In a message dated 9/7/99 4:41:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
owad_at_applefritter.com writes:
> Is the Apple II forum on AOL still around? When I quit the service (I
> think two years ago - just after the change over to AOL 3.0 and unlimited
> access) the forum was still around, but the message boards and chat were
> gone, and the software libraries were decaying. With AOL 3.0, the
> keyword "Apple II" (or was it "Apple II Forum"?) no longer worked, but
> instead a very long line of "http://" garbage was required. I was told
> that the Apple II forum was no longer being "supported" and that when the
> systems or hard drives died, they were simply thrown out, with no
> attempts to recover being made, and nothing backed up. This is why Tom
> Turley and company were making such an effort to back up the file
> libraries. Of course, this last bit is all according to Mr. Turley.
> Take it with however much salt you deem appropriate.
supposedly the apple forums on aol are still accessable via
http://something-or-other.
you might want to check in comp.sys.apple2 as the address has been posted
several times there.
d
Received on Tue Sep 07 1999 - 16:14:52 BST