Re: AOL for Apple II

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser@stockholm.ptloma.edu> wrote:

>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.

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.

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.