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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV vs CD-I again
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Date: 12 Apr 91 04:26:00 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.193839.14020@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>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.

  World of Amiga in NYC had at least 20 CDTV's on display, and I did
not see one running a conventional application other than the workbench
screen. Second, I saw none of the peripherals hooked up to it such as 
a keyboard or floppy drive (I still think it should come with a floppy
drive).

David


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