PMS - Liverpool
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Also listed as: The Night Shift at Liverpool Public Library

""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."

Phone   : 315-457-3144
Place   : Liverpool, NY
Years   : 1985 - 1989
Sysop   : Jean Armour Polly, Rick Fensterer
Software: PMS

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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