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Indeed. [/asb] -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT][Humor] AOL GeoWorks was awesome all the way around. If they had secured support from some cool 3rd party vendors, they could have been a viable alternative to Windows 3.0. GeoWrite is still one of my favorite word-processing / graphics applications of all time. -ASB ------- http://Home.ASBzone.com/ASB/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/AndrewBaker ------- On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Sweet! I eventually got their (Berkley Softworks) 512KB RAM pack, which was used only by GEOS. Had an Okidata OkiMate 10 color printer and 800KB 3.5" disk drive too.. woot! -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 11:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT][Humor] AOL well, maybe the first AOL gui then ... I don't think they started with Windows 3.0 ... And yep, I had GEOS on my C=64, used the GeoPaint for making graphic diagrams of our dial backup system at the bank, the GeoWrite for the documentation .. ended up using GeoWrite in 1987 to create the directory and guide for my high school's 10th reunion using their fancy fonts <g> Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 11:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT][Humor] AOL No... it was almost all "textual graphics" using the character mode of the C64, although there were a some areas with bitmap games and stuff too. Check out the "pictures" section at http://www.dsgames.net/qlink/q-link/qlink-history.htm Not sure they ever had a Geos version.. but Geos itself was amazing for what it did on that platform. -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT][Humor] AOL wasn't the initial C=64 and C=128 gui version running GeoWorks ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT][Humor] AOL Yup... I still remember seeing the letter from Steve Case himself announcing they were terminating the original Commodore-only service after it was re-branded America Online and rolled out for PC and other platforms. -sc From: Sean Houston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT][Humor] AOL I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies around. I can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell. -Sean On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Correct on the bonus questions (It was a C64 and C128 service). No affiliation with Compuserve, however, so you lose your bonus. (However Compuserve and H&R Block were affiliated, so as a consolation prize you get to sit on TVKÿÿ(tm)s lap) I still need the name of the service. -sc From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT][Humor] AOL I thought they orgianally supported Commodore 64 based machines. Loaded the software and got a graphical environment. They owned Compuserve, at one time. And If I remember right, Compuserve was owned by H&R Block. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: [assert NO_GOOLING_ALLOWED] Trivia Question: What was the _PRIOR_ service offered by the company that eventually became AOL? Bonus points for naming the supported platforms. -sc -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT][Humor] AOL I've discovered that if I play an AOL installation CD backwards, I get satanic messages. Then I tried playing it the other way, and something really bad happened: I got AOL. (Adapted from another quote; original author unknown.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
