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AHOY! Internet Search and Communication Software

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From: James Marshall
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:00
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Here's  news of a great Internet communications application we are
releasing FIRST for the Mac (Windows version to follow shortly).  
We truly believe it will benefit the Mac community.   You be the 
judge....

"AHOY!" let's you call other users DIRECTLY on the Internet,  
especially friends and colleagues who have dynamic IP addresses 
through their ISPs.

No need for prearranged meetings, separate phone calls, 411 sites, 
and IRC servers for setting up person-to-person connections.

Just click the Search button, and AHOY! will find the remote party, 
givingyou their current full 32 bit IP address.  If the remote party
decides to answer your call, you can carry on a private text based 
chat (within AHOY!) -- or set up a CoolTalk session or video 
conference link automatically.  Again, no separate calls or logging 
on to remote servers.

Ever wanted to tell someone about a web site?   With AHOY! just 
click the browser button and the URL displayed on your Netscape 
or Explorer browser automatically sends your correspondent's 
browser to your URL!

If you want more info or want to download AHOY!, just point your 
browser to:

http://www.quicomm2.com/AHOY/ahoy.html

The application (which runs native on both 680x0 and PowerPC 
machines  AND directly supports both MacTCP and Open Transport), 
plus  documentation, are provided in the installation.  You can 
even demo the AHOY! in a fully functional mode.

Our intentions are to help keep Mac users a leading edge force....
and to show the personal computer industry that there are still 
developers who FIRST release new innovative products for the 
Macintosh platform!  So, please accept our apologies if you find 
this announcement intrusive.

Thanks.

J. Marshall
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From: James Marshall <jmarshall@quicomm.com>
Subject: AHOY! Internet Search and Communication Software
Date: 1996/12/12
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