Perhaps one of the best boards of all time. Run by Taran King and had a healthy, yet secure userlog. It was a closed system, the only way to get on was to know somebody. Everyone on the system knew each other in some sense.
The Disk Jockey

On June 1, 1987 Metal Shop Private went down seemingly forever with no possible return in sight.
archives.phrack.org/issues/19/7.txt

Metal Shop Private timeline

• A 1987 login
• Metal/General Discussion log
• Phrack Inc. Gossip log
• Phreak/Hack Sub log
• Social Engineering log
• New Users log
• Royal Court log