Quantum Link ( or Q-Link ) was a U. S. and Canadian online service for Commodore 64 and 128 personal computers that operated from November 5, 1985 to November 1, 1995.

As part of the changes that gave birth to Quantum, Case changed the company's strategy, creating an online service called Quantum Link ( Q-Link for short ) for the Commodore 64 in 1985 with programmer ( and AOL co-founder ) Marc Seriff.

Related to the older system in name only, this service was run by Quantum Computer Services, who earlier had established the Q-Link online service for the Commodore 64 personal computer.

A large library of public domain and freeware programs, distributed by online services such as Q-Link and CompuServe, BBSs, and user groups also emerged.

" In 1989, Edwards's wife overheard online service Q-Link CEO Steve Case describe how he wanted to add a voice to its user interface.

Using the original Q-Link software as a D-64 file, it can be accessed using either the VICE Commodore 64 emulator ( available on multiple platforms, including Windows and Linux ), or by using authentic Commodore hardware connected to the Internet by way of a serial cable connected to a PC with internet access.

) Q-Link, whose service was for Commodore computers only, developed AppleLink, PC-Link ( based on Tandy's DeskMate ), and Promenade ( for IBM ), all of which ( including Q-Link ) were later combined as America OnLine.

OLMs were what Q-Link called " Plus Services " meaning they charged an extra per-minute fee on top of the monthly Q-Link access costs.

The 1935 sales catalog for Tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, Audiovox, featured his " Model 736 Bass Fiddle ", a four-stringed, solid-bodied, fretted electric bass instrument with a 30½-inch scale length.

Combined, these electronic devices have supplied many memorable keyboard sounds, such as the " growl " in " Tom Sawyer " and the melody featured in the chorus of " The Spirit of Radio ".

* full featured remote: Insulet's " OmniPod " has a separate electronic display and controls.

It also featured a 1976 John Bonham drum instrumental with electronic effects added by Jimmy Page, called " Bonzo's Montreux ".

Robyn is featured on Norway's premier electronic outfit Röyksopp's 2009 album Junior with the song " The Girl and the Robot ".

American electronic pop duo, Microfilm, did a tribute song to Billy Mackenzie in 2009 titled " I'll Sing Like Billy Mackenzie in Heaven " which featured guitar and additional vocals by Scissor Sisters ' member Del Marquis.

The album featured electronic renditions of contemporary rock and pop songs, while utilizing synthesized voices in place of human voices.

Their next album, 13 ( 1999 ) saw the band members experimenting with electronic and gospel music, and featured more personal lyrics from Albarn.

Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly because of acid house parties, which featured electronic music and light shows.

Another Sega release that year was Missile, a shooter and vehicle combat simulation that featured electronic sound and a moving film strip to represent the targets on a projection screen.

In the 1980s, electronic rock band New Order featured the melodica prominently in songs such as " Truth ," " Your Silent Face ," " Love Vigilantes " and others.

As of 2003, it has featured seven or eight stages ( depending on the venue ) accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic music, mainstream international acts and local acts.

Some songs on Die Kleinen und die Bösen ( The Small Ones and the Evil Ones ), featured thrashed guitars, electronic screeching, and hammered drums while Gabi screamed and ululated.

Sega's 1969 game Missile featured electronic sound and a moving film strip to represent the targets on a projection screen, and their 1972 game Killer Shark featured a mounted light gun that shot at targets whose movement and reactions were displayed using back image projection onto a screen.

In 2007 Kanye West, initially known for more natural sounding hip hop productions influenced by classic R & B music, released his third album Graduation, which featured some songs with a sharp electronic aesthetic, a sound which greatly expanded on West's latest album, where he emphasized synthesizer and vocal manipulations prominently and cited major influences from 1980s synthpop music, as well as from T-Pain, a hip-hop performer known for manipulating his voice by using the electronic effect processor Autotune.

