CompuServe Information Service

(CIS) One of the services run by CompuServe Corporation.

CIS provides a wide variety of information and services,

including bulletin boards, on-line conferencing, business

news, sports and weather, financial transactions, electronicmail, travel and entertainment data as well as on-line

editions of computer publications. CompuServe Information

Service should not be confused with CompuServe Corporation's

other sectors which offer many other services besides the

consumer information service.

CIS is a large international conferencing system (albeit with

a heavy US bias). It provides an access to the Usenet news

(GO INTERNET). More comprehensive Internet access is

planned for the end of 1994. Forum UKCOMP topic Acorn/Z88 is

the place to find Acorn users.

Compuserve's main competitors are AOL and Prodigy.

Home .

Telephone: [phone] (London), [phone]

(Birmingham), [phone] or 569 025 (Reading), +44

(1272) 255 111 (Bristol).

(1995-09-12)