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Article #46075Re: American Online vs. other Services
From: Geoff Allen
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 19:45
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 19:45
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chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>So for my money, I'd go with GEnie if I had to live with one service. (it's
>also much cheaper than CompuServe -- so I'll forgive them the interface hacks).
^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's not true for all of us, unfortunately. I can dial the CompuServe
network with a local call at 2400 bps for $12.80/hour ($12.50 for
2400 bps + $0.30 surcharge). To get GEnie, I have to go through one of
the carrier networks at $2.00/hour. Add to that the fact that,
according to my info, GEnie is only available to me at 1200 bps, and I
get 1200 bps for $8.00/hour. 63% of the price for 50% of the speed
doesn't sound like too good a deal to me.
I haven't tried GEnie for this reason.
--
Geoff Allen \ I don't want to yield to fashion and
{uunet|bigtex}!pmafire!geoff \ make the Macintosh as ugly as OS/2
ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff \ --Jean-Louis Gassee, Apple Computer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pmafire!geoff From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: American Online vs. other Services Message-ID: <1195@pmafire.UUCP> Date: 12 Feb 90 19:45:22 GMT References: <519@janus.Quotron.com> <38488@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 19