roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Roger Earl) (04/12/91)
jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes... >The article did not mention that the CDTV has several options available: >typewriter keyboard, mouse, floppy disk, printer, modem, SCSI disks, and >LAN connect. With several of these options installed, the CDTV becomes a >>true "CD-ROM" computer" The keyboard, floppy, Hard Drive, etc options were added to the CDTV because it was easy to do so (due to its heart being essentially an A500). It was also done so that existing Amiga owners wouldn't panic and think Commodore was abondoning them. There is a definite 1 meg memory constraint on the CDTV and the Commodore reps that I've talked to have basicically said, 'Why' would you want to make it a computer. Almost no one will upgrade the CDTV into a computer, especially when its cheaper and easier to just buy an A500. If you want a CD-Rom based Amiga then wait for the A590 (CD-Rom for A500) to be released. The CDTV certainly is not a computer out of the box. **************************************************************************** * "The personal computer market is about the same size as the total potato * * chip market. Next year it will be about half the size of the pet food * * market and is fast approaching the total worldwide sales of pantyhose" * * -James Finke, Pres., Commodore Int'l Ltd.(1982)- * **************************************************************************** Roger Earl = Usenet: roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca = GEnie: R.Earl4