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People in the 513/606 BBS Scene |
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| I have contact information for only a few of
these people. I am seriously in need of contact
information for the rest. If you are one of
them, or know how to find one of them, please
email me - Prowler/DLoC |
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| People in the 513/606 C64 BBS Scene - The Elite |
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Description |
Prowler/DLoC
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I was a member of DLoC, THW, NSR, and did intros or work for most of the other real groups in 513/606 at one time or another.
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| Pro-Hack/DLoC |
THE Phreak influence in the 513/606 scene.
If someone in the scene was a phone phreak,
they got their training from this guy.
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| Apprentice/DLoC |
One of the three founding members of DLoC. Pro-Hack and I have been trying to find Apprentice again for years, he disappeared back to Cleveland at some point in the early 90s.
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| Whiz Kid/DLoC |
This crazy bastard was all about improvised explosives. He used to blow up cars in some junkyard for fun. Last I heard he was working for the CIA
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| Blackstoke/DLoC |
Great guy, a true and loyal friend. Moved to Florida and disappeared.
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Merlin/DLoC/EPIC
(Macgyver, Knitemare) |
The best artist, and 2nd best programmer in
the local scene.
His war demos were hilarious. As Knitemare,
he was well known in the national scene.
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| Hellraiser/NSR |
Probably the coolest guy in the whole local scene, and I've never met anyone who knows the guy who doesn't say the same. Hellraiser was a major influence for a lot of locals.
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Natas/DLoC
(Relworp, Oliver Clothesoff, Gaknyupazoid) |
Natas (his real name) was one of my skater roommates who liked to get on boards and fuck with people. He even bought his own C64 setup just for that. Last I heard he was harassing people on usenet. Some people got the mistaken idea that since "Relworp" is "Prowler" backwards, that this guy and I were one and the same. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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| Z E U S/DLoC |
Zeus was one of those guys who's parents wouldn't let him out of the house much. He was a tireless flame-warrior, and talented phone phreak.
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| Loki/DLoC |
PC guy who called C64 BBS's in the 90s
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| Longknife/DLoC |
You don't want to mess with this guy.
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Cichlid/DLoC
(Brown Frog, Freeze) |
Uber-cool scener, well known for crazy antics. Ran several local BBSs, always on C-Net. The Lilly Pad, Cell Block 64, Nebula... Cichlid currently runs the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club BBS at telnet://cincy.ath.cx
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| The Ranger |
Hellraiser's brother. At one point they shared a 300 baud modem, and would carry it across the street to eachother's houses to use it.
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| Party Animal |
Ran The Party Zone BBS - Really cool kid, now runs a consulting company.
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| Shutter Jockey/NSR |
Ran The Network BBS and founded NSR with me in 1986.
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| Robin Hood/THW |
Robin Hood was this guy's actual name. Founder of THW, everyone warred with Robin at one time or another. Usually things would work out, and notably, Merlin and I both ended up doing intros for THW, and I even joined the group in 87. Robin took his own life in the winter of 92. This was a huge blow to the local scene, and it was never the same afterwards. Many of us had to stop using our C64's for a while. There is a tribute video for Robin on one of the TSA DVDs.
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| Iron Fist/THW |
One of the founding members of THW, and all-around crazy biker guy.
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| Devious/THW |
A good coder and cracker, later was big in Amiga groups
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| Silver Dragon (Darkwind/THW) |
Paul Redd. He changed his handle because we all called him "Silver Drag Queen" at first, then "Dickwind" after the change. Paul was really cool about it all, though, and it was never intended in a mean way. Later we were in THW together, and really got to be friends. I lost touch with Paul for a few years, and unfortunately discovered this year when I was trying to track down old friends that Paul had taken his own life in 2003.
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| Dr. Who/THW |
Ran a good warez BBS, Dr. Who's Request Line. Currently doing time in federal prison for something or other.
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Dragon Creator/THW
(Sir Locksley) |
Cool guy who I had a falling out with in the early 90s. I would later discover that I had been lied to about some things he supposedly did, and have since tried to make amends. We were in THW together, and I hear that he's going to be returning to the scene.
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| Nightcrawler/TSA |
SysOp of The Combat Zone][ BBS and founder of TSA
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| Shadow/YWN |
Founder of YWN.
