Re: AOL? Do What?!

[jdavisnn@soupwizard.com (Jeff Davis)]

Actually, Q-link was still active after Quantum became AOL - I used to work 
there and remember the "sunset" (shutdown) of Q-link in the fall of 94.  One 
of my friends went to the company Halloween party as a q-link "prophet of 
doom" - he wore a q-link t-shirt and carried a sign that said "Reboot!  The 
End is Near!".

It was a bummer to see it go, but it was costing more to keep the service up 
than it was making in revenue.  I think pc-link (geos on dos) and apple-link 
(apple II) were sunsetted around the same time for the same reasons.  There 
were lots of "if qlink do A, elseif applelink or pclink do B, else do C" 
work arounds in the server code base that was costing money to keep 
functioning (we were constantly rewriting the server code to keep up with 
growth). 

Little known fact (heard from people who were there at the time): Quantum 
Computer was named after Steve Case's car - a Volkswagon Quantum.  They 
needed to come up with a name to incorporate the company with, and it was 
the best idea anyone had.

Jeff

Locutus <locutus@locutus.org> wrote in
090220020035155713%locutus@locutus.org:">news:090220020035155713%locutus@locutus.org: 
> 
>   I realise this is on old message but I thought I would say this...
> 
>     AOL used to be the following services from Quatum Computer Services
> (not related to the hard drive maker)
> 
>     PC-Link - The PC verison
>     Apple-Link (Personal Edtion) - Apple // and IIgs (oh though it was
> just a supped up Apple II verison)
>     Q-Link - Commadore Version.
> 
>      Then Quatum droped the Commadore 64 version and meraged PC-Link
> and Apple-Link Personal they called it America Online.  That's when the
> Mac version came out.  For awhile there America Online was PCs,Macs,
> and Apple //'s.  But that was to soon end.  I would say 3 years later
> (Or was it longer or shorter... I can't remember) AOL droped supporting
> the Apple IIs to connect to the service, then it became Macs and PCs.
> Before this Quatum changed their name to America Online to match that
> of what they where calling their service (I think it was too meny
> people where confusing it with the Hard Drive maker.)