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- From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: CDTV Query
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- References: <BxxJzB.6H6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:45:26 EST
- Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
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- In article <BxxJzB.6H6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Michael Hall <mphall@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
- > Dad was reading about CDTV a ways back and was asking me about it,
- >
- > What are the guts of the thing anyhow?
-
- It's essentially an Amiga 500 with a CD-ROM drive.
-
- > Are there possibilities for expansion beyond the basic keyboard, mouse
- >drive, etc.?
-
- I don't think there are at the moment. Commodore probably won't make
- expansion devices for it, but some third party developers might.
-
- > Are they better off with a 5/600 with a CD ROM drive?
-
- Depends on how you want to use it. Buying the computer and CD-ROM drive
- is the more expensive way to go. But the computer can take a hard drive and
- extra RAM which the CDTV can't.
-
- > Are they better off with an MSDOS clone with a CD ROM drive?
-
- They can get going cheaper that way and there will be lots more software
- available to them. On the other hand, they'll have to live with MS-DOS
- instead of AmigaDOS.
-
- > Are they better off with an abacus?
-
- The price performance ratio of the abacus is far better than that of
- either the Amiga or an MS-DOS computer. :)
-
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