However, a fair number of customers still use the Prodigy services that were available at the time of the acquisition.

She hooked up her modem and dialed a bulletin board on the Prodigy service.

Prodigy Services is expected to announce new features and refinements to lure more home computer owners.

"The largest was Prodigy Services with 88,356," he said.

The Prodigy on-line service, which has about a million users, charges customers 8 cents a minute, or $4.80 an hour, to use its toll-free line.

"Thirty-five cents moving to $2" read a posting on the Prodigy on-line service in April.

Pointcast has an earlier news delivery product known as Journalist, which is available on the Prodigy on-line service.

MadMaze was an online video game, playable through the now-defunct Prodigy service.

It was built in the late 1960's and occupied by Prodigy Services, the Internet provider, from the mid-1980's until the late 1990's.

The software serves as a searching tool for subscribers of either the Compuserve or Prodigy on-line services.