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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: information on PRODIGY
Message-ID: <40970011@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 16:34:44 GMT
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skeeve@mhuxu.UUCP (Chris Riley) writes:
>I just got an ad yesterday for a service called PRODIGY.  It looks like it
>offers the same kind of services as Compuserve.  The major difference is
>the price: about $10 per month, with unlimited connect time for the month
>(I think) as opposed to $12.50 per connect hour for CIS.
>
>Does anyone have information on how good this really is?
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Prodigy compares favorably to CompuServe if all you want to do is do some
shopping, get some stock quotes, and check airline faires.  You can do
these same things on CIS, but the connect time will cost you much more.

If, however, you want to exchange information with other members online,
get access to PD and Shareware programs, or get access to late-breaking
news, Prodigy is not for you.  Prodigy's equivalents to CIS forums are
clumbsy and slow to access, contain little information, have few active
users, and cover very few topics.  Prodigy does not give you access to
downloadable programs at all.  Prodigy's new service is limited to 
headline-level information about a half dozen news stories each day.

I recently signed up for a 3 month trial and currently do not plan
to continue after that time.

John Hardin
hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com
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