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From: verber@miami.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber)
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Subject: Re: information on PRODIGY
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Date: 20 Apr 89 21:45:06 GMT
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I have talked to Prodigy people a bit.  Prodigy is a Sears company.
Prodigy is in few markets at this time.... mainly west coast at this
point.  They are saying by the end of 1992 they will have local access
in 99% of the US.  They are "looking in to" international access.

Prodigy has a pretty sexy frontend that runs on IBM-PCs.  I believe
they also have a Mac frontend.  This software comes standard with
your membership.

There prices are that low because you have to put up with ads on our
screen. Whenever new things are being downloaded to your machine, rather
than getting a spinning clock (a la Mac) or a message "Please Wait" you
get ads scrolling across your screen (sigh).

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