Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia on CBM Summary: It hit the AP newswires last Friday Message-ID: <1705@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 10 Apr 91 07:52:12 GMT References: Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA Lines: 38 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 fit 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. The following appeared in the Business Section of the San Jose Mercury News on Friday, April 5, 1991. NEW YORK (AP) - Commodore International Ltd. announced a new interactive home entertainment and education system Thursday that provices reference tools, games and other features on an ordinary TV. The computer company says the $999 device combines many of the features of home computers, video game machines and compact disk music players. The defice also marks a comback of sorts for Nolan Bushnell, the founder of computer game pioneer Atari who now works for Commodore. The CDTV Interactive Multimedia player looks like a home compact disk player and can play ordinary music CDs. But is is designed to be hooked up to a TV and play special CDs containing games, encyclopedias, children's books, musical sing-along sessions and other programs. Commodore's machine, which it demonstrated in January at a consumer electronics show, will go on sale April 19 in five cities: San Jose, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Chicago. The article did not mention that the CDTV has several options available: typewriter keyboard, mouse, floppy disk, printer, modem, SCSI disks, and LAN connect. With several of these options installed, the CDTV becomes a true "CD-ROM computer". -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: jms@tardis.tymnet.com or jms@gemini.tymnet.com BT Tymnet Tech Services | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-C51 | BIX: smithjoe | CA license plate: "POPJ P," (PDP-10) San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | humorous dislaimer: "My Amiga 3000 speaks for me."