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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
PO BOX 1031
Mesquite, TX 75150
August 18, 1990
courtesy of Double Helix at 212-865-7043
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Engineering Oriented Bulletin Board Systems Directory
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Last Update: June 19, 1990
The Computer Plumber BBS is pleased to present the following
directory of Engineering Oriented Bulletin Board Systems.
This list contains some of the bulletin board systems which may be
of interest to you. If you know of a bulletin board system that is
strong on engineering or scientific subjects or have more
information on those listed, please leave a comment to the sysop on
The Computer Plumber BBS at 319-337-6723.
Art Petrzelka (Mechanical and Instrumentation Engineer)
Copyright (C) 1990 by Arthur T. Petrzelka. All Erights reserved.
Permission is granted to reproduce this file as a bulletin on, or to
distribute as a file on any BBS if the following conditions are met:
1) The copyright notice is retained,
2) The registration form is included, or referenced in an
accessible location in the same place that this file is
used,
3) This file may not be used in any other form without
written permission from me.
A friend (who I have never met) once found his similar effort in a
book in a bookstore, with no credit given to him, or any indication
of how to keep the list going. I hope that this copyright effort is
a waste of time, and evidence of paranoia.
I started doing this because of the difficulty I had in finding
these systems. I'd like to find more and let other engineers know
about them. The number one goal of this file is to get engineers
talking to each other.
Many thanks to those sysops who went out of their way to offer
editing and organization assistance.
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There are many different types of Engineering Bulletin Boards, just
as there are many different types of engineers.
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There are three types of boards listed in this directory:
- Engineering-related BBSs,
- Product support boards, and
- Other BBS resources of use to engineers.
BBS entries below marked with an asterisk (*) do not yet have a
description included with this directory.
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QUICK DIRECTORY
Engineering-Related BBS's
Sponsored by Technical Societies:
CIME-ISE 608-233-3378
SCIQ 313-769-4488
* ISA Computec BBS 205-995-6590
NSPE PEPP BBS 703-684-2871
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Sponsored by Individuals or Companies
Primarily Engineering-Related:
The Biomedical Engineering BBS 201-596-5679
BOSTON GAS BBS 617-235-6303
Brainstorm 601-798-9477
Compu-Ease 408-286-8332
EBBS (Engineering Bulletin Board System) 805-253-2917
Energy Management Systems 913-842-6110
The Interocitor 214-401-1878
MatChat 415-655-1753
M&C Magazine BBS 813-377-7032
Megalon BBS 713-479-3323
* New-Con (Concrete) 301-687-9417
PPC BBS 213-978-0024
QU-AN-TO 415-255-2981
The Computer Plumber 319-337-6723
The Preservation-BBS 618-549-8448
The Science Lab 301-466-0949
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Computer information services which have an engineering section:
Alacrity BBS (ACAD) 206-643-5477
Santee Micro BBS 619-562-8735
* BIX Engineering conference
* Compuserve IBMAPP Forum, Section 13,
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Engineering/Technical/Scientific
* Intelec Network Engineering Conference
* InterLink Network Science Conference
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* Relaynet Engineering Conference
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Sponsored by Public Bodies
Applied Modeling Research 919-541-1325
FEMA BBS 202-646-2887
HMIX BBS (Hazmat) 708-972-3275
* U. of Minnesota Engineering BBS 612-625-6091
US Geological Survey 703-648-4168
VA-Tech College Engineering BBS 703-961-7498
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Manufacturer's & Sales Representatives Support BBS's
CONUG East Coast BBS 407-725-8978
EEsof MICROWAVE CAE SOFTWARE 818-991-8548
GE Plastics
Georgia Power Corporation 404-368-5058
* Heuristics (for owners of OnSpec only)
HP Calculator BBS 503-750-4448
Leo Technology BBS 603-432-2517
National Semiconductor 408-739-1162
OPTO 22 714-892-8375
* Professional RBBS 702-356-1048
Savannah Power BBS 912-966-3645
Tees Engineering 409-727-8388
WCSCNET 713-568-6401
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Other Related
Climate Assessment Bulletin Board
* CTC/IEEE Jobs Database 508-263-3857
DOC Economic Bulletin Board 202-377-3870
FERC CIPS 202-357-8997
IGES BBS 301-963-6234
Info Resources Svcs 202-535-7661
* JDR Microdevices BBS 408-559-0297
* NBS Comp Perf Evaluation Group 301-948-5717
Preservation BBS 618-549-8448
Science Resources Studies 202-634-1764
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BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS
(In Alphabetical Order)
Engineering Related BBSs
Alacrity BBS (206)643-LISP 1200/2400 8N1 24hrs; Sysop, Jason Osgood
Focus is answering AutoCAD support questions and application
programming. Alacrity BBS is the home of Alacrity Software,
creators of numerous public domain and shareware utilities for
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use with AutoCAD. Features an extensive AutoCAD oriented
message section and files database. Has logged over 10,000
phone calls since inception in September 1988. Also maintains a
listing of AutoCAD related bulletin boards.
