I worked, at that time, for the largest Amiga dealer in the US, and we built a couple hundred multimedia display kiosks using CD32s and Paravision SX-1s. We had no trouble getting them (well, other then the usual Commodore supply issues of the time).
Oh, wow, found an old email about this:
http://www.howtomakeanimations.info/cd32sx1mm300-problems
freaky.
I have never been quite as excited over a machine as when I got my Amiga 500. I had owned a Commodore Plus/4 and a 128 since middle school and high school, and bought the 500 to start college. It was quite an amazing little machine for it's day.
Then again, I haven't ever been 17 again either, so that might explain it.
We would distribute burned CDs containing graphic, sound, and video/animation assets to the customers. This was '94, and if I remember correctly blank cds were something like $8-10 each (and the burner must have been close to $1000), and the burning process was so fragile that I'd burn discs at night just to try to prevent any possible issues due to vibration, or power fluctuations, or whatever other gremlins caused burn failures. I think we still had only like an 75%-ish success rate.
Fun time, though.
To be fair, the article does say:
>> But I didn't know this factoid.
If you Google define:factoid, you'll see the definitions are like "something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print".
Looking at the suffix "-oid", it makes sense that the definition is akin to "similar to a fact."
However, I don't think that's what the author intended. "Factoid" has come to mean, "a little fact", it seems.
Definitely. "Factlet" or "Factette" would probably be more accurate, and more pleasing to say, but we can't have everything.