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>to give CDTV a chace to sell.
That would imply CBM was serious about selling CDTV in the first place
<GRIN>.
In my opinion, several things would have to be done to make CDTV more
viable.
– Give CDTV (and the Amigas) some new technology in the video hardware and
audio hardware area
– Give it more memory
– Faster CPU. At least a 68020 doing 14.3 MHz. By the time they could
design such a thing, it would probably be cheap enough to go to a 25 MHz
68030.
– Put a SCSI port on the device so in stand alone mode it can drive a hard
drive, or in network mode it can be another device connected to a regular
Amiga. Would allow sharing the parallel and serial port on the CDTV as if
they were on the Amiga. If they have DIG done by then, could use the video
capabilities as another monitor output. Hmmm.. revision time. No, don't
make the SCSI built in, but provide a header connector and two low cost
(under $100) boards to plug into the header. One is a SCSI interface, the
other is an ethernet interface. So if the unit was to be standalone, a
person could get the scsi card, but if they wanted to network it, get the
ethernet board.
– Sell it for under US$800 with all the above!
73, Kelly