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Post by Leif Bloomquist on Feb 24, 2004 11:13:30 GMT -5
I've always wondered this, curious if anyone here knows. I actually wasn't a QuantumLink user (I was 16-17 at its peak, and sure couldn't afford to use it regularly), but I was running my own BBS at the time.
So what was it you connected to at Q-Link's offices? Rows and rows of Commodore 64s networked together? (unlikely) A mainframe? Something PC based? Some platform they developed?
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Post by Brent Hendricks on Mar 11, 2004 2:36:42 GMT -5
I belive this was discussed on the newsgroups awhile back. and I'm trying to rememeber the hardware, It was a mainframe, a Sratus or IBM SYstem 88.. Check out the following website for complete history www.bytemeelectronics.com:81/Quantum/q-link/qlink-history.htmDon't forget to telnet://ratsdenbbs.dyndns.org YES I MUST SHAMEFULLY ADVERTISE MY BOARD!
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Post by Dark Vulcan on Aug 20, 2004 12:40:44 GMT -5
What ever happened to the Q-Link Project? Is it still up in the air due to the code needing to be broken or has it gotten passed that point? Just curious!
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Post by Raymond Day on Dec 3, 2004 8:48:12 GMT -5
I would guess it was on PC's in a building that was cooled and power backed up. When they swiched to AOL they used the same hardware I think but added more. I know you could do a command in one of the chat rooms on both Q-Link and AOL that gave a error when they were both going at the same time and it would do the same error on both.
It is to bad no one at Q-link backed up all the commodore stuff they had on there.
-Raymond Day
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Post by Wildstar on Jul 4, 2005 19:49:27 GMT -5
I would guess it was on PC's in a building that was cooled and power backed up. When they swiched to AOL they used the same hardware I think but added more. I know you could do a command in one of the chat rooms on both Q-Link and AOL that gave a error when they were both going at the same time and it would do the same error on both. It is to bad no one at Q-link backed up all the commodore stuff they had on there. -Raymond Day Its a Stratus minicomp/mainframe. BUT fret not, the server software was not machine level coded. Just need the right source code language. PL/I, I believe. A modern PC, can do the job today. We just need to UNDERSTAND it, that way, we can CREATE the servers again and Q-Link be resurrected. The Q-Link servers initially were ever DEAD, they just changed things to using HTML instead of C/G and further modifications since and probably over time, the hardware was replaced but the software structure was eventually ported over to a bunch of PC/Servers. Once you break Q-Link, you basically broke the basics of AOL and all you need to do is figure out their modifications since then. But it be nicer to BUILD our own 'Q-Link' network.
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