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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Blowing off steam at Tandy.
Keywords: New PCLink release will cause you many headaches.
Message-ID: <6556@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 8 Dec 89 19:48:31 GMT
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In article <1989Dec7.233314.23496@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, garylee@shasta.scl.cwru.edu (Gary Lee) writes:
> RE: PCLink and Tandy
> 
> Your cancelling of you subsciption will only affect Quantum Computer Services
> , not Tandy. If anyone should be blamed it should be Quantum. Blaming Tandy
> for problems w/PCLink is like blaming them for problems w/Compu$erve.
> 
> I had afew problems with PCLink early on and also decided that it wasn't
> worth the bother. Now I just stick to here and Compu$serve. Between them and

I agree.  I have never used PCLink, but since the software was included
with my 1000 SL, I looked over the booklet which described it.  I
immediately recognized it as Quantum Link's handiwork.  In my Commodore
64 days, I had heard a lot about them, since they had a Commodore
version at the time (and still do, I guess).  Anyway, I found almost no
one that had anything good to say about the service.  Consequently I
decided to skip PCLink as well.

Tandy is only to blame to the extent that they do have an arrangement
with Quantum.  I presume they got something from Quantum for promoting
their service.  Hopefully they will not renew whatever arrangement they
have. Chances are they were bamboozled by Quantum promising how all
kinds of new features, etc. would be offered "in the future", or
something like that.  These things never seemed to show up for the
Commodore users, either.)

By the way, another alternative, not quite as comprehensive as
CompuServe, is GEnie.  It's even cheaper, and offers a reasonable
number of forums and files.
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