Wildcat 408-423-0721

SANTA CLARA, CA Institute

(1986) 408-426-6049

Empire

(1986) Tim Carlson 408-426-7228

Santa Cruz RBBS, The Pentagon

(1986-1990) Emulex 408-426-7292

Laser Optical Technology BBS

(1988) Red Ryder Host 408-429-6542

SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA Center 2000

(1986) 408-429-6549

SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA Conference Tree

(1986) 408-429-6644

SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA Stronghold

(1986-1987) Ain McKendrick 408-429-8312

SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA *.* BBS

(1987-1990) Baby Eagle WWIV, Forum, Emulex II 408-429-8562

SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA The Arena AE (Password: TURKEY)

(1986-1987) Ascii Express 408-434-0969

SAN JOSE, CA AVR Technical BBS

(1989-1990) Barbe Bradley 408-434-1646

San Jose, CA Priam Systems Corp, Priam Systems Corp., Priam Systems Technical Support, Priam Technical Support BBS

(1989-1995) Rich Hall 408-434-9827

SAN JOSE, CA DSO Technical BBS

(1988) Wildcat 408-435-0531

SAN JOSE, CA Laser Applications

(1988) Mike Shiflett 408-435-5006

SAN JOSE, CA PC Tech

(1989-1991) Vince Butera 408-437-8918

SAN JOSE, CA Peace Thoughts, The Peace Board

(1987-1988) Gordon Andrews 408-438-3349

Mount Olympus, Mt. Olympus

(1986-1990) Spectrum, G0man Forum 408-438-4882

Santa Cruz, CA The Omni BBS

(1987-1996) Silvia Software Forem PC, Monarch, Aftershock 408-438-5015

Scotts Valley, CA The Place BBS

(1989-1993) Dan Dogherra Wildcat, RA 408-438-6506

Softrek

(1987) 408-438-7409

LoDown

(1987) 408-439-9367

Scotts Valley, CA APCUG (Tech Support BBS), Assoc PCUG, Borland (J. Moody), Borland International BBS, Globalnet, APCUG â€“ GlobalNet

(1989-1996) Paul Curtis, Jim Moody, Paul Curtic/APCUG TBBS Association of PC User Groups â€“ Over 2000 UG officers 408-446-1970

SAN JOSE, CA Will's Answering Machine RBBS

(1986) 408-446-3860

SAN JOSE, CA Psycho Ward (300)

(1986) 408-453-3326

SAN JOSE, CA Ring-of-Fire

(1989) Wildcat 408-462-3139

CAMPBELL, CA Saigon

(1986) 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 408-462-5940

CAMPBELL, CA Pen

(1986) 408-462-6329

CAMPBELL, CA Soquel, THE SOQUEL BBS

(1986-1994) Wildcat 408-475-2353

Soquel, CA Codename: Spitfire ST, SpitFire IBM IV

(1988-1992) Andy O'Brien, FastBlaster - Andy O'Brien BB/ST 408-475-2729

SAN FRANCISCO, CA Atlantis

(1986-1990) Forum 408-475-7101

Santa Cruz, CA CONFERENCE-TREE Berkeley, CONFERENCE-TREE Santa Cruz

(1983-1985) CONFERENCE-TREE 408-476-4633

Santa Cruz, CA Pyrzqxgl

(1986-1994) Tané Tachyon Pyrzqxgl tree-structured discussion board, Pyrzqxgl tree-structured discussion BBS software 408-479-9029

Iron Works

(1986) 408-496-6990

SANTA CLARA, CA Integrated Systems

(1989) Todd Looney 408-554-9036

Santa Clara, CA PMS - Santa Clara, PMS Santa Clara

(1982-1985) PMS 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 408-578-2390

