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# GEnie Information Service

Those of you using modems may or may not be aware of the large Information Services available to you. Most likely you can access them with a local phone call if you live near a city with a population of 50,000 or greater.

The most famous is probably CompuServe. This is a very good service. I was a member for several years. There is a Timex Sinclair Sig located in the Computer Club Forum.

But then I switched to the GEnie Service primarily because of support of the Z88 in the Laptops Roundtable. At the time there was little or no support of the 288 on CompuServe.