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Re: AOL for Apple II

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:

>This is kind of sad.  AOL was originally built on Apple II users. 

Actually, AOL was originally built on C64 users. America Online was the
new name for Steve Case's QuantumLink service, which was an amalgamation of
QuantumLink and another C64-only multiplayer game service called PlayNet.
AOL treated the 64 users just as badly, even though they did leave one of
their Stratus mainframes around for the remaining QLink users after AOL was
introduced. Commodore support was not even a consideration for AOL.

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