Very Rare Prodigy Software for the Mac v. 2.1 on two 800K Floppy Disks
Rare Software has never been installed.

Prodigy Mac 2.1

A true collectors item.

 

Rare Prodigy Software for the Mac

Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service from 1984 to 2001 that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features.

Prodigy was described by the New York Times as "family-oriented" and one of "the Big Three information services" in 1994.

Initially, subscribers using personal computers accessed the Prodigy service by means of copper wire telephone "POTS" service or X.25 dialup. For its initial roll-out, Prodigy used 1,200 bit/s modem connections. To provide faster service and to stabilize the diverse modem market, Prodigy offered low-cost 2,400 bit/s internal modems to subscribers at a discount. The host systems used were regionally distributed IBM Series/1 minicomputers managed by central IBM mainframes located in Yorktown Heights, New York.

The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and basic architecture as differentiation from CompuServe, which started in 1979 and used a command-line interface.

By 1990 it was the second-largest (and 1993 the largest)online service provider, with 465,000 subscribers trailing only CompuServe's 600,000.Its headquarters were in White Plains, New York until 2000, when it moved to Austin, Texas.

 

 DISK TRANSFER SERVICE: (OPTIONAL) If you are the winner of the auction and would like the software also on a 1.4 MB disk (so as to allow this software to run on a slightly newer Mac such as a 1998 iMac that may not be able to read 400K/800K disks), I am offering a disk transfer service to transfer this software to a 1.44 MB Floppy so your newer computer can read the media. I make no guarantees that that the software will work perfectly on a Mac too new for its design, but will give you the option to try it. The cost of this transfer service is $3.00 per 1.4 MB floppy disk used.  This is an optional fee and you will get both formats: the original low density disks that came as new plus the 1.4 MB copy.

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