The Biomedical Engineering BBS; 201-596-5679, 300/1200/2400 24 Hrs,
Sysop, John Andrews, Newark, NJ, Wildcat!, 32M
Independently operated out of the Biomedical Engineering
Research Laboratory of the New Jersey Institute of Technology;
Xmodem, Ymodem, Kermit, ASCII, ZModem; no fees, ratios or
validation; Voice Support Line: 201 596 3409 An engineering BBS
dedicated to information exchange between engineers and
researchers from all backgrounds who are working in the
biomedical arena. Heavy emphasis on text files, discussions of
research, and interaction between academia and the biomed
industry in Northeast US. Regular postings of conferences and
seminars at regional campuses and research centers, as well as
major professional society activities.
BOSTON GAS BBS; 617-235-6303, 300/1200/2400/9600 HST/DS 8N1 24 Hrs;
Sysop, Jon Anderson, Wellesley, Mass.; PCRelayNet, ID = GAS
A Specialty BBS for Anesthesia, Engineering, Medicine and
Science; PCBoard 14.5 (beta); free access unless an
institution/business, Autoverification available; Zmodem/Batch;
Ymodem(s) ; Lynx; Kermit; Xmodem(s) and others; 1:20
Upload/Download Ratio; MarkMail, Qmail 3.0, MegaMail, 344M Hard
Disk. Our primary interest is in distribution of information in
Medicine, Science, Engineering, including e-mail, relay-echo's
and shareware/freeware distribution. Our bulletins contain
comprehensive descriptions of our activities. Our Sysyop is a
mechanical engineer/physician. The BBS is open to the public,
but private conference areas are maintained.
Brainstorm BBS 601-798-9477; 300/1200/2400 bps; 8N1; SYSOP:
Dave Thompson; FidoNet 1:18/60 A QuickBBS system, with 40MB of
Storage; approximately 25MB of files.
This board caters to programming engineers and scientists. Files
supporting Turbo Pascal, C (MS and Turbo) and FORTRAN are
maintained on the system, as are other programs in support of
programming on personal computers. Many of these files contain
source code. Other files are comprised of applications of
interest to professional users and many general purpose
utilities. Because of the relatively small storage space for
files, all files are of high quality and most have been
personally reviewed by the sysop.
CIME-ISE BBS 608-233-3378; 300-9600bps; 4 lines; SYSOP Greg
Jackson Computers In Mechanical Engineering sponsored by the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Climate Assessment Bulletin Board 301-763-8071
Operating agency: Climate Analysis Center, National Weather
Service, Department of Commerce
Contents: Historical climate information - daily, weekly, and
monthly, heating degree days, weekly climate bulletins For
further information contact Vernon Patterson, Climate Analysis
Center
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COMP-U-EASE 408-286-8332; 300-2400bps; 8,N,1; 24 hrs
South San Francisco Bay area, California
Computer Plumber BBS: 319/337-6723; 300-9600bps HST; SYSOP Art
Petrzelka, Iowa City, FidoNet 1:283/661
Free access, questionnaire required for access upgrade; Zmodem,
Hyperprotocol, Lynx, testing Bimodem. Tomcat! .QWK Mail Door.
The Computer Plumber BBS is devoted to those engineers who work
with industrial applications of computers, especially data
acquisition, supervisory control, process monitoring, operator
interface, or SCADA. TCP conferences include a PID tutorial
program, Engineering Design, Instrumentation, Telemetry,
Environmental, and Municipal concerns.
