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- From: LadyHawke@cup.portal.com (Classic - Concepts)
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- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 18:17:29 PST
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- Widespread CD-ROM availability for the Amiga would be a great boon. The
- Amiga is a perfect system for a lot of vertical market applications. The
- Amiga is extremely well-suited to word/image library cataloging systems
- requiring lots of data--and CD-ROM. Have you seen the way a lot of
- government registration info is distributed? On Microfiche. Don't you
- HATE trying to read microfiches, and finding the item you need and
- squinting your eyes to read those awful screens? CD-ROM would be a much
- better medium, and an AGA, CD-ROM turnkey Amiga 1200 would be inexpensive
- and sensational for this application.
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- Design and graphics are undergoing a computer/economic/method revolution.
- Two years ago, computer generated covers on journals were rare. Today
- they're commonplace. Tomorrow they will be almost the only competitive
- solution. Taking an image and manipulating it with ADPro, ImageMaster or
- Photoshop is 100s of times more cost effective and flexible than creating
- graphics from 'scratch' and will consequently become the norm in a very
- short time. Artists will need huge libraries of 'raw' images to draw
- from. CD-ROM is a natural lmedium for storing and saving these images.
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- The Amiga doesn't need CD-ROM? You're wrong. The Amiga, with its
- strength in graphics, and with 24-bit image files being space hogs, needs
- CD-ROM badly. And soon. The Mac IIvx comes with a built in CD-ROM.
- They're selling scads of them. I can think of HUNDREDS of apps that
- would improve if they incorporated CD-ROM technology. The future is
- megastorage. Increased storage provides a qualitative, as well as a
- quantitative change in the way we use computers. I don't want to see
- the Amiga lagging behind in this technology.
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- Julie Petersen
- LadyHawke@cup.portal.com
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