28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
1:52 p.m.
I used pre-Quantum which was called "CVC" and you plugged a special CVC
modem into your Atari 2600 and could download games from there servers
over the phone line.
Curt
Jeff Davis wrote:
On Thu, July 28, 2005 12:44 am, Jim Brain said:
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I'm not sure how far afield Classic Computers
goes, but I am interested
in anyone here who used, worked on, or knew about the QuantumLink
service for the Commodore 64/128 machines.
I used to work there (tho after it changed it's name from Quantum) and know
some of the implementors; I'll send word along and see what pops up. Things
got pretty busy in the 90's and I have no idea what was kept from the elder
days.
I have some baubles (qlink keychain, install disks); I don't think anyone kept
backup tapes of the server software, since it ran on Stratus minis, not
exactly something people had in their basements. Plus it was company
confidential, etc.
I do remember the qlink sunset (system shutdown) party in 1994 or 95 - one of
my friends walked around carrying a "Repent! The Reboot is Near!" sign,
spouting tounge-in-cheek predictions of doom and gloom. Hard to be very
gloomy, when you have free beer and snacks. We were sad but kinda happy,
since we no longer had to maintain the "if (client == qlink)" exceptions in
the server code.
Jeff