CompuServe service

Users interested in the Internet, foreign press products, and network culture could also subscribe to CompuServe from Hungary.

In 1994, those who looked towards the Internet could access foreign newspapers, forums that had been operating continuously since the 1980s, e-mail and games by sitting in front of their PCs using the CompuServe service. For a monthly subscription fee of 3,500 forints, users received 150 minutes of online time in exchange for which they could access more than 600 screens of text.

Microsystem launched the CompuServe service on July 1, 1993, allowing Hungarian computer owners who are not connected to the X. 25 network but would like to enjoy the services of mainframe networks to connect to the world's largest personal computer networks through the CompuServe (original full name: CIS – CompuServe Information Service) service.

The first domestic CIS owner was Microsystem, from which MEN (Middle Europe Networks Kft.) took over the service in the summer of 1994. The service was discontinued on March 1, 1999, after AOL acquired CompuServe, and where there was no local AOL, CIS offices were closed. Domestic CIS subscribers were taken over by Elender – and anyone who had a “regular” credit card could remain a subscriber until 2000.