SAN JOSE, CA Baaug, BAUG

(1984-1985) 408-578-5325

SAN JOSE, CA Ethos, Wild Thang

(1987-1994) Marc Lawrence 408-578-6185

SAN JOSE, CA Skyhouse Systems

(1983) 408-578-6264

SAN JOSE, CA T.I. Club

(1986-1987) 408-578-8521

SAN JOSE, CA The Forbidden Planet

(1985) 408-629-8444

SAN JOSE, CA Starcruiser

(1986) 408-636-8686

SAN FRANCISCO, CA Acacia

(1989-1990) Ted Rolle 408-637-4038

WALNUT CREEK, CA DYM

(1985) 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 â€” 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 408-659-3078

SAN FRANCISCO, CA Exchange, PHANTOM , The Exchange

(1987-1988) 408-667-2256

Freq Scan, FreqScan, Frequency Scan

(1989-1994) Tim Ames 408-674-5048

SAN JOSE: WEST DA, CA Elmer, Elmer II

(1988-1994) WA6LMM 408-683-0282

SAN MARTIN, CA Bay Area BBS , The Electronic Firehouse

(1987-1996) Jim Acker Wildcat 408-683-0338

San Martin, Ca BSR-Fido, S2C2 BBS, South Santa Clara County (S2C2) BBS, South Valley Hub

(1987-2009) Bob Shelton FidoNet 408-688-0327

SAN JOSE, CA Lateral Softw

(1987-1989) J P McMillan 408-688-9629

Aptos, CA Caves of Aptos, MINES 0 MORIA, Mines of Moria II, PMS - Santa Cruz, Tamerlane's Keep, MINES OF MORIA ][

(1982-1986) Ron Williams 408-688-9639

SAN JOSE, CA Digital Designs

(1989) Wildcat 408-720-8197

SUNNYVALE, CA C Ware Tech

(1986) Ken Fuiks 408-723-7238

SAN JOSE, CA Bay Area, Bay Area BBS

(1986-1988) Jim Acker 408-725-0561

SAN JOSE, CA PortalSys.1 $

(1988) 408-725-0569

SAN JOSE, CA PortalSys.2 $

(1988) 408-725-1295

SAN JOSE, CA PC-Online BBS

(1988) Wildcat 408-726-2469

SAN JOSE: NORTH DA, CA AE Line: TITAN, AE LINE: TRACER

(1984-1985) 408-728-5598

Night Modulator, NightModulator

(1989-1994) Jim Bready PCBoard 408-730-0967

SUNNYVALE, CA Sunnyvale Bulletin Board, The FunZone

(1988-1989) Dennis Cox 408-730-2317

SUNNYVALE, CA B&C Microsystems

(1989) Wildcat 408-730-5512

SUNNYVALE, CA B&C Microsystems

(1988) Wildcat 408-730-8733

SUNNYVALE, CA Oracle-003: "BAYLIST" System, RCP/M Oracle 003, RCP/M Oracle 003 BAYLIST, RCP/M Sunnyvale

(1983-1985) 408-732-0463

SUNNYVALE, CA Computer Tyme

(1986-1996) Gary Araki GAP 408-732-1079

SUNNYVALE, CA VAN VISION2, Vanvision

(1984-1985) CBBS 408-732-2340

SUNNYVALE, CA The Place

(1989) Doug Werner 408-732-2433

SUNNYVALE, CA RCP/M RBBS DataTech 004

(1982-1983) 408-732-4126

SUNNYVALE, CA Consumers, CONSUMERS BBS AND INSURANCE CENTER

(1986-1987) 408-732-7469

SUNNYVALE, CA AE Line: STARII

(1985) 408-732-9190

SUNNYVALE, CA Oracle-001: Network Headquarters, RCP/M Oracle 001, RCP/M RBBS DataTech 010, Silicon Valley Interchange RCP/M (SiMMS-001), SIMMS 001: Silicon Valley Interchange

(1983-1985) Ed Svoboda, Jason Laumeister 408-733-1364

SUNNYVALE, CA Crystal Castle, The Crystal Castle

(1985-1986) 408-733-3734

SUNNYVALE, CA Central Valley Hub, House of Ill Compute, Silicon Valley FidoCon'89, THE HOUSE OF ILL COMPUTE

