Re: Tiger Learning Computer

["J.Q.P." <jqp@hotmail.com>]

Obsbedia2 wrote:
> 
> Looks like I'll just send this back and get my money back.  I've saved to video
> tape screen samples that show what does work on this, but that's very little.

Tiger learning computer, eh?  I just read about this...
could it be this is the only II (or compatible) in
some semblance of production right now?

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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!)

Again, the time frame on this was '97-'99.  I dont remember the
exact date, and the informercial didnt run for very long, but I 
did see it several times over the course of a about a month.

Nice to see companies trying to slide under the radar of the
mainstream PC industry with 8 or 16-bit systems -- which really
will make a decent computer, enough for a lot of people.

Tho this Tiger one sounds like they really cut corners during
production.   Although, I'd bet a membrane keyboard is cheaper to
produce than a spring keyboard.

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