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In article <9311152208.AA03359@relay2.UU.NET> NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU writes:
>How do you like your CD-I anyway.... was it worth it  ?
>
>If that can expand it to a fully functional PC, I would have bought one, I
>checked with them and it can not. At least not officially. They should have
>thought ahead.
>
>If not actually spending the bucks to sell complete PC systems they could have
>at least thought of putting in extra slots and sockets so the user wouldn't
>feel so boxed in.

The following is purely my personal opinion, and not based on anything
but what I read in the papers.

I'd be highly surprised if they didn't think about that very thing.
Additional slots, sockets, and such cost $$$, especially when you would
be buying them by the truckload.

(I wish that Tandy had put a real ACIA in the CoCo instead of using half
a PIA and lots of CPU time to emulate one.  Why didn't they?  I would
guess the same reason, especially in 1980 or whenever the CoCo 1 was
designed.)

When you're mass producing something, you don't add anything unless you
have a good reason for it.  Look at the CD-i ads; they aren't selling
the players as something that you can turn into a computer.  The cliche
is that the general public can't even set the time on their VCRs, so
why scare them off by uttering the C-word?  The majority of those you
wouldn't scare off would most likely already have a computer and
probably a definite preconception of what a "real computer" is.

        James Jones

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