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ROW #533 · LEG 81 ITEM 1 · TESTED NEGATIVE (Osceola seat) / DUG (serving boards) · c. 1990–1996
No bulletin-board system seated in Osceola appears in any list reached — and the boards that served this ground are named in the period lists themselves. The 9600-bps board compilation (the 96-USA list, preserved at retroarchive.org) carries, at 219-282-1054, Michiana Computer Network, South Bend, IN — a South Bend board inside Osceola's local-calling and newspaper orbit, printed here at exactly list strength: name, number, city, no sysop named in the line reached. A contemporary recollection record adds a second serving name, MOM — the Michiana Online Messenger, located in South Bend, Indiana — carried at recollection strength, not list strength, and not merged with the compiled-list entry. The Granger run's nixpub evidence belongs to that build and is not re-claimed here; this run's own searches were: the 96-USA compilation searched for Osceola, Mishawaka and South Bend entries; web searches for "Osceola Indiana BBS" and "Michiana BBS history" run whole. Result: South Bend entries return; no Osceola-seated board, sysop, or number returns in any of them.
That is the honest pre-web shape for this ground: a village of under three thousand whose modem users dialed the county seat's boards. Any board run from a Penn Township farmhouse or Lincolnway storefront, if one existed, left no trace in the compiled lists reached. Settler named: the textfiles.com BBS list read for ZIP 46561 and area code 219/574 Osceola exchanges, and Kiracofe (1988) for any local computer-club notice — neither reached whole in this run, so the negative prints at list-and-search strength, no stronger.
Sources:
- 96-USA 9600-bps BBS list (retroarchive.org, Night Owl CD-ROM mirror) — "219-282-1054 Michiana Computer Network South Bend IN."
- Rick Root BBS recollection (rickroot.com) — MOM, Michiana Online Messenger, South Bend, at recollection strength.
- Search record of this run, November 2026, as stated in the text.