403 Area Code BBSes Through History
MAP OF THE 403 AREA CODE
403-201-3215
CALGARY, CANADA Archimedes
(1996) Steve Baird
403-209-0739
CALGARY, CANADA ERIDU BBS, NEC
(1998) James Heggie
403-209-2104
CALGARY, CANADA LEC, Southern Alberta, TechTalk
(1997-1998) John Becker
403-220-0219
CALGARY, CANADA The DogHouse BBS
(1994) Steve Pheby
403-220-0672
CALGARY, CANADA Anarchy BBS
(1994) Joe Moore
403-220-6495
CALGARY, CANADA The Student Exchange BBS
(1990) Gordon Benedict
403-220-7522
CALGARY, CANADA Zone5Net
(1994) Gail Jardine
403-221-2259
CALGARY, CANADA Honeywell
(1993-1996) Robert McMillan
403-224-3591
BOWDEN, CANADA Mission Control
(1998) Wayne Chapman
403-225-0346
CALGARY, CANADA JOVIAN Astrology BBS
(1991-1994) Orv Trischuk
403-225-0464
CALGARY, CANADA Bloodstone Pass BBS
(1990-1991) Darren Seleshanko
403-225-0997
CALGARY, CANADA Boyes Enterprises
(1992-1993) Bruce Boyes
403-225-1641
CALGARY, CANADA Nuclear Winter BBS
(1995) David Ratana
403-225-1948
CALGARY, CANADA End Of The Line BBS
(1990) Mike Phipps
403-225-2532
CALGARY, CANADA Flash in the Pan BBS
(1993-1994) Adam Hough
403-226-0533
CALGARY, CANADA Daydreams at Nite
(1992-1993) Shannon McNaught
403-226-0866
CALGARY, CANADA Squornshellous Zeta
(1991-1992) Racey Sealock
403-226-0867
CALGARY, CANADA Vulcan Science Academy (1)
(1991) Joe Lindstrom
403-226-0868
CALGARY, CANADA Vulcan Science Academy (2)
(1991) Joe Lindstrom
403-227-2365
INNISFAIL, CANADA The Brownstone BBS
(1996) Sean McCormick
403-228-2902
CALGARY, CANADA Zeffern's Elec.dungeon
403-228-3576
CALGARY, CANADA Upper Echelons
(1994) Christopher McBrien
403-228-4290
CALGARY, CANADA Archimedes, Archimedes BBS
(1994-1996) Steve Baird, Steven Baird
403-228-4434
CALGARY, CANADA Levatha Satellite Net
403-228-6051
CALGARY, CANADA The AardVaark BBS
(1994-1995) John Becker
403-228-7159
CALGARY, CANADA Star Base 204
(1996-1997) James Connolly
403-228-9525
CALGARY, CANADA The Student Exchange BBS
(1991-1992) Gordon Benedict
403-228-9895
CALGARY, CANADA Digital Delusions
(1994-1995) Larry Murray
403-229-1035
CALGARY, CANADA Secret C
(1995) Jeff Galbraith
403-229-1495
CALGARY, CANADA Tardis
403-229-1933
CALGARY, CANADA The Doghouse BBS
(1996-1997) Steve Pheby
403-229-1956
Calgary Alta The Big Bad and Ugly BBS
(1991-1992) John Becker
403-229-1996
CALGARY, CANADA Ceti beta VI, XaCOM
(1990-1991) Endaf Jones
403-229-4858
CALGARY, CANADA Pianoworks, The Keyboard BBS
(1996-1997) John Musselwhite, Michael Gothreau
403-230-0607
CALGARY, CANADA Belgarath BBS
(1993) Nigel Wieland
403-230-0671
CALGARY, CANADA Dragons Den
(1995-1996) David Hawes
403-230-0934
CALGARY, CANADA Tir Nan Og BBS
(1992-1993) Malcolm Brown
403-230-2095
CALGARY, CANADA JazzzWorks Online
(1990-1992) Shawna Braun
403-230-3273
CALGARY, CANADA The BatCave
(1993-1995) Mark Pontarollo
403-230-4171
CALGARY, CANADA PMC Online BBS
(1992-1995) Patrick Cohan
403-230-4355
CALGARY, CANADA INTERTECH
(1991-1994) Rob Lavoie
403-230-4358
CALGARY, CANADA The Dragons Den BBS
(1994) Dave Hawes
403-230-4597
CALGARY, CANADA BBSList, BBSList BBS, Y. B. Normal
(1995) Jeremy Birkett
403-230-7150
CALGARY, CANADA ARA-BBS, E Z DUZZIT BBS, The Mostly Business BBS
(1987-1990) Bob Deyl
403-230-8669
CALGARY, CANADA CAL-PC
(1991-1992) Patrick Cohan
403-230-9172
CALGARY, CANADA Damaged Justice BBS
