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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: CDTV vs CD-I again
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Date: 9 Apr 91 19:38:39 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.170659.17365@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>I mildly disagree that common consumers will consider the future computer
>angle.  Consider: mass retailers aren't going to point that out.  And you
>sure can't put "Expandable into a real home computer!" on the side of the
>box... you'd scare away the exact market you're trying to reach! <g>
>
	Certainly expandability to a computer won't be the main
selling point, but it does give CDTV a base of users you won't
otherwise find. Just plug in a disk drive and a keyboard and you
can run anything you can run on an Amiga 500. For those people
the CD can be a supplement. 
	And those add-ons are hardly that expensive. About
another $200-$250. Total cost is about $1,050 for a 1MB A500 with
disk drive, keyboard and CD-ROM. You can do your word processing
and spreadsheets as well as all the CD-ROM applications, and of
course use all the current Amiga applications that haven't been
ported.
	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.