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    From enunseulmotinitialetpuislariviere@enunseulmotinitialetpuislariviere@nordnet.fr to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 14:02:55
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    Hi everyone,
    I once read that AOL was originally a company or a soft developped under another name for the C64 + a modem.
    Can anyone tell me the name ?

    Many thx in advance.
    Thierry

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  • From Anders Carlsson@anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 14:09:12
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    Thierry Larivière <enunseulmotinitialetpuislariviere@nordnet.fr> writes:

    I once read that AOL was originally a company or a soft developped
    under another name for the C64 + a modem. Can anyone tell me the name?

    From http://www.aolmemorabilia.com/ :

    : Who was Bill von Meister, you ask? Well, he founded a little company
    : called Digital Music (can anyone say 'Napster'?), which begat CoVideo
    : (can anyone say 'Atari'?), which begat Quantum Computer Services (can
    : anyone say 'Commodore 64'?), which in turn begat...begat...America
    : Online (can anyone say...oh, forget it!)

    So, the answer to your question should be Q-Link I believe.

    --
    Anders Carlsson

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  • From Dave Ross@watsonc64@ten.tsacmoc to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 13:50:21
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    On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Thierry Larivière wrote:
    I once read that AOL was originally a company or a soft developped under another name for the C64 + a modem.
    Can anyone tell me the name ?
    The company was known as Quantum Communications at the time, I believe.
    The product was QuantumLink, or Q-Link as many people called it.
    The service was, well, basically like AOL in its early days. There wasn't
    any Internet access, but all the chatrooms, message boards, and file
    downloads were there. There was even a "virtual reality" environment
    called Club Caribe where users could wander around a "resort" and interact
    with each other.
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  • From Intrinsic@mreed13@hotmail.com to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, January 26, 2004 15:06:04
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm

    Thierry Larivière wrote:

    Hi everyone,
    I once read that AOL was originally a company or a soft developped under another name for the C64 + a modem.
    Can anyone tell me the name ?

    Many thx in advance.
    Thierry

    Yes it's Q-Link, came on the back of GEOS disks, (I'm not sure if it was available elsewhere), you want a copy ;o), prolly about as good as AOL
    is anyways ;o)
    Intrinsic

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