Re: Tiger Learning Computer

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

"J.Q.P." writes ...
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> 
> 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.
> 
 ....

     No doubt; but, when you consider the price of current low-end PC KB's, it
would not have ruined Tiger to go with real keys.

     Don't know if the computer you saw advertised is the Tiger LC. 1997 sounds
right. I got a review copy of an LC about that time.



Rubywand