[Coco] "Historic" CD-i development systems...

[Thierry Mella]

alsplace at pobox.com wrote:

> Okay, as some of you know, I worked for Microware from 1995-2001.  OS-9
> was the operating system in the Phillips CD-i multimedia players.  A
> few of these (from Microware) have turned up in auctions at the
> CoCoFests.
>
> There are about a dozen CD-i players remaining (most are development
> systems), working and not.  If anyone has any interest at all in these
> historic CD-i players (used for the development of CD-RTOS, dev tools,
> etc. -- no telling!), please let me know a.s.a.p.

Allen,

May I ask you why the Phillips CD-i wasn't a commercial success ?
(In Europe, it was a big failure !)
I my memory is good, it was a success from a technical point of view
but not from a commercial one (as it happend with many Phillips products).

Thanks,
Thierry