============================================================= Community Information Systems NOTE: Kindergarten through 12th Grade (K-12) Information Systems are prefixed K-12: ============================================================= Prepared by Judy Hallman , UNC-Chapel Hill July 28, 1994. This list provides information about community and K-12 information systems you can connect to and try out. Access information for World- Wide Web (WWW), gopher, and/or telnet connections is given. You can pick up this list by anonymous ftp to sunsite.unc.edu; cd pub/docs/about-the-net/cwis, get communets. Or point your gopher to info.unc.edu, path: Other information systems Community Information Systems About the Community Information Systems section The gopher and telnet systems listed here are all accessible from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus-wide information system, Info. You can gopher info.unc.edu or telnet info.unc.edu; login as info Select "Other information systems" and then "Community Information Systems." World-Wide Web sites for accessing CWISs: Some community information systems can be accessed from WWW URL: http://www.usask.ca/~scottp/free.html Provided by Peter Scott For VT100 access to World-Wide Web sites using lynx: telnet www.cc.ukans.edu; login as www Provided by Lou Montulli ============================================================= Akron Regional Free-Net Demo Gopher, USA gopher gopher.neoucom.edu 1070 Hardware/software: gopher+ Contact: Anne McFarland Gopher Admin: "Richard E. Depew" ------------------------------------------------------------ Big Sky Telegraph - Dillon, Montana, USA telnet bigsky.bigsky.dillon.mt.us; login as bbs Hardware/software: SCO Unix on a 386 and 486 running XBBS Contact: Frank Odasz ------------------------------------------------------------ Buffalo Free-Net - Buffalo, New York, USA telnet freenet.buffalo.edu; login as freeport Hardware/software: SunOS and FreePort Contact: James Finamore ------------------------------------------------------------ CapAccess: The National Capital Area Public Access Network, Washington, DC, USA telnet cap.gwu.edu; login as guest with password visitor About end of August, telnet: capaccess.org Hardware/software: Sun SparcStation 10 running Freeport Contact: Taylor Walsh ------------------------------------------------------------ Chebucto FreeNet, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada WWW URL: http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/ Or telnet cfn.cs.dal.ca; login as guest Contact: David John Murdoch ------------------------------------------------------------ Cleveland Free-Net, Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, Ohio, USA telnet freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or telnet freenet-in-b.cwru.edu or telnet freenet-in-c.cwru.edu Hardware/software: Sun 6/690 running FreePort Contact: Jeff Gumpf ------------------------------------------------------------ COIN - Columbia Online Information Network - Columbia, Missouri, USA telnet bigcat.missouri.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation with FreePort, Gopher, Pico, and Pine software Contact: Bill Mitchell ------------------------------------------------------------ Denver Free-Net - Denver, Colorado, USA telnet freenet.hsc.colorado.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun SPARC 20/51 and IPC running FreePort Contact: Drew Mirque ------------------------------------------------------------ Free-Net Erlangen Nuernberg - Erlangen, Germany telnet 131.188.192.11; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Peter Beck ------------------------------------------------------------ Greater Detroit Free-Net, USA telnet detroit.freenet.org; login as visitor Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Paul Raine ------------------------------------------------------------ Heartland Free-Net - Peoria and Bloomington/Normal Illinois, USA telnet heartland.bradley.edu; login as bbguest Hardware/software: Sun SparcII running FreePort Contact: Karen S. Eggert ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: California Online Resources for Education (CORE) - Los Alamitos, CA, USA telnet eis.calstate.edu; logon as ctp Hardware/software: Sun workstation Contact: Frank Wallace ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Colorado State University K-12 Server, USA WWW URL: http://k12.colostate.edu Hardware/software: httpd running on an SUN IPC running SUN OS. Contact: Greg Redder ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Poudre-R1 Gopher Information Service, USA gopher alpha.pr1.k12.co.us Hardware/software: Gopher running on a DEC 3000/300 running OSF1 Contact: Greg Redder ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Sendit North Dakota, North Dakota's K-12 Educational Telecommunication Network - Fargo, ND, USA telnet sendit.nodak.edu; logon as bbs with password sendit2me Hardware/software: NeXT workstation running FreePort Contact: Gleason Sackmann ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: UMassK12: University of Massachusetts/Amherst K-12 Information System, USA telnet k12.ucs.umass.