Sometimes mistaken for an authoring player, this is not one of them. This is not an authoring/development machine. Its purpose and unique feature is group working and document sharing,
e.g. in classrooms. For development purposes you’d need a player with
higher hardware specs. This CD-i 615 has a built-in floppy drive so you
might confuse it for an authoring player. The floppy drive was used to
save/load files, for example in meetings or in classrooms. You were able to link several CD-i 615 players together, and by using 1
floppy you could have all players to show the same screen. That was a
smart feature at that time, with special purpose in business or
education environments. As it was not sold as a consumer player, this
CD-i 615 professional player is pretty rare. The CD-i 615 professional CD-i player was released in 1996, so that is already pretty late in the lifespan of CD-i. We have seen this
more often, like with the follow up: CD-i 660 and CD-i 740. This CD-i 615/17 is a professional player with floppy disk drive,
parallel and AT keyboard ports and integrated Digital Video.
[Thanks: bizindy]
