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From: huebner@aerospace.aero.org (Robert E. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised
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Date: 17 Sep 90 15:53:53 GMT
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In article <27890@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c150-ec@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Johnson Sieu) writes:
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>  Why don't they sell other stuff on CD besides the Fred Fish?  How about
>  an encyclopeadia or a Thesaurus?
>

  I think the Fred Fish is just the "tip of the iceberg" in CD-ROM.  The
player being marketed now is the first Commodore CD-ROM drive available, so
they had to start somewhere (and I think F.F. was a great choice - something
uniquely Amigan).   Since this drive uses High Sierra standard format
(well, sort of standard), you will probably find things like Encyclopedias
very soon.  These sort of things are very popular on CD format (but not
cheap)

  BTW- Has anyone actually recieve/hooked-up one of these drives?  And
what are the possibilities using existing High-sierra disks with it.  I
assume the Amiga will need some sort of software to search these non-Amiga
disks?  Also, is the magazine ad true in claiming that it will read CDTV
disks?

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Robert Huebner		huebner@aerospace.aero.org	@en.ecn.purdue.edu
			The Aerospace Corporation	Purdue University
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