#CDTV Keyboard
07-Jun-94 00:16:10
Sb: #150994-#CDTV Keyboard
Fm: Richard Beausang 74130,3663
To: Peter Greci 76104,2110
Peter,
I got a CDTV keyboard some time ago from Grapevine. I don't know if they
can still get them. It's the same as the 3000 keyboard but it's spray
painted black by an infant and has a different cable. I gutted it and
exchanged innards with my 3000 keyboard so I would have the newer keyboard
on my main machine. At any rate, I've got an adaptor cable that allows
plugging a 3000 or 2000 keyboard into the CDTV. Cost me $36 and I only
used it a few times before getting my CDTV keyboard. If you're interested,
you can have it for $25 delivered.
In my opinion, there are many other things than the lack of a keyboard
that make CDTV useless. 1.3 Roms comes to mind. Lack of speed, ram
expansion, mouse, flicker free display and hard drive also figure
prominently. I realize most of that can be rectified (not sure about the
ROM) but what an expense. On the plus side, it's a heck of a CD player and
it has all those cool ports…serial, parallel, and midi. It also
functions fairly well paralinked to the 3000.
-Richard