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From: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Prodigy
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Date: 27 Feb 91 01:41:24 GMT
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In <10329@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) writes:

>    Sure, I can't see any trial going on on that charge !!  There's no law 
>forcing you to watch commercials (yet (-:). But this for sure would piss 
>off prodigy !!! (hehe, great though: you don't port the software to the 
>Amiga ? Well, ok, we're gonna to our own version that skips commercials, 
>sure it would be funny!).

Well, I  have already done it.  I have devised a comprehensive hardware unit  
that will block out all of the commericials on prodigy.  It's very simple and 
cheap.  In fact, any beginning programmer or non programmer can do it.

You go to K-mart or your favorite convenience store and get a couple pieces
of duct tape and then you block off the lower section of the screen. Voila!  No
commercials! No problems yet! ;-)  Once again, the american consumer has 
triumphed against the joint corporate heads of Sears and IBM.

	
	Sri

If you like, I can post this wonderous hardware patch to the net if you wish. 
:-)