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: DEC-5000/133 running a version of Freeport Contact: Dan Blanchard Mort Sternheim ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Virginia's Public Education Network (PEN) - Richmond, VA, USA telnet vdoe386.vak12ed.edu; login as guest with password guest Hardware/software: RISC 6000 with AIX running PEN software Contact: Dr. Harold Cothern ------------------------------------------------------------ LA Free-Net, Los Angeles, USA telnet lafn.org Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Avrum Bluming ------------------------------------------------------------ Lorain County Free-Net - Elyria, Ohio, USA telnet freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Paul Boguski ------------------------------------------------------------ National Capital Free-Net - Ottawa, Canada telnet freenet.carleton.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: National Capital FreeNet Office ------------------------------------------------------------ North Texas Free-Net - Dallas, Texas, USA gopher metronet.com Select "NPTN TEXAS (Free-Net Information)/" Hardware/software: gopher Contact: Ken Loss-Cutler ------------------------------------------------------------ REMM (Reseau Electronique du Montreal Metropolitaine), Canada Le Free-Net de Montreal WWW URL: http://thym.remm.uqam.ca/ Contact: free-net@remm.uqam.ca ------------------------------------------------------------ Rio Grande Free-Net - El Paso, Texas, USA telnet rgfn.epcc.edu; login as visitor Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Don Furth ------------------------------------------------------------ SEFLIN FREE-NET - Southeast Florida Library Information Network, USA telnet bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us; login as visitor Hardware/software: Sun workstation running software shared in Florida Contact: Elizabeth Curry or Craig Stillings ------------------------------------------------------------ SLONET - San Luis Obispo, USA gopher slonet.org Contact: Phil Wagner ------------------------------------------------------------ Tallahassee Free-Net - Tallahassee, Florida, US telnet freenet.fsu.edu; login as visitor Hardware: IBM RS/530 running AIX Sun Sparc 10 running SOS DEC 3000 Alpha 400 running OSF1 Software: Developed by Diane Wood ftp.scri.fsu.edu /pub/TFN Contact: Hilbert Levitz ------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital City, Amsterdam, Netherlands telnet dds.hacktic.nl; login as gast or guest Hardware/software: Solair 10/30 running SunOS with FreePort software Contact: Marleen Stikker Joost Flint Felipe Rodriquez or John Heiden ------------------------------------------------------------ Tri-State Online - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA telnet tso.uc.edu; login as visitor. Hardware/software: UNIX and CIX Contact: Michael King ------------------------------------------------------------ Triangle Free-Net - Research Triangle Park area of NC, USA gopher tfnet.ils.unc.edu Or telnet tfnet.ils.unc.edu; login as freenet with password guest Hardware/software: gopher on an HP9000/360 Contact: Judy Hallman ------------------------------------------------------------ Victoria Free-Net - Victoria, British Columbia WWW URL: http://freenet.victoria.bc.ca/vifa.html Or gopher freenet.victoria.bc.ca Or telnet freenet.victoria.bc.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort for telnet access Contact: Gareth Shearman ------------------------------------------------------------ Wellington Citynet - Wellington, New Zealand gopher gopher.wcc.govt.nz Or emulate a vt100 and telnet kosmos.wcc.govt.nz, login as NEW to register Hardware/software: gopher Contact: Richard Naylor ------------------------------------------------------------ Youngstown Free-Net, USA gopher yfn.ysu.edu Or telnet yfn2.ysu.edu; login as visitor Hardware/software: Multiple Sun workstations running FreePort for telnet access Contact: Lou Anschuetz