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- From: Michael Hall <mphall@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: CDTV Query
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:06:38 GMT
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- Hi, y'all.
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- I am too poor to own a computer right now, but my parents back
- home are looking to get one for my little brother (read that as Dad and my
- little brother.)
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- Dad was reading about CDTV a ways back and was asking me about it,
- but I really only remembered all the advance press the Amiga "Baby" was
- getting. Since talking to him, I've seen that there are all those
- promised peripherals like keyboards and mice and disk drives and if
- a household already has a big color tv it might even be a little cheaper
- than outfitting a system with a monitor.
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- The folks like the concept of the CDTV, which is why they are
- interested. (It looks cool to them.) Is the CDTV with a keyboard and
- all a viable stand-alone system?
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- What are the guts of the thing anyhow?
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- Are there possibilities for expansion beyond the basic keyboard, mouse
- drive, etc.?
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- Are they better off with a 5/600 with a CD ROM drive?
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- Are they better off with an MSDOS clone with a CD ROM drive?
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- Are they better off with an abacus?
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- Thanks for any info, insights, flames with a kernel of useful
- knowledge, etc.
-
- -Mike
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- Michael Hall mphall@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- "Rid of formalized wisdom and learning
- People would be a hundredfold happier,"
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