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256 lines
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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09/08/89 20:59:43
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 208587; next msg =42454; 368 active msgs.
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Prev. call 09/06/89 @ 22:14, next msg was 42444
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 14
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KILLED. 17
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SUMMARY. 24
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09/06/89,22:14:56,208534,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,5
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09/06/89,22:29:05,208535,2,ART OLSEN,mount prospect/ Illinois,12
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09/06/89,22:57:47,208536,1,TOM MOSKOS,,23
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09/06/89,23:21:12,208537,2,TONY ANTONUCCI,,6
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09/06/89,23:49:22,208538,2,BRUCE KALLICK,Winnetka/ IL,11
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09/07/89,00:05:45,208539,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,1
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09/07/89,00:36:28,208540,1,BRENT JONES,,
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E#42444,
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E#42445,
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E#42446,
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E#42447,
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E#42448,48
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09/07/89,01:49:06,208541,2,DUANE LANG,,2
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09/07/89,07:32:07,208542,2,DENNIS STAHL,,5
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09/07/89,07:41:51,208543,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,4
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09/07/89,10:37:30,208544,1,TONY VINCENT,,6
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09/07/89,10:40:58,208545,1,TONY VINCENT,,
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>Help: ALL,10
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09/07/89,11:47:14,208546,2,MATT KRUEGER,,8
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09/07/89,12:32:52,208547,2,GEORGE PATAY,Park Ridge/ IL,11
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09/07/89,13:02:55,208548,2,JACK HOMA,,8
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09/07/89,14:25:54,208549,1,JUNE QUERCIA,,3
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09/07/89,15:27:58,208550,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
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09/07/89,15:51:38,208551,1,FRED FLINTSTONE,HOBART/IN,
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09/07/89,15:58:31,208552,1,JOHN WILSON,CHICAGO,5
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09/07/89,16:08:20,208553,1,ADAM DADA,,4
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09/07/89,16:13:06,208554,1,SCOTT TEIPE,,1
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09/07/89,18:57:18,208555,1,RICHARD GOZDAL,,2
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09/07/89,19:45:38,208556,1,JOHN MOCKUS,shoreWOOD ILL,14
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09/07/89,20:54:54,208557,1,CHARLIE KESTNER,,5
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]__re: caller 208544. Tony Vincent? Somehow, that seems to ring
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a bell. Didn't we used to have person by this name who used to
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be a royal 'roid? Or am I remembering wrong?
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__Let's visit Scott Teipe and burn his modem. WHY must we have
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callers like that? Arrrrrgh!
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CHARLIE KESTNER,
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09/07/89,21:07:08,208558,1,JOHN PETENES,,12
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09/07/89,21:53:07,208559,1,BILL WOLFF,,2
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09/07/89,21:58:13,208560,2,BILL MATTSON,,1
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09/07/89,22:02:50,208561,2,JEFF MARTIN,,6
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09/07/89,22:23:01,208562,1,LARRY BROWN,CHGO,
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09/07/89,22:32:19,208563,1,BILL WOLFF,,
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E#42449,2
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09/07/89,23:30:26,208564,2,JOSEPH COTILLO,,1
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09/08/89,00:06:11,208565,1,JON YU,chicago,7
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09/08/89,01:59:33,208566,2,DON RIEB,,2
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09/08/89,02:48:38,208567,2,JIM MORAVEC,,10
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09/08/89,04:36:50,208568,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,1
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09/08/89,04:49:15,208569,2,JERRY OLSEN,,0
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09/08/89,05:15:08,208570,2,ALEX ZELL,,4
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]ALEX ZELL,
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09/08/89,05:38:07,208571,2,PETE JONES,,1
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09/08/89,07:28:34,208572,2,ROGER PAULSON,,2
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09/08/89,07:42:13,208573,1,EMMETT SNOW,,
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09/08/89,09:56:37,208574,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,2
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09/08/89,12:02:32,208575,2,PAUL STREETER,,10
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09/08/89,12:14:10,208576,2,DON PIVEN,,3
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09/08/89,13:14:56,208577,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2
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09/08/89,14:00:45,208578,3,JAIME CABAN,,
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E#42450,15
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09/08/89,17:54:35,208579,1,SCOTT TEIPE,,0
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09/08/89,18:47:19,208580,2,DICK HILL,Valparaiso/ IN,4
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09/08/89,18:52:04,208581,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
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09/08/89,19:48:56,208582,1,RICHARD GOZDAL,,2
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09/08/89,20:17:03,208583,2,JIM POLOUS,,
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E#42451,
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E#42452,
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E#42453,10
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09/08/89,20:27:49,208584,2,ART OLSEN,,6
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09/08/89,20:34:38,208585,2,BILL WOLFF,,2
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09/08/89,20:54:42,208586,2,CHUCK ROSS,,5
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09/08/89,20:59:47,208587,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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42444 09/07/89 BRENT JONES => JIM POLOUS: "R/PRODIGY AVAILABLE"
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42445 09/07/89 BRENT JONES => TED SHAPIN: "R/I DIDN'T LIKE PRODIGY"
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42446 09/07/89 BRENT JONES => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/PRODIGY WARNING"
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42447 09/07/89 BRENT JONES => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/PRODIGY WARNING"
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42448 09/07/89 BRENT JONES => RICHARD HINTON: "R/PRODIGY-REACTIONS TO?"
