BBS

Park Central

Also known as

  • MidWest Exchange
  • Midwest File Exchange

Location: Palos Park, Cook County, Illinois, United States

Area code 708-827 (Palos Park, Illinois).

+1-708-827-31XX

In 1988 it was known as Midwest Exchange, 312-447-38XX and hosted Apple II releases. In November 1989, the 312 area-code split between 708 and 312. At various times called Midwest File Exchange (1992) and Park Central (November 1992-1997).

  • 1992 distsite for Fairlight in November-December.
  • 1993 Sinister in January, for RiSC from February (6 nodes).
  • 1994 for TRSI in March (9 nodes), for SCUM in September (9 nodes).
  • 1995 for RISC in February (15 nodes, 15 gig+ storage), for Genesis in April, for Hybrid in September (16 nodes).
  • 1996 WHQ for Hybrid in March (15 nodes), for Paradigm in November (15 nodes), courier HQ for RiSC in December.1

Unsure of the 1994 B/┤D (BAD) US-CENTRAL HQ affil.
Guessing the Prophecy/PCY affil is the HPAV group, as a few user affils on this 1995 log capture already had game/courier/util.

Maverick RAZOR/RISC/PCY/PWA/SCUM
Ustasa RISC / RAZOR / PROPHECY
Deuce'S Wild GNS/ASL\TDUJAM/PCY!

  1. RiSC nfo on 22 December 1996, from defacto2.net. ↩

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