Microlink, Link your Amiga to the outside world
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Microlink
When you join MicroLink you’ve got the whole business world at your fingertips – 24 hours a day. You’ll have immediate access to ALL the facilities offered by Telecom Gold … and a great deal more besides.
Electronic mail – The cheapest and fastest form of communication possible, It costs the same to send a message to one mailbox as to 500!
Telex – up with 96,000 telex subscribers in the UK and 1.5 million worldwide. You can even send and receive telexes after office hours or while travelling.
Telemessages – Type in your message before 8pm and delivery is guaranteed by first post the next day (except Sunday), anywhere in the UK and USA.
Tele booking – Reserve train and theatre tickets, check flight details worldwide, or order from a vast range of products – from flowers to floppy discs.
Advice – on a team of professional legal and financial advisors as and when you need them. for both business and personal problems.
Company Obtain facts about any British limited company in seconds, and fully analysed financial information on over 100,000 companies.
Translation – Access the biggest and most up-to-date multi-lingual dictionary in the world with over 380,000 words.
News – Use the powerful search commands to pinpoint vital business information from the world’s leading news services, newspapers and periodicals.
Radiopaging – If you also have 3 pocket radiopager you’ll be alerted each time ar urgent message arrives in your mailbox So you’re always in touch.
Gateways – Get through to New York in just five seconds – or key into the EEC computer in Luxembourg, which links you to 600 databases throughout Europe.
All you need – apart from your Amiga – is a modem which plugs into your telephone wall socket and suitable communications software.
We have provided a list of possible combinations ( left), ranging from the very cheapest to ones which can automatically dial the MicroLink telephone number and connect you directly to the service – all you have to do is type in your personal security password-
Whichever equipment you use. you will be able to call MicroLink. open your mailbox, save to disc any messages waiting for you, and disconnect in as little as two minutes.
More then 90 per cent of subscribers can connect to the MicroLink computer et local call rates.
Source : AMIGA COMPUTING
Source of information – AMIGA Computing of June 1988 – Download of the magazine below:
