Re: AOL for Apple II

[Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser@stockholm.ptloma.edu>]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:

>Both.  You see, AOL was created by a meger of AppleLink and QuantumLink.
>That's why both Apple II users and C64 users claim to be the ones AOL was
>originally built upon.

Ah, okay. Learn something new every day. :-)

>Are you saying that after the merger, AOL didn't even let C64 users log onto
>the "real" AOL service?  That's terrible.  At least on the Apple II, the user
>base on AOL actually expanded for several years.  The AOL Apple II Forum
>still rivaled Genie's Apple II Roundtables until the bombshell dropped in
>1995.  Then, of course, Genie's Apple II areas boomed even more...until the
>great migration to Delphi, that is.

Yep -- Commodore people had to still use the old QLink, and there was no
crossover. AOL didn't even give QLink people who still had active membership
any credit on AOL when they closed down (as I have been told; I let my QLink
membership lapse long before).

Most Commodore people are now on regional freenets. Some are still on Delphi,
and a precious few remain on GEnie.

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