QuantumLink

[Curt at Atari Museum]

I used pre-Quantum which was called "CVC" and you plugged a special CVC 
modem into your Atari 2600 and could download games from there servers 
over the phone line.



Curt


Jeff Davis wrote:

>On Thu, July 28, 2005 12:44 am, Jim Brain said:
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>>I'm not sure how far afield Classic Computers goes, but I am interested
>>in anyone here who used, worked on, or knew about the QuantumLink
>>service for the Commodore 64/128 machines.
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>I used to work there (tho after it changed it's name from Quantum) and know
>some of the implementors; I'll send word along and see what pops up.  Things
>got pretty busy in the 90's and I have no idea what was kept from the elder
>days.
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>I have some baubles (qlink keychain, install disks); I don't think anyone kept
>backup tapes of the server software, since it ran on Stratus minis, not
>exactly something people had in their basements.  Plus it was company
>confidential, etc.
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>I do remember the qlink sunset (system shutdown) party in 1994 or 95 - one of
>my friends walked around carrying a "Repent! The Reboot is Near!" sign,
>spouting tounge-in-cheek predictions of doom and gloom.  Hard to be very
>gloomy, when you have free beer and snacks.  We were sad but kinda happy,
>since we no longer had to maintain the "if (client == qlink)" exceptions in
>the server code.
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>Jeff
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