AOL disks

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) wrote: AOL for the Apple ][ used to be called AppleLink. In fact, AppleLink pre-dates AOL by a couple years. QuantumLink, as far as I know, was the first service offered by what became AOL. That started out as a way for people to try out software before they bought it. QL would actually crack the protection on games and such and then put them up for download. I'm not sure how they controlled copies once they were downloaded. Doug Coward was once hired on at QL as a cracker but didn't see any future in the company and so he moved on. Rumor has it he kicks himself every day he wakes up. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]