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- From: crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY - Speed, Cost, Usefulness, etc.
- Keywords: prodigy macintosh
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.133003.26073@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 13:30:03 GMT
- References: <1951@coyote.UUCP> <1992Aug29.051624.6704@ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Aug31.132528.28183@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug31.132528.28183@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston) writes:
- Part of my last posting was lost.
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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.
- >
- >I've learned to ignore the bottom portion of the screen just as ignore the
- >advertising in the newspaper.
- >
- >>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).
- >
- >A little familiarity with the system could have avoided being stuck in an
- advertisement 'Jump', etc.
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- Chas
- using 'Path',
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