sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gun Control is a firm grip) (06/04/91)
In article <1991Jun03.051159.27197@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: >I get the idea that C= is waiting for 2.0 and is now concetrating their >marketing resources on CDTV. I also get the idea that C= is going to make >A LOT of money off CDTV. We were talking to a dealer in Santa Fe the other >day and she said the schools up there were bugging her to get some CDTV's >in. According to 2 dealers in NY, <Leighs and Amaginations> they sold a total of 7 CDTVS... out of the 7 they have received. I dont know how long it took them to do so but i get the impression they were gone pretty quickly. Is an Encyclopedia <not almanac, Encyclopedia> available or going to be available? Just a qucik question. >And won't the 500 with the ECS and 2.0 support a VGA monior. A 500 with >a VGA display for less than eight or nine hundred dollars will be killer. >People will look at there Mac Classics and turn green. Actually ICD makes a flicker fixer for the 500 but you gotta take it apart to connect it and I think that voids the warranty. The only "negative" to this would mean the inevitable death of the 1084S. I mean that monitor costs ~$300 in most stores while I figure a decent VGA monitor can be had for less. This has been my main complaint with the pricing of the 500. If you used a cheaper monitor, you could easily get a 1 meg 500 for less that a classic but not so with the 1084S. Wouldnt it make sence for C= to include a flickerfixer thing in the 500 considering the problem with possible warranty invalidations and all? more ideas... > > NCW PiRho- Because its Co-Ed . "tsroes rm `nsti ihst""enlgood rakm si amen ym"// "Brave Sir Robin ran away. Bravely ran away away." //A Macintoshes should be accelerated at 32ft/sec^2 \\ //mig Gun Control means using both hands \X/ A
dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) (06/04/91)
In article <1991Jun3.204015.25689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gun Control is a firm grip) writes: > In article <1991Jun03.051159.27197@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: > >I get the idea that C= is waiting for 2.0 and is now concetrating their > >marketing resources on CDTV. I also get the idea that C= is going to make > >A LOT of money off CDTV. We were talking to a dealer in Santa Fe the other > >day and she said the schools up there were bugging her to get some CDTV's > >in. > > According to 2 dealers in NY, <Leighs and Amaginations> they sold a total of 7 > CDTVS... out of the 7 they have received. I dont know how long it took them to > do so but i get the impression they were gone pretty quickly. Is an > Encyclopedia <not almanac, Encyclopedia> available or going to be available? > Just a qucik question. > The June 1991 issue of Amiga World has a long article on CDTV and lists many titles that are available. I counted 30 that are out. One of them was the American Heritage Illustrated Enccyclopedic Dictonary. You have to tell me if this is an "almanac" or "Encyclopedia" Stuff deleted > > > > > NCW > > > PiRho- Because its Co-Ed . "tsroes rm `nsti ihst""enlgood rakm si amen ym"// > "Brave Sir Robin ran away. Bravely ran away away." //A > Macintoshes should be accelerated at 32ft/sec^2 \\ //mig > Gun Control means using both hands \X/ A David David Ingebretsen Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation 600 Komas Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84108 (801) 582-5847 x3758 dingebre@es.com
don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) (06/04/91)
In article <1991Jun3.235515.17401@javelin.sim.es.com> dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes: >The June 1991 issue of Amiga World has a long article on CDTV and lists >many titles that are available. I counted 30 that are out. One of them was >the American Heritage Illustrated Enccyclopedic Dictonary. You have to >tell me if this is an "almanac" or "Encyclopedia" It's a dictionary. What's interesting about it is that there's a pronunciation guide (in text and sound formats...) for every word. Also, every word in a word's definition is 'hot'... click on it and you'll be taken to that word's definition. Since it's 'illustrated', I imagine a lot of entries are accompanied by pictures, but I didn't find any during my ~10 minutes of playing with it. -- Gibberish May the Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork is spoken fork() be Amiga Student On-Campus Consultant, U of D here. with you. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault.