Editing CompuServe (section)

==== TapCIS ====
'''TapCIS (The Access Program for the Compuserve Information Service'''){{efn|sometimes referred to as TAPCIS}}<ref name="AudMyPC">{{Cite web |date=March 19, 2010 |title=TAPCIS |url=https://www.auditmypc.com/tapcis.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710205600/https://www.auditmypc.com/tapcis.asp |archive-date=July 10, 2019 |access-date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> was an automated [[MS-DOS]]-based [[software application]] that sped up access to, and management of, CompuServe email accounts and forum memberships for PC users from 1981 until 2004 when advances in CompuServe technology rendered it obsolete. It was described as "archaic-looking (but) .. remains a powerful tool for accessing CompuServe forums."<ref name="TapTapCIS.PCmag">{{Cite magazine |date=February 23, 1993 |title=Access Program |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4RN8nH8oZ2QC&pg=PA322 |access-date=July 10, 2019 |magazine=[[PC Magazine]] |page=322}}</ref>

TapCIS was written in Borland's [[Turbo Pascal]] code by Howard Benner, a marketing executive from [[Wilmington, Delaware]],<ref name="Howard Benner">{{Cite web |title=TapcisForum - Howard Benner Tribute |url=http://www.tapcis.com/benner.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406233642/http://www.tapcis.com/benner.html |archive-date=April 6, 2019 |access-date=January 31, 2020 |website=tapcis.com}}</ref> who joined CompuServe in 1981. The software, which was [[shareware]] and retailed at {{US$|79}}, had a community of users who continued to maintain their own website.

Since it was able to issue administrative commands, TapCIS was the preferred program for dozens of CompuServe [[system operator]]s (sysops).<ref name="Farewell">{{Cite web |title=TapcisForum - CS Farewell |url=http://www.tapcis.com/farewell.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708164330/http://www.tapcis.com/farewell.html |archive-date=July 8, 2019 |access-date=January 31, 2020 |website=tapcis.com}}</ref>