QuantumLink progress update

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:

> > >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).
> 
> 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.