CONUG East Coast BBS; 407-727-0331; 300/1200/2400/9600/14400 HST,
407-725-8978; 300/1200/2400, 24 Hrs.; Sysop, Alex Soya
Concurrent Users Group BBS, sponsored by Logan Industries,
manufacturers of software for concurrent operating systems.
System is for computer Professionals interested in Computer
Science and multiuser/tasking operating systems, including
Digital Research's Concurrent DOS and Microsoft's Windows and
OS/2. System access is FREE to CONUG members, from others,
however, it is expected that you contribute by either uploading
files or financially support the system with contributions based
on your download/upload ratio.
The Economic Bulletin Board 202-377-1986/4450
Operating agency: Office of Business Analysis; Office of the
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U. S. Dept of Commerce
Contents: Current economic news from DoC Economic Affairs(EA)
agencies including press releases, economic indicators, official
DoC summaries of economic news, information on how to obtain data
tapes, and summaries of reports and studies produced by EA
agencies. Also included are press releases issued by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
EEsof MICROWAVE CAE SOFTWARE; 818-991-8548
For product support of EEsof software for digital board-level
design, including ACADEMY (tm), Touchstone (r), Touchstone/RF
(tm), Touchstone Sr. (tm), Libra (tm), Microwave SPICE (r),
OmniSys (tm), E-Syn (tm) ANACAT (tm), Xtract (tm), EMSim (tm),
MiCAD II (r), Filter Design Programs (tm), The MMIC Design
Workstation (tm), GaAs FET Model Library, Foundry Library
Options.
Energy Management Systems BBS 913-842-6110
This board has been started as a help to all plant engineers and
maintenance people. It is hoped that everyone calling here can
get help in keeping up with all the changes that are happening in
maintaining a company building and controlling rising energy
costs. We will try to support as many energy management systems
as we can. I know there are several systems around, but with this
board we might be able to help someone with a problem on their
system.
ENGINEERING BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM (EBBS) 805-252-4182
Voice line: 805-252-2177
Mailing address: EBBS, P.O.Box 75537, Los Angeles, California
90075
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EBBS is a subscription service. While mainly of interest to
Civil AND STRUCTURAL Engineers, it offers programs in a number of
engineering fields. Many of the programs are only available to
subscribers and will not be found on free bulletin boards. EBBS
is very strong on Lotus 123 engineering applications.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Issuance Posting System (CIPS)
The CIPS provides the full text of the FERC daily issuances,
press releases, the Commission agenda and a daily listing of all
filings made to the Commission. This service is available 23
hours every day. It is not available between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00
a.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, please call
Sid Barinder on (202) 357-5570.
General Electric Plastics
The firm has provided an ENGINEERING DESIGN DATABASE available
to interested engineers. The database contains information on
stress/strain creep, fatigue, and other properties of GE
plastics. The system runs software to aid in the selection of
plastics. It requires 1200 or 2400 baud modem and Tektronics
emulation software (or a Tektronics terminal, I presume).
For more details call 800-845-0600.
Georgia Power Corporation 404-368-5058; 300/1200/2400 bps, 24 Hrs
Georgia Power's Engineers' & Architects' Information Service
2 lines & internal phone system plus local dial-in numbers in
several Georgia cities.
System was first placed on line on Friday, February 5, 1988. New
users are automatically registered in the Engineer, Architect and
Software Exchange conferences. Conferences for Georgia Power
Marketing personnel and contractors have also been established.
For access please leave a Comment for the Sysop. An additional
conference is available for Sysops of other BBS's. This BBS
supports engineering and construction professionals. It has lots
of AutoCAD files as well as electrical and mechanical engineering
programs.
HP Calculator BBS 503-750-4448; 300-2400; 8,N,1
For those of you who might be interested, HP has a BBS for their
calculators. Contents are mostly HP-48SX stuff.
IGES ( National Bureau of Standards) 301-963-6234; 1200bps
The various committees working on the development of IGES use
this system for communications and sharing of results. If you
have opinions or questions on IGES this is the place to go.
