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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Harv
- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <72431@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 07:08:27 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- [Thad sez:]
- >
- >Y'know, probably most don't remember this, but at one of the FAUG (First
- >Amiga Users' Group) meetings during 1986, Jim Becker demo'd his InfoMinder
- >program with a CD-ROM on the Amiga. Some encyclopedia on a CD-ROM, stereo
- >sound, and intermixed with the Amiga's generated graphics.
- >
- >Stupendous. It brought down the house. And the "house" was packed literally
- >wall-wall and floor-ceiling in those days (when even Allen Hastings demo'd
- >his first efforts).
- >
- [...]
-
- >Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
-
- Umm.. I think Jim was using a laserdisc player with InfoMinder,
- wasn't he? I remember seeing him demoing his setup at one of the very
- first Amiga shows held near LAX at the Airport Hilton in '86. Come to
- think of it, this may have been a combined Amiga/C64 show. He was
- using the National Gallery of Art laserdisc (with about 50,000 works
- of art on it). He may have had other LDs but that's the one
- that stuck in my mind. Didn't see any CDs though. Did non-music
- data-only CDs exist in '86?
-
- Also at this same show were some guys who called themselves
- "Copperstate", selling what I think was the first Amiga nibble-copier.
- They sold out of every one they had brought with them. C-Ltd was
- selling one of the first Amiga hard drive interfaces (remember,
- back in '86 the only Amiga you could buy was the A1000 :-)
- Ahhh... o/~ memories o/~
-
- Harv
-