Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Sony's CD-ROM Data Discman Message-ID: <1991Jun13.020127.28269@ncsu.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 02:01:27 GMT References: <1991Jun12.195305.27625@cs.wayne.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: na Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 20 jal@artemis.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes: > > 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. Oops. Did you mean about the size of an old Sony _Walkman_? :-) Sounds neat. What'd they say the purpose of it was? Originally the Discman was for books and so on. I guess for reading manuals tho, a keyboard would be handy for getting at the index or navigation. > Interesting... would be really interesting if the put a color LCD display > on the unit and made it even smaller... No connection really, but if you want to see what a CD-I handheld looks like, see page 41 of the Jan '91 Popular Science. Thx for the interesting issue tip! best - kevin