The Interocitor BBS 214-401-1878; 300/1200/2400 bps, 8N1 24 hr;
Sysop, R. Steven Rainwater, Irving, TX; FidoNet
Xmodem, 1k Xmodem, Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Zmodem, +others; no fees, no
U/D ratios, validation required, Remote Access 0.03, 100 M
AI related ECHOs: AI, Robotics, Neural Networks, Psychology,
Philosophy AI/Expert System/Neural networking related file areas;
Desktop publishing/writing/Word processing file and message
areas; Video/Broadcast/Film file and message areas
Leo Technology BBS 603-432-2517; 300-2400bps; 8N1; SYSOP: Eric Poole
Sponsored by RKT Engineering.
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MatChat BBS 415-655-1753; SYSOP: Doug Williams
MatChat is a BBS for those who work in or are interested in
materials-related fields. Materials folk include those
interested in mines, ceramics, NDE, solid-state physics, welding,
corrosion, etc., and MatChat is intended to provide a forum for
this widely divergent community to get together.
Measurement & Control Magazine BBS; 813-377-7032, 300-2400; Sysop,
Robert Aronson
MACNET BBS is for all persons involved with instrumentation for
MEASUREMENTS & CONTROL serving the following fields: TEMPERATURE,
PRESSURE/FORCE/TORQUE, FLOW/LEVEL, MOISTURE/VISCOSITY,
ELECTRICAL/MAGNETIC/SPECTRAL, DIMENSIONAL GAGING/PROXIMITY
SENSING, RECORDING/DATA INSTRUMENTATION and
COUNTERS/TIMING/FREQUENCY/TACHOMETERS. MACNET will encompass
every facet of professional practice involving computers.
MACNET - $25.00 per year (MEASUREMENTS & CONTROL subscribers).
$40.00 per year (non-subscribers).
$45.00 per year (combination rate).
Megalon BBS; 713-479-3323; Sysop, Michael W. Johnson
This BBS is about Engineering and Technical disciplines...
Instrumentation to be particular. It has the following echos:
Telemetry, Instrumentation, Engineering, Autocad, CAD-CAM,
SURVIVAL, C Programming, DBASE, Science Forum, ELECTRONICS. The
first call will be a request for validation and then a user gets
60 min. per day each day. Telemetry, Instrumentation, Engineering
and Safety echos originate from the MEGALON! Anyone running a
fido compatable mailer can request these echos by netmailing a
request to 106/1999 c/o SYSOP. They will have to come get the
echo for now.
National Semiconductor; 408-739-1162; 300/1200 bps, 24 Hr.
National Semiconductor Microcontroller Applications Group
Welcomes you to the DIAL-A-HELPER System. Dial-a-Helper is a
free service provided by National Semiconductor Corporation for
our Microcontroller customers and field sales personnel. Files
on this system are available for your perusal and for downloading
to your system if desired. If you have difficulty using this
system, call (408) 721-5582 for help.
OPTO 22 BBS; 714-892-8375; 300/1200 bps, 24 Hr.
This Bulletin board is our no charge service for customers using
computers in industrial control. For your convenience we have
included: Software drivers for OPTOMUX and various computers;
Application software examples; New product announcements; Third
party software packages, including Paragon LC.
PPC BBS; 213-978-0024; 300/1200/2400/9600; Sysop,
Personal Programming Center Bulletin Board Service
Supporting users of Handheld and Portable Computers, Programmable
Calculators (mostly HP), and Artificial Intelligence. This
bulletin board was established by Personal Programming Center
(PPC), an independent user group that, since 1974, has been
supporting pro-grammable calculators and handheld computers. PPC
was incorporated in California in 1982 and disbanded in 1988.
Our main interest is artificial intelligence and its
applications. We are also interested in certain technologies
related to the latest in handheld computers.
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These include ham radio, artificial intelligence, forth language
(especially HP-71B forth), and other sciences.
The Preservation-BBS 618-549-8448; 300-2400bps; 8,N,1; 24 hrs
SYSOP: Bob Pauls; Carbondale, IL 62901
The Preservation-BBS exists to provide technical and strategic
advice to callers regarding the use of historic preservation
tools for the development of communities. Preservation is both an
art and a science requiring a multi-disciplinary approach to
community, building and site protection. Standards exist by which
all historically and architecturally significant structures
should be repaired, replaced and adaptively reused. The BBS
serves as technical resource as well as a forum for preservation
activists to explore creative solutions to the loss of the
world's cultural heritage.
