CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[rsrendfeld]

Last week a retired RCA employee gave me a list of videodisc titles.
The first page heading reads " COMPANY PRIVATE Alphabetical Cross - Reference List 5/22/86 FINAL LISTING" .
Reading through this list I see some titles listed two or thee times with different numbers; example: 7 Brides for 7 Brothers is listed three times with three different numbers - 74643-07918, 77080-30091, 77080-40091
Are these different Masters?
AND
I noticed a group of titles "COMPUVISION" #1, #2 April, #3 June, #4 August, #5, #6 November and #7.
What wre the Compuvision discs about?
And another group titled "Supplemental - Extra Side" with seven different numbers. What were these about? Where were they used?

Ron Rendfeld
Indianapolis IN

[Caroline]

I only know the COMPUVISION company, they produced video games
for the Atari VCS 2600.

[cedmagic]

These VideoDiscs were demonstrated in the CompuVision kiosk at the 1984 Spring Comdex show in Atlanta, at almost the same time RCA was ending player production. The kiosk contained an SJT400 and a Commodore 64 computer to control the player. The kiosk was intended for installation in computer stores to run commercials for computer products. With the unfortunate timing it could be only the first two discs made it past the master stage, as it sounds like the CED system was canceled right after Comdex.

It would be cool to find the Commodore software, which probably is written in BASIC and stored on a 5.25" floppy. RCA wrote SJT400 control software for a variety of 1983-84 microcomputers, but I haven't been able to find any of it either on floppy disc or cassette tape.

--Tom Howe