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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: information on PRODIGY
Summary: I gave up on Prodigy - too slow and too many ads
Message-ID: <634@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 20:18:04 GMT
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In article <161@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>, verber@miami.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) writes:
> 
> 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.

Not only that, you CAN'T use a normal comm program, such as ProComm.

> 
> 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).

We gave up on Prodigy because we got tired of seeing al those ads.  It seems
that the performance of the "ad section" is much better than the update
and refresh time of the "information" section.  It ended up that my 10 year
old daughter was the main user, and it didn
't seem worth the $10/month.