Re: Tiger Learning Computer

["Marc Walters" <marc@classworks.com.au>]

"J.Q.P." <jqp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Obsbedia2 wrote:
[snip]
> I dont know if anyone else will remember this...but about 2-3
> years ago - there was a late-night infomercial, with Tom Bosley
> as the "host" - and they were selling a personal computer.
>
> The odd thing about this was, it was an 8-bit system of some sort.
> I swear it looked vaguely like a C64.   They claimed that it had
> "all the programs built-in" (word processor, spreadsheet)...and
> their selling angle was that desktop PC's are too complex ("look
> at all those cables!")  and that most people didnt need the
> "power" of a desktop PC.    It may well have been a rebadged
> Commodore Plus-4.   I believe they showed that it hooked up to
> a TV set.   (ah, good ol'  RF modulators!)

Probably the Commodore 64 WEB.It computer. A cheap 486 clone with all
the hardware pacvked under the keyboard instead of a seperate box.
Plus a licenced C64 emulator built in. From memory it was black with
rounded edges. Is this the one?

Marc