American Archive
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Also listed as: Ye Olde Archives

"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

Phone   : 312-276-4159
Place   : Chicago, IL
Years   : 1985 - 1996
Sysop   : JohnRosengarten, John Rosengarten
Software: PCBB, PCBoard, RBBS-PC

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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