Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.org (Grant Downey) (11/20/90)
Index Number: 11870
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Compuserv seems to be much more speech friendly and easier to use than
Genie. However in all honesty they don't have nearly the selection of
files that Genie has. Genie with its Round Tables really has many
unusual and helpful programs to offer. Compuserv seems to be at the
end of the line whenit comes to getting the newist of the new shareware
programs. However Compuserv does not have any of the technical
problems of Genie either. Also, I have found that you normally can
access local bulletin boards with the parameters of n,8,1 but when you
connect to either Compuserv or Genie you must use the parameters of
e,7,1. Grant
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Internet: Grant.Downey@p0.f9.n381.z1.fidonet.orgScott.Marshall@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Scott Marshall) (11/21/90)
Index Number: 11931
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Hi Grant:
I am a longtime compuserve user and just signed up (because of price) to
Genie at the $4.95 per month plan. Have you tried with speech the Aladdin
software which is an offline message reader for Genie? I have been using
tapcis (the compuserve offline reader) for some time and think it is a great
moneysaver.
Although tapcis doesn't write through the vios and is thus not interactive
with speech, it works justfine because all of your work is done offline and
windows for the speech package can be set up to facilitate things.
Talk with you soon. Hope this message gets out. I have been sending a lot
of messages and replying as well, but don't seem to be hearing from anyone.
What? Nobody wants to talk to me? Gee whiz! Willie did say that something
was going wrong with the backbone in Pittsburgh when I talked to him at the
Seeing Eye the other night. Anyway, I hope you get this message.
Take care, Scott
... From Washington, DC, where every day is Christmas
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