I am not sure why AOL did not make a version for the Amiga, sicne Commodore ang Steve Chase were at least on speaking terms since Quantum Link (AOL for the C=64 litterally) was marketed so heavily with the
C=64c and the 1670a modems.
According to my Co-SysOp in the Telecom section, there was an Amiga
version of AOL. It was in the beta stages in 1993, I at the time was
trying to get on the beta list because I was a SysOp on QLink. Lisa kept requesting access but never received it and when CBM finally went belly up the software was trashed..
Was doing some digging and it seems that AOL and Commodore had a
falling out over payment for services that Commodore owned Quantum Computer Services/AOL. If this is accurate (and knowing that Commodore and Jack Tramiel did have a history of souring relations with business partners which definatly followed Commodore and hurt the Amiga.) this would also explain why the Atari-ST never recieved a version as well.
Off topic here, in 1993 I had a chance to purchase Quantum Services Stock because there was an underground movement to buy 51% of the stock and take over the company. IT was selling for less then $2 a share, people were buying hundreds if not thousands of shares. When I went to my wife for
$1000 for stock she said no, the company will be out of business sooner
then you think and we don't have the money to throw away. Well that stock flipped to AOL and if I would have bought a 1000 shares, for $2k that investment would have been worth close to if not over 1 million dollars by year 2000!! Such is life!
...if I would have bought a 1000 shares, for $2k that investment would have been worth close to if not over 1 million dollars by year 2000!! Such is life!
Though with the way my stock trading goes (as soon as I buy into a stock it goes down until I sell....). So it probbably would have actually gone bankrupt had I done that..
You mean, "such as WIFE". :)
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Was doing some digging and it seems that AOL and Commodore had a falling out over payment for services that Commodore owned Quantum Computer Services/AOL. If this is accurate (and knowing that Commodore and Jack Tramiel did have a history of souring relations with business partners which definatly followed Commodore and hurt the Amiga.) this would also explain why the Atari-ST never recieved a version as well.
That reminds me that I was thinking about maxing out a charge card on a cash advance to buy Apple stock as they were about to go bankrupt in 96. I figured my dad would have killed me and stopped myself.....
Though with the way my stock trading goes (as soon as I buy into a stock it goes down until I sell....). So it probbably would have actually gone bankrupt had I done that..
I've had the same type of luck. I've often though just as you did... If I would have bought it... it would have tanked. :D
I was gonna get in on the SpaceX IPO at $135 a share, but forgot. By the time I remembered, the stock had shot up to almosst $200. Damn!
I was gonna get in on the SpaceX IPO at $135 a share, but forgot. By the time I remembered, the stock had shot up to almosst $200. Damn!I would have liked to, but I have been unemployeed since October 2025. I was laid off. 2nd time being laid off in 5 years. I'm also burnt out on IT after having a career in it for 30 years. I'm middle aged and competing with younger individuals with less experience. I've been passed over at 6 different places I've interviewed. I feel stuck. I'm trying to stay positive, but negativity is settig in.
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