Path: utzoo!censor!geac!lethe!becker!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!mcrware!eric
From: eric@mcrware.UUCP (Eric Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: Re: Info Center
Summary: CD-I for Info Center
Keywords: CD-I, Kiosks
Message-ID: <4649@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 91 19:04:21 GMT
References: <91007.180140JRW100S@ODUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: eric@mcrware.UUCP (Eric Miller)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <91007.180140JRW100S@ODUVM.BITNET> JRW100S@ODUVM.BITNET (Rusty Waterfield) writes:
>Here at Old Dominion University we are looking for a multi-media system
>that we can use as an info center for the students.  We are looking for
>a system where students, maybe utilizing a touch screen, can get information
>about the campus, registration, buildings, meal menus, etc.  It can
>be PC or MAC based, but we prefer PC.  Any info would be appreciated.

It sounds like an ideal application for CD-I.  I can think of several
applications of this technology already in use just like your own.  At
the Flower and Green Exposition in Tokyo last year, every info center in
the Pavilion was a CD-I player with a touch screen.  They are also being
used in situations as diverse as a Museum of Natural History in Mexico City
and an Insurance Company in Iowa.  Many other institutions and business are
currently working on their installations.

You can expand a Base CD-I player with serial/SCSI/ethernet/etc to connect
it to any other system you are using (Mac/PC/Sun).  Most importantly, I
think that you will find the price of the final system extremely competitive.

Eric Miller
Manager, New Media Systems
Microware Systems Corp
Des Moines, Iowa 50325

Ph:  515-224-1929
Fax: 515-224-1352