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| Overlord |
Randy was really cool, used to come to copyparties at Hellraiser's house.
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| Grey Mouser/TMM |
Tony Rye. Good coder, all around good guy. If anyone has contact info for Tony, please forward it. His friends in DLoC miss him.
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| White Demon/TMM |
Grey Mouser's brother. Natas used to really work this guy, they'd go back and forth for days flaming on eachother on the BBSs.
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| Duffy Hawken/NSR |
Nam vet, and regular contributor on The Network BBS. Sadly, Duffy died from cancer in 1990.
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| People in the 513/606 C64 BBS Scene - Randoms Who Were Cool |
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Description |
Drew Vogel
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Ran the Cafe BBS
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| Hawkman |
Don't remember much about this guy
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| Silver Paladin |
Ran Paladin's Keep BBS
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| Hitler |
What kind of guy uses "Hitler" for a handle.
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| Bulletproof |
Don't remember much about this guy
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| The Nut (The Fury) |
Poor guy got tired of being heckled for calling himself "The Nut" so he changed his handle (after the infamous YWN "The Nut" demo). He changed it to "The Fury" and was known as "The Fairy" forever after.
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| Kinky Kathy |
Her son ran The Basement BBS. She later hooked up with (and is still with) Cichlid/DLoC
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| Haviland Tuf |
Don't remember much about this guy, except that he was really cool at the TSA gatherings.
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| DAV!D |
David was one of the few people who would actually contribute money to help a BBS pay it's bills. Top-knotch user, and all around nice guy.
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| Troll |
Troll came along as the scene was dying, and tried to run a C64 BBS. Everyone had internet access then, so it didn't work out.
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| Rocky |
Roger Zutterling, Very cool user who moved out of the local scene early on (87-ish)
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| Stuart Linder |
Regular attendant at TSA events.
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| Midnight Maniac |
AFAIK, the only openly gay user on the BBS's
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| Mr. Wonderful |
Don't remember much about this guy.
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| Hulk Hogan |
Kind of a lamer, but harmless enough |
| Jeff Spicoli |
Didn't do much in the local BBS scene, but will always be remembered for writing SCBBS, quite a good piece of BBS Software.
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| Thor/YWN |
Shadow's sidekick
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| Breaker D |
Mike Crawwson. He used to impersonate me at user-group meetings out of state. Last I heard, he was living in Texas and doing quite well. He used to be kind of a momma's boy, always afraid of getting in trouble. The one time we really hung out was kind of too much of a whiskey-drinking crazy good time for him and his little suburban buddies, so we didn't hang out after that. I should call him up and tell him I'm coming to visit and bringing kegs.
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| Violator/TSA |
Sysop of the X-Change
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| Matt Powell/TSA |
Sysop of another TSA BBS
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| Red Baron |
Warez d00d
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| Salamander |
Sysop of Salamander Slander, a good board from the early days of the scene (83-87)
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| Garfield |
Cool guy
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| Daryth |
Kinky Kathy's son, ran The Basement BBS
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| The Captain |
Currently in jail with Dr. Who for something or other.
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| The Wire |
Super cool guy. Used to show up at all the TSA events.
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| Candorr |
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| The Enforcer |
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| Dungeon Master (Viper) |
The first person I met "in the scene". All-around cool guy.
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| Creeping Death |
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| Hoss |
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| People in the 513/606 C64 BBS Scene - People Who Were Dicks |
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Description |
Ice Man/AI
(Little Rascal, Tasmanian Devil)
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This guy was a real asshole. He started out as normal enough, even kind of cool. He ran a local board, and we were all sysops on eachother's systems. At some point, he was influenced by Dalai Lama, and turned on the rest of us. He logged onto every local BBS he was a sysop on (including mine), and formatted their drives. Then he started his own group called "Anarchy Incorperated" (That's right folks, they couldn't even spell their own fucking group name!)
This is what sparked the DLoC/AI war, and caused no end of havoc in the scene, which is probably what Dalai Lama was shooting for in the first place. This idiot let himself be an unwitting instrument of all of it. What a fucking toolthorn. The best part is that after Dalai Lama was done using him to harass the rest of us, he dropped him like a plague-ridden rat carcass.