(1995-1996) Duaine Johnson
403-230-9410
CALGARY, CANADA The COOP
(1995) Steven DeHaven
403-232-6121
CALGARY, CANADA Genie
403-233-7317
CALGARY, CANADA Arctaroo
403-234-7169
CALGARY, CANADA Connections (134/32), Connections BBS, Connections[1], Flossie's Saloon, Hub for 161-200
(1993-1994) Matthew Lewis MAXIMUS
403-234-8791
CALGARY, CANADA TRACS Calgary
(1994-1995) Mark Bredin, Terry Radford
403-234-9837
CALGARY, CANADA Cameo Gateway Line 1
(1994) Postmaster
403-234-9838
CALGARY, CANADA Cameo Gateway Line 2
(1994) Postmaster
403-235-0605
CALGARY, CANADA SOS
(1994-1998) James Bradley
403-235-0974
CALGARY, CANADA Kelly's Software
403-235-1659
CALGARY, CANADA Flight Deck
403-235-2106
CALGARY, CANADA Peaches And Frogs
(1990) Wayne Casper
403-235-2416
CALGARY, CANADA Fikini BBS
(1993-1997) Charles Ford
403-235-2757
CALGARY, CANADA The Sailboard
(1995) Kim Bergman
403-235-3333
CALGARY, CANADA Squornshellous Zeta
(1991-1992) Racey Sealock, Warren Sealock
403-235-4325
CALGARY, CANADA Slide Rule
(1994) Jason Nishiyama
403-235-4915
CALGARY, CANADA Micro-Tech Computers BBS
(1995-1999) TriBBS
403-235-5163
CALGARY, CANADA redruM BBS
(1990) David Fix
403-235-5702
CALGARY, CANADA The Pyrite Board
403-235-6790
CALGARY, CANADA NEC, The GNW OutPost
(1998-1999) Nathan Evans
403-236-0154
CALGARY, CANADA The Candle
(1993) Gordon Lane
403-236-2506
CALGARY, CANADA The Halfway Point
(1994) Shawn Downey
403-236-3653
CALGARY, CANADA Epsilon I
403-236-3835
CALGARY, CANADA The Manhattan Project BBS
(1994-1995) Devin Uhrich
403-236-4393
CALGARY, CANADA Southern Alberta
(1994) Terry Wereschuk
403-236-7869
CALGARY, CANADA Mass Confusion BBS
(1991) Shawn Downey
403-237-5349
CALGARY, CANADA Planet F/X BBS, Titan Tech
(1994) Blaine Carmichael
403-237-7521
CALGARY, CANADA STONEFISTE/RUGRATZ BBS
(1994) Rob Mitchell
403-237-8311
CALGARY, CANADA 4 BBS
403-237-8811
CALGARY, CANADA Opus Net, The Calgory Nibble Node
(1991) PCBoard
403-238-0449
CALGARY, CANADA Native Waves BBS
(1993-1994) David Gauld
403-238-0501
CALGARY, CANADA RP BBS
(1994) Richard Pargeter
403-238-2870
CALGARY, CANADA Toastmasters Calgary BBS
(1995) Mark Piche
403-238-3157
CALGARY, CANADA B & B Computing, Body Shop BBS
(1990-1993) Bernd Bosemeyer
403-238-4836
CALGARY, CANADA Trantor
(1991) Matt Benson
403-238-4866
CALGARY, CANADA Bludgeon Room
403-238-5553
CALGARY, CANADA InterLink
(1993-1994) Glen Larwill
403-239-0153
CALGARY, CANADA H.P.S. Bbs, HPS BBS, Second Choice
(1986) Hans Hoogstraat
403-239-0790
CALGARY, CANADA Gamma Quadrant
(1995-1997) Aaron Anderson
403-239-1225
Calgary, AB Lunatic Haven, Lunatic Haven BBS
(1987-1990) The Dreamer, Lawrence Chen Cit68k3.27, Citadel 68k
"Basically, you have the info right about this BBS....except that I started in 1987 and then halfway through 1990, I moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta (403-526-6957)
"In 1992, I changed software to DLG Pro and continued until 1997 when I finally pulled plug....I was on Fidonet, USENET and a hundred of OTHERNETs. But, it was getting way to expensive to just be a free BBS. Plus the users were changing...they either wanted real Internet access or multiplayer games. And, I wasn't going to invest in either approach. (plus a few months later I got laid off, and most of the system disappeared).