(1989-1990) Jim Cannell FidoNet 408-733-4670

SUNNYVALE, CA PIE BBS

(1989-1994) Wildcat 408-733-6266

SUNNYVALE, CA Dial-Your-Match #268

(1986) 408-733-6809

SUNNYVALE, CA COLOUR-80

(1984-1985) 408-734-8632

SUNNYVALE, CA No Name Yet BBS

(1986) Ron Hudson 408-735-7190

SUNNYVALE, CA LOGON, PD Software Xchg, Pub. Domain Software Exchange, Pub. Domain Sofware Exchange

(1985-1988) Vern Tallman, Dave Hewes 408-735-8181

SUNNYVALE, CA Living BBS

(1984) 408-736-7356

SUNNYVALE, CA Dial-Your-Match #56 (300)

(1986) 408-737-0900

SUNNYVALE, CA HT-BBS

(1988) 408-737-3362

SUNNYVALE, CA Mindset BBS

(1986-1987) Andrew Soderberg 408-737-7362

SUNNYVALE, CA PMC

(1986) 408-738-1685

SUNNYVALE, CA South Side of the Sky

(1985) 408-739-1925

SUNNYVALE, CA Round Table

(1987) Emulex 408-741-0401

SAN JOSE, CA FIDO #24 Saratoga

(1984) 408-741-0559

SAN JOSE, CA The Inner Sanctum

(1988) Bucky GBBS Pro 408-741-0890

SAN JOSE, CA THE LAUGHING PIRATE

(1982) 408-745-0880

SUNNYVALE, CA PD SOFTWARE EXCHANGE, PDSE

(1989) Dave Hewes 408-745-7524

SUNNYVALE, CA Anything Goes

(1986) 408-749-1872

SUNNYVALE, CA Stuart BBS

(1984) 408-773-9573

SUNNYVALE, CA Moose is Loose, Moose is Loose , Moose Is Loose BBS, The Moose is Loos BBS, The Moose is Loose AUNT, The Moose is Loose BBS

(1989-1996) John Giever Auntie 408-778-3531

MORGAN HILL, CA THE SDI CLEARINGHOUSE

(1987) 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 408-847-6729

GILROY, CA The Final Note

(1989-1994) Niel Levonius Renegade 408-865-1560

Cupertino, Ca East Valley Hub, MicroBBS, Net143 uucp, Silicon Valley NEC

(1989-2002) Douglas Coatney, Doug Coatney 408-866-1880

SAN JOSE, CA River City Delirium, West Valley Hub

(1989) Duncan Gardner 408-866-4933

San Jose, CA MAC Science BBS, MaCS1ience BBS, MacScience BBS

(1989-1995) Ray Terry 408-866-6330

SAN JOSE, CA Appler 1

(1986) 408-867-1190

SAN JOSE, CA The Outpost

(1985) 408-867-1243

SAN JOSE, CA OxGate-001 Saratoga

(1983) 408-867-4455

SAN JOSE, CA Split Infinity, SPLIT INFINITY

(1984) 408-867-5078

SAN JOSE, CA ConsultNet, FIDO #35 ConsultNet

(1984) Jim Turley FidoNet 408-867-6575

SAN JOSE, CA Eigenware RC/PM RBBS

(1985) Karl Remmler 408-867-7400

SAN JOSE, CA Spies in the wire

(1989-1990) Andrew Rubin CitaSim 408-899-4552

Logos,Bible

(1989-1996) Dan Byrnes RBBS 408-899-5728

Utility Shop Plus

(1988) Wildcat 408-923-3105

SAN JOSE, CA The Night Owl

(1989) Sharat Gupta 408-923-5565

San Jose, CA FIDO #13 Vern's Fido, Vern's Fido

(1984-1985) Vern Crawford FidoNet 408-923-7575

SAN JOSE, CA Sources (Silicon Valley gossip)

(1986) 408-925-2518

SAN JOSE, CA GE Co.

