A BBS that was taken down by the authorities according to a scene or mainstream source. For a list of occurences and sources, see the Demozoo page of busts.

This BBS carried PC releases and/or was part of the PC scene. Please note that it does not automatically mean that the BBS ran on a PC.

A BBS that was open to the general scene public, and not just for the self-defined "elites". Usually, such BBSs carried only legal files, and their numbers were publicly advertised. However, they usually still required user registration, and sysops could refuse accounts to users they considered too "lame".

A BBS that was connected to the demoscene in a more intense way than just offering demos for download. Such BBSs were affiliated with several demoscene groups, had active demosceners as sysops, or were generally know as demoscene communication hubs.

Demogroups Interchange (DGI) was a PC demoscene BBS network founded in 1993. An info package from 1995 can be found here and one from 1996 here.

Gathering the Scene in a Network (GSN) was a demoscene BBS network founded by Disperin/Admire and Lemming/Orange. An info package and nodelist from May 1997 can be found here.

This BBS had one or more ISDN nodes.

RemoteAccess is a DOS Bulletin Board System (BBS) software package written by Andrew Milner and published by his company Wantree Development in Australia. RemoteAccess was written in Turbo Pascal with some Assembly Language routines. RemoteAccess (commonly called RA) began in 1989 as a clone of QuickBBS by Adam Hudson. It was released under the shareware concept in 1990 and became popular in North America, Europe, UK, South Africa, and the South Pacific. More information on Wikipedia.