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- From: crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston)
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY - Speed, Cost, Usefulness, etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.132528.28183@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:25:28 GMT
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- References: <2482@cthulhuControl.COM> <1951@coyote.UUCP> <1992Aug29.051624.6704@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Illinois State University
- Keywords: prodigy macintosh
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- In article <1992Aug29.051624.6704@ctr.columbia.edu> jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu () writes:
- >
- >Well, my newspaper does not force me to read the ads, as P* does.
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- I've learned to ignore the bottom portion of the screen just as ignore the
- advertising in the newspaper.
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- >I tried Prodigy twice, and the second time it was worse because
- >they added animated ads. Not only did I have to wait for the ad to finish,
- >many of them had 5-10 screens (animation cells).
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- A little familiarity with the system could have avoided being stuck in an
-