"Wish I kept records though. The only historical record I have, I guess, is a picture I took in 1996....see my website (
http://www.lhaven.net). Sure wish I kept some of the various text files from those days....especially the logon banner.
"Sure is a nice trip down memory lane reading the other familiar BBSs from around Calgary and Medicine Hat. Will have to read it more depth when I have more time." - Lawrence Chan
403-239-2829
CALGARY, CANADA Aardwolf BBS, Citadel Online
(1995-1996) Steve Sills
403-239-3323
CALGARY, CANADA The Conversion Shop, User Illusion
(1992-1994) Walter Haase
403-239-5684
CALGARY, CANADA Raunchy Rubber Band Land, Raunchy Rubberbandland, Rauncy Rubberband, Sirius Paradox
(1988-1992) Evil Elastic, Richard Orr
403-239-7602
CALGARY, CANADA THE Kelly CADD BBS
(1993-1994) Cliff Kelly
403-239-9421
CALGARY, CANADA The Chatter Box
(1991-1992) Eric Sit
403-239-9451
CALGARY, CANADA High Output
(1991) Elmar Sveda
403-240-0451
CALGARY, CANADA The Link
403-240-0807
CALGARY, CANADA InterLink
(1992-1994) Glen Larwill
403-240-1429
CALGARY, CANADA Logical Solutions #2
403-240-1934
CALGARY, CANADA Men For Men BBS
(1994) Steve Polyak
403-240-2053
CALGARY, CANADA SARA BBS
(1989)
403-240-2102
CALGARY, CANADA C.C.U.G
403-240-2846
CALGARY, CANADA Dbbs
403-240-3326
CALGARY, CANADA Coco Crackin'
403-240-3355
CALGARY, CANADA Gandalf's Domain
(1995-1996) Brad Lourie
403-240-3972
CALGARY, CANADA The Sign Post
(1993-1994) Shane Owen
403-240-4515
CALGARY, CANADA Hyper-Drive BBS System
(1995) TriBBS
403-241-0045
CALGARY, CANADA Momentary Lapse of Memory, Momentary Lapse of Reason
(1992-1994) Ken Miller
403-241-0071
CALGARY, CANADA Digital Underground
(1991) Grayson Bartlett
403-241-0112
CALGARY, CANADA Calgary Spitfire BBS
(1992-1993) Roy Zurowski
403-241-1054
CALGARY, CANADA Redwood Castle
(1994-1996) Kevin Sole
403-241-2067
CALGARY, CANADA High Output
(1995-1996) Elmar Sveda
403-241-2253
CALGARY, CANADA Wildfire BBS
(1994) Dwayne Cole
403-241-8911
Calgary, AB The Opportunity Network
(1993-2003) Janusz Suchorolski
403-241-8929
CALGARY, CANADA Modem Connection BBS
(1992) Dixon Lee
403-241-9722
CALGARY, CANADA Calgary Programmers Uplink, Central Point Uplink
(1991-1994) Paul Werbicki
403-242-0706
