CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

rsrendfeld · Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 107

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 · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:38 am Post subject:

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

cedmagic · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: CompuVision CED Titles

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

krbsforty · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:40 am Post subject:

I watched a long You Tube video posted by eyeh8nbc about computers used in the 1980s, which advertised their features & uses. I am wondering if it is the same CED listed in this catalogue. Does any one know? I am also curious about what the caddies look like.
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Jesse Skeen · Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 532 Location: Sacramento, CA

Yes, I was told that was actually a Compuvision disc, made in 1984. I was VERY lucky to get that one, I didn't even know it existed before. I don't have the caddy for it, as it was stuck inside a player for at least 20 years! Thankfully the same thing is on both sides, as one side is pretty much trashed. The other side wasn't in perfect condition either but at least I got it to play with no skips, just some video noise. I heard there were other Compuvision discs but I don't know how many were actually made, I just wonder how many of the one I have exist?
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ketonic_dude · Joined: 20 Jul 2012 Posts: 448 Location: Mankato, MN

Any chance you could upload scans of that list Ron? I'd love to see a full final masters list with numbers. I'm guessing those numbers are the ones scratched into the disc when you pull it out and look at it? Not sure how that works exactly but it would be interesting non the less. Thanks.