The band make use of vintage analog electronic instruments such as the Farfisa and Vox organs, and the Moog synthesizer, which was featured prominently on 1994's Mars Audiac Quintet.

Tomita's album Electric Samurai: Switched on Rock ( 1972 ) featured electronic renditions of contemporary rock and pop songs, while utilizing speech synthesis and analog music sequencers.

The most notable was the internationally renowned Isao Tomita, whose 1972 album Electric Samurai: Switched on Rock featured electronic synthesizer renditions of contemporary rock and pop songs.

" Kid A " is among the more unusual works of Radiohead, and featured distorted vocals that were reminiscent of " Climbing Up the Walls ", and a lullaby like melody It featured electronic organs among other different sounds, and a syncopated, electronic drum kick pattern for the majority of the song.

Electro music refers to electro and techno, these two genres largely featured psychedelic sounds and are largely considered the earliest forms of electronic dance music genres to utilise the term " rave music " in respect to its modern terminological use.

For example, the original Eudora email client featured direct delivery of mail to the recipients ' servers, out of necessity.

The growing volume of holiday mail became so substantial that it caught the attention of Robert Ripley in 1929, who featured the town's post office in his nationally-syndicated Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon strip.

Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January, 1975, issue of Popular Electronics, and was sold by mail order through advertisements there, in Radio-Electronics and other hobbyist magazines.

In November 1970, the cover of Time magazine featured Big Bird, who had received more fan mail than any of the show's human hosts.

They consisted of over 340 boxes of documents that featured her handwritten notes on yellow legal pads for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a 1982 telegram from Coretta Scott King, fan mail, and personal and professional correspondence from colleagues such as her editor Robert Loomis.

A number of auction houses stopped sending material through the mail, and Linn's Stamp News regularly featured reports on stamps and covers that had been ruined by irradiation.

Episodes not following this general formula have featured Ace and Gary answering fan mail or offering child safety tips.

* In the past, DU occasionally featured a Hate Mailbag of hate mail, but no new updates have been posted since 2005.

The project was featured in a 2004 episode of the animated TV series King of the Hill, in which Nancy Gribble receives a Flat Stanley in the mail.

In 2012, the United States Postal Service featured the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on a US $ 5. 15 priority mail postage stamp.

At first it was two different sections titled Mailbox and Video Spotlight, the latter of which featured mail from notable gamers.

American RPOs, first appearing in the 1860s, also featured equipment to catch mail bags at speed, but the American design more closely resembled a large hook that would catch the mailbag in its crook.

In 2000, GM produced a series of Batman OnStar commercials that featured Batman ( using the Batmobile and props from the 1989 film ) using the service to call people, access his mail, navigate to certain locations, and to unlock the Batmobile.

Other regular sponsors of the four shows included Randy's Record Shop of Gallatin, Tennessee, Ernie's Record Mart, and Buckley's Record Shop, the latter two of Nashville, all of which conducted mail order business selling the recordings featured on the shows, and had affiliations with record companies in Middle Tennessee.

This was sent to the fan via mail and contained promo CDs that had five of the tracks to be featured on their upcoming CD, and lots of stickers.

For a month the station ran with no commercials or DJs and featured only the voices of listeners from phones messages left on the request line voice mail.

The earliest vehicles built featured catching nets and collection arms, to allow mail bags to be exchanged without the train needing to stop, a practice which continued until 1971.

This gimmick has also been used with fictional characters ; special episodes of Beavis and Butt-head featured mail sent to the two, and the Homestar Runner website regularly features E-mails sent to and answered by the cartoon's main antagonist, Strong Bad.

The new station featured a new parcel depot, used to manage the large number of mail order catalogue packages coming in to Coventry at the time.

The game also featured two modes of online play: tournament fishing and " fish mail ".

The Matchmaker network was featured in the first edition of "!%@:: a directory of electronic mail addressing and networks " as one of the larger email networks prior to the rise of the Internet.

For a month the station ran with no commercials or DJs and featured only the voices of listeners from phones messages left on the request line voice mail.