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    Engineering Oriented Bulletin Board Systems Directory
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                 Last Update: May 1, 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)

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  Many thanks to Bob Pauls, sysop of the Preservation BBS, for
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.

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

Sponsored by Individuals or Companies
  Primarily Engineering-Related:
      Brainstorm                               601-798-9477
      Compu-Ease                               408-286-8332
      EBBS (Engineering Bulletin Board System) 805-253-2917
      Energy Management Systems                913-842-6110
      M&C Magazine BBS                         813-377-7032
      MatChat                                  415-655-1753
      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
      Twit's End BBS                           501-771-0114

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, Engineering/Technical/Scientific
*     Intelec Network Engineering Conference
*     InterLink Network Science Conference
*     Relaynet Engineering Conference

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

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
      Tees Engineering                         409-727-8388
      WCSCNET                                  713-568-6401

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 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.

Brainstorm BBS  601-798-9477; 300-2400bps; 8-N-1; SYSOP: Dave Thompson

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

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
   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 is currently (as of 5-1-90) developing a PID tutorial
   program. Other projects should develop as users express interest
   in other instrumentation-related areas.

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
   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.

Leo Technology BBS 603-432-2517; 300-2400bps; 8,N,1; SYSOP: Eric Poole
   Sponsored by RKT Engineering.

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).

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.

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.
   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; 300-2400bps; 24 hrs
   QUANTO is for people into QUantative ANalysis. It has a
   lab/research/math orientation with support for cryptology and
   astronomy. It is based in San Francisco.

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

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.

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.

