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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CDTV Idea!
Message-ID: <2536@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 15:13:33 GMT
References: <9007110253.AA17651@jade.berkeley.edu> <11963@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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maffett@netcom.UUCP (Tim Maffett) writes:

>In article <9007110253.AA17651@jade.berkeley.edu> FILLMORE@EMRCAN.BITNET writes:

>    This discussion is a little tiresome.  In the US at least, (maybe Canada),
>most cable systems offer something called X-PRESS.  It goes to all subscribers

Tiresome? maybe to you but not to me. I called the number for X-Press and
they do not handle Louisville. Louisville is a fair sized city and I 
would expect that if *MOST* cable companies carried X-Press, then Louisville
would too. So I think you should ammend your comment to 'some US cable companies
carry X-Press' :-). Of course, Looneyville is one of the last remaining holdouts
of the 19th century, so maybe we are the only place in the US without this 
service.


Oh, I also recall several years ago (around 1983?) I read about some cable 
company offering special setups to download games to Atari 800 home computers.

They had a special cartridge that could download the game and then you could
play the game until you turned off the machine, you couldn't dump the game to
disk tho.

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