CED Digest Vol. 6 No. 10

CED Digest Vol. 6 No. 10 • 3/10/2001
20 Years Ago In CED History:

March 11, 1981:
* Ronald Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau end a two day
meeting in Ottawa-- Reagan's first trip abroad since taking office.

March 13, 1981:
* Future CED title in widespread theatrical release: Back Roads.

March 14, 1981:
* Three Pakistani aircraft hijackers surrender in Syria after they
exchange 100 passengers and crewmen for 54 Pakistani prisoners.
* "9 to 5" (CED) by Dolly Parton regains No. 1 U.S. single spot.

March 15, 1981:
* Alan Jones of Australia wins Formula One Grand Prix in Long Beach,
California, one of two Grand Prix races held in the U.S. in 1981 (on CED
title "Start to Finish").

March 16, 1981:
* RCA begins advertising blitz for the RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc
system in preparation for the March 22nd introduction.
* Los Angeles Board of Education votes to end mandatory school busing.

March 17, 1981:
* U.S. housing starts dropped 24.6 percent in February, the sharpest
decline since March 1960.

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:37:30 +0000
Subject: Where in the UK?"
From: Simon Angling <simon>
To: <digest@cedmagic.com>

Can anyone point me in the direction of a second hand player and/or
disks in
the UK.
Cheers, Simes

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:19:41 EST
From: Bojay1997
Subject: SKT-265
To: <digest@cedmagic.com>

As a historical footnote, one of the other reasons you may find SKT-265
machines in San Diego of all places is that the RDI Halcyon videogame
system and Space Ace the arcade game were originally going to be CED
SKT-265 based systems.  RDI was based in Carlsbad, California, in
northern San Diego County.  RDI which produced both games/systems
approached RCA about ordering the players in bulk which they hoped would
reduce the cost of manufacturing and hopefully increase the reliability
of both the arcade and home units as compared to the far more costly
Pioneer laserdisc players they eventually went with.  RCA decided that
there wasn't enough demand for the SKT-265 and never went beyond some
small runs of the machine for industrial users.  I have some internal
memos from RCA to RDI telling the entire story, as well as prototype
versions of Space Ace and Thayer's Quest on CED.  If anyone wants more
info, feel free to e-mail me.

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From: PUPADORE
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:25:47 EST
Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 6 No. 9
To: ceds@teleport.com

Dear Tom, Thanks for your informative service with the "Digest". I have
several CEDs for sale- the last of a collection I had. I am asking $4.00
each
($6.00 for the double) + Shipping-Insurance, or $35.00 as a set. They
are all
in near Mint Condition- having been played 1-2 times each. The Titles:
"TRIBUTE" (2 CED Set)- Jack Lemmon Robby Benson Lee Remick; "SWING
TIME"-
Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers; "ON GOLDEN POND"- Katherine Hepburn Henry
Fonda
Jane Fonda; "CITY LIGHTS"- Charlie Chaplin; "THE SUNSHINE BOYS"- Walter
Matthau George Burns; "SUDDEN IMPACT"- Clint Eastwood; "BASEBALL: FUN &
GAMES/ THE GREATEST WORLD SERIES EVER? 1975 Cincinnati Reds vs. Boston
Red
Sox" Joe Garagiola; "BASEBALL'S HALL OF FAME-THE GAME AND ITS GLORY"
Donald
Sutherland; "GIRL GROUPS: THE STORY OF A SOUND" Supremes; "THE SHOWDOWN:
THE
WORLD WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP SUGAR RAY LEONARD vs. THOMAS HEARNS
1981;
"MGM CARTOON MAGIC VOL.1: BARNEY BEAR & KING SIZE CANARY"; DISNEY
CARTOON
PARADE VOL.5". Please contact Jeff Kehlert pupadore@aol.com Thanks
again.

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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:47:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve McKearney <tomasino>
Subject: cheap CEDs!
To: digest@cedmagic.com

Just wanted to alert any Bay Area CED enthusiasts that
there are about 100 CEDS, some of them still sealed,
at the Community Thrift Store on Valencia street in
San Francisco, going for $1.25 each. They're below the
"rock" record bins.

tomasino.

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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:51:16 -0800
To: digest@cedmagic.com
From: Tom Howe <ceds@teleport.com>
Subject: Alternate Version of CED Digest

Hello All:

I haven't received a whole lot of feedback on the CED Digest History
column, but so far seven subscribers have responded favorably, and two
unfavorably. One of the dissenting messages was from a subscriber for
whom the early 1980's were a bad time from a personal perspective. This
subscriber is disturbed about being reminded of the historical events of
that time, but at the same time is unable to resist reading about them
when the digest arrives each week. When I started this history addition
I figured the people who didn't care about it would simply scroll
through without reading, which is what everyone must be doing with the
digest header that appears each week. But I didn't anticipate this
scenario of being disturbed by the history and at the same time finding
it irresistible to read.

To accommodate this, I'm offering an alternative digest with the history
section cut out. To subscribe to this alternate version send a message
to the following email address with the word NOHISTORY in the subject
line:

digest@cedmagic.com

This will automatically unsubscribe you from the regular digest and
subscribe you to the version with no history. There is no point in being
subscribed to both versions of CED Digest. The history section hasn't
yet reached the point where CED actually hit the market on March 22,
1981 at which time it will start to include CED title releases as they
occurred.

--Tom
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