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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Subject: Re: CDTV titles on an A500?
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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 07:22:50 GMT
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In article <1991Jun2.232554.24741@daimi.aau.dk> pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes:
>zuckerma@aludra.usc.edu (David Zuckerman) writes:
>
>>Commodore plans to release a CD-ROM drive that attaches to the expansion
>>port of the A500.  Known as the A690, it's been shown at a past CES and
>>carries a retail price of $699.
>
>WHAAAAT? If I have read other posts in these newsgroups correctly,
>this is more like the price for a CDTV!? Why would anybody want to
>pay so much for the drive, if they could get the CDTV(with an Amiga in it)
>for the same money? Surely, you are kidding? Or is the CDTV more 
>expensive than I thought? 
>
>                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department


     CDTV will be about $1000 US, at least that's what I heard.  If the price
of the drive seems high, it's a new product, just like the CDTV.  Commodore
may be trying to promote the sale of CDTV's though, rather than A690's.
Think about it.  If more people own CDTV's, more people will buy them, and
more vendors will press disks for them.  With that kind of a price difference
I'd probably buy a CDTV instead of an A690 too.

					--George
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