Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!van-bc!outbound!patrick_meloy From: patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia on CNN Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 91 07:01:31 GMT Organization: Outbound Communications Lines: 21 > This brings up a nagging question that I've been wanting to ask for >some time. What hasn't Commodore produced a true "CD-ROM computer"? >The CDTV is being marketed more as a fancy appliance than a computer, >so it doesn't quite fir this description. I've seen other postings about this same subject. Either Commodore isn't doing a good enough job about informing the public or the public is ignoring what Commodore has been saying. CDTV is an Amiga 500 (basically) in a different case with a built in CD-ROM. It will accept all the usual items that a normal computer uses. ie: Keyboard, floppies, mouse. The CDTV is not packaged with these items because it is not really meant to be used a 'traditional' computer. They did however allow things to be set up that way to satisfy the people that need it (ie: developers). I've had the pleasure of looking at CDTV while at the Vancouver Commodore offices and I was QUITE impressed! --------------------------------------- | patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca | | 'The Outbound' BBS Vancouver BC | ---------------------------------------