CD-TV

The CDTV was the first computer to come with a CD ROM drive as standard.

CDTV stood for Commodore Dynamic Total Vision.

It was made by Commodore International and launched in March 1991. Designed and marketed as a set-top box to go along with your VCR and be used as a CD-player and games console, it lost out to its main competitor CD-i, with neither having any real commercial success.

The CDTV was essentially a black Amiga with a CD ROM, but with the disadvantage of not having a keyboard, mouse or diskdrive as standard. Commodore chose Amiga magazines as its chief advertising platform, but the Amiga community on the whole avoided the CDTV in the expectation of an add-on CD-ROM drive for the Amiga, which eventually came in the form of the A570.

The CDTV was a commercial failure and was eventually replaced by the AmigaCD32.

CDTV Specifications:

CPU: Motorola 68000 @ 7.14Mhz. Memory: 1 Meg Chip Memory. Chipset: Enhanced Chip Set. (ECS) OS: Kickstart 1.3 + CDTV module. Debuted: March 1991 (At CES, Las Vegas) Launch Price: £499 (CDTV, Joypad & 2 titles)

Versions:

CDTV: CDTV unit & joypad. Pro pack: keyboard, mouse & diskdrive, along with Almathera CDPD Public Domain software compilation on CD-ROM