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From: mccarthy@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Tons of GEOS questions
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 09:54:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 09:54:00 1987
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mccarthy    Aug 25 08:54:00 1987


Hi there.
     I just bought GEOS (I'm not as impressed as I thought I'd be, but it
seems well worth the $$) and I have a few questions:

1) Throughout the manual they talk about a RAM Expansion Unit (REU).  This
   sounds like a fantastic thing to get.
   A) Where can I get one?
   B) How much are they?
   C) Are they REALLY a fantastic thing to get?  It sounds like they come in
      256K and that you can hook up 2 together, making 576K (256 + 256 + 64)
      in all.  Is it worth getting 2?  Are they worth the price?

2) QuantumLink sounds cool too.
   A) Is it worth $9.95 a month?
   B) Do you end up using a lot more of the Plus stuff than an hour, thereby
      costing you more?
   C) I get powerfully queasy whenever I think of giving them my Visa card
      number so they can put it in some national database.  Has anyone
      had any problems with this?  Is there a better way for them to bill
      me?  I'd rather just simply receive a bill in the mail, thank you.

3) Does it do any harm to anything on a disk to have it converted to
   GEOS format?  I'm using "64 TERM" for my Vicmodem and I converted a disk
   it was on so I could copy it onto one of my GEOS Work Disks; the copy on
   the work disk doesn't seem to work anymore.  Is it them, or is it me?

4) Back to QuantumLink: Can I download stuff from it using the abovementioned
   Vicmodem?

Any help you could give me would be heartily appreciated....
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