Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!telmail!neabbs!amichel From: amichel@neabbs.UUCP (MICHEL LANGEREIS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Inter-active systems, new market ? Message-ID: <195156@neabbs.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 23:18:00 GMT Organization: NEABBS multi-line BBS +31-20-717666 (13x), Amsterdam, Holland Lines: 50 I sincerely hope the flame wars are over now, lets bring in a topic I haven't seen discussed past two years. Did anyone do some research in the inter-active market ? By inter-active I think information posts with touch screens alike. With products like UltraCard and CanDo hitting the market (or RSN ;) it becomes very easy to create the software with a minimum of time involved. For example, you can create lots of standard interface modules who will fit in almost every project you get assigned to. You'll only have to put the 'information' the customer wants in it and built some custom made things around it. Thats a lot cheaper as programming every project you get assigned to over and over again, so thats one point why it can be interesting. Some other things I thought about, when you come in a shop to buy lets say a waterbed.. most customers get an overload of info over them with the result they leave, think at home to look at all the documentation they got and MAYBE come back. A better way of doing it is to provide the customer a small portion of info, just what he/she/they is/are interested in and in such a case whats better to put them to a screen to let them make their choice by theirselfs ? Via a touch-screen Amiga combo ofcourse.. pictures from people on waterbeds floating all over the screen, animated ofcourse ;-) Now what about touch-screens and laser disks for the Amiga, are they availble ? I know there was some sort of inter-active Amiga system developed once and it was called The Mandala system but never ever heard a tinny little bit about it. Why laserdisks, sure you could probaly take a BIG harddrive but the system must be a 120 percent relaible and since many people will be pointing at anything they see and maybe hit a few times to the side if things aren't going fast enough its not a good idea to put a HD in it. And don't forget the educational market, all those kids in front of Amiga's (sold by former Apple and now C-A employees :-) pointing away through their things. My personal view is this market is going to explode in a year or two, Apple and IBM already marked this blank spot on the map so what about us ? -* Michel hp4nl!neabbs!amichel@uunet.uu.net | Just speaking for myself. consider your brains like a computer... ...and BOOT IT!