Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Apple CDTV-like Mac? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 20:04:10 GMT References: <56789@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 25 PYC118%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (Rasiel) writes: >Not too long ago I heard about Apple working on a Macintosh-type machine that >would be hooked up with a CDROM and made to look like a regular CD-player >a la CDTV. However, I never heard any more on the subject and was wondering >if anyone else had the inside scoop. I would imagine that for this thing to >be mass marketed as a multimedia machine it would have to be at least an LC. >How the hell can this thing compete with CD-I or CDTV? I heard the same thing. It probably wouldn't be aimed at the consumer electronics marker, but higher scale business applications, if they exist... Someone pointed out, the cheapest color Mac sells for $2200 and has a 68020, even if they replaced the 020 with a 68000 and cut here and cut there, they still couldn't market it saying its based on MacIntosh technoligy, because people will look at an $500 unit, and say, "Why's the LC $2200!?!" Whats an Apple IIgs going for these days? It could be based on something like that(6502 etc)...I imagine Commodore could have done the same with a C64 and upgraded the graphics a bit and sold it dirt cheap... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) Hey Hey! Ho Ho! All the statist gotta go!!