At 02:55 AM 7/9/98 -0400, Doug Spence wrote:
This just found in COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazine, March 1986, p.26:
"Several months ago Commodore agreed to lend exclusive marketing support
to a new online service, QuantumLink, which would be designed solely for
Commodore owners. [...] says Steve Case, Quantum's vice president of
marketing.
Wow, that's the guy. I didn't realize the link between QuantumLink
and AOL. What I do remember is that their services were incredibly lame
in terms of user interface, speed, national network, etc. compared to
Compuserve. For a while, Commodore shifted at least its developer
support to BIX, Byte's online service. A quick jump to
www.bix.com
shows it's still alive, run by Delphi.
Hunt around in those issues from '87 to '90 or so, especially
Compute's Amiga magazine or coverage, and you'll find articles I
wrote. For a while, I had a by-lined monthly column there, with
my picture and everything. When it first appeared, my fans were
shocked to learn I was such a young guy. They thought I was an
old portly man with a beard.
- John