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 E> > Does anyone know what kind of expansion is available behind that
 E> > plate at the back?  If it where possible to add a keyboard/disk
 E> > drive (and maybe a hard drive? SCSI?), think about that...
 E>
 E>    I have a Magnavox CD-I player, and it has 2 serial-ports which
 E>can be used to hook up a keyboard/mice/roller-controller's.
 E>
 E>    the expansion-slot on the back appears to be just a card-edge
 E>socket (like the CoCo has, only bigger)...so I wouldn't think there
 E>would be any problem interfacing a disk-drive to that connector.


 X> As I understand it, that card slot is for the digital video option.

    that is currently the use for it...although $250 for the digital
video board is a bit expensive...I bought the CD-I player for $299
at a radio shack close out sale.

 X> How do you like your CD-I anyway.... was it worth it  ?

    I love it.  I use it for Kodak Photo-CD's and CD-I disks.

 X> If that can expand it to a fully functional PC, I would have
 X> bought one, I checked with them and it can not. At least not
 X> officially. They should have thought ahead.

    I don't think it would be hard to turn it into a full PC.  the
problem is more with getting good software to put on the machine.
And finding a developer who can make the original "boot-cd".
(although I do not know how much ram the machine has).

    I mean, you could put a Shell, WP, spreadsheet, etc on a
disk...and attach a floppy-drive and keyboard to one of the
serial-ports.  Hard-drives would be a bit harder to interface, and
would probably need a 'multi-pack-like' interface for the card-slot
in the back of the machine.

    But I don't know if there is much of a market for such a
product...and without a big-enough market the software will not
evolve.  Give CD-I a year or two to catch on, then see what's
available.

              -erik

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  Erik Seielstad                            |  Systems Programmer/Analyst
  Internet: erik@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu   |  SUNY College at Brockport