Sort of.  About 30+ years ago the world was absolutely awash in Compuserve free&#x2F;demo accounts, included in software boxes and probably magazines.  Wish I could find an old 80micro magazine cover on archive.org to document this aspect of the past.  People who lived thru it could verify that free compuserve accounts were the AOL floppy&#x2F;CD of an older era.<p>Compuserve in say 1983 was a DEC service bureau moonlighting at night as a very expensive per hour super BBS system.  Like $5&#x2F;hr at 300 baud.  And yes it was a network of PDP-10s as per the linked article (although I seem to remember KI processors not KL&#x27;s)