(1985) Bernie Belew 408-926-8767

SAN JOSE, CA Flagship, TI BBS

(1984-1986) 408-942-6975

Sunnyvale, CA AMIS T.A.B.B.S. Sunnyvale, TABBS, TEAM

(1982-1985) AMIS 408-943-0707

SAN JOSE, CA Modem Marquee

(1986) 408-945-8358

MILPITAS, CA IBM BBS, North San Jose

(1985-1986) Doug Mulhair 408-946-3183

MILPITAS, CA The Flying Fido

(1986-1990) Bill Dunn FidoNet 408-946-3269

MILPITAS, CA Sigma

(1986) 408-946-4933

MILPITAS, CA QUEST

(1987) 408-946-6154

MILPITAS, CA DigitalMailbox

(1988) 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 408-946-7362

MILPITAS, CA Sonshine Express

(1989) Anton Johnson 408-947-7800

SAN JOSE, CA Paul Revere News Service, The Paul Revere Network

(1989-1994) Leroy Pyle Wildcat 408-947-8038

SAN JOSE, CA Wild Bill's Trailbusters

(1986) 408-972-8129

SAN JOSE, CA Hagar's

(1985-1986) Robert Anderson 408-972-8164

Spivak, San Jose, CA FIDO #346 Bob-Spivak, FIDO #346: Bob-Spivak, San Jose, CA, Spiv, Spiv's Fido

(1985-1986) Robert E. Spivack FIDO 408-972-9750

SAN JOSE, CA Dynamic C.M.I., Quan-Tel

(1989-1991) Terry & Sharon Woosley, T & S Woolsey PCBoard 408-978-5667

SAN JOSE, CA NUG Board

(1988) Bill MacAllister 408-978-5677

SAN JOSE, CA NUG Board

(1987-1990) Bill Macallister 408-978-9784

SAN JOSE, CA Entertainment Connection, Mansion West Coast BBS Support, The West Coast Link

(1988-1991) Brian Kay Red Ryder Host 408-980-0276

SANTA CLARA, CA Bucc's Harbor I

(1985) 408-984-2300

SANTA CLARA, CA Mind Link

(1985) 408-984-3975

SANTA CLARA, CA Campaign Headquarters, West Valley Hub

(1989) Mike Bray 408-985-1137

SANTA CLARA, CA OTHER WORLD

(1989) Wildcat 408-985-1538

SANTA CLARA, CA OPUS Santa Clara

(1988) Peter Glasmacher 408-986-1285

SANTA CLARA, CA CompuCruise

(1986-1988) Greg Harris 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 408-992-0846

SUNNYVALE, CA Sir Dep's Dungeon, The Dungeon

(1989-1994) Jim Deputy 408-993-2209

SAN JOSE, CA NUG Board

(1986) Charlene Rose 408-996-1137

SAN JOSE, CA Shadow Keep

(1985) 408-996-1233

SAN JOSE, CA PEP Talk HQ, PEP Talk HQ OPUS 143/1920

(1988-1991) Jane McCready 408-996-1959

SAN JOSE, CA The Jon And Dan Show

(1989) Wildcat 408-996-7464

San Jose, CA DRAGON'S LAIR, NET-WORKS The Dragon's Lair NW, The Dragon's Lair NW

(1983-1985) NET-WORKS 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 408-997-0440

SAN JOSE, CA The Shaolin Temple

(1985) 408-997-2790

SAN JOSE, CA CFC HQ, Comp for Christ, Computers for Christ, COMPUTERS FOR CHRIST , Computers for Christ Hq, Computers For Christ

(1986-1994) John Marler 408-997-3341

SAN JOSE, CA The Battlegrounds

(1985) 408-997-3486

SAN JOSE, CA Bucc's Harbor III, The Underworld

(1985) 408-997-6148

SAN JOSE, CA Living BBS

(1984) 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 408-998-8927

SAN JOSE, CA Enable BBS

(1988) Wildcat 169 Sysops currently listed.

329 BBSes Listed.