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From: stevem@hal.CSS.GOV (Steve Masters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: CD-ROM and the Amiga
Keywords: CDTV CD-ROM
Message-ID: <440@hal.CSS.GOV>
Date: 28 Jun 90 00:17:18 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: ENSCO Inc., Melbourne FL
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With all of the articles in magazines and the net about C='s CDTV
product, I am still unclear about one important point:

Currently there are many CD-ROM databases available.  As I write this
I am looking at an ad for a CD-ROM containing climate information for
the US and the world.  The ad says there is 250K pages (and many decades)
of data on this CD-ROM.  The CD-ROM comes with access software for the
IBM-PC :(  

So, will the new C= product (or a subset of it) allow me to buy and
use this (and other available data bases) on my A-2500?  Or, will
the CD-ROMs the CDTV product uses be in ..yet another.. format that
makes existing databases inaccessible to my Amiga?  Do I need to make
my Amiga look like an IBM to use existing (or soon-to-be-available
[which means in six  to twelve months] ) CD-ROM readers?

Mail or net responses welcome.....

Steve Masters   stevem@hal.CSS.GOV
ENSCO, Inc.
Melbourne, FL  32940
407 254 4122