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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: A CDTV question
Message-ID: <992@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 08:31:56 GMT
References: <48298@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <48298@nigel.ee.udel.edu> PYC118@uriacc.uri.edu (Ras) writes:
>I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but here goes...

Well, there seem to better alternatives. .marketplace? .multimedia?

>1) How much will CDTV cost street price and is the price likely to go down
>within a few months?
>2) How much is that keyboard going to cost?
>3) How much will the Grolier encyclopedia cost (more or less)?

Sorry, no idea of prices or even street prices :-).

>3) and most importantly, can I use my external drive as a *DF0* with CDTV
>   so that I can use all the programs I have right now?

Yes, the connector is there.

>ps. Ooh! I forgot! Can I use regular joysticks and mouses with CDTV or am I
>gonna be stuck with that Nintendo-like joypad thingy?

They tell me, these connectors are also there. (Can't swear because all
our test samples are in Hannover at CeBIT.) There will be a further option
with an IR remote device that sends IR impulses to the CDTV and where you
plug a normal mouse/joystick into (hope I didn't get this one the wrong 
way round :-).

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