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42449 09/07/89 BILL WOLFF => ALL: "LIKE PRODIGY???"
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42450 09/08/89 JAIME CABAN => ALL: "WORDSTAR 2000 USERS?"
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42451 09/08/89 JIM POLOUS => BRENT JONES: "PRODIGY"
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42452 09/08/89 JIM POLOUS => BILL WOLFF: "PRODIGY"
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42453 09/08/89 JIM POLOUS => ALL: "NETWORLD - DALLAS/TX"
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 42444 is 02 line(s) on 09/07/89 from BRENT JONES
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to JIM POLOUS re: R/PRODIGY AVAILABLE
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I have 437-0213 as another Prodigy number for you. If you ask on Prodigy, t
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they will give you more Chicago area phone #'s. Brent
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Msg 42445 is 07 line(s) on 09/07/89 from BRENT JONES
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to TED SHAPIN re: R/I DIDN'T LIKE PRODIGY
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Ted,
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I have tried Prodigy for just a week and find it pretty good for the
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money. For the E-mail alone it is worth it. I think that the most
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important thing is that it is well written for the novice. That makes
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it too "menu-ey" for the advanced comm person, but I think it is still
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useful. Why not try it again and look in on the Computer Club-Jump
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"Computer Club". Brent
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Msg 42446 is 11 line(s) on 09/07/89 from BRENT JONES
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/PRODIGY WARNING
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Ward,
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I really appreciate the comment my "airing" a private letter, I won't do
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it again. I didn't realize that it was a sensitive thing. Though I got the
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critical mail via EasyPlex, I didn't even think of privacy and forgot
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about the little (P).
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I did reply, biting by tongue so that I wouldn't be as caustic as my
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critic. I explained that I didn't see CIS and Prodigy as competition.
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And each time I use either I am more convinced of this.
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Try using the Prodigy Directory and from it do an e-mail. It is so well
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done! Whoever wrote the e-mail sections of Prodigy sure deserves a lot
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of credit, it is simple and it works very well.
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Msg 42447 is 22 line(s) on 09/07/89 from BRENT JONES
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/PRODIGY WARNING
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I wish that I could see all the lovely colors on Prodigy too. But I am
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seeing CGA on my Toshiba-and it is often very hard to read the screen-
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kind of fuz on fuz. I asked the experts, who suggested Hercules! but of
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course that was nonsense. I even tried MCGA-which I had never heard of-
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but it was no good either. Have you tried using your laptop-is it a
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Zenith?
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Say you want to do something really useful? Tell me how to dump a
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Prodigy "PRINT" to disk rather than to my printer. Will some little DOS
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command do it? Could you write a tiny little program (TRS) that I could
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pop up and say "Redirect to disk"? I realize that the graphic screens of
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info are not ASCII in the first place. I only want to put my e-mail on
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disk.
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Also can you have a look at the front end of Prodigy (ie where you put
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in the user id and password and see if Prodigy could ever be accessed w/o
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their own software? Maybe that is a no-no. I suspect that some sort of
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special code is sent during the log on. And that this wouldn't be
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duplicatable (what kind of work is that!). The idea of sending graphics
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rather than text makes me feel that Prodigy will never be "open" in the
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sense of different comm software like CIS and the other BBS are.
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And the speed will continue to be a problem, unless we get fiber optics
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to all homes in the next few years.
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Msg 42448 is 18 line(s) on 09/07/89 from BRENT JONES
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to RICHARD HINTON re: R/PRODIGY-REACTIONS TO?
