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From: kudla@rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Subject: Re: Multimedia on CNN
In-Reply-To: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU's message of Sun, 24 Mar 1991 20:42:29 GMT
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Organization: just say no!
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Date: 25 Mar 91 05:29:26 GMT
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In article <1991Mar24.204229.26637@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) writes:

      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. 

Oh yeah, that'll be a *great* toy to market to the sophisticated
Nintendophiles and video/audio people who are scared off by anything
resembling a QWERTY keyboard or floppy disk drives....

Actually, I think Commodore's current solution is the best one,
assuming it all goes as planned.  The CDTV as a standalone unit for
multimedia/entertainment/whatever purposes, and the A690 (whenever it
gets released) as the general purpose CD-ROM drive, with the
hypothetical A2690 to follow.....