19 Aug
2005
19 Aug
'05
4:13 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
Had to have been AOL, sorry. QLink only ever was a Commodore service.
There was a GEOS-based AOL client for DOS, and I think that did appear
in some Radio Shack stores. I don't know if it was an official promo
deal, though.
Radio Shack pushed their own GUI, called Deskmate, not Geos. The first
(and only) version of Quicken I've ever owned was a Tandy Deskmate
version. Came with a runtime version of Deskmate, the way Windows apps
did before Windows 3.0.
Just to let folks know that the QLink server
re-implementation is
going well. At present, the following is working:
Didn't Radio Shack resell the QLink service for the IBM PC in the
early 90's? ISTR, that was one of the services I was on back then
(Prodigy, GEnie, Compuserve, and I think QLink).