Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!VAXF.IASTATE.EDU!XGR39 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia on CNN Message-ID: <1991Mar24.204229.26637@news.iastate.edu> From: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 20:42:29 GMT Reply-To: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) References: Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 33 In article , patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy) writes: >> 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! True, the CDTV will accept a keyboard, floppy drive, and mouse. However, none of these are standard, and all have to be added later. This makes the CDTV totally inadequate for use as a desktop computer. Commodore needs something like the CDTV, but with the keyboard, mouse, floppy drive, and AmigaOS 2.0 as standard hardware. -MB- > >--------------------------------------- >| patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca | >| 'The Outbound' BBS Vancouver BC | >---------------------------------------