QU-AN-TO; 415-255-2981; 1200/2400 bps 8N1; 24 hrs; Sysop: Dr. Ken
Hunter
QU-AN-TO is a BBS for users of QUantitative ANalytic TOols.
Major topics supported are mathematics, statistics, engineering,
and some of the sciences (e.g., astronomy, electronics, geology).
We are a serious BBS, primarily for people who use quantitative
techniques in their professions or studies. Access by
individuals interested in games, graphics, or utilities is
discouraged.
Santee Micro BBS; 619-562-8735; 300/1200/2400 bps; Sysop, Dennis
Kleinsmith
Conversation, Latest files, Live Doors Reviews, File Downloads,
Sale/Want Ads Prometheus 2400 baud Promodem
The Santee Micro
10125 Woodpark Dr.
Santee, CA. 92071
Savannah Power BBS; 912-966-3645, 1200/2400 N81 22 Hrs.; Sysops,
William Hamilton, Gary Hodges, Robert Tuck, Tim Venters;
Savannah, GA
An Independant Technical BBS for the Instrumentation and Control
Departments; free, verification required The purpose of this BBS
is to allow Instrument and Controls Technicians from around
Southern Company and this area to exchange programs, technical
info, hints for solving problems, problems associated with
equipment, and any other data that may be useful to our
individual plants. This BBS is for only I&C shops and other
Technical Crafts.
The Science Lab BBS : (301) 466-0949 1200/2400/9600/14400
(HST/DS) Sysop, Mitch Hobish, PhD
TSL is a subscription-only system, dedicated to science and
technology education, policy, and news. We are a member node of
the InterLink conference network. Our large collection of
scientific and technical files (50Mb and growing) and related
programming utilities (15Mb) makes this an excellent one-stop
resource. Novices as well as experienced professionals are
welcome.
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SCIENCE RESOURCES STUDIES (SRS RBBS) 202-634-1764
Voice line is 202-634-4636
From the National Science Foundation. The system lists federal
funds for research and development, scientific and engineering
expenditures, and international comparisons of science and
technology data. For more information contact Vanessa Richardson
at NSF.
SCIQ BBS 313-769-4488; 300-2400bps, 4 lines; Sysop, Robert Tait
VOICE 313-769-4498
The SCIQ BBS is a technical board dedicated to serving the
interests of persons involved in manufacturing, who have an
interest in sensing, quality and machine vision issues. This
board is available as a customer support platform as well.
The SCIQ BBS is run by the Sensor Center for Improved Quality, at
the Industrial Technology Institute. Now operating from a 80286
platform, with upgraded software. The Board features:
-EMAIL -CLASSIFIED ADS
-USER REGISTRY -SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
-NEWS FORUM SOFTWARE [*MAJOR REVISION THIS YEAR]
-FILE LIBRARY [*NEW THIS YEAR]
There is no charge for using the SCIQ BBS.
Tees Engineering BBS 409-727-8388; 300-2400bps; Open 6 pm to 7am
CST.
Al Tees, author of many shareware engineering programs, runs an
engineering BBS. Users of Tees software and all others
interested in engineering software applications are invited.
US Geological Survey; 703-648-4168;300/1200 bps; Sysop, Jason
This is a public board but full user benefits are not granted
until the Sysop updates your completed registration. Since this
board is paid for by the USGS and many USGS employees use this
board, we are interested in any files, happenings, etc. of
interest to the geological community in addition to the interests
of normal computer users. The three conferences are:
SYSOPS : For Registered Sysops of Other PCBoards.
dBASE : For Any Users Interested in dBASE (II,III,+).
CD-ROM : For those interested in CD-ROM Technology.
VA-TECH College of Engineering BBS 703-961-7498
Lots of engineering students/each with a PC, make this an
interesting bbs for engineering software.
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If you have comments or other information relating to such topics as
this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the Vangard
Sciences address as listed on the first page. Thank you for your
consideration, interest and support.
Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet
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