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Prodigy is a new IBM/Sears service for computers. It is somewhat
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like a BBS in that you can send/receive messages. But it is graphics
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based and commercial. I suppose that it falls in the area of VideoText,
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but because it uses PC's it is a bit smarter than all those other
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VideoText failures of the past 10 years (they were dumb terminals usually)
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I think that right now it is available only the IBM PC users but an
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Apple II and Mac version is coming. You can get a kit with $30 on-line
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credit for $40 from Sears stores-should call them first.
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One phone number in 312 area code is 437-0213, there are others.
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I think that the News, Weather, E-mail, travel service and games are
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pretty well done on Prodigy. The very best thing is the cost-hold
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on to your hat-$9.95 PER MONTH, UNLIMITED USE! Even with all the little
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graphics ads on the bottom of the screen I think that it is worth it.
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Would you believe that Sears has K-Mart, PC Penney and Speigel ads on
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THEIR service? You can even order groceries and pizza. Try to do
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that on CompuServe or GEnie or even CBBS!
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The initial kit price is refundable in 30 days if you don't like the
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service.
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Msg 42449 is 21 line(s) on 09/07/89 from BILL WOLFF
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to ALL re: LIKE PRODIGY???
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Hmm. Prodigy sounds just like the same thing as PC-LINK. This requires
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differnt menus and only works with a special software (needs 384K) and
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displays graphics and all. The makers of PC-LINK has versions for the Apple
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(Apple-LINK) and Commodore (Q-LINK needs 64K) computers too. But they are
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not linked together. Bad news if you use more than one type of computer. My
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understanding is that Q-LINK is the most popular. Probably because it was
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out about three to four years before the other versions.
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I also use CIS, GEine and The Source (which was discontinued) and they all
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support your favorite communication program. Which is nice for sure. But
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those graphic communication programs like Prodigy and PC-LINK adds some
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spice to plain ASCII. But they usually lack powerful features that your
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favorite term has. If you can live with the lack of features with graphic
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systems offer, then I believe you are all set.
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PC-LINK has a $9.95 monthly fee. Same for Q-LINK too. Does Prodigy have the
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same cost? Q-LINK has some features you can use 13 hours a day for the same
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$9.95 charge per month. If you use them, what a deal. 31 days at 13 hours
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equals to 403 hours at a cost of two an a half cents per hour. But I doubt
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that you can stay up at night and log-on all that time??? But you can have
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fun trying!
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Msg 42450 is 03 line(s) on 09/08/89 from JAIME CABAN
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to ALL re: WORDSTAR 2000 USERS?
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I'm looking for users of Wordstar 2000 who do work with the Macro function.
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If anybody knows WS2000 please respond.
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Thanks
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Msg 42451 is 04 line(s) on 09/08/89 from JIM POLOUS
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to BRENT JONES re: PRODIGY
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When I checked on Prodigy, they were't admitting that there were any
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312 numbers, yet.
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Thanks anyway.
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Jim
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Msg 42452 is 17 line(s) on 09/08/89 from JIM POLOUS
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to BILL WOLFF re: PRODIGY
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Prodigy is $9.95 per month ($40 for the initial kit and 3 months usage).
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It comes with the special graphics software, but it is much more
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impressive than PC-Link, or Q-Link (both of which someone in the house
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subscribes to). You can be on Prodigy as long as you want and do anything
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that you want on there without incurring any additional charges. The best
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part is that they seem to be aware of the telephone company's billing
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system and have installed several lines with local phone numbers for
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various communities. The number that I call is an Oak Lawn number
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which is great, since that's where I live. The only thing "wrong" with
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Prodigy is that they do not have any file transfer forums yet, although
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they aref* {orking on it. I see features that are not available
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for this geographic area, on-line grocery shopping, on-line computer
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banking. They want to have a bank in every major service area on the
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system. I'm waiting for something like that for me in this area, I will
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probably switch my money market and checking accounts over to that
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bank, but that's a whole other story.
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Jim
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Msg 42453 is 04 line(s) on 09/08/89 from JIM POLOUS
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to ALL re: NETWORLD - DALLAS/TX
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I will be attending the NETWORLD seminar, in fact, Novell asked our
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company to participate in two focus groups on the first day. Is anyone
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else going? If so, what plane are you going out on?
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Jim
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dup. chars.
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>Function:? |