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excerpt: "This is the start of a series of articles that are designed to help anyone go ‘online' with their QL. This means to use the phone line to communicate with another, remote computer ( a Bulletin Board)."
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# Going Online, Part 1

This is the start of a series of articles that are designed to help anyone go ‘online’ with their QL. This means to use the phone line to communicate with another, remote computer ( a Bulletin Board).