Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!maths.tcd.ie!mike From: mike@maths.tcd.ie (MIKE ROGERS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Sculley news Message-ID: <1991Mar20.225346.11903@maths.tcd.ie> Date: 20 Mar 91 22:53:46 GMT References: Organization: Sometimes found in a quite disorganized state in Trinity College Dublin. By the way, freedom==anarchy. Lines: 20 In article , szatezal@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Shane M Zatezalo) wrote: >Apple's entry into consumer electronics. This "living room" system combines >a compact-disc player and a stripped down Macintosh(minus disk drives, >keyboard, monitor). It can be operated by a remote control device of the >sort used to change tv channels (though it won't manipulate live tv signals). >The device, to sell for under $1000, would display the audio, visual and >text content of a specially made CD and would pit Apple against Nintendo Inc. >for the loyalty of the world's electronic entertainment addicts. Isn't this just an Amiga CDTV or some sort of CD/I? It really looked to me from the entire article that Apple didn't have a single original idea lined up. I mean, a Dynabook and consumer CDROM aren't exactly groundbreaking. Then again, would you necessarily broadcast your cutest idea at large to the industry? -- Mike Rogers,Box 6,Regent Hse,## Everyone should try to kill themselves once in a TCD,EIRE. ## while, it gives you a whole new outlook on life. ###############################DON'T MISS TRINCON400 7th, 8th, 9th FEBRUARY 1992 And she wore Black Contact Lenses when you said you liked her eyes......Toasties