CALGARY, CANADA 68000 Mice
403-242-0749
CALGARY, CANADA C.O.P.O
403-242-0871
CALGARY, CANADA The Castle (300/450/2400)
403-242-0878
CALGARY, CANADA Toastmasters Calgary BBS
(1995) Mark Piche
403-242-1518
CALGARY, CANADA Flash Bbs
403-242-3166
CALGARY, CANADA Archimedes
(1996) Steve Baird
403-242-3221
Calgary, AB ECHO COORD, Gypsy, Gypsy BBS, Hub for 1-120, Hub for 1-40, LEC, NEC, NEC134, Southern Alberta
(1994-2009) Kevin Klement
403-242-3836
CALGARY, CANADA The Sign Post
(1994) Shane Owen
403-242-4425
CALGARY, CANADA Dynamicom Bbs, Impact
403-242-5453
CALGARY, CANADA The Penalty Box
(1993-1997) Dan J. Rudiak QuickBBS
403-242-5468
CALGARY, CANADA Joes BBS
403-242-7243
CALGARY, CANADA Mutants citadel
403-242-7527
CALGARY, CANADA Calgary Message Line BBS, Cameo Gateway 2, Net 134 LOCAL ECHO COORD
(1992-1994) Ken Kennah
403-242-9988
CALGARY, CANADA Men For Men BBS
(1995) Steve Polyak
403-243-2272
CALGARY, CANADA CalgComp., Computer Shop, Computer Shop of Calgary BBS
(1986-1993) Austin Hook, Michael Cisar
403-243-5554
CALGARY, CANADA Runway 34
403-243-6017
CALGARY, CANADA CMD Technologies BBS
(1994-1995) Chris Doering
403-243-6109
Calgary, Canada Friends of magic
Rob Franke
403-243-6386
CALGARY, CANADA Colossus, QBBS P.R.M.S.
(1988) Yancy Ng
403-243-6486
CALGARY, CANADA Colossus
403-243-9524
CALGARY, CANADA Ctrl-Tower
403-243-9802
CALGARY, CANADA 201:5500 GATEWAY, Her Majesty's Secret Service, Net 134 LETBRIDGE GATEWAY, Net 134 LETHBRIDGE GATEWAY, Orpheus
(1989-1993) Alex Tait
403-244-0166
CALGARY, CANADA Lynx
(1986) Geoffrey Meredith
403-244-0630
Calgary, Canada Knights of the Round Table
(1986-1988) Craig Schock
" In 1984, some friends of mine and I formed a computer group called the Knights of the Round Table (or KoRT for short). In 1986, membership in this group increased considerably when we all enrolled in first year at the University of Calgary. At one point, one of our members (Sandy Rhodes) got a personalized licence plate (KORT) and put it on her Diablo El Camino. KoRT became quite the social club and we had a lot of fantastic parties. I guess it fell apart when half of the membership flunked out of University (probably because of too much partying and hacking) and many of the members went their separate ways.
