The Enterprise BBS ================== "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 Phone : 717-588-7636 Place : Bushkill, PA Years : 1985 - 1990 Sysop : Russel Miranda, Robert Miranda Software: Amiga, Various On C64 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ gopher://hp84.com/ | https://ge97.com/ .