But that's not the end of it. This fuckstick actually tried to make a COMEBACK after being soundly thrashed and exiled. When that didn't work out, he started reporting people who brought warez into town for phreaking.
You would really think that after such antics, this asshole would have been out of the scene forever, wouldn't you? Well no. After all of that he tried simply changing his handle to something else and coming back. When he was outed and exiled again, he dropped the C64 and got a PC. I've heard from guys in the PC BBS scene from back then that he was an asshole there as well.
Mike Maryo, aka Ice Man aka Little Rascal aka Tasmanian Devil was last seen on the web, exploiting his kid's disability to get traffic to his photography site. It just goes to show that people who were losers and assholes in the scene turned out to be losers and assholes in real life.
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| Slayer |
Rick Wood. This idiot invited Cichlid/DLoC and I to his house to "party, hang out, and copy disks". He said he had his own place and there would be girls there. So we show up with beer, ready to have some fun, and it turns out he was like 14, lived with his mom, and the "girls" were all 12. What a lamer! He actually asked Cichlid "Dude, you wanna fuck my mom?" as we were leaving.
Later would ally himself with Ice Man.
His most famous fuckup was pranking my next-door neighbors 24/7 for three straight weeks because he'd messed up one digit of my phone number. I would sit in my room and hear their phone ringing from across the street and them cursing and screaming about it, all to my amusement, since the neighbors were drunk assholes and I hated them.
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| Dalai Lama/USSPE |
Phil Smith... What an ass. This guy had some tenative connection to USSPE, which was a second-rate couriering group that had some tenative connection to UCF, which was a second-rate cracking group. For this reason, he seemed to think he was a GOD. (In fact, that's what he called his later Amiga group). The only reason this guy was ever in the scene was to harass people. He and his pathetic little sidekick "Wally Bignut" used to do things like call local sysops and claim to be affiliated with ESI. Then they'd get the sysop to put "ESI Support BBS" on his screens and go out and buy a bunch of Rush CDs or some other nonsense. Later they would manipulate Ice Man into formatting a bunch of BBS's drives. Phil and Ed contributed nothing to the scene but grief, and I hope they both ended up in some situation that prevents them from harassing people.
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| Wally Bignut |
Ed Fromeyer, Dalai Lama's little sidekick and toady. I actually worked with this guy's uncle for a while, and he'd tell me stories about how "Little Ed" would get in trouble for sneaking out at night and putting anti-semitic signs on Drew Vogel's lawn. What a complete waste of a life this kid was...
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| Sargent Smith |
I used to occasionally "test" my BBS users with a mod that made it look like they'd been dropped into sysop mode. Most of them would immediately try to call me voice, and those guys got better access. This assclown actually tried to format my drives, so he got banned.
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| Blue Falcon |
See Dalai Lama, above. It is believed that this was one of his early alter-egos, but it hasn't been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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| Moleman |
Jay, stole disks from me once. What a dick.
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| Big Red/TCC |
This fucktard couldn't even READ! He had to have his wife read the messages from the BBS's to him! Un-fucking-believable... Later formed a group called "The Cool Cats", which was an enormous piece of shit. Their "logo" was a fucked-up picture of a flying cat with a cigarette in it's mouth.
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| Dr. Death |
What a stupid asshole. This fucker actually threatened to sue the guys from TSA because Shadow/YWN took his picture from the TSA picnic demo and used it in their rag demo against him.
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| Phreaky Phreddy |
Fucknut couldn't even phreak, he just liked the handle.
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| Nimbus |
A religious idiot who used to try to start flamewars on The Combat Zone][
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| Dalamar |
Ice Man's little sidekick. He used to get on BBSs and talk shit about how big and bad he was and how he was going to DRIVE to everyone's house and kick their ass. I got sick of hearing it and DROVE to his house to kick his ass. Turns out he was like 10 years old! I told him to stay in school and left. I was seriously pissed, since I wasn't about to beat up a 10-year-old. But then Longknife/DLoC beat the gnome in Dalamar's mom's garden to pieces with a shovel, so we felt vindicated.
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| Blue Mouser |
This guy is only on the lamer list because he tried to burn Hellraiser on a hard-drive trade. Other than that one thing, he was actually really cool. If you're reading this, Jason, simply drop an email explaining your side of that story, and I'll take you off the lamer list.
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