"Around 1988, I started experimenting with full screen editing and a much more rich user interface using curses. My time was getting spread far too thing, and I eventually had to abandon the BBS. It's funny... at the time I never thought I would be looking back, missing the BBS scene in Calgary. But it really did represent a golden age!" - Craig Schock
403-244-0794
CALGARY, CANADA The Rainbow Connection
(1993-1994) Brent Rector
403-244-1151
Calgary, AB WNDX Corp, The
(1993)
403-244-1744
CALGARY, CANADA Cameo Gateway Line 1
(1995) Postmaster
403-244-2881
CALGARY, CANADA CAL-PC
(1992) Mark Olson
403-244-3776
CALGARY, CANADA Vector F/X -Node #1, Vector F/X BBS
(1994-1995) Thomas Wong
403-244-3925
CALGARY, CANADA Hub for 121-160, Hub for 121-190, Hub for 121-300, Hub for 201-280, LEC, LOCAL ECHO COORD, The Windows BBS, Z'ha'dum
(1996-1998) John Becker, Mr Morden
403-244-4724
CALGARY, CANADA Calgary Message Line BBS, Net 134 LOCAL ECHO COORD
(1990-1992) Ken Kennah
403-244-5250
CALGARY, CANADA The Windows BBS
(1998) John Becker
403-244-8495
CALGARY, CANADA ECHO COORD, Net 134 NET ECHO COORD
(1989-1990) Rosebud Basselope
403-244-8496
CALGARY, CANADA Fortress BBS Node 1
(1994-1995) Gary Khor
403-244-8922
CALGARY, CANADA Quantum BBS
(1992-1995) ShadowMage MajorBBS
403-244-9866
CALGARY, CANADA The BIZ Board
(1995-1996) Steve Biswanger
403-245-3446
CALGARY, CANADA Window Flyer BBS
(1991-1992) Bill Roberts
403-245-3610
CALGARY, CANADA The Bear Board, The Bear Board!
(1989-1993) Cary Belger
403-245-4229
CALGARY, CANADA Fountain F/X
(1994-1995) Willie Meier
403-245-5926
CALGARY, CANADA Psychologist's Association of Alberta
(1994) Jack Dobbs
403-245-5942
CALGARY, CANADA Psychologist's Association of Alberta
(1994-1996) Jack Dobbs MAXIMUS
403-245-6189
CALGARY, CANADA The Bear Board!
(1994-1995) Cary Belger
403-245-8982
CALGARY, CANADA No Solutions
(1993-1995) Peter Vonavka
403-245-9677
CALGARY, CANADA JazzzWorks Online ][
(1992-1993) Shawna Braun
403-246-0838
CALGARY, CANADA Eagle's Landing
(1994-1996) Courtney Faber
403-246-1174
Calgary, AB The Deep
(1997) Cain
"NONAME Distribution Site" - Anonymous
403-246-1535
CALGARY, CANADA Coach Support BBS
(1996) Alan Caldwell
403-246-2183
CALGARY, CANADA Connections BBS, Connections[2]
(1991-1993) Grant Neufeld, Ken Milne
403-246-3860
CALGARY, CANADA Nite Hawk Information Service, Nite Hawk Information Services
(1995-1996) Marc Hodgins
403-246-4487
CALGARY, CANADA T-80 BBS, T-8000 Info System, T-8000 Information System
(1990-1997) Brian Simpson, Stephen Decarie
ListKeeper: Alberta AC 403
403-246-4504
CALGARY, CANADA Microlink BBS, SunValley/Microlink BBS
(1991-1992) Andrew Avramenko
403-246-4669
CALGARY, CANADA The Computer Connection BBS
(1990-1991) Hazel Clarke
403-246-4674
CALGARY, CANADA Elandrya, The Computer Connection BBS
(1991-1994) Hazel Clarke
403-246-4888
CALGARY, CANADA The Gettysburg BBS
(1995-1996) Ian Sutherland, Anthony Chan
403-246-5381
CALGARY, CANADA Athens BBS
(1999-2000) Keith Little
403-246-6329
CALGARY, CANADA Upper Echelons, Upper Echelons BBS
(1993-1995) Christopher McBrien, Chris McBrien
403-246-6354
CALGARY, CANADA The SuperSpace BBS
(1989-1992) Doug Russel, Doug Russell
403-246-6943
CALGARY, CANADA SASA Echomail System, The Keyboard BBS
(1990-1998) John Musselwhite, Auto Pilot
403-246-7146
CALGARY, CANADA S.A.R.A
(1988) Dale Grant
403-246-7761
CALGARY, CANADA The Point, Total Recall
(1991-1993) Greg Helmer, John Carto
403-246-7870
CALGARY, CANADA Archimedes
(1999) Steve Baird
403-246-8064
CALGARY, CANADA The Wire
403-246-8669
CALGARY, CANADA We are not saints
(1991-1995) Kirk Rawnsley
