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From: geoff@actrix.co.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fitness idea [Was Re: "I want a VisiCalc"]
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.211830.10240@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 13 Sep 90 21:18:30 GMT
References: <5958.tnews@templar.actrix.co.nz>
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <5958.tnews@templar.actrix.co.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz (John Bickers) writes:
> Quoted from - geoff@actrix.co.nz (Geoff McCaughan):
> > Fitness is big business these days, there's a lot of money to be
> > made, and we are all aware of the health benefits of more exercise.
>                                 [...]
> > I think gear like this exists already in fitness centers etc, but
> > probably not at a price every home could afford, and not with such
> > interesting graphics/video capability.
> 
>     Well, this sort of thing did exist for the C= 64. It's featured in an
>     old issue of Commodore Magazine (now defunct, it appears :().
>     [stuff deleted]

Thou kiddest surely? I'm talking about an interactive video system
not some program written on a bitty box. With skill this could be
made interesting enough that people will want to use it for its own
sake.

You take the C=64, I'll put my money on the CDTV.
 

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