Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!sjm From: sjm@brahms.udel.edu (Steve Morris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia on CBM Message-ID: <20402@brahms.udel.edu> Date: 13 Apr 91 03:03:20 GMT References: <1705@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Organization: Next week I will get organized! Lines: 28 In article <1705@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: >In article patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy) writes: >>>The CDTV is being marketed more as a fancy appliance than a computer, >>>so it doesn't quite fit this description. > >The following appeared in the Business Section of the San Jose Mercury News >on Friday, April 5, 1991. [ deleted article . . .] > > >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". Commodore is being very specific about CDTV not being a computer. I would not be surprised if they did not tell the press about all its computer capabilities. CDTV is for computerphobes. Those who have been holding out on buying a computer because the keyboard and disk drive scare them. They have even gone to great lengths to use consumer electronic marketing nomenclature and not computerese. ie. "accessories" instead of peripherals, "titles" instead of software or programs. Later on after CDTV has gained wide acceptance, then C= can say to the general public, "OH by the way, you know that CD music, games, educational thingy that you have sitting next to your TV and VCR. Well it is actually a computer. Just add these accessories and you can calculate your home budget, etc." Steve