403-246-8767
CALGARY, CANADA The BatCave, The Labrynth BBS
(1991-1993) Mark Pontarollo
403-246-8975
CALGARY, CANADA 500 Leagues, BBCS
403-247-0852
CALGARY, CANADA Spitfire Systems
(1993-1996) Roy Zurowski
403-247-1005
CALGARY, CANADA Perpetual Incoherence
(1994) Brian Donaghy, Funky Junky
403-247-2924
CALGARY, CANADA Logical Solutions
(1990-1991) Hans Hoogstraat
403-247-3126
CALGARY, CANADA The Jailhouse, The Jailhouse BBS
(1991-1992) Jack Addington
403-247-3180
CALGARY, CANADA Hub for 41-80, RJ's Byteline, RJ's Byteline BBS
(1991-1995) Bob Ross, R.J. Ross
403-247-3882
CALGARY, CANADA PSYCHE
(1994) Mark Atkinson
403-247-3888
CALGARY, CANADA Mainline Information Service
(1995-1997) Len Haggblad
403-247-3900
CALGARY, CANADA The Byte Bucket
(1993)
403-247-6007
CALGARY, CANADA Badger's Hole BBS, The Badger's Hole
(1991-1994) Martin Dettbarn
"I started the Badger's Hole in 1990 on a single line 2400baud modem, running Quick BBS and a 30mb hard drive. As time went on and file/msg boards grew, I of course had to upgrade the hardware. At the peak, I think I had several hundred megs of disk space and added a second dialin line."
"The name of the BBS came from an online game I played at the time called TradeWars. During this period, I didn't have a BBS but was an active caller at the Computer Connection in Calgary (which ran the TW game). My game partner and I had a little planet which was named 'The Badger's Hole'. As time went on and I had more interest in starting up my BBS, I needed a name -- for some reason that little planet came into my mind and The Badger's Hole went online."
"I believe I was just in the last year of Junior high when the BBS went active, throughout high school I ran it and really enjoyed it. In 95' when I took it offline, I was a little sad as I basically had it up and running for 5 years straight. Over that time I tried Quick BBS, Remote Access and finally PCBoard (PCB was a fantastic software package) For mailers I started on BinkleyTerm and moved to D'Bridge as part of the FidoNet network. Calgary was a great place to run a BBS, the SysOp community seemed fairly tight knit and a very good group of guys. Thanks to Bernd Bosemeyer for helping me along the way with hardware / software issues, a very good person."
"If it wasn't for the cursed Internet I'm sure I'd still be running it :)" - Martin Dettbarn
403-247-7925
CALGARY, CANADA Logical Solutions
(1996-1998) Hans Hoogstraat
403-247-8697
CALGARY, CANADA Trois Amigos BBS
(1995-1996) Troy Davis
403-247-9553
CALGARY, CANADA The Byte Bucket
(1991-1995) Len Haggblad
403-247-9946
CALGARY, CANADA Rails West CP>> BBS
(1994-1996) Willie Smith
403-248-1422
CALGARY, CANADA Simm-Ply Bored BBS
(1993-1994) Barry J. Lilburn, Barry Lilburn
403-248-1444
CALGARY, CANADA Hub for 1-120, The Battle Board BBS
(1998-1999) Mike Fagnan, Calgary AB
403-248-1920
403-248-9005
Calgary, AB Hub for 121-300, Inner Sanctum, LEC, The Inner Sanctum BBS
(1992-1999) Nathan Alexander Maximus
"Really like what you've done here with the BBS List. I thought I'd forward in some additional info to you about the Inner Sanctum: The Inner Sanctum BBS was activated Dec 1992 and was taken down around May 1998. The first computer that ran the show was an XT (8088) with 640K ram, 20 Meg Seagate MFM HD and 2400 baud Zoltrix internal modem. Thankfully the system was upgraded from that to a 286, 386, 486 and finally a Pentium 200 with 400 meg HD. The Inner Sanctum joined Fidonet I believe in 94 but don't quote me on that. The node address was 1:134/174 and then I was reassigned a new node of 1:134/222. In th
