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From: jal@artemis.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh)
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Subject: Sony's CD-ROM Data Discman
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Date: 12 Jun 91 19:53:05 GMT
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Just when you thought this discussion about CDTV and CDI is beginning to 
die out...

In a brief segment in the new issue of Fortune, there is a description
of Sony's portable CD-ROM player.  It's about the size of an old Sony
Discman and unfolds to reveal a small QWERTY keyboard, joystick and
LCD screen.  It uses 3 inch disks and is said to be compatible with
the larger CD-ROM disks (they didn't say whose CDROMs they were
compatible with).  It's a handsome little unit in an ergonomic gray
casing and currently the Japanese version sells for about $450 with a
couple of disks included.

Interesting... would be really interesting if the put a color LCD display
on the unit and made it even smaller...

Jason Leigh

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