Re: AOL for Apple II

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

:>> 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.

Applelink Personal Edition was a joint venture of Apple and Quantum Computer
Services. Apple decided to pull out and didn't want Quantum using Apple in the
name after that. Hence they adopted the name America Online.

:>How many different AppleLink services were there?
:>
:>Because well into the mid '90s for sure, there was an AppleLink service
:>run by Apple Computer, Inc. for Mac developers, software/hardware dealers,
:>and users....I remember going on it in college in late 1994....perhaps it
:>may even still be in service...I don't know. I would imagine with the
:>explosion and popularity of the Internet and it's world wide web since the
:>mid-ninety's, the need for such a service would have dropped off in favour
:>of the Internet....???
:>
:>And yes, it was named "AppleLink" just as I spelled it.

: Could be a recycling of names (like AppleWorks).  I just know that for
: a time, you could actually log onto AOL with the old AppleLink software
: for the Apple II.

There was the Mac only Applelink available to dealers and developers. It
was around before AOL and its precursor, Applelink Personal Edition. ALPE
was indeed on Apple IIs first. The net has rendered most of these proprietary
online systems obsolete, so I'd be surprised if Applelink is still around.
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