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- Subject: Re: Tandy VIS finally surfaces
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.040912.60985@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 04:09:11 MDT
- References: <1992Nov17.232006.1645@zds-oem.zds.com>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <1992Nov17.232006.1645@zds-oem.zds.com>, easton@zds-oem.mi04.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
- > In todays mail I got the latest Radio Shack flyer. In it they
- > have a two page spread on their new Memorex MD-2500 VIS player.
- > This is yet another CDTV style CD-ROM interactive entertainment
- > system.
-
- Yep, I got a flyer today too. The controller looks hoky with the colored
- buttons... but I guess that would be good for kids.
-
- > They've got it priced at $699.95 and apparently doesnt come with
- > any discs except a special bonus disc of Comptons Multimedia
- > Encyclopedia. Several other titles were mentioned but no pricing
- > or part numbers were listed.
-
- Were selling CDTV's for $550 here... with the usual intro disk and cupon
- for the Encyclopedia for $50.
-
- > From a EE Times article the VIS supposedly runs a Intel Processor
- > and a special version of Microsoft Windows. The screen shots in the ad
- > didnt impress me very much, even though the text hyped a 16 million
- > color display.
-
- It's a unique (to say the least) version of windows. I talked with a developer
- working on a multi-media Bible CD for it... they weren't too fond of the unit
- they were working with. But it wwas probably a beta version of everything at
- that time.
-
- The 16 million color display is the same as their multimedia computer systems
- they are pushing. I hope for their sake it's not just their standard or it
- wont get used by developers that much... why write two versions when one
- will do for it and PC's.
-
- > I'm not sure what the CDTV is going for these days, but based on
- > features alone, I see nothing in the VIS that would make me rush
- > out and buy one.
-
- Just becouse it's advertised doesn't mean the stores all have em yet... I'll
- check tomorrow if it's here.
- CD-I is also for sale around here... but I don't think they have sold too many
- of them (if any...).
-
- James Diffendaffer
-
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