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Last updated 08/31/2026
Served from a 486DX2 in a basement.
Served from a 486DX2 in a basement.
NEW THIS WEEK: 1,140 messages recovered from the Riverside Mac Users Group, 1993–96 ◆ Sysop night is the first Thursday, back room of the Peacock Diner, 7pm ◆ We will image any 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk you mail us, free, and mail it back ◆ Volunteers wanted for OCR duty
NEW!1993 FILES
EST. 1985 ▪ ARCHIVED 2019 ▪ NODE 2 OF 2
3,412 NIGHTS
OF DIAL-UP,
KEPT ONLINE.
Eleven bulletin boards ran in this city between 1985 and 1999. Everything we could rescue is here — free, searchable, typos intact.
WHAT'S NEW
08/28
ANSI Art Gallery is browsable again
Eleven .ANS files that broke the renderer now draw correctly.
08/21
Riverside Mac Users Group: 1,140 messages added
Donated by Tom Alcaraz on four disks, three of which still read.
08/09
Interview #61 — Donna Whitlock, sysop of The Lobby
Ran a single-line board from a spare bedroom, 1989 to 1994.
07/30
Shareware disks 388–412 imaged and checksummed
Twenty-five disks, two bad sectors, one unlabelled mystery.
ARCHIVE STATUS
Messages indexed402,118
Files on disk6,940
Boards preserved11
Volunteers this year23
ATDT 555-0142
CONNECT 14400/ARQ/V32B
DOWNTOWN BBS v4.1 — NODE 2
14 USERS ONLINE / 1 CHATTING
LOGIN: guest
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| # | SECTION | ITEMS | YEARS |
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| 01 | The Lobby — general chat | 88,412 | 85–99 |
| 02 | Trade & Barter | 21,006 | 87–98 |
| 03 | Door Games | 4,180 | 88–99 |
| 04 | Text Files & Zines | 2,940 | 86–99 |
| 05 | Sysop Interviews | 61 | 19–26 |
| 06 | Riverside Mac U.G. | 14,402 | 93–96 |
| 07 | ANSI Art Gallery | 806 | 90–98 |
| 08 | FidoNet Echo Mail | 96,551 | 86–97 |
| 09 | Classifieds | 12,733 | 85–99 |
| 10 | Meeting Minutes | 344 | 87–95 |
| 11 | Shareware Disks 1–412 | 6,940 | 88–99 |
| 12 | Unidentified Floppies | 219 | — |
Sorted by board, oldest first.
Full A–Z index »
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